I was hoping that my isp would generously give everyone of it's customers a terabyte hard drive. This hard drive would by read only though. The isp would than have a server within one mile of all its customers. This server than would have access to all of those hard drives or ten's of thousand of Terabytes of hard drive space. It would use this huge amount of space as a local cache for the internet. With that much storage it could transmit all the television or movies that people would desire. Than that spectrum of frequency could be used for other purposes.
Why is 16MBytes of cache considered so great when video interface cards now have maximum of 512MBytes and one can buy one with 64Mbytes for a cheap price. I would think they could easily put in 64Mbytes. I see the read speed is around 50Mbytes/second or around 400Mbits/second. I guess this is only 4 times as fast as the recently announced speed for the internet of 100Mbits/second for cable modems. So lets say one needs to load a 50Mbytes program than loading it from a local disk would take just 1 second or 4 seconds for the internet assuming your local isp is the source of that program. I have read of some who claim that we can download at a gigabits/sec over telephone cables. So we should see the day within 10 years when the difference between a local drive and one at a local isp will be so small that it will make no difference to the user. There have been recent articles about putting flash memory on hard drives so that they do not have to spin as much as they do today. That is the flash memory is used until it is full and than the memory is written to the hard drive. Since flash memory keeps it's state even when there is a power loss there is little danger of losing data. I would think that some mention of this in the article would have been nice. It would seem to me that maybe they could provide a battery backup for the cache to help with this problem so they could also reduce wear and tear on the disk. I see a new pci card came out this year for ram memory that will not lose it's memory when the computer is shut down since there is current going through it even when the computer is shut off. It has a battery for the few times when power is lost and will maintain it's state for around a day even without power. This card is only around $60 so the battery must not be that expensive. With all of these advancements in other technologies I do not see why hard drives are not using them.
In my opinion non-volatile ram memory will be the next revolution in computers. Once they make this memory at a competitive price we should see an explosion in the number of computers and their capability. There should be computers that run on fuel cell batteries for years that will take care of one's home security, safety, and medical emergency needs. I also see for the very young who live to be over a hundred years in age, a link between the internet and one's own brain. They already have a man who controls a video game with his mind. I see a day for them when all human knowledge, skills and feelings are available to anyone who desires them. If you wish to play a musical instrument than just pick it up and ask for that skill and it will be downloaded to your brain. If you want to have the same feeling you or anyone had in the past doing whatever they did than that also will be downloaded to your brain. I see the ability to enforce laws by making the person about to commit a crime to go unconscious so there will be no need for prisons. I see a computer that will govern the people in a totally fair manner that it will be accepted as a dictator. All material needs will be free so no one will lack anything.
All lectures should already be on a dvd disc. Student as young as 6 should be able to view the lectures at their own convenience. Teacher would of course hate this as the student then could show the teacher exactly where the wrong information was given. Computers will soon be smart enough to answer most questions that a student could ask about the material too. We should have individual instruction for the vast majority of students who would progress at their own pace. I believe given the tools most would progress at a far faster rate than what they do today. I believe that we should be able to take any course from any university at any university or even at home. I believe that one day soon most corporations will have their own place to study and will provide time at work for their employees to advance in the skills needed for that particular business.
If we use super nova explosion as the light source and two huge galaxy clusters as the slits then we can supposedly control how the light was transmitted from the explosion even though it occurred billions of years ago and trillion of miles from us. Truly beyond what we can now comprehend.
About 6 months ago I purchased a treadmill from Wal Mart. About 3 months ago it without warning increased it's speed from 3 mph to who knows what as it threw off the user with some considerable force. I returned the product to the store and was asked if I wanted another one. I refused that offer and took credit on another one from another manufacture. It took them another 3 months before I noticed on the news that there was a recall of that product. How many more people will be thrown from their treadmill because of the delay in recalling the product? It works both ways as some merchants will knowingly sell a bad product.
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With this much current I think of the rail gun technology. Will this lead to a rail gun that is powerful enough to accelerate a chunk of metal to escape velocity. That is could we place a robotic factory in orbit around the earth and produce a gigantic mirror that could reflect light away from the path of a hurricane and use that light to generate huge amounts of power that could be microwaved back to earth.
How about a home with microphone/speakers in every room with constant communication with the occupants? How about the ability of using the microphone to detect all problems such as break-ins, fires, leaks in water or gas lines? How about wearing a device which will detect heart rate and breathing rate and notify terminal of any problems? How about a terminal that will communicate with both the user and the isp and will help resolve problems that the user might encounter? How about never having to install an operating system or another program as the isp will take care of those needs. How about paying a flat fee a month for all ones computer needs?
