According to the article The benefits extend far beyond convenience and avoiding traffic jams. The opportunity to not just reduce, but eliminate, car accidents will translate to saving more than one million lives every year in the U.S. alone. This means saving $300 billion in economic costs due to car crashes, and reducing annual CO2 emissions by as much as 300 million tons, just in U.S. According to the CDC there are about 2.5 million deaths each year and about 130,000 accidental deaths each year. So I very much doubt the 1 million figure. The 300 billion dollars saved is about a thousand per person so that would have a significant effect on our wealth. But with a million less funerals each year, it would definitely effect the funeral homes bottom line. It would also mean a lot less cars being destroyed each year so it would mean a lot less would have to be made each year. Every dollar saved is a dollar less for paying other people's wages. Maybe we will spend some of the savings by travelling more since it will be safer.
Its been almost a month now since I got 10 on this 8 computer. I have a 7 computer and it would not even attempt to get 10 until a couple of days ago. It still fails on every attempt to download 10. I have a vista computer and I am grateful that they will not allow me to upgrade it to 10. I used to use real player to download video off the internet. Ever since I installed 10, I get the message that there is no video on this page even though I am watching it play. My internet speed is suppose to be around 30 megabits per second but it is not fast enough to get me a good quality experience when watching a lot of video. Even cnn video is not good enough for me as it is jerky a lot of the time. So I like to download some video and play them on my television set. It works a lot better there. My vista computer still works with real player. I would think that if someone provides free video they would appreciate when someone downloads that video rather than making them download the video multiple times.
If the universe eventually dies than it implies that there was a beginning too. This would imply that there is something special about the few trillions of years between the beginning and end. If the universe and time are both infinite than I doubt that there is anything special about the few trillions of years this universe is in existence. If the universe dies than it should have died an infinite numbers of times before now. Our memory of any existence before now is lost at the time of death and rebirth. I see no other explanation for our existence.
1. They will know who used it last so if it is not right just take a picture and send it to the authorities. 2. The people will either pay a huge fine or never able to use a car again. 3. The car would probably do this as a precaution. It would take a picture of the inside and outside before and after each trip. 4, If the car is attacked by an outside force of people than the occupant would call and report it to the police.
You are assuming we have infinite resources. We can not continue to encourage people to use up our present resources. Your example of a 100 outfits per person is a perfect example of that.
How about the young people in this country? They are struggling now. With every recession they are being laid off and than they have to start all over again. That means they get the lowest pay, least amount of vacation and other benefits. But hell lets throw another bill at them. Democracy will not suffer when we demand that people pay to be informed. When I was a child I could look at the nightly news at 6. Rabbit ears would get me at least 4 channels. Now I would have to spend at least a thousand dollars to have a tower build for an antenna to receive those channels. The nearest broadcasting station is around 70 miles away. I believe that digital tv is uhf and that does not travel as far. I guess the young can rely on billboards to even know who running for president let alone what their policies are.
Why is is that after more than fifty years of progress, the United States is taking more time to put humans into orbit than it took to go to the moon? I would think that our ability to put humans in the ISS would be a far greater priority than saving the first stage of an unmanned launch.
I think in the near future we will all live underground. Our homes will last for centuries and will be a lot more energy efficient. They will be self cleaning and have virtually no maintenance. All transportation will be automated from door to door. There will be no commercial district as most products will be delivered from the factory. All those jobs will just disappear. Tourism will also disappear as virtual reality will be far more interesting and easier to accomplish. We will live in homes that are extremely comfortable all the time. We will be safe from insects, sunburn, bad weather, and even other people. For most people there will be no incentive to leave their homes. Conversation will be with computers. Drugs that make us feel far better than sex and a lot safer will be invented. Most people will have almost no interest in any other human as all their needs and desires will be met by machines. A lot of countries do not reproduce enough to replace its present population. The United States would not increase its population if it were not for immigrants. I believe that in the year 2100 the world's population will be closer to what is was in the 1900's than what it is today.
