I can see all alcohol and tobacco products having a RFID chip. I can see that in order to purchase said product one would have to scan a machine readable ID. Now if said product is found in the hands of a minor than the person who purchased the product would have to explain why. If no one purchased the product(shoplifted) than the store that purchased it would have to explain why they can not prevent the shoplifting. If one is caught DUI I would tell them they can not purchase alcohol for at least 5 years so this would help deter that crime. I would also give every one the ability to willing give up their right to purchase alcohol and thus make every one else responsible for enforcing it.
How many minutes was spent producing this report? It looks like maybe 5 at the most. Links to articles written years ago should have been updated. The article states they even walked to the booth but nothing was written about the visit. I would think that it would be the easiest thing to disprove. Just bring a external hard drive with movies on it and ask whoever is at the booth to transfer those movies onto the memory chips. After the hard drive is removed than just ask whoever to play those movies. If the movies play than they have something but I doubt that they would even attempt to transfer the movies and prove once again that they do not have a working product. I would think that any claim of a product that in so amazing would require at least a demonstration of that product. It seems to me that CES only concern is the revenue it gets. I will have a lot less interest in the reports that will come out of CES 2009 unless something is done about who they allow to have booths and who they give their honoree awards to.
Can anyone believe what is coming out of CES? Anyone can get a booth there just by paying the fee. It does not matter if the technology even exist. Atom Chip has been there several times. How many people really believe that their technology exist? Just do a search for Atom Chip here on slashdot and see the amazing claims they have been putting out for the last three years(6.8GHz laptop, 1TByte solid state memory chip). They were awarded even this year with the honoree award. Anyone can get that by paying for it. Calvin and Hobbes could get it for their cardboard box which transported them back into the age of dinosaurs if they paid the fee.
When we discover a property that makes sense of the universe than that property is programmed into the simulation. I think Stephen Hawking said that when we reason out why the universe began than everything will comply with those reasons. It is as if the universe is waiting for us to reason out the laws so that universe can comply with those laws. I have read about an experiment that would measure light from a distant quasar using the gravity of a galaxy between us and the quasar. Than by changing how we measure this light we change how the light left that quasar. They are trying to say we can effect the light that was transmitted billions of years ago and many trillions of miles away just by measuring it. That is the universe is waiting for us to command it so it can comply with our reasoning. We can measure the polarity of that light and when we do that light is that polarity and always was that polarity but if we change how we measure the light the polarity will change and that change will somehow travel back in time so that the light left the quasar with that polarity. It is comparable to the double slit experiment.
I can not keep a wristwatch water proof after replacing the batteries so I usually buy another watch when the battery dies. It might help if I bought a little more expensive watch but it is too tempting when a watch is around $10. This coating would probably be too expensive for the cheap watches.
It was in late 2005 that there was a big article about Atom Chip and the products that they were suppose to be developing. They were at CES 2006 but according to what I read about them they allowed no one to touch their supposedly fantastic chips(a terabyte non-volatile memory chip). If one goes to the CES 2008 site and looks at the corporation that will be present one will again find Atom Chip. It one goes to their site one will see a pitch for a 100 gigabyte(2 50 gigabyte memory devices on one chip). Now if CES 2008 has any responsibility to the public they would not allow this corporation to display anything unless they are willing to let someone touch it who can determine if the product really exist.
Lets say that one drive a vehicle 10,000 miles a year and gets 25 mpg. So that is 400 gallons of gas a year or about $1200 a year. Now lets say that the cost of the electricity is only $200 so a savings of $1,000 a year. Ten years of use than would be $10,000. So if the automobile is only $10,000 more than a gasoline car than there would be no monetary incentive to purchase one. The cost of a used automobile would make the comparison even more difficult for the electric automobile. How much money would one have at the end of 10 years if one had $10,000 and invested it at 6%, and one withdrew $1,000 a year. It would be around $5,000. There are other cost I am sure as an electric car would not need coolant or oil. I think $100 a year would take care of that. It is going to take a lot more to get people to buy an electric automobile. I would think that gasoline would have to go to $10 a gallon to make people buy one and than the gasoline powered automobiles would be almost given away to get rid of them so still a lot of people would drive them till they fell apart.
