I can imagine commercial district being reduced by two thirds as one will do shopping virtually on line. Products will be delivered by self driven vehicles. Stores will be two or three stories high with very narrow passageways as a robot will be able to collect all of the purchased items. Restaurants will be one of the few business that will continue to need a parking lot. I see a lot more business for them when the food will not be any more expensive when it is delivered and since there will not be a driver there will be no one to tip. With automation, I can see the day coming when it will be cheaper to buy restaurant food than it will be to purchase food and cook it. Homes and apartments without a kitchen will be common. Department stores will save a lot of money from lower inventories, much less loss from theft, much lower heating and cooling cost, and a lot less employees.
Maybe you should purchase an armored car to transport that mobile device. Unless you steal everything. A terabyte of data even at the extremely low price of a dollar per gigabyte would mean $1,000 for the data. A more realistic price of $5 a gigabyte would mean $5,000 for the data. In any case it is not something I would want to carry around for fear of being robbed. I know of a man who got a 4 terabyte network hard drive with about 2,000 movies on it. There were a lot of movies from 2012 too. If something is not done about this there will be a lot less quality movies and music to choose from as there will be a lot less financial incentive to make them. At least pay $8 a month and watch the videos on Netflix or something like it. If everyone does not contribute a little to finance the videos and music they will go away and everyone will have nothing to watch or listen to.
I would estimate that the average user would be able to do one result a day. That would require about 8 hours of charging time since a lot of the fa@h work units require over 8 hours of computing time. IBM has already contributed over 49 million results and over 119 thousand yesterday alone. There are 6 members that have contributed around 10 million or more results so there is some series money involved here. There are over 900,000 results yesterday so even if WCG managed to get 100,000 new android users, that would mean maybe a 10% jump in results. Now lets compare that to the recent use of GPU power. The help conquer cancer project did manage to use the GPU and it was getting around a million results a day or more than what WCG is getting today. So a project that involve the GPU would contribute far more without adding a singe volunteer. I have read that WCG's member have the computing power comparable to around a petaflop. But the largest supercomputers now is 30 times that. To me that is telling me that this project is not worth the money it would take to get 5% of the time of the United States fastest supercomputer. I would think that a cure to aids would mean well into the billions of dollars in savings. So is the prospect of finding a cure so low that a number of countries would not contribute enough money for a super computer? They spent over 100 billion on the ISS and are spending a lot of money on the cern collider. The largest supercomputer probably is at least 100 times more energy efficient than the average home computer. This is a project that would cost a significant less total money on a super computer than the total amount being spent by the volunteers. It just requires the faith from a couple of governments. Incidentally since the article bragged about the contribution of the slashdot users, I will brag about me being the number one contributer of the slashdot users or at least I was a little while ago.
We're trying to discuss internet search engines here. Please take your disgusting teen lesbos somewhere else.
"Disgusting teen lesbos" There is nothing disgusting about two females trying to give affection to one another. It is a lot better than tv programs like "24" where someone is murdered about every 5 minutes. Your comment is from the 8th century or before.
Show the young boys the movie "Room in Rome". Bing plays a big part in the movie. It is used several times and is very important to the plot of the movie. There is no attempt to hide that fact so I would assume that they are getting paid to use it. For those who have not seen the movie, it is about two females who meet and spend the night in a hotel room in Rome. They are naked about 70% of the movie and climax several times. If one gets past the sex, the movie is a heartbreaking movie about the struggle of two women falling in love and how that will effect their life. Show it to a young man and it will be a long time before he considers using google again.
