So what was the problem? Why couldn't we add more and more more things to build it slowly into a more general AI?
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And in case, we're doing a meta discussion on rhetorical semantics now, which is besides the point - because you can't argue away that saying "this claim is more than a little ridiculous" is just plain bad form.
Would you like to group all your files that belong to a certain project (photos, texts, presentations etc) together in one thing, like a folder? The iPad currently cannot do that. After that change, somebody could do a patch that would. And then Apple would see that there is a demand and do a proper version of that.
Would you like to use the great Apple Photos app, but also have all your files on dropbox/google drive? Well if you do that currently, you need to have your photos twice, and work with two different apps. With my suggested changes, one could create a patch app that just stores all your documents on the service of your choice.
Would you like to use the Google or Amazon Alexa voice assistants when you long press the home button? Currently you can't, but in my future you could. Any you would be surprised how much better they often are. That would create more competition, and would motivate Apple to up their Siri game.
Would you like to have a SNES emulator? A bittorrent client? A bitcoin client? A podcast client that can do flattr? All of these things are constantly shut down by Apple. You are not allowed to have these. With my suggested changes, you can have these.
Would you like to have something like Maya? Current iOS rules prevent any app from implementing their own windowing GUI, with the reason being that in this way, apps cannot become their own platform, which would be problem for Apple because then another party would become a platform owner. Well many professional apps like Maya are their own platform.
The list goes on an on. You do not have to be a programmer to suffer from the limits Apple currently imposes on iOS.
And it's not arbitrary at all. It just returns to the same state computing was in for 30 years until iOS arrived.
Also, watch your words. "More than a little ridiculous" is not an objective rational statement, it's just pure ad hominem.
The iPad is so very much lacking in all of these terms, and the Mac is not, to me it's no wonder why the iPad sales numbers are going down while the Mac sales numbers are going up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bu...
"With 1969 LEGO elements the 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V rockets its way into LEGO Ideas history as the tallest LEGO Ideas set, as well as the one containing most elements."
The last part is incorrect, the Lego set with the most pieces was Taj Mahal with 5922 pieces, way more than this: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/10189_Taj_Mahal
Edit: I misread that, thanks for the clarification.
- there is also a moral outrage scale where you want at least one word to be on (if one word of the pair was about sex and the other one was about the church, that would be great and funny).
- then there is also a boringness scale (boring: "habitat", not boring: "shebang"), where you ideally want both words to score highly.
- then there is also a understandability scale. "cholecystoduodenostomy" is a bad word because very few people know what it means. Lower this down until you understand all the words and the result will be much more satisfactory.
But guess what the electorate will say? "They only came for the Socialists. I'm not a Socialist". Sad times.
Deeply direct democracy is self-sustaining - people would agree to move over to a new system because it would give them more power than they have in the current parliamentary systems.
The problem as far as I see is the current political class (parliamentarians and people in the executive branch), which would lose power. And since this is who currently has the power, and it's always nearly impossible to make somebody give up power, that's the reason why this won't happen.
But Europe is in a state of crisis now, and maybe this crisis is great enough to motivate this class to move to a more open system.
If you think about it, the current indirect democracy (with parliaments and the electoral college etc) is a remnant of a time when a decision took days to travel through the whole land, and to be reasonably fast and decisive, you had to have them. Thanks to the internet, we could even go past such direct democracies like Switzerland and allow each citizen to vote at each bill, or if she didn't want to spend the time, leave that decision to a parliamentarian of her choosing, but with the option to take power again or give it to a different parliamentarian at any moment. Now that is true democracy. No back-hand deals, and no favoritisms anymore.
I can imagine screenshot test results from your app becoming a standard way to show the latency of a certain game setup in internet forums. Ideally, an easily sharable result would have to show several things all in one image:
- 1 frame before you pressed the button
- the frame when you pressed the button
- 1 frame before something changed on the screen
- the frame when something changed on the screen
- plus timing data, obviously.
Since changes are sometimes quite small (like when mario jumps but he is kinda in the background because you have the joypad in the same shot), one would have to be able to zoom into a part of the screen for each of the 4 images. And maybe mark a part of the screen with a circle.
If you could do these changes, you've got a certified hit on your hands! Keep up the great work!
This might be a good subject for a study - compare both rail systems, does this really lead to higher performance and lower accidents?
Still allows people to use their devices for 90% of the flight duration, and only makes the flight about half an hour longer.
In this case, the riddle might never be solved, and he might die in the self delusion that all the attention this raised is because he is a gifted writer, when the reality is much more sad: he was a terrible riddle author that threw away a million bucks.
Well, the iPhone 6 and especially the iPhone 7 do exactly this, so apparently you can indeed do exactly that. I wonder what has changed to make it possible.
Does anybody know who this guy was?
I would also have proof of 10 million kilometers of simulated rides with no accident, and a third party organization not under the control of Tesla who creates some really tough repeatable challenges, both simulated and in the real world, that a vehicle manufacturer has to pass.
Challenges should include:
- thin wire tensioned over the street.
- the combination of super heavy rain with lighting, thick fog and people suddenly running onto the street
- passing by a soccer field and ball bounces over the street. Car should stop because it can be reasonably expected that a child will run blindly onto the street after the ball
- have obstacles that minimally invade into the minimum clearance outline of the current planned course. Car should plot an alternative course if it is possible or stop. Obstacles should appear in the last moment possible and car should always do the right thing.
- proof that the car can always detect street boundaries, any obstacle, and especially humans. It should be 100% correct or side on the safe side every time. At night, in a rain storm with super thick smog and hail. I'm not joking.
These are the minimum limits before any self-driving car should be able to drive on public roads, imho.