On 1/22/14, 12:12 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
What i'm looking for is some way to categorize this increasingly hard
to discern "important" ie what I think are important notifications,
from the piplines having decided that I reely want to know rightnow is
there was a abscure, probably not a issue bug update for the baked in
twitter dodad.
I saw a piece on CBS Sunday Morning about self-driving cars. How they
will keep people safe, eliminate traffic and so on. I didn't know
whether to laugh or cry. My car's computer, for example, apparently
likes to stay in an always-on mode whenever confronted with a driver
with a Bluetooth phone, even after they leave (perhaps in range in the
house?). Anyway, if car manufacturers can't keep the computers from
draining the battery dead, why should I think they can handle real-time
safety applications? All of that software should be open source (so
that it can be scrutinized by the most eyes possible) and implemented
with the most cautious software engineering practices possible.
As to your question, why so many updates? Because they are all
important, and this kind of software, and actually most software, is
riddled with bugs. It's a huge problem.
Marcus
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