You claim to be Christian. Jesus tells us to love our enemies but you claim to hate everyone unless they meet your standards. That is totally opposite of Christianity so better read your bible again. The belief that someone deserves an eternity in hell is used to justify wars and other evil behavior and definitely contradicts the love your enemy verse. A infinity of lifetimes to learn what is needed is the only loving way a god could be. A god could create a universe where only one person is real and everyone else is fake to spare the pain that the real person would cause.
I have a suggestion. Dig a tunnel under Lake Michigan at my hometown of Ludington, Michigan to Wisconsin. In the middle dig another tunnel perpendicular to this one. Above that tunnel put several windmills. The first tunnel would have the transmission lines to either side for the electricity produced by the windmills. The second tunnel would be used to pump air into it when there is excess electricity produced. When there is a need for electricity and little or no wind than the compressed air would be used to produce electricity. Mason County has already a pumped storage plant and 56 windmills so this would give even more importance to this area.
I can remember a long time ago shopping at a store where there were just cards instead of products. One would take the cards to the checkout and pay for those products. Then the products would appear on a conveyor belt and be put if bags for the customer. Walmart now has a pickup place where one can preorder items and someone will shop for you and you just have to pick them up and pay for them. I think this will lead to a virtual store where everyone will shop online either using a phone or computer and a location at the store where one could use a store owned computer. In any case, one would not enter the store where the merchandise was located. If the merchandise was picked up by robots than the merchandise could be stacked to the ceiling and the isle could be made very narrow. I would think they could store all of the merchandise in less than half the space now needed and if a lot of people shop elsewhere and just pick up their items than they could get by with a lot smaller parking lot too. I would look forward to having stores with about a third of their space and more products and a more convenient way of shopping.
On average there are 210 cloudy days a year in BuIffalo so I do not think that many people there will be using the shingles. I live on the east coast of Lake Michigan and there is little use for the shingles here too as there are not enough sunny days here. If they are a good bargain then the power providers would cover the cost of the shingles and recover that cost by keeping my electrical bill the same.
There are people starving but feeding cattle is much more important. Why? Because red meat is the best health food? It is not. So we are starving people to produce less healthy foods to satisfy our taste buds. Watch the movie "Forks over knives". If one still eats a lot of red meat than their empathy toward the cattle, other people, and themselves should be increased.
If there were a new species of ants in your neighbors back yard, I am sure that you and a lot more people would be contacting them. Humans would be a new species to any advanced alien race so I also sure they would want to examine us. I am also sure that if anyone could find a way to communicate with any ants, a lot of people would doing so because I am sure the ants could teach us humans a thing or two.
Preaching against watching porn does not reduce the amount of porn being watched but only makes people lie and feel bad about watching porn. There was a time in the distant past when human survival was dependent on humans having multiple partners. Those whose brain rewarded them for this behavior reproduced more and passed this on to their descendants. Tiger Woods is a perfect example of this. Even with an almost perfect mate, his brain rewarded him when he had sex with other women. Which is worse? 1. Watching a movie where it shows how to give pleasure to another human. 2. Watching a movie where it shows how to murder another human. I just watched a Netflix movie where a large number of humans were killed. The worst was when a woman who was holding on to a ledge of a building was shot point blank and another where a young girl was placed in a box and burned to death. I am sure there would be calls to shut down Netflix if it shows two women giving oral sex to each other but I am sure this movie will not generate much opposition.
Christian does not want to learn things if those things disprove their most cherished beliefs. The stories of Adam and Eve and Noah are the basis of Christianity. Science is making it harder to believe in them. So the question is "Which one to throw out either science or religion?" Christian are deciding science.
1. Figure out how much one spends on energy now. 2. Figure out how much one would spend after the system is installed. 3. Divide savings into the cost of the system to determine how many years it will take to recover the investment. 4. If the system is so great the number of years will not be great so Google should be able to install system for free by just charging the same amount for energy as they were paying. 5. Google makes money at no expense to the homeowner.
