I run Vista. I also shop at thrift stores and pick up old games and software there. Most if not all of which will not run on Vista. I also have a xp machine. Popular games such as the petz series will not run and they still have a internet site. The one I wanted to run the most is VirtualDrive but it will not run and the only solution is to buy another copy. With that I could buy software from Goodwill copy it to the hard drive and than exchange it for some more but they caught on to me and will not let me do it anymore. I mean I am just trying to let someone else have the software too. The computer keeps telling me it is looking for a solution but after a year now it is getting a little boring.
I recently went back to cable since they offer a combined package of tv, phone, and internet. I did not have a digital television when the installer installed the system. I have the cheapest tv package I could get and received only about 15 channels on my analog television sets. I purchased a digital television set and to my surprise I now receive well over 100 channels. So I thought I would go an purchase a converter box so I could receive the same channels on my old analog television set. The converter would not receive any channels. There must be a difference between the tuner in the converter and the tuner in the digital television set. I have looked at the converters offered in the local stores and they are all so cheap as they do not have any controls on the converter. So if one loses or misplaces the remote the television set is worthless until one finds or gets another remote. I recently purchased a so called universal remote and in the instructions there were no codes for either a converter or a surround sound system. So I guess one will have to purchase a new converter every time one misplaces the remote.
I have caller id and will not answer the phone when a telemarketer calls. I have an answer machine and most of them will not even leave a message. My phone company will not allow my phone to ring if the name or phone number is unknown. They get around this by having the name toll free number so I do not answer them and again they leave no message. I wish they would pass a law that they can not call from a unknown name and number. Last year even the political parties would call from a unknown name but at least they would leave a message. There are still rare times when they call early in morning when I do not have my glasses on and can not read the caller id and I am not near the answer machine. The same goes for the mail I receive. Most of it goes from the mail box to the recycle box without being opened. They too have no return address so I can identify the sender before opening it. They will offer you anything for a very small price until you get to the store to find out they do not have any of them and probably never did have any of them. They get around that by printing in fine print no rain checks. I once received a flier that stated that I won $400. No purchase necessary. All I had to do was to show up at the car dealership and claim the prize. I showed up and there were several other people there to claim there prizes. We all gave our scratch off claims to a salesman who promptly threw them in the trash. It is getting so bad that I sometime throw away by mistake important papers like tax information.
I have 4 q6600 quad computers. One is running vista, one is running xp and two of them are running ubuntu. I do volunteer work for world community grid. The number of results for the last 14 days are as follows: vista 184, xp 127, ubuntu1 150, ubuntu2 210. They all have different motherboards but have the same amount of ram memory. The Ubuntu computers are running 64 bit version while the vista and xp are 32 bit operating systems. Here is an article http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126460&source=rss_topic12 that states that going to 8 processors does not increase efficiency by much because of the memory access problem. The processors will spend too much time waiting for their turn to access ram memory.
I have cable for my phone and internet and told them to throw in the cheapest television package I could get. I have a digital television set and to my surprise I now receive over 100 channels. Most of these channels I am not suppose to receive. Well I also have a analog television set so I bought a converter box thinking that it would receive the same channels the digital television set did but it did not receive any channels at all. So the tuner for the converter must be different that the tuner for the television set. I wonder if a new vcr/dvd's tuner would work the same way as the converter or if I am lucky it would work like the digital television set.
I pay under $100 a month for electricity. I do have natural gas for heat and hot water and cooking but I have 4 quad computers that I leave on around 16 hours each day. I noticed that his cost per kwh is over 20 cents for the lowest bill and over 27 cents for the highest bill. I pay around 10 cents per kwh. Even if I add my natural gas bill of $110 for December I pay a total of $200 for that month. Even if the solar power save 100% of that I believe it would take many years to recover the initial cost of the solar cells and in the spring, summer and fall my energy use goes down. I live in a house that is over 75 years old too.
