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We have smart elevators in our building. They know exactly when someone will request an elevator and using an extremely complex algorithm device a floor visiting route that ensures either
a) the fewest passengers will be picked up with the most number of floor changes, or
b) the timing is such that the number of passengers waiting to get on when the elevator actually arrives is N+1, where N = elevator capacity.
I hates them.
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Now you could add the joy of a BSOPTS (Blue Screen of Plummeting 10 Stories), or a Windows Update midway to work.
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TTFN - Kent
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"I see that you wish to visit the tenth floor. Have you considered the seventh floor? They have a very nice receptionist on the seventh floor." -- Clippy
Oh, that's too close to a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporter":
Lift : May I ask you if you've considered all the possibilities that down might offer you?
I really think that the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation will be formed from Microsoft. Go stick your head in a pig.
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Shouldn't you install a bike ramp?
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If i see such elevator i will have one more reason to use the stairs. Either way i am not big fan of elevators.
Do you imagine it. You enter in the m$ elevator with no buttons (even the panic button) and when it stats moving and you reach the middle of 2 floors ... blue screen of death. It will be just epic
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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User feedback will force them to add the Start button back
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I hope they didn't remove the buttons...
On second thought, that should be fun - closed inside a no-buttons elevator operated with the common collection of MS bugs! A whole day fun for free!!!
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I wonder if the excuse of beeing stuck all day long in the m$ elevator will be valid for missing going to work for a day/week
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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My doctor's building is only two floors. When I enter the elevator, I wish it would realize that I want to go to the other floor. But, alas, it is not smart enough.
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Don't worry after the M$ software for the elevators become real you will be able to go your doctor's third floor and even further.
With M$ and the new elevator software you will be able to reach the clouds
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Actually, it thinks "Who on earth takes the elevator for only one floor ? Take the stairs, you lazy donkey!"
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Smart cars can turn off passenger airbags based on weight. Elevators can do the same if programmed to.
I'm also originally from the village of donkeys.
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Of all the static technology that could've been turned "smart," elevators would not have been in my top 500 devices. Good to see Microsoft Research is putting in quality work over there in Redmond.
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Nor would have smartphones. Well, as many tools, they can only be as smart as the people using them.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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If an elevator doesn't know what floor you're going, then nobody does. This is already reality today; the only thing an AI can do now is to make it worse.
Why not have the elevator control integrated on your calendar where you put in your appointments and then you can check in your device when you get in the building and it would automatically call an elevator and then it would announce your name if you reach the correct floor. You can make that happen without scary psychic AI things.
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Trust in anything connected to the internet risks being eroded as overall IT security vulnerabilities reached their highest level in 14 years, Cisco warned today, pointing to a global shortage of more than 1m security professionals. Hire 1 million hackers: mission accomplished
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I'm curious who's spending the money to employ 1m security professionals...
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No one is. That's why there's a shortage.
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Once in control, they can silently push new ad-filled "updates" to those users. New maxim: If there is a way, marketing will.
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They seem to be winding up with the ban hammer. Also, a new rule that extensions "can only do one thing", however they might interpret that.
ActiveX all over again, except in this case they were auto-updating vectors of joy.
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Developer Media’s CXO, Jeff Hadfield will hold a webinar to reveal the latest results of their Technology Trends research which surveyed over 23 million software developers. Immediately following the webinar Developer Media will officially release its latest Technology Trends Research Report which includes the full survey results and deeper insight and recommendations for tech marketers looking to target software developers. "Cruisin' on a sardine boat, loaded with crazy people. And we shall be the Santa Maria, looking for a brave new world."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: which surveyed over 23 million software developers.
Hmph. They didn't ask me. Did they ask you?
And wait. 23 million? Are there really that many of us? Suspicious...
Marc
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You count for 2, don't you?
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
Joe never complained of anything but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart [^]
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...and updated to "a sampling of 23M developers".
I'm know a guy who knows a guy who can get you an invite to the next, ahem, sampling.
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