Comments on: Your Move

By: Harise

Harise — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:13:54 +0000

true, mike, and I think the lap top is backwards, now that I look again.

re google, I remain loyal to jeeves. even if he’s relegated to the servants quarters now, at ask.com

By: mike

mike — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:48:49 +0000

*I* know google isn’t “a computer” but I wasn’t assuming the author of this strip really understands what google is. I thought I made the sarcasm clear by spelling it COMPUTERZ

By: The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:49:58 +0000

Hal is just jealous because Google has accomplished what Hal could not: near-world-domination. A healthy percentage of people I know depend on Google, use it about hourly on average, and would feel helpless, dumb, and hobbled without it. I know there are other search engines out there and I usually try most of them, but I always come back to Google. It saves my butt on a daily basis and settles a lot of arguments for me.

By: Harise

Harise — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:27:08 +0000

wait, why did I say two computers playing chess. google is not the computer. it’s on the computer.

and yeah, what JL said, that too.

By: J-L

J-L — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:20:21 +0000

In a few science-fiction stories I’ve read, people and things (even inanimate things) sometimes gain a sort of “super sentience” when exposed to massive amounts of information.

(Examples include the Face Dancers at the end of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” series, the internet-like entity in Dan Simmons’ “Ilium” series, and Kelly LeBrock’s character in the movie “Weird Science.”)

So this comic could be presenting Google as a real-life super-intelligent entity that can compete with the fictional HAL9000, simply due to the massive amounts of data it contains and has access to.

In other words, the year 2001 has come and gone with no HAL9000 to show for it, but Google could very well be on track to becoming the HAL9000 entity we’ve been expecting to see since “2001: A Space Odyssey” came out back in 1968.

By: Harise

Harise — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:06:52 +0000

I agree with Pinny, it’s like a threat. or rather, a challenge. you think you can take over the world, go ahead.

my second choice is yep, computers playing chess. weak.

By: Frank the curmudgeon

Frank the curmudgeon — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:13:17 +0000

More a comic I DO understand. Elements of both new evil vs old and young grandmaster vs old grandmaster.

By: Pinny

Pinny — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:13:01 +0000

[Oops! I retyped my post when it looked like my first post had not made it through. Please excuse me and ignore the second one.]

By: Pinny

Pinny — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:11:00 +0000

It’s a spin on the “old timer grandmaster” vs. the “new champion on the block” — except using computers.

It’s equivalent to Sammy Reshevsky (old time champion) playing Bobby Fisher (new grandmaster) in the 1960’s, Garry Kasparov (human champion) playing Deep Blue (computer program) in the 1990’s, or a fantasy match between Viswanathan Anand (2007 champion) and Emanuel Lasker (champion 1894-1921).

By: Pinny

Pinny — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:07:04 +0000

It’s a spin on the “old timer grandmaster” playing the “new kid on the block” except that it is using computers.

It’s the equivalent of Bobby Fischer (i.e., the new kid) playing Sammy Reshevsky (previous generation’s champion) in the 1960’s, Garry Kasparov (human champion) playing Deep Blue (computer) in the 1990’s, or a fantasy game between, say, Viswanathan Anand (2007 champion) and Emanuel Lasker (champion 1894-1921).