This is good news for Sun and all, I'm sure. But I think it's more of a marketing win for them then a financial win. $50/license x 1,000,000 licenses is 50 million dollars. That's nothing to sneeze at but to put it in perspective, a little while ago Sun was hemorrhaging One *Billion* Dollars (finger in side of mouth) per *quarter*. So I don't think this deal by it's self is going to make a big impact on Sun's finances. But it's a good start, and certainly lends credibility to part of their business model.
An even better question: What if all of us started putting this image in our slashdot signatures?
Seriously though, I don't think this image is much of a problem. On the other hand, some of the other tracking images from other services arn't so innocent: perhaps their web bugs should go on SlashDot. Hmm, on the other hand that could back fire, and give the nasty organization just that much more data to mine... and give them a view into Slashdot readership.
Could a company sue and individual for doing something like that? Would it be a violation of the DCMA or some such stupid thing?
SGI just had a big layoff in May. I should know, I got laid off on my birthday. SGI was a great place to work. Anyway, perhaps the person at SGI who was doing the nightlies also got laid off.
On a similar subject, anyone know of any job openings for someone who has worked as an electronics technician (with IRIX/UNIX experience), a business analyst, and a quality specialist(ISO 9002:1994 and ISO 9001:200)? After 13 years at SGI, I'm once more looking for work.
All versions of Mozilla work just fine with Hotmail, at least for me. It's passport which doesn't work fine. And just to log into your account, passport still works fine with Mozilla. But if you try to create a new passport account, it will demand IE (from my experience). So spoof IE to create your account, and then happily use Mozilla as is for the rest of the time.
They are thinking of making these records even MORE unreliable? There
are big problems with even the current system, as demonstrated by this
situation with one of my friends:
He gets a call from HR informing him that his wages will be garnished
by over 50% starting the next pay check, because they have received a
court order to collect back child support. My friend of course goes
through the roof, since he has never had a child and has only recently
been married.
After much calling around and agonizing he finally convinces them that
just because his name is the same name as this other person, he is NOT
that other person, particularly since in this case he would have had to
sire the child when he was 12 years old. Not impossible, but unlikely.
So, problem over, right? Wrong. Much later when he went to try and
purchase a home, he found it impossible because this person was now
linked to him in the financial institutions databases as well as the
justice systems.
Seems that the reason my friend was mistakenly identified in the first
place was because the justice system had so little information about
the identity of the true father to begin with. They had no social
security number for him, and were missing a lot of other data too. So
when they fingered my friend as the father, the various private and
government agencies which were trying to build a "picture" of this
person fleshed out the holes using my friend's data. Now, at this
point, no one knows who got what piece of data from who. Even when it's
discovered that another agency is using this bad data, it is very hard
and sometimes impossible to get the bad data removed. He continues to
discover more agencies/database where this bad information has
propagated to, and there is no tractability/accountability which would
allow him to to even identify what groups have gotten ahold of this
wrong information. He just continues to hit these "land mines" of bad
data as he tries to live his life.
Now, imagine if the situation had been different, and it was a
terrorist who's data had become confused with his? It strikes me that
in trying to track down a terrorist, (just like in my friends case),
the authorities may be missing big pieces of the puzzle... like social
security numbers and current addresses. In this case there was a
credible challenge to the accusations (that his being 12 when the child
was fathered). But suppose that there are no such glaring
inconsistencies (which is also entirely possible). In that case dude,
you are so screwed it's not even funny. Now I realize that my friends
situation didn't involve the FBI database, but the FBI database is
build from the other databases, and that's the problem.
So it's to my understanding from this article that the FBI now wants to
use data which is even more suspect then the current data. And I'm
fine with the idea that they may be using suspect data in an
investigation. When solving a case investigators have to try and line
up the pieces and see what fits even when they don't have everything
neatly laid out in front of them. That's what doing an investigation
is about; if all the facts were known, then it wouldn't be an
investigation. *BUT* Make sure that:
Suspect data is identified as being suspect
For tractability the source of data is identified as well as the
date and time of data entry.
