Sim Brick is a parody of the popular Sim series of computer games. It was a computer game written in 1991 by Sensible Software and included with Amiga Power issue 13.
The game is designed to simulate a brick. There are four options:
- Exist (if the brick does not already exist, it is called into existence)
- Info (displays a schematic of the brick)
- Pause (pauses the game)
- Quit (quits the game)
The game also features an ant, which always meets an untimely and bloody death when the brick is called into existence, because the brick always spawns in mid-air and crushes it.
The Overwhelmed and Annoyed Citizens (Ciudadanos Agobiados y Cabreados) is an extraparliamentary Spanish political party.
They are principally annoyed at the justice system in Spain.
For the art movement, see biomorphism.
Biomorphic robotics is a sub-discipline of robotics focused upon emulating the mechanheheics, sensor systems, computing structures and methodologies used by animals. In short, it is building robots inspired by the principles of biological systems.
One of the most prominent researchers in the field of biomorphic robotics has been Mark W. Tilden, who has taken Rodney Brooks' theory of removing the world model from robots to a low hardware level not even using microprocessors. This is not to say the lack of microprocessors makes something biomorphic - quite the contrary. There is a huge amount of work be done implementing biological nervous and neural networks into computing devices.
In contrast M. Anthony Lewis has used the field of biomorphic robots to study how humans and animals use "biologically inspired principles" to negotiate the complexities of the real world.
The difference between neuromorphics and biomorphics is believed to be focusing on the control and sensor systems (neuromorphic) vs. the whole system (biomorphic).
An excellent example of a biomorphic machine is the robot snake.
"Small and Smaller" is the title of an opinion column written by Thomas L. Friedman and published on the web site (and possibly printed in the newspaper) of The New York Times on 4 March 2004.
In the article, Friedman separated globalization into three distinct phases, as follows.
- Globalization 1.0 occurred between the late 19th century and World War I. It was caused by the decreasing price of transportation.
- Globalization 2.0 occurred between the 1980s and the year 2000. This particular phase was caused by decreasing prices of both telecommunication and the personal computer.
- Globalization 3.0, according to Friedman, was still occurring as he wrote "Small and Smaller" (and it presumably began in the year 2000). This phase was being caused firstly by large-scale deployment of optical fiber under the oceans, and other bandwidth-increasing technology or technologies, secondly by the proliferation of personal computers around the world, and thirdly by a variety of computer programs that had combined "to create global 'work-flow platforms'".