There is a company that mines sand just north of my town. In the past there was a railroad that went through town to transport this sand to a city about 60 miles south of my town. For some reason they stopped the mining of the sand for a number of years. During those years the railroad was abandoned and torn up. A few years ago they again started the mining of the sand and the only way they can now transport the sand is to use trucks. A lot of trucks which now have to use the few roads we have to transport the sand. A very big nuisance to the people who live by those roads. It would be nice if they could transport the sand to a ship in Lake Michigan where the ship could transport the sand the rest of the way. The length of this would be less than a half of a mile. Of course the system would be very ugly and would be temporary so it would have to be cheaply made and have the ability to be removed without any signs of being there. It would still be interesting if a study was made to test the economics of such a system.
There is a section of highway east of my town that is both a highway going north and south and a highway going east and west. It is about 8 miles long and it is 5 lanes(2 lanes going each direction and a center lane for left turns). Since it is a well traveled highway there are a lot of commercial stores on each side. The traffic lights are not just for the cross traffic at their intersection as they are for all the stores in between the lights. If there is no break in traffic for customers to get in and out of the highway than people will not shop there.
The Vietnam war had 58,245 Americans killed. That is at least 9 times what the combined total deaths from both wars we are now involved in. The vast majority of those casualties from the Vietnam war were boomers. How long would the present wars last if Americans lost over 16,000 deaths like they did in 1969. Are you forgetting all the major advancement made during the boomers time? The value of the integrated chip alone would support the retirement of all of the boomers. The parents of the boomers would all have to be in their late 80's at least so the vast majority of them are already dead. There is no way anyone can say that the boomers did not contribute to the welfare of this country and do not deserve their retirement or Medicare.
Necessity is the mother of all inventions. I have cable internet with 5mps speed. I download about a half of a gigabyte of date everyday. I also upload more than a hundred million bytes of data each and every day. I have been doing this for years now without any problems. I am not constrained by the speed of the internet. I am a 62 year old widower and I want to see more services from my internet. For instance I want smoke detectors with temperature gauges to be connected to the internet. So that in case of a fire the local fire department could be notified after an attempt was made by the ISP to contact me by either phone or the internet. There are times when I am not feeling all that great when I want to go to my computer and instruct it to demand that I type in a word that the computer displays for me every 10 minutes. It would do this until I instructed it that I was feeling better. If for some reason I am unable to type that word in, the computer would assume that I am in trouble and send help. I want the ISP to poll my computer at least once a minute and if no response is given, than by polling other computers determine where the problem is without any help from me. I would assume that this would greatly help in case of natural disasters. When the internet is capable of saving lives than the demand will grow to the point where it can not be ignored any more.
I live in a small town where someone built a building for Starbucks and two other businesses. Well Starbucks did not last even one year so now the building is empty so I have very little faith in anything Starbucks does.
I can not imagine how this will work. For instance how would a train of cars that might be a mile long ever change lanes? Every automobile would have to be in constant communication with every other one in case of something going wrong. For instance a deer crossing the road in the middle of that train. There are freeways that are 8 lanes so how could a car pass through a train of cars? There would have to be enough savings to pay for the driver so that people would want to use it. I could see people using smart phones and therefore be working while in the train. Maybe they could earn enough money so justify the extra expense. In any case I would wait until they develop a automobile that drives itself. I could see a automobile that would drive one to an nearby location where the driver less company bus would be waiting to complete the drive. In the meantime the automobile would drive itself back to the owners house where another member of the family would use it. The automobile would therefore have to drive itself both way without anyone being in the vehicle.
Why is this such a big problem? I live in a small town and yet we have had more than one factory close down because they or the company they supplied moved to Mexico. High unemployment is keeping a lot of them away. So lets strive to make unemployment go up to around 15%. It would keep the Mexicans away and keep the cost of gasoline down. A good solution unless one is one of the unemployed.
