Here is two technologies that could help the situation. First there is http://sanswire.com/ and second there is http://www.extendamerica.com/. The second one is suppose to be tested in North Dakota later this year. The first is suppose to get 600 million dollars from Russia to put up a network there some time this year.
What people want is not always best for them. I have a good example of that. I am retired military and the military always kept pressure on me to maintain my weight. My wife was not in the military and did not get this pressure. My wife died 6 years ago(she was overweight) and I am still in relatively good shape(I can run 6 miles/hr for an hour and still do at age 57). So even though I did not like the pressure put on me by the military I realize that I am better off than my departed wife. Sure there are examples the other way where people put up their best effort and still get sick. There has to be a way to put pressure on those who do not put up any effort to maintain their health so that those who do, do not have to pay for it with both the pain of exercise and high insurance premiums.
Can it distinguish between someone speaking to you and the television/radio that is playing in the background? I want speech and noise recognition so that the computer can recognize a plea for help over the noise of the furnace, refrigerator or any other noise generator in the house. We should be able to put speakers/microphones in every room of the house and the computer should be able to detect any problem in that house. For instance fire, any leak of either water or gas or break-in. The computer should communicate with the owner and just by getting yes or no answers be able to ensure that the owner is doing well.
If every bottle of alcohol and every package of cigarettes has a rfid tag on it than for starts when they are sold the store than could prove that they were sold. When they are stolen and than found on a person who should not have had access to them then the store that had possession of them should be fined as they have not put enough effort into preventing them from being stolen. I would even go further and require a machine readable id to purchase the products and than if the products get into a minor's hands I would than go after the person who purchased the product. The cost of misuse of these products make the cost of even $.25 per tag look very small in comparison.
The more advanced version will be implanted in your brain after they cut your head off. Your brain will be artificially supported and all of your senses will be fake. You will not know that your world is totally artificial. You will live for hundreds of years unless of course this has already happened and we are now living in that artificial world. Rainman and people like him already have the ability to communicate with the mainframe and that explains their ability to recall and learn vast amounts of knowledge.
I do not understand why manufacturing of NAND memory is easier than manufacturing of ram memory. If they can do 16Gb of NAND than they should at least be able to manufacture 16Gb of ram memory as ram is still volatile and NAND is non-volatile. But I believe the biggest ram memory is still 2Gb and I do not know if that is mass produced.
GPS cost under a thousand dollars. How about a system that knows the speed limit everywhere and does not allow the automobile to exceed that limit? How about it knowing where every stop sign is and enforcing that stop too. How about having a wi-fi system in every automobile that will communicate it position, speed and direction of travel to every other automobile within 100 yards of it. Both automobile could change either direction or speed to avoid a collision. How about traffic lights transmitting their light cycle and current condition to all close automobiles so that they can adjust their speed to always hit the green light. When this system is mass produced and placed in every automobile it will probably cost less than air bags which for the vast majority of people are never used. I believe that this system would save thousand of more lives just by giving instructions on how to get to ones destination therefore allowing one to concentrate on the traffic rather than looking for another street or address.
A week from today CES 2006 will start. One of the booths will hold Atom Chip http://www.atomchip.com/. They say they already have a terabyte ram chip and a 2 terabyte solid state replacement for the hard drive. They are suppose to demonstrate their new super laptop with that and much more.
I was thinking of the other way as I would think that subways would be the first place that the drivers could be eliminated. The only decisions that can be made is how fast to go and when to brake. I would think the trains could be next. They do have more problems with avoiding collisions as they are not underground so they do have others using the rail especially at railroad crossings. There is no steering in either case.
If I were God and created creature that I loved I would not put them in a world that I could not control. I would place each one in their own world. Only in that world could God be assured that the proper lesson(whatever that is as if I knew I would not be here) is taught to everyone so they can go to the next level of existence. If we could prove this there would be no reason for existence so this article is just a hint of reality. I just can not figure out how any lesson learned in about 100 years could effect anyone for an infinity of time. Most of us can not or want to remember what happened yesterday much less what happened a billion years ago in another live.
I upgraded to the first rc of version 1.5 only to find that most of my extension would not work. I will wait at least a month after the final version is released so that everyone will have time to update their extensions.
The toaster as all electrical equipment should report to the computer whenever it is using electricity. Everything in the house that cause flow of any kind(water, gas or electricity) should report when ever they have need of any of those. The computer should know if there is any flow and determine if there is any problem with that flow. Every room in the house should have a speaker and a microphone which the computer could keep in contact with everyone in the house. The computer should know when the resident leave the house and therefore know if a noise in the house is a problem. Everyone in the house should have a wrist watch/pulse detector and thus the computer should be able to determine if anyone has a medical problem. Windows should be double paned with a motorized venetian blinds in the center. The computer would determined by the need of the house for heat whether or not to open them.