Donald Trump says he is going to save a trillion dollars by using technology to increase the efficiency of the government. Even though unemployment is low he wants to eliminate Obamacare taxes on the rich since he calls them job killing taxes. So even though he is going to save a trillion dollars and unemployment is already low he has to take away a trillion dollars from people's health care. Only Republicans will think that is logical.
There is technology that will change our life far more than what was shown in that video. In the near future, most people will live in underground homes. There will be underground transportation tunnels. A central computer will know where every vehicle is at all times so there will be no need for lidar on those vehicles. No driving in rain or snow or on wet or icy roads. There will be no wildlife so driving will be so much easier. Home will not suffer from weather damage and will be a lot more secure since it will take the owner's permission just to get to the front door. How many jobs will be lost that now depend on damage to either vehicles or homes? Homes will be virtually self-cleaning so that will eliminate maids. Meals will be delivered so there will be no need for a kitchen. There will be no need for police monitoring our roads since no vehicle will be allowed to break any rules. The big problem will be when someone awakens and realizes that there in no need for that person to get out of bed. There will be no sense of accomplishments and we can not live our life playing video games.
How about paying more for house insurance since the internet will be able to detect problems such as fire, break-in and even gas or water leaks. How about paying more for electricity since they will not be able to reduce peak demand by delaying your dryer, dishwasher, air conditioner or any heavy electrical using device? Those who do not cooperate because they value their privacy to a computer, not another human being, will cause problems to those who do. I see the day when the internet will be able to detect problems such as someone having a heart attack or stroke, or even a nasty fall and being able to do something about it. The internet of things will make most people's life a lot more secure and safe. Maybe if Prince and Robin Williams were connected than they might still be alive today.
i like to brag about the area where I live. I live in Ludington, Michigan which is in Mason County. Mason County has. 56 large windmills. It is also the home of a very large pumped storage plant. They are spending close to a billion dollars upgrading it. It is also very close to the deepest part of Lake Michigan. In a recent slashdot article someone was studying a proposal to put a sphere underwater to contain compressed air to generate power so maybe they could put one in Lake Michigan and put windmills out in the middle of the lake out of sight of our tourists. Ludington has a very nice port so people could get to the windmills without many problems. For a Country of about 25,000 people, it is very impressive.
I say to all Democrats is to boycott the state of the union speech. Trump has absolutely nothing of value to say therefore it is a complete waste of time listening to him. He has proven that he considers anything the Democrats say to be of no value so they should return the favor and not consider anything he says to have any value at all, This decision is the worst possible and put him with every evil dictator that has ever existed so I consider him to be on par with Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. I hope the world response with imposing as many tariffs on American good as they can possibly do. Only when our trade balance gets worse will Trump listen to reason.
Some stores still provide service. Some even still have baggers. So one can go to the checkout and the clerk will tally up all the items and place them in bags and then place the bags back in the cart. If a bagger is present the bagger will go with the customer to their car and help place them in their car. If a large or heavy item is purchased the clerk will have a handheld scanner so that item can be scanned while in the cart those eliminating the need to take it out and replacing it. The clerk can handle coupons and bottle slips that a self-checkout can not. Self-checkouts are for small orders of around 15 or less items. If one has a cart full or one has any problem such as being old or disabled than a clerk is needed.
Right now we have a President who thinks we can not afford to give people health care. He also thinks that this country is so great that too many people will risk their life to illegally get here to spend their life in fear. They will also pay into social security without ever getting any retirement pay. As for health care, he will do everything is his power to destroy ACA but he will still blame it on Obama. With all the progress that is going on why do we still try to take away things from some of the people? When will we feel secure enough to not have to worry about some people getting a decent life? I can say for sure it will not be in the next four years.
Everyone will have a computer master. The computer will know everything about its human slave and I mean everything. The computer will know the exact measurement and weight of its human. The computer will know the color and texture of every part of the human's body. We will demand this so the computer will tell its human when and what to eat, when and how long to sleep, how and how long to exercise. It will warn the human if anything is going wrong long before the human is aware of the problem. We will be able to play any musical instrument or sport by downloading the skills to our brain but since we value only that which is hard to accomplish, we will have very little to really value. It will be boring most of the time.
