If the ROI is so low than why can folding@home and BOINC create programs for all platforms. Incidently BOINC is written by David Anderson who was or is associated with United Devices.
There was no information on the strength of this ribbon. I hardly believe that it has the strength to use for a ribbon to go into outer space as I have not seen any articles about anyone making a strong enough ribbon longer than a few nano meters. If they could build one that long they would be used for suspension bridges first.
There was an interesting article about a new computer at cnn awhile back(http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/10/18/explorers. superchip/index.html ). It stated that this new computer for the drug industry could do the work of 100 computers. Now when they do distributed computing they do not rely on just one computer for any given results so they have redundancy of at least two computers and with the IBM project they require redundancy of 5 computers to ensure correct results so the new computer does the work of 500 computers that are working at this project. Also the project requires you to complete the download in a timely manner but this usually requires one to leave their computer on for long periods of time to accomplish this. So I figure just the cost of electricity to run these computers multipied by the number of volunteers could be used to buy these new computers and save the cost of redundancy and setting up a server to distribute all the data.
I would like to know what these huge capacity disc are going to be used for. I guess high defintion tv for the rich. I for one will not buy a hd tv until I can get a 36 inch tv for under $500 and my present tv breaks. I do not see them putting 8 movies on one disc and charging around $100 for it. I expect that soon all movies will be on demand and no one will have to locally store them anyway. As for software the vast majority of them do not fill a cd much less a dvd or larger capacity disc.
Verizon is saying they will provide voip but not in my area yet. I will not use voip until I am still a local call to my neighbors. Therefore I need to have my local area code. It has been over 2 months since verizon stated that they have voip and they already provide dsl so I do not know why they can't provide voip in my area. If I buy several of the same cordless phones and connect one of the bases to the router than use the other bases as chargers only will I be able to use all of the phones?
Imangine an underground world where all houses and roads are underground. Imangine a world where one does not need to worry about the weather. Imangine a world where no one can go to anyone house unless they are invited first. We could build that world and drasticly reduce our energy requirements and thus reduce our polution. We could have automaticly driven electrical vehicles with no deaths or injuries. We could order all our goods and have them delivered to our homes. We could even do alot of our work at home and drasticly reduce our need for transportation. Once we build this world all future generations will look back at that time as the beginning of a new era.
I for one would buy it at the store if the price was within 20% of the online price. The cost of shipping is usually more than the sales tax. If there is a problem with the product than one has to pay to return it which is alot more than driving to a local store. If I buy it early enough in the day and find out there is something wrong, I can get a replacement before the end of the day. When shopping online I have to wait until they receive the defective product and than the return trip for the new one. It is also nice to have someone to explain to why the product is defective. I think for all the above reasons it is worth paying a premium price for the product.
Why can't we use this for security as well? Why can't all are alarms be connected to the computer? I mean why can't we have smoke detectors, medical alarms and burglary alarms connected to the proper authorities through the internet. Why can't the isp poll all computer to insure that their access has non been interupted for any reason. Why can't our house have microphone and speakers throughout the house and the computer be able to detect problem using sound too. In today world there is no reason why the computer should not be able to detect all problems whether they be physical or medical in nature and have the means to correct them.
Just think if it could be made wireless and with the new noise cancelling microphone than one could wear it around the house and still control one's computer.
Here is what would excite me if it can be done at no additional cost. One, everyone is given a phone number at birth. Two, everyone when old enough to be resposible for a phone is given a phone which will work everywhere. Therefore I do not have to answer the phone for anyone else and I can communicate with everyone all the time. Only when one reaches the age of 18 would an additional charge be for that phone. After all one can not expect free phone service all of one's life.
I read about magnetic bubble memory a long time ago and have not seen anything yet. So I believe this will share the same fate. When it is ready ram memory will be in the tera bit range so it will be cheaper to use.
At the present time these voip are only in the most profitable area codes. That is the ones with alot of population. Now lets consider what would have happened if the present telephone system did not have to provide service to rural areas and small cities. I think a large segment of our population would be without service. So how long do these companies get until they are required to provide service for all the people? If we leave it up to the free market it will not happen. That will leave the old system there and will probably mean a large increase in cost for them. It is just like the bus system. They voted to deregulate that system so what happen where I live? They totally stop all bus service. With the execption of a boat which makes trips across Lake Michigan half of the year there is no means of transportation to other cities other than the personal automobile. Our freeways would not have been built if the people in the rural areas were forced to pay for their section of the freeway. There are more examples of services that should be regulated so that they have to provide for all the people.