I think you are too much of a pessimist. There are a lot of way we can use a lot less energy and still maintain our standard of living. For instance I believe with advancement in building techniques we will find that it is cheaper to build underground than it is to build above. This alone will decrease home use of energy by more than half. We will be a lot safer in those home too. If we could build our roads underground too we could easily have automobiles that drive themselves since they would not have to contend with either humans or animals. There is also a lot of new energy production methods that have not yet come to fruit. Fusion is just one. Are you saying that there is no way that we are ever going to solve that. How about space energy? Are we never going to have mirrors in space that beam down energy? Either the invention of a space elevator or a large rail gun could vastly help with that. Than there is fuel from plants. I read a study that states that we could get enough energy by using marginal lands growing certain plants without increasing the cost of food. I agree with that since farm land in my county in Michigan is a small per cent of the total land available. The reason that we have not already solved this problem is that we have not yet reached the point where we absolutely need to. Only when we are about to reach that point will the demand be great enough to put enough manpower into it.
Watson does not recognize speech so it would have to be a text message so it would not matter how noisy the restaurant was. Watson is a computer that is the same size as 8 refrigerators and has tons of air conditioning and mega watts of power. How much does Watson cost? How much does the electricity to run it cost for just an half an hour? One mega watt of power for an half of an hour is equal to 500 kilo watts of power. At 10 cents a kilo watt hour Watson would cost $50 for just the electricity if it used only one but the video implied more than one so it would cost $100 for just two. It says that it can answer the question in 2 to 6 seconds but what if it had to answer 100 question at the same time? Would it take between 200 to 600 seconds? A tech support line would not need any where near the amount of knowledge that this one has since it would be limited to the equipment it supports. I would hope that the United States government would purchase one or more of these so that it could answer questions of anyone who would call in about any manner on their minds. I would hope that before the next national election that all the candidates for president to congress would have a data base of their opinions so that the computer could answer all the questions of their constituents. I would think it would help a lot for instance with health care. I for one have not seen any effect on my life with the passage of the health care bill. I do not anticipate any changes in the future either. If there is than maybe I will start to complain but at least I will wait until than to complain.
I have a computer that will boot just fine but will not communicate with either the mouse or keyboard. It does not manner if they are ps/2 or usb. I tried a usb pci board and even tried an external usb device. Once I boot I see the computer on my network so it must be some sort of motherboard problem. Why shouldn't I be able to purchase a bare bones computer and transfer the hard drive, optical disk and memory and just turn it on and be back to where I was before the problem? I can not do that since it was a vista computer and the hard drive will not boot in a new computer. So I have to purchase another computer with a new copy of vista or 7 and than remove the hard drive from the old computer and set it up as a secondary drive to the new computer's hard drive so I have my old data. But I still have to reinstall all of my programs. That is a lot of work so Microsoft can sell two copies of their operating system. I also have a lexmark printer that still works fine but lexmark will not update the drive to windows 7 or vista so either I throw away the printer or maintain a windows xp system just to use the printer. There are no drivers for Ubuntu either. So I see your point and agree with you.
I am waiting for intersection that do not have traffic lights or signs because every car will know where every other car is that is within a hundred yards of it and will adjust its speed to avoid a collision at the intersection. I waiting for cell phone that once placed in a base will connect all the other cordless phones one has in their home. I can remember when most homes had only one phone and it cost extra to get another one in the house. It seems we have gone back to that era except when the cell phone leaves the house there are now no phones unless everyone in the family has there own cell phone. I am waiting for a cell phone that can easily vnc into any computer in the world. One should be able to control their home computer from anywhere in the world. I am waiting for race track memory. Maybe a trillion bytes of non-volatile ram memory so that hard drives are a thing of the past. Cell phone should need very little memory since they should be able to access all the programs on the home computer and exchange any data that is needed. I think my examples are a lot more useful than those in that article.
Is seems with me that all my aches and pains will not go away until I have seen my Doctor. Recently I had chest pains that I waited over 3 weeks to go to my Doctor. When I did, the Doctor had me do a stress test. The results were negative and since then I have had no chest pains. I saw a new Doctor and she was a very beautiful young woman so it was not like I had no incentive to see her again.
I would think that we have enough satellites taking millions of pictures of North Korea on a daily basis. I would think that we could be flying b-2 bombers along the border in South Korean air space so that there would be several flying at all times. These could turn and get to any part of North Korea within minutes of any suspicious effort on the North Koreans part. If there is anyway the North Korean could nuke an American city than we need to do everything we can to prevent that from happening. I really think that this is nothing more than the leadership blowing off some steam. Kim Jong Ill is not a super human so he would need the cooperation of thousands of North Korean. If he ever comes close to ordering a nuclear strike anywhere in the world, I would hope that someone in North Korea has the guts to put a bullet in his head.
