Will we be seeing a quick succession of releases in the future? I don't think so. Here's why.
Mac OS X 10.0 was released on 24 March.
Mac OS 10.0.1 was released on 13 March, two weeks after the release, but it was six weeks after RTM, about time period you would expect such an update to occur.
At the time of X's release, Steve Jobs promised that CD burning would be available by the end of April, and Apple released 10.0.2 on 1 May, three weeks after 10.0.1, in order to comply with Job's mandate, and to coincide with an Apple media event on that date.
Why did Apple release 10.0.3 less than two weeks later? Apple's been good about obfuscating the reasons for the release, but the reason for 10.0.3 was to fix a serious bug that was introduced in 10.0.2! If you had a directory with a large number of files (> 1000 or so), then listing a directory would not work. Filenames might be repeated or missing.
It was a stupid bug, obviously caused because the developers were under the gun to release 10.0.2 prematurely. Hopefully, Apple has learned its lesson, and won't make new releases without proper regression testing.
One symptom of a profound stress affecting modern thought, writes political scientist and technology historian Langdon Winner, is the growing prevalence of the idea - seen almost daily in media and public perceptions of the Internet - of autonomous technology. This is the belief that somehow technology has gotten out of control and follows its own course, independent of human direction.
You just described every episode of Star Trek that was ever made.
One symptom of a profound stress
affecting modern thought, writes political scientist and technology historian Langdon Winner, is the growing prevalence of the idea - seen almost daily in media and public perceptions of the Internet - of autonomous technology. This is the belief that somehow technology has gotten out of control and follows its own course, independent of human direction.
You just described every episode of Star Trek that was ever made.
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This exact scenario was the subject of Isaac Azimov's first published story, Marooned Off Vesta, published in 1938.
Presumably, a charging station would have a bunch of their own EEStor units on premises, and wouldn't need to charge cars directly from the grid.
"The Greeks were also the first to create a primitive steam engines"
It was, in fact, the very same Hero of Alexandria who invented the steam engine.
Will we be seeing a quick succession of releases in the future? I don't think so. Here's why. Mac OS X 10.0 was released on 24 March. Mac OS 10.0.1 was released on 13 March, two weeks after the release, but it was six weeks after RTM, about time period you would expect such an update to occur. At the time of X's release, Steve Jobs promised that CD burning would be available by the end of April, and Apple released 10.0.2 on 1 May, three weeks after 10.0.1, in order to comply with Job's mandate, and to coincide with an Apple media event on that date. Why did Apple release 10.0.3 less than two weeks later? Apple's been good about obfuscating the reasons for the release, but the reason for 10.0.3 was to fix a serious bug that was introduced in 10.0.2! If you had a directory with a large number of files (> 1000 or so), then listing a directory would not work. Filenames might be repeated or missing. It was a stupid bug, obviously caused because the developers were under the gun to release 10.0.2 prematurely. Hopefully, Apple has learned its lesson, and won't make new releases without proper regression testing.
One symptom of a profound stress affecting modern thought, writes political scientist and technology historian Langdon Winner, is the growing prevalence of the idea - seen almost daily in media and public perceptions of the Internet - of autonomous technology. This is the belief that somehow technology has gotten out of control and follows its own course, independent of human direction.
You just described every episode of Star Trek that was ever made.
You just described every episode of Star Trek that was ever made.