http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16090841

Could it be a reaality, probably not due to commercial factors but still an interesting read all the same

I like AI, I'm a fond follower of Ultra Hal, been using him for years and receintly started looking at Alice type bots. While looking at chatbots on the internet I came across Denise, The $180 dollor version has face detection, of course the reccomended camera is an extra $80 and I'm for forgetting better voices. At this time they are also working on different skins for Denise and introducing a male character.
Carl2

2012 is upon us and I would just like to say thanks to all our members and their excellent contributions to our site throughout 2011. Thank You

Happy New Year guys and enjoy your celebrations.

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I like the Idea of a USB flash used for the page file so I just did a little research, The Mushkin Enhanced Ventura Pro has read speeds of 120 Mbps Writes of 70 Mbps, USB 3 though. Their USB 2 models have reads of 32 Mbps and writes of 17 Mbps. Consair also has a quick USB 2, 34 Mbps read and 28 Mbps write.
All in all my understanding of page file is when the sys runs out of system memory it uses the page file system where it reads and writes to the hard drive, I just checked my computer, its using 14 % of the sys memory which is 6 GB. I can remember in the past increasing the amount of memory for computers that became sluggish because it had to use page file.
Carl2

I had a stomach flu shortly before Xmas so I cancled all the social events, I needed to update my Norton virus protection and was able to buy it on sale. I ran into a little problem putting it in and downloaded a tool from Norton which allowed me to put it in the computer. Norton v5 is in the computer so I update the software and have it scan everything, It came up with 65 potential threats which it fixed. I restart the computer and it will not boot. Not boot again and again, I tried starting in different modes which didn't work, I tried the Norton bootable disk which booted but didn't help with the problem of booting windows. As a last resort I was able to use the Image file of Vista to get Vista loaded into the computer so the computer is up and running again.
Next it is easy to upgrade to Win7, Download the files from Asus to get the newer drivers need for Win 7. So now I have a nice clean computer without any of the programs I use, not even the printer software. I've unzipped the downloaded files In a special place to be coppied to a CD, I'd also like to make a copy if the Image file located on a partation of the drive on a CD. I think I can make a copy of the regestry using regedit.
I'm really looking for Ideas and suggestions in case I have problems in the future, I'm not sure but I think Norton was unable to repair because backups were on a partioned drive. Instead of the C drive. Also the window backups were unavailable.
Carl2

So with the current problems in the Russian space programme how will it effect the future of the ISS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16317099