Posts by rcmattyw 9 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009
True, though the problem with an aging user base (an lets face it, its nnot kids that can afford to pay more) is that eventually you have no one to buy your new products. If you're not attracting new users you have a major problem on your hands. Not immediately, but down the track.
My only real complaint is that not all settings are in control panel. Either fix the modern panel and kill the original panel vice versa. I don't care which. Overall I prefer the look and feel of Windows 10 though to be honest, its just another app launcher. Everything I use is either pinned to the task bar or Rocket Dock.
Yeah, getting rid of menu's and introducing the ribbon caused me to change to OpenOffice, or LibreOffice these days. Likewise, Word seems to come across weird formatting issues which LibreOffice doesn't have. I still save everything in Microsofts formats, though I don't use their productivity suite. No need
Personally I now accept that whatever the version of Android a handset ships with, is possibly the only version of Android that will ever be available on that device. Running a Huawei Ascend Mate 7, love the phone, hate the interface.
I just loaded a 3rd part launcher and its now perfect. I may or may not get Android 5, though it runs beautifully smooth right now anyway and on a great piece of hardware for the money. Can't be bothered rooting my devices any more, simply changing launcher and default apps is generally enough although I do wish Google would allow third party firewall apps without root access. :(
I imagine the physical structure of the environment would determine to a large extent how an intelligence would evolve. That would be why humans think in a certain similar way, although there are variations for various different disorders ADD, aspergers etc. Each having its advantages and disadvantages.
Now imagine that consciousness evolving as you describe from within the frame work of a machine rather than our old brains. I imagine the resultant intelligence would be so far removed from our own as to be unrecognizable. We could create it without even knowing we had. Likewise, how is it possible to impose ethics developed by a completely incompatible intelligence (our own) onto the newly created artificial intelligence? It will likely be nothing like our own, so any ethics will be completely different to our own and arrived at in a different way.
Even if we can recognize that a conscious being has been created, who are we to judge its sanity or insanity. It has evolved in a completely different way. I suspect anything which evolves will equate to madness in our eyes, but also seem to be completely brilliant at whichever conclusions and approaches it takes to a problem due to being so different to our own. But with a being so different, how are we to even communicate in the first place?
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