There has been very little progress in ram memory(ddr) in the last five years especially compared to the progress made in the late 90's. According to Moore's law we should have had 2Giga bit chips in 2002 and 4Gig bits chip in 2004 and 8Giga bit chips in 2006 but it seem we are still stuck at the 1Giga bit level. I hope someone can figure out a way to get us back on track with the doubling of memory chips.
I can not see how they can make such a large claim unless they had produce at least one of these batteries. I can see them spending a huge sum of money to develop the first one than trying to figure out a way to economically mass produce them. I would hope that the government would have had several experts out there to test them. I would think the President Bush would have mentioned this in his state of the union speech if the government thought they could produce such a battery. I certainly hope that this is better than the story about atom chip. It has been over a year since they made their claims and still nothing to report on any of their products(tera byte solid state disk). I can read science fiction for fantastic technology. I am hoping that the article here have a better chance of becoming reality.
I am looking at a weather map and a lot of Canada has highs in the -10 degrees or below. All of the coastline across from Greenland has highs in the -10 degrees. I would think that all stationary water would be freezing at that temperature. The most northern region has highs at -30 degrees. Is 60 to 70 degrees below the freezing point too warm?
If some one is making minimum wage and you see that they are wasting a huge per cent of that what incentive does one have to increase that wage? If one smokes, drink excessively or is hugely overweight what incentive does one have to get them health coverage? There are some people if you gave them $100,000 would spend it in less than a year and again be poor the year after that. Education would help but discipline in spending money and in taking care of oneself is also needed.
We do not need 1400 years to find a much better way to dispose of this material. What will happen when we invent the technology(rail gun) to accelerate the material faster than escape velocity and than just launch the material into the sun. Future generations will be so bored that they will welcome this problem just to have something to do.
So what happens in the near future when Intel brings out the 80 core microprocessor that does 1.28 trillion calculations a second? I do not understand how Intel can do that with only 100 million transistors and the power6 has over 700 million transistors.
Life is like a video game. When one kills off the most powerful opponent the game becomes boring since one is usually invincible. When mankind solves most of it problems will life than become boring to most of it people? This is why I do not believe that heaven would be such a great place. If everything is perfect what is the purpose of life? We must have a society where everyone can contribute to its success. I guess what I am saying is that solving problems will lead to a bigger problem. That is what will society do with its people to ensure that their lives are not totally boring. Otherwise they will find a way which will usually include some kind of violence toward other members.
I have a 64 bit computer running the 64 bit version of Ubuntu. I know that Vista will be available soon and will also have a 64 bit version. I want to know will Adobe(Macromedia) have a 64 bit flash player out for IE7. I use Firefox. I really think I should not have to do anything more for the linux version than I do for the Windows version. When a site requires a plugin I should only have to click on the button and it should be installed. I also can not view any videos as most assume one will view that video using windows media player. Adobe blames the problem on someone else and states that the 64 bit version will be ready when it is ready. I just want to go on the internet and not have to worry if a particular site will load or not. I bought a cheap dvd burner and download several software programs for it. The ones that were free would not successfully burn anything to dvd. The only one that I got to work cost more than twice as much as I paid for the hardware. The old saying that one gets what ones pays for rings true.
I never worry about passwords. I would not worry if someone else knew my password for slashdot. What would they do with it? The only thing they could do it make comments in my name. Even with my bank accounts the only thing they can do it to see how much money I have and transfer money between two of my accounts. If someone wanted to be super mean they could transfer all my checking account money into my savings account and thus cause any checks I write to bounce. They still would not get any personal gain from it. If passwords are such a problem let me suggest a hardware fix. Let there be two passwords. A local password that the user would remember and a password that would be sent out. There would be a table on either the hard drive or a usb flash memory card for the lookup of the secondary password. Since no one would have to memorize or even know the secondary password it could be a 100 randomly generated characters and could be changed every time the user access the account. If one uses the usb flash memory than one could take it with them for use on another computer and by removing it from the computer prevent any other user on that computer from accessing their account. If it is that big a problem than a fix like that would have been used a long time ago.
