Actually I would hope in case of #2 further examination is done, if an error in the experiment is found, that would create the divergence found we have #1 again. If an error is found and the results can't be compensated then we're back to square one minus a few dollars.
If however no error in the experiment is found then we have somthing. But given the challenges relativity has already sustained quite successfully I would expect follow up experiments to refine the nature of the divergence and or it's implications, an therefore realm of human knowledge. I sincerly hope your wrong, unfortunately this is not guaranteed.
"...because it could be very important in practical terms: you wouldn't want to take a plunge off a cliff with your SUV because your GPS receiver had a slight error, would you?"
Well pardon me for nit picking, but GPS system already has a rather significant deliberate error to limit it's military value to the US military (now if a cruise nissle accidently hit my house I'd be upset..)
My nearly pointless nitpick asside I do agree this experiment has merit and even 'cool factor' though maybe not for joe six pack.
"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work,... is not an infringement of copyright."
No, it's not analogous to pleading "innocent" and "guilty," but is more analogous to pleading "not responsible by reason of insanity." You're saying, I committed an act that would otherwise be unlawful, but there is a justification/excuse which prevents this punishment from attaching as a result of my actions.
To me it seems your second paragraph still supports a leagle 'excuse' for infringement even though your quote makes it clear fair use is NOT an infringement.
In the U.S.A. it's supposed to be innocent untill proven guilty (in theory at least) not the other way around.
Your last paragraph seems to imply fair use is a way to avoid consequences of unauthorized copying of a coprighted work.
Fair use is not an exscuse for doing something otherwise illeagle it's simply not illeagle in the first place.
I'm sorry if I'm not being totaly clear on the difference, or if it seems I'm playing semantics games when there is little if any practical difference. It's just that I do feel that some of these distinctions are important. Many other things like this bother me as words and perceptions DO matter. E.G.:
If people constantly hear reference to the rights granted by the Bill Of Rights rather than protected, they are far more likely to accept their being whittled away.
And they do this when you refuse to speed up to say 20+ over the speed limit in an area where the local municipality will give you a speeding ticked for 15 over in a parked car anytime they want more revenue They're infamous for this, one local guy (inventer of 'OFF' spot remover and Gyro-cola) even devoted part of a comercial he paid for to shame them.
If I'm at or above the speed limit and someone wants to go faster. They shouldn't ride my a$$ because the best they can hope for is I'm in such a hurry myself I don't slow down till they back off. I'm not risking my life and getting a ticket (esp in a town where the judge will simply ingore the statements of 3 passengers and find you guilty anyway, had to 'apeal', won that though) or worse. Know what would happen if I had to emergency brake in Chevy Cavalier with a suv 3 feet off my rear bumper? And out here where a deer or big dog can run out into the road it can happen.
Now I'm not one of those people who think it's o.k. to tell others what to do when it's just thier lives,liberty,money,etc. on the line, but when it's mine they have now right to try and force me to take risks for convience or "cool factor".
"Oh, and while I'm ranting, all the folks who think they should control what other people drive should... run their own lives first."
I assume this is in reply to statement about making some jacked up truck owners drive somthing smaller. This was more my venting than a serious suggestion, I honestly don't care what you drive as long as your not doing somthing stupid that puts MY life and the lives of others at risk.
"Additional free advice: when driving at night look at the road and the right road edge, not directly into other peoples headlights;-)"
This is what I normally do (look away and watch the edge of my side of the road), the problem is these lights, especially on taller/jacked-up vehicles, are so bright as to seriously interfere with vision even in this case. And I've heard the same complaint from others and my night vision normal.
When you live a few miles back on a narrow road with NO street lights the reaction of the iris to that much light (even not directly into the eye) pretty much prevents seeing anything else till they re-adapt.
Easily. Take a 2" glass rod for example, now pull on both ends, pretty strong huh. try pushing in on both ends, or twisting it. now shock it suddenly, say by whacking it on the side.
Compare this to twine. you can pretty much slap twine silly swing it as hard as you want against the wall and nothing much happens, now try supporting as much wieght as the 2" glass rod can handle.
No kidding, how are these allowed when in many jurisdictions you can get a ticket if you have your high-beams on when there is on coming traffic.
