They were mass producing 1 Gbit ram chips in 1999. It is now almost 2011 or almost 12 years later. It seems to me if Moore's had continued we should be talking about the 1 Tbit ram chip by now. I think there is a definite wall with ram memory
I have the 64 bit chrome unstable installed under Ubuntu 64 bit OS. I just had another of many updates to it. I went to youtube and it still will not play any videos. I would think that Google would be interested in allowing one to play those videos since they own youtube. I went to downloads and discovered a flash player from September of 2009 but it claims I have the wrong architecture i386. The updates to Chrome are just as large as the original program so I guess they are just installing a new program rather than modify the original program.
I want better AI software. I want a speaker, microphone, and a camera in every room of my house. I want a natural language interface with the computer. I want to be able to tell the computer when I am leaving the house and when to expect me back. I want the computer to know when any of my appliances are working and what noise to expect from them. I want the computer to know when an unexpected noise occurs and to figure out what it is and take action if it can or to call for help if it can not correct the problem. In the kitchen I want to be able to tell the computer I am using the last of any food I am using for my meal and have the computer generate a shopping list for me. I want to tell the computer when I put something on the stove or oven and have it remind me when I should look at it again. I want it to tell me when the washing machine, dryer, and dishwasher have finished their work so I can unload them. When I leave the house I want the computer to be able to save me energy by communicating with all my now unneeded devices. For instance all my clocks would be shut off and would be restarted with the correct time only when I am in the room they are in. I want the computer to communicate with every device that runs with electricity, water, or gas. There are still a lot of labor saving actions(by saving me money) that the computer can accomplish just be being able to communicate with those devices and by determining when they are needed.
I have the 64 bit Linux version of chrome on my Ubuntu OS computer for close to two years now. I bet that I have downloaded about 500 million bytes of updates to it since. The program still will not play any youtube videos. The flash plugin states error wrong architecture i386. I keep hoping the next update will solve that problem.
If anything was always there than it must have existed for an infinite amount of time. How can it be now if an infinite amount of time has already passed by? I would think that there must be a beginning to everything. Otherwise there must be an infinite amount of energy in the universe because the universe will have to stop its expansion and reverse itself to start over again. Than again how can we say that the universe has already expanded and contracted an infinite number of times? If one could make a time machine than one would be able to travel into the past for an infinite amount of time. I am giving myself a headache just by trying to figure it out.
I have a little bit of experience with the Magicjack system. First my son-in-law had one. Since it is connected to a computer, it will not work unless the computer is turned on. I do not know how many times I called and his computer was not powered up and working. I can just see someone whose house is on fire or a medical emergency waiting for the computer to boot so they can call for help. Why can't they make one that is a stand alone device that works on cat 5 so one can connect it to one's router and eliminate the computer. Second is the man I work for. He has one and has a old computer that he runs 24/7. He has an area code that is hundreds of miles away so if his neighbor wants to call him the call is a long distance call for that neighbor. He has a phone line from that computer to a phone with more than one lines so he can use the magicjack by pressing its line on the phone. Anyway I guess it is okay for calling out and for people who would have to use long distance to call you. I do not know how they can charge so little since I use my Charter for my phone company. The cost seem to be attractive until one adds all the fees and taxes. The real cost is not that much better than Verizon's phone service. How do they get away without paying for 911 services? How about federal and state taxes too? That is why I do not use vonage since they will never quote the true cost since taxes and fees are always added to the quoted price and after one does that the true cost is not worth not having someone to call and complain to if there are any problems. I have used Charter for about 3 years now and have not had any problems with it. It has a adapter with a coaxial line to it. I have a cordless phone connect to the adapter and I have 3 other cordless phone in other rooms that use that system and it works fine. But since the first year has expired the cost is not any better that Verizon and I have that adapter box which will not work if there is no power so if I lose power I will have no way to call for help. I have a old cell phone that I keep charged for that purpose since I can call 911 on it if I lose power or if Charter goes down.
Machine trying to sell movies.
Machine I am trying to verify your sex. Please remove pants.
Machine displays video of two naked women making love.
Machine Perhaps you need some help
Machine's hand reaches out to massage genitals.
Machine okay I now see what your sex is and what stimulates you so here is list of latest movies for sale.
