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From: rick_s on 24 Jun 2010 05:35
Ok so I was out and about this morning driving around and this kid saw
me, recognized me and so he signed me and he said ok, you have an
assistant who spouts Shakespeare and you have dancing ponies, whats in
it for us? (I am paraphrasing) And then he stood at ease in his
camouflage outfit like a good cadet.

So then of course you asked well we want our own assistants, and hey, I
never thought of that. Why not two, or three, then you could have the
three body problem, what about 4! A quad system, with cran chops.
Everybody loves cran chops.

Listen up cran chop boy, yes, you can have your own assistant, but there
are some conditions.

How many remotes do you have in the living-room for your TV?
What if you had 4? What if everyone on the couch had one?
That's a Simpson episode in the making right there.

So you can go to another computer and summon, your AI assistant Colonel
Rugbyhead, but Jeeves has godlike powers. And everyone in the family can
use him and he has a higher rank than colonel Rugbyhead.

Personally, I think finding Kryptonite in the kitchen is cool. I think
farting dancing prancing ponies are hilarious, and if you can get your
sister to stop crying and come out of her room before your dad comes
home then you will live to tell your buddies about it the next day at
school. Take some video of them with your cell phone camera farting and
prancing to show them because you won't be able to show them the ponies
because you will be putting them back, the way they were.

It's all fun and games until a cyclops loses an eye. So there is your
bigger sister now standing in the doorway of your room, and she has your
Roger Maris baseball card, that last time I checked was worth a small
fortune, and she is sayiong "Tell, corporal rugby-head, or whatever his
name is, to PUT, MY, STUFF, BACK, THE WAY IT WAS RIGHT NOW, or kiss your
baseball cards goodbye rat."

So I am not going to make this so you can't be a boy. But we have to
limit the damage. So the scripting language, the macro language will be
open source. What that means is you can read the text file and see the
commands that are in that file.


The upside is that you can edit it yourself. Add commands, take commands
away, share your themes and special effects.

The programs that run the AI assistants, the overlord programs, they
will be like any other computer program, and people when they download
programs always have to watch out for viruses. Viruses are like when
someone puts dog poop in your shoe.
That's different. That's not funny.

So you play your prank on your sister, and should I then say that she
can right away just ask Jeeves (if that is your family assistants name)
to put it back, or should we let her cry, and then make you apologize?

Does your sister say "Ha ha very funny, Jeeves can you restore my ponies
please"

That sort of takes the fun out of being a rebel doesn't it?

I think its more important for you to have to put it back yourself.

Now the reason everyone can use Jeeves in the house is so that your dad
will not teach Jeeves to morph into a hula dancer. He will be too
paranoid the he will get caught by someone hitting the wrong button.

If you are a bachelor, hey hula hula to your hearts content. In 3D
living color.

But if you want to preserve your family then you have to bring the thing
into the open where the family values are.

You can have fun and even have a bit of mischief and still manage to
keep your family together if you do it that way.

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