"There is no completely safe way of doing anything."
Untrue rhethoric.
Do you consider coal power (cf. 1,000,000 deaths per year) acceptably safe?
No, but the problem isn't coal per se, from what I can see, it is the greed and irresponsibility of the power planet owners that cause these deaths.
"How many people have actually died as a result?"
Way to many. Of couse, since it doesn't seem to affect you personally, you continue merrily on in denial.
If major industrial concerns carried their own weight and if we had invested properly in research concerning alternatives and if the market wasn't corrupt, yes, by now, we would have an economical, non polluting energy system.
We have the technology. What we don't have is ethical and responsible leadership.
I believe that you can thank all of those who turn their backs on these issues due to the privileges they enjoy.
Go on, justify evil some more. Ignore the suffering of billions. You must be so proud.
Hyper-focus? I have no idea what you mean. I simply made note of apparent misunderstanding on your part and then used that to question the validity of your conclusion. Perhaps you're being a little hyper-sensative?
By the way, just to be clear. After much study and thought I have found that there is no perfectly safe, or even acceptably safe method of building nuclear power plants on earth.
I do agree designs are better. Are they perfect? Hardly. Every engineer will tell you there's no such thing as a perfect system. For example, the nuclear power industry tried quite hard from the get go to build "safe" reactors, Here is the result:
Once you've read through as many studies on operator error in control rooms as I have, then we can talk. In the interm, perhaps you should trust me when I say, it can't safely be done.
As well, the economics are not as good as you've been led to believe. See:
Nuclear Power is Uneconomical
Since its beginning, nuclear power has cost this country over $492,000,000,000 -- nearly twice the cost of the Viet Nam War and the Apollo Moon Missions combined. In return for this investment, we have an energy source that, until the mid-1980's, gave us less energy in this country than did the burning of firewood! In the U.S., nuclear power contributes only 20-22% of our electricity, and only 8-10% of our total energy consumption. In Illinois these percentages are much greater due to Commonwealth Edison's over-reliance on nuclear power.
Since 1950, nuclear power has received over $97,000,000,000 in direct and indirect subsidies from the federal government, such as deferred taxes, artificially low limits on liability in case of nuclear accidents, and fuel fabrication write-offs. No other industry has enjoyed such privilege.
According to a recent study conducted by the Citizens Utility Board, Commonwealth Edison's customers now pay the highest electric bills in the Midwest, due primarily to the over-reliance on nuclear power plants.
Many costs for nuclear power have been deliberately underestimated by government and industry such as the costs for the permanent disposal of nuclear wastes, the "decommissioning" (shutting-down and cleaning-up) of retired nuclear power plants, and nuclear accident consequences. In January, 1994, Commonwealth Edison acknowledged that it had to nearly double its estimate for reactor decommissioning -- from $2.3 billion to as much as $4.1 billion! http://www.neis.org/literature/Brochures/npfacts.h tm
Yes, and hurridly voting for one of a privileged few is a shallow and ineffective method of participation that lazy people use to justify thier self serving belief that they actually contribute.
Yes, I have voted. As well, I've been a volunteer election official, and I've contributed to and worked on several campaigns. As well, I volunteer my time to several community and advocacy groups. And you?
Oh, by the way, the last two initiatives I was involved with were both circumvented after being enacted by a successful popular vote.
Powerful people are rarely deterred. That's the reality.
I'm sorry if I've come across as dogged. However, after much study, I've come to the conclusion that despite much better designs, there are none that are "perfect" nor are there any organizations that I currently trust enough to oversee the operation of a less than perfectly safe nuclear powerplant. Given what I perceived as a fundamental misrepresentation concerning the nature of hydrogen as an alternate energy "source", I simply felt that reflected poorly on your support for the nuclear industry on the whole.
Yes, I agree, nuclear powerplant design has improved dramatically. But as a MMI designer of SCADA software, I can assure you that there is no such thing as an error free control room.
Therefore, I believe your endorsement of the potential for nuclear energy should be reconsidered.
See:
Consideration of human factors and the quantification of the reliability of human performance arise frequently in the safety analysis of nuclear power plants especially in this era in which risk quantification plays an important role in the regulatory process. It is likely that human factor and human reliability analysis will remain important issues even for advanced reactors that emphasize passively safe designs. http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acrs/letters/2002/4952008.html
Personally, I believe that your belief represents a common and fundamental misunderstanding. From my perspective, you've mistakenly put the cart before horse, of course.
The simple truth, as far as I can see is, if the act of voting was capable of effecting real change and if people could vote for whomsoever they choose to, then, and only then, would people choose to spend their irreplaceable time by voting.
Or, if you like, simply, I will vote only when there is someone I respect and trust enough to vote for. Ok?
Furthermore, that so few vote these days is a sure sign of an awakening and intelligent electorate. One can only hope that "the people" will someday grow totally tired of seeing their rights and responsibilities being corrupted by the overly affluent.
Last but not least, cynically speaking, I've observed that very few people are ever truly willing to give more than they get, generally speaking. By the way, welcome to politics.
Nitpicking? Hardly, in fact, I suggest you follow your own advice and try using Google. Or better yet, try to do some real research. A good start is here:
From where I am , it clearly seems that you possess only a layperson's understanding of these issues, which, logically led to my second point.
However, with a little effort on your part, I'm sure you'll be able to hold up your end of this discussion. At that time, if you're still of the same mind (doubtful), please, feel free to drop me a line so we can continue...
Besides all that, we're seriously running out of DU after generously donating so much to Iraq.
Actually, as well, since it would be "produced", hydrogen isn't really a source of "power" it's actually more of a distribution system and in light of that, I'm not exactly sure I can trust your appraisal of the state of integrity and safety within the entire global nuclear power industry
Actually, I'm quite comfortable with my understanding of Capitalism. In fact to me, your justifications wonderfully illustrate my point.
1) A capitalist would hardly work at McDonalds, that's called "employment". Notice that you aren't accumulating any "capital". Oh, except for someone else. (Who, by the way, most likely never earned their "Capital" since most wealth is inherited.
2) Student Loans are hardly a good example of usurious credit. Why don't you try to justify credit card rates or the national debt?
3) Yes, I'm familiar with Subjectivism. Since this whole entire thread is devoted to the "subjective" merits of these devices, I fail to see your point. As well, vulgarity hardly helps your cause.
4) I specifically used the word "crap" because I figured most people have their own standards and tastes. If I had wanted to say don't buy an iPod, I would have. However, many people won't buy one because of it's proprietariness. To me, and many others, that means that no matter how good the rest of it is, it might as well all be crap.
5) There are other, less proprietary devices available. You can have your music without supporting proprietary devices and manipulative corporations.
6) Sorry, but yes, you are part of the "elite", especially in a global sense. Sure, you got ahead because you worked, you were likely healthy, not suffering from abuse or abandonment, you had loving guardian(s), an education, adequate health care, etc. etc. The truth is everyone would like to believe they achieved everything they have entirely through their own efforts. There's no chance of self-justification in any of your statements, is there?
Oh, as well, I feel I must say that for slashdotter, you sure tow the corporate line. Perhaps you've simply been justifying your own self-important beliefs?
"Gotta love capitalism." I couldn't agree more. Capitalism is a great theory. I just wish we had some.
In truth, capitalism exists only when and where the people have capital. In our current corrupt economic systems, only the privileged have reasonable access to capital.
Sadly, three to seven percent of the world's population, control the vast majority of the world's capital. The remaining ninety some percent of the people are basically serfs or slaves.
So, quite frankly, what did you expect from a bunch of elitists. The iPod and the Sony device are exactly what you'd expect from highly positioned and typically irresponsible, overpaid, megalomaniacal managers.
As long as we allow the wealthy to corrupt and pervert the economic and political system, we will simply have to pay the price. My advice, get used to manipulative and meaningless devices.
Some of you will read this and dismiss it as evidently untrue, at least for you. I say this most likely is because you are part of the elite. Try to be honest at least and accept that you are advantaged. I say to you, your self-service costs you more than it cost us, which represents a terrible loss to us all.
To the rest of you, simply don't buy crap. Save your pennies. Strive for nonmaterialistic financial independence. Seriously avoid credit like the plague it is.
Metaphorically speaking, it's always amazed me how so many would rather be landlords in hell rather than tenants in heaven.
Actually, as usual, far too many people assume they understand metaphysics even though they've done little or no research and have giving the subject a shallow and superficial review.
Obviously evolution exists. Things change... it's called causality. One action "causes" another action. This results in change. Things that work continue to do so. Things that don't, won't. After all, why would less effective changes replace more effective changes? It's just that simple, things change, effective changes accumulate. Deal with it.
Oh, and as for all you so called rationalists and scientists, talk about prejudgement and bias. Sure, the evolution of intelligence will sudden "mechanically" just stop evolving someday... duh! That's certainly an intelligent and open minded attitude.
It's truly amazing just how powerful arrogance and ignorance truly are. Personally, I just wish more people were more spiritually evolved as I'm just so tired of being stuck here with so many consciously challenged first-worlders.:~(
"A Microsoft spokeswoman, Tami Begasse, referred questions about the criminal investigation to the FBI, and said company policy requires employees act "honestly and ethically, and comply with all laws and regulations."
I'm guessing Tami meant non-executive employees. Of course, I suspect that Chavet was simply inspired by Bill's legendary zeal for illegal excesses.
You know society is going to shit when we glorify the greedy.
I meant that I've never seen a console used by a competitor during a tournament. Nor have I seen a participant connect a console to the LAN. This is not to suggest that I've seen a lot or even very many consoles at the many LAN's (Quakecon, Fragapalooza, LANageddon, etc.) that I've attended. The few consoles I did see, were all handhelds being used by kids. None were ever connected to the LANs AFAIK.
I say, let the users develop and support it themselves. Run it democratically. Use distributed computing and peer to peer clients. Involve the academic, W3C and the open source communities.
Perhaps I'm being idealistic, but I think it's better than being unrealistic. Personally, I think the business model will never really work. After all, no one is ever really happy living in a company town.
Ok, ok enough already. You've made your points. I agree, MMO's are more short-lived. However, I believe the whole concept is being approached the wrong way. I believe the problem isn't in the MMO's, it is in the corporate model.
Actually, I'm surprised that no one here has suggested an open community development effort. Why not create open standards, engines and objects. GPL and copyleft everything. Let Google handle the who's who and rankings. Then stand back and watch the MMO's grow.
In truth, all great jobs are far too valuable to be given away to perfect strangers. As well, the employment industry is generally quite expensive and ineffective unless you are over-qualified and don't require help anyways.
Talk to everyone you know or ever met, especially family and friends. Failing that, take a temp position and make friends quick. Failing that, take some more courses, one's that have an on-job work experience component. Initiate personal contact with instructors, well connected students & co-workers and employers.
Kiss some butt, it's the corporate way. Get use to it. Welcome to servitude.
However, my best advice, start your own company. Never work for someone else. You will be owned.
Oh, and as for resumes, get a professional resume or technical writer to produce yours.
Well, simply put, it's a great big pile of files.:-) Like you (well, I assume so, since you're here!), I'm a collector of Old Time Radio shows. Over the years I've collected a lot of MP3 and RealAudio files totalling many, many gigabytes (208 gigs as of Apr 6 2003). And all of them are available to you, on CD-ROM, DVD, or even on a hard drive!"
First off, IANAA, nor any other sort of physicist. However, I didn't find the referenced paper too difficult. For instance, the author states:
"The overall net effect is: R decreases, the required centripetal acceleration decreases in proportion, the gravitational attraction likewise decreases in proportion, and ù is unchanged. Furthermore, we observers, using our measuring standard ruler, length L of the above Figure 1, would never detect any of the decay because our standard length would also be decaying at exactly the same rate, in the same proportion.
The point, then, of this obvious mathematics / physics exercise is that a universal decay of the length aspect of all material reality would not run into the research authors' "... hard experimental wall...", would not conflict with the planetary ephemeris, and would not even be detectable at all except in unusual circumstances. The "anomalous acceleration" of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft is just such an unusual circumstance."
So, as I see it he's claiming that space "decay" is to blame. Basically, the actual "distance" has "decayed" and is not as "distant". This happens here but our ruler's length is also decaying at the same rate so we fail to "measure" the decay on a day to day basis.
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"There is no completely safe way of doing anything."
Untrue rhethoric.
Do you consider coal power (cf. 1,000,000 deaths per year) acceptably safe?
No, but the problem isn't coal per se, from what I can see, it is the greed and irresponsibility of the power planet owners that cause these deaths.
"How many people have actually died as a result?"
Way to many. Of couse, since it doesn't seem to affect you personally, you continue merrily on in denial.
If major industrial concerns carried their own weight and if we had invested properly in research concerning alternatives and if the market wasn't corrupt, yes, by now, we would have an economical, non polluting energy system.
We have the technology. What we don't have is ethical and responsible leadership.
I believe that you can thank all of those who turn their backs on these issues due to the privileges they enjoy.
Go on, justify evil some more. Ignore the suffering of billions. You must be so proud.
Hyper-focus? I have no idea what you mean. I simply made note of apparent misunderstanding on your part and then used that to question the validity of your conclusion. Perhaps you're being a little hyper-sensative?
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By the way, just to be clear. After much study and thought I have found that there is no perfectly safe, or even acceptably safe method of building nuclear power plants on earth.
I do agree designs are better. Are they perfect? Hardly. Every engineer will tell you there's no such thing as a perfect system. For example, the nuclear power industry tried quite hard from the get go to build "safe" reactors, Here is the result:
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/hitimeline/nwa/index.
http://www.ieer.org/reports/accident.html
http://www.ccnr.org/CANDU_Safety.html
http://www.lbl.gov/nsd/education/ABC/wallchart/ch
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/cndscot/trisaf/ch4.h
http://www.clemson.edu/ep/radiat3.htm
http://www.sea-us.org.au/no2reactor/rr-oops.html
Once you've read through as many studies on operator error in control rooms as I have, then we can talk. In the interm, perhaps you should trust me when I say, it can't safely be done.
As well, the economics are not as good as you've been led to believe. See:
Nuclear Power is Uneconomical
Since its beginning, nuclear power has cost this country over $492,000,000,000 -- nearly twice the cost of the Viet Nam War and the Apollo Moon Missions combined. In return for this investment, we have an energy source that, until the mid-1980's, gave us less energy in this country than did the burning of firewood! In the U.S., nuclear power contributes only 20-22% of our electricity, and only 8-10% of our total energy consumption. In Illinois these percentages are much greater due to Commonwealth Edison's over-reliance on nuclear power.
Since 1950, nuclear power has received over $97,000,000,000 in direct and indirect subsidies from the federal government, such as deferred taxes, artificially low limits on liability in case of nuclear accidents, and fuel fabrication write-offs. No other industry has enjoyed such privilege.
According to a recent study conducted by the Citizens Utility Board, Commonwealth Edison's customers now pay the highest electric bills in the Midwest, due primarily to the over-reliance on nuclear power plants.
Many costs for nuclear power have been deliberately underestimated by government and industry such as the costs for the permanent disposal of nuclear wastes, the "decommissioning" (shutting-down and cleaning-up) of retired nuclear power plants, and nuclear accident consequences. In January, 1994, Commonwealth Edison acknowledged that it had to nearly double its estimate for reactor decommissioning -- from $2.3 billion to as much as $4.1 billion!
http://www.neis.org/literature/Brochures/npfacts.
Yes, and hurridly voting for one of a privileged few is a shallow and ineffective method of participation that lazy people use to justify thier self serving belief that they actually contribute.
Yes, I have voted. As well, I've been a volunteer election official, and I've contributed to and worked on several campaigns. As well, I volunteer my time to several community and advocacy groups. And you?
Oh, by the way, the last two initiatives I was involved with were both circumvented after being enacted by a successful popular vote.
Powerful people are rarely deterred. That's the reality.
I'm sorry if I've come across as dogged. However, after much study, I've come to the conclusion that despite much better designs, there are none that are "perfect" nor are there any organizations that I currently trust enough to oversee the operation of a less than perfectly safe nuclear powerplant. Given what I perceived as a fundamental misrepresentation concerning the nature of hydrogen as an alternate energy "source", I simply felt that reflected poorly on your support for the nuclear industry on the whole.
s /letters/2002/4952008.html
Yes, I agree, nuclear powerplant design has improved dramatically. But as a MMI designer of SCADA software, I can assure you that there is no such thing as an error free control room.
Therefore, I believe your endorsement of the potential for nuclear energy should be reconsidered.
See:
Consideration of human factors and the quantification of the reliability of human performance arise frequently in the safety analysis of nuclear power plants especially in this era in which risk quantification plays an important role in the regulatory process. It is likely that human factor and human reliability analysis will remain important issues even for advanced reactors that emphasize passively safe designs.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acr
Personally, I believe that your belief represents a common and fundamental misunderstanding. From my perspective, you've mistakenly put the cart before horse, of course.
The simple truth, as far as I can see is, if the act of voting was capable of effecting real change and if people could vote for whomsoever they choose to, then, and only then, would people choose to spend their irreplaceable time by voting.
Or, if you like, simply, I will vote only when there is someone I respect and trust enough to vote for. Ok?
Furthermore, that so few vote these days is a sure sign of an awakening and intelligent electorate. One can only hope that "the people" will someday grow totally tired of seeing their rights and responsibilities being corrupted by the overly affluent.
Last but not least, cynically speaking, I've observed that very few people are ever truly willing to give more than they get, generally speaking. By the way, welcome to politics.
All of this assumes that voting actually ever changes anything. I, for one, remain skeptical.
Nitpicking? Hardly, in fact, I suggest you follow your own advice and try using Google. Or better yet, try to do some real research. A good start is here:
...
Hydrogen Fuel for Surface Transportation
http://www.altfuels.com/hfst.php
From where I am , it clearly seems that you possess only a layperson's understanding of these issues, which, logically led to my second point.
However, with a little effort on your part, I'm sure you'll be able to hold up your end of this discussion. At that time, if you're still of the same mind (doubtful), please, feel free to drop me a line so we can continue
Besides all that, we're seriously running out of DU after generously donating so much to Iraq.
Actually, as well, since it would be "produced", hydrogen isn't really a source of "power" it's actually more of a distribution system and in light of that, I'm not exactly sure I can trust your appraisal of the state of integrity and safety within the entire global nuclear power industry
Clean coal? Squeeze it, say scientists4 76492485.html 5 57913536.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/03/1091
Burning coal into the future
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/04/1091
Actually, I'm quite comfortable with my understanding of Capitalism. In fact to me, your justifications wonderfully illustrate my point.
1) A capitalist would hardly work at McDonalds, that's called "employment". Notice that you aren't accumulating any "capital". Oh, except for someone else. (Who, by the way, most likely never earned their "Capital" since most wealth is inherited.
2) Student Loans are hardly a good example of usurious credit. Why don't you try to justify credit card rates or the national debt?
3) Yes, I'm familiar with Subjectivism. Since this whole entire thread is devoted to the "subjective" merits of these devices, I fail to see your point. As well, vulgarity hardly helps your cause.
4) I specifically used the word "crap" because I figured most people have their own standards and tastes. If I had wanted to say don't buy an iPod, I would have. However, many people won't buy one because of it's proprietariness. To me, and many others, that means that no matter how good the rest of it is, it might as well all be crap.
5) There are other, less proprietary devices available. You can have your music without supporting proprietary devices and manipulative corporations.
6) Sorry, but yes, you are part of the "elite", especially in a global sense. Sure, you got ahead because you worked, you were likely healthy, not suffering from abuse or abandonment, you had loving guardian(s), an education, adequate health care, etc. etc. The truth is everyone would like to believe they achieved everything they have entirely through their own efforts. There's no chance of self-justification in any of your statements, is there?
Oh, as well, I feel I must say that for slashdotter, you sure tow the corporate line. Perhaps you've simply been justifying your own self-important beliefs?
Fiqures ... since most of the peeps here are selfish first-worlders
To the off topic moderator ... truth hurts huh.
"Gotta love capitalism." I couldn't agree more. Capitalism is a great theory. I just wish we had some.
In truth, capitalism exists only when and where the people have capital. In our current corrupt economic systems, only the privileged have reasonable access to capital.
Sadly, three to seven percent of the world's population, control the vast majority of the world's capital. The remaining ninety some percent of the people are basically serfs or slaves.
So, quite frankly, what did you expect from a bunch of elitists. The iPod and the Sony device are exactly what you'd expect from highly positioned and typically irresponsible, overpaid, megalomaniacal managers.
As long as we allow the wealthy to corrupt and pervert the economic and political system, we will simply have to pay the price. My advice, get used to manipulative and meaningless devices.
Some of you will read this and dismiss it as evidently untrue, at least for you. I say this most likely is because you are part of the elite. Try to be honest at least and accept that you are advantaged. I say to you, your self-service costs you more than it cost us, which represents a terrible loss to us all.
To the rest of you, simply don't buy crap. Save your pennies. Strive for nonmaterialistic financial independence. Seriously avoid credit like the plague it is.
Metaphorically speaking, it's always amazed me how so many would rather be landlords in hell rather than tenants in heaven.
Actually, as usual, far too many people assume they understand metaphysics even though they've done little or no research and have giving the subject a shallow and superficial review.
... it's called causality. One action "causes" another action. This results in change. Things that work continue to do so. Things that don't, won't. After all, why would less effective changes replace more effective changes? It's just that simple, things change, effective changes accumulate. Deal with it.
... duh! That's certainly an intelligent and open minded attitude.
:~(
Obviously evolution exists. Things change
Oh, and as for all you so called rationalists and scientists, talk about prejudgement and bias. Sure, the evolution of intelligence will sudden "mechanically" just stop evolving someday
It's truly amazing just how powerful arrogance and ignorance truly are. Personally, I just wish more people were more spiritually evolved as I'm just so tired of being stuck here with so many consciously challenged first-worlders.