All requests for data from other other agencies must be logged
and made available to the person for whom the data is about.
And MOST important of all, a procedure *MUST* be mandated which
allows for the update of the data in the individual organization AS
WELL AS any other organization which has received this data. These
update must be a push from the updating organization to the
requesting organization, and not a pull from the requesting
organization. If it is left for the requesting organizations to pull
the updates, they will not know when the data has changed, and will
still continue to base their assumptions on incorrect data.
It seems like the justice system needs a good ISO auditor.
Exactly what is this capital BIG DIFFERENCE you speak of? Whither they lose money on R&D costs or hardware costs, it is still lost money. Money down the drain doesn't know whither it was spent on hardware or software, only that it was spent period.
Okay, I can't find reference to it now, here is an example which from came from another slashdot poster. Symantec offered some product which was supposed to monitor what programs did to your system when they installed themselves self; what things they changed in the registry, where they installed components, and where they made other changes. It would also allow you to undo or prevent some of these things from occuring during the install, if the user desired. To do it's functions intelegently the Symantec product had it's own internal list of other companies products so that it would know about some of the nasty tricks some of these installed products would do durring installs. For this reason several companies sued or threatened to sue Symantec for "trademark infringement" (possibly under the DMCA, but I'm not sure), since Symantec's product contained their products names internally. Thus symantec had to dumb down their product, making it much less usefull.
Also note: the starshipexeter web site it's self appears to have a broken link for the embeded move for act 3. The URL I gave for act 3 worked for me at the time of this post.
Okay, since Amazon, CDNOW, B&N, and Borders all appear to be in bed togeather, what are the alternatives? I've spent lots of money with Amazon & CDNOW because they have good selection, and usually prety good prices. Is there a book and/or music store which has as good a selection and prices where I could spend my money instead?
* If the wings are removed, it will be easier for the parachutes to bring down the important part slowly.
Actually, this may not be true, and infact the opposite may be true. As was pointed out in the article, ultralights have been using this system for a while. What they didn't mention is that hangliders have been using a whole aircraft 'chute system for years. There are even rocket powered chutes for hangliders. Some of the newer hanglider parachutes are said to be so good that the impact is no more then that of steping off a high chair. Mine is an older one that you have to throw out by hand, and lands you at about 35mph . That's pretty hard, but it's better then 120mph. But, to my point, all hanglider 'chutes I'm aware of are made to bring down your glider and you at the same time. They count on the drag of the glider (broken or not) slowing your decent, and thus make the needed size of the parachute much smaller then parachutes ment for stand alone use. That allows my parachute to be about the size of a couple of kid's lunch boxes put together, where as stand alone parachutes take up a space the size of a very very large hiking pack (though admitedly reserve 'chutes are smaller).
The same might not be true for a conventional aircraft, but it's something to consider. 747 or a hanglider, the wings have to supply enough lift to keep the aircraft in the air, and thus have a certain amount of drag associated with them. Even 'copters can auto rotate if an engine fails, though they need to be above a certain height known as the "dead-mans" zone, where they don't have enough drop distance to spin up to auto-rotation speed. I've even heard a 'copter pilot claim to have been practicing auto rotation when he caught a thermal strong enough for him to GAIN elevation while applying no power. But that's a different topic.
True, once you use this system, your aircraft is junk. But as has been pointed out by others, if you are in a situation where you need this system, then your aircraft is junk anyway. The additional supporting fact which hasn't been pointed out is that even if you successfully land your floundering aircraft on a highway without using this system, and manage to no even put a scratch on it, the government is going to come in and dismantal it by cutting off the wings and straping it to a flat bed truck, By the time they are done no amount of work will allow you to get an air-worthyness certificate for that aircraft again. So one way or the other your aircraft is junk. But you are alive, and that will hopefully result less legal action from family members.
64MB eh? Pretty darn impressive! I have 192MB in this here laptop! I will sell it at a "discount" price of only $2000.00
Heh, pretty funny, but seriously though, this is just another example of why you should take journalism with a grain of salt. In fact, every article gives a different number for this mock system, the only thing which remains the same is the processor count and the price (sort of)
ZD net says: 128 processors and 64MB of memory sells for $2.9 million
Cnet says: 128 processors and 64GB of memory sells for $2.9 million
Info World says: 128 processors and 4G bytes of memory costs $2.93 million
I'm sure this sort of thing drives CEOs and celebrities nuts. No matter what you say, by the time it works it's way through the press it comes out mis-quoted and making you look like a dope. Since SGI's web site says the system can take up to 256GB of memeory, it's anyone's guess what the original quote was.
Not entirely correct. SGI processors put out much less heat and take much less current then most other processors. This is why such a system is possible in the first place. I would no be be surprised if the heat production and power use was in the same range as a typical system. After all, you can only extract so much heat from a given area when you just use fans and moving air, no mater who makes the system. If it had some sort of refrigeration system set up, I might agree with you. But it just uses air and fans like all the rest, and there is only so much heat you can remove in that manner.
Many large corporations channel their internet trafic though proxy servers. One person in the company running P2P software could result in a company of thousands being being blocked.
I'm not sure they thought this thing all the way through.
They are blocking the RIAA (which I could care less about), and they are also blocking users of P2P software. So the moral is don't be a dweeb on their network, whither you are the RIAA or a P2P user, and you will not get blocked, right? Wrong, at least I don't think so. I go through an ISP which uses dynamic IP assignment, as do many many people in this world. You can see where this is going now, can't you? You could easily be blocked from their networks just because some pimple faced kid who just happened to have your IP address an hour ago tried to download Britney's latest crap. Assuming their blocks never expire, then it is logical that most ISPs entire address range will eventually become blocked. Hmmm, not good.
Well, to be more precise the intensity and methods of modern farming is a sword of Damocles above us all. Even if we ignore the erosion of the top soil, the depletion of water levels is set to bring about famine of a scale never before seen. The midwest's Ogallala aquifer is being drained at unsustainable rates, and things are even worse in Arizona and Texas.
America isn't alone in this; the whole world is poised to lose it's fresh water resources.
I'm not saying that oil is GOOD, only that Ethanol is not the panacea many make it out to be, and it carries problems as severe as oil. The world needs a much different energy source, but that is a whole 'nother topic.
Not likely. There are only a few grams of this stuff available in the world. That makes it much easier to figure out where it came from.
The bigger threat would be from radioactive material gained from the medical comunity or some other industry which uses ratioactive material.
Take for example the children of a Mexican scrap dealer who opened up a container and found a glowing substance inside. some of them painted their bodies with it, and others went home to eat with residues of it on their hands. It turns out the container was taken from a closed down hospital, and was quite radioactive. Not all the children lived to reach the age where they would have known better.
Highly radioactive material is available from the crumbling infastructure in the former Soviet Union. Russia has already had an attempt on them, where a radio active dirty bomb was actually planted. Fortunatly for them, they caught it in time.
I'm sure it's my misunderstanding, but it seems they may not be
correctly accounting for the effect of gravity in their theory. In
their scientific article published at:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/20/11085 Their conclusion
states in part:
"In a reactor deep inside the Earth,
one would expect fission products, having an average density about 60%
that of actinides, to diffuse radially outward as the fuel
reconcentrates radially inward because of gravity."
But at the center of the earth gravity is a much weaker force. I would
guess that at the center of the earth, there would be no gravity, and
the area around the center of the earth would have negligible gravity;
sort of like how we see astronauts and satellites "floating" in orbit,
but in reality most are in a slowly decaying orbit. The formula for
calculating gravity & acceleration inside the earth is given at:
http://www.syvum.com/physics/gravitation/gravitati on2.html,
though even with these formulas my math skills are not sufficient
for me to answer my one last question:
Is there a point just outside the center
of the earth where gravity would actually pull you *UP*, since the bulk
of the earth's mass lays above you? If so, then the denser fuel
elements in this reactor would be pulled outward forming a layer
enclosing it's byproducts in the center, rather then the opposite as they
state in their theory.
There is nothing new about Carbon Fiber.
The supposedly 'original' thing here is NOT the material,
it's the structural design.
People have been using triangles in structural
designs for over 100 years. This looks like a
cool demonstration of what some basic engineering
principles can do with modern materials, but
nothing truly new or patentable. This may make an
interesting collage course, but the rest of the
hype seems to be just B.S.
Yes, some of the pictures are poorly faked,
but they are at least labeled as such.
Since this is nothing new, these material/
structure will have all the problems inherent with
any carbon fiber structure. They will be prone to
invisible stress fractures, breaking before
bending, and be $$. Don't get me wrong, carbon
fiber is great for some application. But it's generally
best for applications where constant inspection and
knowledgeable care can be continually provided. High performance
hang gliders are made from carbon fiber. Personally my hang glider
is good old aluminum. Much less $$$ and more forgiving of
stupidity for us beginners. And a telephone pole, a power
pole, or a street sign does not receive anywhere near the
maintenance, inspection, and care as even a beginner's hang glider.
If you want to see something truly NEW done with carbon fiber,
check this out. I must
admit *I* would have never thought to make
this item out of carbon fiber. And, incidently, I think THIS is
where these folks should put their patents.
When considering the validity of Turner's claims, it mus be remembered that he has no scruples to begin with. This is the same person who lobbied to have the govenment subsidize cable for people who couldn't afford it, so that everyone would have access to this wonderful medium. Of course this would also vastly expanding his customer base, and would cost Americans billions of dollars for the sake of increasing his profits. If his proposal had gone though, *I* would say that he was stealing from *ME*. But that seems to be okay in his book.
There IS a uninstaller for BDE. In my machine it was under C:/WINNT/bde/ and it was called bdeclean.exe It's also available from the uninstall program. Now for the bad news: The uninstaller left all sorts of files around, including a re-installer. As has been mentioned, do a find on BDE & B3D, but be sure to look under [properties] [Company Info] to make sure it's from Brilliant, since some windows files have bde in their name. The registry was also stuffed full of BDE entries, even after the 'official' uninstall. If it created any files which did not have bde in their name, or if it modified any.ini files, I have would have no idea. Anyone have any information on where else these files may be hiding?
IANAL, but I seriously doubt you as an end user can sue the spyware company. When you download their free software and click on the "I agree to your licensing terms" thing, you are almost certainly giving away your rights to claim damages due to anything their software does. The anti-spyware company may have a case, since their software is being damaged and they didn't sign any agreement. But if you look at it from that perspective, then the spyware company could also sue, since the anti-spyware company's sofware is also being damaged (disabled). The fact that one is voluntary by the user and the other apparently isn't is most likely irelevent, since when you download the package which contained the spyware and click on the user agreement you are undoubtably 'voluntarily' installing the spyware.
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This is good news for Sun and all, I'm sure. But I think it's more of a marketing win for them then a financial win. $50/license x 1,000,000 licenses is 50 million dollars. That's nothing to sneeze at but to put it in perspective, a little while ago Sun was hemorrhaging One *Billion* Dollars (finger in side of mouth) per *quarter*. So I don't think this deal by it's self is going to make a big impact on Sun's finances. But it's a good start, and certainly lends credibility to part of their business model.
An even better question: What if all of us started putting this image in our slashdot signatures?
Seriously though, I don't think this image is much of a problem. On the other hand, some of the other tracking images from other services arn't so innocent: perhaps their web bugs should go on SlashDot. Hmm, on the other hand that could back fire, and give the nasty organization just that much more data to mine... and give them a view into Slashdot readership.
Could a company sue and individual for doing something like that? Would it be a violation of the DCMA or some such stupid thing?
Trhy Simple MU
http://simplemu.onlineroleplay.com/
It even takes into account some of the "TF-isms" for those of us who are old Tiny Fugue users.
SGI just had a big layoff in May. I should know, I got laid off on my birthday. SGI was a great place to work. Anyway, perhaps the person at SGI who was doing the nightlies also got laid off.
On a similar subject, anyone know of any job openings for someone who has worked as an electronics technician (with IRIX/UNIX experience), a business analyst, and a quality specialist(ISO 9002:1994 and ISO 9001:200)? After 13 years at SGI, I'm once more looking for work.
All versions of Mozilla work just fine with Hotmail, at least for me. It's passport which doesn't work fine. And just to log into your account, passport still works fine with Mozilla. But if you try to create a new passport account, it will demand IE (from my experience). So spoof IE to create your account, and then happily use Mozilla as is for the rest of the time.
He gets a call from HR informing him that his wages will be garnished by over 50% starting the next pay check, because they have received a court order to collect back child support. My friend of course goes through the roof, since he has never had a child and has only recently been married.
After much calling around and agonizing he finally convinces them that just because his name is the same name as this other person, he is NOT that other person, particularly since in this case he would have had to sire the child when he was 12 years old. Not impossible, but unlikely.
So, problem over, right? Wrong. Much later when he went to try and purchase a home, he found it impossible because this person was now linked to him in the financial institutions databases as well as the justice systems.
Seems that the reason my friend was mistakenly identified in the first place was because the justice system had so little information about the identity of the true father to begin with. They had no social security number for him, and were missing a lot of other data too. So when they fingered my friend as the father, the various private and government agencies which were trying to build a "picture" of this person fleshed out the holes using my friend's data. Now, at this point, no one knows who got what piece of data from who. Even when it's discovered that another agency is using this bad data, it is very hard and sometimes impossible to get the bad data removed. He continues to discover more agencies/database where this bad information has propagated to, and there is no tractability/accountability which would allow him to to even identify what groups have gotten ahold of this wrong information. He just continues to hit these "land mines" of bad data as he tries to live his life.
Now, imagine if the situation had been different, and it was a terrorist who's data had become confused with his? It strikes me that in trying to track down a terrorist, (just like in my friends case), the authorities may be missing big pieces of the puzzle... like social security numbers and current addresses. In this case there was a credible challenge to the accusations (that his being 12 when the child was fathered). But suppose that there are no such glaring inconsistencies (which is also entirely possible). In that case dude, you are so screwed it's not even funny. Now I realize that my friends situation didn't involve the FBI database, but the FBI database is build from the other databases, and that's the problem.
So it's to my understanding from this article that the FBI now wants to use data which is even more suspect then the current data. And I'm fine with the idea that they may be using suspect data in an investigation. When solving a case investigators have to try and line up the pieces and see what fits even when they don't have everything neatly laid out in front of them. That's what doing an investigation is about; if all the facts were known, then it wouldn't be an investigation. *BUT* Make sure that:
- Suspect data is identified as being suspect
- For tractability the source of data is identified as well as the
date and time of data entry.
- All requests for data from other other agencies must be logged
and made available to the person for whom the data is about.
- And MOST important of all, a procedure *MUST* be mandated which
allows for the update of the data in the individual organization AS
WELL AS any other organization which has received this data. These
update must be a push from the updating organization to the
requesting organization, and not a pull from the requesting
organization. If it is left for the requesting organizations to pull
the updates, they will not know when the data has changed, and will
still continue to base their assumptions on incorrect data.
It seems like the justice system needs a good ISO auditor.Exactly what is this capital BIG DIFFERENCE you speak of? Whither they lose money on R&D costs or hardware costs, it is still lost money. Money down the drain doesn't know whither it was spent on hardware or software, only that it was spent period.
Okay, I can't find reference to it now, here is an example which from came from another slashdot poster. Symantec offered some product which was supposed to monitor what programs did to your system when they installed themselves self; what things they changed in the registry, where they installed components, and where they made other changes. It would also allow you to undo or prevent some of these things from occuring during the install, if the user desired. To do it's functions intelegently the Symantec product had it's own internal list of other companies products so that it would know about some of the nasty tricks some of these installed products would do durring installs. For this reason several companies sued or threatened to sue Symantec for "trademark infringement" (possibly under the DMCA, but I'm not sure), since Symantec's product contained their products names internally. Thus symantec had to dumb down their product, making it much less usefull.
Since the previous site got slashdoted they have moved the location of the movies. The links to the non embeded versions of the movies are now:
http://www.flapdoodle.org/exeter/teaser.mov
http://www.mit.edu/~pdox/exeter/actone.mov
http://web.mit.edu/pdox/www/exeter/acttwo.mov
http://web.mit.edu/pdox/www/exeter/actthree.mov
http://www.flapdoodle.org/exeter/tag.mov
Also note: the starshipexeter web site it's self appears to have a broken link for the embeded move for act 3. The URL I gave for act 3 worked for me at the time of this post.
Okay, since Amazon, CDNOW, B&N, and Borders all appear to be in bed togeather, what are the alternatives? I've spent lots of money with Amazon & CDNOW because they have good selection, and usually prety good prices. Is there a book and/or music store which has as good a selection and prices where I could spend my money instead?
* If the wings are removed, it will be easier for the parachutes to bring down the important part slowly.
Actually, this may not be true, and infact the opposite may be true. As was pointed out in the article, ultralights have been using this system for a while. What they didn't mention is that hangliders have been using a whole aircraft 'chute system for years. There are even rocket powered chutes for hangliders. Some of the newer hanglider parachutes are said to be so good that the impact is no more then that of steping off a high chair. Mine is an older one that you have to throw out by hand, and lands you at about 35mph . That's pretty hard, but it's better then 120mph. But, to my point, all hanglider 'chutes I'm aware of are made to bring down your glider and you at the same time. They count on the drag of the glider (broken or not) slowing your decent, and thus make the needed size of the parachute much smaller then parachutes ment for stand alone use. That allows my parachute to be about the size of a couple of kid's lunch boxes put together, where as stand alone parachutes take up a space the size of a very very large hiking pack (though admitedly reserve 'chutes are smaller).
The same might not be true for a conventional aircraft, but it's something to consider. 747 or a hanglider, the wings have to supply enough lift to keep the aircraft in the air, and thus have a certain amount of drag associated with them. Even 'copters can auto rotate if an engine fails, though they need to be above a certain height known as the "dead-mans" zone, where they don't have enough drop distance to spin up to auto-rotation speed. I've even heard a 'copter pilot claim to have been practicing auto rotation when he caught a thermal strong enough for him to GAIN elevation while applying no power. But that's a different topic.
True, once you use this system, your aircraft is junk. But as has been pointed out by others, if you are in a situation where you need this system, then your aircraft is junk anyway. The additional supporting fact which hasn't been pointed out is that even if you successfully land your floundering aircraft on a highway without using this system, and manage to no even put a scratch on it, the government is going to come in and dismantal it by cutting off the wings and straping it to a flat bed truck, By the time they are done no amount of work will allow you to get an air-worthyness certificate for that aircraft again. So one way or the other your aircraft is junk. But you are alive, and that will hopefully result less legal action from family members.
Heh, pretty funny, but seriously though, this is just another example of why you should take journalism with a grain of salt. In fact, every article gives a different number for this mock system, the only thing which remains the same is the processor count and the price (sort of)
I'm sure this sort of thing drives CEOs and celebrities nuts. No matter what you say, by the time it works it's way through the press it comes out mis-quoted and making you look like a dope. Since SGI's web site says the system can take up to 256GB of memeory, it's anyone's guess what the original quote was.
Not entirely correct. SGI processors put out much less heat and take much less current then most other processors. This is why such a system is possible in the first place. I would no be be surprised if the heat production and power use was in the same range as a typical system. After all, you can only extract so much heat from a given area when you just use fans and moving air, no mater who makes the system. If it had some sort of refrigeration system set up, I might agree with you. But it just uses air and fans like all the rest, and there is only so much heat you can remove in that manner.
Many large corporations channel their internet trafic though proxy servers. One person in the company running P2P software could result in a company of thousands being being blocked.
