I forgot that router should also have a 8 core microprocessor with 20 GBytes of ram memory and 120 GBytes of SSD and a Terabyte of hard drive space. Wireless keyboard and mouse should be able to communicate with router so any television should be able to be used as a monitor for that computer. Of course all of this should be available for around a $100 a month.

I was hoping that this would free me from purchasing a lot of equipment. I was hoping the cable company would purchase the router and place on pole around my house. I would than purchase adapters for every television and have wireless reception. I would than purchase cordless phones with the base being the router. I would not have to purchase a video recorder since the cable company would record all the channels I receive and allow me to choose what time to watch them. Until this happens, I will not be excited by any advance in routers.

I see so if someone makes let say $50,000 a year they should not be allowed to purchase a home that is worth more than $150,000. But that would be 3 times so I guess you would limit it to $100,000. I think most of the homes purchased today would never be purchased under your plans. Every dollar spent on assets does not increase the deficit since it is less money that future governments will have to spend. I think that would include every road, building, military equipment(aircraft carriers, planes, tanks and guns etc etc), and even money spent on educating people. Those are the very first things you republicans would decrease with the exception of the military.

I used to program computers for a living. When I would troubleshoot the program I would deliberately do the dumbest things I could so I could ensure that the program would reject that input. I had a saying that if the computer could check the input it should do so and if the computer could determine what the user wanted than it should also do that. Linux or any other operating system should have a program to duplicate the hard drive. Once given that command it should first be able to duplicate the second partition on the second drive and than be able to boot from that second partition and duplicate the first partition to the second drive. Finally it should be able to reboot from the new hard drive with all the programs running. Hell! even if there is no second partition, it should be able to create one for this purpose. If I am able to think of this than the authors of an operating system should be too. Computers are suppose to make live easier and if some well payed programmer can not make using that computer easier, I suggest that programmer look for another job. I know why Microsoft does not do this because they would lose money from people who go out and buy another copy of widows but Linux does not depend on people buying it because it is free. It is I who think you do not have any empathy for anyone but yourself.

That is absolutely correct especially if one had already learned window's commands. I have been using a Ubuntu computer for several years now. I just recently purchased a SSD. I found it so difficult to transfer my programs from the hard drive to the SSD that I just ended up reinstalling all of them. In windows I could just right click on the hard drive directory and send the program to the desktop. I also tried to duplicate a hard drive to an external hard drive. The program I was using could not do that until I opened up a terminal and did some commands before executing the program. It had something to do with the root directory being ram memory. All of the devices were in the directory /dev or something like that. The funny thing about that was that I thought that a terminal was a program to communicate with another computer. I have used dos commands to get around a hard drive but commands like rd cd.. cd \, using a letter for all devices are not used in linux. I still do not know how to get how much free space there is on a device. Open up windows explorer and one can easily find that out. I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a SSD. I found that it would lock my computer if it was inactive for a few minutes. I thought that was something to do with a screen saver so I tried to right click on the screen like I do in windows. After trying to search for screen saver in the help program and getting no help, I finally saw desktop locking but only after several minutes. I tolerate linux(Ubuntu) because I do not want to purchase a copy of windows(I purchase the components of the computer and made it myself so it never had windows).

This is like a child who has not opened all of their Christmas presents and yet demands more. The Cern Collider is not even at maximum power yet. At least wait until a couple of years of using it at maximum power before deciding that we need a new one. How about the one that is on the international space station? I thought that there were collision from particles from super nova that were much more powerful than even the new Cern Collider. At least play with the toys you have now before asking for new ones.

I would like to see replacing every central light in a room with a device that would be a camera, speaker, microphone, thermometer, and a device that could smell odors This device would communicate with the home computer. It should be able to detect fire by site, heat, sound, and odor. It should be able to reduce false alarms to zero. It should be able to detect gas leaks by smell. It should be able to detect water leaks and break ins by sound. It should be able to detect the heart beat of anyone in the room by sound. It should be able to detect any problem in the house and have the ability to seek help. It could call the fire department and transmit the smell, heat, sound and picture of any house on fire.

Who is to say that porn is bad? How many spouses learn a trick or two that they can use to better satisfy their partner? How many parents would rather have their teenage children watch porn rather than explaining the fine points of having sex? Why should society make a teenager satisfy his or her sexual needs with a partner rather than watching some porn? Porn has been freely available for about 20 years and their is no correlation between the availability of porn and any negative consequences such as rape, teenage sex, or divorces. These are trending down rather than a large increase that would correspond with the large increase in the availability of free porn.

