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• The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man.
  The marketing division of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as 'Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With'....
• consult guide about SCC The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry
  The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation incompetently produces a wide range of inefficient and unreliable high-tech machinery....
• consult guide about screening door The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry
  These Sirius Cybernetics Corporation doors screen visitors for such qualities as intelligence and ability to time travel....
• Share and enjoy! imp. 1. Commonly found at the end of software release announcements and README file
  his phrase indicates allegiance to the hacker ethic of free information sharing (see hacker ethic, sense 1)....
• He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
  The way it functioned was very interesting. When the DRINK button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well....
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five millio
  ine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all....
• consult guide about intelligence The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry
  Thirty million generations of philosophers have debated the definition of intelligence....
• consult guide about GPP The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry
  Genuine People Personalities are a misguided attempt by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation to make their machines behave more like people....
• consult guide about Nutrimat The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry
  A typically unreliable Sirius Cybernetics Corporation product, the Nutrimat analyses the user's neural paths to provide the (supposedly) ideal offering....