In 1980 I was working for a computer manufacture. I was selling hard drives for a thousand dollars a megabyte. Those hard drives are worthless today, even if they worked. I think that even hard drives of today will be worthless for the average person since we will replace them with ssd and the cloud. The point is what people value today will become trash in just a short time even if they still work perfectly. Self driving automobiles will make ownership of automobile outdated. Robots will probably build houses underground. The houses will be cheap to make and will last through even the most severe weather since they will be underground. I see people living in mostly free housing and transportation. The problems will not be poverty but will be that a lot of people will not know what to do most of their time. People with a lot of spare time usually just get in trouble.
i want a vehicle that when I started it, it will communicate with a cell tower along with every other vehicle in that area. I want a computer in that tower to know where every vehicle is and controls the speed at which that vehicle is travelling. By controlling the speed of all the vehicles it should be able to prevent almost all accidents. I can see freeways where every vehicle is travelling at the same speed. No need to worry about blind zones since no one will ever pass anyone. Everyone would still have to drive their own vehicle but for most trips one would not have to use either the acceleration pedal or the brake until the very end when one is looking for a parking place. There should be a monitor in every vehicle that would have a map of the area and display all the vehicle in that area. If for instance a snow storm or fog blinds everyone, the computer would tell all the vehicle to slow down at the same time thus avoiding collisions. It should not be much of a problem to ensure that everyone is obeying all traffic laws.
Your changes are minor compared to what I see. First most shopping will be done on the internet and the products will be delivered. This will result in a huge reduction in the need for commercial property. Think about it. Just the fact that a parking lot will not be needed will reduce the need by over half and then the store will be able to use all of its space efficiently(shelves from the floor to a 20 foot ceiling since robot will stock and remove items from them). Second meals will be cheaper than buying food and cooking them so they too will be delivered. Third most homes will therefore not have a kitchen or a garage. This will result in a reduction in residential property. Fourth Parking an autonomous vehicle will be considered a waste of that vehicle as it will probably have a waiting list of people to transport to their needed destinations. Fifth Close to 30,000 Americans will not lose their lives every year do to accidents. Sixth. There will be a reduction in traffic since one delivering truck will replace hundreds of individual vehicles.
Two super intelligent beings are talking. First one. I am smarter than you. Second one. No! I am smarter than you. First one. Well I can create a being with half my intelligence and it still would be smarter than you. Second one. Well I can create a being with a third of my intelligence and it still would be smarter than you. Several seconds later. First one. I can create a being with intelligence one billionth of mine and it still would be more intelligent than you. Second one. Okay go ahead. First one . Okay that planet over there looks good. I will create a being on it and we will revisit it after a million of it revolutions around its sun to see how intelligent it is.
The whole bloody point of the show was showing the caring relationship between the midwifes and their patients. It showed women helping each other and their patients. The odds that their would be 4 beautiful young midwifes is less than the odds that they would find 4 non-smoking midwifes. How could the smoking midwife maintain her clothes and buy her makeup and still have money for cigarettes? The smoking doctor had a son who would have been my age at that time. Did they show that boy waking up in the middle of the night because his father was coughing uncontrollably? No! it did not. I know I did and I experienced the fear that it gave me. The midwifes lived together in very modest home. It would have taken just one time where the smoking midwife fell asleep with a lit cigarette to burn that home down. It happened and is still happening today. They chose to show smoking but they also chose not to show any of the negative effects of smoking. It could have shown the smoking midwife at a store choosing to buy cigarettes instead of buying makeup, clothes, or even a birthday present for a fellow midwife or even a member of her family. If they chose to show accuracy, people would have not watched it. The question is whether more people would have watched the program if they left out the smoking than watched it because of the smoking. I think people watched the program to see the midwifes dedication to their patients and to each other and not because one of the midwives and the doctor smoked. I know I did.
