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People bitch about Apple being driven by marketing but I really just read an entire article where the author credulously used the phrase "the Machine" throughou
by serve_yay 11y ago
People bitch about Apple being driven by marketing but I really just read an entire article where the author credulously used the phrase "the Machine" throughout.
- OedipusRex 11y agoThey realize that this product is far from being a reality and calling it anything other than "the Machine" would imply they are farther along in R&D or even production than they are.
- swalsh 11y agoBut that's actually the name of the product! http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/systems-research/themachine/ http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/systems-research/themachine/
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- PhantomGremlin 11y agoWhen I read the headline I immediately thought of When HARLIE Was One[1] and of the Great Machine[2] from Babylon 5. Apparently some people at HP are also Sci-Fi fans. Edit: BTW I think it was Henry Spencer who, long ago, quipped something like "it's not a supercomputer unless it costs a billion dollars". Looks like they're actually budgeting for half of that so with inevitable cost overruns they might get there. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harlie_Was_One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harlie_Was_One [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Machine
- uxcn 11y agoIs it actually named after the machine on Epsilon 3, or is it just a coincidence? There's a B-Film called The Machine as well.