I live near a pumped storage plant. They are spending close to a billion dollars replacing the turbine blades. Using this site https://upload.wikimedia.org/w..., I see that the deepest part of Lake Michigan is only around 30 miles from that pumped storage plant. They already have the transmission lines at the pumped storage plant so they could put one at the deepest point of Lake Michigan and put windmills above it. The windmills could be placed so that they could not be seen from shore. If all this could be made for less than a billion dollars and it could provide for about 2 gigawatts of power than I hope someone will do it here.
I use to purchase sony cameras at garage sales. I have several sony cameras because they have two problems. First is storage. I have 3 that store pictures on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Who has a computer that uses them anymore? I have a couple more that use memory sticks that come in more than one version and are way more expensive than sd cards. Then there is the battery. I guess they could not use the standard aa or aaa batteries. They do not charge in the camera so one needs a separate charger of which there are a huge number and a lot more than I paid for the camera. I have a nephew that has a ps4 with a 500-gigabyte hard drive. It takes more than 40 gigabytes per game so one can store about a dozen games on it. I looked into buying another hard drive but they made the space for the drive smaller than standard. I am sure they need those couple of millimeters for other reasons than trying to make people buy from them. Sony does a lot to make people buy from them only and at a lot more money.
What is wrong with the Democrats? Why didn't they encrypt all of their sensitive information? There are ways to store information in pictures so that anyone looking at them will not see anything different. They could have gotten everyone's email address and just sent to all and they would have had better security than they obvious did. The fact that they did not encrypt means they did not care about them getting into the wrong hands or were too stupid to take even basic steps since there is plenty of software that could have prevented all of this.
I will replace a hdd when the ssd comes in a usb case so I can first boot from the ssd. It should have a Linux OS which would first clone the hdd. Than I would swap the hdd with the ssd. After booting again my computer should be exactly the same as it was before the ssd. There are clone programs that will not clone a larger hdd to a smaller ssd. Since ssd have usually less memory, it is hard to clone a hdd to them. After upgrading to a ssd, I should have a faster computer and a external hdd to store a lot of pictures and videos.
I did a factory reset on a laptop to get back to 8. It started out with 181 updates and took over 8 hours to accomplish this. I turned it on the next day only to discover there were 21 more updates. I do not know if it is windows 10 or slashdot software but to type in this comment I attach a external keyboard since if I type on the laptop keyboard it goes crazy on me making it most difficult to type. Microsoft's games are the worst. I was playing Treasure Hunter and all at once it quit on me I restarted the game only to find that it was like I never played the game therefore losing more than a month of playing it. My results are suppose to stored on the cloud so there should be nothing my laptop could to produce that result. I really do not want to start over if there is a chance that it will happen again. In the game one must get across the screen to find an exit but for some reason the exit is not visible unless on magnifies the screen to the max. There is a game of solitaire where one must accomplish a task within a certain number of moves. But they have auto moves that can not be shut off and do not help in winning the game. So one must hit the undue button a lot of times since the game will try to redo the moves after every move the player does. Does anyone at Microsoft even play these games as if they did they would certainly see how frustrating they are. I have seen a game that will display a screen just to have it replaced by another screen. They could not be bothered to delete that screen instead of just adding more software to load another. Yet they are trying to get people to pay them over $10 a year so that they do not have to watch commercials. Most of the commercials are there just to punish those who do not pay as one game will advertise another game and it does not matter if one already has both games. I am sure some of the advertising is for me since some are for a Michigan government site. So they must know I live in Michigan. There is a game called Jackpot. It is a free download but they will try to sell you a lucky charm. The most expensive one is $229. I can not imagine someone paying that much money on a free game. I just realized there is not a sticker on my laptop with the key for the OS. If my hard drives fails on me how will I be able to restore the OS on a new one. I guess I could buy a 32 gigabyte flash memory stick and backup the OS and than store it somewhere so that I can find it if I keep the laptop long enough for the hard drive to fail. I would think that they could design the bios so that it could reach Microsoft so that in case of a hard drive failure Microsoft would reload its OS with all of their updates. Quality software must be a crazy idea that Microsoft will not be able to ever accomplish.