I use to work at K-Mart. They would offer special prices on some products especially milk and soda pop. The prices were lower than wholesale so people who resold those products would come in a buy as much as they could. The local Dairy Queen would buy the milk and people who owned soda pop vending machines would buy the soda. As a result there were many times when the product was sold out before one could purchase one. Allowing people to bring back products before 90 days was also a big problem with televisions. One would purchase a television and bring it back before the 90 days and than go to another store and repeat the process. If there were enough stores in the local area one could virtually get a television set for free. After the television set was returned the store would have to pay some electronic repair shop to check it out and than have to offer a discount on it since it was a used product. They would lose a lot of money on those sales. The store would say that they honor other stores sales prices but they had to be the same brand, model, and even weight. It seemed that no two local stores would have the same brand and model so they almost never had to honor that promise. There will come a day in the not too distance future when one will do all of their shopping online. Robots will gather the products and they will be available at a door where they will be placed in your vehicle for you. Stores will be a lot smaller since they will be able to store the products from the floor to the ceiling with very narrow passageways. Shoplifting by the general public will not be a problem. Even going through the store to put products back where they belong will cease. One will lose the impulse buying which is a significant amount but I am sure that it will not compare to the other loses..
How is it that Fox News is so different than Fox entertainment? Do conservatives watch either The Simpsons or The Family Guy? I would think that they would not allow their children to watch either one of them. I grew up watching programs like Father know best, Dick Van Dyke show and The Nelson Family. No child on these shows would ever show their parents even close to the disrespect that is shown on both the Simpsons and Family Guy. Fox entertainment is not for good clean conservative family values.
It will probably be decided by the Supreme Court and most likely by a 5 to 4 vote. The constitution requires two thirds of congress to overturn a veto. It requires three fourths of the states to pass an amendment to the constitution. It requires two thirds of the senators to ratify a treaty. Yet the Supreme Court can overturn both the president and congress with a simple majority. I think if they can not get 6 justices to agree that some law is unconstitutional than they should leave it alone.
Lets see - in your list of possible uses -
Launching stuff into orbit is a bit weird - You're still going to use a comparable amount of energy in order to do so. And I'm pretty sure accelerating humans that quickly will kill them.
Fusion reactions - I have no idea.
They are launching only the payload. They are not launching two or more rocket motors and the fuel necessary to make them work and yet you think they are going to use a comparable amount of energy. I am sure the rate of launches and success rate would be much better. We need to launch automated factories into space and than launch the raw material for them. They could than manufacture huge solar collectors which could provide the world with all its energy needs many times over. You call it a bit weird. I call it one of the greatest advancement in human history.
Computers are my hobby. I did voluntary work for United Devices and now do work for World Community Grid. I have been doing this for over 10 years. I am in the top one tenth of one per cent of the World Community Grid(515th position with more than 515,000 members) Three years ago I purchased a q6600 quad computer hoping to get 3 or 4 times as many results. I was surprised when I got 6 times as many results as a similar speed rated single core computer. I recently purchased a 1090t 6 core bare bones computer($307 on pricewatch) and was again surprised when I got twice as many results as my quads. With this one computer, I now get more than twice as many results than I did with 6 single core computers. I am sure that the electricity cost for that computer is a lot less than than the 6 computers were so I believe that in my case the computer has paid for itself by reducing my electrical bill.
I would never go to that park. How could anyone believe that 4 men(Noah and his 3 sons) could accomplish what is shown in that picture? It would be very hard for even this generation to build such a ship. Even with all our modern sawing machines and steel bolts and steel plates to connect the wood it would be hard to prevent leaks from occurring. The first question is why. Why would a loving god choose a flood to destroy most of its creation? Most of the blame would be god in the first place since it was the bad angels that came down to earth to give birth to the giants. That god should be able to protect weak humans from his more powerful angels. Where are the fossil remains of these giants? Why kill off the animals since they would have had no blame? A god that can create a universe out of nothing could just as easily made evil creatures disappear. In fact if that god made them disappear one at a time I would think that at some point the rest would get the point and reform their wicked ways. How did the kangaroos get there and get back? How long would it have taken for the vegetation to grow back enough to support the plant eaters and than how long before the plant eaters had enough numbers to support the meat eaters? 90% of the water on this planet is salt water so the flood would have covered the earth with salt water and the vegetation had to grow back after that soaking. Where did all the water come from and where did it go after the flood? The whole bible is filled with stories about a god that can not be bothered with humans until he deems it that he must destroy them. It would have taken a lot more time for 3 men and 3 women to repopulate this planet with all the distinct races than the 4,000 years that the bible had given it. In just a little over a thousand years they would have had to go back to Egypt and built all the pyramids and have forgotten their past so they could enslave the Jews so they could escape in the exodus. It is totally beyond my belief.