There are several problem with relying on volunteers. First one does not know for certain if the volunteer is going to return the finished work unit. So one must put a deadline on returning it. If one sends a work unit to one volunteer and they fail to return it before the deadline than one will have to send it to another and give another deadline. Since this pattern could repeat itself it is better to send the same work unit to more than one volunteer to ensure at least one is returned. In fact it is better when more than one volunteer returns the same work unit since than one can compare the results to ensure that they are the same. There are reasons why a incorrect work unit will be returned so one must be sure that they are correct. This clean energy project is very computer intensive. There are work units that require 40 hours or more. These units should not be given to someone who is just computing during idle times. Since if one has only one or two hours of idle time a day than the work unit will require between 20 to 40 days to complete. That is a long time to wait especially when one does not know for sure if it will ever be returned. When more than one have to do the same work unit than that means efficiency is at least cut in half. Now supercomputers are getting both cheaper and more efficient. They now are using a lot less power per calculations than any home computer. I have read that the best now can do a Giga flop per watt. The big question is "How much more energy will be used by sending the work to inefficient and multiple home computers than would be used by an efficient supercomputer?" One must also pay for the bandwidth to both send and receive the work units and the servers and the power to run the servers. I believe that the cost of purchasing and running a supercomputer is probably less than using volunteers. Except by using volunteers one using their electricity and requiring them to pay for it. Now if one could get the volunteers to donate money that they would pay for electricity and wear and tear than the use of a supercomputer would make a lot more sense. Now I say this and look at IBM's record since they do have computers that are doing the work units. In fact they lead all the volunteers by a large margin(over 45 million results to around 24 million for second place). I would think that IBM would use its money in the most efficient manner so maybe my concerns are not well founded. The federal government does give away time on supercomputers to scientist. Whoever is in charge must think this project is not worth the time. I would think that IBM could give enough prove of the value of this project that either the federal government would give a grant or that enough money would be provided by investors. Is the chance of success so low that IBM must require the donation of computing time to get this started? Will there be a return of any money to the volunteers if this is a success? Will a 1% take over the project once it succeeds and reap the rewards of all the volunteers?
1 exaflop is a billion billion flops. At the current rate of a billion flops per watt one is looking at a computer that will require a billion watts of power. They better hope to get the power up to a hundred billion flops per watt. This is way beyond anything a personal computer could do so I would assume that this means the death of faster personal computers. If someone does need a computer with any power than one would send the problem to a supercomputer where it could calculate the answer using one millionth of the power.
Put a male and a female rat in a cage and they will have sex until the male grows tired of the female. Take the female out and replace her with another female and the male will find new energy to have sex. It is the same with porn. There is no need to save it since after viewing them a couple of times one will grow tired of them and they will not have the same effect as the first time. This is why there will always be a market for new porn with a new fresh legal young girl. Its in our dna and their is nothing one can do about it.
I want a cable company where there is only one channel. It would be like Netflix. Every program should be available at anytime one desires to watch it. No commercials either. I was just watching a movie called Room in Rome. In this movie two naked women use bing to search for their homes and names. It was much more effective at getting me to use bing than any commercial I have seen. The only equipment required in the home should be the television set. All others should be owned and maintained by the cable company.
Lets automate the factories. We don't need any humans there. Lets automate delivery. We don't need any humans there either. Lets automate everything since we will not need any humans anywhere. Except there will be no need for humans at all so why reproduce? Just let all humans die off.
How power efficient is this computer? Lets say it can do a Giga flop per watt. A trillion is a 1000 billion so 33,000 trillion is 33 million billion so this computer should require 33 million watts of power. There are some nuclear power plants that produce over a trillion watts so it could power 40 or more of these super computers. Even so I would think that they would do some planning at the power plant when this computer powers up since it will take a significant amount of its capacity.
I am tired of reading about all of the Chinese advancement and almost nothing about US advancements.
1. China send 3 people to their orbiting station.
2. China builds fastest supercomputer.
3. Chinese firm plans to build the world's tallest building in 90 days.
4. Chinese firm plans to build new canal in Nicaragua.
Even these two projects are many years in the future. I just wish the US was doing something a little bit more positive than fighting or supporting fighters in 4 mid eastern countries
For the sake of argument lets assume there is a god. Why would we treat ourselves better than our so called creator? In the past mankind saw a horrific time where a lot of humans were savagely killed by weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, communicable diseases, carnivorous animals and by other humans. At first these humans relied mostly on instinct since humans did not even have language to express ideas like morality or love for one another. Throw someone into a swamp filled with creatures trying to kill that person and see if they come out with a loving attitude. It took humans many thousands of years to come up with a system to control our natural anger toward each other. Humans invented the golden rule and we do not have any reason to be thankful to any deity since that deity did nothing in the past just like that deity is doing nothing in the present. Any deity capable of creating a universe would be capable and willing to communicate with humans.
I have a fast 4 core computer with a GPU with a GByte of memory. Even with all of that, flash will bring it to a standstill. The worst is when the mouse pointer will not move. There are times when what I see lags behind what I am typing. There are times when after closing a program it takes several seconds before it disappears from the screen. I get messages about closing scripts before they make my computer look unresponsive. Most of those if not all have something to do with flash.
From an article about Mexican health care.