What would happen if someone would open the computer and pull the hard drive out of the computer before powering it down. Does the hard drive have a battery to wipe itself in that case? Either remove the battery or splice another power supply to the hard drive before removing it. Computers lose power unexpectedly all the time. So one would need a back up power supply for those cases. It seems to me that it will create a lot more problems so that they can prevent theft of data and I think someone can find a quick workable solution to prevent that too.
I have not noticed any slowdown of my computer. In fact I started it up and used control-alt-delete to monitor active processes. When I told thunderbird to get mail(no new mail) I seen it rise from 0 to 1 for about a couple of seconds and fall back to 00 where it is right now. So for me this is not a worthy story and should not even be on/.
I have been watching this internet site for several years now (http://sanswire.com/). They make airship and were suppose to replace satellites for internet and cell towers for cell phones. They supposedly would need a lot fewer than the number of cell towers we need today. Internet would be wireless and much faster but like a bunch of other technology it is always just a few years in the future. I am retired Navy and have always wondered why the Navy does not use airships more. I would think that an aircraft carrier would have at least three of them. They could have radar on them and since they are much higher than and ship's they could cover a far greater area than the ships. They could also turn on and off their radars in a random fashion and still cover a given area. They would therefore not provide a way for an enemy to passively track them. Our ships would be passive receivers of their target information and could fire missiles without transmitting anything. They would therefore be much harder to detect.
At first I wondered why the Coast Guard was stealing from another site than I was thinking that the copyright group stole it from the Coast Guard. But atlas the article has nothing to do with the United States Coast Guard. It is a shame that/. uses the Coast Guard's acronym to get readers to view this story.
In 1974, I was a member of the commissioning crew of the USS Virgina (CGN-38). It was nuclear powered. They made several more of that class. When they needed to be refueled they were all decommissioned. So why did the Navy want to pay for the fuel for a conventional powered ship rather than paying the expense of refueling a nuclear powered ship? It is strange since when I retired from the Navy, every ship that I had been a member had already been mothballed even those ships that were built after I had first joined. The only nuclear powered ships today are aircraft carriers and submarines. Submarines are nuclear powered since they do not need oxygen to run. Conventional powered submarines need to surface to run their diesels to recharge their batteries and thus were exposed during that time. Aircraft carriers are large enough to save money over conventional power so unless the Navy goes back to nuclear powered ships, they belief in only big nuclear reactors. It would be nice if the Navy could build a ship with nothing but laser weapons powered by a nuclear reactor.
I live in Ludington, Michigan. There is a pumped storage plant just south of here. It was the world's largest when it was built over 30 years ago. They use excess electricity at night to pump the water up and recover around two thirds of that energy during the day. One third is always wasted but it is better than wasting all of that energy. In order to run those generators at peak efficiency they must be ran at the same output 24 hours a day. They do not want to shut some of them off at night because of the damage caused by constantly allowing contraction and expansion by shutting them off. The Lake Michigan shore area is also an excellent source of wind but there are no windmills here at the present time. If they did build windmills to turn the blades to pump the water up(they are also used to generate the electricity), what would they do with the excess power generated at night? The primary reason for it existence is to store that power. The only way it would work if they could depend on enough wind to always pump the needed water so that they could permanently shut some of the generators down but one can not depend on the wind that much.
Lets make thing simple by having just 100 people and say there are 36 of party a and 64 of party b. Now lets say we want 10 representatives so we set up 10 district with 10 people in each district. So we set up 6 district with 6 of party a and 4 of party b. That leaves 40 members of party b so we have the remaining 4 district with all 10 people of party b. Now comes the election and party a win 6 representatives with each one winning 60% of the vote and party b with just 4 representatives with each one win 100% of the vote. Here is an example of a minority winning the majority of the representatives. Since one can multiply the 100 by any number one could do the same for any number of people.
What if we could detect how much water, gas, and electricity our house are using at the main switch. We could than know how much each device that use those is using. We could do a sum of the users and it should be equal to what we detect at the main switch. If there is a difference than there is a problem somewhere and than it should be able to shut off the offending source. There have been plenty of flooded houses from the water line to a washing machine breaking. There are plenty of electrical fires from shorts. There are also people dying because of gas leaks. I would think with the proper design we could eliminate most of those.
When one talks about local issues, where does one stop? Why stop at the state level? Why not go to county level or even the city level? Why not go the complete way and let me declare the property I own to be independent? I could make up my own rules for anyone unlucky enough to ever be on my property. Local rules would bring on total chaos. One would not even be able to travel across the country safely. If the state of Indiana needed money than they could heavily tax anyone just passing through. The tax could be half of what it would cost to drive around the state and still raise a very large amount of cash so most people would be forced to pay it rather than take the time and money to travel around the state. What if a state decided it needed more jobs so they did away with all safety rules, minimum pay, and pollution rules.
First place time machine in a large open flat area of land. Second fill time machine with the most valuable materials such as gold, diamonds or platinum. Third move time machine and go back in time to the time when you first filled the time machine with all the valuable material. Now there are two time machines. Fourth move both time machines so that you can now take both machines back into time when there were only two. Repeat until one has millions of time machines all filled with very valuable materials.
If God created every creature than one must say God created all the bacteria, germs, and virus that exist too. Was God thinking that humans would not have enough problems on their hands without them? Where is the intelligence in designing man but also designing creatures that are very effective in killing man? I can not find any love in such a God. Maybe with evolution one could make an argument that they were necessary in the evolution of man and thus get God partially off the hook.
I was in the navy for 20 years. I retired in 1997. I know how much training the Navy gave during boot camp. There were some that went to the fleet straight after boot camp but the majority went on to another school before going to the fleet. I myself spent almost 2 years in schools before going to the fleet. I soon found out that what the schools taught you were relevant in only about 20% of what was expected of you. The most important job was to keep the ship clean and well painted. The second most important job was to keep the top officers happy. This included when to salute and when to give honors to those officers. Several times I went to firing ranges to shoot the 45 pistol. Even after getting 10 practice shots and than not changing the target I failed to hit the target enough times to pass. I was never given very much training on how to shoot the pistol but I was always given the responsibility of carrying the weapon. It was just assumed that I would never have to use them(I do not know when the last time one had to use one). I was given the responsibility of firing both missiles and guns but was never given much training on when to use them(it was likewise assumed that I would never need to use them). I can hardly believe that someone hasn't forcefully taken over a naval vessels since at night at sea there is a fantail watch but he is unarmed and most of the hand held weapons are in the armory. There was absolutely no training about what to do if we did have an intruder board the ship while it was at sea. Even small tactics like keeping all the entrances to the ship one way locked at night so it would at least slow them down were not even contemplated. I was given a shot gun and told to patrol a deck when in port but I was never given any training on when I could use it. When the ship was in port one night while I was on watch I noticed a native Indian approaching the ship in a canoe but lucky for me there was a Spanish speaking guard on the pier who shouted at the intruder to go away and he did(he was probably just curious about all the lights). That was the closest I got to see any action in the whole 20 years.
Luke chapter 3 states that Jesus is the 75th generation after Adam. So if one even assume an average of 20 years per generation that would mean only 1500 years between Adam and Jesus. But the bible states that Adam lived to be over 800 years old and Noah lived close to 400 years old. But even giving a thousand years for each generation would only give 75,000 years between the first human and Jesus. Even that amount of time is not enough to explain how people got to all the far reaches of this planet and how there are different races. So one has to pick and choose what one believes from the bible since it is irrational to believe there were only 75 generations and that the flood covered the whole earth. To be rational and reasonable one would have to throw out a huge per cent of the bible which the early priest did not do.
Lets say one could buy movies at the way too low price of $.50 a gigabyte. Games and programs are much more expensive. But even at that price 25TB would cost $12,500. I do not see anyone filling up one of these disk with useful data for a reasonable price.
How about building the structure that they have at the bottom on land out of clay. Than place a very large box(say 100ftx100ftx40ft) over that model. Than fill box with cement. Lift box off model and take and cover leak with the box. It should be a very tight fit than cover box with lots of heavy rocks.
The IRS should have a internet site where I can log on to and see all of my income for any particular year. They should have their own tax software where all that income would be automatically entered into that program. After filing one year the next year should be accomplished with only a small amount of clicks. The program would ask if there are any changes from last year so if everything is the same about your deductions(dependents and standard deduction) than it should take one less than 10 minutes to file electronically. I have a letter from the IRS stating that I owe over $10,000 in back taxes. This is because I sold some securities that I inherited from my mother to pay her other heirs their fair amount. I did this in January of that year and so I received a statement around that time. When I filed my taxes over a year later I had forgotten about those securities so I failed to report them. They did not effect my taxes anyway since the cost basis of them equaled their income but the IRS seemed to get only the selling price and not the cost so they sent me that letter. All of this would have been avoided with the site with all my income so that I would have at least checked it before I filed my taxes.
When almost every device one owns communicates with your computer than this would be a great time and money safer. I can see one's clothes dryer flashing a message when the clothes are dry. The microwave, oven, and range could send messages when it thinks some food is cooked. Microphones could be placed in every room and they could send audio to the television when there is unexpected noise in that room. Smoke detectors with built in camera could send an alarm with a picture when it detects smoke. This could have saved about $100,000 for my boss who had a detached garage burn down just recently. There are plenty of messages from the internet such as instant messaging, rss feeds, blogs that could be flashed on the screen so that one could freeze the show to reply or view. The one thing I want is commercials designed for the individual. No longer would one have to sit through a commercial for asthma or quit smoking if one did not have asthma or smoked. There would also be the ability to instantly order a product but not before one would search for independent reviews about the product.
I live in Ludington, Michigan. They built a very large pumped storage plant here over 30 years ago. They pump water up into a man made lake at night when the demand is lower and reverse the process during the day when the demand is greater. So we already have a Gigawatt storage device. I have been to their observatory tower several times and it seem to be very windy there all the time. Yet after 30 years there is not even one windmill on the banks of this man made lake. Morton salts is located just about 30 miles north because there is lots of salt there so we supposedly have that too. They are trying to build now between 50 to 100 windmills offshore(Lake Michigan) from us but there is a local group that think that it would destroy the scenic value of the lake and scare away all the fish so they are against the idea. Well for all that this area has going for it, I would think that someone would want to buy my house for the low price of a quarter of a million dollars. I am sure that one could tear it down and build another for about the same so for just a half of million dollars one would have a new house in a very important area in the country. I would than move into an area of the country where they do not have winter 5 months of the year.
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They were mass producing 1 Gbit ram chips in 1999. It is now almost 2011 or almost 12 years later. It seems to me if Moore's had continued we should be talking about the 1 Tbit ram chip by now. I think there is a definite wall with ram memory
I have the 64 bit chrome unstable installed under Ubuntu 64 bit OS. I just had another of many updates to it. I went to youtube and it still will not play any videos. I would think that Google would be interested in allowing one to play those videos since they own youtube. I went to downloads and discovered a flash player from September of 2009 but it claims I have the wrong architecture i386. The updates to Chrome are just as large as the original program so I guess they are just installing a new program rather than modify the original program.
I want better AI software. I want a speaker, microphone, and a camera in every room of my house. I want a natural language interface with the computer. I want to be able to tell the computer when I am leaving the house and when to expect me back. I want the computer to know when any of my appliances are working and what noise to expect from them. I want the computer to know when an unexpected noise occurs and to figure out what it is and take action if it can or to call for help if it can not correct the problem. In the kitchen I want to be able to tell the computer I am using the last of any food I am using for my meal and have the computer generate a shopping list for me. I want to tell the computer when I put something on the stove or oven and have it remind me when I should look at it again. I want it to tell me when the washing machine, dryer, and dishwasher have finished their work so I can unload them. When I leave the house I want the computer to be able to save me energy by communicating with all my now unneeded devices. For instance all my clocks would be shut off and would be restarted with the correct time only when I am in the room they are in. I want the computer to communicate with every device that runs with electricity, water, or gas. There are still a lot of labor saving actions(by saving me money) that the computer can accomplish just be being able to communicate with those devices and by determining when they are needed.
I have the 64 bit Linux version of chrome on my Ubuntu OS computer for close to two years now. I bet that I have downloaded about 500 million bytes of updates to it since. The program still will not play any youtube videos. The flash plugin states error wrong architecture i386. I keep hoping the next update will solve that problem.