My update manager refuses to work ever since I updated to 10.10. It either keeps telling me to authenticate or it keeps telling me it is waiting for apt-get to exit. I use apt-get install for every update now until someone can update update manager. It is interesting when I updated linux-image2.6.35-23-generic it told me that a additional 139M bytes of disk would be used and when I updated linux-generic it told me that an addional 169M bytes of disk space would be used so a total of 308M bytes of disk space was needed for just two updates. I am using a 40G bytes ssd for this system so two updates are using almost 10% of my disk drive space.
What is 1-.999... ? There is no number that can be written for answer. How can one write a decimal point followed by an infinite number of zeros with a one at the end?
How can there be free will? One lives let say a hundred years and is either worthy of heaven or not. If one if worthy of heaven than one would spend an eternity there. Now how can a mere hundred years of live mean that one will never screw up for an eternity in heaven? The bible already states that some of the angels, who are much more powerful and smarter than we are, rebelled against god. So we are going to exist for an eternity and do it better than the angels without ever telling god to take his love and shove it up his ass that is if he has an ass to shove it up. The only explanation is that we will lose our free will when we go to heaven which makes free will while we are living really stupid. Maybe the conditions in heaven will be so great that one would never think of rebelling against god. That would mean that the devil would somehow be different from humans and that humans would not follow his example. If that is the case than why are we here on earth? Why not just create us in heaven where we would exist for an eternity praising god. I do not see anything in the bible that is based on logic and therefore I find it very hard to believe even one word of it.
I started up my update manager on my Ubuntu 10.04 computer and it does not have an announcement about a upgrade to the OS. I clicked on the check box and the only thing I got were 3 minor upgrades to 10.04. I just started up software sources and found that it had long term support releases only so when I changed that to normal releases and went back to upgrade manager it did have the 10.10 announcement. I will download the new upgrade and burn a disc so that I can try it before I install it since I have had trouble with the last two upgrades. I use the computer to run BOINC and world community grid and the last two upgrades could not run BOINC without having to change things. The last upgrade BOINC stated that I was running an unsupported linux system until I edited a file and added a line to the options section.
Here is my word of mouth about Ubuntu 10.04. I have it installed on two computers that have a common monitor. I hit the scroll lock key twice to change the monitor, mouse and keyboard from one computer to the other. One of the computer has a Nividia interface for the video output. If I did not have the monitor on that computer when I booted it, there would be no video output at all. The computer would still show up on my network but the only way to shut it down was to press the on/off button. It would work fine if the monitor was assigned to it while booting. I took the Nividai interface out since it had video on the motherboard and put it in a windows xp system where it recognized the card and downloaded the drivers. It has no problems there. I use Boinc software to do volunteer work. The Boinc software does not recognize Ubuntu as a valid linux OS. I had to edit one of Boinc files to get it to work on that system. I have two printer(Lexmark and Kodak) that are not recognized by Ubuntu and therefore will not print unless I transfer the files to a windows computer and print them from there. The same goes for cheap usb video cameras as windows will recognize the camera and install drivers but Ubuntu will not even recognize it. So there is still a lot of work to do before Ubuntu is common place unless the hardware makers make their products so that they are compatible with it.
Why do people sell software at garage sales for under a dollar? It is because they will not run on a vista or windows 7 system. So upgrading your OS means that one has to upgrade a lot of their software too. Some of which will never be upgraded. My uncle gave me a radio scanner by radio shack. I tried to install the software on a vista computer to program the scanner but it would not work and that is why he gave me a $300 scanner which was more of a paper weight than a scanner. I have a printer by lexmark which is still working fine but they will not upgrade the drivers to let it run on a vista or windows 7 system. If microsoft wants me to upgrade to windows 7 than they will have to promise that all my software and hardware will still run on that computer. Until than I will stick with windows xp.