I see no point to this product as there are allot of solutions available which are much cheaper. I can not see any advantage to a traveller to have a wireless access in a motel room. Most of us will do their work at a desk where the phone jack will be close to anyway. One could buy a long cord to get to anywhere else in the room. If there happen to be two people in the same room who need access then a crossover cable connected to each computer with one using a proxy for it's access would work at a lot less expense. The same goes for home use. If more than two people require access at a home it would be entirely too slow for everyone with a dial-up service. Most homes now have phone jacks in most rooms so dial-up is only a problem when more than one wants access at the same time. Even if there is no phone jack one can buy a device which will allow phone access wirelessly for less than half their price.
Now I can finally spell check my reply. I do not need to highlight my blog and paste it into my open office writer to do the spell check then correct any misspelled words and do the reverse by pasting it back into this page.
If one does not control the computers where the computations are being proccessed than one does even know if any results will be returned. For this reason alot of redundancy has to be built in the system. I think the United Devices use a reduncancy rate of 5. That is they send out the work to computers until they receive results from 5 different computers. They compare the results to determine the correct results. Thus all cost of electricity should be multiplied by 5 to determine the true cost. They also put a time constraint on how long one can work on the problem before they give up on that individual. Because of the length that the computations take it usually means that the computer must be either be over a two giga cycle computer or that the computer be left on for a great deal of time each day. I know because I have a 1 giga cycle computer that does nothing but the protein folding problem and has taken over 10 days to proccess the problem.
I believe that within 10 years there will be so much bandwidth that there will be people trying to figure out how to use it. When this happens there will be video, music, software, and wideo games on demand. Most people will not bother with storing anything at their home and will leave that headache to their isp. Then the problem with pirates will largely disappear. This will happen for two reasons. First the demand for copying equipment will decrease and second the cost of the equipment will therefore increase to a point where it will be cheaper to use the content on demand system.
I believe that if people would turn the game off and save the money from wear and tear and electricity and donate that to the cause it would be better especially now that IBM has the big blue gene computer up and running.
I think AOL is going through a slow death. I was a member for over 5 years until I moved to an area that had no local access. I have since moved on to broadband(verizon dsl) and would never even consider going back to AOL even if they did have a local number. I live in an area where 7 miles from where I live they have SBC and they offer broadband for $14.95 a month which AOL charges for access with another carrier. I see no use for AOL unless they get their own means of access(wi-max or stratolite) and offer more services(smart home, security, and medical alerts).
Who would buy a disc? Let say 10 giga bytes per hour of high definition video that is still 10 hours of video or about 5 movies. Lets say $20 per movie or about $100 per disc. That is 25 of today's movies or $500 per disc. As for back up an additional terrabyte hard drive will be not only cheaper but a whole lot faster than backing up to dvd. Another option is to backup your data to google mail as only user's data needs to be backed up and google now offers 2 giga bytes of free space. Try buying a dual layer dvd disc today and you will find they cost about a $1 per giga byte which at that price will buy a hard drive today. The hard drive is eraseable too as the dual layer dvd is not.
I for one have two amd computers in front of me. I have one keyboard, mouse and monitor. All I have to do to go from one computer to the other is hit the scroll lock key twice in less that a half of second. I can do a computer intensive application and less than a second be on the second computer and do whatever I want. For the next year or so I will have probably have paid about half of what they will charge for the duo core sytems too.
With all things one must consider more than just the original cost of the device. I see all these duo layer dvd recorder now and wondered if I should buy one of them until I looked into the cost of the blank media. One disk is $7 and is not even rewritable. I just purchased 25 dvd+rw disk for about the same price which means I got over 12 times as much storage. I for one hope that I will not need or want the new disk as I hope that broadband will increase it's speed to the point where I will not need local storage.
When electricity can be transmitted large distances with little loss than it would lead to tremendous growth in renewable energy. For instance one could cover huge areas in the Sahara desert with solar cells or one could use geothermal energy in Iceland or one could use hydroelectric power from the Hudson Bay. There are plenty of areas where cheap electric power could be generated but are too far from where that energy is needed. It would also mean that we could improve the efficiency of all electric motors as it would mean reduced heat and reduced need to rid the motor of that heat. If this technology were certain to be accomplished in even a twenty year time span it would lead to a tremendous change in our energy policies but I for one will remain skeptical.
My question is this. Why can't we combine two of these with one of them being contolled by the other? With the proper video link between the two a person should be able to remotely controll the other device. This would mean that the device could go to places human could not survive or too dangerous. I think that this could lead to huge factories here in the United States with the vast majority of the workers being in China or India. They will be able to work from their homes.