The stars of friends will still want 10 million per episode so if the sell a million copies that is 10 million divided by a million time 238 or $2380 a disk. They would have to sell a hundred million to get the price low enough. Seriously the cost of the material of one disk would be way more than anyone would want to pay. The only way they could sell them is to divide them into 400 segments which people could open up later upon paying a smaller amount for each segment.
When I need to rest I often just fall on the floor. They do not have beds or chairs in this hospital. Common sense will tell one if someone falls to the floor they need help.
What ever happened to rom memory? I thought that rom memory was easier to make than ram and was a generation ahead of it. So they should be making 8 giga bit rom chip than. Someone should be able to make a 8 giga byte rom chip than. With that much storage they should be able to put a full enclycopedia, dictionary and thesaurus and a operating system able to access both the internet and one's drives all on a rom chip. All programs than should be able to access these and I should be able to spell check this without any problems. I should be able to look up any word in both the encylopedia and dictionary without leaving this program and have the result instantly. I hope that with voice recognition I could do it without typing.
I live in Ludington Michigan. They built the world's largest pump storage plant here about 40 years ago. It is 1 and a half miles wide at it's widest point. They pump water from Lake Michigan up to the man made lake at night and generate electricity during the day. They get back around 66% of the electricity they use to pump the water but that electricity would have been wasted as the demand is less at night and they must keep the boilers at a constant temperature so they do not like to reduce them at night. They have put several wind measuring devices around the county to see if they can produce electricity. It is interesting that we did not have a problem with our electricity during the big power outage.
I think we should build our homes underground. Virtual windows would make it seem like they were above ground. It would mean an enormous savings in heating and weather damage. If we could make them water proof they could even make it through hurricanes and floods. If we could also build our roads underground than we could have totally automatic transportation(driverless).
Ceramics in engines to me means no cooling needed. A engine that can be heated to 2000 degrees without cracking would save alot of energy and polution.
What if we built our homes underground with flat screen monitors instead of windows? What if we reduced our need for transportation by doing work remotely over the internet and by shopping over the internet and having the products delivered in automatic driverless vehicles? What if we build our roads underground with magneticaly levitated vehicles? I think in the near future all of these will be possible and we will use less than a quarter of the energy we use today. Our need for energy will be like the projected population growth. It will never be a much as predicted.
I have a vcr that checks in with the weather channel at least once a day. I also have a clock that recieves a once a day checkup. My computer checks in every 10 minutes for the correct time. As far as I can tell the clock and the computer agree as there is some lag between looking at one and than looking at the other. The fact is that there is absolutely nothing I do that requires this much accuracy.
I agree. If we went through the mega bit chips in the 90's(from 1 mega bit to 1 giga bit) we should be able to go from 1 giga bit to 1 tera bit in the first decade of the 2000's. One tera byte of system ram in the earlier 2010's should not be surprising.
In 10 years I hope that Verizon will have rolled out its fiber optic network to all it's customers. I think by that time they also should be offering telephone, internet and television on that cable all for about $90 a month. I may be wrong but I do not think any wireless service will be able to come close to the speed and reliability of a fiber optic cable. I also hope that we will have fuel cell generators so that we can totally eliminate all chance of lightning destroying our electronic equipment.
When I was married, I and my wife had two vehicles. After my wife died I still had two vehicles(car and truck). I prefered to drive the car and so the truck got very little millage on it. Yet I still paid so much for insurance that I calculated that it cost me $10 a trip for the insurance(about $1 a mile). I sold the truck because of the cost of the insurance. I would have preferred to pay $5 or less a trip for insurance and kept the truck. I still believe that the best solution is to collect the cost of insurance at the gas pump by placing a tax on the gas so that those who drive more pay more. They can do this without any invasion of privacy too.
This will never work for several reasons. One who will drive the vehicle on the last leg? It would be too expensive to have a driver waiting to meet the train to drive that last leg and way too expensive to have alot of drivers riding along the way to make the last leg. There would be a great need to mix the passengers to get them to their destination vehicle and there is no way they can change while under way so at every stop they would have to allow passenger to get off and back on in other vehicles thus increasing the length of travel to unacceptable lengths. What is needed is for a way for people to quickly drive their own cars onto a train than reach the closest point of their destination and than quickly drive off it again thus eliminating that last driver and giving people their own transportation at their destination.
Dvd will be absolute but so will vod. So what will replace them? Video games. We already spend more money on them than movies and there will be at least two more generations before 2014. Video games will have accurate and reliable speech recognition and will speak to the player in the same way as another human being who is an expert in any game or field of knowledge. All of these games will be delivered on chips which will be permenantly placed in the console so that its knowledge base will grow and be accessible to other games or programs. Knowledge or skills on demand will increasonly take up more of everyone's time.