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There is a company that mines sand just north of my town. In the past there was a railroad that went through town to transport this sand to a city about 60 miles south of my town. For some reason they stopped the mining of the sand for a number of years. During those years the railroad was abandoned and torn up. A few years ago they again started the mining of the sand and the only way they can now transport the sand is to use trucks. A lot of trucks which now have to use the few roads we have to transport the sand. A very big nuisance to the people who live by those roads. It would be nice if they could transport the sand to a ship in Lake Michigan where the ship could transport the sand the rest of the way. The length of this would be less than a half of a mile. Of course the system would be very ugly and would be temporary so it would have to be cheaply made and have the ability to be removed without any signs of being there. It would still be interesting if a study was made to test the economics of such a system.
There is a section of highway east of my town that is both a highway going north and south and a highway going east and west. It is about 8 miles long and it is 5 lanes(2 lanes going each direction and a center lane for left turns). Since it is a well traveled highway there are a lot of commercial stores on each side. The traffic lights are not just for the cross traffic at their intersection as they are for all the stores in between the lights. If there is no break in traffic for customers to get in and out of the highway than people will not shop there.
The Vietnam war had 58,245 Americans killed. That is at least 9 times what the combined total deaths from both wars we are now involved in. The vast majority of those casualties from the Vietnam war were boomers. How long would the present wars last if Americans lost over 16,000 deaths like they did in 1969. Are you forgetting all the major advancement made during the boomers time? The value of the integrated chip alone would support the retirement of all of the boomers. The parents of the boomers would all have to be in their late 80's at least so the vast majority of them are already dead. There is no way anyone can say that the boomers did not contribute to the welfare of this country and do not deserve their retirement or Medicare.
Necessity is the mother of all inventions. I have cable internet with 5mps speed. I download about a half of a gigabyte of date everyday. I also upload more than a hundred million bytes of data each and every day. I have been doing this for years now without any problems. I am not constrained by the speed of the internet. I am a 62 year old widower and I want to see more services from my internet. For instance I want smoke detectors with temperature gauges to be connected to the internet. So that in case of a fire the local fire department could be notified after an attempt was made by the ISP to contact me by either phone or the internet. There are times when I am not feeling all that great when I want to go to my computer and instruct it to demand that I type in a word that the computer displays for me every 10 minutes. It would do this until I instructed it that I was feeling better. If for some reason I am unable to type that word in, the computer would assume that I am in trouble and send help. I want the ISP to poll my computer at least once a minute and if no response is given, than by polling other computers determine where the problem is without any help from me. I would assume that this would greatly help in case of natural disasters. When the internet is capable of saving lives than the demand will grow to the point where it can not be ignored any more.
I live in a small town where someone built a building for Starbucks and two other businesses. Well Starbucks did not last even one year so now the building is empty so I have very little faith in anything Starbucks does.
I can not imagine how this will work. For instance how would a train of cars that might be a mile long ever change lanes? Every automobile would have to be in constant communication with every other one in case of something going wrong. For instance a deer crossing the road in the middle of that train. There are freeways that are 8 lanes so how could a car pass through a train of cars? There would have to be enough savings to pay for the driver so that people would want to use it. I could see people using smart phones and therefore be working while in the train. Maybe they could earn enough money so justify the extra expense. In any case I would wait until they develop a automobile that drives itself. I could see a automobile that would drive one to an nearby location where the driver less company bus would be waiting to complete the drive. In the meantime the automobile would drive itself back to the owners house where another member of the family would use it. The automobile would therefore have to drive itself both way without anyone being in the vehicle.
Why is this such a big problem? I live in a small town and yet we have had more than one factory close down because they or the company they supplied moved to Mexico. High unemployment is keeping a lot of them away. So lets strive to make unemployment go up to around 15%. It would keep the Mexicans away and keep the cost of gasoline down. A good solution unless one is one of the unemployed.
