I do not think the average person would want to buy 60 terabytes of anything. Lets go with just a dime for a gigabyte since there are 60,000 gigabytes in 60 terabyte it would mean $6,000 to fill it. Lets look at the cheapest cost per byte which I think would be the blue ray movie. Lets say that one could get 25 gigabytes for just $10. That is very cheap today and it still $.40 a gigabyte or $24,000 for the 60 terabyte and $2,400 for the 6 terabyte drive. Even today, until we get the MPAA off our back and they allow the storage of movies on hard drives, for the average person this is just overkill. Even if one could store that many movies the vast majority of them would never be watched again. I think the same would go for home video too. I hope that the internet speed increase to the point where only the ISP has to have a hard drive and I never have to worry about a hard drive failure again.
How much more violence do we do to each other by our contact? For instance how many more people died from the flu epidemic after ww1 than died from the war? 1.8 million people died from aids in 2009. I would think that number is greater than all the people who died from violence in that year. Flu still kills close to a half a million people each year. Knowing that one could die just by coming in close contact with another human has got to limit our willingness to come into contact with others. Yet we have a strong desire to have human contact. The more human contact we have the more human empathy we have so the more we desire human contact. So even if we could eliminate all wars and act of violence against each other we would still have to live with the violence of spreading disease.
What if a civil war breaks out in a country with nuclear weapons? The losing side has control over the weapons and decides to bomb its own people to stay in power. Who will retaliate? In this case, I think retaliation would only make things much worse. What if the losing side decides to nuke its enemy since they know they are going to lose power very shortly? Shortly after launching strike video comes out of the country showing the leaders responsible for it being shot. Again who will retaliate when that country is now promising to destroy all of its nuclear weapons? I can think of more cases where the people responsible for an attack are either dead or no longer in power so retaliation would not make much sense.
I make comments on digg and soulpancake. I recently did a google search on my user name. I discovered that all of my comments on digg and soulpancake were listed there and they were on the first page. Not only was my username there but also my real name and a picture and my hometown. I did notice that slashdot was not listed so I am grateful for that. I do not know how they associated my real name with my user name. Even though it is possible to know my real name from this I doubt that anyone has taken the time to do so.
If they could design the camera to replace the rear view mirrors on both sides of the car they would save more than $200 in gas over the life of the car so even at that price they would pay for themselves. If they could eliminate the blind spot for changing lanes I would think they would save more than 200 people a year.
Lets look at motherboards for computer. There have been a number of devices that one had to purchase that are now standard on a motherboard Sound cards and network adapters are just two. Both of them are basically free now. I would think the same for this camera's monitor as it will probably have other uses too. GPS system for instance.
When a monitor is standard in every car, it could be used instead of the idiot lights we now use. It could now display low oil pressure stop car before you burn the engine up idiot. I believe there will be many more uses for that monitor than just the back up camera and it will save more money than we will pay for it.
I keep both Firefox and chrome open on my windows xp system. I do this because I play a game called webkinz for my nephew. Firefox will not allow the game to function properly. Chrome asks me if I want to wait for a flash script to be completed. Firefox just tells me that the flash script has crashed. I than must restart the whole game so I can not play the game with Firefox.
I immediately thought of George Carlin and his 7 words routine. I did an internet search and found it on youtube. I know I have not watched it in a while but now it states that I have to sign up to verify that I am over 18 to watch it. This is insanity as I would think that this video would be almost mandatory for young children to watch. It presents a very rational discussion of the 7 words. Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3D3_Nrp7cj_tM. I looked at it and decided it was not worth having to attempt to prove I am over 18 to watch it as I have already seen it several times. He asks why we invent a word and than decide it is not appropriate to say? He also says there are no dirty word but just dirty thoughts that those word bring to our minds.
If the radius is 2.1 times that of Earth than its volume is 9.261 times that of Earth. Now if its mass is only 4.5 times that of Earth than its density must therefore be a half of Earth. At that density, I do not think walking on it would be an enjoyable experience.
The race is not between China and US. It is between China and the rest of the world. They are building their own space station when I am sure that if they could cooperate with the partners of the ISS they could get the same results for much cheaper. Just ask any of the countries that border China if they have the same relations with China that the US has with its bordering countries(Mexico and Canada).
