I see that like the ipod they also have implemented a "roadblock" style DRM rather than a lock-down style when it comes to sharring content with the computer your buddy brings over. That is, you and move content between computers if yo know how, one a t a time but not wholesale. Good for them. Fair use and all that.
The other interesting thing on the site was that despite statements to the contrary it works with ordinary non_HD TVs, so long as they have component video inputs.
The other thing I learned was why I can no longer get my old mac to play new epsiodes of Battle Star Galactica bought on itunes without glitching. I'm guessing that when they quadrupled the resolution on the itunes store in anticipation of the Apple TV they moves the threshold for playback above the capability of my 800Mhz imac. (When I shut all apps down, it still can't play without momentary glitches in the playback). It's really pissing me off, because they are not actually digitizing these things with the level of quality needed to be useful at that resolution. Side-by-side comparisons of itunes purchased videos with ones recorded off the TV in divx show that the divx quality is higher and with more fluid playback for the same file sizes.
From the description of the it sounds like this thing is running OSX. Does anyone know how much of a general purpose computer this is and what CPU it is using other than it's an "intel".
I would dispute this thesis. Indeed your point 3 is the very basis of the refutation. The entire success of the revolutionary war can pretty much be laid at the feet of a single technological innovation: the american hunting rifle. These were quick to reload compared to the smooth bore english guns wich required a mallot and minutes to reload. their accurate range was hundreds of yards compared to at most 20 to 50 for the english weapons. Early in the war washington got congress to fund the rifle brigades. There were effectively no rifles in new england at that time being something mainly used by inland woodsmen where there was a premium on range, rate or reload, and lower consumption of ammo. Europe had no simmilar hunting situation so few rifles existed and they were not of the same quality.
Washington managed to kill so many british officers that replacement and then recruitment became their limit. There are numberous records of cases where 12 rifflemen could decimate a hundered british troops holed up behind stone walled building not to mention in the fields. It was at this point that the brits went to the Hessian mercinaries to solve their recruitment problems and lack of rifle proficiency. (the hessians did have some rifle brigades).
So my point is that a single technological innovation can make the difference in an outcome. Especially if it comes early enough in a war. (e.g. the superior german weapons at the end of WWII arrived too late to make a difference). The brits could have copied it. They knew what the problem was having captured riflemen. But they could not react to it fast enough. The hessians were a stopgap too late.
If transports and machine guns had been developed they would also have been, like sailing ships, items of great capital cost whose factories coul dnot easily be defended. This would have been advantage to the british as well.
Well it is sort of a chicken and egg issue. Given the incentive of a war with the colonies the fuel supply for a military woul doubt have been mobilized. Consider for example the Pan Am Clipper aircraft which was a wide body passenger plane that could land on water. It came into service just before WWII. At that time it was needed for two reasons 1) there were no runways developed in most of the world. and pan am server the world not just major cities. 2) it was not possible to navigate since electronic navigation had not yet been invented. You had to land and shoot the stars. And to land in the ocean you needed a boat-plane.
Then poof ww2 happened. Did they use Clippers? nope. They built runways. And after wwII, the clippers vanished because well, who needed them with all the runways and network of control towers to get your position from.
Same would have happened I predict with coaling for transports.
However, Obviously it was untested so we can't know if they coul dhave even built them. And second the original proposal was actually for their use in crossing the english chanel. The idea of a war with the colonies was not really the likely issue at that time. France was. So these woul dhave been built and put to service without the need for coaling stations on their chanel runs. Then when the war with the colonies broke out, they would already have had the ships and only need to figure out the fuel distribution system--a smaller problem than evolving both at once.
The troop transports in question here were of the sailing ship variety. At that time a ship was the most potent mitiary weapon possible. Few port cities could host the firepower that bring ro bear in a concentrated way. Making them able to cruise the atlantic swiftly and then picket off the coast would have dominated the Colonies in a way they could not have beat. As it was, the colonists could kill off british officiers almost faster than they could ship them from england.
The theme the article repeated points out is that without a profit incentive these pieces of intellectual property--which under the soviet system where not property-- languished. Sounds like they needed some sort of patent protection system that profited the patent holders so that it could have been sold to greedy venture capital firms that could have made a profit commercializing it.
designation of things as property and assinging them as profit vehicles to the owners is what has driven the western expansion for hundreds of years. The new world discovered, the west was explored, railways built all on the backs of monopoly trade and land grants.