I watched a series on Netflix from the BBC called "Call the Midwife". It was a story about midwifes in the late fifties. One of the midwifes was a chain smoker and even smoked around children. I find it hard to watch a program where it shows people smoking as it does not in my opinion add anything to the story. It just shows their almost total disregard of their advertising of cigarettes. It is also a sell out to the smoking industry.
The female does not consciously decide to miscarry any fetus. So some part of the female brain is monitoring the status of a fetus and deciding who can live. Is that part infallible? I would think not, so with modern health care humans can probably do better than that part of the female brain. So maybe some abortion are done because that part of the female brain just failed to miscarry that fetus. There are probably more fetus being miscarried by some part of the female brain than are being aborted by some doctor. The point is there is no way one could possibly hope to stop this type of abortion and that abortions are a natural part of humanity.
Most stories whether they are sci-fi or not are based on past stories(Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella) and are basically just two steps). 1. Find something or someone to hate. 2. Rejoice when they are defeated. There is not much difference between Harry Potter and Star Trek since they will say a few words and use some device to produce a desired result. In both cases the viewer or reader does not even need to understand why they produce any given results. As for sexual commentary one only has to look at Playboy of the sixties or earlier. One can see just as much today on the beaches of Spain since Playboy did not show much of the virgina back then. Even now my spell checker does not know the spelling of virgina. I have two old large dictionaries that do not have it. They must maintain the sexual norms of today or they will not be seen or read by a larger per cent of the population.
One will pay one way or the other. Lets compare the cost of a free crt monitor to that of a $150 lcd. The crt will use more electricity to use so it will cost the $150 or more in just a couple of years unless one uses it an average of less than an hour a day. I use my computers a lot more than the average person since I do volunteer work for World Community Grid but a 6 core computer at a given speed will easily outdo 12 single core computers. I have run a 4 core computer now for more than 6 years and a 6 core for more than 2 years. The 6 core computers has done more work than the 4 core. So if one uses a computer for a significant amount of time it is cheaper to buy new. I buy old computers at thrift stores and garage sales. One can not even give them away anymore. For good reason as windows xp is not supported anymore and its the only one that will run satisfactory on even 1 Gigabyte of ram memory. Try to find that much memory of pc 100 or even ddr memory. One will pay a lot more than anyone would be willing to pay for the computer. People will ignore a hard drive of less than 500 Gigabytes. I installed a hp laser jet printer and it took over 200 Megabytes just for its drivers and software. I also run Ubuntu computer and it is not uncommon for it to have more than 100 Megabytes of updates. It is almost impossible to run those unless one has a modern computer.
The whole system is wrong. The combined population of Alaska and Wyoming is still about 15% of the population of Michigan and yet they will probably elect two republican senators to the one democratic senator from Michigan. The difference between the number of votes for each senatorial candidate in Michigan will probably be more than the combined votes for the winners in both Alaska and Wyoming. Wyoming does not have enough people to rate even one representative in the house. So Michigan with nearly 20 times the people of Wyoming gets 16 representatives to Wyoming's 3 so they must be at least 4 times more powerful. The United States will almost never see the will of the majority rule. I would think that would be the test of a democracy.
I use to have the triple bundle from charter(tv, phone, and internet). They will tell you that you can get all three for less than you are paying now but they do not tell you that after a couple of years you will be paying more. So I went to internet only for around $65 a month. That is a little high but at least I know that in a couple of years I will not be paying $150 a month. Early this year charter made everyone who gets tv get a tuner box. They did this because they could not block all tv reception from me as I could get around 30 channels without paying for them. After they installed the tuner I could not get any channels. I now get my tv through netflix and my phone through magicjack. I am satisfied with both of them so I am not interested in any of charter's plans.