Residents of USA, particularly those living near the Mexican border, now routinely cross the border into Mexico for medical care.[10] Popular specialties include dentistry and plastic surgery. Mexican dentists often charge 20 to 25 percent of US prices,[11] while other procedures typically cost a third what they would cost in the US.[10] The www.internationalliving.com site states that on average, an office visit with a doctor—specialists included—will cost about US$25, an overnight stay in a private hospital room costs about $35, and a visit to a dentist for teeth cleaning costs about $20. Some 40,000 to 80,000 American seniors spend their retirement years in Mexico with a considerable number receiving nursing home and health care.[12]
This if from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Mexico. I guess the race to the bottom does not include health care like it does here in the United States. I live in Michigan where the republicans are trying to defeat any increase in Medicaid even if it does not cost the state any money for the first few years.
How about Randall Mills? He has been making claims a lot longer than Rossi. Here is an interesting article. http://www.martincwiner.com/power-from-water-at-bargain-basement-prices/. His site is blacklightpower.com. Even at this site there is no new press since May 22 of last year blacklightpower.com/press/. So I guess nothing much has happened in the past year.
I just started it to test it. I went to google news. I scrolled down and started to read a link. I was interrupted three times in less than a minute by two updates to the page and a pop up. I am trying to read and the screen is flashing with updates and pop ups. It is very annoying. At least put a button on the screen that would change color when an update is available so I can decide if I want to view it and for pop ups make them show up before I start to read because if I am reading I will become annoyed and will without thought close the pop up.
I have now installed Ubuntu 13.04 4 times and for every installation, I had to wait between 20 to 30 minutes for the files to download. After which I had to respond to a dialog box which had only one response. The response was forward. Only after clicking on it did it finish with the installation. I have a mixture of windows and Ubuntu computers. My windows computers do not recognize any of my Ubuntu computers. I do have a program called Network Magic that will tell me if my Ubuntu computers are on line so it can be done. My Ubuntu computers just give me an error message when I try to access my network. I do have a goflex network drive that is recognized by all of my windows computers but not any of my Ubuntu computers so it is hard to back up any of those to that network drive. Backing up one's computer should be done automatically after one shuts down the computer. Restoration should be part of the installation dvd as it should be able to recognize a network drive and a backup copy and ask if it should restore that copy. I recently got a laptop since it was not working. I found that the problem was the hard drive. Since the hard drive did not work it would not recover from the second partition. There was a sticker on it with the code for windows but it had long been worn off. I did not have a windows 7 installation disk and did not have a code so it would be difficult for me to reinstall windows. I installed Ubuntu on it. I did spend around a hour on the hp site but did not find a solution. I do not think anyone cares a lot after the sale.
Maybe it is because Seymour Cray died in 1996 of complications from a automobile accident. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray I would think that most people who have a passing interest in supercomputer would have known that fact. Seymour Cray did a lot of work in establishing the supercomputers. I can remember seeing his supercomputers on the cover of Popular Science back in the 70's. I think he deserves a little more respect than shown here by that remark.
I am now trying to upgrade a computer. I was surprised by the speed of the download since for a lot of the time I was getting around 10 mbps. I am suppose to get 30 but 10 was a lot better than I ever got with past upgrades especially on the first day. I left the upgrade after it started to install. I came back about an hour later to find that it was stuck on a message that the only response was forward. So I clicked on the forward button. The progress bar indicated about 5% so I hope that it does not expect me to continue to watch it for an hour or two so that I can tell it to continue.
I have heard the FBI have found a man with a compass, ruler, protractor, and a calculator. These are all instruments of math instruction. After questioning the man they found that he was a member of the al-gebra movement. They are now seeking anyone with knowledge of this al-gebra.
If the potential of these solar panel is so great, why can't they generate enough capital to purchase or rent time on a supercomputer? Why are they relying on 6,000 volunteers? I sure hope if something of monetary value comes out of this project, the volunteers are at least given something for their efforts.
I have read the Bradley Manning was an E2 in rank. I was in the military and it took only a couple of months to reach E2 in rank. So the army has so little amount of people with rank of E6 and above or an officer that they have to entrust that much power to an E2. To me that is the same as a bank manager giving someone in the bank who was hired just a couple of months ago with the responsibility of closing the safe, locking all the doors and setting the alarm. I once had access to top secret information but the rule was that the information was never accessed without someone else being present. So there is no way Manning should have had access or at the least have had access without someone else being there. The officer in charge should bear more responsibility than Manning. To me it is the same as someone leaving their money in a bag on their front lawn and wondering why it was stolen.
