For HD VS SD is an odd thing.... I love HD TV but I can watch normal TV just fine it does not make me go "eeewww who could watch that" Could be from all the years of using the Internet before video was good quality and that has hardened me to watching things at less then realistic resolutions lol (Hell I remember when 640X480 was considered uber hi res and most games ran at about half that....)
The thing to remember is that the story is whats important not the media!!!
At least with books no one complains about how good it looks... lol
Honestly I would recommend a PS3 for that, most formats will play just fine right off a thumb drive. I use a MicroSD card plugged into a little USB adapter and it works great.
I tested a generic USB 13 in 1 Card adapter and it too worked fine.
(a 360 might work just as good but I don't own one and therefore I could not offer a personal recommendation)
The ultimate though for playing video is still going to be a PC with a good video codec pack.
Hmmm the 360 and the PS3 can stream video from a PC and it works great err rather I had it working great until I upgraded to 7 and I haven't had the time to figure it out yet. (for all the slamming Vista got, that was one feature they did do very good)
I have a DVD player that plays Divx disks too, while it might not be the best quality it seems good enough. If you encode your DVD's to something like 1.2GB's its very hard to tell them apart from the actual DVD when its playing.
I like it since I can put a collection of movies on one disk and sit and watch them on a relaxed Sunday. I probably have 20 or 30 of these disks put in a book that I can pick from. I do own the originals but I guess this still makes me a pirate? (especially since I had to use DVD Shrink to rip them in the first place...)
When it comes to HD content then Divx, it seems is not quite as good as H264, and it shows if you have a PS3 and a H264 encoded DVD (HD movies take up a full DVD or even a DVD DL disk) Although to be honest I haven't tried Divx HD and all this requires a HD TV.
Anyway I will be probably sad the day my Divx player dies, I know my PS3 does the same exact thing but I like the idea of it lol
If your running Windows you might try a program called Format Factory its free and it is amazing in that it can convert almost any format with very little loss in quality. (I say little because some formats look like there is some added artifacts after the conversion, most formats will convert perfectly)
I hope this helps a little, I know the feeling of fighting with something for hours on end.. Convert, try, then cry because you spent an hour converting the 20 short movies everyone shot only to find out the audio is out of sync after the conversion and now you need to start over from scratch...
The other one to try is Total Video Converter, its free too but I use it as a back up for the other one. It could be just my opinion but the output quality seems to be not quite as good as Format Factory, but on the plus side sometimes it will convert video that is harder to convert.
Thank you for all the tools!!! (haven't even downloaded them yet but I will lol)
One you might like to try is Hiren's Boot Disk (keeping in mind I haven't tried the ones you offered yet so they might be close in function)
Its a boot CD with just too many tools to list on it. The most useful one I have ran into is disk cloning and also a tool for cracking the SAM file on Win2K boxes (how do people "forget" the passwords for the admin account so often?)
Thank you for your information I will add it to my own!!!
Might switch back to using the built in Comodo Antivirus. Back when 7 first came out...... I had a pretty nasty problem with the file protection thing.
I think it boils down to how I built my install. (I have 3 hard drives) So on XP I downloaded all my drivers and firewall and all the freeware I can get my hands on that I use. Then I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 offline (I don't like to plug in things until I have security up and running)
So I installed Comodo and thought "yeah one package its great" then I went online.... there where of course updates and I said yeah lets update everything. The machine needed a reboot. upon rebooting I get a message from Comodo file protection thingy "MS mouse driver.exe or something was trying to install to blah blah blah would you like to allow?" At this point I couldn't move my mouse and since it was a bubble I could not use my keyboard shortcuts:(
It took me about 1 hour to figure out what do to fix that. I also know that MS updates the drivers fairly often so I wasn't in a hurry to repeat that experience lol I am sure they have it all fixed up now.
P.S. going to try that dependency walker thing lol
Also yeah I was kind of thinking it may have been my creative drivers:( They make some awesome hardware they just need some better software people.
8GB's of DDR2 800 from OCZ (supposedly will go to 1024 but meh not needed lol)
Asus P5K EPU mobo.
Intel E8400 (not OCed)
I try to stick to top of the line hardware. When possible. By top of the line I mean quality not necessarily the newest stuff (its so much cheaper to shop a gen back on most parts)
Software end I tend to run the latest drivers and patches for everything I can get my hands on.