I was hoping someone would seriously try to discuss this. Why do we divide? Is it not to divide something into a number of equal parts? For integers at least. So how can one divide something into zero equal parts? It it like dividing a number of pieces of candy for a number of children. Then trying to divide the candy for zero children. If no children want the candy than one does not have to divide it in the first place. One can place the candy into one cup or 2 cups with each having an equal amount but one can not place the candy into zero cups. The question of dividing by zero just does not make sense.
I can just see a professor allowing a video of his lecture. If they did would they still be needed the next semester? By not allowing it they assure themselves that there will be a need for their lecture. Try getting a video of someone repairing an automobile or any electronic product. If they did maybe those who are good with tools could repair them without a lot of training. This would mean a reduction of new sales since the old ones would last more. We live in a throw away world. This includes lectures and expensive equipment. It seems to be the only way we can keep ourselves employed.
When do you think one can download a movie for less than the cost of renting one at a video store. I can rent a recent movie for $3 and keep it overnight. It will be viewed more than once during that time so unless they increase the speed of downloading so one can watch the movie instantly and have a price of say $1 per view than I would not be interested. I think that vhs tapes are better than dvd disks too. I can give my 4 year old a tape and not have to start it up for him. DVD's usually require a menu entry to start them and if they get dirty from handling they will freeze in the middle of the movie. One has to take the disk out and clean it and than try to fast forward to the point where it stopped. One can stop a tape and take it out and give it back when other things are done with and the tape will just continue at the point where it stopped. I would think that parents of young children should be enough demand to keep tapes going or so I hope.
I would think that it would be cheaper to use rail gun technology to send raw materials into orbit. I hope that we can send automated factories into orbit to collect the raw materials and assemble them into products such as communication satellites and solar collectors. If the elevator is made out of carbon nanotubes maybe it could also be a room temperature super conductor and than we could transport huge amounts of energy from the solar collectors we have in orbit.
I am using a 64 bit Ubuntu 6.10 operating system with the latest firefox 2.0 browser. I can not get any flash to work or any video player. I tried downloading from Adobe and they state they do not support 64 bit. I tried automatix and downloaded a 32 bit firefox and when I download the plugins I get a error message. If I retry to install them, the programs states that they are already installed but when I tell it to reinstall them I get the same error I got before. I like this 64 bit firefox because I will load in about 5 seconds where all of my 32 bit systems take between 30 and 45 seconds to initially load but I just can not watch any youtube, cnn videos or any site that uses flash.
We can not rely on anything we can not control. So either we get smart enough to control the weather or our civilization will come to an end. If we spend enough money we could figure out how to control our own destiny but the question is when do we have to spend this money. It could be we are already too late till we have more than a thousand years to do it.
I would think the fuel and oxygen alone would justify building it. I would hope that they could send enough material to build one on the moon and mine some minerals from it. I would hope that they could than build huge solar collectors in orbit and beam the energy back to earth. I would hope that they could build huge mirrors that could be placed over greenland and the artic areas so that we could stop the melting of the ice there. Cost of this device will not compare to the cost of global warming.
I want to point my cell phone at an add from a store and get a reveiw of that product and after deciding to purchase have it determine which store has product on hand. I want to have my shopping list in the cell phone so that it can direct me to the products once I am in the store. As for the home I want my computer to know the status of every device in my house and me. I want it to determine if there are any problems with any of those devices or with me and be able to contact me or if that fail someone else. It should be able to do this by using a microphone and speaker to listen to all the noises my home and I make.