Life in the year 2100. The entire population has moved underground. The planet looks more like it did before human arrived than it did today. One lives in a apartment that is totally secure and sound proof. There is a totally automatic transportation system in underground tubes. One can not even visit an address unless one has permission from the occupant. The apartment will not have a kitchen since all food will be centrally cooked and distributed. The rooms will always be at a certain temperature and humidity. Each room will be able to transform itself into a different room at the touch of a button. A bedroom can be a living room in seconds. All rooms will be cleaned daily with hot steam without ruining anything. One will wake up very early as there will be a pill to enhance sleep. One will go to their bathroom where the toilet will measure everything about the occupant and will recommend what foods and exercise they should do that day. One will than go to the exercise room where one will do their daily exercises. One will go to the eating room where one will find their recommended food. One will go to the communication room where one will watch over automatic production of products to ensure they are being done correctly. Some will be hired to reproduce. They will have to go to several years of training to be hired. Most will not even want to reproduce since one can talk to a computer without knowing it is a computer and there will be pills that make one far more high than sex could ever do. Everything will be free and since a pill will take the place of sex there will be very little interaction between any two humans. Human conflict will almost disappear so there will be little need of government.
What the hell? I recently did a google search for chrome to install it. The very first entry on the list was a download that first installed a so called optimizer malware protector program. If one executes the program it will tell one that they have thousands of problems. Just send them some money and they will fix them for you. How am I suppose to know that the program did not install the problems and than ask money to fix them? It is the same as having people come to your door and tell you that your windows are not broken so pay us some money and we will ensure that they remain unbroken. If google will not help protect us from these people than how can I trust them to write a problem free browser?
IBM advertises cloud computing. Why would they care if I know about their cloud? At the same time IBM is a sponsor of World Community Grid. WCG is the opposite of cloud computing as it is distributed computing. IBM ask for volunteers to give them access to their computers to solve a given problem. I think this is wrong since the total cost of all the volunteers to do the computing is more than IBM would spend to do the same amount of computing. I know that the cost per billion flops for a super computer is far less than I pay for on this computer. IBM does not pay for the computing since they are volunteers. If IBM could ask the volunteers to give them even half of the expenses that they have by volunteering their computers, than both would be better off. But how would it look if IBM asked for donations to support their cloud computing? IBM should build enough computing power in their cloud so that they could continue WCG without asking for volunteers. By doing that they would show prospective users that they have the power to solve any of their problems.
Did you ever get woke up in the middle of the night because your computer is playing an advertisement? Slashdot is a big offender in this regard. Leave your computer on with an active browser with slashdot on one of the tabs. It does not even need to be the active tab either. It use to be that one had to allow the audio to start but now the audio will start even if one does not do anything to show any interest in the product. It is so bad that chrome will show a speaker on the tab where the audio is coming from. Does anyone think they can force interest in their product? I like some advertisements as some are informative but when some are trying to force one to watch or listen to them, I instinctively shut them off without giving them a chance.
In the future most if not all products will be produced by robots. I doubt that the robots will be demoralized enough to quit. I think people will live underground in almost 100% secure buildings. The shell of these buildings will last for centuries and require less than half the energy of today. Every need will be delivered to the occupants. It will not be utopia since there will be little need for the occupants to leave their dwelling. They will become bored with their existence since there will be no problems that require their assistance to solve. Drugs will be used to alter the reality and there will be a demand for the drugs to be dangerous so that there will be an excitement in taking them. People will soon see little need to reproduce and the population will quickly be reduced.
I live in a small city of around 10,000. In my lifetime, I have seen virtually all of the commercial business move from the city to just outside of it. There are big box stores with parking lots with more area than the stores. Just by eliminating the parking lots, it would save half of the area needed. By timing things well, one could even have the products be unloaded from the trucks to the self driving cars and totally eliminate the need for the stores. One could totally use all of the space in a store as one could store items 20 feet above the floor with very narrow isle. Robots would retrieve the items. So I see self driving cars reducing our need for commercial areas by at least one half. When we decide that building underground will save energy and life, than self driving cars will be so much easier to program as there will be almost nothing to get in their way. So I can see eliminating around half of our transportation needs, thus giving us a lot more idle time that we will have to fill with something.