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If the ROI is so low than why can folding@home and BOINC create programs for all platforms. Incidently BOINC is written by David Anderson who was or is associated with United Devices.
There was no information on the strength of this ribbon. I hardly believe that it has the strength to use for a ribbon to go into outer space as I have not seen any articles about anyone making a strong enough ribbon longer than a few nano meters. If they could build one that long they would be used for suspension bridges first.
There was an interesting article about a new computer at cnn awhile back(http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/10/18/explorers. superchip/index.html ). It stated that this new computer for the drug industry could do the work of 100 computers. Now when they do distributed computing they do not rely on just one computer for any given results so they have redundancy of at least two computers and with the IBM project they require redundancy of 5 computers to ensure correct results so the new computer does the work of 500 computers that are working at this project. Also the project requires you to complete the download in a timely manner but this usually requires one to leave their computer on for long periods of time to accomplish this. So I figure just the cost of electricity to run these computers multipied by the number of volunteers could be used to buy these new computers and save the cost of redundancy and setting up a server to distribute all the data.
I would like to know what these huge capacity disc are going to be used for. I guess high defintion tv for the rich. I for one will not buy a hd tv until I can get a 36 inch tv for under $500 and my present tv breaks. I do not see them putting 8 movies on one disc and charging around $100 for it. I expect that soon all movies will be on demand and no one will have to locally store them anyway. As for software the vast majority of them do not fill a cd much less a dvd or larger capacity disc.
Verizon is saying they will provide voip but not in my area yet. I will not use voip until I am still a local call to my neighbors. Therefore I need to have my local area code. It has been over 2 months since verizon stated that they have voip and they already provide dsl so I do not know why they can't provide voip in my area. If I buy several of the same cordless phones and connect one of the bases to the router than use the other bases as chargers only will I be able to use all of the phones?
Imangine an underground world where all houses and roads are underground. Imangine a world where one does not need to worry about the weather. Imangine a world where no one can go to anyone house unless they are invited first. We could build that world and drasticly reduce our energy requirements and thus reduce our polution. We could have automaticly driven electrical vehicles with no deaths or injuries. We could order all our goods and have them delivered to our homes. We could even do alot of our work at home and drasticly reduce our need for transportation. Once we build this world all future generations will look back at that time as the beginning of a new era.
I for one would buy it at the store if the price was within 20% of the online price. The cost of shipping is usually more than the sales tax. If there is a problem with the product than one has to pay to return it which is alot more than driving to a local store. If I buy it early enough in the day and find out there is something wrong, I can get a replacement before the end of the day. When shopping online I have to wait until they receive the defective product and than the return trip for the new one. It is also nice to have someone to explain to why the product is defective. I think for all the above reasons it is worth paying a premium price for the product.
Why can't we use this for security as well? Why can't all are alarms be connected to the computer? I mean why can't we have smoke detectors, medical alarms and burglary alarms connected to the proper authorities through the internet. Why can't the isp poll all computer to insure that their access has non been interupted for any reason. Why can't our house have microphone and speakers throughout the house and the computer be able to detect problem using sound too. In today world there is no reason why the computer should not be able to detect all problems whether they be physical or medical in nature and have the means to correct them.
Just think if it could be made wireless and with the new noise cancelling microphone than one could wear it around the house and still control one's computer.
Here is what would excite me if it can be done at no additional cost. One, everyone is given a phone number at birth. Two, everyone when old enough to be resposible for a phone is given a phone which will work everywhere. Therefore I do not have to answer the phone for anyone else and I can communicate with everyone all the time. Only when one reaches the age of 18 would an additional charge be for that phone. After all one can not expect free phone service all of one's life.
I read about magnetic bubble memory a long time ago and have not seen anything yet. So I believe this will share the same fate. When it is ready ram memory will be in the tera bit range so it will be cheaper to use.
At the present time these voip are only in the most profitable area codes. That is the ones with alot of population. Now lets consider what would have happened if the present telephone system did not have to provide service to rural areas and small cities. I think a large segment of our population would be without service. So how long do these companies get until they are required to provide service for all the people? If we leave it up to the free market it will not happen. That will leave the old system there and will probably mean a large increase in cost for them. It is just like the bus system. They voted to deregulate that system so what happen where I live? They totally stop all bus service. With the execption of a boat which makes trips across Lake Michigan half of the year there is no means of transportation to other cities other than the personal automobile. Our freeways would not have been built if the people in the rural areas were forced to pay for their section of the freeway. There are more examples of services that should be regulated so that they have to provide for all the people.