I would think a dollar per gigabyte for a movie is probably not realistic and for software is way too cheap. So a peta-byte of hard drive filled with purchased data would cost over a million dollars for the data. Is there a tera byte of unique and free software? There might be if one has several version of the same software which would not help too many people. The only thing I can see for that amount of storage is for ISP's to buy and maitain a peta-byte hard drive at every 10th or so users and use data distribution program such as bittorrent to distribute all video on demand.
Commercials are like Spam mail they send them out to a large number of people in hopes that a few will respond. The question is how to get those who are interested in your product to view the commercial. I once was watching a cartoon program and the commercial was for an $40,000 automobile. Now how many people who could afford such an automobile would be watching a children's cartoon. I could watch the commercial 1000 times and it still would not make me want to purchase the automobile. I think the answer lies in infomercials. When I want a product than I could use the video on demand to watch a infomercial about it so I could make an intelligent decision about purchasing a product. I would also like it if a store could make their inventory available on this network so that I could reserve the product before I left my house so that I would be assured that I could purchase the product when I did get to the store. When they treat me as an intelligent human and with respect I will purchase those products and sevices.
There is over 20 square inches in a 130mm disk platter. If one subtracts 3.14 square inches because of the center hole that still leaves over 17 square inches. Multiply that by 512Gb/square inch and divide that by 8 it still give an answer of over one Tera byte per disk platter.
Do we know that by drilling a hole in the volcano that we might induce a super explosion that would cover a large part of the world with ash. It has happened several times in Wyoming in the past several million years. What about cooling off the earth's core. Maybe we will lose our magnetic field and be subject to the huge amounts of radiation the sun throws at the Earth every day. I do not believe that by drilling a hundred thousand hole we could cool the Earth's core by even a degree or that we might reduce the pressure and thus avoid a super explosion but than again I am not an expert and I doubt there exist such an expert who could guarantee that a negative effect would not occur.
Here are my predictions on what will be available in the year 2026. First factories will be built here in the United States but most of the worker will live in India or China. They will use the internet to control robots in the factory. Apartment buildings will have examination rooms where one will go and there will be robots controlled by a doctor in India or China who will be able to remotely do an exam even better than if the doctor was there in person. Every automobile will be part of a network where it will know the location, speed and direction of travel of every other automobile within 100 yards of it. The automobbile will know the speed limit and location of every stop sign or traffic light and it present condition. The automobile will take defensive steps to avoid an accident. Eventually all human will be part of a large network where all knowledge and experiences will be available to all humans.
The greed of this person is beyond comprehension. I believe that this person would allow his food to rot before he would give it to someone who need it. He would justify it with if they would only work they could afford their own food. Smallpox would have never been eliminated without government support so there would be more disease even for those who could afford the proper vaccine. Lets charge to pick up garbage and than pay for alot more police to ensure that the poor do not improperly dispose of their garbage. Lets make everyone pay for their education and let those children whose parent are not resposible suffer because of it. There are plenty of people in the United States who have income many times over what they need to survive. Yet they do not want to part with a small part of it to better themself and the rest of society.
When we reach the point where humans have no reason to exist the Matrix will do a reboot and we will again find ourselfes in the stone age. We will than repeat human history as we have already done an unknown number of times. The only reason we exist at all if for the amusement of a superior race of beings. We are already some beings hobby.
My question is this "What are we getting out of these faster and more powerful computers?". There have been several new super computers brought online in the last few year. Many of these are capable of doing over 50 trillion calculations a second. Yet when President Bush asks this country to develop technology to reduce our need for foreign oil, he says we need 20 years to do so. On a personal note I want a small bed that I can totally shut off the rest of the world. I want it to be totally sound proof and be the same temperature and humidity all the time. In order to do this the bed must be small so that I do not have to spend too much money to maintain it and I must have a computer that will take care of the rest of the house so that I will still be alive the next morning and will find the rest of my house still intact. In order to do this the computer will have to be able to listen to all the noises in the house and determine if that noise will need my assistance to either correct it or flee from it. I want a computer that I can trust my life with.