I BRIEFLY flash my highbeams at anyone who's headlights blind me because of brightness to notify them they need to dim thier lights. But over the last couple of years I've had more and more people respond by turning on thier brights because they had these lights and it only apeared they were running with thier high beams on. I go from blinded to blinded and in pain!
I don't care how much better you can see the road, it doese no good if you get hit head on by some poor schmuck you just blinded.
Mycroft (ps all you idiots who jack your truck up and don't recalibrate the beam angle on your headlights so as not to blind oncoming traffic should be forced to drive a small 3-4cylinder 2door for a month, at night!)
That unfortunately is all to true all to often. hmm, A quote off of the top of my head (so it may not be totaly accurate word wise) that relates.
"Ask an expert what can't be done and why, then do it" got that from Heinlein I think, so he may borrowed it.
The problem is some people get it in thier head there is only 'one true way' (this is oftened fostered in the educational setting sadly). This can happen easily when you start with a known property and a method of working with it that's usually pretty good, now the property may well be invariant (such as gravity, or pi, or some other physical constant) and the invariance of the property often over-associated with the processes, espcially when the process is of common usage and some age.
There are other mechanisms of course, but that one is pretty insidious imho.
The real trick is to know the facts, and why, and the existing processes and why, and then try to come up with a better how to achieve the why. This is where knowing the actual end goal, while not confuysing it with the in-between goals of the various processes, and your available resources is good. You can't effectively think outside the box without understanding the box. you also can't think outside the box if you treat it like black box.
"Do you think that the understanding of the TCP/IP protocol makes you a better web designer ?"
Of course it can
"Or that by understanding how a microprocessor works you will code better in PHP ?"
Yes, you can write more efficient code if you know how it'll be implented at the hardware level.
"all peripheral knowledge can help, but sometimes, at different scales, your knowledge and mental model that comes with the "lower" layer might even block you from thinking "out of the box". "
This makes no sense. The only thing more knowledge can do when trying to "think outside the box" is help. The more you step away from tried and true the more you MUST know what your doing or else disaster can result. I'm glad doctors, pharmaceutical reasearch companies, engineers of all stripes, etc. don't do things that way!
Thinking 'outside the box' is an associative process for the most part. In fact the more things you know, related or not, the more likely you are to see that alternat viewpoint.
But knowing somthing about assembly may help you understand cryptic error messages when your jvm blows chunks and completely crashes on what should be valid code. And thus come up with a work around.
Also Java and oop are only a subset of programing languages, and not valid for all uses. I mean shure a webpage developer might not NEED the grounding in the fundementals a system software engineer doese, but the more you know the faster you can resolve issues.
To use an analogy: The training an MD recieves includes a lot of basic biology, chemistry, and other subjects than in of itself, doese not directly apply to treating people, but when somthing unexpected happens I want my doctor to be able to recognize chemical reactions that don't normaly happen in the human body. however a paramedic can do with less training because he only doese a limited subset of full medicine.
"Riiiight. Apple returns $50M to the record companies, and their response will be that they pull music from iTunes because Apple isn't strict enough.
Do you realize how dumb that sounds? It makes no sense on any level"
Your absolutely right, it makes no sense at all to for them to pull thier catalogs from Apple when it's making them so much money, unfortunately they have just such a history of doing things that stupid/illogical.
Folklorist is probably a subset of anthropology or possibly sociology. Just my guess though. If you REALLY want to know ask at a couple of local community colleges.
#1 - the use of night vision goggles, WITHOUT THE POSTING OF A WARNING TO THE EFFECT THAT THEY MIGHT BE USED, is likely an illegal search, bringing some form of liability on the theater for doing so. (IANAL)
No not really, first off your on thier property (the movie theatre is private property) second it's the movie theatre not the police/government (our constittuionally protections are protections from the government, not private bussiness who's property we're on) and third is your not doing anything private! It's kinda like driving carrying a loaded shotgun into a bank and calling it an illeagle search when a teller calls the cops after seeing it.
Your second point has merrit though, as many have said serious jail time is out of proportion to the offence it might be reasonable if we were talking under thirty days, say 10 or so, or maybee third violations or more.
Ok this is possibly not as clever as I think it is, but if you wanted to sell a linux distro why not just push the fact that it comes with X-Windows. Most Joe-sixpack types associate both X and Windows with MS. Your not using thier trademark, and if they try any court action just point out X-Windows is Older than MS.