Kinda puts this whining about how copyrights and patents are evil in perspective.
Of course one can go too far the other way. But locking up technology as intellectual propertry is what pays for it's development.
Now consider the Gas powered boots. Are these a great invention or a joke. It's pretty darn hard to tell. Sure it sounds goofy. But I could see it really becoming something with armies of people walking to work in them if they were simple and easy to use.
Would you invest? probably not. Do you think the person that takes the risk and does invest make a lot of money if it succeeds? yes surely.
And for all the 1000 other crackpot sounding ideas that flop, it takes a lot of profit for the one that succeeds to make it worth the risk. That's why patent and copyright protection for those few cases that seem so unfair matter.
To give an example: Two items seeking investment in england around 1775 was the steam powered troop transport and the machine gun. The companies proposed to invest in inventing and developing these. Neither stock offering for these was subsrcibed. As a result the english lost the war in America.
This gives me a great idea. As the piston enters the cylinder, it compresses the air and a small amount of fuel is injected.... Resulting in reciprocating action even if the wearer is to tired to propel the engine themselves. My calculations show that speeds of up to 3600 RPMs and durations of 4 hours may be possible on a single tank of gas. This should be a great boon for exhausted soldiers and sailors to make the most of their limited R&R leaves.
The fuel injection is all handled peristatically so the only complex part is the magneto for the spark. I'm working on eliminating that by going to a diesel version, be so far the glow plug in the tip has just cause nasty burns.
When does a Pawn Shop or Consignment Shop that accepts stolen goods become a fencing operation. Presumably it has to do with if the pawn shop owner knew or had reason to suspect the items were stolen. But of course we know that's not good enough. We must also expect the pawnshop owner to make a good faith effort to determine if the goods were stolen. Otherwise we end up with a bunch of Sargent Shultz, winking de facto fences. (I know nothing!). Yet we also can't expect the pawnshop or consignment owners to work so hard at establishing the provenance or they can't exist as a bussiness.
Now scale this up to the point where the consignement owner has both slashed his margins to the bone, and is accepting and reselling so much merchandise he literally hasn't the staff or time to check. Then you have E-bay.
E-bay is a consignment shop that is not really meeting the good faith effort that is the industry standard for pawnshops.
One the one hand, who gave them a free pass on making an effort? On the other by having a huge customer base and low margins, they in some ways have created a new industry. They are arbitraging the junk drawers and attics of america. Putting all that goods back into circulation effectively increases the wealth of the nation, and also means less waste of resources to remanufacture items. It's giving people who could not afford goods, those goods at lower costs, and it's also encouraging others to buy new goods they might hesitate to buy because they know they can cash them out later.
So arguably it's good for the nation.
How to we resolve this dichotomy: promotes illegal activity and is below community standards for good faith effort to prevent that activity versus promotion of healthy commerce at a mega scale.
Hmmmm. Hell if I know. A freind of mine had his skis stolen. One assumes they probably went on e-bay. He also bought a pair of skis to replace them on e-bay at a below wholesale price. Coincidence? Ebay has lots of legit merchandise but it's a good place to sell stolen stuff too.
But this viacom thing is the same thing all over again except this time it's intellectual rather than physical property.
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
this is from the dan quail humorous quotation site.
The problem is the guy that did not buy the software support agreement calls up and says "hey my video card is busted". Now maybe it is busted. But unless he has a trusted distro from Dell they can't tell if it's a hardware problem or a driver problem. If they say "sorry sir you did not buy the software support" he's not going to be a happy camper. thus software support is not optional and thus they need to sell the whole enchilda.
Something is needed for walmart grannies. Linspire will do the job. And something is needed for companies that want to delegate their server configuration managment to a vendor like Dell. Having dell provide an out of the box running linux node with all the required drivers and enterprise class packages installed would in many cases slash IT costs. ANything in between, and it's users choice: wipe it and install what youlike
It's probably easier for dell to install an OS than not since they need to test the box before they ship it.
Preinstalled linux should come in at most two flavors. If one flavor is chose it should be the lowsest common denominator for the stupidest Windows-like user: a user freindly system with a package manager that does not fuss over the niceities of open and closed source software like Linspire. If two flavors are to be offered the other should be one that is server class with a company that backs support like RedHat or Novel or Oracle.