Last year I was told that I should have my gallbladder taken out. Instead I changed by diet. I became a full vegetarian and use olive oil instead of vegetable oil and olives instead of fish. I eat a lot more raw fruits and vegetables now and I still have my gallbladder.
Wow! Instead of looking out the window to see what the weather is like we can now look at the icon on the window to see what the weather is like. I think that soon we will replace windows with video monitors and cameras anyway. It would result in more security and less energy use. I can just see people with ocean views living far away from the oceans. All we need is a monitor that will last a hundred years or so.
I run AVG anti-virus. I am now using firefox. I used to get a message from AVG that firefox was using a lot of memory. It would vary from over 300 million bytes to over 500 million bytes. If I type ctrl-alt-del and look at processes, I find that firefox is now using about 140 million bytes and the two chrome sessions I have open are just using about 60 million bytes. The reason I have chrome open is that there is a game that will always hang up under firefox but will give me a message asking me if I want to wait for the flash to finish under chrome. The main reason I stay with firefox is that there are too many passwords and bookmarks that I would lose if I discontinued it since I have been running it for years. My computer usually uses around 2Gbytes of ram memory so windows xp is also using a lot more memory too. I was trying to see why a older computer was so slow so I typed ctrl-alt-del on it. Without any applications running it told me that the computer was using about 550 million bytes of memory. Since the computer only had 512 million bytes of memory I guess it was using the hard drive for memory. Therefore even old computers need at least a 1Gbyte of ram memory to run with any amount of speed.
Here are my predictions. Humans will live a thousand feet underground. All transportation will be automatic. There will be just one basic reason for human to travel and that will be to visit another human being. Both work and shopping will be done remotely. One will call ahead when visiting so as to get the required permission to visit another home. There will be a super computer that knows everything. It will know what everyone has and needs and will control all production of products accordingly. Computers will talk to humans and will be able to detect any false statements of the human. Since computer will be able to rule humans far better than we can ourselves both democracy and capitalism will be dead. There will be no need for any improvements in any product. Here is how we will live. A man will go to sleep at midnight. He will sleep in a room that will not change a degree in temperature or a per cent in humidity. He will take a pill that will double the effect of sleep so he will sleep only 4 hours. When he awakes he will go to his bathroom where his toilet will measure almost everything one can measure about a man. This will be recorded from birth to death. The computer will than know when, what and how much food the man will eat that day. He will than go to his exercise room and the computer will know exactly how much he has done and the effect on his body since birth. The computer will tell him how much exercise is required from him. He will go to the eating room. All food will be delivered cooked and just in time to eat it. Everything in the house will be able to withstand a cleaning and disinfectant so the man will leave the house for a walk outside and come back to a perfectly clean house. He will than go to the communication room where he will accomplish all of his work in a couple of hours. Windows will be replaced by video monitors that will have any scenery the man desires. Humans will be able to record all experiences and their effect on the brain therefore one will be able to relive not only his own experiences but anyone else. We will be able to communicate with our brain without using our senses and therefore we will be able to live in a total artificial world if we want to. For instance one will be able to relive any athletics accomplishments. One will put on a helmet and it will be like one is in the game and doing and feeling everything the other human experienced. The same will go for sexual experiences.
I would guess that Voyager is one of two of our satellites that are close to getting out of our solar system. Has Voyager been detecting tv and radio signals from Earth? Has there been a recent steep decline in the signal? I would not think so since we are still communicating with it so it can detect orders sent to it and we can still detect signals from it. I do not know how much power it has to transmit or receive but I would bet that it is less than some of our radio and television stations. I was just wondering where your source of declining signal strength came from.
Will this lead to an automated house. Every device in the house should be communicating with a computer. For instance when on turns on a faucet the computer should know there is a reason for water flow so that if there is water flow without a reason it should be able to shut the flow off. I think there should be a computer in every room as long as it is on a network. They should be able to effectively maintain a house and save more energy than they cost.
