A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

[Ben Scott]

On Nov 12, 2007 9:09 AM, kenta <kenta.koga at gmail.com> wrote:
>> An automatic transmission doesn't know which way I'm going to turn.
>
> That car analogy isn't making sense to me....

  As an example: An AT doesn't know that I'm about to turn a corner
and go up a hill, so it doesn't know to down-shift in advance to give
me a little extra momentum going into the turn.

  You get the idea.  Point is, I have a better idea of what I'm about
to do than a machine will.  At least until they implement that direct
neural interface.  (And then it will probably only work with
MS-Windows.)

-- Ben