There was a similar article in slashdot a while ago.( http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/1 8/1638204&tid=187&tid=14 ) It made much bolder claims about reducing the carbon dioxide emissions and reducing gas consumption from 10 to 40%. It stated that they would give theirs away for free with the purchaser paying a percent of the fuel savings.
This is not the way I want to purchase a game. Do you want to put a new dvd disk in your drive every time you want to use another program? I want all of my games available from a menu and stored on a hard drive. I want to purchase them online and have demo version available so I can look before I purchase them. I want a game that will be updated and the update be available online for little or now additional cost to me. I am not looking for any game that requires fast reflexes either. I want a card/board game that will engage me in intelligent conversation and will analyze my moves in order to make my play better. I tried online version of these games but quickly got discouraged because so many would play for a few minutes and than just leave after they started to lose either at the game or just any interest. Improving on these are far more important to me than high definition.
It look like AMD is going to soon stop making 32 bit microprocessor. They now sell a 64 bit microprocessor for around $60. It would be nice if the people who are asking for your donation of CPU time at least allow you to use the cheapest means of providing that service. Windows require the professional version to get 64 bit computing so a 64 bit Linux operating system on a AMD 64 bit machine would be cheaper and faster than a 32 bit machine with windows xp.
Linspire has a service called cnr(click and run). This service costs 49.95 a year. So are they going to charge all the Koreans that fee after the first year? I tried to download BOINC and install it but according to their bulletin boards there is a problem with installing it. It has been 10 months since this program has been released. Wine just went into beta and I am wondering if they will take a year or more to get that version into cnr. They will sell you win4lin for about the same cost as going out and buying a version of windows so they do not have much of an incentive to get the new wine out to its subscribers.
I for one can not understand why we have to pay to get any television station that carries adds. I think it would be in any station's interest to get the largest number of viewers so they would want their station to be free of charge. The only way I would consider this is if they give me all the commercial television stations along with dvr service for free. I would think they would have to launch their own satellites as I would think that Dish would not tolerate them replacing their adds. I look forward to the day that television is again free of any charges.
The telephone is still used to call emergency help(police, medical, fire). The internet needs to be a device to automatically call help when needed. It will than be looked at as a necessity and will be subsidised so everyone will have it.
You are assuming that we will know who is responsible for the wmd attack. Do you really trust Pakistan or North Korea or Iran to control all of its weapons. The day may come when a bomb is smuggled into this country or maybe set off on our coastline and we will not have a clue as to who is responsible. The only way we can be safe is to rid the world of all these weapons and the ability to make them. The only way to do this is to first get rid of our own as a moral example to the rest of the world. We could still destroy the economy of any nation with conventional weapon alone.
My question is this. What would you rather have? A 100Mhz 386 computer with broadband or the latest dual core computer with dial up? I know I would choose the 386 with broadband. Computers are faster but it is only the increase in speed of communications that are making them more interesting. Please give an example of a program that helps the common man that runs on today's computers that would not run on a 386. Games are entertainment and I consider them little help to the common man.
There is an interesting article at pcworld ( http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122700,pg,3, 00.asp ). It states that both AMD and Intel have low cost 64 bit microprocessors out(AMD Sempron 2200+, Intel Celeron D.) The AMD Sempron cost only $60 so it is less than half the cheapest microprocessor reviewed here. I would like to see one of these reviewed using a 64 bit Linux operating system with only 64 bit programs.
A penny a minute with a $.49 connection charge, so if one gets an answering machine and talk 2 minutes than the charge is $.51 or $.25 a minute. Even at 100 minutes the correct charge is $.0149 a minute. So unless one likes to make very long talks than it is more expensive than charging a nickel a minute without the connect charge.
I for one would not want a space elevator unless every one of them had international inspectors monitoring everything that is being put there. If we do not put very strict controls on what is being put into orbit it will mean that vast amounts of weapons will be put there and we will be drastically worse off than we were before its creation.
I believe for a number of reasons that we need to build our homes and business underground. I believe that we need to go below the waterline so that we could be safe from all forms of weather. This product could be used to line the walls and ceilings to give the illusion of being above ground.
When is the last time a U.S. ship has been hit by an enemy torpedo? It has probably been over 50 years. There are very few countries in this world that could even attempt to do so as it would take a submarine to fire that torpedo. The United States could sink every enemy surface ship within a week of a desire to to that. We have satellites that would detect them and our Air Force could fire enough air to surface missile to destroy them all. If the Navy allowed an enemy ship to get close enough to fire a torpedo than that ship is not doing a very effective defense. Cruise missile have a much longer range than a torpedo and can travel 10 times or more faster. The need for such a weapon is very little to almost non existent.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is two technologies that could help the situation. First there is http://sanswire.com/ and second there is http://www.extendamerica.com/. The second one is suppose to be tested in North Dakota later this year. The first is suppose to get 600 million dollars from Russia to put up a network there some time this year.