I think you are too much of a pessimist. There are a lot of way we can use a lot less energy and still maintain our standard of living. For instance I believe with advancement in building techniques we will find that it is cheaper to build underground than it is to build above. This alone will decrease home use of energy by more than half. We will be a lot safer in those home too. If we could build our roads underground too we could easily have automobiles that drive themselves since they would not have to contend with either humans or animals. There is also a lot of new energy production methods that have not yet come to fruit. Fusion is just one. Are you saying that there is no way that we are ever going to solve that. How about space energy? Are we never going to have mirrors in space that beam down energy? Either the invention of a space elevator or a large rail gun could vastly help with that. Than there is fuel from plants. I read a study that states that we could get enough energy by using marginal lands growing certain plants without increasing the cost of food. I agree with that since farm land in my county in Michigan is a small per cent of the total land available. The reason that we have not already solved this problem is that we have not yet reached the point where we absolutely need to. Only when we are about to reach that point will the demand be great enough to put enough manpower into it.
Watson does not recognize speech so it would have to be a text message so it would not matter how noisy the restaurant was. Watson is a computer that is the same size as 8 refrigerators and has tons of air conditioning and mega watts of power. How much does Watson cost? How much does the electricity to run it cost for just an half an hour? One mega watt of power for an half of an hour is equal to 500 kilo watts of power. At 10 cents a kilo watt hour Watson would cost $50 for just the electricity if it used only one but the video implied more than one so it would cost $100 for just two. It says that it can answer the question in 2 to 6 seconds but what if it had to answer 100 question at the same time? Would it take between 200 to 600 seconds? A tech support line would not need any where near the amount of knowledge that this one has since it would be limited to the equipment it supports. I would hope that the United States government would purchase one or more of these so that it could answer questions of anyone who would call in about any manner on their minds. I would hope that before the next national election that all the candidates for president to congress would have a data base of their opinions so that the computer could answer all the questions of their constituents. I would think it would help a lot for instance with health care. I for one have not seen any effect on my life with the passage of the health care bill. I do not anticipate any changes in the future either. If there is than maybe I will start to complain but at least I will wait until than to complain.
I have a computer that will boot just fine but will not communicate with either the mouse or keyboard. It does not manner if they are ps/2 or usb. I tried a usb pci board and even tried an external usb device. Once I boot I see the computer on my network so it must be some sort of motherboard problem. Why shouldn't I be able to purchase a bare bones computer and transfer the hard drive, optical disk and memory and just turn it on and be back to where I was before the problem? I can not do that since it was a vista computer and the hard drive will not boot in a new computer. So I have to purchase another computer with a new copy of vista or 7 and than remove the hard drive from the old computer and set it up as a secondary drive to the new computer's hard drive so I have my old data. But I still have to reinstall all of my programs. That is a lot of work so Microsoft can sell two copies of their operating system. I also have a lexmark printer that still works fine but lexmark will not update the drive to windows 7 or vista so either I throw away the printer or maintain a windows xp system just to use the printer. There are no drivers for Ubuntu either. So I see your point and agree with you.
I am waiting for intersection that do not have traffic lights or signs because every car will know where every other car is that is within a hundred yards of it and will adjust its speed to avoid a collision at the intersection. I waiting for cell phone that once placed in a base will connect all the other cordless phones one has in their home. I can remember when most homes had only one phone and it cost extra to get another one in the house. It seems we have gone back to that era except when the cell phone leaves the house there are now no phones unless everyone in the family has there own cell phone. I am waiting for a cell phone that can easily vnc into any computer in the world. One should be able to control their home computer from anywhere in the world. I am waiting for race track memory. Maybe a trillion bytes of non-volatile ram memory so that hard drives are a thing of the past. Cell phone should need very little memory since they should be able to access all the programs on the home computer and exchange any data that is needed. I think my examples are a lot more useful than those in that article.
Is seems with me that all my aches and pains will not go away until I have seen my Doctor. Recently I had chest pains that I waited over 3 weeks to go to my Doctor. When I did, the Doctor had me do a stress test. The results were negative and since then I have had no chest pains. I saw a new Doctor and she was a very beautiful young woman so it was not like I had no incentive to see her again.
I would think that we have enough satellites taking millions of pictures of North Korea on a daily basis. I would think that we could be flying b-2 bombers along the border in South Korean air space so that there would be several flying at all times. These could turn and get to any part of North Korea within minutes of any suspicious effort on the North Koreans part. If there is anyway the North Korean could nuke an American city than we need to do everything we can to prevent that from happening. I really think that this is nothing more than the leadership blowing off some steam. Kim Jong Ill is not a super human so he would need the cooperation of thousands of North Korean. If he ever comes close to ordering a nuclear strike anywhere in the world, I would hope that someone in North Korea has the guts to put a bullet in his head.