There are plenty of volunteer that give a huge amount of computing power. The first place volunteer has over 1.3 million results and several have more than 100,000. So there must be someone who believes in donating a lot of computing time. I can imangine how much time it would take just to install the program in the several thousand computers required to get that many results. The question is "Is it better to donate the computing time or is it better to donate the cost of the electricity needed by the computers." WCG needs each results to be done by at least 3 computers and those results are compared to each other to ensure accurate results. This means that the computing power of the grid should be divided by 3 to give an acurrate equivalent. There is a new computer being bullt in Texas that will soon be doing over 500 petaflops so maybe it will soon be more economical to donate the money rather than the computing time.
I have read that it will cost $2.00 of compressed air to run 125 miles. Even a hybrid would cost about $10 in gasoline. One can just plug the car in at home and avoid the extra time to fill up at a pump. It would also avoid the taxes one pays for gasoline. Iowa is building a windmill farm where the extra energy is being used to compress air and store the air underground. It would be nice if some of the compressed air could go into these cars. But most important is the cost of oil. Most of us will agree that the Iraq war is being fought because of oil. If we could use alternative energy to compress the air, that would do a lot to free us from foreign oil. It could also reduce our trade deficit.
I live close to a huge man made lake that if filled every night so that they can use it to generate electricity during the day. Lets use your figures. 50% loss of the electricity transmitted to fill the lake, 60% of that electricity generated during the day. That is.5x.6 or or 30% of the original generated electricity. Why did they spend $400 million to make it and why are they still using it? It is because there still is no way to economically store a huge amount of electricity so that we have it when we need it. I read an article about a wind generators being built in Iowa where they will store the excess by compressing air and storing that air underground. They will use this air to help gas generators produce electricity. I am sure there will be plenty of loss of energy in that process too. So until we can economically store electricity, it is either waste 100% of the excess electricity or 70% of it. Why can't we economically have a natural gas generator at people's home so that they can generate their own electricity and save the 50% loss? It is because of the required maintenance. A central plant can spread that over a lot more people. The only question is Can we generate electricity at a cost that people are willing to pay? If we can there is no need to worry about how much is wasted.
I just purchased a 320G byte hard drive for $99. It cost $15 to make it into a usb drive. At that price one could not buy the equivalent storage in dvd-rw disks. The hard drives are more reliable and much faster transferring data. There is no limit on how many times one can erase the hard drive either as I know there is a limit on how many time a dvd-rw can be rewritten. It is much easier to find an indiviudal movie on a hard drive than to look through the 70-80 dvd that it would take for the equivalent storage. It is also much harder to scratch a hard drive platter than it is to scratch or get a dirt mark on a dvd-rw disk.
I have been running a 64 AMD computer with the 64 bit Ubuntu operating system. I use firefox and there is still no 64 bit flash with little hope that there will be one in the near future. There are a lot of sites that use flash such as youtube so there is a lot of video that one can not view with that set up.
I hope that these implants could communicate much more than speech. In fact I would hope that they could send all of our senses. I would hope that we could record everything for playback later on. For instance when one is having great sex one could record everything one sees, hears and feels so that one could relive them any number of times. One also could sell those recordings so any number of people could enjoy it. If society wants to make laws against some kind of behavior than maybe with the implants one could cause some one to lose the ability to do the unwanted behavior by knocking the person out before they have the chance to accomplish the unwanted behavior. It sure beats allowing the person to accomplish it and than punish them with prison.
I hope that they could build a light weight rust prove frame for an automobile. I recently had a 1997 Geo Metro that had the front half of the frame rusted out and the cost of repair was more than the cost of buying another used car. I hope that they can use this to line the tunnels that we could dig underground and that we all than move our home underground.
How many people can afford to have a room in their house that could come close to the quality that one can get at a theater? The size to the screen and quality of the sound would set someone back in the 10's of thousand of dollars. This is just like sports. It use to be that the average person could afford to go to a sporting event. Now one has to be in the top 25% at least to be able to afford a ticket. It seems that with television revenue it is enough revenue since they have yet to close any teams. Theaters are already way to expensive. The cost per hour for your children is way more than going to an amusement park. I have taken my children to a near by park for around $26 for 10 hours or $2.60 per hour. The theaters cost more than that before one adds the cost of refreshments. The cost of tickets will than have to go up when some of the people will be able to view the movie at home. This will drive some theaters out of business and deny its experience to a large segment of the population. How many hours at minimum wage does it cost to go to the theater? Compare that with the hours of minimum wage 20 years ago and one will find that it is too much. It is just not the entertainment industry it is also the cost of automobile, the cost of health care, the cost of home ownership, the cost of college as they are all going way beyond the ability of a lot of the people.