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I can imagine commercial district being reduced by two thirds as one will do shopping virtually on line. Products will be delivered by self driven vehicles. Stores will be two or three stories high with very narrow passageways as a robot will be able to collect all of the purchased items. Restaurants will be one of the few business that will continue to need a parking lot. I see a lot more business for them when the food will not be any more expensive when it is delivered and since there will not be a driver there will be no one to tip. With automation, I can see the day coming when it will be cheaper to buy restaurant food than it will be to purchase food and cook it. Homes and apartments without a kitchen will be common. Department stores will save a lot of money from lower inventories, much less loss from theft, much lower heating and cooling cost, and a lot less employees.
Maybe you should purchase an armored car to transport that mobile device. Unless you steal everything. A terabyte of data even at the extremely low price of a dollar per gigabyte would mean $1,000 for the data. A more realistic price of $5 a gigabyte would mean $5,000 for the data. In any case it is not something I would want to carry around for fear of being robbed. I know of a man who got a 4 terabyte network hard drive with about 2,000 movies on it. There were a lot of movies from 2012 too. If something is not done about this there will be a lot less quality movies and music to choose from as there will be a lot less financial incentive to make them. At least pay $8 a month and watch the videos on Netflix or something like it. If everyone does not contribute a little to finance the videos and music they will go away and everyone will have nothing to watch or listen to.
I would estimate that the average user would be able to do one result a day. That would require about 8 hours of charging time since a lot of the fa@h work units require over 8 hours of computing time. IBM has already contributed over 49 million results and over 119 thousand yesterday alone. There are 6 members that have contributed around 10 million or more results so there is some series money involved here. There are over 900,000 results yesterday so even if WCG managed to get 100,000 new android users, that would mean maybe a 10% jump in results. Now lets compare that to the recent use of GPU power. The help conquer cancer project did manage to use the GPU and it was getting around a million results a day or more than what WCG is getting today. So a project that involve the GPU would contribute far more without adding a singe volunteer. I have read that WCG's member have the computing power comparable to around a petaflop. But the largest supercomputers now is 30 times that. To me that is telling me that this project is not worth the money it would take to get 5% of the time of the United States fastest supercomputer. I would think that a cure to aids would mean well into the billions of dollars in savings. So is the prospect of finding a cure so low that a number of countries would not contribute enough money for a super computer? They spent over 100 billion on the ISS and are spending a lot of money on the cern collider. The largest supercomputer probably is at least 100 times more energy efficient than the average home computer. This is a project that would cost a significant less total money on a super computer than the total amount being spent by the volunteers. It just requires the faith from a couple of governments. Incidentally since the article bragged about the contribution of the slashdot users, I will brag about me being the number one contributer of the slashdot users or at least I was a little while ago.
We're trying to discuss internet search engines here. Please take your disgusting teen lesbos somewhere else.
"Disgusting teen lesbos" There is nothing disgusting about two females trying to give affection to one another. It is a lot better than tv programs like "24" where someone is murdered about every 5 minutes. Your comment is from the 8th century or before.
Show the young boys the movie "Room in Rome". Bing plays a big part in the movie. It is used several times and is very important to the plot of the movie. There is no attempt to hide that fact so I would assume that they are getting paid to use it. For those who have not seen the movie, it is about two females who meet and spend the night in a hotel room in Rome. They are naked about 70% of the movie and climax several times. If one gets past the sex, the movie is a heartbreaking movie about the struggle of two women falling in love and how that will effect their life. Show it to a young man and it will be a long time before he considers using google again.
There are several problem with relying on volunteers. First one does not know for certain if the volunteer is going to return the finished work unit. So one must put a deadline on returning it. If one sends a work unit to one volunteer and they fail to return it before the deadline than one will have to send it to another and give another deadline. Since this pattern could repeat itself it is better to send the same work unit to more than one volunteer to ensure at least one is returned. In fact it is better when more than one volunteer returns the same work unit since than one can compare the results to ensure that they are the same. There are reasons why a incorrect work unit will be returned so one must be sure that they are correct. This clean energy project is very computer intensive. There are work units that require 40 hours or more. These units should not be given to someone who is just computing during idle times. Since if one has only one or two hours of idle time a day than the work unit will require between 20 to 40 days to complete. That is a long time to wait especially when one does not know for sure if it will ever be returned. When more than one have to do the same work unit than that means efficiency is at least cut in half. Now supercomputers are getting both cheaper and more efficient. They now are using a lot less power per calculations than any home computer. I have read that the best now can do a Giga flop per watt. The big question is "How much more energy will be used by sending the work to inefficient and multiple home computers than would be used by an efficient supercomputer?" One must also pay for the bandwidth to both send and receive the work units and the servers and the power to run the servers. I believe that the cost of purchasing and running a supercomputer is probably less than using volunteers. Except by using volunteers one using their electricity and requiring them to pay for it. Now if one could get the volunteers to donate money that they would pay for electricity and wear and tear than the use of a supercomputer would make a lot more sense. Now I say this and look at IBM's record since they do have computers that are doing the work units. In fact they lead all the volunteers by a large margin(over 45 million results to around 24 million for second place). I would think that IBM would use its money in the most efficient manner so maybe my concerns are not well founded. The federal government does give away time on supercomputers to scientist. Whoever is in charge must think this project is not worth the time. I would think that IBM could give enough prove of the value of this project that either the federal government would give a grant or that enough money would be provided by investors. Is the chance of success so low that IBM must require the donation of computing time to get this started? Will there be a return of any money to the volunteers if this is a success? Will a 1% take over the project once it succeeds and reap the rewards of all the volunteers?