Why must I relearn everything after every upgrade? There is no minimize on this firefox browser. To minimize it I must hit the windows key since clicking on the icon on the task bar does nothing. There is now only a icon for all apps so I have to click it to get all apps. There is an icon for settings but it just another thing that must be learned. Microsoft games do not work right either. Some of the time when I click on say minesweeper it just show the initial screen and than does nothing. I either have to restart the operating system or I have to restart the game several times. Four days seem to be the maximum I can get away without rebooting. There are two games adventure and treasure hunter that can not show the last part of the game unless one magnifies the screen so much that one can not see the overall picture so one must memorize it and than magnify the screen to find the exit point. It is curious since the games failed to work than they started to work and than after an update went back to failing again. I can not find the command prompt. It used to be on the start menu but it is not there anymore and is not on the taskbar. I have read instruction to type a command on the taskbar but there is nowhere to type it. I have more than one computer and the problems are the same on all of them. If I touch the pad while typing this comment the computer will go crazy and I will have to spend some time getting back to where I was.
IBM is behind World Community Grid. They have contributed about 250 million results. They are not slowing down either. If one could produce these results at say a nickel a result in electricity cost than they have spent an additional 12.5 million dollars. But they are still asking for volunteers to produce results which should be a lot cheaper for them to produce themselves. Their cloud business should be able do this without much problems. Their must be a reason why they are still pushing distributed computing in a world where cloud computing is also being pushed. Super computers today are doing over 100 times what all the members of WCG can hope to accomplish. I would think IBM could get a government grant to help in the cost too.
First they should encrypt all secrets. Second only approved devices should be able to be able to read those files. Third those devices should have a way for them to contact the government everyday so that they could be remotely destroyed if they had fallen in the wrong hands, Therefore Clinton should have only the ability to send encrypted files which could be read only by authorized personnel. Anything less than that is negligence by the government not by any individual.
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You claim to be Christian. Jesus tells us to love our enemies but you claim to hate everyone unless they meet your standards. That is totally opposite of Christianity so better read your bible again. The belief that someone deserves an eternity in hell is used to justify wars and other evil behavior and definitely contradicts the love your enemy verse. A infinity of lifetimes to learn what is needed is the only loving way a god could be. A god could create a universe where only one person is real and everyone else is fake to spare the pain that the real person would cause.
I have a suggestion. Dig a tunnel under Lake Michigan at my hometown of Ludington, Michigan to Wisconsin. In the middle dig another tunnel perpendicular to this one. Above that tunnel put several windmills. The first tunnel would have the transmission lines to either side for the electricity produced by the windmills. The second tunnel would be used to pump air into it when there is excess electricity produced. When there is a need for electricity and little or no wind than the compressed air would be used to produce electricity. Mason County has already a pumped storage plant and 56 windmills so this would give even more importance to this area.
I can remember a long time ago shopping at a store where there were just cards instead of products. One would take the cards to the checkout and pay for those products. Then the products would appear on a conveyor belt and be put if bags for the customer. Walmart now has a pickup place where one can preorder items and someone will shop for you and you just have to pick them up and pay for them. I think this will lead to a virtual store where everyone will shop online either using a phone or computer and a location at the store where one could use a store owned computer. In any case, one would not enter the store where the merchandise was located. If the merchandise was picked up by robots than the merchandise could be stacked to the ceiling and the isle could be made very narrow. I would think they could store all of the merchandise in less than half the space now needed and if a lot of people shop elsewhere and just pick up their items than they could get by with a lot smaller parking lot too. I would look forward to having stores with about a third of their space and more products and a more convenient way of shopping.
On average there are 210 cloudy days a year in BuIffalo so I do not think that many people there will be using the shingles. I live on the east coast of Lake Michigan and there is little use for the shingles here too as there are not enough sunny days here. If they are a good bargain then the power providers would cover the cost of the shingles and recover that cost by keeping my electrical bill the same.