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There has been very little progress in ram memory(ddr) in the last five years especially compared to the progress made in the late 90's. According to Moore's law we should have had 2Giga bit chips in 2002 and 4Gig bits chip in 2004 and 8Giga bit chips in 2006 but it seem we are still stuck at the 1Giga bit level. I hope someone can figure out a way to get us back on track with the doubling of memory chips.
I can not see how they can make such a large claim unless they had produce at least one of these batteries. I can see them spending a huge sum of money to develop the first one than trying to figure out a way to economically mass produce them. I would hope that the government would have had several experts out there to test them. I would think the President Bush would have mentioned this in his state of the union speech if the government thought they could produce such a battery. I certainly hope that this is better than the story about atom chip. It has been over a year since they made their claims and still nothing to report on any of their products(tera byte solid state disk). I can read science fiction for fantastic technology. I am hoping that the article here have a better chance of becoming reality.
I am looking at a weather map and a lot of Canada has highs in the -10 degrees or below. All of the coastline across from Greenland has highs in the -10 degrees. I would think that all stationary water would be freezing at that temperature. The most northern region has highs at -30 degrees. Is 60 to 70 degrees below the freezing point too warm?
If some one is making minimum wage and you see that they are wasting a huge per cent of that what incentive does one have to increase that wage? If one smokes, drink excessively or is hugely overweight what incentive does one have to get them health coverage? There are some people if you gave them $100,000 would spend it in less than a year and again be poor the year after that. Education would help but discipline in spending money and in taking care of oneself is also needed.
We do not need 1400 years to find a much better way to dispose of this material. What will happen when we invent the technology(rail gun) to accelerate the material faster than escape velocity and than just launch the material into the sun. Future generations will be so bored that they will welcome this problem just to have something to do.
So what happens in the near future when Intel brings out the 80 core microprocessor that does 1.28 trillion calculations a second? I do not understand how Intel can do that with only 100 million transistors and the power6 has over 700 million transistors.
Life is like a video game. When one kills off the most powerful opponent the game becomes boring since one is usually invincible. When mankind solves most of it problems will life than become boring to most of it people? This is why I do not believe that heaven would be such a great place. If everything is perfect what is the purpose of life? We must have a society where everyone can contribute to its success. I guess what I am saying is that solving problems will lead to a bigger problem. That is what will society do with its people to ensure that their lives are not totally boring. Otherwise they will find a way which will usually include some kind of violence toward other members.
I have a 64 bit computer running the 64 bit version of Ubuntu. I know that Vista will be available soon and will also have a 64 bit version. I want to know will Adobe(Macromedia) have a 64 bit flash player out for IE7. I use Firefox. I really think I should not have to do anything more for the linux version than I do for the Windows version. When a site requires a plugin I should only have to click on the button and it should be installed. I also can not view any videos as most assume one will view that video using windows media player. Adobe blames the problem on someone else and states that the 64 bit version will be ready when it is ready. I just want to go on the internet and not have to worry if a particular site will load or not. I bought a cheap dvd burner and download several software programs for it. The ones that were free would not successfully burn anything to dvd. The only one that I got to work cost more than twice as much as I paid for the hardware. The old saying that one gets what ones pays for rings true.
I never worry about passwords. I would not worry if someone else knew my password for slashdot. What would they do with it? The only thing they could do it make comments in my name. Even with my bank accounts the only thing they can do it to see how much money I have and transfer money between two of my accounts. If someone wanted to be super mean they could transfer all my checking account money into my savings account and thus cause any checks I write to bounce. They still would not get any personal gain from it. If passwords are such a problem let me suggest a hardware fix. Let there be two passwords. A local password that the user would remember and a password that would be sent out. There would be a table on either the hard drive or a usb flash memory card for the lookup of the secondary password. Since no one would have to memorize or even know the secondary password it could be a 100 randomly generated characters and could be changed every time the user access the account. If one uses the usb flash memory than one could take it with them for use on another computer and by removing it from the computer prevent any other user on that computer from accessing their account. If it is that big a problem than a fix like that would have been used a long time ago.