I find it interesting that the sun is about 26,000 light years from the center of the galaxy. That would be about 180,000 light years in circumference. It takes only 225 million years to make that orbit. According to my calculations that is close to a half a million miles per hour in speed. I thought I was just sitting here in front on my computer. I guess that someone who lives an average life will travel many trillions of miles even if they never leave their neighborhood.
Computers are already telling us what to do a lot of the time especially at work. In 2020 a computer will get input from everyone over the internet and will respond to everyone. Its decisions will be always be corrected if they result in a negative fashion. A computer would not have any financial interest in any of it decisions. By 2020 we should be able to make a computer with enough artificial intelligence to govern us.
I downloaded it and installed it and the only thing I get is nvidia opengl driver driver component sizes mismatch. Retry to continue. Cancel to exit. Only the cancel works.
I think that this ruling will result in the sale of more dvd disks. I think someone will soon bring out a dvd player with a terabyte hard drive. That will mean between 100 and 200 movies can be stored in the device. It will start with a menu so that one can find one of their movies without having to look through a shelf full of them. It will also mean that they will be accessed by category, director, producer, stars, year made, length. People will buy more movies when they can store the disk in a safe place and never have to touch them again. I know I hate it when I play a disk and in the middle it freezes and than I have to remove it and clean it to get it to play. I think the laser will last longer since it will not be needed as much.
I have 8 computers and I am being harassed by Microsoft to install a new version of their windows genuine advantage. They had all been running the program before and all had passed but I guess someone hacked that version so they need to make everyone waste probably millions of man hours so that they can catch someone using a seven year old copy of windows xp. I would agree if I were running Vista but to harass people over an outdated software is stupid. I guess Bill thinks he does not have enough money so they need to get more from everyone. I know that a computer running Linux will never have to go through this harassment so maybe that is why someone would be interested in Linux.
There are several ways to entice more people to want a always on internet connection at that speed. First I see a time when hardware will be free. One will just pay for the service. There will be no local storage of data as everything will be stored at the ISP. This will greatly reduce the amount of needed storage since one copy of a movie or one copy of a software program will service thousands of people. This will end the need of either blu-ray or hd-dv since they will be stored again at the ISP on a large hard drive. So this will mean video on demand and mean that people will have total control of when they want to watch any television program or movie even the ones generated by ones own camcorder. One will sign a contract for ISP service and be given the hardware and have access to a huge amount of software and videos. I see a microphone, speaker, and video camera in every room of my house. The video will be encrypted so that it will take a court order for anyone to view. This will mean that the video will be viewed only after a crime has been discovered to have happened there. It will mean that the computer will make sure that there is nothing going wrong there too. If something bad does happen such as fire, flood or even someone becoming incapacitated, the computer could notify someone who could help with the problem. I believe that in the end this will a save a multiple of times more money than the system will ever cost.
There is no end to eternity so the statement makes no sense. I guess it was meant to be a joke. I think that the universe will end somehow and again be reborn and this will continue for eternity. I believe that the universe might have already gone through this cycle an infinite number of times since this would solve the problem of a beginning as maybe there never was a beginning.
This technology http://www.nantero.com/mission.html is suppose to be ready some time this year. It use cnt as lever in a small relay. They call their memory nram and it is suppose to be very fast access and non-volatile. There is a video at their site explaining how its memory works.
If one has a penny and doubles it one has $.02. If one has a million dollars and doubles it one has 2 million dollars. Most people would consider the latter to be a more important improvement. It is the same for microprocessors, doubling now is that much greater than it was 30 years ago.
I do not care if they charge $1.96 or $1.965 or any other fraction of a penny since when I purchase an item I pay for it with a debit card. People complain about long lines at check out but than pay by cash or worse yet by check. How much time is wasted waiting for the customer to count his money and the clerk to count the change? How much time is wasted waiting for the customer to write out the check? Another advantage would be by eliminating cash the clerk can not steal any cash therefore one does not need to limit the register to only one employee. Now the register must be the responsibility of only one person so that if there is a shortage than that person is responsible for it. Pay pal is a system for people to pay each other without cash too. So there is no reason why we can not have a cash less society.