1 exaflop is a billion billion flops. At the current rate of a billion flops per watt one is looking at a computer that will require a billion watts of power. They better hope to get the power up to a hundred billion flops per watt. This is way beyond anything a personal computer could do so I would assume that this means the death of faster personal computers. If someone does need a computer with any power than one would send the problem to a supercomputer where it could calculate the answer using one millionth of the power.
Put a male and a female rat in a cage and they will have sex until the male grows tired of the female. Take the female out and replace her with another female and the male will find new energy to have sex. It is the same with porn. There is no need to save it since after viewing them a couple of times one will grow tired of them and they will not have the same effect as the first time. This is why there will always be a market for new porn with a new fresh legal young girl. Its in our dna and their is nothing one can do about it.
I want a cable company where there is only one channel. It would be like Netflix. Every program should be available at anytime one desires to watch it. No commercials either. I was just watching a movie called Room in Rome. In this movie two naked women use bing to search for their homes and names. It was much more effective at getting me to use bing than any commercial I have seen. The only equipment required in the home should be the television set. All others should be owned and maintained by the cable company.
Lets automate the factories. We don't need any humans there. Lets automate delivery. We don't need any humans there either. Lets automate everything since we will not need any humans anywhere. Except there will be no need for humans at all so why reproduce? Just let all humans die off.
How power efficient is this computer? Lets say it can do a Giga flop per watt. A trillion is a 1000 billion so 33,000 trillion is 33 million billion so this computer should require 33 million watts of power. There are some nuclear power plants that produce over a trillion watts so it could power 40 or more of these super computers. Even so I would think that they would do some planning at the power plant when this computer powers up since it will take a significant amount of its capacity.
I am tired of reading about all of the Chinese advancement and almost nothing about US advancements. 1. China send 3 people to their orbiting station. 2. China builds fastest supercomputer. 3. Chinese firm plans to build the world's tallest building in 90 days. 4. Chinese firm plans to build new canal in Nicaragua. Even these two projects are many years in the future. I just wish the US was doing something a little bit more positive than fighting or supporting fighters in 4 mid eastern countries
For the sake of argument lets assume there is a god. Why would we treat ourselves better than our so called creator? In the past mankind saw a horrific time where a lot of humans were savagely killed by weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, communicable diseases, carnivorous animals and by other humans. At first these humans relied mostly on instinct since humans did not even have language to express ideas like morality or love for one another. Throw someone into a swamp filled with creatures trying to kill that person and see if they come out with a loving attitude. It took humans many thousands of years to come up with a system to control our natural anger toward each other. Humans invented the golden rule and we do not have any reason to be thankful to any deity since that deity did nothing in the past just like that deity is doing nothing in the present. Any deity capable of creating a universe would be capable and willing to communicate with humans.
I have a fast 4 core computer with a GPU with a GByte of memory. Even with all of that, flash will bring it to a standstill. The worst is when the mouse pointer will not move. There are times when what I see lags behind what I am typing. There are times when after closing a program it takes several seconds before it disappears from the screen. I get messages about closing scripts before they make my computer look unresponsive. Most of those if not all have something to do with flash.