I was hoping someone would seriously try to discuss this. Why do we divide? Is it not to divide something into a number of equal parts? For integers at least. So how can one divide something into zero equal parts? It it like dividing a number of pieces of candy for a number of children. Then trying to divide the candy for zero children. If no children want the candy than one does not have to divide it in the first place. One can place the candy into one cup or 2 cups with each having an equal amount but one can not place the candy into zero cups. The question of dividing by zero just does not make sense.
I can just see a professor allowing a video of his lecture. If they did would they still be needed the next semester? By not allowing it they assure themselves that there will be a need for their lecture. Try getting a video of someone repairing an automobile or any electronic product. If they did maybe those who are good with tools could repair them without a lot of training. This would mean a reduction of new sales since the old ones would last more. We live in a throw away world. This includes lectures and expensive equipment. It seems to be the only way we can keep ourselves employed.
When do you think one can download a movie for less than the cost of renting one at a video store. I can rent a recent movie for $3 and keep it overnight. It will be viewed more than once during that time so unless they increase the speed of downloading so one can watch the movie instantly and have a price of say $1 per view than I would not be interested. I think that vhs tapes are better than dvd disks too. I can give my 4 year old a tape and not have to start it up for him. DVD's usually require a menu entry to start them and if they get dirty from handling they will freeze in the middle of the movie. One has to take the disk out and clean it and than try to fast forward to the point where it stopped. One can stop a tape and take it out and give it back when other things are done with and the tape will just continue at the point where it stopped. I would think that parents of young children should be enough demand to keep tapes going or so I hope.
I would think that it would be cheaper to use rail gun technology to send raw materials into orbit. I hope that we can send automated factories into orbit to collect the raw materials and assemble them into products such as communication satellites and solar collectors. If the elevator is made out of carbon nanotubes maybe it could also be a room temperature super conductor and than we could transport huge amounts of energy from the solar collectors we have in orbit.
I am using a 64 bit Ubuntu 6.10 operating system with the latest firefox 2.0 browser. I can not get any flash to work or any video player. I tried downloading from Adobe and they state they do not support 64 bit. I tried automatix and downloaded a 32 bit firefox and when I download the plugins I get a error message. If I retry to install them, the programs states that they are already installed but when I tell it to reinstall them I get the same error I got before. I like this 64 bit firefox because I will load in about 5 seconds where all of my 32 bit systems take between 30 and 45 seconds to initially load but I just can not watch any youtube, cnn videos or any site that uses flash.
We can not rely on anything we can not control. So either we get smart enough to control the weather or our civilization will come to an end. If we spend enough money we could figure out how to control our own destiny but the question is when do we have to spend this money. It could be we are already too late till we have more than a thousand years to do it.
I would think the fuel and oxygen alone would justify building it. I would hope that they could send enough material to build one on the moon and mine some minerals from it. I would hope that they could than build huge solar collectors in orbit and beam the energy back to earth. I would hope that they could build huge mirrors that could be placed over greenland and the artic areas so that we could stop the melting of the ice there. Cost of this device will not compare to the cost of global warming.
I want to point my cell phone at an add from a store and get a reveiw of that product and after deciding to purchase have it determine which store has product on hand. I want to have my shopping list in the cell phone so that it can direct me to the products once I am in the store. As for the home I want my computer to know the status of every device in my house and me. I want it to determine if there are any problems with any of those devices or with me and be able to contact me or if that fail someone else. It should be able to do this by using a microphone and speaker to listen to all the noises my home and I make.