There are people starving but feeding cattle is much more important. Why? Because red meat is the best health food? It is not. So we are starving people to produce less healthy foods to satisfy our taste buds. Watch the movie "Forks over knives". If one still eats a lot of red meat than their empathy toward the cattle, other people, and themselves should be increased.
If there were a new species of ants in your neighbors back yard, I am sure that you and a lot more people would be contacting them. Humans would be a new species to any advanced alien race so I also sure they would want to examine us. I am also sure that if anyone could find a way to communicate with any ants, a lot of people would doing so because I am sure the ants could teach us humans a thing or two.
Preaching against watching porn does not reduce the amount of porn being watched but only makes people lie and feel bad about watching porn. There was a time in the distant past when human survival was dependent on humans having multiple partners. Those whose brain rewarded them for this behavior reproduced more and passed this on to their descendants. Tiger Woods is a perfect example of this. Even with an almost perfect mate, his brain rewarded him when he had sex with other women. Which is worse?
1. Watching a movie where it shows how to give pleasure to another human.
2. Watching a movie where it shows how to murder another human.
I just watched a Netflix movie where a large number of humans were killed. The worst was when a woman who was holding on to a ledge of a building was shot point blank and another where a young girl was placed in a box and burned to death.
I am sure there would be calls to shut down Netflix if it shows two women giving oral sex to each other but I am sure this movie will not generate much opposition.
Christian does not want to learn things if those things disprove their most cherished beliefs. The stories of Adam and Eve and Noah are the basis of Christianity. Science is making it harder to believe in them. So the question is "Which one to throw out either science or religion?" Christian are deciding science.
1. Figure out how much one spends on energy now.
2. Figure out how much one would spend after the system is installed.
3. Divide savings into the cost of the system to determine how many years it will take to recover the investment.
4. If the system is so great the number of years will not be great so Google should be able to install system for free by just charging the same amount for energy as they were paying.
5. Google makes money at no expense to the homeowner.
Donald Trump says he is going to save a trillion dollars by using technology to increase the efficiency of the government. Even though unemployment is low he wants to eliminate Obamacare taxes on the rich since he calls them job killing taxes. So even though he is going to save a trillion dollars and unemployment is already low he has to take away a trillion dollars from people's health care. Only Republicans will think that is logical.
There is technology that will change our life far more than what was shown in that video. In the near future, most people will live in underground homes. There will be underground transportation tunnels. A central computer will know where every vehicle is at all times so there will be no need for lidar on those vehicles. No driving in rain or snow or on wet or icy roads. There will be no wildlife so driving will be so much easier. Home will not suffer from weather damage and will be a lot more secure since it will take the owner's permission just to get to the front door. How many jobs will be lost that now depend on damage to either vehicles or homes? Homes will be virtually self-cleaning so that will eliminate maids. Meals will be delivered so there will be no need for a kitchen. There will be no need for police monitoring our roads since no vehicle will be allowed to break any rules. The big problem will be when someone awakens and realizes that there in no need for that person to get out of bed. There will be no sense of accomplishments and we can not live our life playing video games.
How about paying more for house insurance since the internet will be able to detect problems such as fire, break-in and even gas or water leaks. How about paying more for electricity since they will not be able to reduce peak demand by delaying your dryer, dishwasher, air conditioner or any heavy electrical using device? Those who do not cooperate because they value their privacy to a computer, not another human being, will cause problems to those who do. I see the day when the internet will be able to detect problems such as someone having a heart attack or stroke, or even a nasty fall and being able to do something about it. The internet of things will make most people's life a lot more secure and safe. Maybe if Prince and Robin Williams were connected than they might still be alive today.
i like to brag about the area where I live. I live in Ludington, Michigan which is in Mason County. Mason County has. 56 large windmills. It is also the home of a very large pumped storage plant. They are spending close to a billion dollars upgrading it. It is also very close to the deepest part of Lake Michigan. In a recent slashdot article someone was studying a proposal to put a sphere underwater to contain compressed air to generate power so maybe they could put one in Lake Michigan and put windmills out in the middle of the lake out of sight of our tourists. Ludington has a very nice port so people could get to the windmills without many problems. For a Country of about 25,000 people, it is very impressive.