I use to work at K-Mart. They would offer special prices on some products especially milk and soda pop. The prices were lower than wholesale so people who resold those products would come in a buy as much as they could. The local Dairy Queen would buy the milk and people who owned soda pop vending machines would buy the soda. As a result there were many times when the product was sold out before one could purchase one. Allowing people to bring back products before 90 days was also a big problem with televisions. One would purchase a television and bring it back before the 90 days and than go to another store and repeat the process. If there were enough stores in the local area one could virtually get a television set for free. After the television set was returned the store would have to pay some electronic repair shop to check it out and than have to offer a discount on it since it was a used product. They would lose a lot of money on those sales. The store would say that they honor other stores sales prices but they had to be the same brand, model, and even weight. It seemed that no two local stores would have the same brand and model so they almost never had to honor that promise. There will come a day in the not too distance future when one will do all of their shopping online. Robots will gather the products and they will be available at a door where they will be placed in your vehicle for you. Stores will be a lot smaller since they will be able to store the products from the floor to the ceiling with very narrow passageways. Shoplifting by the general public will not be a problem. Even going through the store to put products back where they belong will cease. One will lose the impulse buying which is a significant amount but I am sure that it will not compare to the other loses..
How is it that Fox News is so different than Fox entertainment? Do conservatives watch either The Simpsons or The Family Guy? I would think that they would not allow their children to watch either one of them. I grew up watching programs like Father know best, Dick Van Dyke show and The Nelson Family. No child on these shows would ever show their parents even close to the disrespect that is shown on both the Simpsons and Family Guy. Fox entertainment is not for good clean conservative family values.
It will probably be decided by the Supreme Court and most likely by a 5 to 4 vote. The constitution requires two thirds of congress to overturn a veto. It requires three fourths of the states to pass an amendment to the constitution. It requires two thirds of the senators to ratify a treaty. Yet the Supreme Court can overturn both the president and congress with a simple majority. I think if they can not get 6 justices to agree that some law is unconstitutional than they should leave it alone.
Lets see - in your list of possible uses - Launching stuff into orbit is a bit weird - You're still going to use a comparable amount of energy in order to do so. And I'm pretty sure accelerating humans that quickly will kill them. Fusion reactions - I have no idea.
They are launching only the payload. They are not launching two or more rocket motors and the fuel necessary to make them work and yet you think they are going to use a comparable amount of energy. I am sure the rate of launches and success rate would be much better. We need to launch automated factories into space and than launch the raw material for them. They could than manufacture huge solar collectors which could provide the world with all its energy needs many times over. You call it a bit weird. I call it one of the greatest advancement in human history.
Computers are my hobby. I did voluntary work for United Devices and now do work for World Community Grid. I have been doing this for over 10 years. I am in the top one tenth of one per cent of the World Community Grid(515th position with more than 515,000 members) Three years ago I purchased a q6600 quad computer hoping to get 3 or 4 times as many results. I was surprised when I got 6 times as many results as a similar speed rated single core computer. I recently purchased a 1090t 6 core bare bones computer($307 on pricewatch) and was again surprised when I got twice as many results as my quads. With this one computer, I now get more than twice as many results than I did with 6 single core computers. I am sure that the electricity cost for that computer is a lot less than than the 6 computers were so I believe that in my case the computer has paid for itself by reducing my electrical bill.
I would never go to that park. How could anyone believe that 4 men(Noah and his 3 sons) could accomplish what is shown in that picture? It would be very hard for even this generation to build such a ship. Even with all our modern sawing machines and steel bolts and steel plates to connect the wood it would be hard to prevent leaks from occurring. The first question is why. Why would a loving god choose a flood to destroy most of its creation? Most of the blame would be god in the first place since it was the bad angels that came down to earth to give birth to the giants. That god should be able to protect weak humans from his more powerful angels. Where are the fossil remains of these giants? Why kill off the animals since they would have had no blame? A god that can create a universe out of nothing could just as easily made evil creatures disappear. In fact if that god made them disappear one at a time I would think that at some point the rest would get the point and reform their wicked ways. How did the kangaroos get there and get back? How long would it have taken for the vegetation to grow back enough to support the plant eaters and than how long before the plant eaters had enough numbers to support the meat eaters? 90% of the water on this planet is salt water so the flood would have covered the earth with salt water and the vegetation had to grow back after that soaking. Where did all the water come from and where did it go after the flood? The whole bible is filled with stories about a god that can not be bothered with humans until he deems it that he must destroy them. It would have taken a lot more time for 3 men and 3 women to repopulate this planet with all the distinct races than the 4,000 years that the bible had given it. In just a little over a thousand years they would have had to go back to Egypt and built all the pyramids and have forgotten their past so they could enslave the Jews so they could escape in the exodus. It is totally beyond my belief.
