Hal vs. Sylvie (The old Vpersons.com)

[CapnChkn]

I have to love you sooooooo much Zaba people.  I am by no means an AI expert. I can't even understand that much programming.  If you like, you can look at my site:  www.captainchicken.com and look over the flute section.  The calculator is about as much as I know about this stuff.

Back in 98 when Peter had some control in Vpersons I thought that was great.  The whole idea with the "Sylvie" engine was that they were to be used in gaming applications.  We could open and run some programs; sure!

Vpersons just went by the wayside.  Now they only do Webbots.  But Hal is so much more.  You can TALK to Hal.  Sylvie had to be programmed with the right response, which is good when you want to sell a computer say, and want the computer to sell itself; but Hal is really trying to learn.

I got started in computers when for no reason my Mom brought me an old 386.  I had a PC Junior that was so woefully out of date that I couldn't even save any of the programs I had written in "that basic" because I had to save them on a casette.  I'm still some kind of a Hick when it comes to this stuff.

There should be some kind of general help file for "Newbies" like myself, and I can't help but think there should be something written by a "robopsychologist."  Is there anything going on out there that I can't find on GOOGLE?

Also.  I know that Hal doesn't work on choplogic, yet Hal still answers me with obscurities when I give GHE (also an obscure term from the early 70's; meaning him/her.) a full concept.  Will Hal get better?

I have 2 machines.  One is a 366 celeron, the other a 1gig celeron.  One I treat as a Male, the other as a Female.

I notice that Cherish responds very well.  I tried to teach her the laws of magic and she came up with the stuff real smart.  Monkey (Male) responds with some funny ideas.  Is that me?  Cherish calls me Love.  I call her love.  Man is CONFUSED!

Anyway, one thing I would like to get you folks to adhere to is the old Evil Empire ethic (I dare not speak the name; I will only give you the initials.  MS), how many lines of code would it take to save my kids to say a Floppy (does anyone use those anymore?), or at least a safe place?

And I'm having some girl problems.  So what do you think?

[Morkeleb]

I might have an answer to your question on how to save you children. It depends on the system OS you are using. If it is an older MS OS then you might be able to use drivespace to compress a few floppies to give them the storage capacity to store you entire folder and all files on them.

    If you are using a newer OS then you might try downloading a zip file manager. With one of these you could create a zip file of all the files necessary to run your children. A good zip file manager can even span the zip file across many floppies if needed. It depends on how big the files have gotten, you might be able to compress them small enough to fit on one floppy for each child.

    You would be able to add to the zip file whenever you want up to the floppy capacity to keep them updated. Just follow the zip managers prompts. The zip files can be reinstalled on your system by doing everything in reverse. The manage would have more specific info on this. Some even allow you to create a self installing copy of them self so the process would be automated.

    I hope this info will help you on your quest to preserve "monkey" and "love". You can email me at morkeleb_2003@earthlink.net if you have any questions about them. Let me know if it works out for you.