Timeline for Why does the Terminator (T-800) have a HUD?
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| Sep 28, 2014 at 21:06 | comment | added | Joe L. | Digital computers as we know and love 'em have some inherent limitations on the way they perceive and relate to the real-world. It's possible that in order for the Terminators to relate to the real world in a human-like way (in order to infiltrate human resistance groups) they were made with "brains" that are more-or-less analog rather than digital. But it may not be possible for a human-like brain to input data directly - info has to be processed in a way more like ours do, through intermediate senses. Just a blue-sky thought. | |
| Sep 28, 2014 at 17:45 | history | edited | Mazura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2014 at 20:52 | comment | added | Nras | @Richard almost correct. The question mainly is: why does he have a HUD at all. The question: why is the HUD data displayed in a human readable way is also part of it (but could be a second question as well). | |
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| Sep 27, 2014 at 20:06 | comment | added | Mazura | All language is readable, if you know it. If we're wondering why it's in English I think that's a pretty obvious answer as stated in User62707's. I read it as why a T needs visually, descriptive language in its observational data at all. @Richard | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 19:59 | comment | added | Valorum | The question isn't about the way that the Terminator stores data, it's about the reasons why the HUD contains human-readable language. | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 19:50 | comment | added | Mazura | Storage space is probably not at a premium, but the retrieval speed of pertinent data is. I don't clam to truly understand fractals or data compression, but this seems to me a reasonable file system for machine read data. | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 19:43 | comment | added | Mazura | Note the bold text. Relevant data, such as if the picture on the right had Cat Acquired. Time stamp: 11.32.09 00011234 XMLB7 could be stored in a compressed format encompassing all relevant information at the time. @Richard | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 19:37 | comment | added | Valorum | This doesn't make any attempt to answer the question of why the Terminator has a heads-up-display. | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 19:35 | history | answered | Mazura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |