More Issues To Discuss

Writing all of these articles for you, dear reader, is a bit time consuming to be direct about it. I have to go through a number of sources to see if there is anything to write about in the first place. Then I actually have to sit down in front of my computer and complete something which I hope is valuable for you to read.

It is not an easy task because I want to make sure that what I write is as accurate as it can be based on the information that I have found. I want to give you that information so that you can determine what is the best position for you as well. Of course, I am very hopeful that what I say can be supported by you. If you are opposed even after reading what I write, well that is what life is all about.

As I am sure that you appreciate, I write about all kinds of interesting matters on here. Yes, I probably write too much on border issues but I have been trying to write fewer articles because most of what I am saying now is what I have been saying for so many years before. I just look around now for all kinds of other interesting matters that I think that you might be interested in reading about.

You must have figured out as well why I actually put together these articles and distribute them. Sure, I am getting older and want to keep my brains in good shape by making them do some work. However a lot of what I do in life in general now is designed to help me after my serious illness of several years ago. It just makes my mind work and be as successful as possible in what it is trying to achieve.

Of course, dear reader, if there is something that interests you, feel free to send me a note about it and I will try to do an article on that subject if it is something that I think is useful for me to do.

NOW HE TALKS ABOUT THE PROBLEM

He is going to run to be re-elected as Mayor of Windsor.  Now we know.  However here is an issue for him.

I am sure that there might be an election issue that comes up for a number of people in one region of the City. This issue might be something that not only people who live in the area might be concerned about but also those who run a business there, especially those whose clients come from the US through the Tunnel.

Here is the story:

"Dilkens frustrated with delay in completing Windsor-Detroit Tunnel repairs

Mayor Drew Dilkens is concerned that repairs to the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel, supposed to be complete at the end of June, will now only finish sometime in the fall. (Craig Pearson, Windsor Star, July 16, 2018) 

I am not really going to report on the story because that is not what interests me. What is more fascinating is for you to go to that website and read the story yourself, dear reader.

Tell me after you do what the role of Drew Dilken is. The story is very interesting to me because it keeps telling us that Dilkens is the Mayor of Windsor. However, it does not make it clear, as far as I am concerned anyway, that he is on the Board of Directors of the Canadian owner of the Tunnel. It is his organization that has the big delay in completing its Tunnel project. In other words, he would be criticizing himself!

I would just love to see the Mayor slamming the Tunnel Board member, himself in other words, because of the delay. That probably will not happen. After all, the Tunnel delay could cost the Mayor some votes.

PROCESSING DATA

Does anyone have the faintest idea about what our future will be like because of computers and the programs that work with them? I would like you to read this story, dear reader. I am certain that you will find it very educational:

“How Fortnite approaches analytics, cloud to analyze petabytes of game data” (Larry Dignan, ZDNET, July 22, 2018)

Hmmm. So you do not understand it. No problem, because I don't have the faintest clue about what the story means in any great detail either. Oh, just so you know, here is what a petabyte means:

“To store a single PB would take over 745 million floppy disks or 1.5 million CD-ROM discs” (Tim Fisher, Lifewire, May 10, 2018) 

Epic Games….Have you ever heard about that company? I am certain that your answer similar to mine… No!

Again, I really don't understand what they do but here is an explanation of it”

“Epic is an interesting case study because it has more than 125 million of Fortnite users, millions of players concurrent and telemetry data used for analytics, KPI tracking and product improvements. In addition, Epic's Unreal Engine is widely used for everything from game creation to content to enterprise applications.

"We have stretched capacity to the limits," said Dyl. He noted that Fortnite has grown 100x in recent months. Indeed, Epic has seen outages as Fortnite has grown and the company has used post mortems of those incidents to refine its architecture.”

Pretty impressive isn't it? I assume that is because the numbers are so large. I think it would be worthwhile for you to read the story just to give you an idea about what working with computers and software means to us today and how our lives change because of it.

Now I am sure that you will not find this mathematical information that I am going to present all that useful either other than to tell you that what we will experience down the road will be situations that will be so strange to us now. All that I can appreciate is how my life has changed so dramatically since I bought my children some Commodore 64 computers many years ago to learn how to use this new system. No wonder I cannot even imagine now what will happen ahead of us:

                            BYTE TABLE

 

“Note: If you're curious what would come next in this table: 1024 yottabytes is equal to one brontobyte, and 1024 of those is called a geopbyte (the number 1 with 30 digits after it!)” (Lifewire)

I think it is time for me to stop. I just can't imagine what all this may mean even a few years from now.