Ah. Does android have someway then to catagorize updates and notifications
and possibly adjust the kind of sounds it makes? A bit like the way star
trek has red, green, orange blue alerts?

As to the cars being driven by Artificial Inteligence that could, oddly,
work. I say that since gaming Ai's have gotten to where they can learn and
adapt. FEAR, for example, is noted for doing that.





On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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