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I can see all alcohol and tobacco products having a RFID chip. I can see that in order to purchase said product one would have to scan a machine readable ID. Now if said product is found in the hands of a minor than the person who purchased the product would have to explain why. If no one purchased the product(shoplifted) than the store that purchased it would have to explain why they can not prevent the shoplifting. If one is caught DUI I would tell them they can not purchase alcohol for at least 5 years so this would help deter that crime. I would also give every one the ability to willing give up their right to purchase alcohol and thus make every one else responsible for enforcing it.
How many minutes was spent producing this report? It looks like maybe 5 at the most. Links to articles written years ago should have been updated. The article states they even walked to the booth but nothing was written about the visit. I would think that it would be the easiest thing to disprove. Just bring a external hard drive with movies on it and ask whoever is at the booth to transfer those movies onto the memory chips. After the hard drive is removed than just ask whoever to play those movies. If the movies play than they have something but I doubt that they would even attempt to transfer the movies and prove once again that they do not have a working product. I would think that any claim of a product that in so amazing would require at least a demonstration of that product. It seems to me that CES only concern is the revenue it gets. I will have a lot less interest in the reports that will come out of CES 2009 unless something is done about who they allow to have booths and who they give their honoree awards to.
Can anyone believe what is coming out of CES? Anyone can get a booth there just by paying the fee. It does not matter if the technology even exist. Atom Chip has been there several times. How many people really believe that their technology exist? Just do a search for Atom Chip here on slashdot and see the amazing claims they have been putting out for the last three years(6.8GHz laptop, 1TByte solid state memory chip). They were awarded even this year with the honoree award. Anyone can get that by paying for it. Calvin and Hobbes could get it for their cardboard box which transported them back into the age of dinosaurs if they paid the fee.
When we discover a property that makes sense of the universe than that property is programmed into the simulation. I think Stephen Hawking said that when we reason out why the universe began than everything will comply with those reasons. It is as if the universe is waiting for us to reason out the laws so that universe can comply with those laws. I have read about an experiment that would measure light from a distant quasar using the gravity of a galaxy between us and the quasar. Than by changing how we measure this light we change how the light left that quasar. They are trying to say we can effect the light that was transmitted billions of years ago and many trillions of miles away just by measuring it. That is the universe is waiting for us to command it so it can comply with our reasoning. We can measure the polarity of that light and when we do that light is that polarity and always was that polarity but if we change how we measure the light the polarity will change and that change will somehow travel back in time so that the light left the quasar with that polarity. It is comparable to the double slit experiment.
I can not keep a wristwatch water proof after replacing the batteries so I usually buy another watch when the battery dies. It might help if I bought a little more expensive watch but it is too tempting when a watch is around $10. This coating would probably be too expensive for the cheap watches.
It was in late 2005 that there was a big article about Atom Chip and the products that they were suppose to be developing. They were at CES 2006 but according to what I read about them they allowed no one to touch their supposedly fantastic chips(a terabyte non-volatile memory chip). If one goes to the CES 2008 site and looks at the corporation that will be present one will again find Atom Chip. It one goes to their site one will see a pitch for a 100 gigabyte(2 50 gigabyte memory devices on one chip). Now if CES 2008 has any responsibility to the public they would not allow this corporation to display anything unless they are willing to let someone touch it who can determine if the product really exist.
Lets say that one drive a vehicle 10,000 miles a year and gets 25 mpg. So that is 400 gallons of gas a year or about $1200 a year. Now lets say that the cost of the electricity is only $200 so a savings of $1,000 a year. Ten years of use than would be $10,000. So if the automobile is only $10,000 more than a gasoline car than there would be no monetary incentive to purchase one. The cost of a used automobile would make the comparison even more difficult for the electric automobile. How much money would one have at the end of 10 years if one had $10,000 and invested it at 6%, and one withdrew $1,000 a year. It would be around $5,000. There are other cost I am sure as an electric car would not need coolant or oil. I think $100 a year would take care of that. It is going to take a lot more to get people to buy an electric automobile. I would think that gasoline would have to go to $10 a gallon to make people buy one and than the gasoline powered automobiles would be almost given away to get rid of them so still a lot of people would drive them till they fell apart.