The advertising could even somewhat emphasize the version "Now with X-windows version blahblah.blah" and with the recent liscense changes and forking going on you have a Legitimate reason to point out which version of which fork you are using.
Actually the ATI driver situation is alot better the last 4 or 5 months, esp on the update side of things. I've only had minor problems with the drivers actually working (a few games didn't work well with certain versions). But updating the drivers for an AIW was a pain in the arse for about a year after I got my first (radeon 7000) AIW, but shortly before I bought by AIW9600 they droped it down to a one or two file (your option, one big file with everything or just a Medium file that handled all the non-AIW stuff and a small file for the rest) with sane versioning and naming (ie no longer cat-dvd4768819432ab4.exe or whatever). I decided not to buy another ATI card unless they straightened out the demented mess involved in updating and was looking for a way to replace the functionality of an AIW reasonably when I ran into the above mentioned game issue (texturing on the Matrix game was fubared) and decided to try and update the drivers and was pleaseantly suprised. Next paycheck I got the 9600AIW.
A minor nit-pik, the later D&D rulesets came out after AD&D 1st. they ran con-currantly for a good while as AD&D was meant as an advanced version of D&D rather than a sequal/replacement.
I take it you haven't worked with the 3.5 rules. I say this because I'm 3.5 right now and most of the changes are improvements and simplifications towards a more streamlined system. Some are simply clarification (things that weren't clearly spelled out are not) and the rest is mostly smoothing out character progression so you don't characters that just gain a few hp and and skill points for 3 levels followed by 1-3 feats and other class features kicking in over 2 levels.
3.5 runs smoother and with less confusion than 3.0.
I could give lots of examples of how 3.5 better, eassier, and more fluid to play than 3.0. The jump skill fit the rest of d20 now, they eliminated 'exclusive' skills and made most of them class features and with small tweaks and lots of diagrams and explanations made the combat rules much more intuitive. Class progression is much smoother rather than having irregular jumps in ability.
I do have few complaints about it. Bard is prefered class for gnomes now? sorcerer I could buy, but bard? And half orcs still seem a bit nerfed.
I suppose after 23 years of playing I should be used to the 'they wrecked it' or 'they just want more money' complaints everytime a new edition of any system comes out, espcially AD&D.
It honestly is better than 3.5, but it's not so much better that it'd be a tragedy not to get it if you like 3.0 (3.5 really is the right versioning in my opinion)
You know I was thinking the same thing, started in 1981. Where do these kids get the idea that playing for a mere 12 years counts as a long time:) (and I had roll my dice in the snow, uphill, both ways..er somthing like that)
And another one "If you give it stats, the pc's will kill it" from the 2nd ed Dieties and Demigods IIRC
Point the pc's at what you want them to do and sure enough they'll go off at right angles to it.
Mycroft (and I've still most of the B2 that came with my D&D (no A!) boxed set)
Actually you did pay. You paid when you bought your iPod, and you pay when you buy from iTunes. Or rather Apple paid and passed the cost on to you. Now it's not a huge cost, but it's there.
I like Ogg primarily because it's a better format, it compresses a bit better, is much more flexible, and has other usefull features.
Strange, I know two drummers, and they are both very carefull about equipment, well the one manages to bang himself up alot playing, knuckles hitting the rim, swinging wild with the sticks and bashing himself in the head, etc.
One nearly had a hart attack when I offered to help carry some of his stuff inside for a performance.
The one anoying habbit they do have is taking up all the attractive women around, and neigther band is that popular and they're both small skinny guys:/
Well usually it's just laziness, cluelesness, or a false sense of invulnerability but not always.
I only started regularly running one after upgradeing a windows box to xp which came down with a msblaster within 5 minutes of going online, this when the crappy lines out here barely support 28.8. This was only the second time I've ever gotten a virus, the first I got off of a 5.25" floppy back in the early 90's.
I would rather not run one. Why? because I'm sick of programs that take over the system, lock thier processes into bootup in 5 different ways, and when you 'turn it off' all your really doing is hiding the controlls, not turning it off.
I'm running McAfee pro, and it tries to connect to home EVERY 5 MINUTES! on win9x systems it will dial out to do so if it can. If not it will pop up the connect dialog. EVERY 5 MINUES!. this is insane. And in parts of the world where you pay per minute on all phone calls can be costly. Some people have gotten huge phone bills because of this. They know it doese this but will not fix it.