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According to the article
The benefits extend far beyond convenience and avoiding traffic jams. The opportunity to not just reduce, but eliminate, car accidents will translate to saving more than one million lives every year in the U.S. alone. This means saving $300 billion in economic costs due to car crashes, and reducing annual CO2 emissions by as much as 300 million tons, just in U.S.
According to the CDC there are about 2.5 million deaths each year and about 130,000 accidental deaths each year. So I very much doubt the 1 million figure. The 300 billion dollars saved is about a thousand per person so that would have a significant effect on our wealth.
But with a million less funerals each year, it would definitely effect the funeral homes bottom line. It would also mean a lot less cars being destroyed each year so it would mean a lot less would have to be made each year. Every dollar saved is a dollar less for paying other people's wages. Maybe we will spend some of the savings by travelling more since it will be safer.
Its been almost a month now since I got 10 on this 8 computer. I have a 7 computer and it would not even attempt to get 10 until a couple of days ago. It still fails on every attempt to download 10. I have a vista computer and I am grateful that they will not allow me to upgrade it to 10. I used to use real player to download video off the internet. Ever since I installed 10, I get the message that there is no video on this page even though I am watching it play. My internet speed is suppose to be around 30 megabits per second but it is not fast enough to get me a good quality experience when watching a lot of video. Even cnn video is not good enough for me as it is jerky a lot of the time. So I like to download some video and play them on my television set. It works a lot better there. My vista computer still works with real player. I would think that if someone provides free video they would appreciate when someone downloads that video rather than making them download the video multiple times.
If the universe eventually dies than it implies that there was a beginning too. This would imply that there is something special about the few trillions of years between the beginning and end. If the universe and time are both infinite than I doubt that there is anything special about the few trillions of years this universe is in existence. If the universe dies than it should have died an infinite numbers of times before now. Our memory of any existence before now is lost at the time of death and rebirth. I see no other explanation for our existence.
1. They will know who used it last so if it is not right just take a picture and send it to the authorities.
2. The people will either pay a huge fine or never able to use a car again.
3. The car would probably do this as a precaution. It would take a picture of the inside and outside before and after each trip.
4, If the car is attacked by an outside force of people than the occupant would call and report it to the police.
You are assuming we have infinite resources. We can not continue to encourage people to use up our present resources. Your example of a 100 outfits per person is a perfect example of that.
How about the young people in this country? They are struggling now. With every recession they are being laid off and than they have to start all over again. That means they get the lowest pay, least amount of vacation and other benefits. But hell lets throw another bill at them. Democracy will not suffer when we demand that people pay to be informed. When I was a child I could look at the nightly news at 6. Rabbit ears would get me at least 4 channels. Now I would have to spend at least a thousand dollars to have a tower build for an antenna to receive those channels. The nearest broadcasting station is around 70 miles away. I believe that digital tv is uhf and that does not travel as far. I guess the young can rely on billboards to even know who running for president let alone what their policies are.
Why is is that after more than fifty years of progress, the United States is taking more time to put humans into orbit than it took to go to the moon? I would think that our ability to put humans in the ISS would be a far greater priority than saving the first stage of an unmanned launch.
I think in the near future we will all live underground. Our homes will last for centuries and will be a lot more energy efficient. They will be self cleaning and have virtually no maintenance. All transportation will be automated from door to door. There will be no commercial district as most products will be delivered from the factory. All those jobs will just disappear. Tourism will also disappear as virtual reality will be far more interesting and easier to accomplish.
We will live in homes that are extremely comfortable all the time. We will be safe from insects, sunburn, bad weather, and even other people. For most people there will be no incentive to leave their homes. Conversation will be with computers. Drugs that make us feel far better than sex and a lot safer will be invented. Most people will have almost no interest in any other human as all their needs and desires will be met by machines. A lot of countries do not reproduce enough to replace its present population. The United States would not increase its population if it were not for immigrants. I believe that in the year 2100 the world's population will be closer to what is was in the 1900's than what it is today.