If anything was always there than it must have existed for an infinite amount of time. How can it be now if an infinite amount of time has already passed by? I would think that there must be a beginning to everything. Otherwise there must be an infinite amount of energy in the universe because the universe will have to stop its expansion and reverse itself to start over again. Than again how can we say that the universe has already expanded and contracted an infinite number of times? If one could make a time machine than one would be able to travel into the past for an infinite amount of time. I am giving myself a headache just by trying to figure it out.
I have a little bit of experience with the Magicjack system. First my son-in-law had one. Since it is connected to a computer, it will not work unless the computer is turned on. I do not know how many times I called and his computer was not powered up and working. I can just see someone whose house is on fire or a medical emergency waiting for the computer to boot so they can call for help. Why can't they make one that is a stand alone device that works on cat 5 so one can connect it to one's router and eliminate the computer. Second is the man I work for. He has one and has a old computer that he runs 24/7. He has an area code that is hundreds of miles away so if his neighbor wants to call him the call is a long distance call for that neighbor. He has a phone line from that computer to a phone with more than one lines so he can use the magicjack by pressing its line on the phone. Anyway I guess it is okay for calling out and for people who would have to use long distance to call you. I do not know how they can charge so little since I use my Charter for my phone company. The cost seem to be attractive until one adds all the fees and taxes. The real cost is not that much better than Verizon's phone service. How do they get away without paying for 911 services? How about federal and state taxes too? That is why I do not use vonage since they will never quote the true cost since taxes and fees are always added to the quoted price and after one does that the true cost is not worth not having someone to call and complain to if there are any problems. I have used Charter for about 3 years now and have not had any problems with it. It has a adapter with a coaxial line to it. I have a cordless phone connect to the adapter and I have 3 other cordless phone in other rooms that use that system and it works fine. But since the first year has expired the cost is not any better that Verizon and I have that adapter box which will not work if there is no power so if I lose power I will have no way to call for help. I have a old cell phone that I keep charged for that purpose since I can call 911 on it if I lose power or if Charter goes down.
Machine trying to sell movies. Machine I am trying to verify your sex. Please remove pants. Machine displays video of two naked women making love. Machine Perhaps you need some help Machine's hand reaches out to massage genitals. Machine okay I now see what your sex is and what stimulates you so here is list of latest movies for sale.
What would happen if someone would open the computer and pull the hard drive out of the computer before powering it down. Does the hard drive have a battery to wipe itself in that case? Either remove the battery or splice another power supply to the hard drive before removing it. Computers lose power unexpectedly all the time. So one would need a back up power supply for those cases. It seems to me that it will create a lot more problems so that they can prevent theft of data and I think someone can find a quick workable solution to prevent that too.
I have not noticed any slowdown of my computer. In fact I started it up and used control-alt-delete to monitor active processes. When I told thunderbird to get mail(no new mail) I seen it rise from 0 to 1 for about a couple of seconds and fall back to 00 where it is right now. So for me this is not a worthy story and should not even be on /.
I have been watching this internet site for several years now (http://sanswire.com/). They make airship and were suppose to replace satellites for internet and cell towers for cell phones. They supposedly would need a lot fewer than the number of cell towers we need today. Internet would be wireless and much faster but like a bunch of other technology it is always just a few years in the future. I am retired Navy and have always wondered why the Navy does not use airships more. I would think that an aircraft carrier would have at least three of them. They could have radar on them and since they are much higher than and ship's they could cover a far greater area than the ships. They could also turn on and off their radars in a random fashion and still cover a given area. They would therefore not provide a way for an enemy to passively track them. Our ships would be passive receivers of their target information and could fire missiles without transmitting anything. They would therefore be much harder to detect.
At first I wondered why the Coast Guard was stealing from another site than I was thinking that the copyright group stole it from the Coast Guard. But atlas the article has nothing to do with the United States Coast Guard. It is a shame that /. uses the Coast Guard's acronym to get readers to view this story.
In 1974, I was a member of the commissioning crew of the USS Virgina (CGN-38). It was nuclear powered. They made several more of that class. When they needed to be refueled they were all decommissioned. So why did the Navy want to pay for the fuel for a conventional powered ship rather than paying the expense of refueling a nuclear powered ship? It is strange since when I retired from the Navy, every ship that I had been a member had already been mothballed even those ships that were built after I had first joined. The only nuclear powered ships today are aircraft carriers and submarines. Submarines are nuclear powered since they do not need oxygen to run. Conventional powered submarines need to surface to run their diesels to recharge their batteries and thus were exposed during that time. Aircraft carriers are large enough to save money over conventional power so unless the Navy goes back to nuclear powered ships, they belief in only big nuclear reactors. It would be nice if the Navy could build a ship with nothing but laser weapons powered by a nuclear reactor.