I live in Ludington, Michigan. There is a pumped storage plant just south of town. It was the largest in the world when it was built is 1973. It pumps water from Lake Michigan at night(low electrical demand) and allows the water to return to Lake Michigan and generating several Mega watts of electricity during periods of high demand. There is a observatory tower that I have visited on several occasion and I have always found that there seems to be a lot of wind power there. BP wants to build 28 large wind generators north of town. The pumped storage plant is justified because it uses power from other electrical plant that either would had been shut down or lost. They claim they do not want to shut down these plants because it would cause too much thermal problems from the boilers cooling down when they are shut off. They want to keep them at a constant temperature so they need to use the excess power at the pumped storage plant. They lose about a third of the power that is used to pump up the water when they release it. Why would they build wind generators to pump the water up because that energy came from what would have been wasted so if they did they would go back to the original problem of either shutting down or reducing other electrical plants?
I use to have 7 computers. I did a lot of work for World Community Grid and was averaging around 20 results a day. I purchased a q6600 motherboard and soon found that it could do more than 10 times as many results as my slowest computer(ironically a celeron at the same speed of 2.4GHz) I now have 4 quad computers and averaging 40+ results a day and have experienced a significant reduction in my electricity bill.
I use firefox but when I go to a site a pop up occurs which uses internet explorer to display a list of what it considers to be related sites. I have tried to delete ie and even tried to add/remove ie from my computer as it now thinks that it has removed it. But it is still there. When I use windows explorer to delete ie it shows the program is deleted until I close and reopen windows explorer and discover that it has not been deleted. It seems that I will have to reformat my hard drive and install everything to get rid of this problem.
Anyone can get broadband anywhere in the United States. Just use a satellite(Hughes). It is just a bit more expensive($69 a month). There have been a lot of articles about the next thing in broadband. There is a company in California that make blimps that supposedly could cover all the United States but it is obviously not here and I have not read any more about it. There is a company in North Dakota that releases a balloon that carries a transponder accross that state for its internet and cell phone but for some reason has not spread. I read that fiber optics was getting cheaper and that one could do all of the wiring in one's home using plastic but I have yet been contacted by Verizon(my dsl provider). Five years from now I think, I will still be waiting for another answer to broadband.
If someone were to discover oil under my property would I have to pay someone to remove it? So if trash is a source of energy than I should not have to pay anyone to remove it. I would think that cities would give trash removal to the highest bidder and thus make an expense into a revenue source.
If one is building the fastest computer in the world, would not one want the best microprocessor? Why do the two top computers(IBM's roadrunner and Cray's jaguar) both use amd microprocessors? Intel is now producing a chip with 6 cores and a quad with hyperthreading so it is equivalent to 8 cores, so why aren't these chips being used in the fastest computer?
What if we could totally erase all memories from a person brain? Would we have killed the person without killing the body? Would we than create a new person when we again teach them everything that person needs to know? Could this be used as a replacement of capital punishment? It makes me think about what I am. If I were to lose all my memories and have to relearn everything would I not be a totally new person? Maybe we could leave some memories intact like the ability to talk and walk so we would not have an adult baby to reteach over again.
I had a hamster. It was given to me and I kept it because of my nephew. It was not very intelligent. It had a safe home and I would let it roam the house in a ball. Even though I kept is well fed, warm and watered, the hamster spent most of its time trying to get free. I also had two cats but the hamster would find a place where the ball would not move so he could chew on the cover. He got out several times but I could easily recapture it. He finally made it into a heating vent and from there into the furnace where he died from either old age(he was nearing 3 years of age) or lack of water.
You believe the Russian President or any of their officials. They will tell the world anything to justify their aggression. At least read the Georgian's side http://georgiamfa.blogspot.com/2008/08/q-georgian-genocide.html before making statements. Truth is always the first casualty of war. Unless their statements are verified by independent observers they can not be accepted as being true.
I want to either record the dvds to a hard drive and never touch them again or I want to go back to vhs. I want to be able to fast forward when I want to and I want to be able to take a disk out and not have to fast forward to the point where it was when I took it out. I rent dvds and most of them skip or freeze at some point. I have vhs tapes that are older and some lose quality but at least they play from start to end without problems. The last movie I rented was put in their fancy cleaning machine and it still skipped in a couple of places. If a scratch or fingerprint causes dvds to skip or freeze than blu ray must be far worse since there will be a lot more of the movie behind the scratch. The warning about coping the movie which is shown in several languages and can not be fast forward though is alone enough for me to had dvds.
The question is who is costing the government more? There is an argument made that people who smoke while they have more expenses while they are alive eventually save the government money since they die sooner. Ten years of social security is a lot of money and some of them do not even live that long. Maybe it is not a cost but a morality issue here. Should we be concerned enough to try to force people to take care of themselves?
the Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software. How do we know that it has not already occurred? Immortality would be boring. There is nothing that would keep someone entertained that long. Therefore we die and are reincarnated to keep live interesting. If we were sure about this it would make it boring too so we will always have a fear of death to keep up our interest in our present life. It is just like gambling, it is not very interesting unless one is playing for high stakes.
Just go to the statistic pages on WorldCommunityGrid.org. You will see that the top 4 contributors have over 5 million results. A thousand results per cpu year is a good rule of thumb so 5 million results is about 5000 cpu years. At $300 per cpu year that amounts to 1.5 million dollars so there are large corporations that are willing to donate that much time and effort.
I have some experience with Ubuntu. I have made two quad core computers in the last 2 months. Both of them refuse to install Ubuntu. They both get to the point where the desktop should show and than give a error message about the video being shut down. I even tried to install Debian linux but only made it to the point where it tried to find my hard drive. It could not find my sada hard drive and ask me to supply a driver for it. Windows xp installed fine on both computers but they had to have a cd with drivers before the lan card would work and get usb to work and get proper video. Ubuntu needs to be supported by the hardware companies. They should not assume the end user is going to install windows.
But what if real life was nothing but a game. Maybe we are all part of a powerful being(God) who decided that perfection was boring so real life was created to entertain us. We do not allow us to remember any of this or any of our past life because it would not allow us to have a fresh start every time we are born. Even if real life was a game it would not make any sense to murder people since it would degrade everyone's value even the person doing the killing. If I can kill someone than someone else can kill me. I played a game in which I was so powerful in the end that the game became so boring that I either had to quit it or restart it. Restarting did not help that much since I still remembered all of the tricks to get to the end but I can not force myself to forget the tricks so I could start fresh again.
Memory has made very little progress in the last 10 years. One Gigabytes sticks were being mass produced in 1999. It is still very expensive to buy a memory sticks larger than 1 gigabyte. At today prices it would cost over $30,000 for a Terabyte of memory. If progress would have been the same as it was in the nineties than we should be buying at least 256Gbytes sticks today. If ram memory could be loaded at the rate of 100 Megabytes per second than it would take more than 2.77 hours to fill it up. I would think that it would be a very long boot process even at that very fast speed. It would lead to most people leaving their computers on all the time. Artificial Intelligence could take up a lot of memory if a dictionary and encyclopedia with a large index of every significant word were include in memory.
Sunrise on June 20 of this year is going to be 6 am here in Michigan with daylight savings. So without daylight savings it would be 5 am. What per cent of the population do you believe is awake at 5 am. I go to the fireworks every 4th of July and have to wait until after 10 pm for them to start as it does not get pitched dark until than. I believe there are a lot more people awake at 10 pm than there is at 5 am. I would not mind if they even went another hour ahead so that sunrise would be at 7 am.
My house of the future will not even have a refrigerator or even a kitchen. All meals will be prepared and delivered by robots. That will even be cheaper than preparing one's own food. Everything in every room will be in seal able containers so that cleaning will be done be robots using a water hose. My house will talk to me just as if it were a real person. It will know who is in the house and why. It will communicate with all appliances and know why any of them are working. It will know why there is flow of any kind anywhere and have the ability to shut it off if there is no reason for it(leak). My house will know if there is any thing wrong with any of the occupants and if any need any help of any kind. It will be built underground and so water proof that one will be able to stay there even in a flood. Only a very violent earthquake will be able to cause damage to it. Every house will have a unique address and since it will be underground the only way to get there will be in a automated vehicle. Only those who call ahead and get permission will be able to stop at that address. It will be totally sound proof and totally secure both environmentally and physically.
We need to subsidize fiber to every home in this country and leave the radio spectrum to mobile devices. The cost could be justified very easily by the added security and cost reductions(fire, law enforcement, and medical).
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I run Vista. I also shop at thrift stores and pick up old games and software there. Most if not all of which will not run on Vista. I also have a xp machine. Popular games such as the petz series will not run and they still have a internet site. The one I wanted to run the most is VirtualDrive but it will not run and the only solution is to buy another copy. With that I could buy software from Goodwill copy it to the hard drive and than exchange it for some more but they caught on to me and will not let me do it anymore. I mean I am just trying to let someone else have the software too. The computer keeps telling me it is looking for a solution but after a year now it is getting a little boring.
I recently went back to cable since they offer a combined package of tv, phone, and internet. I did not have a digital television when the installer installed the system. I have the cheapest tv package I could get and received only about 15 channels on my analog television sets. I purchased a digital television set and to my surprise I now receive well over 100 channels. So I thought I would go an purchase a converter box so I could receive the same channels on my old analog television set. The converter would not receive any channels. There must be a difference between the tuner in the converter and the tuner in the digital television set. I have looked at the converters offered in the local stores and they are all so cheap as they do not have any controls on the converter. So if one loses or misplaces the remote the television set is worthless until one finds or gets another remote. I recently purchased a so called universal remote and in the instructions there were no codes for either a converter or a surround sound system. So I guess one will have to purchase a new converter every time one misplaces the remote.
I have caller id and will not answer the phone when a telemarketer calls. I have an answer machine and most of them will not even leave a message. My phone company will not allow my phone to ring if the name or phone number is unknown. They get around this by having the name toll free number so I do not answer them and again they leave no message. I wish they would pass a law that they can not call from a unknown name and number. Last year even the political parties would call from a unknown name but at least they would leave a message. There are still rare times when they call early in morning when I do not have my glasses on and can not read the caller id and I am not near the answer machine. The same goes for the mail I receive. Most of it goes from the mail box to the recycle box without being opened. They too have no return address so I can identify the sender before opening it. They will offer you anything for a very small price until you get to the store to find out they do not have any of them and probably never did have any of them. They get around that by printing in fine print no rain checks. I once received a flier that stated that I won $400. No purchase necessary. All I had to do was to show up at the car dealership and claim the prize. I showed up and there were several other people there to claim there prizes. We all gave our scratch off claims to a salesman who promptly threw them in the trash. It is getting so bad that I sometime throw away by mistake important papers like tax information.
I have 4 q6600 quad computers. One is running vista, one is running xp and two of them are running ubuntu. I do volunteer work for world community grid. The number of results for the last 14 days are as follows: vista 184, xp 127, ubuntu1 150, ubuntu2 210. They all have different motherboards but have the same amount of ram memory. The Ubuntu computers are running 64 bit version while the vista and xp are 32 bit operating systems. Here is an article http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126460&source=rss_topic12 that states that going to 8 processors does not increase efficiency by much because of the memory access problem. The processors will spend too much time waiting for their turn to access ram memory.
I have cable for my phone and internet and told them to throw in the cheapest television package I could get. I have a digital television set and to my surprise I now receive over 100 channels. Most of these channels I am not suppose to receive. Well I also have a analog television set so I bought a converter box thinking that it would receive the same channels the digital television set did but it did not receive any channels at all. So the tuner for the converter must be different that the tuner for the television set. I wonder if a new vcr/dvd's tuner would work the same way as the converter or if I am lucky it would work like the digital television set.
I pay under $100 a month for electricity. I do have natural gas for heat and hot water and cooking but I have 4 quad computers that I leave on around 16 hours each day. I noticed that his cost per kwh is over 20 cents for the lowest bill and over 27 cents for the highest bill. I pay around 10 cents per kwh. Even if I add my natural gas bill of $110 for December I pay a total of $200 for that month. Even if the solar power save 100% of that I believe it would take many years to recover the initial cost of the solar cells and in the spring, summer and fall my energy use goes down. I live in a house that is over 75 years old too.