In 1980 I was working for a computer manufacture. I was selling hard drives for a thousand dollars a megabyte. Those hard drives are worthless today, even if they worked. I think that even hard drives of today will be worthless for the average person since we will replace them with ssd and the cloud. The point is what people value today will become trash in just a short time even if they still work perfectly. Self driving automobiles will make ownership of automobile outdated. Robots will probably build houses underground. The houses will be cheap to make and will last through even the most severe weather since they will be underground. I see people living in mostly free housing and transportation. The problems will not be poverty but will be that a lot of people will not know what to do most of their time. People with a lot of spare time usually just get in trouble.
i want a vehicle that when I started it, it will communicate with a cell tower along with every other vehicle in that area. I want a computer in that tower to know where every vehicle is and controls the speed at which that vehicle is travelling. By controlling the speed of all the vehicles it should be able to prevent almost all accidents. I can see freeways where every vehicle is travelling at the same speed. No need to worry about blind zones since no one will ever pass anyone. Everyone would still have to drive their own vehicle but for most trips one would not have to use either the acceleration pedal or the brake until the very end when one is looking for a parking place. There should be a monitor in every vehicle that would have a map of the area and display all the vehicle in that area. If for instance a snow storm or fog blinds everyone, the computer would tell all the vehicle to slow down at the same time thus avoiding collisions. It should not be much of a problem to ensure that everyone is obeying all traffic laws.
Your changes are minor compared to what I see.
First most shopping will be done on the internet and the products will be delivered. This will result in a huge reduction in the need for commercial property. Think about it. Just the fact that a parking lot will not be needed will reduce the need by over half and then the store will be able to use all of its space efficiently(shelves from the floor to a 20 foot ceiling since robot will stock and remove items from them).
Second meals will be cheaper than buying food and cooking them so they too will be delivered.
Third most homes will therefore not have a kitchen or a garage. This will result in a reduction in residential property.
Fourth Parking an autonomous vehicle will be considered a waste of that vehicle as it will probably have a waiting list of people to transport to their needed destinations.
Fifth Close to 30,000 Americans will not lose their lives every year do to accidents.
Sixth. There will be a reduction in traffic since one delivering truck will replace hundreds of individual vehicles.
Two super intelligent beings are talking.
First one. I am smarter than you.
Second one. No! I am smarter than you.
First one. Well I can create a being with half my intelligence and it still would be smarter than you.
Second one. Well I can create a being with a third of my intelligence and it still would be smarter than you.
Several seconds later.
First one. I can create a being with intelligence one billionth of mine and it still would be more intelligent than you.
Second one. Okay go ahead.
First one . Okay that planet over there looks good. I will create a being on it and we will revisit it after a million of it revolutions around its sun to see how intelligent it is.
The whole bloody point of the show was showing the caring relationship between the midwifes and their patients. It showed women helping each other and their patients. The odds that their would be 4 beautiful young midwifes is less than the odds that they would find 4 non-smoking midwifes. How could the smoking midwife maintain her clothes and buy her makeup and still have money for cigarettes? The smoking doctor had a son who would have been my age at that time. Did they show that boy waking up in the middle of the night because his father was coughing uncontrollably? No! it did not. I know I did and I experienced the fear that it gave me. The midwifes lived together in very modest home. It would have taken just one time where the smoking midwife fell asleep with a lit cigarette to burn that home down. It happened and is still happening today. They chose to show smoking but they also chose not to show any of the negative effects of smoking. It could have shown the smoking midwife at a store choosing to buy cigarettes instead of buying makeup, clothes, or even a birthday present for a fellow midwife or even a member of her family. If they chose to show accuracy, people would have not watched it. The question is whether more people would have watched the program if they left out the smoking than watched it because of the smoking. I think people watched the program to see the midwifes dedication to their patients and to each other and not because one of the midwives and the doctor smoked. I know I did.
