Like humans, if Cortana could switch between (say) domestic and professional modes, and bias towards or away from different vocabulary sets for each context, it'd be good.
no, Cortana will not help you find a girl who will go out with you
Few people will want to work if they've just given enough money to live a decent life without working.
Your theoretical worker shortage will result in higher wages, which will drive more workers into the marketplace. See? Your example of why it wouldn't work is actually an example of how it does work.
by the time you get all the pieces assembled and working together and certified as working, it will be obsolete and you can throw it away and start over again
The amount of RAM's the biggest difference and software to address it. Nothing more.
So you say that cisco routers and home pcs have the same video cards, the same USB subsystems, the same power supplies? This is great, I'm looking forward to playing some high performance video games on a cisco router.
If it's somehow racist to suggest folks show up at the polls with a photo ID
if you look at the statistics for who has a photo ID and who doesn't have a photo ID, it SURE IS racist to suggest using its absence as a filter to remove voters.
GPS is so trivial to spoof and forge that it should never be used to implement "no fly" features in drones.
the radio signals used to control drones are trivial to spoof and forge, with your logic they should all be grounded until they can be 100% proven secure
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So "Show me my most at-risk opportunities" makes perfect sense -
The software worked perfectly, the piece of junk he is holding in his hand is his most at-risk opportunity.
He asked it to show him his most at-risk opportunities, and it showed him that he's risking his job on technology that doesn't work.
No, it is Cortana's fault,
yeah, it's the software's fault
it's not the people who wrote or debugged or tested the software
it's the software
Like humans, if Cortana could switch between (say) domestic and professional modes, and bias towards or away from different vocabulary sets for each context, it'd be good.
no, Cortana will not help you find a girl who will go out with you
This was a rookie mistake that no CEO should ever make. One NEVER tries a demo for the first time before an important audience.
Steve Ballmer made exactly the same mistake with the surface tablet, it failed him during a demo.
Bill Gates crashed Windows 98 while demoing on live television.
So EVERY Microsoft CEO has made the "rookie mistake that no CEO should ever make"!
Cool!
Why computers will probably undergo the Singularity before they become useful personal assistants
My phone is much better at remembering phone numbers and grocery items than I am, it's already quite useful as a personal assistant.
Few people will want to work if they've just given enough money to live a decent life without working.
Your theoretical worker shortage will result in higher wages, which will drive more workers into the marketplace. See? Your example of why it wouldn't work is actually an example of how it does work.
Inevitably a decent economy needs to employ things that also happen to be part of Socialism, Communism, and Capitalism.
You're making a pretty huge leap to assume that a stable civilization even has an "economy"
Why do people think are entitled to other people's money?
Why do you think you are "entitled" to hoard money and belongings?
Someone will always 'finish last'. Poverty won't truly be beaten until that last place finisher is fat.
Who cares about human misery? As long as we can keep spewing stupid math factoids, we will all be just fine.
Not saying the efforts on a humanity scale aren't worthwhile, just saying they go against the nature of life.
so when bees make honey for all of the members of the hive to share, they are going against the nature of life?
they should be doing work.
yeah why think when you can just work
This is Porsche's first foray into vapourware.
The "defroster" on the original VW Beetle has this beat by many decades, we are still waiting for the one that works.
no, they are not. routers do packet filtering in hardware
certainly you can route with a PC, but without hardware filtering, you're slowing down the traffic
by the time you get all the pieces assembled and working together and certified as working, it will be obsolete and you can throw it away and start over again
The amount of RAM's the biggest difference and software to address it. Nothing more.
So you say that cisco routers and home pcs have the same video cards, the same USB subsystems, the same power supplies? This is great, I'm looking forward to playing some high performance video games on a cisco router.
If a voting system cannot last more then 20 years... it was defective to begin with.
pencils last for 20 years?
why can't I cast my vote online using the same security mechanisms?
because you voted for people who won't pay for better
If it's somehow racist to suggest folks show up at the polls with a photo ID
if you look at the statistics for who has a photo ID and who doesn't have a photo ID, it SURE IS racist to suggest using its absence as a filter to remove voters.
they never ever fail, the predetermined candidate always wins
Errr, hold up a sec...one of the world's most corrupt countries
Are you talking about the USA? Here is a CLASSIC case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Maybe you can tell us about Comcast and Verizon...
Once you realize how corrupt Russia is
you realize that humans are pretty much the same wherever you go
This is an educational problem -- people need to know there are places you're not allowed to fly
learning that you will go to jail for a long time is a powerful incentive
>> SoCs with GPS
GPS is so trivial to spoof and forge that it should never be used to implement "no fly" features in drones.
the radio signals used to control drones are trivial to spoof and forge, with your logic they should all be grounded until they can be 100% proven secure
So basically have all technology set to be controlled by the government just in case they need to?
so basically you've decided to argue with something that nobody said