"A Microsoft spokeswoman, Tami Begasse, referred questions about the criminal investigation to the FBI, and said company policy requires employees act "honestly and ethically, and comply with all laws and regulations."
I'm guessing Tami meant non-executive employees. Of course, I suspect that Chavet was simply inspired by Bill's legendary zeal for illegal excesses.
You know society is going to shit when we glorify the greedy.
I meant that I've never seen a console used by a competitor during a tournament. Nor have I seen a participant connect a console to the LAN. This is not to suggest that I've seen a lot or even very many consoles at the many LAN's (Quakecon, Fragapalooza, LANageddon, etc.) that I've attended. The few consoles I did see, were all handhelds being used by kids. None were ever connected to the LANs AFAIK.
I say, let the users develop and support it themselves. Run it democratically. Use distributed computing and peer to peer clients. Involve the academic, W3C and the open source communities.
Perhaps I'm being idealistic, but I think it's better than being unrealistic. Personally, I think the business model will never really work. After all, no one is ever really happy living in a company town.
Ok, ok enough already. You've made your points. I agree, MMO's are more short-lived. However, I believe the whole concept is being approached the wrong way. I believe the problem isn't in the MMO's, it is in the corporate model.
Actually, I'm surprised that no one here has suggested an open community development effort. Why not create open standards, engines and objects. GPL and copyleft everything. Let Google handle the who's who and rankings. Then stand back and watch the MMO's grow.
Who knows, maybe that'll be the next "web"
"Indeed, the Xbox is now positioned as the hardcore gamers console of choice"
... wtf do they get these marketing guys from,eh?
Hardcore gamers??? Every "hardcore gamer" I know uses a PC. I have never even seen a console being used competitively at LAN party or tournament.
Sheesh
In truth, all great jobs are far too valuable to be given away to perfect strangers. As well, the employment industry is generally quite expensive and ineffective unless you are over-qualified and don't require help anyways.
Talk to everyone you know or ever met, especially family and friends. Failing that, take a temp position and make friends quick. Failing that, take some more courses, one's that have an on-job work experience component. Initiate personal contact with instructors, well connected students & co-workers and employers.
Kiss some butt, it's the corporate way. Get use to it. Welcome to servitude.
However, my best advice, start your own company. Never work for someone else. You will be owned.
Oh, and as for resumes, get a professional resume or technical writer to produce yours.
You can get quite a bit more at The Old Time Radio Vault. From the site:
:-) Like you (well, I assume so, since you're here!), I'm a collector of Old Time Radio shows. Over the years I've collected a lot of MP3 and RealAudio files totalling many, many gigabytes (208 gigs as of Apr 6 2003). And all of them are available to you, on CD-ROM, DVD, or even on a hard drive!"
"What is the Old Time Radio Vault?
Well, simply put, it's a great big pile of files.
As well, it's Canadian, eh.
First off, IANAA, nor any other sort of physicist. However, I didn't find the referenced paper too difficult. For instance, the author states:
...", would not conflict with the planetary ephemeris, and would not even be
"The overall net effect is: R decreases, the required centripetal acceleration decreases in
proportion, the gravitational attraction likewise decreases in proportion, and ù is unchanged.
Furthermore, we observers, using our measuring standard ruler, length L of the above
Figure 1, would never detect any of the decay because our standard length would also be
decaying at exactly the same rate, in the same proportion.
The point, then, of this obvious mathematics / physics exercise is that a universal decay
of the length aspect of all material reality would not run into the research authors' "... hard
experimental wall
detectable at all except in unusual circumstances. The "anomalous acceleration" of the Pioneer
10 and 11 spacecraft is just such an unusual circumstance."
So, as I see it he's claiming that space "decay" is to blame. Basically, the actual "distance" has "decayed" and is not as "distant". This happens here but our ruler's length is also decaying at the same rate so we fail to "measure" the decay on a day to day basis.
Did I miss anything?
I remember supporting Novell DOS 7 circa 1993
~ multitasking (stable)
~ DPMS memory management
~ peer to peer networking w/ snmp, security
~ disk & file compression
~ antivirus & backup
Oddly enough, Windows 3.10 was the only unstable app on those systems.
Real gamers build modded overclocked PC's built to satisfy the need for speed.
Proprietary designs made to ensure profit is a typical corporate evil deed.
The real reason behind consoles is consumer cheapness and corporate greed.