Used FileMaker for years until they screwed our business by failing to provide adequate database migration tools for previous versions of FileMaker. Finally dumped them in favor of a less involved solution.

I'm bidding $1.00. Fingers crossed.

macplusplus said:

SpamSandwich said:

macplusplus said:

dysamoria said:

stickista said:

Might want to fix your headline... Tom, not 'Ted' Gruber

Still the same by the time I got here. Proofreading is important.

also... artificial intelligence is a buzzword that still has yet to actually relate to actual intelligence. The best simulation of intelligence can't pass the most basic tests for intelligence. I wish there was a different term for this stuff so we could separate actual intelligence from cleverly made software tools that can't think. 

The amount of information that gives rise to conscience is so huge that silicon cannot handle this. An energy efficient biological machine is needed. All the rest is a cartoon of true conscience.

Meanwhile we should not mix up intelligence and conscience. There may be several types of  intelligence that may come close to conscience of not. What we need is "they" solve problems, not think.

There's absolutely no proof that supports your assertion that silicon-based consciousness is impossible.

Search for "Integrated Information Theory". I believe this is the most scientific explanation of consciousness and all the rest is metaphysics.

"Can Integrated Information Theory Explain Consciousness?

A radical new solution to the mind–body problem poses problems of its own"

 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/can-integrated-information-theory-explain-consciousness/

Here's Apple's letter:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3643379-Apple-s-Comments-on-the-Federal-Automated.html#document/p1

You can see this illustrator figured out that the software based palm rejection is inadequate. He's wearing part of a glove on his right hand to prevent accidental input, similar to what I found I had to do. This small, but important flaw prevents the iPad from becoming the ultimate choice for creating digital artwork. It's not the worst thing in the world, but in streamlining one's production process, annoyances like this are critical, so keep this limitation in mind when considering iPad vs. Cintiq (or even Surface Studio).