Word: hals
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...This comforting view is a lot more reassuring than Kubrick’s Hal ever was regarding the consequences of computational power...
...best-known of Honduras' storied Bay Islands. And although Antigua and Costa Rica are relatively safe, burglaries are up in Honduras, driving the development of gated communities. But Bill and Judith Allred, who in 1998 bought a pod-style home in Roatn conceived by the Canadian designer Hal Sorrenti, say common sense helps ward off crime. "This isn't St. Barts," says Judith. "You don't go out at night wearing jewels...
Then why can we so easily walk down the street while engrossed in a deep conversation? Why can we chop onions while watching Jeopardy? "We, along with quite a few others, have been focused on exactly this question," says Hal Pashler, psychology professor at the University of California at San Diego. It turns out that very automatic actions or what researchers call "highly practiced skills," like walking or chopping an onion, can be easily done while thinking about other things, although the decision to add an extra onion to a recipe or change the direction in which you're walking...
...jumping at the idea. MinuteClinic had 20 outlets up and running in two states last September. It now has 73 in nine states, and by the end of the year will have some 300 in 17 states. Pennsylvania-based Take Care Health Systems, co-founded by customer-service guru Hal Rosenbluth, who in 2003 sold his eponymous travel company to American Express for about $300 million, has 19 clinics in Oregon and Kansas and plans to match MinuteClinic's numbers by next year. Take Care just got $77 million, primarily from Chicago private equity firm Beecken Petty O'Keefe...
...sometimes replaced momentarily by Christina Ricci (who lends guest vocals to the track). It feels like he’s the hidden-message programmer from the climax of “2001: A Space Odyssey”…you know, when Dave shuts down HAL 9000, and there’s the screen of the guy that pops up, telling Dave what the real reason for the mission was?Well, it feels like that. Except I didn’t cry at the end of this video, and I weep like a little girl whenever I see HAL...