I have read that a enormous explosion occurred in the United States at around 620,000 years ago. Said exposion nearly caused the extinction of the human race. So if we dug 1,000 holes and exploded say 10,000 nuclear weapon simultaneously would that cause enough relieve of pressure to at least delay another such explosion or completly eliminate it. That is if some scientist determined that another one was going to occur in the near future.
My dream computer would have a microphone/speaker in every room on my house. The computer would be able to detect any problems with the house by the noise that was generated by the problem. This tecnology would be great for the computer to recognize our speech. It would also be great to say a password at your front door or in your car and have them both respond without the use of a key or fear that the password would be heard by anyone else. It would also greatly reduce the need for bandwidth as only the words would need to be transmitted. I would think that we could get a cell phone plan with totally unlimited anytime minutes for around $20 a month.
We should not even consider this as a solution to our building problems. We should be building underground. We have the technology to build houses that will last for hundreds of years and use a fraction of the energy we use today. When a hurrican or a tornado hits where we live we would only have to stay indoors that day. Total cost of ownership divided by the several generations that would live in the house would be alot less than what people pay today for their houses. Today there is no way we can spread the cost of a building over several generations. No one is willing to invest in a building with return of investment being over a hundred years. There is only one way and that is for the government to build these houses and charge rent on how well the house is maintained by the people renting it.
United Devices has received over a half a million years of cpu time devoted to studying the interaction of ligands with protein stuctures associated with cancer(autodock). I do not think they can claim saving even one person's life. The program has been running now for close to 4 and a half years without too much positive results. At least none that they are willing to publicize. I keep hoping that programs like this will help but my hopes are fading.
In the future everyone will truly become dependent on the internet as every device we purchase will have it own unique address. You buy a refrigerator and the first thing it will do is go online to verify that you own it and will go through a self test to verify that it is working properly. As with all devices there will be backup circuits which will be used until the primary circuits are replaced. The device will tell you when it has ordered any new device which it thinks it needs. No one will be steal any electronic device since it will notify the owner of where it is after it is pluged in and will refuse to work if it is not authorized to work at that location. In the far future(50 years from now) everyone will have a brain implant and everyone will become an input to the internet(all of our senses). Therefore no crime will be able to be committed without the proper authorities being notified at the same time that the crime is being committed.
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I was hoping that my isp would generously give everyone of it's customers a terabyte hard drive. This hard drive would by read only though. The isp would than have a server within one mile of all its customers. This server than would have access to all of those hard drives or ten's of thousand of Terabytes of hard drive space. It would use this huge amount of space as a local cache for the internet. With that much storage it could transmit all the television or movies that people would desire. Than that spectrum of frequency could be used for other purposes.
Why is 16MBytes of cache considered so great when video interface cards now have maximum of 512MBytes and one can buy one with 64Mbytes for a cheap price. I would think they could easily put in 64Mbytes. I see the read speed is around 50Mbytes/second or around 400Mbits/second. I guess this is only 4 times as fast as the recently announced speed for the internet of 100Mbits/second for cable modems. So lets say one needs to load a 50Mbytes program than loading it from a local disk would take just 1 second or 4 seconds for the internet assuming your local isp is the source of that program. I have read of some who claim that we can download at a gigabits/sec over telephone cables. So we should see the day within 10 years when the difference between a local drive and one at a local isp will be so small that it will make no difference to the user. There have been recent articles about putting flash memory on hard drives so that they do not have to spin as much as they do today. That is the flash memory is used until it is full and than the memory is written to the hard drive. Since flash memory keeps it's state even when there is a power loss there is little danger of losing data. I would think that some mention of this in the article would have been nice. It would seem to me that maybe they could provide a battery backup for the cache to help with this problem so they could also reduce wear and tear on the disk. I see a new pci card came out this year for ram memory that will not lose it's memory when the computer is shut down since there is current going through it even when the computer is shut off. It has a battery for the few times when power is lost and will maintain it's state for around a day even without power. This card is only around $60 so the battery must not be that expensive. With all of these advancements in other technologies I do not see why hard drives are not using them.
In my opinion non-volatile ram memory will be the next revolution in computers. Once they make this memory at a competitive price we should see an explosion in the number of computers and their capability. There should be computers that run on fuel cell batteries for years that will take care of one's home security, safety, and medical emergency needs. I also see for the very young who live to be over a hundred years in age, a link between the internet and one's own brain. They already have a man who controls a video game with his mind. I see a day for them when all human knowledge, skills and feelings are available to anyone who desires them. If you wish to play a musical instrument than just pick it up and ask for that skill and it will be downloaded to your brain. If you want to have the same feeling you or anyone had in the past doing whatever they did than that also will be downloaded to your brain. I see the ability to enforce laws by making the person about to commit a crime to go unconscious so there will be no need for prisons. I see a computer that will govern the people in a totally fair manner that it will be accepted as a dictator. All material needs will be free so no one will lack anything.
