The impossibility of creating an artificially intelligent computer capable of fooling anybody communicating with it over the web or via telephone that it is a person is at the heart of what it means to be human. Even to simulate an ant's intelligence takes a ridiculous amount of electrical and processing power. The prize for creating a computer system that the majority will mistake for a human being has never been claimed and probably never will be claimed.
Further on search engine dependency, imagine that you are standardized on the 2.6.32 kernel and that you run the latest version, 13, of Fedora. You update without creating your own local archive of the updates. Fedora 16 comes out, you have data tied up in Fedora 13. Linus has moved on to the 3.0.0 kernel. Fedora 16 is substantially different from Fedora 13. What will google help you research? Is Google going to be as helpful to people trying to support Fedora 13 compared to people wanting to migrate to Fedora 16? What if for whatever reason you can't migrate? Maybe you have Pentium 4 era systems where Fedora 16 requires as a bare minimum a quad core computer. Google, invariably, is going to change for searches on Fedora when 13 reaches end of life and the 2.6 kernel reaches end of life. Most people probably want information on the newest kernel and the newest releases of Linux. For those who need to support yesterday's Linux for who knows how long, is satisfying both groups with the same search engine really practical? If the HOWTO's fall behind, and they do, there is a lot of inaccurate dated information. Try to use the NFS HOWTO's these days. The use of mknbi-linux and mkelf-linux is pretty much dated. Took me a long time to figure out that a pxelinux boot can only handle untagged kernels. Fedora is considered a bleeding edge Linux distro, but even old releases of CentOS can be in use past EOL. I have CentOS 4.x servers even though CentOS 5.x is the currently supported system. Sadly, Google doesn't seem to be able to narrow search results based on the specific version of a Linux distribution that you want to search on. Perhaps Google is running into problems like, is he/she searching for Fedora 13 because he/she thinks that is the current release or does this person really want information pertaining to that dated release? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
