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This will be a self regulating robot managed business. A
program will advertise render farm space and take money from
people via the web who upload their images to be rendered. It
will also adjust pricing due to supply and demand and use a
portion of the money for advertising. When there is
more
demand than supply, the program will send out an order for
more rendering computers. When it arrives, a robot will answer
the door, take the computer and plug it into the internet so
that more business can be acquired.
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I was imagining a fully roboticized cattle rendering plant. I'd just starting forming nightmare images of a "server malfunction" somewhere in the bowels of the mainframe circuitry. |
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Wouldn't these machines need to fixed from time
too? |
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I don't think we are at the stage of a robot being able
to configure and install a PC (for example) yet but we
can't be far off, especially if the computer was of a
known type for the receiving robot. |
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Robot Reindeer Ménage Forum |
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//I don't think we are at the stage of a robot being able to configure and install a PC (for example) yet but we can't be far off, especially if the computer was of a known type for the receiving robot. |
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Along as the system was designed to manage the robot's flaws, i.e. (same computer type, shipping people take out of box and put the computer in a slot; peripherals in another), I think this could be built with current technology. |
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//Wouldn't these machines need to fixed from time too? |
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I suppose, but lets say you spend a couple years designing and building the system, and it takes the robot a year to breakdown, it would be interesting to see how far the business could grow in that time. |
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Perhaps, in times of slack business, the program could also sell of computers to gain capital, which the robot would them put in the mail. |
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I'm glad this isn't one of those lucky items you hang from your genitals, only one that's been abused by a gentleman of the road - Yes that's right, a Hobo Ravaged Gender Charm. |
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I think the idea's a great one - but it's certainly not a new one. |
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This is called "Progress" or "Industrialisation" and while a render farm is a tiny example of this process in action - the goal of Man's Progress is to eventually have everything sort itself out, by itself. |
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Sounds like something you could put a SIMS front-end
on and let a teenager manage it |
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