I watched a series on Netflix from the BBC called "Call the Midwife". It was a story about midwifes in the late fifties. One of the midwifes was a chain smoker and even smoked around children. I find it hard to watch a program where it shows people smoking as it does not in my opinion add anything to the story. It just shows their almost total disregard of their advertising of cigarettes. It is also a sell out to the smoking industry.
The female does not consciously decide to miscarry any fetus. So some part of the female brain is monitoring the status of a fetus and deciding who can live. Is that part infallible? I would think not, so with modern health care humans can probably do better than that part of the female brain. So maybe some abortion are done because that part of the female brain just failed to miscarry that fetus. There are probably more fetus being miscarried by some part of the female brain than are being aborted by some doctor. The point is there is no way one could possibly hope to stop this type of abortion and that abortions are a natural part of humanity.
Most stories whether they are sci-fi or not are based on past stories(Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella) and are basically just two steps).
1. Find something or someone to hate.
2. Rejoice when they are defeated.
There is not much difference between Harry Potter and Star Trek since they will say a few words and use some device to produce a desired result. In both cases the viewer or reader does not even need to understand why they produce any given results.
As for sexual commentary one only has to look at Playboy of the sixties or earlier. One can see just as much today on the beaches of Spain since Playboy did not show much of the virgina back then. Even now my spell checker does not know the spelling of virgina. I have two old large dictionaries that do not have it. They must maintain the sexual norms of today or they will not be seen or read by a larger per cent of the population.
One will pay one way or the other. Lets compare the cost of a free crt monitor to that of a $150 lcd. The crt will use more electricity to use so it will cost the $150 or more in just a couple of years unless one uses it an average of less than an hour a day. I use my computers a lot more than the average person since I do volunteer work for World Community Grid but a 6 core computer at a given speed will easily outdo 12 single core computers. I have run a 4 core computer now for more than 6 years and a 6 core for more than 2 years. The 6 core computers has done more work than the 4 core. So if one uses a computer for a significant amount of time it is cheaper to buy new. I buy old computers at thrift stores and garage sales. One can not even give them away anymore. For good reason as windows xp is not supported anymore and its the only one that will run satisfactory on even 1 Gigabyte of ram memory. Try to find that much memory of pc 100 or even ddr memory. One will pay a lot more than anyone would be willing to pay for the computer. People will ignore a hard drive of less than 500 Gigabytes. I installed a hp laser jet printer and it took over 200 Megabytes just for its drivers and software. I also run Ubuntu computer and it is not uncommon for it to have more than 100 Megabytes of updates. It is almost impossible to run those unless one has a modern computer.
The whole system is wrong. The combined population of Alaska and Wyoming is still about 15% of the population of Michigan and yet they will probably elect two republican senators to the one democratic senator from Michigan. The difference between the number of votes for each senatorial candidate in Michigan will probably be more than the combined votes for the winners in both Alaska and Wyoming. Wyoming does not have enough people to rate even one representative in the house. So Michigan with nearly 20 times the people of Wyoming gets 16 representatives to Wyoming's 3 so they must be at least 4 times more powerful. The United States will almost never see the will of the majority rule. I would think that would be the test of a democracy.
I use to have the triple bundle from charter(tv, phone, and internet). They will tell you that you can get all three for less than you are paying now but they do not tell you that after a couple of years you will be paying more. So I went to internet only for around $65 a month. That is a little high but at least I know that in a couple of years I will not be paying $150 a month. Early this year charter made everyone who gets tv get a tuner box. They did this because they could not block all tv reception from me as I could get around 30 channels without paying for them. After they installed the tuner I could not get any channels. I now get my tv through netflix and my phone through magicjack. I am satisfied with both of them so I am not interested in any of charter's plans.
Life in the year 2100.