All lectures should already be on a dvd disc. Student as young as 6 should be able to view the lectures at their own convenience. Teacher would of course hate this as the student then could show the teacher exactly where the wrong information was given. Computers will soon be smart enough to answer most questions that a student could ask about the material too. We should have individual instruction for the vast majority of students who would progress at their own pace. I believe given the tools most would progress at a far faster rate than what they do today. I believe that we should be able to take any course from any university at any university or even at home. I believe that one day soon most corporations will have their own place to study and will provide time at work for their employees to advance in the skills needed for that particular business.
If we use super nova explosion as the light source and two huge galaxy clusters as the slits then we can supposedly control how the light was transmitted from the explosion even though it occurred billions of years ago and trillion of miles from us. Truly beyond what we can now comprehend.
About 6 months ago I purchased a treadmill from Wal Mart. About 3 months ago it without warning increased it's speed from 3 mph to who knows what as it threw off the user with some considerable force. I returned the product to the store and was asked if I wanted another one. I refused that offer and took credit on another one from another manufacture. It took them another 3 months before I noticed on the news that there was a recall of that product. How many more people will be thrown from their treadmill because of the delay in recalling the product? It works both ways as some merchants will knowingly sell a bad product.
With this much current I think of the rail gun technology. Will this lead to a rail gun that is powerful enough to accelerate a chunk of metal to escape velocity. That is could we place a robotic factory in orbit around the earth and produce a gigantic mirror that could reflect light away from the path of a hurricane and use that light to generate huge amounts of power that could be microwaved back to earth.
How about a home with microphone/speakers in every room with constant communication with the occupants? How about the ability of using the microphone to detect all problems such as break-ins, fires, leaks in water or gas lines? How about wearing a device which will detect heart rate and breathing rate and notify terminal of any problems? How about a terminal that will communicate with both the user and the isp and will help resolve problems that the user might encounter? How about never having to install an operating system or another program as the isp will take care of those needs. How about paying a flat fee a month for all ones computer needs?
I see no point to this product as there are allot of solutions available which are much cheaper. I can not see any advantage to a traveller to have a wireless access in a motel room. Most of us will do their work at a desk where the phone jack will be close to anyway. One could buy a long cord to get to anywhere else in the room. If there happen to be two people in the same room who need access then a crossover cable connected to each computer with one using a proxy for it's access would work at a lot less expense. The same goes for home use. If more than two people require access at a home it would be entirely too slow for everyone with a dial-up service. Most homes now have phone jacks in most rooms so dial-up is only a problem when more than one wants access at the same time. Even if there is no phone jack one can buy a device which will allow phone access wirelessly for less than half their price.
Now I can finally spell check my reply. I do not need to highlight my blog and paste it into my open office writer to do the spell check then correct any misspelled words and do the reverse by pasting it back into this page.
If one does not control the computers where the computations are being proccessed than one does even know if any results will be returned. For this reason alot of redundancy has to be built in the system. I think the United Devices use a reduncancy rate of 5. That is they send out the work to computers until they receive results from 5 different computers. They compare the results to determine the correct results. Thus all cost of electricity should be multiplied by 5 to determine the true cost. They also put a time constraint on how long one can work on the problem before they give up on that individual. Because of the length that the computations take it usually means that the computer must be either be over a two giga cycle computer or that the computer be left on for a great deal of time each day. I know because I have a 1 giga cycle computer that does nothing but the protein folding problem and has taken over 10 days to proccess the problem.
I believe that within 10 years there will be so much bandwidth that there will be people trying to figure out how to use it. When this happens there will be video, music, software, and wideo games on demand. Most people will not bother with storing anything at their home and will leave that headache to their isp. Then the problem with pirates will largely disappear. This will happen for two reasons. First the demand for copying equipment will decrease and second the cost of the equipment will therefore increase to a point where it will be cheaper to use the content on demand system.
I believe that if people would turn the game off and save the money from wear and tear and electricity and donate that to the cause it would be better especially now that IBM has the big blue gene computer up and running.
I think AOL is going through a slow death. I was a member for over 5 years until I moved to an area that had no local access. I have since moved on to broadband(verizon dsl) and would never even consider going back to AOL even if they did have a local number. I live in an area where 7 miles from where I live they have SBC and they offer broadband for $14.95 a month which AOL charges for access with another carrier. I see no use for AOL unless they get their own means of access(wi-max or stratolite) and offer more services(smart home, security, and medical alerts).