And thats just one companies product. Symantec advertises 'product activation' right on the box. and others do simular things.
I'm really sick of this sort of thing. McAfee pro comes with a 2 computer license so I also installed it on My brother's computer and the wanting to dial out every 5 minutes was creating serious issues and couldn't be turned off so he had to uninstall it.
This is why some people don't install a.v. software, the software often behaves so much like a virus(that you PAID for) that they wonder what the point is.
Sorry for the rant, but AV software just isn't an unmitigated good anymore.
Hmm well I'd definate trade my principles, the ones I had in highschool anyway assuming they haven't passed away.... Oh wait you meant, errr never mind.
I'm not positive but I'm pretty shure anything big enough to make a significant change in the earth's orbit is likely big enough to seriously wreck it. The earth is not solid all the way through. Hopefully someone with more experience/expertise/data would care to speak..?
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Actually I would hope in case of #2 further examination is done, if an error in the experiment is found, that would create the divergence found we have #1 again. If an error is found and the results can't be compensated then we're back to square one minus a few dollars.
If however no error in the experiment is found then we have somthing. But given the challenges relativity has already sustained quite successfully I would expect follow up experiments to refine the nature of the divergence and or it's implications, an therefore realm of human knowledge. I sincerly hope your wrong, unfortunately this is not guaranteed.
Mycroft
"...because it could be very important in practical terms: you wouldn't want to take a plunge off a cliff with your SUV because your GPS receiver had a slight error, would you?"
Well pardon me for nit picking, but GPS system already has a rather significant deliberate error to limit it's military value to the US military (now if a cruise nissle accidently hit my house I'd be upset..)
My nearly pointless nitpick asside I do agree this experiment has merit and even 'cool factor' though maybe not for joe six pack.
Mycroft
To me it seems your second paragraph still supports a leagle 'excuse' for infringement even though your quote makes it clear fair use is NOT an infringement.
In the U.S.A. it's supposed to be innocent untill proven guilty (in theory at least) not the other way around.
Your last paragraph seems to imply fair use is a way to avoid consequences of unauthorized copying of a coprighted work.
Fair use is not an exscuse for doing something otherwise illeagle it's simply not illeagle in the first place.
I'm sorry if I'm not being totaly clear on the difference, or if it seems I'm playing semantics games when there is little if any practical difference. It's just that I do feel that some of these distinctions are important. Many other things like this bother me as words and perceptions DO matter.
E.G.:
If people constantly hear reference to the rights granted by the Bill Of Rights rather than protected, they are far more likely to accept their being whittled away.
Mycroft
And they do this when you refuse to speed up to say 20+ over the speed limit in an area where the local municipality will give you a speeding ticked for 15 over in a parked car anytime they want more revenue They're infamous for this, one local guy (inventer of 'OFF' spot remover and Gyro-cola) even devoted part of a comercial he paid for to shame them.
If I'm at or above the speed limit and someone wants to go faster. They shouldn't ride my a$$ because the best they can hope for is I'm in such a hurry myself I don't slow down till they back off. I'm not risking my life and getting a ticket (esp in a town where the judge will simply ingore the statements of 3 passengers and find you guilty anyway, had to 'apeal', won that though) or worse. Know what would happen if I had to emergency brake in Chevy Cavalier with a suv 3 feet off my rear bumper? And out here where a deer or big dog can run out into the road it can happen.
Now I'm not one of those people who think it's o.k. to tell others what to do when it's just thier lives,liberty,money,etc. on the line, but when it's mine they have now right to try and force me to take risks for convience or "cool factor".
Mycroft (sheesh am I ranting lately)
"Oh, and while I'm ranting, all the folks who think they should control what other people drive should... run their own lives first."
;-)"
I assume this is in reply to statement about making some jacked up truck owners drive somthing smaller. This was more my venting than a serious suggestion, I honestly don't care what you drive as long as your not doing somthing stupid that puts MY life and the lives of others at risk.
"Additional free advice: when driving at night look at the road and the right road edge, not directly into other peoples headlights
This is what I normally do (look away and watch the edge of my side of the road), the problem is these lights, especially on taller/jacked-up vehicles, are so bright as to seriously interfere with vision even in this case. And I've heard the same complaint from others and my night vision normal.
