I believe that the lack of binaries being released for linux is one of the major drawbacks that is keeping it from becoming a major OS competitor. Many of my tech-friendly friends have installed linux, but lacked the programming skills to install a lot of the software they wanted. The difficulty of compiling software has actually made some of my friends reject linux as an operating system. I do believe that source code is important, but for linux to become a viable operating system, binaries will have to be released more often, or at least an easier way to install software.
What about an intelligent program that would be run either on the server or client side that reads E-mail that you recieve, and then keeps track of which mail you open, which you delete, which you reply to, and how long you read each E-mail. The program could then recognize which mail is most important to you by subject or sender and sort them for you so that you do not have to waste time going through spam to find the most important E-mail. After enough time, the program could begin deleting certain E-mails that the program recognizes that you would delete anyway. So if you recieve a fair amount of random porn site spam at work, and you delete them every time before reading them, the program would then recognize similar porn spam and delete it before it got a chance to clutter your inbox. Many people use filters to do similar tasks, but an AI driven mail sorter could save time and it could recognize trends in your E-mail reading that you don't recognize yourself and respond accordingly.
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I believe that the lack of binaries being released for linux is one of the major drawbacks that is keeping it from becoming a major OS competitor. Many of my tech-friendly friends have installed linux, but lacked the programming skills to install a lot of the software they wanted. The difficulty of compiling software has actually made some of my friends reject linux as an operating system. I do believe that source code is important, but for linux to become a viable operating system, binaries will have to be released more often, or at least an easier way to install software.
Actually Disney did release anime classic Princess Mononoke in the US in its uncut violent entirety.
What about an intelligent program that would be run either on the server or client side that reads E-mail that you recieve, and then keeps track of which mail you open, which you delete, which you reply to, and how long you read each E-mail. The program could then recognize which mail is most important to you by subject or sender and sort them for you so that you do not have to waste time going through spam to find the most important E-mail.
After enough time, the program could begin deleting certain E-mails that the program recognizes that you would delete anyway. So if you recieve a fair amount of random porn site spam at work, and you delete them every time before reading them, the program would then recognize similar porn spam and delete it before it got a chance to clutter your inbox.
Many people use filters to do similar tasks, but an AI driven mail sorter could save time and it could recognize trends in your E-mail reading that you don't recognize yourself and respond accordingly.
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