I have a book from NASA from years ago on Pioneer or Voyager that not only talks about gravitional waves, there are pictures of how they were mapped by the explorer satellites. The distortions and waves were pictured nicely in relation to the Sun as the satellites traversed the Solar System. I'll have to go through the old boxes and find those books.

I live in the Rocky Mountains.

However, for those with reception issues, visit www.tvfool.com and look at their tools/toys. They have some interesting tools that you may find useful. Where we are every station says, "These channels are very weak and will most likely require extreme measures to try and pick them up."

Since we rarely, if ever watch brainwashing ads, extremely biased news, inaccurate weather or bad programming, we decided we really don't need an idiot box anyway. We'll keep the big screen for movies but now, we'll spend more time outside enjoying our world.

Those extreme measures the say we need to take will be to feed the landfill with more toxic waste. I guess I could send the TVs to India or China instead.

Almost correct. "You" and "your" in this note refers to Microsoft

People are royally pissed off at the last product you released and it doesn't do have the things it was supposed to do. It was years late. Features were removed. And, most non-techie people who acquired it had tons of problems.

They had used your previous products like NT, 2000 and XP and were quite happy with those. They appeared stable, ran all your software and would do e-mail, web surfing and Word just fine (this is, after all, what most home users PCs do). There really wasn't a "NEED" to upgrade.

So, now that people upset with what happened, they are extremely reluctant to go through that hell again. They'll stick with what they have. Even corporate users are waiting for the promises you forced them into with the "new licensing" years ago.

You have lied so much that nobody really believes a word you say today. You have burned your customers and clients so many times that it isn't even funny. So all your promises today just fall on deaf ears.

The techies and those that need to have the latest & greatest simply because it is the latest & greatest will certainly dive in to get your latest puzzle but, most home and business users will stick with what they have. It works, the economy doesn't allow them to waste precious dollars on new stuff and, frankly, there just isn't any real need anymore.

It isn't that the programs weren't designed to run with vista. It is that MS designed Vista so it wouldn't work with a ton of existing software.

Software that ran fine without corrupting Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP won't work with Vista.

So, Vista has a "Compatibility" mode but, still won't allow you to run XP software in XP Compatibility Mode.

The solution was easy. Rather than upgrade dozens of programs that cost thousands of dollars, we just did away with Vista. No more problems and we saved a bundle. Did it impact our ability to be productive? NOT ONE BIT! Vista didn't make us more productive -- it did just the opposite. Vista didn't keep our overhead down -- it did just the opposite.

Sure it had pretty graphics but those don't make us more productive. Sure it has a side bar but, again, that doesn't improve productivity. It required more hardware with no return on the investment. ROI is important in business. Maybe not to techies but it certainly is to CEOs.

The bottom line was that Vista did not enable one bit more in regards to getting the job done. It actually inhibited it. You say contact the vendor but, some of our software was custom made and some other was by vendors who have since been bought out. Your option isn't viable economically.

I bit the bullet and bought a new PC complete with Vista. The first thing I noticed was that they refused to allow me to install my already existing software. A little box popped up telling me I wasn't allowed to do that. MusicMatch Jukebox being the first, Pinnacle Studio another ...

So, I tried to mount my drive (foreign dynamic NTFS) from my Win2K box. Nope! That feature is disabled except for Vista Ultimate. OK, I placed the drive into a cheap backup box and copied the files over the network instead. That was done just for spite!

OK, the FAX. Nope again. Only business and ultimate support software send/receive of FAX. Thank you again MS!

So, I junked vista, put Win2K on the new hardware, added some drivers from the net and I'm happy as can be.

So, if Windoze 7 will allow me to do what I want or need to do, I'll gladly consider it but, if MS pulls the same crap they did with Vista, I'll be upgrading to a Mac.

When I worked on DoD projects years ago, things were obviously different. NO computer inside was ever able to communicate with the Internet.

If you brought floppies, CDs or hard drives into the facility, that's where they remained. No Media Was Ever Allowed out. None. Never. Nada.

When I worked nuclear power plants -- pretty much the same thing. Drug test and FBI check daily. No media that came in could leave. No systems could reach the Internet.

At the company facility, any DoD drives were removed at the end of your shift and locked in a safe until you checked them out the next time you needed them. They couldn't even remain in a computer if you weren't using it -- even for lunch breaks.

So, I'm surprised that as hacking attempts increase security actually decreased. Somebody really let the ball slip on this one. And, please explain how a Pentagon internal database had to have access to the Internet. That one just doesn't make any sense at all.