IBM runs World Community Grid. It has hundreds of thousands of members but only a small percent are active, If generates about 1,500,000 results a day. Now the fastest supercomputer should be able to that in under an hour. But I think it is very expensive just to program for a supercomputer. That is why IBM continues to ask for volunteers to generate those results. It must take a lot of computing power just to download the work units and upload the results. The results are checked to ensure they are correct. I think they do this by sending the same work unit to at least two different computers and then checking to make sure they send back the same results. IBM used to generate close to 150,000 results a day but now it is around 15,000. I guess IBM switched over to apple computes and not enough of them have bothered to install the program on these new computers. IBM has been doing this for 15 years now and I assume that they have spent a significant amount of money doing this. I also assume that the amount of money is less than it would take to use their fastest supercomputer.

You claim to be Christian. Jesus tells us to love our enemies but you claim to hate everyone unless they meet your standards. That is totally opposite of Christianity so better read your bible again. The belief that someone deserves an eternity in hell is used to justify wars and other evil behavior and definitely contradicts the love your enemy verse. A infinity of lifetimes to learn what is needed is the only loving way a god could be. A god could create a universe where only one person is real and everyone else is fake to spare the pain that the real person would cause.

I have a suggestion. Dig a tunnel under Lake Michigan at my hometown of Ludington, Michigan to Wisconsin. In the middle dig another tunnel perpendicular to this one. Above that tunnel put several windmills. The first tunnel would have the transmission lines to either side for the electricity produced by the windmills. The second tunnel would be used to pump air into it when there is excess electricity produced. When there is a need for electricity and little or no wind than the compressed air would be used to produce electricity. Mason County has already a pumped storage plant and 56 windmills so this would give even more importance to this area.

I can remember a long time ago shopping at a store where there were just cards instead of products. One would take the cards to the checkout and pay for those products. Then the products would appear on a conveyor belt and be put if bags for the customer. Walmart now has a pickup place where one can preorder items and someone will shop for you and you just have to pick them up and pay for them. I think this will lead to a virtual store where everyone will shop online either using a phone or computer and a location at the store where one could use a store owned computer. In any case, one would not enter the store where the merchandise was located. If the merchandise was picked up by robots than the merchandise could be stacked to the ceiling and the isle could be made very narrow. I would think they could store all of the merchandise in less than half the space now needed and if a lot of people shop elsewhere and just pick up their items than they could get by with a lot smaller parking lot too. I would look forward to having stores with about a third of their space and more products and a more convenient way of shopping.

On average there are 210 cloudy days a year in BuIffalo so I do not think that many people there will be using the shingles. I live on the east coast of Lake Michigan and there is little use for the shingles here too as there are not enough sunny days here. If they are a good bargain then the power providers would cover the cost of the shingles and recover that cost by keeping my electrical bill the same.

There are people starving but feeding cattle is much more important. Why? Because red meat is the best health food? It is not. So we are starving people to produce less healthy foods to satisfy our taste buds. Watch the movie "Forks over knives". If one still eats a lot of red meat than their empathy toward the cattle, other people, and themselves should be increased.

If there were a new species of ants in your neighbors back yard, I am sure that you and a lot more people would be contacting them. Humans would be a new species to any advanced alien race so I also sure they would want to examine us. I am also sure that if anyone could find a way to communicate with any ants, a lot of people would doing so because I am sure the ants could teach us humans a thing or two.

Preaching against watching porn does not reduce the amount of porn being watched but only makes people lie and feel bad about watching porn. There was a time in the distant past when human survival was dependent on humans having multiple partners. Those whose brain rewarded them for this behavior reproduced more and passed this on to their descendants. Tiger Woods is a perfect example of this. Even with an almost perfect mate, his brain rewarded him when he had sex with other women. Which is worse?
1. Watching a movie where it shows how to give pleasure to another human.
2. Watching a movie where it shows how to murder another human.
I just watched a Netflix movie where a large number of humans were killed. The worst was when a woman who was holding on to a ledge of a building was shot point blank and another where a young girl was placed in a box and burned to death.
I am sure there would be calls to shut down Netflix if it shows two women giving oral sex to each other but I am sure this movie will not generate much opposition.

Christian does not want to learn things if those things disprove their most cherished beliefs. The stories of Adam and Eve and Noah are the basis of Christianity. Science is making it harder to believe in them. So the question is "Which one to throw out either science or religion?" Christian are deciding science.

1. Figure out how much one spends on energy now.
2. Figure out how much one would spend after the system is installed.
3. Divide savings into the cost of the system to determine how many years it will take to recover the investment.
4. If the system is so great the number of years will not be great so Google should be able to install system for free by just charging the same amount for energy as they were paying.
5. Google makes money at no expense to the homeowner.

Donald Trump says he is going to save a trillion dollars by using technology to increase the efficiency of the government. Even though unemployment is low he wants to eliminate Obamacare taxes on the rich since he calls them job killing taxes. So even though he is going to save a trillion dollars and unemployment is already low he has to take away a trillion dollars from people's health care. Only Republicans will think that is logical.

There is technology that will change our life far more than what was shown in that video. In the near future, most people will live in underground homes. There will be underground transportation tunnels. A central computer will know where every vehicle is at all times so there will be no need for lidar on those vehicles. No driving in rain or snow or on wet or icy roads. There will be no wildlife so driving will be so much easier. Home will not suffer from weather damage and will be a lot more secure since it will take the owner's permission just to get to the front door. How many jobs will be lost that now depend on damage to either vehicles or homes? Homes will be virtually self-cleaning so that will eliminate maids. Meals will be delivered so there will be no need for a kitchen. There will be no need for police monitoring our roads since no vehicle will be allowed to break any rules. The big problem will be when someone awakens and realizes that there in no need for that person to get out of bed. There will be no sense of accomplishments and we can not live our life playing video games.

How about paying more for house insurance since the internet will be able to detect problems such as fire, break-in and even gas or water leaks. How about paying more for electricity since they will not be able to reduce peak demand by delaying your dryer, dishwasher, air conditioner or any heavy electrical using device? Those who do not cooperate because they value their privacy to a computer, not another human being, will cause problems to those who do. I see the day when the internet will be able to detect problems such as someone having a heart attack or stroke, or even a nasty fall and being able to do something about it. The internet of things will make most people's life a lot more secure and safe. Maybe if Prince and Robin Williams were connected than they might still be alive today.

i like to brag about the area where I live. I live in Ludington, Michigan which is in Mason County. Mason County has. 56 large windmills. It is also the home of a very large pumped storage plant. They are spending close to a billion dollars upgrading it. It is also very close to the deepest part of Lake Michigan. In a recent slashdot article someone was studying a proposal to put a sphere underwater to contain compressed air to generate power so maybe they could put one in Lake Michigan and put windmills out in the middle of the lake out of sight of our tourists. Ludington has a very nice port so people could get to the windmills without many problems. For a Country of about 25,000 people, it is very impressive.

I say to all Democrats is to boycott the state of the union speech. Trump has absolutely nothing of value to say therefore it is a complete waste of time listening to him. He has proven that he considers anything the Democrats say to be of no value so they should return the favor and not consider anything he says to have any value at all, This decision is the worst possible and put him with every evil dictator that has ever existed so I consider him to be on par with Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. I hope the world response with imposing as many tariffs on American good as they can possibly do. Only when our trade balance gets worse will Trump listen to reason.