I have been volunteering for more than a decade now. I first started with united devices. They have stopped now for about 5 years. I started with single core computers. About 4 years ago I bought my first 4 core computer and last year I bought two 6 core computers. The 6 core computers do twice as many results than the 4 core computers. The 4 core computers do 6 times as many results as the single core. Therefore I think a single 6 core computer would pay for itself in electricity costs in less than three years I would think that this would continue with a super computer that has thousands of cores. Here is a link to a super computer that cost only $1,4000,000 http://www.eng.vt.edu/news/virginia-tech-s-wu-feng-unveils-hokiespeed-new-powerful-supercomputer-masses. Now if only 100,000 volunteers donated just $20 each for a total of $2,000,000 someone could purchase that super computer and have $600,000 for their expenses. $20 a year is probably far less than the average volunteer is paying for the extra electricity. I think that this super computer would do more results than the over 500,000 members of World Community Grid do now.
In the early 80's I was working for a well known computer manufacturer. The rule of thumb than was a hard drive cost a thousand dollars per million bytes. At that cost a 3 terabyte hard drive would cost 3 billion dollars. Until the public can store movies legally on hard drives without any problems these hard drives will not come close to being filled up. Only by giving people a reason to have get hard drives in the terabytes will we increase the demand and thus increase and diversify the places where they are manufactured.
Person 1 has a commodore 64 and a game cartridge.
Person 2 has a the fastest pc with a ssd and 8 Gbytes of very fast ram memory and a game on the ssd.
Now they both turn them on at the same time. Which one will be playing his game first? The answer is the commodore 64 and it won't even be close. So after 30 years the commodore 64 is still the most kid friendly computer. The commodore 64 will still introduce you to basic programming something most modern computer will not. I found a commodore 64 with disk drive in the trash. I gave my commodore 64 and 128 away but I still have the commodore 64 that I found. I started out programming a computer that had a whopping 16k bytes of memory. I once worked on a program that consisted of two boxes of 80 column IBM cards. It would not work until I found the two cards that somehow were interchanged.
Instead of using an inverter why can't we just make our devices run on DC? The computer I am now on has to convert the AC to DC to work. I don't think it would be such a hard problem to make lights, heaters, refrigerators, stoves all run on DC. I am sure it would be a difficult transitional time but I think we could accomplish it.
One is trying to do a right hand turn onto a four lane road. The car to your left has his right turn signal on. Do you assume the car is going to turn and proceed or do you assume that the car made a lane change and just forgot to turn the signal off? Your are in the left hand lane of a two lane freeway the car ahead of you is going 15 mph below the speed limit and has its right hand turn signal on. Do you wait to see if the car is actually going to change lanes or do you go to the right hand lane and pass the car on the right. You are walking across a busy road at an intersection. There is a truck on your right about to go through the intersection and it has its emergency flashers on but by glancing at it you only see the right hand turn signal on so you proceed and than run to avoid getting hit. It might be dangerous to turn your signal on but it is just a dangerous to forget to turn them off so if there are no cars that could use my signal than I will not turn it on.
A bonus! You should be required to pay more for both your retirement and health plan. People like you on average will live longer thus receiving more income from their pensions. As for your health insurance, a person who dies of a massive heart attack in their 60's is going to be cheaper than people like you who will live into their late 80's. Even if the only thing you do is an annual physicals with all the test that go with such as stress tests for the heart. As for smokers even if they require $250,000 for a lung operation it will be cheaper than someone who collects their pension for another 20 years. I am sure that IBM is trying to keep their highly prized engineers alive till at least their retirement age. After that they will probably not care one way or the other as I am sure that their pension will not require healthy eating to get it.
Lets look at this at the perspective of a young child. The first question most children will ask is Why do I need to know this? In a classroom environment, the child at least knows they are not the only ones that have to learn it. It brings out the competitive nature in a child since they will know that a classmate has learned it. That is why a teacher will ask questions. Even if a child is not asked but knows in their own mind that they could have answered, it will give that child the gratification that is needed to learn. When we build schools and hire teachers, the child will know how much importance we give to their learning. The more importance we show the child in their learning the more importance the child will give to their learning. We need to expose the child to other children of different economic, social, and cultural backgrounds.
How could the drone not know that the signal was coming from a ground based transmitter? The signal should have been greatly muted by the skin of the radar evading drone. I think it is very suspicious that they even knew that the drone was there in the first place. Something is horribly wrong here.
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According to this article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/mercury_radar_bright_ice_research/, there might be ice on Mercury. Now the only thing we need is a huge dome, solar cells for energy and heat from the surrounding areas and we could make a small area of paradise on Mercury.
