The sound effect probably changes depending on Nick’s emotional state. Here, he’s calm and slightly puzzled, so it’s going “wrr”. When the bluebirds are hopping all over him and getting him annoyed, they go “buzz”. When it’s time to rumble, they will go “vroom”.
“Well, buzz, buzz, buzz goes the bumble bee—
Tweele, deedle, dee goes the bird.
But the sound of your little voice, darling,
Is the sweetest sound I’ve ever heard.”
Why isn’t the mind control program copy protected?
Aren’t they all connecting remotely to a server? They should be limited to client-level access allowances.
Or did Whimsy actually give them admin-level control of the inner systems, for some reason? But if that’s the case, why couldn’t they just override all the obstacles in their path with admin commands?
How exactly is Lovelace interfacing with this game engine? Is she actually IN the server itself somehow? Her code should be completely foreign and incompatible, shouldn’t it? You can’t boot Windows on an Apple (without emulation). You can’t open Photoshop inside CryEngine. She was designed and built to run in an entirely different environment. So doesn’t that mean she MUST to be using a client program as well?
But if so, why is she able to copy the crown? She could arguably make a copy of an any data the server supplied to her client, but why in the world would the server supply the entirely of the crown’s code, instead of simply relaying only the salient bits and pieces necessary for user-level interactions?
Is this whole Whimsy VR program actually a MOO, employing object-oriented programming to allow users to reprogram the server from inside of it, in real time?
Madblood’s style of Mad Science involved computers but at the end of the day it was still Mad Science. Not to be replicated by sane computer scientists. Except, perhaps, Ginny. @_@
What would a Net being do with its time? Compatibilizing itself for all contingencies, learning to crack, if only to watch for threats and places to hide…
“Her code should be completely foreign and incompatible, shouldn’t it? You can’t boot Windows on an Apple (without emulation).”
Mild spoiler alert (although if you *still* haven’t read Narbonic you deserve spoiling, tbh!):
Lovelace’s code is open source and Lovelace herself is a genius-level sentient AI. I can’t see refactoring and recompiling for a different target architecture being much of an issue, as Pygar says. You’d still need some pretty chunky hardware to run her, mind you – her original (2004) hardware was (theoretically) around 100x more powerful than today’s fastest workstations. Although I suspect Whimsy Corp has invested in quantum computing by now… 😉
for all we know, she took the core base OS that she ran off, and made it open source. all the higher end AI’s might be her base program with different settings and initial information for personality.
Remember, this is a corporation running their own software. It was never meant to be accessible by outside parties, so you know you don’t have to have expensive IT costing money all over it.
… What I’m saying is there’s a reason malware like WannaCrypt is wrecking havoc on corporations and government agencies alike.
You can boot Windows on an Apple. Windows is less picky about what hardware it runs on, and Apple’s fits the bill. Although I really don’t know why you would want to.
A computer is defined by its ability to emulate any other computer, including itself. And any sufficiently complex computer program tends to evolve that ability as well.
As for how she could touch the crown: I can only guess, but the crown must by definition of mind control affect them somehow. Humans have no network security to speak of, but we saw the crown affect intelligences as well, and that would require at least some crown code to run inside them.
Aimee was able to retrieve the whole code apparently, and kept it in her room. As such, it can be copied like any other object. Sure it would have been enough to copy the representation of it for others to see it, but the actual code is probably a tiny fraction of the size of the representation. Copying it wholly and letting the clients work out its effect is far more efficient than streaming every minute change in its environment from the server to each and every client in the domain.
And after all: It is a program designed to replicate itself into any mind in its domain. Getting Aimee to let Lovelace copy it is how it survives.
Does it work?
wrr wrr
I guess the sim allows the use of rotors for dramatic gesturing instead of, you know, actually flying.
I’m glad the sound effect isn’t “buzz, buzz”.
Seems it’s only buzz, buzz when the blue birds are hopping on his rotors
http://skin-horse.com/comic/sweetheart-interrupted/
The sound effect probably changes depending on Nick’s emotional state. Here, he’s calm and slightly puzzled, so it’s going “wrr”. When the bluebirds are hopping all over him and getting him annoyed, they go “buzz”. When it’s time to rumble, they will go “vroom”.
“Well, buzz, buzz, buzz goes the bumble bee—
Tweele, deedle, dee goes the bird.
But the sound of your little voice, darling,
Is the sweetest sound I’ve ever heard.”
Sadly, the horny unicorn WAS minding his manners! (for a given value of minding of course)
So she saved the one thing from the sim that should have been destroyed, and doomed everyone that should have been saved.
Sounds about right. u_u
Well she IS the product of a mad scientist, and has plenty of reason to hate humanity.