I say to all Democrats is to boycott the state of the union speech. Trump has absolutely nothing of value to say therefore it is a complete waste of time listening to him. He has proven that he considers anything the Democrats say to be of no value so they should return the favor and not consider anything he says to have any value at all, This decision is the worst possible and put him with every evil dictator that has ever existed so I consider him to be on par with Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. I hope the world response with imposing as many tariffs on American good as they can possibly do. Only when our trade balance gets worse will Trump listen to reason.
Some stores still provide service. Some even still have baggers. So one can go to the checkout and the clerk will tally up all the items and place them in bags and then place the bags back in the cart. If a bagger is present the bagger will go with the customer to their car and help place them in their car. If a large or heavy item is purchased the clerk will have a handheld scanner so that item can be scanned while in the cart those eliminating the need to take it out and replacing it. The clerk can handle coupons and bottle slips that a self-checkout can not. Self-checkouts are for small orders of around 15 or less items. If one has a cart full or one has any problem such as being old or disabled than a clerk is needed.
Right now we have a President who thinks we can not afford to give people health care. He also thinks that this country is so great that too many people will risk their life to illegally get here to spend their life in fear. They will also pay into social security without ever getting any retirement pay. As for health care, he will do everything is his power to destroy ACA but he will still blame it on Obama. With all the progress that is going on why do we still try to take away things from some of the people? When will we feel secure enough to not have to worry about some people getting a decent life? I can say for sure it will not be in the next four years.
Everyone will have a computer master. The computer will know everything about its human slave and I mean everything. The computer will know the exact measurement and weight of its human. The computer will know the color and texture of every part of the human's body. We will demand this so the computer will tell its human when and what to eat, when and how long to sleep, how and how long to exercise. It will warn the human if anything is going wrong long before the human is aware of the problem. We will be able to play any musical instrument or sport by downloading the skills to our brain but since we value only that which is hard to accomplish, we will have very little to really value. It will be boring most of the time.
I live near a pumped storage plant. They are spending close to a billion dollars replacing the turbine blades. Using this site https://upload.wikimedia.org/w..., I see that the deepest part of Lake Michigan is only around 30 miles from that pumped storage plant. They already have the transmission lines at the pumped storage plant so they could put one at the deepest point of Lake Michigan and put windmills above it. The windmills could be placed so that they could not be seen from shore. If all this could be made for less than a billion dollars and it could provide for about 2 gigawatts of power than I hope someone will do it here.
I use to purchase sony cameras at garage sales. I have several sony cameras because they have two problems. First is storage. I have 3 that store pictures on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Who has a computer that uses them anymore? I have a couple more that use memory sticks that come in more than one version and are way more expensive than sd cards. Then there is the battery. I guess they could not use the standard aa or aaa batteries. They do not charge in the camera so one needs a separate charger of which there are a huge number and a lot more than I paid for the camera. I have a nephew that has a ps4 with a 500-gigabyte hard drive. It takes more than 40 gigabytes per game so one can store about a dozen games on it. I looked into buying another hard drive but they made the space for the drive smaller than standard. I am sure they need those couple of millimeters for other reasons than trying to make people buy from them. Sony does a lot to make people buy from them only and at a lot more money.
What is wrong with the Democrats? Why didn't they encrypt all of their sensitive information? There are ways to store information in pictures so that anyone looking at them will not see anything different. They could have gotten everyone's email address and just sent to all and they would have had better security than they obvious did. The fact that they did not encrypt means they did not care about them getting into the wrong hands or were too stupid to take even basic steps since there is plenty of software that could have prevented all of this.
I will replace a hdd when the ssd comes in a usb case so I can first boot from the ssd. It should have a Linux OS which would first clone the hdd. Than I would swap the hdd with the ssd. After booting again my computer should be exactly the same as it was before the ssd. There are clone programs that will not clone a larger hdd to a smaller ssd. Since ssd have usually less memory, it is hard to clone a hdd to them. After upgrading to a ssd, I should have a faster computer and a external hdd to store a lot of pictures and videos.