Nothing else shoul dbe offered as it only muddies the waters. Anyone who Likes Linux because they like to tweak and knows the difference between Debian and Gentoo and Damn Small, is also fully capable of wiping the disk and doing their own installation. Thus pre-installation is not neccessary.
Comedy: Real Genius had some excellent science advisors. The Laser he builds and the curves he draws to explain it are right for an Excimer Laser. The other stunts short of the grand finale actually happened at caltech so they are all true, even the contest entry winner.
Cinema Verite: 2001 set the high bar that has never been matched.
Primer is novel because it captures how scientist actually talk to each other, and make old equipment do new tricks. Also the time travel aspect of it actually would work--if you were a photon who divided into a particle and anti-particle--so it's fair to say this is the first time travel movie that's does not entirely violate physical laws or postulate a mechanism that does not exist. Of course the plot will make your head explode and humans are not photons.
Solaris has a lot going for it.
as for reading material: Larry Niven which makes poor adult sci fi, I found very entertaining as a high schooler. And it strives for good science where it can and still be compelling to read (rocket ships can't take forever to get somewhere!).
If you had not posted I would have. Before I got quicksilver I had no clue what I was missing. It completely changed how I interact with the computer. I don't use any of it's fancy features I just use it to launch apps from the keyboard. I have not opened my application folder in months. That and BBedit are the two apps I would be sorely pressed to give up.
News from their website page:
2007-03-08
TaxGeek06d, a major release with *numerous* bug fixes, more extensive testing based on the IRS PATS (Participants Acceptance TeSting) test input suite, improvements to the user interface, and more supported forms, has been released. Several additional forms have been introduced as well.
Please every one use this software this year so all the bugs get found and I can use it next year! 03/08 is a bit close to 4/15 for me to be worrying about bugs!
It's pretty easy to geometrically hash or construct reduced feature vectors for matching. People (like me) have been doing this for years. It's much harder to know if a molecule will fit into a crevice or negative space. THe latter is probably more important to drug design. the reduced feature vectors let you know quickly if two molecules are simmmilar in shape. Which is the title given to the article. But then this is discussed in the context of drug targets. A harder problem. What maybe new or clever here is that they found a very useful set of feature vectors.
So far all the comments I've read are way off the mark about what is interesting about TrueDisk. Yes it's true that TrueDisk is just yet another error correction scheme. What is slick about it is it's high usability. This comes from two things 1) It writes the correction bits to a separate partition from the "regular" bits. As a result, the primary partition looks exactly like a regular CD. put it in any computer, even one not equipped with the TrueDisk Software and it can be read normally.
2) The amount of the redundancy is automatically chosen. It just uses any left over space when it finalizes the CD.
As a result the operation of TrueDisk is pretty much transparent. You only need to invoke the truedisk software to read a disk that has been corrupted. Uncorrepted disks can be read normally. So You won't lose your data if you don't have the software or the company goes out of bussiness and it stops working on newer OS's. (All you would lose without the software is the ability to recover from the redundant bits. ).
In comparison to PAR or RAR, you are not compressing the data so it's faster. Now I note that if you compress and then add redundancy you could potentially have higher redundancy for a given amount of data on a fixed CD size. So there could be some theoretical advantages to RAR and PAR. However, those PAR/RAR disks cannot be read in-place (they have to be expanded) nor in "real time" (say if you are playing video). They are very slow to write. They can't be read on any computer without the same verison of par/rar. And if you do lose bits beyond the point of recovery the compressed bits will span a much greater extent in the data space--you might even lose the entire CD with PAR/RAR. So you can see that TrueDisk has usability advantages even if it's redundancy is less and it's uncompressed.
try googling "as it were" instead and you will discover it's what is know in the trade as an adverbial clause. It's closest translation is another adverbila clause "so to speak". It's used in every day english.
I'm glad you feel that you can correct francis bacon's english, but your response is unknowingly funny. You see Francis Bacon was noted for his discourses on the use of syllogism in argument. Your insult to Bacon is a pure example of syllogism. 1) I think the english phrase is bad 2) francis bacon used the phrase. 3) ergo francis bacon spoke bad english. Nice, bacon would be proud of such an elegantly bad example. I doff my quilled chapeau to you!
Interesting. I'm not quite sure I understand "mood" as language case, or the tense of "were" that you are describing as subjunctive. Care to elaborate?
