So Microsoft shifted gears and developed the Extender model which put a CE device at each TV with the real brains of the operation on a PC hidden away back in an office -- where PCs belong.
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These images have to be real, our brains tell us.
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Some of it was done by highly skilled puppeteers following choreography, and some by clever computer work converting a digitally scanned real dancer into the image of Brains.
But football is chess, played with real pieces that try to knock each other's brains out.
Real-time data is, of course, useless without the brains to process it and the brawn to act on it.
But even there, they have taken the trouble to make Brains dance like a puppet trying to dance like a real dancer.
Their real value lies in the problem-solving skills they build in our brains.
Then, to judge whether people build languages around what their brains are best attuned to, he compared these theoretically best divisions with real-world dividing lines.
What is 'real life' for the humans is just an illusion, created to keep their brains active while the machines milk energy from the cerebral cortex.
His testimony about how this happened in his own life is plangent and familiar, but he addles it a bit by insisting that the real damage is being done at the neurological level, that our children are having their brains altered by too much instant messaging and the like.
"We have a real revenue model, a traditionally based one with real margins, not just page views, " says Clayton, who has recruited some big brains from Yahoo, including the creator of Yahoo IM, as well as engineering talent from Facebook and Skype.
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