Computers are turing machines and with little effort would run the same modern software that beat grand masters and game shows. It would just take a billion years and need millions of replacements as parts wore out.
Africa doesn't count because the US is special. Or something. OT, but when I was there most people seemed happy and had a life 10,000x more difficult than anyone in the west. I believe that everyone needs a month long trip to Kenya or Ghana or Nigeria for some perspective in life.
No, just plain text email, cell phone or not as long as I had internet connection and web browser or telnet/ssl.
A search "sandra qqaddr" pulls up all the addresses with sandra in the record. Likewise search qqdate "Jul 1" pulls up all records that have a Jul and 1 somewhere in the text. I used to store things more structured (/friends,/business,/emergency,/relatives,/etc), but realized that search was as useful. It's horribly inefficient, but is still instantaneous, it's easy and I can store whatever unstructured type of information I want.
True, but the future is word salad. People will no longer have the capability of critical thought and sentences will be judged not upon the ideas the are trying to convey, bt on how they sound. Eg, you talk like a fag.
I've seen calculators referred to as AI...obviously, 1+1=2 through the intelligence of the machine. Give it ten years math will be the new magic and the dumbing down of the culture will be complete. I've even seen the work I've done called 'artificial intelligence research' while at the time we called it Runge–Kutta, so I now tell people that I'm an AI researcher.
I've never used one. All of my contacts are stored in email. Always worked perfectly and has never failed in 20 years, I haven't had to learn any new software, is perfectly searchable (I have a unique tag that I use for different types of information and forward it to myself) and is available on any device with internet connection including a vt100 n a vax. I have even written papers in email programs and imported them (cut&paste) into word processors for final formatting.
Or a dayplanner?
Never used one, but calendar.google works perfect.
I don't see anything new for iot beyond the current capabilities of SOC embedded processing. What is there besides discrete and analog IO? Interaction in the real world is very slow. Operating voltages and noise are solved problems
It would have been nice. I honestly don't know anything about BEos, but wold someday like to play with it. It was way out of my price range at the time and I cold get os/2 very cheap at my college book store. The greatest thing (at the time) was to start up 3 or 4 copies of castle wolfenstein each in their on dos box. Slow and barely usable, but when just seeing castle wolfenstein on a pc was impressive enough. I think most people here are too young to know what growing up in a monochrome, graphicsless computer world was like.
I thought it was a RT microkernel, but don't know.
OS/2 4.0 had voice dictation in 1994 on a 25MHz 486. I think it was supposed to be something like 97% accurate after you trained it, but still annoying. YOU --- HAD --- TO -- TALK -- LIKE -- THIS -- FOR -- IT -- TO -- WORK -- REASONABLY -- WELL -- PERIOD At the time there were numerous articles on every news outlet about how this was going to put a large number of people out of work.
not like everyone saw miniaturization coming from a mile away
Not really. For at long time, the whole industry as fixated on faster computers with more ram. There's little that is done today that could not have been done in 2000. The whole miniaturization, let your smartphone do it all is recent thing. I spent a few years in semiconductors working on SOC development where it was only a side venture and not viewed as important to the company. MCUs were where it was at
And no, no one ever sold a desktop by saying our box is bigger.
Yes they did. I did some work for a company and also lawyers while in college who paid extra to get large computer cases because they thought it would look more professional. I knew better as an engineer, but most people did not.
No, it has existed for 50 years and is as old as the internet. It is the internet. IoT is just a buzzword to get investors and excite other uneducated people, news media, etc. The internet is more than web pages, or more recently, facebook.
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No, just that these things are called AI.
If you send people first, they report back how much it sucks and kills the desire for those other things.
computers 40 years ago being able to...
Computers are turing machines and with little effort would run the same modern software that beat grand masters and game shows. It would just take a billion years and need millions of replacements as parts wore out.
and you starve/asphyxiate.
It's a small price to pay for the end of these stories. But what will people cling to next?
The amish are officially laughing at you.
Sounds very inefficient.
Africa doesn't count because the US is special. Or something. OT, but when I was there most people seemed happy and had a life 10,000x more difficult than anyone in the west. I believe that everyone needs a month long trip to Kenya or Ghana or Nigeria for some perspective in life.
Too late. People believe only the first thing they read or something that its into their belief system.
A search "sandra qqaddr" pulls up all the addresses with sandra in the record. Likewise search qqdate "Jul 1" pulls up all records that have a Jul and 1 somewhere in the text. I used to store things more structured (/friends, /business, /emergency, /relatives, /etc), but realized that search was as useful. It's horribly inefficient, but is still instantaneous, it's easy and I can store whatever unstructured type of information I want.
True, but the future is word salad. People will no longer have the capability of critical thought and sentences will be judged not upon the ideas the are trying to convey, bt on how they sound. Eg, you talk like a fag.
I've seen calculators referred to as AI...obviously, 1+1=2 through the intelligence of the machine. Give it ten years math will be the new magic and the dumbing down of the culture will be complete. I've even seen the work I've done called 'artificial intelligence research' while at the time we called it Runge–Kutta, so I now tell people that I'm an AI researcher.
don't have a need for the little portable one
? Full functioning email is available on phones now.
last time you saw an address book?
I've never used one. All of my contacts are stored in email. Always worked perfectly and has never failed in 20 years, I haven't had to learn any new software, is perfectly searchable (I have a unique tag that I use for different types of information and forward it to myself) and is available on any device with internet connection including a vt100 n a vax. I have even written papers in email programs and imported them (cut&paste) into word processors for final formatting.
Or a dayplanner?
Never used one, but calendar.google works perfect.
Can you recall the tube IDs
That's what the tester at the drugstore did.
I don't see anything new for iot beyond the current capabilities of SOC embedded processing. What is there besides discrete and analog IO? Interaction in the real world is very slow. Operating voltages and noise are solved problems
IBM Blue Ice supercomputer 325.40 kW x 48hours x 0.10/kwh = $1,561.92.
I thought it was a RT microkernel, but don't know.
Can't blame that one on HAL. It was doing what it was told to do.
OS/2 4.0 had voice dictation in 1994 on a 25MHz 486. I think it was supposed to be something like 97% accurate after you trained it, but still annoying. YOU --- HAD --- TO -- TALK -- LIKE -- THIS -- FOR -- IT -- TO -- WORK -- REASONABLY -- WELL -- PERIOD At the time there were numerous articles on every news outlet about how this was going to put a large number of people out of work.
not from the press, but from mass media entertainment
They are one in the same
And Data from StarTrek.
Voice recognition is AI.
That's like saying my TI34 calculator adding 64 plus 76 is AI. You could buy voice recognition or the TRS-80 in the 1970's.
not like everyone saw miniaturization coming from a mile away
Not really. For at long time, the whole industry as fixated on faster computers with more ram. There's little that is done today that could not have been done in 2000. The whole miniaturization, let your smartphone do it all is recent thing. I spent a few years in semiconductors working on SOC development where it was only a side venture and not viewed as important to the company. MCUs were where it was at
And no, no one ever sold a desktop by saying our box is bigger.
Yes they did. I did some work for a company and also lawyers while in college who paid extra to get large computer cases because they thought it would look more professional. I knew better as an engineer, but most people did not.
We've been getting along fine w/o it
No, it has existed for 50 years and is as old as the internet. It is the internet. IoT is just a buzzword to get investors and excite other uneducated people, news media, etc. The internet is more than web pages, or more recently, facebook.
I think this only shows how isolated some people are from the rest of the world. Nothing new to see here.
chatbots stuck on replying to each other endlessly.
I propose they get named after political parties.