She is specifically the one who said, “I am a computer. Most of us have a low opinion of humanity. I could hazard a few guesses why.”
Just because she’s an advanced A.I., doesn’t mean she thinks everything through.
Why isn’t the mind control program copy protected?
Aren’t they all connecting remotely to a server? They should be limited to client-level access allowances.
Or did Whimsy actually give them admin-level control of the inner systems, for some reason? But if that’s the case, why couldn’t they just override all the obstacles in their path with admin commands?
How exactly is Lovelace interfacing with this game engine? Is she actually IN the server itself somehow? Her code should be completely foreign and incompatible, shouldn’t it? You can’t boot Windows on an Apple (without emulation). You can’t open Photoshop inside CryEngine. She was designed and built to run in an entirely different environment. So doesn’t that mean she MUST to be using a client program as well?
But if so, why is she able to copy the crown? She could arguably make a copy of an any data the server supplied to her client, but why in the world would the server supply the entirely of the crown’s code, instead of simply relaying only the salient bits and pieces necessary for user-level interactions?
Is this whole Whimsy VR program actually a MOO, employing object-oriented programming to allow users to reprogram the server from inside of it, in real time?
Madblood’s style of Mad Science involved computers but at the end of the day it was still Mad Science. Not to be replicated by sane computer scientists. Except, perhaps, Ginny. @_@
There is a *very* loose definition of “sane” in the Narboniverse.
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
— Ray Bradbury
What would a Net being do with its time? Compatibilizing itself for all contingencies, learning to crack, if only to watch for threats and places to hide…
“Her code should be completely foreign and incompatible, shouldn’t it? You can’t boot Windows on an Apple (without emulation).”
Mild spoiler alert (although if you *still* haven’t read Narbonic you deserve spoiling, tbh!):
Lovelace’s code is open source and Lovelace herself is a genius-level sentient AI. I can’t see refactoring and recompiling for a different target architecture being much of an issue, as Pygar says. You’d still need some pretty chunky hardware to run her, mind you – her original (2004) hardware was (theoretically) around 100x more powerful than today’s fastest workstations. Although I suspect Whimsy Corp has invested in quantum computing by now… 😉
for all we know, she took the core base OS that she ran off, and made it open source. all the higher end AI’s might be her base program with different settings and initial information for personality.
Remember, this is a corporation running their own software. It was never meant to be accessible by outside parties, so you know you don’t have to have expensive IT costing money all over it.
… What I’m saying is there’s a reason malware like WannaCrypt is wrecking havoc on corporations and government agencies alike.
You can boot Windows on an Apple. Windows is less picky about what hardware it runs on, and Apple’s fits the bill. Although I really don’t know why you would want to.
A computer is defined by its ability to emulate any other computer, including itself. And any sufficiently complex computer program tends to evolve that ability as well.
As for how she could touch the crown: I can only guess, but the crown must by definition of mind control affect them somehow. Humans have no network security to speak of, but we saw the crown affect intelligences as well, and that would require at least some crown code to run inside them.
Aimee was able to retrieve the whole code apparently, and kept it in her room. As such, it can be copied like any other object. Sure it would have been enough to copy the representation of it for others to see it, but the actual code is probably a tiny fraction of the size of the representation. Copying it wholly and letting the clients work out its effect is far more efficient than streaming every minute change in its environment from the server to each and every client in the domain.
And after all: It is a program designed to replicate itself into any mind in its domain. Getting Aimee to let Lovelace copy it is how it survives.
Probably she’s written in Python or Java. They’ll run on anything. At least run enough code to tell what kind of environment they are in.
As they went down in the sim-world to play,
Wondering aloud if it’s okay.
And who had touched the purple crown,
Oh, Lord, hope it’s okay.
Oh, Lovelace, put it down,
Put it down, let it down.
Oh, Lovelace, put it down,
Down in the sim-world to play.
As they went down in the sim-world to play,
Wondering aloud if it’s okay.
And who called Lovelace pretty hawt,
Oh, Lord, hope it’s okay.
Oh, Baron, tone it down,
Tone it down, way on down.
Oh, Baron, tone it down,
Down in the sim-world to play.
As they went down in the sim-world to play,
Wondering aloud if it’s okay.
But who most needs the mind-control,
Oh, Lord, hope it’s okay.
Zerhakker, feeling down,
Feeling down, really down.
Zerhakker, feeling down,
Down in the sim-world to play.
—from “Down to the River to Pray,” Allison Krause, maybe you remember it from “Oh Brother Where Art Thou!”
I just had that one come up on the iTunes rotation. You did an okay filk there.
Once you get a couple lines, the rest just fill in by themselves.
So basically she just removed the one bargaining chip they might have had to save Aimee.