What people want is not always best for them. I have a good example of that. I am retired military and the military always kept pressure on me to maintain my weight. My wife was not in the military and did not get this pressure. My wife died 6 years ago(she was overweight) and I am still in relatively good shape(I can run 6 miles/hr for an hour and still do at age 57). So even though I did not like the pressure put on me by the military I realize that I am better off than my departed wife. Sure there are examples the other way where people put up their best effort and still get sick. There has to be a way to put pressure on those who do not put up any effort to maintain their health so that those who do, do not have to pay for it with both the pain of exercise and high insurance premiums.
Can it distinguish between someone speaking to you and the television/radio that is playing in the background? I want speech and noise recognition so that the computer can recognize a plea for help over the noise of the furnace, refrigerator or any other noise generator in the house. We should be able to put speakers/microphones in every room of the house and the computer should be able to detect any problem in that house. For instance fire, any leak of either water or gas or break-in. The computer should communicate with the owner and just by getting yes or no answers be able to ensure that the owner is doing well.
If every bottle of alcohol and every package of cigarettes has a rfid tag on it than for starts when they are sold the store than could prove that they were sold. When they are stolen and than found on a person who should not have had access to them then the store that had possession of them should be fined as they have not put enough effort into preventing them from being stolen. I would even go further and require a machine readable id to purchase the products and than if the products get into a minor's hands I would than go after the person who purchased the product. The cost of misuse of these products make the cost of even $.25 per tag look very small in comparison.
The more advanced version will be implanted in your brain after they cut your head off. Your brain will be artificially supported and all of your senses will be fake. You will not know that your world is totally artificial. You will live for hundreds of years unless of course this has already happened and we are now living in that artificial world. Rainman and people like him already have the ability to communicate with the mainframe and that explains their ability to recall and learn vast amounts of knowledge.
I do not understand why manufacturing of NAND memory is easier than manufacturing of ram memory. If they can do 16Gb of NAND than they should at least be able to manufacture 16Gb of ram memory as ram is still volatile and NAND is non-volatile. But I believe the biggest ram memory is still 2Gb and I do not know if that is mass produced.
GPS cost under a thousand dollars. How about a system that knows the speed limit everywhere and does not allow the automobile to exceed that limit? How about it knowing where every stop sign is and enforcing that stop too. How about having a wi-fi system in every automobile that will communicate it position, speed and direction of travel to every other automobile within 100 yards of it. Both automobile could change either direction or speed to avoid a collision. How about traffic lights transmitting their light cycle and current condition to all close automobiles so that they can adjust their speed to always hit the green light. When this system is mass produced and placed in every automobile it will probably cost less than air bags which for the vast majority of people are never used. I believe that this system would save thousand of more lives just by giving instructions on how to get to ones destination therefore allowing one to concentrate on the traffic rather than looking for another street or address.
A week from today CES 2006 will start. One of the booths will hold Atom Chip http://www.atomchip.com/. They say they already have a terabyte ram chip and a 2 terabyte solid state replacement for the hard drive. They are suppose to demonstrate their new super laptop with that and much more.
I was thinking of the other way as I would think that subways would be the first place that the drivers could be eliminated. The only decisions that can be made is how fast to go and when to brake. I would think the trains could be next. They do have more problems with avoiding collisions as they are not underground so they do have others using the rail especially at railroad crossings. There is no steering in either case.
If I were God and created creature that I loved I would not put them in a world that I could not control. I would place each one in their own world. Only in that world could God be assured that the proper lesson(whatever that is as if I knew I would not be here) is taught to everyone so they can go to the next level of existence. If we could prove this there would be no reason for existence so this article is just a hint of reality. I just can not figure out how any lesson learned in about 100 years could effect anyone for an infinity of time. Most of us can not or want to remember what happened yesterday much less what happened a billion years ago in another live.
I upgraded to the first rc of version 1.5 only to find that most of my extension would not work. I will wait at least a month after the final version is released so that everyone will have time to update their extensions.
The toaster as all electrical equipment should report to the computer whenever it is using electricity. Everything in the house that cause flow of any kind(water, gas or electricity) should report when ever they have need of any of those. The computer should know if there is any flow and determine if there is any problem with that flow. Every room in the house should have a speaker and a microphone which the computer could keep in contact with everyone in the house. The computer should know when the resident leave the house and therefore know if a noise in the house is a problem. Everyone in the house should have a wrist watch/pulse detector and thus the computer should be able to determine if anyone has a medical problem. Windows should be double paned with a motorized venetian blinds in the center. The computer would determined by the need of the house for heat whether or not to open them.