I live in Ludington, Michigan. There is a pumped storage plant just south of here. It was the world's largest when it was built over 30 years ago. They use excess electricity at night to pump the water up and recover around two thirds of that energy during the day. One third is always wasted but it is better than wasting all of that energy. In order to run those generators at peak efficiency they must be ran at the same output 24 hours a day. They do not want to shut some of them off at night because of the damage caused by constantly allowing contraction and expansion by shutting them off. The Lake Michigan shore area is also an excellent source of wind but there are no windmills here at the present time. If they did build windmills to turn the blades to pump the water up(they are also used to generate the electricity), what would they do with the excess power generated at night? The primary reason for it existence is to store that power. The only way it would work if they could depend on enough wind to always pump the needed water so that they could permanently shut some of the generators down but one can not depend on the wind that much.
Lets make thing simple by having just 100 people and say there are 36 of party a and 64 of party b. Now lets say we want 10 representatives so we set up 10 district with 10 people in each district. So we set up 6 district with 6 of party a and 4 of party b. That leaves 40 members of party b so we have the remaining 4 district with all 10 people of party b. Now comes the election and party a win 6 representatives with each one winning 60% of the vote and party b with just 4 representatives with each one win 100% of the vote. Here is an example of a minority winning the majority of the representatives. Since one can multiply the 100 by any number one could do the same for any number of people.
What if we could detect how much water, gas, and electricity our house are using at the main switch. We could than know how much each device that use those is using. We could do a sum of the users and it should be equal to what we detect at the main switch. If there is a difference than there is a problem somewhere and than it should be able to shut off the offending source. There have been plenty of flooded houses from the water line to a washing machine breaking. There are plenty of electrical fires from shorts. There are also people dying because of gas leaks. I would think with the proper design we could eliminate most of those.
When one talks about local issues, where does one stop? Why stop at the state level? Why not go to county level or even the city level? Why not go the complete way and let me declare the property I own to be independent? I could make up my own rules for anyone unlucky enough to ever be on my property. Local rules would bring on total chaos. One would not even be able to travel across the country safely. If the state of Indiana needed money than they could heavily tax anyone just passing through. The tax could be half of what it would cost to drive around the state and still raise a very large amount of cash so most people would be forced to pay it rather than take the time and money to travel around the state. What if a state decided it needed more jobs so they did away with all safety rules, minimum pay, and pollution rules.
First place time machine in a large open flat area of land. Second fill time machine with the most valuable materials such as gold, diamonds or platinum. Third move time machine and go back in time to the time when you first filled the time machine with all the valuable material. Now there are two time machines. Fourth move both time machines so that you can now take both machines back into time when there were only two. Repeat until one has millions of time machines all filled with very valuable materials.
If God created every creature than one must say God created all the bacteria, germs, and virus that exist too. Was God thinking that humans would not have enough problems on their hands without them? Where is the intelligence in designing man but also designing creatures that are very effective in killing man? I can not find any love in such a God. Maybe with evolution one could make an argument that they were necessary in the evolution of man and thus get God partially off the hook.
I was in the navy for 20 years. I retired in 1997. I know how much training the Navy gave during boot camp. There were some that went to the fleet straight after boot camp but the majority went on to another school before going to the fleet. I myself spent almost 2 years in schools before going to the fleet. I soon found out that what the schools taught you were relevant in only about 20% of what was expected of you. The most important job was to keep the ship clean and well painted. The second most important job was to keep the top officers happy. This included when to salute and when to give honors to those officers. Several times I went to firing ranges to shoot the 45 pistol. Even after getting 10 practice shots and than not changing the target I failed to hit the target enough times to pass. I was never given very much training on how to shoot the pistol but I was always given the responsibility of carrying the weapon. It was just assumed that I would never have to use them(I do not know when the last time one had to use one). I was given the responsibility of firing both missiles and guns but was never given much training on when to use them(it was likewise assumed that I would never need to use them). I can hardly believe that someone hasn't forcefully taken over a naval vessels since at night at sea there is a fantail watch but he is unarmed and most of the hand held weapons are in the armory. There was absolutely no training about what to do if we did have an intruder board the ship while it was at sea. Even small tactics like keeping all the entrances to the ship one way locked at night so it would at least slow them down were not even contemplated. I was given a shot gun and told to patrol a deck when in port but I was never given any training on when I could use it. When the ship was in port one night while I was on watch I noticed a native Indian approaching the ship in a canoe but lucky for me there was a Spanish speaking guard on the pier who shouted at the intruder to go away and he did(he was probably just curious about all the lights). That was the closest I got to see any action in the whole 20 years.
