L
Leythos
"David Candy" <.> said:
Why would anyone want to let a product touch their computer if Quality
wasn't the first thing in the mind of the company developing it?
Why would anyone want to let a product touch their computer if Quality
wasn't the first thing in the mind of the company developing it?
J
Jim Byrd
Or, better yet, SuperSucker! 
J
Jim Byrd
Hi Rick - And I suspect that it's provably impossible, since it's unbounded
and therefore likely to be an NPComplete problem. (Not that I'd want to
take the time to try and prove it! ) (and not to mention
rootkits!)
and therefore likely to be an NPComplete problem. (Not that I'd want to
take the time to try and prove it!
) (and not to mentionrootkits!)
D
David Candy
Don't ask me. I'm not advocating it.
U
Uncle Joe
The program you seek already exists. Check out FantasyWorks
Version 3.0472198h at http://pie-in-the-sky.com
Maintenance is a bitch, though. The company releases a complete
new build every 10 minutes to keep up with changing technologies,
OSs, applications, viruses, and spyware.
Version 3.0472198h at http://pie-in-the-sky.com
Maintenance is a bitch, though. The company releases a complete
new build every 10 minutes to keep up with changing technologies,
OSs, applications, viruses, and spyware.
U
Uncle Joe
Doesn't Lexus already have this feature--for an extra $6,500?
M
Matt
This thread reminds me of an interview I heard on public radio on "This
American Life". An electrician thought he could design a superconductor, but
while studying for it he came across Einstein's theory of relativity. He
believed that the theory was not true, and he took a year off of work so
that he could research it while his wife worked to support them. She decided
that she had to give him the chance to work on it, even if she didn't
understand it herself. "What if he was right about it and I didn't help him
to see it through?" she thought.
When he attempted to present his findings to physics departments, they
always rebuffed him. He came to believe that the people involved in the
physics field were elitist, and wouldn't listen to someone who had not been
educated as they were. But he finally did find a professor who would listen,
someone who was known to be open to new ways of looking at things.
The professor found faults with the man's paper, said that the man confused
energy with force (or something like that) which was a common mistake for
beginning physics students. The professor explained that people who were not
fully educated in the field thought they could see a simple answer to a
complex problem. They did not know enough about all the other factors
involved that would cancel their solution.
The professor also said that because of that paradox many people came to him
asking for help with theories of their own. That they didn't know enough
about physics to write the paper but maybe he could help write it for them.
American Life". An electrician thought he could design a superconductor, but
while studying for it he came across Einstein's theory of relativity. He
believed that the theory was not true, and he took a year off of work so
that he could research it while his wife worked to support them. She decided
that she had to give him the chance to work on it, even if she didn't
understand it herself. "What if he was right about it and I didn't help him
to see it through?" she thought.
When he attempted to present his findings to physics departments, they
always rebuffed him. He came to believe that the people involved in the
physics field were elitist, and wouldn't listen to someone who had not been
educated as they were. But he finally did find a professor who would listen,
someone who was known to be open to new ways of looking at things.
The professor found faults with the man's paper, said that the man confused
energy with force (or something like that) which was a common mistake for
beginning physics students. The professor explained that people who were not
fully educated in the field thought they could see a simple answer to a
complex problem. They did not know enough about all the other factors
involved that would cancel their solution.
The professor also said that because of that paradox many people came to him
asking for help with theories of their own. That they didn't know enough
about physics to write the paper but maybe he could help write it for them.
T
TeVan
Hey Mac, how's it going? There's so much traffic and crossfire, I'll be replying to your post. In reality this in reply to most of the replies to you. Hang in there and never let go of your dreams!