There was a similar article in slashdot a while ago.( http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/1 8/1638204&tid=187&tid=14 ) It made much bolder claims about reducing the carbon dioxide emissions and reducing gas consumption from 10 to 40%. It stated that they would give theirs away for free with the purchaser paying a percent of the fuel savings.
This is not the way I want to purchase a game. Do you want to put a new dvd disk in your drive every time you want to use another program? I want all of my games available from a menu and stored on a hard drive. I want to purchase them online and have demo version available so I can look before I purchase them. I want a game that will be updated and the update be available online for little or now additional cost to me. I am not looking for any game that requires fast reflexes either. I want a card/board game that will engage me in intelligent conversation and will analyze my moves in order to make my play better. I tried online version of these games but quickly got discouraged because so many would play for a few minutes and than just leave after they started to lose either at the game or just any interest. Improving on these are far more important to me than high definition.
It look like AMD is going to soon stop making 32 bit microprocessor. They now sell a 64 bit microprocessor for around $60. It would be nice if the people who are asking for your donation of CPU time at least allow you to use the cheapest means of providing that service. Windows require the professional version to get 64 bit computing so a 64 bit Linux operating system on a AMD 64 bit machine would be cheaper and faster than a 32 bit machine with windows xp.
Linspire has a service called cnr(click and run). This service costs 49.95 a year. So are they going to charge all the Koreans that fee after the first year? I tried to download BOINC and install it but according to their bulletin boards there is a problem with installing it. It has been 10 months since this program has been released. Wine just went into beta and I am wondering if they will take a year or more to get that version into cnr. They will sell you win4lin for about the same cost as going out and buying a version of windows so they do not have much of an incentive to get the new wine out to its subscribers.
I for one can not understand why we have to pay to get any television station that carries adds. I think it would be in any station's interest to get the largest number of viewers so they would want their station to be free of charge. The only way I would consider this is if they give me all the commercial television stations along with dvr service for free. I would think they would have to launch their own satellites as I would think that Dish would not tolerate them replacing their adds. I look forward to the day that television is again free of any charges.
The telephone is still used to call emergency help(police, medical, fire). The internet needs to be a device to automatically call help when needed. It will than be looked at as a necessity and will be subsidised so everyone will have it.
You are assuming that we will know who is responsible for the wmd attack. Do you really trust Pakistan or North Korea or Iran to control all of its weapons. The day may come when a bomb is smuggled into this country or maybe set off on our coastline and we will not have a clue as to who is responsible. The only way we can be safe is to rid the world of all these weapons and the ability to make them. The only way to do this is to first get rid of our own as a moral example to the rest of the world. We could still destroy the economy of any nation with conventional weapon alone.
My question is this. What would you rather have? A 100Mhz 386 computer with broadband or the latest dual core computer with dial up? I know I would choose the 386 with broadband. Computers are faster but it is only the increase in speed of communications that are making them more interesting. Please give an example of a program that helps the common man that runs on today's computers that would not run on a 386. Games are entertainment and I consider them little help to the common man.
There is an interesting article at pcworld ( http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122700,pg,3, 00.asp ). It states that both AMD and Intel have low cost 64 bit microprocessors out(AMD Sempron 2200+, Intel Celeron D.) The AMD Sempron cost only $60 so it is less than half the cheapest microprocessor reviewed here. I would like to see one of these reviewed using a 64 bit Linux operating system with only 64 bit programs.
A penny a minute with a $.49 connection charge, so if one gets an answering machine and talk 2 minutes than the charge is $.51 or $.25 a minute. Even at 100 minutes the correct charge is $.0149 a minute. So unless one likes to make very long talks than it is more expensive than charging a nickel a minute without the connect charge.
I for one would not want a space elevator unless every one of them had international inspectors monitoring everything that is being put there. If we do not put very strict controls on what is being put into orbit it will mean that vast amounts of weapons will be put there and we will be drastically worse off than we were before its creation.
I believe for a number of reasons that we need to build our homes and business underground. I believe that we need to go below the waterline so that we could be safe from all forms of weather. This product could be used to line the walls and ceilings to give the illusion of being above ground.
When is the last time a U.S. ship has been hit by an enemy torpedo? It has probably been over 50 years. There are very few countries in this world that could even attempt to do so as it would take a submarine to fire that torpedo. The United States could sink every enemy surface ship within a week of a desire to to that. We have satellites that would detect them and our Air Force could fire enough air to surface missile to destroy them all. If the Navy allowed an enemy ship to get close enough to fire a torpedo than that ship is not doing a very effective defense. Cruise missile have a much longer range than a torpedo and can travel 10 times or more faster. The need for such a weapon is very little to almost non existent.