OT-ish: PAYG mobile phone advice

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Maria said:
My husband has had his number/sim for 10 years and not topped it up for 8!
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I have a 02 PAYG phone that has not been topped up for nearly 2 years, and
is rarely used. Could be months between calls
Checked it last week by ringing my home number, so I know my credit has not
been cancelled..
Mike.
 
It wouldn't matter to Emily would mind which language the
letter was written in. In any case, why do you think they
might be in Chinese? Do be sensible, old chap! ;-)
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the following may hinder you

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/Notes_on_AI.html

Proponents of strong AI often cite the fact that computers are capable
of multiple realizations. That means different physical things can
perform like computers. This is the insight exemplified in the "cast
of millions" argument in Leiber. But Searle is suspicious about
multiple realizability. Something about the concept of a "computer"
must be seriously confused if anything can be a computer (even pigeons
pecking, or cats and mice, or humans lined up on football fields).


Searle points out that a human can simulate a computer running a
program to (e.g.) pass the Turing test. Thus someone ignorant of
Chinese could follow the rules of a program for communicating in
Chinese. Even if the program were capable of passing the Turing Test,
the human would not understand Chinese as a result of following the
program. The program would just be about manipulating Chinese symbols.



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Mike Ross said:
Which is a total bugger, if you're an expat, and you have a seldom-used UK
PAYG
phone which you keep to avoid confiscatory roaming charges using your
foreign
phone in the UK. I may well go a quarter without even turning the bloody
phone
on - been caught out like that more than once, and lost a good few quid in
unused credit. Thieving bastards.
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I've lost quite a few quid in Sim cards that weren't used and became
inactive even though there was credit on them. However the chap in the
Orange shop told me (too late) not to throw them away because if you make a
phone call and quote the IMEI and Pin numbers the sim card can be activated
again very quickly.
 
And on into the realm of Chinese whispers.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
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but there are no pigeons(of any kind) in that one!

regards.

--
web site at www.abelard.org - news comment service, logic, economics
energy, education, politics, etc over 1 million document calls in year past
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all that is necessary for [] walk quietly and carry
the triumph of evil is that [] a big stick.
good people do nothing [] trust actions not words
only when it's funny -- roger rabbit
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