There are plenty of volunteer that give a huge amount of computing power. The first place volunteer has over 1.3 million results and several have more than 100,000. So there must be someone who believes in donating a lot of computing time. I can imangine how much time it would take just to install the program in the several thousand computers required to get that many results. The question is "Is it better to donate the computing time or is it better to donate the cost of the electricity needed by the computers." WCG needs each results to be done by at least 3 computers and those results are compared to each other to ensure accurate results. This means that the computing power of the grid should be divided by 3 to give an acurrate equivalent. There is a new computer being bullt in Texas that will soon be doing over 500 petaflops so maybe it will soon be more economical to donate the money rather than the computing time.
I have read that it will cost $2.00 of compressed air to run 125 miles. Even a hybrid would cost about $10 in gasoline. One can just plug the car in at home and avoid the extra time to fill up at a pump. It would also avoid the taxes one pays for gasoline. Iowa is building a windmill farm where the extra energy is being used to compress air and store the air underground. It would be nice if some of the compressed air could go into these cars. But most important is the cost of oil. Most of us will agree that the Iraq war is being fought because of oil. If we could use alternative energy to compress the air, that would do a lot to free us from foreign oil. It could also reduce our trade deficit.
I live close to a huge man made lake that if filled every night so that they can use it to generate electricity during the day. Lets use your figures. 50% loss of the electricity transmitted to fill the lake, 60% of that electricity generated during the day. That is .5x.6 or or 30% of the original generated electricity. Why did they spend $400 million to make it and why are they still using it? It is because there still is no way to economically store a huge amount of electricity so that we have it when we need it. I read an article about a wind generators being built in Iowa where they will store the excess by compressing air and storing that air underground. They will use this air to help gas generators produce electricity. I am sure there will be plenty of loss of energy in that process too. So until we can economically store electricity, it is either waste 100% of the excess electricity or 70% of it. Why can't we economically have a natural gas generator at people's home so that they can generate their own electricity and save the 50% loss? It is because of the required maintenance. A central plant can spread that over a lot more people. The only question is Can we generate electricity at a cost that people are willing to pay? If we can there is no need to worry about how much is wasted.
I just purchased a 320G byte hard drive for $99. It cost $15 to make it into a usb drive. At that price one could not buy the equivalent storage in dvd-rw disks. The hard drives are more reliable and much faster transferring data. There is no limit on how many times one can erase the hard drive either as I know there is a limit on how many time a dvd-rw can be rewritten. It is much easier to find an indiviudal movie on a hard drive than to look through the 70-80 dvd that it would take for the equivalent storage. It is also much harder to scratch a hard drive platter than it is to scratch or get a dirt mark on a dvd-rw disk.
I have been running a 64 AMD computer with the 64 bit Ubuntu operating system. I use firefox and there is still no 64 bit flash with little hope that there will be one in the near future. There are a lot of sites that use flash such as youtube so there is a lot of video that one can not view with that set up.
I hope that these implants could communicate much more than speech. In fact I would hope that they could send all of our senses. I would hope that we could record everything for playback later on. For instance when one is having great sex one could record everything one sees, hears and feels so that one could relive them any number of times. One also could sell those recordings so any number of people could enjoy it. If society wants to make laws against some kind of behavior than maybe with the implants one could cause some one to lose the ability to do the unwanted behavior by knocking the person out before they have the chance to accomplish the unwanted behavior. It sure beats allowing the person to accomplish it and than punish them with prison.
I hope that they could build a light weight rust prove frame for an automobile. I recently had a 1997 Geo Metro that had the front half of the frame rusted out and the cost of repair was more than the cost of buying another used car. I hope that they can use this to line the tunnels that we could dig underground and that we all than move our home underground.
How many people can afford to have a room in their house that could come close to the quality that one can get at a theater? The size to the screen and quality of the sound would set someone back in the 10's of thousand of dollars. This is just like sports. It use to be that the average person could afford to go to a sporting event. Now one has to be in the top 25% at least to be able to afford a ticket. It seems that with television revenue it is enough revenue since they have yet to close any teams. Theaters are already way to expensive. The cost per hour for your children is way more than going to an amusement park. I have taken my children to a near by park for around $26 for 10 hours or $2.60 per hour. The theaters cost more than that before one adds the cost of refreshments. The cost of tickets will than have to go up when some of the people will be able to view the movie at home. This will drive some theaters out of business and deny its experience to a large segment of the population. How many hours at minimum wage does it cost to go to the theater? Compare that with the hours of minimum wage 20 years ago and one will find that it is too much. It is just not the entertainment industry it is also the cost of automobile, the cost of health care, the cost of home ownership, the cost of college as they are all going way beyond the ability of a lot of the people.