My update manager refuses to work ever since I updated to 10.10. It either keeps telling me to authenticate or it keeps telling me it is waiting for apt-get to exit. I use apt-get install for every update now until someone can update update manager. It is interesting when I updated linux-image2.6.35-23-generic it told me that a additional 139M bytes of disk would be used and when I updated linux-generic it told me that an addional 169M bytes of disk space would be used so a total of 308M bytes of disk space was needed for just two updates. I am using a 40G bytes ssd for this system so two updates are using almost 10% of my disk drive space.
What is 1-.999... ? There is no number that can be written for answer. How can one write a decimal point followed by an infinite number of zeros with a one at the end?
How can there be free will? One lives let say a hundred years and is either worthy of heaven or not. If one if worthy of heaven than one would spend an eternity there. Now how can a mere hundred years of live mean that one will never screw up for an eternity in heaven? The bible already states that some of the angels, who are much more powerful and smarter than we are, rebelled against god. So we are going to exist for an eternity and do it better than the angels without ever telling god to take his love and shove it up his ass that is if he has an ass to shove it up. The only explanation is that we will lose our free will when we go to heaven which makes free will while we are living really stupid. Maybe the conditions in heaven will be so great that one would never think of rebelling against god. That would mean that the devil would somehow be different from humans and that humans would not follow his example. If that is the case than why are we here on earth? Why not just create us in heaven where we would exist for an eternity praising god. I do not see anything in the bible that is based on logic and therefore I find it very hard to believe even one word of it.
I started up my update manager on my Ubuntu 10.04 computer and it does not have an announcement about a upgrade to the OS. I clicked on the check box and the only thing I got were 3 minor upgrades to 10.04. I just started up software sources and found that it had long term support releases only so when I changed that to normal releases and went back to upgrade manager it did have the 10.10 announcement. I will download the new upgrade and burn a disc so that I can try it before I install it since I have had trouble with the last two upgrades. I use the computer to run BOINC and world community grid and the last two upgrades could not run BOINC without having to change things. The last upgrade BOINC stated that I was running an unsupported linux system until I edited a file and added a line to the options section.
Here is my word of mouth about Ubuntu 10.04. I have it installed on two computers that have a common monitor. I hit the scroll lock key twice to change the monitor, mouse and keyboard from one computer to the other. One of the computer has a Nividia interface for the video output. If I did not have the monitor on that computer when I booted it, there would be no video output at all. The computer would still show up on my network but the only way to shut it down was to press the on/off button. It would work fine if the monitor was assigned to it while booting. I took the Nividai interface out since it had video on the motherboard and put it in a windows xp system where it recognized the card and downloaded the drivers. It has no problems there. I use Boinc software to do volunteer work. The Boinc software does not recognize Ubuntu as a valid linux OS. I had to edit one of Boinc files to get it to work on that system. I have two printer(Lexmark and Kodak) that are not recognized by Ubuntu and therefore will not print unless I transfer the files to a windows computer and print them from there. The same goes for cheap usb video cameras as windows will recognize the camera and install drivers but Ubuntu will not even recognize it. So there is still a lot of work to do before Ubuntu is common place unless the hardware makers make their products so that they are compatible with it.
Why do people sell software at garage sales for under a dollar? It is because they will not run on a vista or windows 7 system. So upgrading your OS means that one has to upgrade a lot of their software too. Some of which will never be upgraded. My uncle gave me a radio scanner by radio shack. I tried to install the software on a vista computer to program the scanner but it would not work and that is why he gave me a $300 scanner which was more of a paper weight than a scanner. I have a printer by lexmark which is still working fine but they will not upgrade the drivers to let it run on a vista or windows 7 system. If microsoft wants me to upgrade to windows 7 than they will have to promise that all my software and hardware will still run on that computer. Until than I will stick with windows xp.