I did a factory reset on a laptop to get back to 8. It started out with 181 updates and took over 8 hours to accomplish this. I turned it on the next day only to discover there were 21 more updates. I do not know if it is windows 10 or slashdot software but to type in this comment I attach a external keyboard since if I type on the laptop keyboard it goes crazy on me making it most difficult to type. Microsoft's games are the worst. I was playing Treasure Hunter and all at once it quit on me I restarted the game only to find that it was like I never played the game therefore losing more than a month of playing it. My results are suppose to stored on the cloud so there should be nothing my laptop could to produce that result. I really do not want to start over if there is a chance that it will happen again. In the game one must get across the screen to find an exit but for some reason the exit is not visible unless on magnifies the screen to the max. There is a game of solitaire where one must accomplish a task within a certain number of moves. But they have auto moves that can not be shut off and do not help in winning the game. So one must hit the undue button a lot of times since the game will try to redo the moves after every move the player does. Does anyone at Microsoft even play these games as if they did they would certainly see how frustrating they are. I have seen a game that will display a screen just to have it replaced by another screen. They could not be bothered to delete that screen instead of just adding more software to load another. Yet they are trying to get people to pay them over $10 a year so that they do not have to watch commercials. Most of the commercials are there just to punish those who do not pay as one game will advertise another game and it does not matter if one already has both games. I am sure some of the advertising is for me since some are for a Michigan government site. So they must know I live in Michigan. There is a game called Jackpot. It is a free download but they will try to sell you a lucky charm. The most expensive one is $229. I can not imagine someone paying that much money on a free game. I just realized there is not a sticker on my laptop with the key for the OS. If my hard drives fails on me how will I be able to restore the OS on a new one. I guess I could buy a 32 gigabyte flash memory stick and backup the OS and than store it somewhere so that I can find it if I keep the laptop long enough for the hard drive to fail. I would think that they could design the bios so that it could reach Microsoft so that in case of a hard drive failure Microsoft would reload its OS with all of their updates. Quality software must be a crazy idea that Microsoft will not be able to ever accomplish.
Why must I relearn everything after every upgrade? There is no minimize on this firefox browser. To minimize it I must hit the windows key since clicking on the icon on the task bar does nothing. There is now only a icon for all apps so I have to click it to get all apps. There is an icon for settings but it just another thing that must be learned. Microsoft games do not work right either. Some of the time when I click on say minesweeper it just show the initial screen and than does nothing. I either have to restart the operating system or I have to restart the game several times. Four days seem to be the maximum I can get away without rebooting. There are two games adventure and treasure hunter that can not show the last part of the game unless one magnifies the screen so much that one can not see the overall picture so one must memorize it and than magnify the screen to find the exit point. It is curious since the games failed to work than they started to work and than after an update went back to failing again. I can not find the command prompt. It used to be on the start menu but it is not there anymore and is not on the taskbar. I have read instruction to type a command on the taskbar but there is nowhere to type it. I have more than one computer and the problems are the same on all of them. If I touch the pad while typing this comment the computer will go crazy and I will have to spend some time getting back to where I was.
IBM is behind World Community Grid. They have contributed about 250 million results. They are not slowing down either. If one could produce these results at say a nickel a result in electricity cost than they have spent an additional 12.5 million dollars. But they are still asking for volunteers to produce results which should be a lot cheaper for them to produce themselves. Their cloud business should be able do this without much problems. Their must be a reason why they are still pushing distributed computing in a world where cloud computing is also being pushed. Super computers today are doing over 100 times what all the members of WCG can hope to accomplish. I would think IBM could get a government grant to help in the cost too.
First they should encrypt all secrets. Second only approved devices should be able to be able to read those files. Third those devices should have a way for them to contact the government everyday so that they could be remotely destroyed if they had fallen in the wrong hands, Therefore Clinton should have only the ability to send encrypted files which could be read only by authorized personnel. Anything less than that is negligence by the government not by any individual.