When you live a few miles back on a narrow road with NO street lights the reaction of the iris to that much light (even not directly into the eye) pretty much prevents seeing anything else till they re-adapt.
Mycroft
Easily. Take a 2" glass rod for example, now pull on both ends, pretty strong huh. try pushing in on both ends, or twisting it. now shock it suddenly, say by whacking it on the side.
Compare this to twine. you can pretty much slap twine silly swing it as hard as you want against the wall and nothing much happens, now try supporting as much wieght as the 2" glass rod can handle.
Mycroft
No kidding, how are these allowed when in many jurisdictions you can get a ticket if you have your high-beams on when there is on coming traffic.
I BRIEFLY flash my highbeams at anyone who's headlights blind me because of brightness to notify them they need to dim thier lights. But over the last couple of years I've had more and more people respond by turning on thier brights because they had these lights and it only apeared they were running with thier high beams on. I go from blinded to blinded and in pain!
I don't care how much better you can see the road, it doese no good if you get hit head on by some poor schmuck you just blinded.
Mycroft
(ps all you idiots who jack your truck up and don't recalibrate the beam angle on your headlights so as not to blind oncoming traffic should be forced to drive a small 3-4cylinder 2door for a month, at night!)
That unfortunately is all to true all to often.
hmm, A quote off of the top of my head (so it may not be totaly accurate word wise) that relates.
"Ask an expert what can't be done and why, then do it" got that from Heinlein I think, so he may borrowed it.
The problem is some people get it in thier head there is only 'one true way' (this is oftened fostered in the educational setting sadly). This can happen easily when you start with a known property and a method of working with it that's usually pretty good, now the property may well be invariant (such as gravity, or pi, or some other physical constant) and the invariance of the property often over-associated with the processes, espcially when the process is of common usage and some age.
There are other mechanisms of course, but that one is pretty insidious imho.
The real trick is to know the facts, and why, and the existing processes and why, and then try to come up with a better how to achieve the why. This is where knowing the actual end goal, while not confuysing it with the in-between goals of the various processes, and your available resources is good. You can't effectively think outside the box without understanding the box. you also can't think outside the box if you treat it like black box.
Mycroft.
"Do you think that the understanding of the TCP/IP protocol makes you a better web designer ?"
Of course it can
"Or that by understanding how a microprocessor works you will code better in PHP ?"
Yes, you can write more efficient code if you know how it'll be implented at the hardware level.
"all peripheral knowledge can help, but sometimes, at different scales, your knowledge and mental model that comes with the "lower" layer might even block you from thinking "out of the box". "
This makes no sense. The only thing more knowledge can do when trying to "think outside the box" is help. The more you step away from tried and true the more you MUST know what your doing or else disaster can result. I'm glad doctors, pharmaceutical reasearch companies, engineers of all stripes, etc. don't do things that way!
Thinking 'outside the box' is an associative process for the most part. In fact the more things you know, related or not, the more likely you are to see that alternat viewpoint.
Mycroft
But knowing somthing about assembly may help you understand cryptic error messages when your jvm blows chunks and completely crashes on what should be valid code. And thus come up with a work around.
Also Java and oop are only a subset of programing languages, and not valid for all uses. I mean shure a webpage developer might not NEED the grounding in the fundementals a system software engineer doese, but the more you know the faster you can resolve issues.
To use an analogy:
The training an MD recieves includes a lot of basic biology, chemistry, and other subjects than in of itself, doese not directly apply to treating people, but when somthing unexpected happens I want my doctor to be able to recognize chemical reactions that don't normaly happen in the human body. however a paramedic can do with less training because he only doese a limited subset of full medicine.
Mcyroft
"Riiiight. Apple returns $50M to the record companies, and their response will be that they pull music from iTunes because Apple isn't strict enough.
Do you realize how dumb that sounds? It makes no sense on any level"
Your absolutely right, it makes no sense at all to for them to pull thier catalogs from Apple when it's making them so much money, unfortunately they have just such a history of doing things that stupid/illogical.
Mycroft
Folklorist is probably a subset of anthropology or possibly sociology. Just my guess though. If you REALLY want to know ask at a couple of local community colleges.