I would think a dollar per gigabyte for a movie is probably not realistic and for software is way too cheap. So a peta-byte of hard drive filled with purchased data would cost over a million dollars for the data. Is there a tera byte of unique and free software? There might be if one has several version of the same software which would not help too many people. The only thing I can see for that amount of storage is for ISP's to buy and maitain a peta-byte hard drive at every 10th or so users and use data distribution program such as bittorrent to distribute all video on demand.
Commercials are like Spam mail they send them out to a large number of people in hopes that a few will respond. The question is how to get those who are interested in your product to view the commercial. I once was watching a cartoon program and the commercial was for an $40,000 automobile. Now how many people who could afford such an automobile would be watching a children's cartoon. I could watch the commercial 1000 times and it still would not make me want to purchase the automobile. I think the answer lies in infomercials. When I want a product than I could use the video on demand to watch a infomercial about it so I could make an intelligent decision about purchasing a product. I would also like it if a store could make their inventory available on this network so that I could reserve the product before I left my house so that I would be assured that I could purchase the product when I did get to the store. When they treat me as an intelligent human and with respect I will purchase those products and sevices.
There is over 20 square inches in a 130mm disk platter. If one subtracts 3.14 square inches because of the center hole that still leaves over 17 square inches. Multiply that by 512Gb/square inch and divide that by 8 it still give an answer of over one Tera byte per disk platter.
Do we know that by drilling a hole in the volcano that we might induce a super explosion that would cover a large part of the world with ash. It has happened several times in Wyoming in the past several million years. What about cooling off the earth's core. Maybe we will lose our magnetic field and be subject to the huge amounts of radiation the sun throws at the Earth every day. I do not believe that by drilling a hundred thousand hole we could cool the Earth's core by even a degree or that we might reduce the pressure and thus avoid a super explosion but than again I am not an expert and I doubt there exist such an expert who could guarantee that a negative effect would not occur.
Here are my predictions on what will be available in the year 2026. First factories will be built here in the United States but most of the worker will live in India or China. They will use the internet to control robots in the factory. Apartment buildings will have examination rooms where one will go and there will be robots controlled by a doctor in India or China who will be able to remotely do an exam even better than if the doctor was there in person. Every automobile will be part of a network where it will know the location, speed and direction of travel of every other automobile within 100 yards of it. The automobbile will know the speed limit and location of every stop sign or traffic light and it present condition. The automobile will take defensive steps to avoid an accident. Eventually all human will be part of a large network where all knowledge and experiences will be available to all humans.
The greed of this person is beyond comprehension. I believe that this person would allow his food to rot before he would give it to someone who need it. He would justify it with if they would only work they could afford their own food. Smallpox would have never been eliminated without government support so there would be more disease even for those who could afford the proper vaccine. Lets charge to pick up garbage and than pay for alot more police to ensure that the poor do not improperly dispose of their garbage. Lets make everyone pay for their education and let those children whose parent are not resposible suffer because of it. There are plenty of people in the United States who have income many times over what they need to survive. Yet they do not want to part with a small part of it to better themself and the rest of society.
When we reach the point where humans have no reason to exist the Matrix will do a reboot and we will again find ourselfes in the stone age. We will than repeat human history as we have already done an unknown number of times. The only reason we exist at all if for the amusement of a superior race of beings. We are already some beings hobby.
My question is this "What are we getting out of these faster and more powerful computers?". There have been several new super computers brought online in the last few year. Many of these are capable of doing over 50 trillion calculations a second. Yet when President Bush asks this country to develop technology to reduce our need for foreign oil, he says we need 20 years to do so. On a personal note I want a small bed that I can totally shut off the rest of the world. I want it to be totally sound proof and be the same temperature and humidity all the time. In order to do this the bed must be small so that I do not have to spend too much money to maintain it and I must have a computer that will take care of the rest of the house so that I will still be alive the next morning and will find the rest of my house still intact. In order to do this the computer will have to be able to listen to all the noises in the house and determine if that noise will need my assistance to either correct it or flee from it. I want a computer that I can trust my life with.