I live in Ludington, Michigan. There is a pumped storage plant just south of town. It was the largest in the world when it was built is 1973. It pumps water from Lake Michigan at night(low electrical demand) and allows the water to return to Lake Michigan and generating several Mega watts of electricity during periods of high demand. There is a observatory tower that I have visited on several occasion and I have always found that there seems to be a lot of wind power there. BP wants to build 28 large wind generators north of town. The pumped storage plant is justified because it uses power from other electrical plant that either would had been shut down or lost. They claim they do not want to shut down these plants because it would cause too much thermal problems from the boilers cooling down when they are shut off. They want to keep them at a constant temperature so they need to use the excess power at the pumped storage plant. They lose about a third of the power that is used to pump up the water when they release it. Why would they build wind generators to pump the water up because that energy came from what would have been wasted so if they did they would go back to the original problem of either shutting down or reducing other electrical plants?
I use to have 7 computers. I did a lot of work for World Community Grid and was averaging around 20 results a day. I purchased a q6600 motherboard and soon found that it could do more than 10 times as many results as my slowest computer(ironically a celeron at the same speed of 2.4GHz) I now have 4 quad computers and averaging 40+ results a day and have experienced a significant reduction in my electricity bill.
I use firefox but when I go to a site a pop up occurs which uses internet explorer to display a list of what it considers to be related sites. I have tried to delete ie and even tried to add/remove ie from my computer as it now thinks that it has removed it. But it is still there. When I use windows explorer to delete ie it shows the program is deleted until I close and reopen windows explorer and discover that it has not been deleted. It seems that I will have to reformat my hard drive and install everything to get rid of this problem.
Anyone can get broadband anywhere in the United States. Just use a satellite(Hughes). It is just a bit more expensive($69 a month). There have been a lot of articles about the next thing in broadband. There is a company in California that make blimps that supposedly could cover all the United States but it is obviously not here and I have not read any more about it. There is a company in North Dakota that releases a balloon that carries a transponder accross that state for its internet and cell phone but for some reason has not spread. I read that fiber optics was getting cheaper and that one could do all of the wiring in one's home using plastic but I have yet been contacted by Verizon(my dsl provider). Five years from now I think, I will still be waiting for another answer to broadband.
If someone were to discover oil under my property would I have to pay someone to remove it? So if trash is a source of energy than I should not have to pay anyone to remove it. I would think that cities would give trash removal to the highest bidder and thus make an expense into a revenue source.
If one is building the fastest computer in the world, would not one want the best microprocessor? Why do the two top computers(IBM's roadrunner and Cray's jaguar) both use amd microprocessors? Intel is now producing a chip with 6 cores and a quad with hyperthreading so it is equivalent to 8 cores, so why aren't these chips being used in the fastest computer?
What if we could totally erase all memories from a person brain? Would we have killed the person without killing the body? Would we than create a new person when we again teach them everything that person needs to know? Could this be used as a replacement of capital punishment? It makes me think about what I am. If I were to lose all my memories and have to relearn everything would I not be a totally new person? Maybe we could leave some memories intact like the ability to talk and walk so we would not have an adult baby to reteach over again.
I had a hamster. It was given to me and I kept it because of my nephew. It was not very intelligent. It had a safe home and I would let it roam the house in a ball. Even though I kept is well fed, warm and watered, the hamster spent most of its time trying to get free. I also had two cats but the hamster would find a place where the ball would not move so he could chew on the cover. He got out several times but I could easily recapture it. He finally made it into a heating vent and from there into the furnace where he died from either old age(he was nearing 3 years of age) or lack of water.
You believe the Russian President or any of their officials. They will tell the world anything to justify their aggression. At least read the Georgian's side http://georgiamfa.blogspot.com/2008/08/q-georgian-genocide.html before making statements. Truth is always the first casualty of war. Unless their statements are verified by independent observers they can not be accepted as being true.
I want to either record the dvds to a hard drive and never touch them again or I want to go back to vhs. I want to be able to fast forward when I want to and I want to be able to take a disk out and not have to fast forward to the point where it was when I took it out. I rent dvds and most of them skip or freeze at some point. I have vhs tapes that are older and some lose quality but at least they play from start to end without problems. The last movie I rented was put in their fancy cleaning machine and it still skipped in a couple of places. If a scratch or fingerprint causes dvds to skip or freeze than blu ray must be far worse since there will be a lot more of the movie behind the scratch. The warning about coping the movie which is shown in several languages and can not be fast forward though is alone enough for me to had dvds.