I do not think the average person would want to buy 60 terabytes of anything. Lets go with just a dime for a gigabyte since there are 60,000 gigabytes in 60 terabyte it would mean $6,000 to fill it. Lets look at the cheapest cost per byte which I think would be the blue ray movie. Lets say that one could get 25 gigabytes for just $10. That is very cheap today and it still $.40 a gigabyte or $24,000 for the 60 terabyte and $2,400 for the 6 terabyte drive. Even today, until we get the MPAA off our back and they allow the storage of movies on hard drives, for the average person this is just overkill. Even if one could store that many movies the vast majority of them would never be watched again. I think the same would go for home video too. I hope that the internet speed increase to the point where only the ISP has to have a hard drive and I never have to worry about a hard drive failure again.
How much more violence do we do to each other by our contact? For instance how many more people died from the flu epidemic after ww1 than died from the war? 1.8 million people died from aids in 2009. I would think that number is greater than all the people who died from violence in that year. Flu still kills close to a half a million people each year. Knowing that one could die just by coming in close contact with another human has got to limit our willingness to come into contact with others. Yet we have a strong desire to have human contact. The more human contact we have the more human empathy we have so the more we desire human contact. So even if we could eliminate all wars and act of violence against each other we would still have to live with the violence of spreading disease.
What if a civil war breaks out in a country with nuclear weapons? The losing side has control over the weapons and decides to bomb its own people to stay in power. Who will retaliate? In this case, I think retaliation would only make things much worse. What if the losing side decides to nuke its enemy since they know they are going to lose power very shortly? Shortly after launching strike video comes out of the country showing the leaders responsible for it being shot. Again who will retaliate when that country is now promising to destroy all of its nuclear weapons? I can think of more cases where the people responsible for an attack are either dead or no longer in power so retaliation would not make much sense.
I make comments on digg and soulpancake. I recently did a google search on my user name. I discovered that all of my comments on digg and soulpancake were listed there and they were on the first page. Not only was my username there but also my real name and a picture and my hometown. I did notice that slashdot was not listed so I am grateful for that. I do not know how they associated my real name with my user name. Even though it is possible to know my real name from this I doubt that anyone has taken the time to do so.
If they could design the camera to replace the rear view mirrors on both sides of the car they would save more than $200 in gas over the life of the car so even at that price they would pay for themselves. If they could eliminate the blind spot for changing lanes I would think they would save more than 200 people a year. Lets look at motherboards for computer. There have been a number of devices that one had to purchase that are now standard on a motherboard Sound cards and network adapters are just two. Both of them are basically free now. I would think the same for this camera's monitor as it will probably have other uses too. GPS system for instance. When a monitor is standard in every car, it could be used instead of the idiot lights we now use. It could now display low oil pressure stop car before you burn the engine up idiot. I believe there will be many more uses for that monitor than just the back up camera and it will save more money than we will pay for it.
I keep both Firefox and chrome open on my windows xp system. I do this because I play a game called webkinz for my nephew. Firefox will not allow the game to function properly. Chrome asks me if I want to wait for a flash script to be completed. Firefox just tells me that the flash script has crashed. I than must restart the whole game so I can not play the game with Firefox.
I immediately thought of George Carlin and his 7 words routine. I did an internet search and found it on youtube. I know I have not watched it in a while but now it states that I have to sign up to verify that I am over 18 to watch it. This is insanity as I would think that this video would be almost mandatory for young children to watch. It presents a very rational discussion of the 7 words. Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3D3_Nrp7cj_tM. I looked at it and decided it was not worth having to attempt to prove I am over 18 to watch it as I have already seen it several times. He asks why we invent a word and than decide it is not appropriate to say? He also says there are no dirty word but just dirty thoughts that those word bring to our minds.
If the radius is 2.1 times that of Earth than its volume is 9.261 times that of Earth. Now if its mass is only 4.5 times that of Earth than its density must therefore be a half of Earth. At that density, I do not think walking on it would be an enjoyable experience.
The race is not between China and US. It is between China and the rest of the world. They are building their own space station when I am sure that if they could cooperate with the partners of the ISS they could get the same results for much cheaper. Just ask any of the countries that border China if they have the same relations with China that the US has with its bordering countries(Mexico and Canada).
