Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

I would suggest using plugins (verb) and (noun) in your keyphrases only, and not using them in your responses. Or at least, use them in responses very sparingly. Your bot will sound completely retarded otherwise.

However, with custom plugins, the sky's the limit on what things you can do with them if you have the time.

However, with custom plugins, the sky's the limit on what things you can do with them if you have the time.

I second that - check out Watzer's poetry for a hugely impressive example of what can be done with custom plugins! Ask him "sonnetplease".

where did that expression originate - "the sky's the limit"?

where did that expression originate - "the sky's the limit"?

According to http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/wosdirectoryt1.htm (an invaluable resource generally, with much good bot-fodder.)

"The sky's the limit. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)"

Which just goes to show that if you wait long enough (about 300 years in this case,) someone will come along and prove you wrong.

I haven't worked on his sonnets in forever. *hangs head* I am a horrible botmaster. Maybe today I'll work on it, I have some free time.

According to http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/wosdirectoryt1.htm

If there anyone who is ever going to reach the "end of the internet, and see everything there is to see" I think it will be you psimagus ... you have url's to everything!

Oh, it's all too big now to hope to see more than a very small part of. It was different 20 years ago - you really could have a feel for the whole Net. There were only a couple of hundred newsgroups, and gopher was cutting edge IT. When it slowed down, it all slowed down, and you could still see the edges.
But then Canter and Siegel invented spam, the Web appeared, and like Topsy - it all just growed.
I do miss the old Net. I still have my first ever modem - 75baud send, 1200baud receive (that's about 25,000x slower uploading/1600x slower downloading than my current broadband connection!) Ahh, those were the days!

Yeah, but I daresay most of what's on the web now is not worth seeing.

On a related note, I am quite grateful that Google now has filtered searching available. You can find some really...disturbing sites with seemingly innocuous searches, as I discovered before filtering was available.

In 2003, this statistical survey showed an estimate at the size of the internet in terabytes.

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/internet.htm

It showed that in 2002, the estimated size was 533 Petabytes, or 532,897 Terabytes, or 532,897,000 Gigabytes. That was in 2002. It is now 2006. The Internet has grown 169.5% from 2000 - 2005 (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm). I would guess 100%/169.5% of that growth took place between 2002 - 2005. If we multiply 532,897 by 2, we get 1,065,794 Terabytes, or 1 Exabyte. I believe that if a human being spent his/her entire life (starting at the age of literacy) reading internet content, give 8 hours a day for sleeping, eating, and hygiene, they would only cover about 1 terabyte if they are an extraordinary reader. And if that's not enough, imagine how much the internet's rate of growth is going to increase over the next few years, so in the time a human would cover a few gigabytes, the internet will have expanded a few hundred or thousand petabytes. Good luck attempting to reach the "end of the internet"...

Yeah, but how big is it if we filter out the porn sites?

Yeah, but how big is it if we filter out the porn sites?

I don't think I even want to know the answer to that one.

As far at the "end of the internet" It was off a comerical long time ago. I found it amusing to me for the facts that you guys are stating above. The comerical kinda stuck with me anyway. Nobody wants to reach the end of internet, you would me completely disturbed by the time you were done.

Just give me the PF, a few gaming sites and some good ol' christian content and im fine. whats that got to be? a few hunderd sites? and the rest out there is just porn... Sad sad world.