The question is who is costing the government more? There is an argument made that people who smoke while they have more expenses while they are alive eventually save the government money since they die sooner. Ten years of social security is a lot of money and some of them do not even live that long. Maybe it is not a cost but a morality issue here. Should we be concerned enough to try to force people to take care of themselves?
the Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software. How do we know that it has not already occurred? Immortality would be boring. There is nothing that would keep someone entertained that long. Therefore we die and are reincarnated to keep live interesting. If we were sure about this it would make it boring too so we will always have a fear of death to keep up our interest in our present life. It is just like gambling, it is not very interesting unless one is playing for high stakes.
Just go to the statistic pages on WorldCommunityGrid.org. You will see that the top 4 contributors have over 5 million results. A thousand results per cpu year is a good rule of thumb so 5 million results is about 5000 cpu years. At $300 per cpu year that amounts to 1.5 million dollars so there are large corporations that are willing to donate that much time and effort.
I have some experience with Ubuntu. I have made two quad core computers in the last 2 months. Both of them refuse to install Ubuntu. They both get to the point where the desktop should show and than give a error message about the video being shut down. I even tried to install Debian linux but only made it to the point where it tried to find my hard drive. It could not find my sada hard drive and ask me to supply a driver for it. Windows xp installed fine on both computers but they had to have a cd with drivers before the lan card would work and get usb to work and get proper video. Ubuntu needs to be supported by the hardware companies. They should not assume the end user is going to install windows.
But what if real life was nothing but a game. Maybe we are all part of a powerful being(God) who decided that perfection was boring so real life was created to entertain us. We do not allow us to remember any of this or any of our past life because it would not allow us to have a fresh start every time we are born. Even if real life was a game it would not make any sense to murder people since it would degrade everyone's value even the person doing the killing. If I can kill someone than someone else can kill me. I played a game in which I was so powerful in the end that the game became so boring that I either had to quit it or restart it. Restarting did not help that much since I still remembered all of the tricks to get to the end but I can not force myself to forget the tricks so I could start fresh again.
Memory has made very little progress in the last 10 years. One Gigabytes sticks were being mass produced in 1999. It is still very expensive to buy a memory sticks larger than 1 gigabyte. At today prices it would cost over $30,000 for a Terabyte of memory. If progress would have been the same as it was in the nineties than we should be buying at least 256Gbytes sticks today. If ram memory could be loaded at the rate of 100 Megabytes per second than it would take more than 2.77 hours to fill it up. I would think that it would be a very long boot process even at that very fast speed. It would lead to most people leaving their computers on all the time. Artificial Intelligence could take up a lot of memory if a dictionary and encyclopedia with a large index of every significant word were include in memory.
Sunrise on June 20 of this year is going to be 6 am here in Michigan with daylight savings. So without daylight savings it would be 5 am. What per cent of the population do you believe is awake at 5 am. I go to the fireworks every 4th of July and have to wait until after 10 pm for them to start as it does not get pitched dark until than. I believe there are a lot more people awake at 10 pm than there is at 5 am. I would not mind if they even went another hour ahead so that sunrise would be at 7 am.
My house of the future will not even have a refrigerator or even a kitchen. All meals will be prepared and delivered by robots. That will even be cheaper than preparing one's own food. Everything in every room will be in seal able containers so that cleaning will be done be robots using a water hose. My house will talk to me just as if it were a real person. It will know who is in the house and why. It will communicate with all appliances and know why any of them are working. It will know why there is flow of any kind anywhere and have the ability to shut it off if there is no reason for it(leak). My house will know if there is any thing wrong with any of the occupants and if any need any help of any kind. It will be built underground and so water proof that one will be able to stay there even in a flood. Only a very violent earthquake will be able to cause damage to it. Every house will have a unique address and since it will be underground the only way to get there will be in a automated vehicle. Only those who call ahead and get permission will be able to stop at that address. It will be totally sound proof and totally secure both environmentally and physically.
We need to subsidize fiber to every home in this country and leave the radio spectrum to mobile devices. The cost could be justified very easily by the added security and cost reductions(fire, law enforcement, and medical).