They are blocking the RIAA (which I could care less about), and they are also blocking users of P2P software. So the moral is don't be a dweeb on their network, whither you are the RIAA or a P2P user, and you will not get blocked, right? Wrong, at least I don't think so. I go through an ISP which uses dynamic IP assignment, as do many many people in this world. You can see where this is going now, can't you? You could easily be blocked from their networks just because some pimple faced kid who just happened to have your IP address an hour ago tried to download Britney's latest crap. Assuming their blocks never expire, then it is logical that most ISPs entire address range will eventually become blocked. Hmmm, not good.
I'm not saying that oil is GOOD, only that Ethanol is not the panacea many make it out to be, and it carries problems as severe as oil. The world needs a much different energy source, but that is a whole 'nother topic.
The bigger threat would be from radioactive material gained from the medical comunity or some other industry which uses ratioactive material.
Take for example the children of a Mexican scrap dealer who opened up a container and found a glowing substance inside. some of them painted their bodies with it, and others went home to eat with residues of it on their hands. It turns out the container was taken from a closed down hospital, and was quite radioactive. Not all the children lived to reach the age where they would have known better.
Highly radioactive material is available from the crumbling infastructure in the former Soviet Union. Russia has already had an attempt on them, where a radio active dirty bomb was actually planted. Fortunatly for them, they caught it in time.
"In a reactor deep inside the Earth, one would expect fission products, having an average density about 60% that of actinides, to diffuse radially outward as the fuel reconcentrates radially inward because of gravity."
But at the center of the earth gravity is a much weaker force. I would guess that at the center of the earth, there would be no gravity, and the area around the center of the earth would have negligible gravity; sort of like how we see astronauts and satellites "floating" in orbit, but in reality most are in a slowly decaying orbit. The formula for calculating gravity & acceleration inside the earth is given at: http://www.syvum.com/physics/gravitation/gravitati on2.html,
though even with these formulas my math skills are not sufficient
for me to answer my one last question:
Is there a point just outside the center of the earth where gravity would actually pull you *UP*, since the bulk of the earth's mass lays above you? If so, then the denser fuel elements in this reactor would be pulled outward forming a layer enclosing it's byproducts in the center, rather then the opposite as they state in their theory.
Okay, to summarize:
URL for fusion lighting which gets behind their 'under construction link'. Url has links leading to the rest of the site:
http://www.fusionlighting.com/special.htm
When considering the validity of Turner's claims, it mus be remembered that he has no scruples to begin with. This is the same person who lobbied to have the govenment subsidize cable for people who couldn't afford it, so that everyone would have access to this wonderful medium. Of course this would also vastly expanding his customer base, and would cost Americans billions of dollars for the sake of increasing his profits. If his proposal had gone though, *I* would say that he was stealing from *ME*. But that seems to be okay in his book.
There IS a uninstaller for BDE. In my machine it was under C:/WINNT/bde/ and it was called bdeclean.exe It's also available from the uninstall program. Now for the bad news: The uninstaller left all sorts of files around, including a re-installer. As has been mentioned, do a find on BDE & B3D, but be sure to look under [properties] [Company Info] to make sure it's from Brilliant, since some windows files have bde in their name. The registry was also stuffed full of BDE entries, even after the 'official' uninstall. If it created any files which did not have bde in their name, or if it modified any .ini files, I have would have no idea. Anyone have any information on where else these files may be hiding?
IANAL, but I seriously doubt you as an end user can sue the spyware company. When you download their free software and click on the "I agree to your licensing terms" thing, you are almost certainly giving away your rights to claim damages due to anything their software does. The anti-spyware company may have a case, since their software is being damaged and they didn't sign any agreement. But if you look at it from that perspective, then the spyware company could also sue, since the anti-spyware company's sofware is also being damaged (disabled). The fact that one is voluntary by the user and the other apparently isn't is most likely irelevent, since when you download the package which contained the spyware and click on the user agreement you are undoubtably 'voluntarily' installing the spyware.
Yes. Alias/Wavefront. is a high end profesional package. And it runs on Linux.