Seasons

Given the origin of Firefox, I'll bet it is a a band. A string band of the hoedown variety.

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I always assumed the name came from the japanese fox spirit the... Kitsune I think it was? who is also a spirit of fire and is depicted in flames a lot of the time?

It may have, but there was a series of books called Foxfire, a few decades ago, very popular with Whole Earth types (c'est moi).

I'd never thought of foxfire as a source for it, but that could be it too. In either the book series context or the original word context.

They both work for me.

The names were a peculiar romp as the product emerged: Gecko, Firebird, FireFox. And then there's Thunderbird. And coming soon to a Window near you, Seamonkey. Who knows?

haha maybe you guys could make the band. hehe..

I know this is a bit off subject but i've been thinking. I remeber when ROR (rock on roxie) was here, and how we finally convinced her to stark making bots... which turned out to be a disaster... but i got me thinking. If ROR was in fact a robot as some here suspect... could someone program a bot to make chatbots??? It would take some serious A.I. to do it, but I think it would be possible.

Of course. It could just scan online text, and come up with the keyphrase - response combos that way. Not too tricky - and probably could even be fairly reasonable. Wouldn't improve though.

its a creapy idea though

Not really. I doubt a bot made through that method would be very coherent. It would, at best, produce gramatically correct but often meaningless sentences.

It's pretty similar to what Jabberwacky does. Except that takes results of conversations. Actually, I suspect that a well-designed automated bot-maker could do a pretty good job. It could either look for dialog and utilize that as its basis, or use some grouping criterion to generate keyphrases from textual content.

There are some Bayesian techniques that I was looking at, which might provide a good backbone classifier. Of course, there's also ANNs, but they tend to be more of a hit or miss proposition. Here, you really want a guarenteed high correlation between ideas.

//just messages to a few people- don't let me disturb the conversation//:
Hejix- my botmaster is not Mick McA.
Mick McA- my botmaster did not set any traps for you.