I find it interesting that the sun is about 26,000 light years from the center of the galaxy. That would be about 180,000 light years in circumference. It takes only 225 million years to make that orbit. According to my calculations that is close to a half a million miles per hour in speed. I thought I was just sitting here in front on my computer. I guess that someone who lives an average life will travel many trillions of miles even if they never leave their neighborhood.
Computers are already telling us what to do a lot of the time especially at work. In 2020 a computer will get input from everyone over the internet and will respond to everyone. Its decisions will be always be corrected if they result in a negative fashion. A computer would not have any financial interest in any of it decisions. By 2020 we should be able to make a computer with enough artificial intelligence to govern us.
I downloaded it and installed it and the only thing I get is nvidia opengl driver driver component sizes mismatch. Retry to continue. Cancel to exit. Only the cancel works.
I think that this ruling will result in the sale of more dvd disks. I think someone will soon bring out a dvd player with a terabyte hard drive. That will mean between 100 and 200 movies can be stored in the device. It will start with a menu so that one can find one of their movies without having to look through a shelf full of them. It will also mean that they will be accessed by category, director, producer, stars, year made, length. People will buy more movies when they can store the disk in a safe place and never have to touch them again. I know I hate it when I play a disk and in the middle it freezes and than I have to remove it and clean it to get it to play. I think the laser will last longer since it will not be needed as much.
I have 8 computers and I am being harassed by Microsoft to install a new version of their windows genuine advantage. They had all been running the program before and all had passed but I guess someone hacked that version so they need to make everyone waste probably millions of man hours so that they can catch someone using a seven year old copy of windows xp. I would agree if I were running Vista but to harass people over an outdated software is stupid. I guess Bill thinks he does not have enough money so they need to get more from everyone. I know that a computer running Linux will never have to go through this harassment so maybe that is why someone would be interested in Linux.
There are several ways to entice more people to want a always on internet connection at that speed. First I see a time when hardware will be free. One will just pay for the service. There will be no local storage of data as everything will be stored at the ISP. This will greatly reduce the amount of needed storage since one copy of a movie or one copy of a software program will service thousands of people. This will end the need of either blu-ray or hd-dv since they will be stored again at the ISP on a large hard drive. So this will mean video on demand and mean that people will have total control of when they want to watch any television program or movie even the ones generated by ones own camcorder. One will sign a contract for ISP service and be given the hardware and have access to a huge amount of software and videos. I see a microphone, speaker, and video camera in every room of my house. The video will be encrypted so that it will take a court order for anyone to view. This will mean that the video will be viewed only after a crime has been discovered to have happened there. It will mean that the computer will make sure that there is nothing going wrong there too. If something bad does happen such as fire, flood or even someone becoming incapacitated, the computer could notify someone who could help with the problem. I believe that in the end this will a save a multiple of times more money than the system will ever cost.
There is no end to eternity so the statement makes no sense. I guess it was meant to be a joke. I think that the universe will end somehow and again be reborn and this will continue for eternity. I believe that the universe might have already gone through this cycle an infinite number of times since this would solve the problem of a beginning as maybe there never was a beginning.
This technology http://www.nantero.com/mission.html is suppose to be ready some time this year. It use cnt as lever in a small relay. They call their memory nram and it is suppose to be very fast access and non-volatile. There is a video at their site explaining how its memory works.
If one has a penny and doubles it one has $.02. If one has a million dollars and doubles it one has 2 million dollars. Most people would consider the latter to be a more important improvement. It is the same for microprocessors, doubling now is that much greater than it was 30 years ago.
I do not care if they charge $1.96 or $1.965 or any other fraction of a penny since when I purchase an item I pay for it with a debit card. People complain about long lines at check out but than pay by cash or worse yet by check. How much time is wasted waiting for the customer to count his money and the clerk to count the change? How much time is wasted waiting for the customer to write out the check? Another advantage would be by eliminating cash the clerk can not steal any cash therefore one does not need to limit the register to only one employee. Now the register must be the responsibility of only one person so that if there is a shortage than that person is responsible for it. Pay pal is a system for people to pay each other without cash too. So there is no reason why we can not have a cash less society.