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I see that like the ipod they also have implemented a "roadblock" style DRM rather than a lock-down style when it comes to sharring content with the computer your buddy brings over. That is, you and move content between computers if yo know how, one a t a time but not wholesale. Good for them. Fair use and all that.
The other interesting thing on the site was that despite statements to the contrary it works with ordinary non_HD TVs, so long as they have component video inputs.
The other thing I learned was why I can no longer get my old mac to play new epsiodes of Battle Star Galactica bought on itunes without glitching. I'm guessing that when they quadrupled the resolution on the itunes store in anticipation of the Apple TV they moves the threshold for playback above the capability of my 800Mhz imac. (When I shut all apps down, it still can't play without momentary glitches in the playback). It's really pissing me off, because they are not actually digitizing these things with the level of quality needed to be useful at that resolution. Side-by-side comparisons of itunes purchased videos with ones recorded off the TV in divx show that the divx quality is higher and with more fluid playback for the same file sizes.
From the description of the it sounds like this thing is running OSX. Does anyone know how much of a general purpose computer this is and what CPU it is using other than it's an "intel".
I would dispute this thesis. Indeed your point 3 is the very basis of the refutation. The entire success of the revolutionary war can pretty much be laid at the feet of a single technological innovation: the american hunting rifle. These were quick to reload compared to the smooth bore english guns wich required a mallot and minutes to reload. their accurate range was hundreds of yards compared to at most 20 to 50 for the english weapons. Early in the war washington got congress to fund the rifle brigades. There were effectively no rifles in new england at that time being something mainly used by inland woodsmen where there was a premium on range, rate or reload, and lower consumption of ammo. Europe had no simmilar hunting situation so few rifles existed and they were not of the same quality.
Washington managed to kill so many british officers that replacement and then recruitment became their limit. There are numberous records of cases where 12 rifflemen could decimate a hundered british troops holed up behind stone walled building not to mention in the fields. It was at this point that the brits went to the Hessian mercinaries to solve their recruitment problems and lack of rifle proficiency. (the hessians did have some rifle brigades).
So my point is that a single technological innovation can make the difference in an outcome. Especially if it comes early enough in a war. (e.g. the superior german weapons at the end of WWII arrived too late to make a difference). The brits could have copied it. They knew what the problem was having captured riflemen. But they could not react to it fast enough. The hessians were a stopgap too late.
If transports and machine guns had been developed they would also have been, like sailing ships, items of great capital cost whose factories coul dnot easily be defended. This would have been advantage to the british as well.
Well it is sort of a chicken and egg issue. Given the incentive of a war with the colonies the fuel supply for a military woul doubt have been mobilized. Consider for example the Pan Am Clipper aircraft which was a wide body passenger plane that could land on water. It came into service just before WWII. At that time it was needed for two reasons 1) there were no runways developed in most of the world. and pan am server the world not just major cities. 2) it was not possible to navigate since electronic navigation had not yet been invented. You had to land and shoot the stars. And to land in the ocean you needed a boat-plane.
Then poof ww2 happened. Did they use Clippers? nope. They built runways. And after wwII, the clippers vanished because well, who needed them with all the runways and network of control towers to get your position from.
Same would have happened I predict with coaling for transports.
However, Obviously it was untested so we can't know if they coul dhave even built them. And second the original proposal was actually for their use in crossing the english chanel. The idea of a war with the colonies was not really the likely issue at that time. France was. So these woul dhave been built and put to service without the need for coaling stations on their chanel runs. Then when the war with the colonies broke out, they would already have had the ships and only need to figure out the fuel distribution system--a smaller problem than evolving both at once.
The troop transports in question here were of the sailing ship variety. At that time a ship was the most potent mitiary weapon possible. Few port cities could host the firepower that bring ro bear in a concentrated way. Making them able to cruise the atlantic swiftly and then picket off the coast would have dominated the Colonies in a way they could not have beat. As it was, the colonists could kill off british officiers almost faster than they could ship them from england.
The theme the article repeated points out is that without a profit incentive these pieces of intellectual property--which under the soviet system where not property-- languished. Sounds like they needed some sort of patent protection system that profited the patent holders so that it could have been sold to greedy venture capital firms that could have made a profit commercializing it.
designation of things as property and assinging them as profit vehicles to the owners is what has driven the western expansion for hundreds of years. The new world discovered, the west was explored, railways built all on the backs of monopoly trade and land grants.
Kinda puts this whining about how copyrights and patents are evil in perspective.
Of course one can go too far the other way. But locking up technology as intellectual propertry is what pays for it's development.
Now consider the Gas powered boots. Are these a great invention or a joke. It's pretty darn hard to tell. Sure it sounds goofy. But I could see it really becoming something with armies of people walking to work in them if they were simple and easy to use.
Would you invest? probably not. Do you think the person that takes the risk and does invest make a lot of money if it succeeds? yes surely.
And for all the 1000 other crackpot sounding ideas that flop, it takes a lot of profit for the one that succeeds to make it worth the risk. That's why patent and copyright protection for those few cases that seem so unfair matter.
To give an example: Two items seeking investment in england around 1775 was the steam powered troop transport and the machine gun. The companies proposed to invest in inventing and developing these. Neither stock offering for these was subsrcibed. As a result the english lost the war in America.
This gives me a great idea. As the piston enters the cylinder, it compresses the air and a small amount of fuel is injected....
Resulting in reciprocating action even if the wearer is to tired to propel the engine themselves. My calculations show that speeds of up to 3600 RPMs and durations of 4 hours may be possible on a single tank of gas. This should be a great boon for exhausted soldiers and sailors to make the most of their limited R&R leaves.
The fuel injection is all handled peristatically so the only complex part is the magneto for the spark. I'm working on eliminating that by going to a diesel version, be so far the glow plug in the tip has just cause nasty burns.
When does a Pawn Shop or Consignment Shop that accepts stolen goods become a fencing operation. Presumably it has to do with if the pawn shop owner knew or had reason to suspect the items were stolen. But of course we know that's not good enough. We must also expect the pawnshop owner to make a good faith effort to determine if the goods were stolen. Otherwise we end up with a bunch of Sargent Shultz, winking de facto fences. (I know nothing!). Yet we also can't expect the pawnshop or consignment owners to work so hard at establishing the provenance or they can't exist as a bussiness.
Now scale this up to the point where the consignement owner has both slashed his margins to the bone, and is accepting and reselling so much merchandise he literally hasn't the staff or time to check. Then you have E-bay.
E-bay is a consignment shop that is not really meeting the good faith effort that is the industry standard for pawnshops.
One the one hand, who gave them a free pass on making an effort? On the other by having a huge customer base and low margins, they in some ways have created a new industry. They are arbitraging the junk drawers and attics of america. Putting all that goods back into circulation effectively increases the wealth of the nation, and also means less waste of resources to remanufacture items. It's giving people who could not afford goods, those goods at lower costs, and it's also encouraging others to buy new goods they might hesitate to buy because they know they can cash them out later.
So arguably it's good for the nation.
How to we resolve this dichotomy: promotes illegal activity and is below community standards for good faith effort to prevent that activity versus promotion of healthy commerce at a mega scale.
Hmmmm. Hell if I know. A freind of mine had his skis stolen. One assumes they probably went on e-bay. He also bought a pair of skis to replace them on e-bay at a below wholesale price. Coincidence? Ebay has lots of legit merchandise but it's a good place to sell stolen stuff too.
But this viacom thing is the same thing all over again except this time it's intellectual rather than physical property.
And to think all this time I thought cancel meant something else.
The thing about the interent is that no one can tell if you're a dog.
--woof.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
this is from the dan quail humorous quotation site.
The big change is they went to a Knome skin that makes it look like KDE.
The problem is the guy that did not buy the software support agreement calls up and says "hey my video card is busted". Now maybe it is busted. But unless he has a trusted distro from Dell they can't tell if it's a hardware problem or a driver problem. If they say "sorry sir you did not buy the software support" he's not going to be a happy camper. thus software support is not optional and thus they need to sell the whole enchilda.
Something is needed for walmart grannies. Linspire will do the job. And something is needed for companies that want to delegate their server configuration managment to a vendor like Dell. Having dell provide an out of the box running linux node with all the required drivers and enterprise class packages installed would in many cases slash IT costs. ANything in between, and it's users choice: wipe it and install what youlike
It's probably easier for dell to install an OS than not since they need to test the box before they ship it.
Preinstalled linux should come in at most two flavors. If one flavor is chose it should be the lowsest common denominator for the stupidest Windows-like user: a user freindly system with a package manager that does not fuss over the niceities of open and closed source software like Linspire. If two flavors are to be offered the other should be one that is server class with a company that backs support like RedHat or Novel or Oracle.