Luke chapter 3 states that Jesus is the 75th generation after Adam. So if one even assume an average of 20 years per generation that would mean only 1500 years between Adam and Jesus. But the bible states that Adam lived to be over 800 years old and Noah lived close to 400 years old. But even giving a thousand years for each generation would only give 75,000 years between the first human and Jesus. Even that amount of time is not enough to explain how people got to all the far reaches of this planet and how there are different races. So one has to pick and choose what one believes from the bible since it is irrational to believe there were only 75 generations and that the flood covered the whole earth. To be rational and reasonable one would have to throw out a huge per cent of the bible which the early priest did not do.
Lets say one could buy movies at the way too low price of $.50 a gigabyte. Games and programs are much more expensive. But even at that price 25TB would cost $12,500. I do not see anyone filling up one of these disk with useful data for a reasonable price.
How about building the structure that they have at the bottom on land out of clay. Than place a very large box(say 100ftx100ftx40ft) over that model. Than fill box with cement. Lift box off model and take and cover leak with the box. It should be a very tight fit than cover box with lots of heavy rocks.
The IRS should have a internet site where I can log on to and see all of my income for any particular year. They should have their own tax software where all that income would be automatically entered into that program. After filing one year the next year should be accomplished with only a small amount of clicks. The program would ask if there are any changes from last year so if everything is the same about your deductions(dependents and standard deduction) than it should take one less than 10 minutes to file electronically. I have a letter from the IRS stating that I owe over $10,000 in back taxes. This is because I sold some securities that I inherited from my mother to pay her other heirs their fair amount. I did this in January of that year and so I received a statement around that time. When I filed my taxes over a year later I had forgotten about those securities so I failed to report them. They did not effect my taxes anyway since the cost basis of them equaled their income but the IRS seemed to get only the selling price and not the cost so they sent me that letter. All of this would have been avoided with the site with all my income so that I would have at least checked it before I filed my taxes.
When almost every device one owns communicates with your computer than this would be a great time and money safer. I can see one's clothes dryer flashing a message when the clothes are dry. The microwave, oven, and range could send messages when it thinks some food is cooked. Microphones could be placed in every room and they could send audio to the television when there is unexpected noise in that room. Smoke detectors with built in camera could send an alarm with a picture when it detects smoke. This could have saved about $100,000 for my boss who had a detached garage burn down just recently. There are plenty of messages from the internet such as instant messaging, rss feeds, blogs that could be flashed on the screen so that one could freeze the show to reply or view. The one thing I want is commercials designed for the individual. No longer would one have to sit through a commercial for asthma or quit smoking if one did not have asthma or smoked. There would also be the ability to instantly order a product but not before one would search for independent reviews about the product.
I live in Ludington, Michigan. They built a very large pumped storage plant here over 30 years ago. They pump water up into a man made lake at night when the demand is lower and reverse the process during the day when the demand is greater. So we already have a Gigawatt storage device. I have been to their observatory tower several times and it seem to be very windy there all the time. Yet after 30 years there is not even one windmill on the banks of this man made lake. Morton salts is located just about 30 miles north because there is lots of salt there so we supposedly have that too. They are trying to build now between 50 to 100 windmills offshore(Lake Michigan) from us but there is a local group that think that it would destroy the scenic value of the lake and scare away all the fish so they are against the idea. Well for all that this area has going for it, I would think that someone would want to buy my house for the low price of a quarter of a million dollars. I am sure that one could tear it down and build another for about the same so for just a half of million dollars one would have a new house in a very important area in the country. I would than move into an area of the country where they do not have winter 5 months of the year.