I have worked with some people working on that exact problem. Mood is a sort of emotion, and we are doing agent based simulations right now involving it (look up the OCC model). Everything that you have listed here is possible to detect with instrumentation now — the missing pieces are getting a reasonable emotional model worked out and these as inputs into it.

I definitely have used it. I had to stop and start using windows 7 (this is all in a virtual machine on a newer mac) due to work a few weeks ago. I believe Windows 10 will be great — and I may even switch to it. However, I felt that it is not quite ready yet — and it is my experience that software as complex as this never quite reaches stability in two or three months. If I am wrong, I will be pleasantly surprised. It is my intention to upgrade my mother's Windows 7 machine to Windows 10 once I am satisfied with its stability —a month after release would likely give me reasonable feedback.

I don't mind such a robotic system as long as it can be double checked by the pharmacy. Trust — but verify.

This is incredibly simplistic, like all kinds of analyses like this. Anything that really requires a mind rather than a simple result of calculation or mechanical action will likely not be replaced without some big advance. More likely, we will just have better tools for certain jobs making them more higher level — it can let them get stuff done easier - so they can do more.

If this prerelease set goes "to market" within the next six months, it will be Windows Me all over again. A performance worst than Windows 8, they might just go down a little more.

Which crimes does the death penalty actually provide a deterrent for? I don't think any. People still commit the crimes, as much as some governors love flipping the switch.

They are due for being disbarred.

Come on, its a civet, not a weasel. I admit they look similar but they belong to different families. Mind you, I personally just drink the stuff in a plastic container using a No. 2 filter on top of a cup.

(IANAL) — Is this really true? Consider a bunch of books uploaded, and DMCA takedown notices being received, and it forms a pattern where in multitudes of cases where a book of the same name but differing authors or maybe not even changing the author keeps getting taken down again and again. This pattern might be enough for a basis to a lawsuit of negligence or some other fancy legal term.

OR -- detect the client in the case of old IE versions and serve a page for them, and keep making $32,200 instead of $16,200.

I just want to find Trantor, so I can get home.

I thought it was a conference on Mormonism for a moment.

This is a very insightful post —the original poster was asinine to even suggest that we need to get rid of them. For "software engineering" to grow up, we need more accurate means of pricing projects — otherwise you have no business.

A thousand yeses could not match the rightfulness of this post.

What are the practical results of this?