A 75x increase is absolutely needed if they are going to continue to make faster supercomputers. IBM is trying to make a 1,000 Petaflops supercomputer before the end of this decade. That supercomputer would require a Gigawatt of power to run at a Gigaflop per watt. Now one is talking about a nuclear power plant to generate enough power to run the computer. At a dollar per watt one is also talking about spending a billion dollars on the power plant which is a lot more money than they plan on spending to build the supercomputer. United States is not the only one trying as so is China, Russia, India, European Union, and Japan. So someone will probably invent a way to reduce power needs. It would be nice if it were invented in the United States.

There is no way anyone can make an intelligent decision on what to purchase today. There are way too many variables so one can only guess. I am sure that a Gigaflops per watt is much better than the computer I am typing on now. So if they can go to 75 Gigaflops per watt why would anyone buy a computer again since a dump terminal could be better. But that decision would take a lot more knowledge than I have and I know a lot more about computers than the average person. I contribute to a project sponsored by IBM called world community grid. They send work to volunteers who in return send back results. Now IBM is the leading contributor to this cause. I look into their stats and I find that they have over a 100,000 computers. I would think that the cost in electricity to run so many computers would be more than the cost of running a supercomputer and giving everyone a dump terminal. Since they contribute about 50,000 results a day, I would think that they would prohibit this program on personal computers and use the money that they would save in electricity to run a supercomputer. I do not know why they are doing this but I can only assume they have an intelligent CEO who would make the right decision. So until they centralize their computer needs, I guess purchasing a new personal computer is the correct decision. Maybe Google will allow chrome users to upload all of their cpu intensive programs to a centralized computer so no one will need a fast computer. So again how do I make an intelligent decision?

I am not going to go into all the solutions that have been proposed just on /. in the past two years as it seems that there is at least one a day. I really believe that someone who is being born today will be almost totally bored in their twenties. Most everything will be done by robots for them. One will talk to a computer like one talks to another human. Sex will not make it into the top 10 things to do so reproducing will be a very hard chore that most people will avoid. We will find ways to lower our energy needs. Before 2100 we will probably find a way to keep our brains alive and provide a complete artifical world for everyone. In that case people will exist while using very little energy. Just look at our television today. A 19 inch will use just $4 a year in energy cost. I have my doubts that it has not already happened and I am already in that artifical world.

I find it amusing that they can claim 1Gbps speed. I just tested my internet speed and was told that I have 21Mbps download speed. So I tested how long it took me to get to this article. It took about 5 seconds to download /. and 3 more to download this article with all the comments. So a total of 8 seconds times 21Mbps or a total of 168 million bits or 21 million bytes. I did not come close to downloading that amount of data so my effective speed was much lower than that. I bet even if I did have the Gbps internet speed I would still have to wait for the upload speed on the /. side. It just seems to me if 1000 people were on the internet at the same time than the ISP would have to have a terabit per second speed to keep that speed going. Maybe they can download a Gbps but I am sure that everyone has a time slot that they are downloading to us and that would be a small fraction of each seconed we are waiting for our download to complete.

I recently purchased a ssd for my Ubuntu computer. I searched for a means to copy my hard drive to the ssd. The results I got was a hardware device to copy one drive to another. I was looking for a software solution so I gave up and installed a new copy of Ubuntu to the ssd and reinstalled all of my programs. It took me hours to accomplish since I had to download Ubuntu and all of the upgrades and all of my programs. I now have a terabyte hard driven that will probably never be used since I doubt that the ssd will ever be filled. I do not know if Ubuntu is smart enough to store a lengthly file such as a movie on the hard drive rather than the ssd.

Capitalism is when the market(read you & I) control the price. That is right because you & I do not care at what price that product is made. Nevermind total cost of ownership. Nevermind when the total amount of energy used in its lifetime would make the more expensive one cost far less. Nevermind when the product will break so quickly that the more expensive one would have been cheaper. Nevermind making our foods heathy because it is not our concern how much health care cost. Nevermind how many people we pay at wages far less than the true cost to them because we can not afford universal health care. Nevermind the polution that comes from making this product. Nevermind the cost of disposing the product when it becomes useless. Nevermind supporting the product in the near future so when a cheap part breaks we can sell them a new one instead of repairing the old one. Yes capitalism keeps prices cheap because everyone hopes that they can be treated fairly but at the expense of treating everyone else very poorly.

I have VMware on this computer. I just downloaded the latest version. I am running vista and have installed xp on vmware. I did this because I have several games that will not run on vista or 7. They will not even run on windows xp after a certain update. I do not know which but they will run on windows xp with no service packs. The only way I can install a program is on the cd drive since it will not access my network or any usb flash drive. It will get on the internet but like I said before the only use I get out of it is the ability to run some old games.