Last year I was told that I should have my gallbladder taken out. Instead I changed by diet. I became a full vegetarian and use olive oil instead of vegetable oil and olives instead of fish. I eat a lot more raw fruits and vegetables now and I still have my gallbladder.
Wow! Instead of looking out the window to see what the weather is like we can now look at the icon on the window to see what the weather is like. I think that soon we will replace windows with video monitors and cameras anyway. It would result in more security and less energy use. I can just see people with ocean views living far away from the oceans. All we need is a monitor that will last a hundred years or so.
I run AVG anti-virus. I am now using firefox. I used to get a message from AVG that firefox was using a lot of memory. It would vary from over 300 million bytes to over 500 million bytes. If I type ctrl-alt-del and look at processes, I find that firefox is now using about 140 million bytes and the two chrome sessions I have open are just using about 60 million bytes. The reason I have chrome open is that there is a game that will always hang up under firefox but will give me a message asking me if I want to wait for the flash to finish under chrome. The main reason I stay with firefox is that there are too many passwords and bookmarks that I would lose if I discontinued it since I have been running it for years. My computer usually uses around 2Gbytes of ram memory so windows xp is also using a lot more memory too. I was trying to see why a older computer was so slow so I typed ctrl-alt-del on it. Without any applications running it told me that the computer was using about 550 million bytes of memory. Since the computer only had 512 million bytes of memory I guess it was using the hard drive for memory. Therefore even old computers need at least a 1Gbyte of ram memory to run with any amount of speed.
Here are my predictions. Humans will live a thousand feet underground. All transportation will be automatic. There will be just one basic reason for human to travel and that will be to visit another human being. Both work and shopping will be done remotely. One will call ahead when visiting so as to get the required permission to visit another home. There will be a super computer that knows everything. It will know what everyone has and needs and will control all production of products accordingly. Computers will talk to humans and will be able to detect any false statements of the human. Since computer will be able to rule humans far better than we can ourselves both democracy and capitalism will be dead. There will be no need for any improvements in any product. Here is how we will live. A man will go to sleep at midnight. He will sleep in a room that will not change a degree in temperature or a per cent in humidity. He will take a pill that will double the effect of sleep so he will sleep only 4 hours. When he awakes he will go to his bathroom where his toilet will measure almost everything one can measure about a man. This will be recorded from birth to death. The computer will than know when, what and how much food the man will eat that day. He will than go to his exercise room and the computer will know exactly how much he has done and the effect on his body since birth. The computer will tell him how much exercise is required from him. He will go to the eating room. All food will be delivered cooked and just in time to eat it. Everything in the house will be able to withstand a cleaning and disinfectant so the man will leave the house for a walk outside and come back to a perfectly clean house. He will than go to the communication room where he will accomplish all of his work in a couple of hours. Windows will be replaced by video monitors that will have any scenery the man desires. Humans will be able to record all experiences and their effect on the brain therefore one will be able to relive not only his own experiences but anyone else. We will be able to communicate with our brain without using our senses and therefore we will be able to live in a total artificial world if we want to. For instance one will be able to relive any athletics accomplishments. One will put on a helmet and it will be like one is in the game and doing and feeling everything the other human experienced. The same will go for sexual experiences.
I would guess that Voyager is one of two of our satellites that are close to getting out of our solar system. Has Voyager been detecting tv and radio signals from Earth? Has there been a recent steep decline in the signal? I would not think so since we are still communicating with it so it can detect orders sent to it and we can still detect signals from it. I do not know how much power it has to transmit or receive but I would bet that it is less than some of our radio and television stations. I was just wondering where your source of declining signal strength came from.
Will this lead to an automated house. Every device in the house should be communicating with a computer. For instance when on turns on a faucet the computer should know there is a reason for water flow so that if there is water flow without a reason it should be able to shut the flow off. I think there should be a computer in every room as long as it is on a network. They should be able to effectively maintain a house and save more energy than they cost.