From an article about Mexican health care. Residents of USA, particularly those living near the Mexican border, now routinely cross the border into Mexico for medical care.[10] Popular specialties include dentistry and plastic surgery. Mexican dentists often charge 20 to 25 percent of US prices,[11] while other procedures typically cost a third what they would cost in the US.[10] The www.internationalliving.com site states that on average, an office visit with a doctor—specialists included—will cost about US$25, an overnight stay in a private hospital room costs about $35, and a visit to a dentist for teeth cleaning costs about $20. Some 40,000 to 80,000 American seniors spend their retirement years in Mexico with a considerable number receiving nursing home and health care.[12] This if from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Mexico. I guess the race to the bottom does not include health care like it does here in the United States. I live in Michigan where the republicans are trying to defeat any increase in Medicaid even if it does not cost the state any money for the first few years.
How about Randall Mills? He has been making claims a lot longer than Rossi. Here is an interesting article. http://www.martincwiner.com/power-from-water-at-bargain-basement-prices/. His site is blacklightpower.com. Even at this site there is no new press since May 22 of last year blacklightpower.com/press/. So I guess nothing much has happened in the past year.
I just started it to test it. I went to google news. I scrolled down and started to read a link. I was interrupted three times in less than a minute by two updates to the page and a pop up. I am trying to read and the screen is flashing with updates and pop ups. It is very annoying. At least put a button on the screen that would change color when an update is available so I can decide if I want to view it and for pop ups make them show up before I start to read because if I am reading I will become annoyed and will without thought close the pop up.
I have now installed Ubuntu 13.04 4 times and for every installation, I had to wait between 20 to 30 minutes for the files to download. After which I had to respond to a dialog box which had only one response. The response was forward. Only after clicking on it did it finish with the installation. I have a mixture of windows and Ubuntu computers. My windows computers do not recognize any of my Ubuntu computers. I do have a program called Network Magic that will tell me if my Ubuntu computers are on line so it can be done. My Ubuntu computers just give me an error message when I try to access my network. I do have a goflex network drive that is recognized by all of my windows computers but not any of my Ubuntu computers so it is hard to back up any of those to that network drive. Backing up one's computer should be done automatically after one shuts down the computer. Restoration should be part of the installation dvd as it should be able to recognize a network drive and a backup copy and ask if it should restore that copy. I recently got a laptop since it was not working. I found that the problem was the hard drive. Since the hard drive did not work it would not recover from the second partition. There was a sticker on it with the code for windows but it had long been worn off. I did not have a windows 7 installation disk and did not have a code so it would be difficult for me to reinstall windows. I installed Ubuntu on it. I did spend around a hour on the hp site but did not find a solution. I do not think anyone cares a lot after the sale.
It was probably just part of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud They been throwing stones at each other for over 150 years now.
Maybe it is because Seymour Cray died in 1996 of complications from a automobile accident. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray I would think that most people who have a passing interest in supercomputer would have known that fact. Seymour Cray did a lot of work in establishing the supercomputers. I can remember seeing his supercomputers on the cover of Popular Science back in the 70's. I think he deserves a little more respect than shown here by that remark.
I am now trying to upgrade a computer. I was surprised by the speed of the download since for a lot of the time I was getting around 10 mbps. I am suppose to get 30 but 10 was a lot better than I ever got with past upgrades especially on the first day. I left the upgrade after it started to install. I came back about an hour later to find that it was stuck on a message that the only response was forward. So I clicked on the forward button. The progress bar indicated about 5% so I hope that it does not expect me to continue to watch it for an hour or two so that I can tell it to continue.
I have heard the FBI have found a man with a compass, ruler, protractor, and a calculator. These are all instruments of math instruction. After questioning the man they found that he was a member of the al-gebra movement. They are now seeking anyone with knowledge of this al-gebra.
If the potential of these solar panel is so great, why can't they generate enough capital to purchase or rent time on a supercomputer? Why are they relying on 6,000 volunteers? I sure hope if something of monetary value comes out of this project, the volunteers are at least given something for their efforts.
I have read the Bradley Manning was an E2 in rank. I was in the military and it took only a couple of months to reach E2 in rank. So the army has so little amount of people with rank of E6 and above or an officer that they have to entrust that much power to an E2. To me that is the same as a bank manager giving someone in the bank who was hired just a couple of months ago with the responsibility of closing the safe, locking all the doors and setting the alarm. I once had access to top secret information but the rule was that the information was never accessed without someone else being present. So there is no way Manning should have had access or at the least have had access without someone else being there. The officer in charge should bear more responsibility than Manning. To me it is the same as someone leaving their money in a bag on their front lawn and wondering why it was stolen.
Would it had helped the USS Stark or the USS Cole? Here is an article on the Stark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_(FFG-31) and an article on the Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing. One can not defend a ship unless one is willing to use the weapons they had.