Well, maybe it's not possible. Who cares? That's not the point. It seems to me, Mac is only trying to invite intellectual discussion. You know, a little academic exercise. I looked over the group real quick and it does not appear Mac is a troll. So what's the problem? Someone piss in your cheerios this morning? I'm very disappointed in the attitude of most of the replies. The first offensive, insulting reply by Mr. Urban MVP. "You just don't get it - do you. Go write the program you desire hotshot." You know, a few years ago all the OE MVPs ranted, raved, and insisted it was IMPOSSIBLE to compromise yourself by opening an email, or simply visiting a web page. Hmm... we all know what happened next... What's impossible today may bite you in the butt tomorrow.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Well, maybe it's not possible. Who cares? That's not the point. It seems to me, Mac is only trying to invite intellectual discussion. You know, a little academic exercise. I looked over the group real quick and it does not appear Mac is a troll. So what's the problem? Someone piss in your cheerios this morning? I'm very disappointed in the attitude of most of the replies. The first offensive, insulting reply by Mr. Urban MVP. "You just don't get it - do you. Go write the program you desire hotshot." You know, a few years ago all the OE MVPs ranted, raved, and insisted it was IMPOSSIBLE to compromise yourself by opening an email, or simply visiting a web page. Hmm... we all know what happened next... What's impossible today may bite you in the butt tomorrow.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
R
Richard Urban
No! Mac is a TROLL.
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
Hey Mac, how's it going? There's so much traffic and crossfire, I'll be
replying to your post. In reality this in reply to most of the replies to
you. Hang in there and never let go of your dreams!
Well, maybe it's not possible. Who cares? That's not the point. It seems to
me, Mac is only trying to invite intellectual discussion. You know, a little
academic exercise. I looked over the group real quick and it does not appear
Mac is a troll. So what's the problem? Someone piss in your cheerios this
morning? I'm very disappointed in the attitude of most of the replies. The
first offensive, insulting reply by Mr. Urban MVP. "You just don't get it -
do you. Go write the program you desire hotshot." You know, a few years ago
all the OE MVPs ranted, raved, and insisted it was IMPOSSIBLE to compromise
yourself by opening an email, or simply visiting a web page. Hmm... we all
know what happened next... What's impossible today may bite you in the butt
tomorrow.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
Hey Mac, how's it going? There's so much traffic and crossfire, I'll be
replying to your post. In reality this in reply to most of the replies to
you. Hang in there and never let go of your dreams!
Well, maybe it's not possible. Who cares? That's not the point. It seems to
me, Mac is only trying to invite intellectual discussion. You know, a little
academic exercise. I looked over the group real quick and it does not appear
Mac is a troll. So what's the problem? Someone piss in your cheerios this
morning? I'm very disappointed in the attitude of most of the replies. The
first offensive, insulting reply by Mr. Urban MVP. "You just don't get it -
do you. Go write the program you desire hotshot." You know, a few years ago
all the OE MVPs ranted, raved, and insisted it was IMPOSSIBLE to compromise
yourself by opening an email, or simply visiting a web page. Hmm... we all
know what happened next... What's impossible today may bite you in the butt
tomorrow.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
C
cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)
Attempted expert systems exist and are sold commercially; most of them
act like under-clued cowboy techs, making irreversible changes based
on poorly-checked assumptions. Generally I'd file the lot of them
under "snake oil". This isn't surprising, when you consider work from
the Von Neuman / Alan Turing era on computability etc.
A powerful computing system can analyse and fix a smaller one in a
small enough time for the results to be relevant. For example, you
can emulate the Spectrum (a small home computer running at a clock
speed of 3.5MHz with 48k or RAM) quite comfortably on a 50MHz 486DX2,
and the best way to run DOS software from the days of that "486" might
be to emulate it within a modern PC, rather than run it natively.
Current computing power is fast enough to run entire previous OSs and
their applications as if they were just programs in the newer system,
but you are asking something else; the ability to troubleshoot such
environments. I think that by the time we can code manual expertise
into an AI tshooter, the OS we'd be tshooting would be "obsolete".
If you think about where "troubles" come from, e.g. issues that
weren't anticipated when the system was written, you can see why
troubles persist, and why it would be a while before they could be
wished away (and new troubles invented).
This is very much the case about your examples of being attacked via
email messages or "document" macros. There was indeed a time when
such things were impossible, but ill-judged technology made them
possible. Some of us could see this coming, kicked up a fuss that was
ignored at the time, and took our own steps to pull the fangs out of
what we didn't like - and still do, to this day.
"Why do I keep open buckets of petrol next to all the
ashtrays in the lounge, when I don't even have a car?"