I have been volunteering for more than a decade now. I first started with united devices. They have stopped now for about 5 years. I started with single core computers. About 4 years ago I bought my first 4 core computer and last year I bought two 6 core computers. The 6 core computers do twice as many results than the 4 core computers. The 4 core computers do 6 times as many results as the single core. Therefore I think a single 6 core computer would pay for itself in electricity costs in less than three years I would think that this would continue with a super computer that has thousands of cores. Here is a link to a super computer that cost only $1,4000,000 http://www.eng.vt.edu/news/virginia-tech-s-wu-feng-unveils-hokiespeed-new-powerful-supercomputer-masses. Now if only 100,000 volunteers donated just $20 each for a total of $2,000,000 someone could purchase that super computer and have $600,000 for their expenses. $20 a year is probably far less than the average volunteer is paying for the extra electricity. I think that this super computer would do more results than the over 500,000 members of World Community Grid do now.
In the early 80's I was working for a well known computer manufacturer. The rule of thumb than was a hard drive cost a thousand dollars per million bytes. At that cost a 3 terabyte hard drive would cost 3 billion dollars. Until the public can store movies legally on hard drives without any problems these hard drives will not come close to being filled up. Only by giving people a reason to have get hard drives in the terabytes will we increase the demand and thus increase and diversify the places where they are manufactured.
Person 1 has a commodore 64 and a game cartridge. Person 2 has a the fastest pc with a ssd and 8 Gbytes of very fast ram memory and a game on the ssd. Now they both turn them on at the same time. Which one will be playing his game first? The answer is the commodore 64 and it won't even be close. So after 30 years the commodore 64 is still the most kid friendly computer. The commodore 64 will still introduce you to basic programming something most modern computer will not. I found a commodore 64 with disk drive in the trash. I gave my commodore 64 and 128 away but I still have the commodore 64 that I found. I started out programming a computer that had a whopping 16k bytes of memory. I once worked on a program that consisted of two boxes of 80 column IBM cards. It would not work until I found the two cards that somehow were interchanged.
If Nokia the son can't charge your phone, maybe it because he maxed out all of his credit cards. Just ask Nokia the father to charge it for you.
Instead of using an inverter why can't we just make our devices run on DC? The computer I am now on has to convert the AC to DC to work. I don't think it would be such a hard problem to make lights, heaters, refrigerators, stoves all run on DC. I am sure it would be a difficult transitional time but I think we could accomplish it.
One is trying to do a right hand turn onto a four lane road. The car to your left has his right turn signal on. Do you assume the car is going to turn and proceed or do you assume that the car made a lane change and just forgot to turn the signal off? Your are in the left hand lane of a two lane freeway the car ahead of you is going 15 mph below the speed limit and has its right hand turn signal on. Do you wait to see if the car is actually going to change lanes or do you go to the right hand lane and pass the car on the right. You are walking across a busy road at an intersection. There is a truck on your right about to go through the intersection and it has its emergency flashers on but by glancing at it you only see the right hand turn signal on so you proceed and than run to avoid getting hit. It might be dangerous to turn your signal on but it is just a dangerous to forget to turn them off so if there are no cars that could use my signal than I will not turn it on.
A bonus! You should be required to pay more for both your retirement and health plan. People like you on average will live longer thus receiving more income from their pensions. As for your health insurance, a person who dies of a massive heart attack in their 60's is going to be cheaper than people like you who will live into their late 80's. Even if the only thing you do is an annual physicals with all the test that go with such as stress tests for the heart. As for smokers even if they require $250,000 for a lung operation it will be cheaper than someone who collects their pension for another 20 years. I am sure that IBM is trying to keep their highly prized engineers alive till at least their retirement age. After that they will probably not care one way or the other as I am sure that their pension will not require healthy eating to get it.
Lets look at this at the perspective of a young child. The first question most children will ask is Why do I need to know this? In a classroom environment, the child at least knows they are not the only ones that have to learn it. It brings out the competitive nature in a child since they will know that a classmate has learned it. That is why a teacher will ask questions. Even if a child is not asked but knows in their own mind that they could have answered, it will give that child the gratification that is needed to learn. When we build schools and hire teachers, the child will know how much importance we give to their learning. The more importance we show the child in their learning the more importance the child will give to their learning. We need to expose the child to other children of different economic, social, and cultural backgrounds.
How could the drone not know that the signal was coming from a ground based transmitter? The signal should have been greatly muted by the skin of the radar evading drone. I think it is very suspicious that they even knew that the drone was there in the first place. Something is horribly wrong here.