Nothing else shoul dbe offered as it only muddies the waters. Anyone who Likes Linux because they like to tweak and knows the difference between Debian and Gentoo and Damn Small, is also fully capable of wiping the disk and doing their own installation. Thus pre-installation is not neccessary.
Comedy:
Real Genius had some excellent science advisors. The Laser he builds and the curves he draws to explain it are right for an Excimer Laser. The other stunts short of the grand finale actually happened at caltech so they are all true, even the contest entry winner.
Cinema Verite:
2001 set the high bar that has never been matched.
Primer is novel because it captures how scientist actually talk to each other, and make old equipment do new tricks. Also the time travel aspect of it actually would work--if you were a photon who divided into a particle and anti-particle--so it's fair to say this is the first time travel movie that's does not entirely violate physical laws or postulate a mechanism that does not exist. Of course the plot will make your head explode and humans are not photons.
Solaris has a lot going for it.
as for reading material: Larry Niven which makes poor adult sci fi, I found very entertaining as a high schooler. And it strives for good science where it can and still be compelling to read (rocket ships can't take forever to get somewhere!).
I tried using I term 2 years ago and it was a horrible experience. very slow and it would crash taking all my terminals with it. Has it improved?
If you had not posted I would have. Before I got quicksilver I had no clue what I was missing. It completely changed how I interact with the computer. I don't use any of it's fancy features I just use it to launch apps from the keyboard. I have not opened my application folder in months. That and BBedit are the two apps I would be sorely pressed to give up.
Please every one use this software this year so all the bugs get found and I can use it next year! 03/08 is a bit close to 4/15 for me to be worrying about bugs!
Quick answer: yes variations on FFT have been tired out the wazoo. they are inded very successful for kinds of docking problems.
It's pretty easy to geometrically hash or construct reduced feature vectors for matching. People (like me) have been doing this for years. It's much harder to know if a molecule will fit into a crevice or negative space. THe latter is probably more important to drug design. the reduced feature vectors let you know quickly if two molecules are simmmilar in shape. Which is the title given to the article. But then this is discussed in the context of drug targets. A harder problem. What maybe new or clever here is that they found a very useful set of feature vectors.
So far all the comments I've read are way off the mark about what is interesting about TrueDisk. Yes it's true that TrueDisk is just yet another error correction scheme. What is slick about it is it's high usability. This comes from two things
1) It writes the correction bits to a separate partition from the "regular" bits. As a result, the primary partition looks exactly like a regular CD. put it in any computer, even one not equipped with the TrueDisk Software and it can be read normally.
2) The amount of the redundancy is automatically chosen. It just uses any left over space when it finalizes the CD.
As a result the operation of TrueDisk is pretty much transparent. You only need to invoke the truedisk software to read a disk that has been corrupted. Uncorrepted disks can be read normally. So You won't lose your data if you don't have the software or the company goes out of bussiness and it stops working on newer OS's. (All you would lose without the software is the ability to recover from the redundant bits. ).
In comparison to PAR or RAR, you are not compressing the data so it's faster. Now I note that if you compress and then add redundancy you could potentially have higher redundancy for a given amount of data on a fixed CD size. So there could be some theoretical advantages to RAR and PAR. However, those PAR/RAR disks cannot be read in-place (they have to be expanded) nor in "real time" (say if you are playing video). They are very slow to write. They can't be read on any computer without the same verison of par/rar. And if you do lose bits beyond the point of recovery the compressed bits will span a much greater extent in the data space--you might even lose the entire CD with PAR/RAR. So you can see that TrueDisk has usability advantages even if it's redundancy is less and it's uncompressed.
Repo-Man's Code of conduct
never damage a vehicle,
never allow a vehicle to be damaged through action or inaction.
true, but it would not have been as funny. Time to reflect on humor.
I'm glad you feel that you can correct francis bacon's english, but your response is unknowingly funny. You see Francis Bacon was noted for his discourses on the use of syllogism in argument. Your insult to Bacon is a pure example of syllogism. 1) I think the english phrase is bad 2) francis bacon used the phrase. 3) ergo francis bacon spoke bad english. Nice, bacon would be proud of such an elegantly bad example. I doff my quilled chapeau to you!
Interesting. I'm not quite sure I understand "mood" as language case, or the tense of "were" that you are describing as subjunctive. Care to elaborate?