Yes I too want to go out and spend $15,000 or more on equipment so I can save the $10 or less for a ticket to the movie theater.
Who would buy a disc? Let say 10 giga bytes per hour of high definition video that is still 10 hours of video or about 5 movies. Lets say $20 per movie or about $100 per disc. That is 25 of today's movies or $500 per disc. As for back up an additional terrabyte hard drive will be not only cheaper but a whole lot faster than backing up to dvd. Another option is to backup your data to google mail as only user's data needs to be backed up and google now offers 2 giga bytes of free space. Try buying a dual layer dvd disc today and you will find they cost about a $1 per giga byte which at that price will buy a hard drive today. The hard drive is eraseable too as the dual layer dvd is not.
I for one have two amd computers in front of me. I have one keyboard, mouse and monitor. All I have to do to go from one computer to the other is hit the scroll lock key twice in less that a half of second. I can do a computer intensive application and less than a second be on the second computer and do whatever I want. For the next year or so I will have probably have paid about half of what they will charge for the duo core sytems too.
With all things one must consider more than just the original cost of the device. I see all these duo layer dvd recorder now and wondered if I should buy one of them until I looked into the cost of the blank media. One disk is $7 and is not even rewritable. I just purchased 25 dvd+rw disk for about the same price which means I got over 12 times as much storage. I for one hope that I will not need or want the new disk as I hope that broadband will increase it's speed to the point where I will not need local storage.
When electricity can be transmitted large distances with little loss than it would lead to tremendous growth in renewable energy. For instance one could cover huge areas in the Sahara desert with solar cells or one could use geothermal energy in Iceland or one could use hydroelectric power from the Hudson Bay. There are plenty of areas where cheap electric power could be generated but are too far from where that energy is needed. It would also mean that we could improve the efficiency of all electric motors as it would mean reduced heat and reduced need to rid the motor of that heat. If this technology were certain to be accomplished in even a twenty year time span it would lead to a tremendous change in our energy policies but I for one will remain skeptical.
My question is this. Why can't we combine two of these with one of them being contolled by the other? With the proper video link between the two a person should be able to remotely controll the other device. This would mean that the device could go to places human could not survive or too dangerous. I think that this could lead to huge factories here in the United States with the vast majority of the workers being in China or India. They will be able to work from their homes.
I have read that a enormous explosion occurred in the United States at around 620,000 years ago. Said exposion nearly caused the extinction of the human race. So if we dug 1,000 holes and exploded say 10,000 nuclear weapon simultaneously would that cause enough relieve of pressure to at least delay another such explosion or completly eliminate it. That is if some scientist determined that another one was going to occur in the near future.
My dream computer would have a microphone/speaker in every room on my house. The computer would be able to detect any problems with the house by the noise that was generated by the problem. This tecnology would be great for the computer to recognize our speech. It would also be great to say a password at your front door or in your car and have them both respond without the use of a key or fear that the password would be heard by anyone else. It would also greatly reduce the need for bandwidth as only the words would need to be transmitted. I would think that we could get a cell phone plan with totally unlimited anytime minutes for around $20 a month.
We should not even consider this as a solution to our building problems. We should be building underground. We have the technology to build houses that will last for hundreds of years and use a fraction of the energy we use today. When a hurrican or a tornado hits where we live we would only have to stay indoors that day. Total cost of ownership divided by the several generations that would live in the house would be alot less than what people pay today for their houses. Today there is no way we can spread the cost of a building over several generations. No one is willing to invest in a building with return of investment being over a hundred years. There is only one way and that is for the government to build these houses and charge rent on how well the house is maintained by the people renting it.
United Devices has received over a half a million years of cpu time devoted to studying the interaction of ligands with protein stuctures associated with cancer(autodock). I do not think they can claim saving even one person's life. The program has been running now for close to 4 and a half years without too much positive results. At least none that they are willing to publicize. I keep hoping that programs like this will help but my hopes are fading.
In the future everyone will truly become dependent on the internet as every device we purchase will have it own unique address. You buy a refrigerator and the first thing it will do is go online to verify that you own it and will go through a self test to verify that it is working properly. As with all devices there will be backup circuits which will be used until the primary circuits are replaced. The device will tell you when it has ordered any new device which it thinks it needs. No one will be steal any electronic device since it will notify the owner of where it is after it is pluged in and will refuse to work if it is not authorized to work at that location. In the far future(50 years from now) everyone will have a brain implant and everyone will become an input to the internet(all of our senses). Therefore no crime will be able to be committed without the proper authorities being notified at the same time that the crime is being committed.