Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Lets put AI to use with an intelligent command line interface. (A.L.I.C.E. are you listening?)
Most program's help systems are an exercise in frustration. And tunneling through a maze of menus to find a seldom used feature is also.
On a program level, it would be nice to go to a text entry box and enter the command you want executed. If it was considered unambiguous it could be executed immediately, otherwise the Intelligent Command Line could enter into a dialog with you until you both agreed on the task to be performed.
Just so it isn't like having a dialog with Bomb#20 in "Darkstar".
I haven't seen any reviews that address one basic question: can a Segway go from a sidewalk to the street by easing down over a curb, cross the street and (slowly) climb up a curb to the sidewalk on the other side?
Hitting an obstacle at speed wouldn't be good as the effect of your body continuing forward would apply more power when you may want to be stopping at that point. But if you stopped near the base of a curb, can you climb the curb slowly...
Years ago John Dvorak wrote articles for Infoworld,
I believe, and in one of them referred to the TRS80 as a "Trash 80". John Roach, then president of Radio Shack, was not amused. He pulled Radio Shack ads from Infoworld, and shortly thereafter John Dvorak was no longer writing for Infoworld.
A little thin-skinned I thought.
Seems appropriate as my first/. commment to repy to this. Congratulations, old man.
Married 37 years and loving it.
Sorcerer: not just for breakfast anymore.
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Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Lets put AI to use with an intelligent command line interface. (A.L.I.C.E. are you listening?)
Most program's help systems are an exercise in frustration. And tunneling through a maze of menus to find a seldom used feature is also.
On a program level, it would be nice to go to a text entry box and enter the command you want executed. If it was considered unambiguous it could be executed immediately, otherwise the Intelligent Command Line could enter into a dialog with you until you both agreed on the task to be performed.
Just so it isn't like having a dialog with Bomb#20 in "Darkstar".
I haven't seen any reviews that address one basic question: can a Segway go from a sidewalk to the street by easing down over a curb, cross the street and (slowly) climb up a curb to the sidewalk on the other side?
Hitting an obstacle at speed wouldn't be good as the effect of your body continuing forward would apply more power when you may want to be stopping at that point. But if you stopped near the base of a curb, can you climb the curb slowly...
Years ago John Dvorak wrote articles for Infoworld, I believe, and in one of them referred to the TRS80 as a "Trash 80". John Roach, then president of Radio Shack, was not amused. He pulled Radio Shack ads from Infoworld, and shortly thereafter John Dvorak was no longer writing for Infoworld. A little thin-skinned I thought.
Seems appropriate as my first /. commment to repy to this. Congratulations, old man.
Married 37 years and loving it.
Sorcerer: not just for breakfast anymore.