The entire population has moved underground. The planet looks more like it did before human arrived than it did today. One lives in a apartment that is totally secure and sound proof. There is a totally automatic transportation system in underground tubes. One can not even visit an address unless one has permission from the occupant. The apartment will not have a kitchen since all food will be centrally cooked and distributed. The rooms will always be at a certain temperature and humidity. Each room will be able to transform itself into a different room at the touch of a button. A bedroom can be a living room in seconds. All rooms will be cleaned daily with hot steam without ruining anything. One will wake up very early as there will be a pill to enhance sleep. One will go to their bathroom where the toilet will measure everything about the occupant and will recommend what foods and exercise they should do that day. One will than go to the exercise room where one will do their daily exercises. One will go to the eating room where one will find their recommended food. One will go to the communication room where one will watch over automatic production of products to ensure they are being done correctly. Some will be hired to reproduce. They will have to go to several years of training to be hired. Most will not even want to reproduce since one can talk to a computer without knowing it is a computer and there will be pills that make one far more high than sex could ever do. Everything will be free and since a pill will take the place of sex there will be very little interaction between any two humans. Human conflict will almost disappear so there will be little need of government.
What the hell? I recently did a google search for chrome to install it. The very first entry on the list was a download that first installed a so called optimizer malware protector program. If one executes the program it will tell one that they have thousands of problems. Just send them some money and they will fix them for you. How am I suppose to know that the program did not install the problems and than ask money to fix them? It is the same as having people come to your door and tell you that your windows are not broken so pay us some money and we will ensure that they remain unbroken. If google will not help protect us from these people than how can I trust them to write a problem free browser?
IBM advertises cloud computing. Why would they care if I know about their cloud? At the same time IBM is a sponsor of World Community Grid. WCG is the opposite of cloud computing as it is distributed computing. IBM ask for volunteers to give them access to their computers to solve a given problem. I think this is wrong since the total cost of all the volunteers to do the computing is more than IBM would spend to do the same amount of computing. I know that the cost per billion flops for a super computer is far less than I pay for on this computer. IBM does not pay for the computing since they are volunteers. If IBM could ask the volunteers to give them even half of the expenses that they have by volunteering their computers, than both would be better off. But how would it look if IBM asked for donations to support their cloud computing? IBM should build enough computing power in their cloud so that they could continue WCG without asking for volunteers. By doing that they would show prospective users that they have the power to solve any of their problems.
Did you ever get woke up in the middle of the night because your computer is playing an advertisement? Slashdot is a big offender in this regard. Leave your computer on with an active browser with slashdot on one of the tabs. It does not even need to be the active tab either. It use to be that one had to allow the audio to start but now the audio will start even if one does not do anything to show any interest in the product. It is so bad that chrome will show a speaker on the tab where the audio is coming from. Does anyone think they can force interest in their product? I like some advertisements as some are informative but when some are trying to force one to watch or listen to them, I instinctively shut them off without giving them a chance.
In the future most if not all products will be produced by robots. I doubt that the robots will be demoralized enough to quit. I think people will live underground in almost 100% secure buildings. The shell of these buildings will last for centuries and require less than half the energy of today. Every need will be delivered to the occupants. It will not be utopia since there will be little need for the occupants to leave their dwelling. They will become bored with their existence since there will be no problems that require their assistance to solve. Drugs will be used to alter the reality and there will be a demand for the drugs to be dangerous so that there will be an excitement in taking them. People will soon see little need to reproduce and the population will quickly be reduced.
I live in a small city of around 10,000. In my lifetime, I have seen virtually all of the commercial business move from the city to just outside of it. There are big box stores with parking lots with more area than the stores. Just by eliminating the parking lots, it would save half of the area needed. By timing things well, one could even have the products be unloaded from the trucks to the self driving cars and totally eliminate the need for the stores. One could totally use all of the space in a store as one could store items 20 feet above the floor with very narrow isle. Robots would retrieve the items. So I see self driving cars reducing our need for commercial areas by at least one half. When we decide that building underground will save energy and life, than self driving cars will be so much easier to program as there will be almost nothing to get in their way. So I can see eliminating around half of our transportation needs, thus giving us a lot more idle time that we will have to fill with something.