The stars of friends will still want 10 million per episode so if the sell a million copies that is 10 million divided by a million time 238 or $2380 a disk. They would have to sell a hundred million to get the price low enough. Seriously the cost of the material of one disk would be way more than anyone would want to pay. The only way they could sell them is to divide them into 400 segments which people could open up later upon paying a smaller amount for each segment.
When I need to rest I often just fall on the floor. They do not have beds or chairs in this hospital. Common sense will tell one if someone falls to the floor they need help.
What ever happened to rom memory? I thought that rom memory was easier to make than ram and was a generation ahead of it. So they should be making 8 giga bit rom chip than. Someone should be able to make a 8 giga byte rom chip than. With that much storage they should be able to put a full enclycopedia, dictionary and thesaurus and a operating system able to access both the internet and one's drives all on a rom chip. All programs than should be able to access these and I should be able to spell check this without any problems. I should be able to look up any word in both the encylopedia and dictionary without leaving this program and have the result instantly. I hope that with voice recognition I could do it without typing.
I live in Ludington Michigan. They built the world's largest pump storage plant here about 40 years ago. It is 1 and a half miles wide at it's widest point. They pump water from Lake Michigan up to the man made lake at night and generate electricity during the day. They get back around 66% of the electricity they use to pump the water but that electricity would have been wasted as the demand is less at night and they must keep the boilers at a constant temperature so they do not like to reduce them at night. They have put several wind measuring devices around the county to see if they can produce electricity. It is interesting that we did not have a problem with our electricity during the big power outage.
I think we should build our homes underground. Virtual windows would make it seem like they were above ground. It would mean an enormous savings in heating and weather damage. If we could make them water proof they could even make it through hurricanes and floods. If we could also build our roads underground than we could have totally automatic transportation(driverless).
Ceramics in engines to me means no cooling needed. A engine that can be heated to 2000 degrees without cracking would save alot of energy and polution.
What if we built our homes underground with flat screen monitors instead of windows? What if we reduced our need for transportation by doing work remotely over the internet and by shopping over the internet and having the products delivered in automatic driverless vehicles? What if we build our roads underground with magneticaly levitated vehicles? I think in the near future all of these will be possible and we will use less than a quarter of the energy we use today. Our need for energy will be like the projected population growth. It will never be a much as predicted.
I have a vcr that checks in with the weather channel at least once a day. I also have a clock that recieves a once a day checkup. My computer checks in every 10 minutes for the correct time. As far as I can tell the clock and the computer agree as there is some lag between looking at one and than looking at the other. The fact is that there is absolutely nothing I do that requires this much accuracy.
I agree. If we went through the mega bit chips in the 90's(from 1 mega bit to 1 giga bit) we should be able to go from 1 giga bit to 1 tera bit in the first decade of the 2000's. One tera byte of system ram in the earlier 2010's should not be surprising.
In 10 years I hope that Verizon will have rolled out its fiber optic network to all it's customers. I think by that time they also should be offering telephone, internet and television on that cable all for about $90 a month. I may be wrong but I do not think any wireless service will be able to come close to the speed and reliability of a fiber optic cable. I also hope that we will have fuel cell generators so that we can totally eliminate all chance of lightning destroying our electronic equipment.
When I was married, I and my wife had two vehicles. After my wife died I still had two vehicles(car and truck). I prefered to drive the car and so the truck got very little millage on it. Yet I still paid so much for insurance that I calculated that it cost me $10 a trip for the insurance(about $1 a mile). I sold the truck because of the cost of the insurance. I would have preferred to pay $5 or less a trip for insurance and kept the truck. I still believe that the best solution is to collect the cost of insurance at the gas pump by placing a tax on the gas so that those who drive more pay more. They can do this without any invasion of privacy too.
This will never work for several reasons. One who will drive the vehicle on the last leg? It would be too expensive to have a driver waiting to meet the train to drive that last leg and way too expensive to have alot of drivers riding along the way to make the last leg. There would be a great need to mix the passengers to get them to their destination vehicle and there is no way they can change while under way so at every stop they would have to allow passenger to get off and back on in other vehicles thus increasing the length of travel to unacceptable lengths. What is needed is for a way for people to quickly drive their own cars onto a train than reach the closest point of their destination and than quickly drive off it again thus eliminating that last driver and giving people their own transportation at their destination.
Dvd will be absolute but so will vod. So what will replace them? Video games. We already spend more money on them than movies and there will be at least two more generations before 2014. Video games will have accurate and reliable speech recognition and will speak to the player in the same way as another human being who is an expert in any game or field of knowledge. All of these games will be delivered on chips which will be permenantly placed in the console so that its knowledge base will grow and be accessible to other games or programs. Knowledge or skills on demand will increasonly take up more of everyone's time.