Windows 7 64 bit ultimate edition (loving the hell out of it)
AVG, Comodo firewall. Pretty much thats it I like to keep things lean, well I do have an iPod so all the cruft that entails is also running...
Not having any issues right now I managed to get the driver installed I just had to do it the old fashioned way:) and I am sure the next round of drivers will fix this (it did the last time ATI had a driver that had the same bug. Not a show stopper just an annoyance and it was years ago the last time this same thing happened lol)
I don't think the issue I had was a common one to be honest. This was a clean install of Windows 7 too so its not like I could blame it on being upgraded from Windows Vista or something. I am really at a failure to explain why the drivers would not install, maybe the moon was out of alignment with mercury or something lol:)
Maybe a little wireless router type device would work but it would cost more then $40.
I know you can get some cheap routers cheaper then that but I think a large part of the money goes into the network and running the service the device is pretty much just an adapter to connect to your PC so it can do all the heavy lifting.
I too use T-Mobile and unlimited here is about 55$ a month.
They want 40$ a year for this thing.
I may switch to this honestly, the convenience of having a cell phone VS keeping an extra $620+(fees and taxes) a year in my pocket hmmmm.
I would miss making calls from some places to ask some one a quick question but other then that I could probably survive.
I think 911 is free so I could keep an old cell with me just for emergencies.
I would be trying it out before I turned off my cell though if the quality is bad then the money saved wouldn't be worth it, and to some people who have to have access to a phone 24/7 (a lot of people have important things to do, sadly I do not or I am just too old to be rushed? take your pick lol)
Maybe have if for like 2 months, and if it was reliable and sounded good, then I would consider ditching my cell company (I have been with T-Mobile so long I don't have a contract Muhahahhaha)
If I was ATT or Verizon or T-Mobil I would want everyone to own one of these things.
The reason being is that on my cell phone (I have the unlimited plan so I gave up ye olde land line years ago) 90% of my calls are made from home. I suspect my usage probably mirrors a lot of other users. (maybe a different pattern for teens running to friends all the time and what not but they like texting anyway so thats almost no bandwidth used)
They would save huge amounts of wireless bandwidth and put the burden on the broad band land lines. Better yet they could keep charging the same amount of money for a lot less service.
Just one of my random probably insane thoughts but thats the way I roll lol
I have been using ATI's since the Radion 7000 PCI model (AGP was still new and most games didn't need that much bandwidth lol) to be honest I have like 3 issues. One is current (might be Windows 7) Star Craft gets all trippy looking on Bnet. It plays ok but after like 10 minutes I feel like I licked the wrong kind of paper.
The other 2 issues are with installing the newest drivers, this happened a long time ago under XP and just last week on 7 64 bit edition.
I had to use winrar to decompress the installer for the newest driver 9.12 and use the driver installer in device manager to get it to install. Usually I just double click and go go go lol Having to do it that way brought back memories of Windows 95 (it was always best to use the device manager to do drivers back then)
At least I was not the only one its a known issue with the current driver, the weird thing is not everyone is having it and a fresh install of windows does not have it happen. Look for a 9.12b or something soon.
Other then those ultra rare issues I am happy ATI customer.
Very true points, indeed it is cheaper to make a Wii game (and probably a bit easier too since it lacks all that multi core stuff and other weirdness) So yeah its a perfect storm of crap on the wii... Thank god at least Nintendo still makes some quality games (still enjoying NSMB on it, just need a few more coins....)
Yeah Starcraft would rule:( Oh well at least I can get part 2 for the PC and while on that subject please Blizzard do not make me pay $150 for Starcraft 2 or I will pirate it and simply not play it online. Sorry but its not going to be THAT great of a game lol
I think Natal is going to be a mistake to be honest. It has all the feeling of the SegaCD add on or the 32X or any number of add ons made for home consoles. The support is almost always sub par and from the developers mind it effectively cuts your market down to X% of the total install base cut by X% that have the add on and still want to buy your game. Just because they sell 20 million copies of Natal does not mean that 20 million people will buy your game made to use it. (10% is a great number from what I understand and counts as a smash hit, thats 2 million copies! to put that in perspective I think the sales of where a little over 4 million so far on the 360 and thats with an install base of nearly 40 million systems) So realistically to have a hit on Natal you need to sell to 50% of the install base (nearly impossible) and then hope to hell that 5% of the owners buy your game just to hit a million sales which is great but if you had went with just the 360 pad theoretically you double your sales in my scenario which is very favorable to Natal.
My crystal ball says it sells about 10 million units world wide... Unless MS has some uber killer aps that a 360 owner just cant live with out.
The funny part about that is.... nothing to do with the control scheme.
All the systems have some crappy shovel ware on them (The Wii simply has more because of its larger user base) The PS2 had more shovel ware then the GC and Xbox the PS1 had more then the N64 and the Dreamcast and no on and so forth.
When your the largest target you get a lot of shit thrown at you:(
I really feel the Wii missed out on some great games that should have been made with its control scheme in mind, Sooooo many of the Lucas Arts Adventure games could have been given a face lift and re released into massive sales most people who own a Wii probably have never heard of Day of The Tentacle or The Dig.
Point and click adventures really attract the casual gamer since they do not need to have lightning fast reflexes and may not enjoy shooting or killing everything in sight (me on the other hand I enjoy both so I guess I am mediocre core lol)
I love the Wii for the few games it gets right but I also feel they could have done so much more with it.
This Natal thing really does not seem all that impressive from the leaked footage, I am sure its an early beta but it still looked very lagy and sloppy even worse then Wiimote. Sony's version may be better but it too will probably suffer the same fate.
In the history of consoles very few add ons have ever had decent support. People won't buy it unless there are a ton of great games that require it and that wont happen until a ton of people buy it and the games sell a ton. Chicken and the egg problem.
Best of luck to MS but I feel Natal will be a commercial failure, I could be wrong but the odds are against it.
Sure your account may be empty and cracking the encryption not worth it.
but I am sure that there would be more then 10 million dollars worth of accounts in the banking computer.
So why not try to crack them all at one time? What I mean is that if a key does not work for say your encrypted account or what ever try the same key on all the accounts. Probably faster that way then then to try all the keys on one account.
Of course this all assumes unfettered access to a banks computer, and at that point it may just be easier to rob the local Quicky Mart.
Now for downloaded.gov files thats a whole different mess. Pretty much the more secret something is they should encrypt the hell out of it pick some number of bits that makes it so hard to crack that by the time they do the information will be 50 years old.
I think for something to remain that secret the encryption should be measured in MB's not bits. I like the idea of a random location in a Mandelbrot sequence used as key but that might be too easy to crack (I am not a math person when it comes to stuff like this the hardest encryption I ever cracked in my entire life was the Captain Crunch hidden letter crap.. lol) So yeah it could be way too easy for all I know. but I think cracking it would look awesome lol
What your saying is what I bumblingly was trying to spew forth from my medical ignorance!
How dare you enlighten me !!! lol
P.S. Thank you!
I remember seeing a TV show dealing with a patient who actually died from taking an antibiotic, well not the medication in specific but the stomach doing what you said and the resulting infection (is it an infection if its a native to the intestine?)
At any rate the patient ended up dying from what people normally have inside them so it was shocking to me to think that lacking some things living in my gut can actually kill me. Does this mean I'm symbiotic?
There may be a downside to all this though, from what I understand of digestion and our immune system, it seems to me that when you lose X amount of microbes then you will end up with more of a different microbe that may breed much faster due to lack of competition.
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Yeah from the perspective of price and being able to buy HD movies at home, it would have been better for HD DVD to win the format war.
I guess the BD spec was slightly better though and offered movie studio's a temporary reprieve from all those scurvy pirates!
Probably a false positive if you got it from here.
http://www.brothersoft.com/download-formatfactory-98431.html
I have never known this page to host any bad files and my scans are clean.
As always be careful where you download things.
All very true points.
For HD VS SD is an odd thing.... I love HD TV but I can watch normal TV just fine it does not make me go "eeewww who could watch that" Could be from all the years of using the Internet before video was good quality and that has hardened me to watching things at less then realistic resolutions lol (Hell I remember when 640X480 was considered uber hi res and most games ran at about half that....)
The thing to remember is that the story is whats important not the media!!!
At least with books no one complains about how good it looks... lol
To me it seems that if you accept it as an input format you should be able to output it as well.
I am not a programmer so take this next bit of post for what it is... pure conjecture lol
But it seems like if your decoding something then the same amount of work is already done for doing output?
Also I agree if something is a program made to convert video then it should do as many formats as possible.
I am on Windows so I use a program called Format Factory, and it supports like a bazillion formats (well all the ones I have ever ran into)
http://www.pcfreetime.com/
Honestly I would recommend a PS3 for that, most formats will play just fine right off a thumb drive. I use a MicroSD card plugged into a little USB adapter and it works great.
I tested a generic USB 13 in 1 Card adapter and it too worked fine.
(a 360 might work just as good but I don't own one and therefore I could not offer a personal recommendation)
The ultimate though for playing video is still going to be a PC with a good video codec pack.
Hmmm the 360 and the PS3 can stream video from a PC and it works great err rather I had it working great until I upgraded to 7 and I haven't had the time to figure it out yet. (for all the slamming Vista got, that was one feature they did do very good)
I have a DVD player that plays Divx disks too, while it might not be the best quality it seems good enough. If you encode your DVD's to something like 1.2GB's its very hard to tell them apart from the actual DVD when its playing.
I like it since I can put a collection of movies on one disk and sit and watch them on a relaxed Sunday. I probably have 20 or 30 of these disks put in a book that I can pick from. I do own the originals but I guess this still makes me a pirate? (especially since I had to use DVD Shrink to rip them in the first place...)
When it comes to HD content then Divx, it seems is not quite as good as H264, and it shows if you have a PS3 and a H264 encoded DVD (HD movies take up a full DVD or even a DVD DL disk) Although to be honest I haven't tried Divx HD and all this requires a HD TV.
Anyway I will be probably sad the day my Divx player dies, I know my PS3 does the same exact thing but I like the idea of it lol
If your running Windows you might try a program called Format Factory its free and it is amazing in that it can convert almost any format with very little loss in quality. (I say little because some formats look like there is some added artifacts after the conversion, most formats will convert perfectly)
I hope this helps a little, I know the feeling of fighting with something for hours on end.. Convert, try, then cry because you spent an hour converting the 20 short movies everyone shot only to find out the audio is out of sync after the conversion and now you need to start over from scratch...
The other one to try is Total Video Converter, its free too but I use it as a back up for the other one. It could be just my opinion but the output quality seems to be not quite as good as Format Factory, but on the plus side sometimes it will convert video that is harder to convert.
Best of Luck to you!
My guess would be to fly extremely low and during a storm would work quite well but be crazy dangerous at the same time.
No weapons would increase range and speed.
But the Columbian's are already beyond flying the stuff in.....
Too many interesting links to pick one, but they use unmanned subs these days.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=colombian+submarine&aq=0sx&oq=Columbian+sub&aqi=g-sx1g2
How else will they use this attack on the Borg?
http://web.thock.com/humour/startrk.shtml
Thank you for all the tools!!! (haven't even downloaded them yet but I will lol)
One you might like to try is Hiren's Boot Disk (keeping in mind I haven't tried the ones you offered yet so they might be close in function)
Its a boot CD with just too many tools to list on it. The most useful one I have ran into is disk cloning and also a tool for cracking the SAM file on Win2K boxes (how do people "forget" the passwords for the admin account so often?)
Thank you for your information I will add it to my own!!!
Might switch back to using the built in Comodo Antivirus. Back when 7 first came out...... I had a pretty nasty problem with the file protection thing.
I think it boils down to how I built my install. (I have 3 hard drives) So on XP I downloaded all my drivers and firewall and all the freeware I can get my hands on that I use. Then I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 offline (I don't like to plug in things until I have security up and running)
So I installed Comodo and thought "yeah one package its great" then I went online.... there where of course updates and I said yeah lets update everything. The machine needed a reboot. upon rebooting I get a message from Comodo file protection thingy "MS mouse driver.exe or something was trying to install to blah blah blah would you like to allow?" At this point I couldn't move my mouse and since it was a bubble I could not use my keyboard shortcuts :(
It took me about 1 hour to figure out what do to fix that. I also know that MS updates the drivers fairly often so I wasn't in a hurry to repeat that experience lol I am sure they have it all fixed up now.
P.S. going to try that dependency walker thing lol
Also yeah I was kind of thinking it may have been my creative drivers :( They make some awesome hardware they just need some better software people.
Oh specific hardware.. good god lol
Lets see..
ATI Radion X4870 1GB GDDR5 HIS Ice Q
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161292&cm_re=Radion_4870-_-14-161-292-_-Product
Creative Audigy X Fi Fatality edition
Antec Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371026&cm_re=Antec_power_supply-_-17-371-026-_-Product
8GB's of DDR2 800 from OCZ (supposedly will go to 1024 but meh not needed lol)
Asus P5K EPU mobo.
Intel E8400 (not OCed)
I try to stick to top of the line hardware. When possible. By top of the line I mean quality not necessarily the newest stuff (its so much cheaper to shop a gen back on most parts)
Software end I tend to run the latest drivers and patches for everything I can get my hands on.
Windows 7 64 bit ultimate edition (loving the hell out of it)
AVG, Comodo firewall. Pretty much thats it I like to keep things lean, well I do have an iPod so all the cruft that entails is also running...
Not having any issues right now I managed to get the driver installed I just had to do it the old fashioned way :) and I am sure the next round of drivers will fix this (it did the last time ATI had a driver that had the same bug. Not a show stopper just an annoyance and it was years ago the last time this same thing happened lol)
I don't think the issue I had was a common one to be honest. This was a clean install of Windows 7 too so its not like I could blame it on being upgraded from Windows Vista or something. I am really at a failure to explain why the drivers would not install, maybe the moon was out of alignment with mercury or something lol :)
I was wondering that myself, if it would allow you to use 2 phones at one time.....
If not then it would still be cool, just not as cool as being able to have 2 or 3 cell phones on it at the same time.
Maybe they will sell some sort of family plan lol
"Why can't they make a standalone device!?"
Too expensive.
Maybe a little wireless router type device would work but it would cost more then $40.
I know you can get some cheap routers cheaper then that but I think a large part of the money goes into the network and running the service the device is pretty much just an adapter to connect to your PC so it can do all the heavy lifting.
I too use T-Mobile and unlimited here is about 55$ a month.
They want 40$ a year for this thing.
I may switch to this honestly, the convenience of having a cell phone VS keeping an extra $620+(fees and taxes) a year in my pocket hmmmm.
I would miss making calls from some places to ask some one a quick question but other then that I could probably survive.
I think 911 is free so I could keep an old cell with me just for emergencies.
I would be trying it out before I turned off my cell though if the quality is bad then the money saved wouldn't be worth it, and to some people who have to have access to a phone 24/7 (a lot of people have important things to do, sadly I do not or I am just too old to be rushed? take your pick lol)
Maybe have if for like 2 months, and if it was reliable and sounded good, then I would consider ditching my cell company (I have been with T-Mobile so long I don't have a contract Muhahahhaha)
You made me think of something...
If I was ATT or Verizon or T-Mobil I would want everyone to own one of these things.
The reason being is that on my cell phone (I have the unlimited plan so I gave up ye olde land line years ago) 90% of my calls are made from home. I suspect my usage probably mirrors a lot of other users. (maybe a different pattern for teens running to friends all the time and what not but they like texting anyway so thats almost no bandwidth used)
They would save huge amounts of wireless bandwidth and put the burden on the broad band land lines.
Better yet they could keep charging the same amount of money for a lot less service.
Just one of my random probably insane thoughts but thats the way I roll lol
What is this "off" thing you speak of?
Hehehehhe :)
I have been using ATI's since the Radion 7000 PCI model (AGP was still new and most games didn't need that much bandwidth lol) to be honest I have like 3 issues. One is current (might be Windows 7) Star Craft gets all trippy looking on Bnet. It plays ok but after like 10 minutes I feel like I licked the wrong kind of paper.
The other 2 issues are with installing the newest drivers, this happened a long time ago under XP and just last week on 7 64 bit edition.
I had to use winrar to decompress the installer for the newest driver 9.12 and use the driver installer in device manager to get it to install. Usually I just double click and go go go lol Having to do it that way brought back memories of Windows 95 (it was always best to use the device manager to do drivers back then)
At least I was not the only one its a known issue with the current driver, the weird thing is not everyone is having it and a fresh install of windows does not have it happen. Look for a 9.12b or something soon.
Other then those ultra rare issues I am happy ATI customer.
Very true points, indeed it is cheaper to make a Wii game (and probably a bit easier too since it lacks all that multi core stuff and other weirdness) So yeah its a perfect storm of crap on the wii... Thank god at least Nintendo still makes some quality games (still enjoying NSMB on it, just need a few more coins....)
Yeah Starcraft would rule :( Oh well at least I can get part 2 for the PC and while on that subject please Blizzard do not make me pay $150 for Starcraft 2 or I will pirate it and simply not play it online. Sorry but its not going to be THAT great of a game lol
I think Natal is going to be a mistake to be honest. It has all the feeling of the SegaCD add on or the 32X or any number of add ons made for home consoles. The support is almost always sub par and from the developers mind it effectively cuts your market down to X% of the total install base cut by X% that have the add on and still want to buy your game. Just because they sell 20 million copies of Natal does not mean that 20 million people will buy your game made to use it. (10% is a great number from what I understand and counts as a smash hit, thats 2 million copies! to put that in perspective I think the sales of where a little over 4 million so far on the 360 and thats with an install base of nearly 40 million systems) So realistically to have a hit on Natal you need to sell to 50% of the install base (nearly impossible) and then hope to hell that 5% of the owners buy your game just to hit a million sales which is great but if you had went with just the 360 pad theoretically you double your sales in my scenario which is very favorable to Natal.
My crystal ball says it sells about 10 million units world wide... Unless MS has some uber killer aps that a 360 owner just cant live with out.
The funny part about that is.... nothing to do with the control scheme.
All the systems have some crappy shovel ware on them (The Wii simply has more because of its larger user base) The PS2 had more shovel ware then the GC and Xbox the PS1 had more then the N64 and the Dreamcast and no on and so forth.
When your the largest target you get a lot of shit thrown at you :(
I really feel the Wii missed out on some great games that should have been made with its control scheme in mind, Sooooo many of the Lucas Arts Adventure games could have been given a face lift and re released into massive sales most people who own a Wii probably have never heard of Day of The Tentacle or The Dig.
Point and click adventures really attract the casual gamer since they do not need to have lightning fast reflexes and may not enjoy shooting or killing everything in sight (me on the other hand I enjoy both so I guess I am mediocre core lol)
I love the Wii for the few games it gets right but I also feel they could have done so much more with it.
This Natal thing really does not seem all that impressive from the leaked footage, I am sure its an early beta but it still looked very lagy and sloppy even worse then Wiimote. Sony's version may be better but it too will probably suffer the same fate.
In the history of consoles very few add ons have ever had decent support. People won't buy it unless there are a ton of great games that require it and that wont happen until a ton of people buy it and the games sell a ton. Chicken and the egg problem.
Best of luck to MS but I feel Natal will be a commercial failure, I could be wrong but the odds are against it.
Agreed.... I really don't even want to imagine that.
*shudders*
Your post gave me a great idea...
Sure your account may be empty and cracking the encryption not worth it.
but I am sure that there would be more then 10 million dollars worth of accounts in the banking computer.
So why not try to crack them all at one time? What I mean is that if a key does not work for say your encrypted account or what ever try the same key on all the accounts. Probably faster that way then then to try all the keys on one account.
Of course this all assumes unfettered access to a banks computer, and at that point it may just be easier to rob the local Quicky Mart.
Now for downloaded .gov files thats a whole different mess. Pretty much the more secret something is they should encrypt the hell out of it pick some number of bits that makes it so hard to crack that by the time they do the information will be 50 years old.
I think for something to remain that secret the encryption should be measured in MB's not bits. I like the idea of a random location in a Mandelbrot sequence used as key but that might be too easy to crack (I am not a math person when it comes to stuff like this the hardest encryption I ever cracked in my entire life was the Captain Crunch hidden letter crap.. lol) So yeah it could be way too easy for all I know. but I think cracking it would look awesome lol
If I had not already posted I would have moded this one insightful or informative.
Fascinating how much influence the little buggers have...
What your saying is what I bumblingly was trying to spew forth from my medical ignorance!
How dare you enlighten me !!! lol
P.S. Thank you!
I remember seeing a TV show dealing with a patient who actually died from taking an antibiotic, well not the medication in specific but the stomach doing what you said and the resulting infection (is it an infection if its a native to the intestine?)
At any rate the patient ended up dying from what people normally have inside them so it was shocking to me to think that lacking some things living in my gut can actually kill me. Does this mean I'm symbiotic?
I was thinking the same thing.
There may be a downside to all this though, from what I understand of digestion and our immune system, it seems to me that when you lose X amount of microbes then you will end up with more of a different microbe that may breed much faster due to lack of competition.