Mycroft
#1 - the use of night vision goggles, WITHOUT THE POSTING OF A WARNING TO THE EFFECT THAT THEY MIGHT BE USED, is likely an illegal search, bringing some form of liability on the theater for doing so. (IANAL)
No not really, first off your on thier property (the movie theatre is private property) second it's the movie theatre not the police/government (our constittuionally protections are protections from the government, not private bussiness who's property we're on) and third is your not doing anything private! It's kinda like driving carrying a loaded shotgun into a bank and calling it an illeagle search when a teller calls the cops after seeing it.
Your second point has merrit though, as many have said serious jail time is out of proportion to the offence it might be reasonable if we were talking under thirty days, say 10 or so, or maybee third violations or more.
Mycroft
Ok this is possibly not as clever as I think it is, but if you wanted to sell a linux distro why not just push the fact that it comes with X-Windows. Most Joe-sixpack types associate both X and Windows with MS. Your not using thier trademark, and if they try any court action just point out X-Windows is Older than MS.
The advertising could even somewhat emphasize the version "Now with X-windows version blahblah.blah" and with the recent liscense changes and forking going on you have a Legitimate reason to point out which version of which fork you are using.
Mycroft
Actually the ATI driver situation is alot better the last 4 or 5 months, esp on the update side of things. I've only had minor problems with the drivers actually working (a few games didn't work well with certain versions). But updating the drivers for an AIW was a pain in the arse for about a year after I got my first (radeon 7000) AIW, but shortly before I bought by AIW9600 they droped it down to a one or two file (your option, one big file with everything or just a Medium file that handled all the non-AIW stuff and a small file for the rest) with sane versioning and naming (ie no longer cat-dvd4768819432ab4.exe or whatever). I decided not to buy another ATI card unless they straightened out the demented mess involved in updating and was looking for a way to replace the functionality of an AIW reasonably when I ran into the above mentioned game issue (texturing on the Matrix game was fubared) and decided to try and update the drivers and was pleaseantly suprised. Next paycheck I got the 9600AIW.
Mycroft
How about, "damn you got a LOT of money"
Still the thought of a Cray supercomputer cluster... now THAT's a lot power.
Mycroft
A minor nit-pik, the later D&D rulesets came out after AD&D 1st. they ran con-currantly for a good while as AD&D was meant as an advanced version of D&D rather than a sequal/replacement.
Mycroft
I take it you haven't worked with the 3.5 rules.
I say this because I'm 3.5 right now and most of the changes are improvements and simplifications towards a more streamlined system. Some are simply clarification (things that weren't clearly spelled out are not) and the rest is mostly smoothing out character progression so you don't characters that just gain a few hp and and skill points for 3 levels followed by 1-3 feats and other class features kicking in over 2 levels.
3.5 runs smoother and with less confusion than 3.0.
I could give lots of examples of how 3.5 better, eassier, and more fluid to play than 3.0. The jump skill fit the rest of d20 now, they eliminated 'exclusive' skills and made most of them class features and with small tweaks and lots of diagrams and explanations made the combat rules much more intuitive. Class progression is much smoother rather than having irregular jumps in ability.
I do have few complaints about it. Bard is prefered class for gnomes now? sorcerer I could buy, but bard? And half orcs still seem a bit nerfed.
I suppose after 23 years of playing I should be used to the 'they wrecked it' or 'they just want more money' complaints everytime a new edition of any system comes out, espcially AD&D.
It honestly is better than 3.5, but it's not so much better that it'd be a tragedy not to get it if you like 3.0 (3.5 really is the right versioning in my opinion)
Mycroft
You know I was thinking the same thing, started in 1981. Where do these kids get the idea that playing for a mere 12 years counts as a long time :) (and I had roll my dice in the snow, uphill, both ways..er somthing like that)
Mycroft
And another one "If you give it stats, the pc's will kill it" from the 2nd ed Dieties and Demigods IIRC
Point the pc's at what you want them to do and sure enough they'll go off at right angles to it.
Mycroft (and I've still most of the B2 that came with my D&D (no A!) boxed set)
Actually you did pay. You paid when you bought your iPod, and you pay when you buy from iTunes. Or rather Apple paid and passed the cost on to you. Now it's not a huge cost, but it's there.
I like Ogg primarily because it's a better format, it compresses a bit better, is much more flexible, and has other usefull features.
Mycroft
*off topic warning*
:/
Strange, I know two drummers, and they are both very carefull about equipment, well the one manages to bang himself up alot playing, knuckles hitting the rim, swinging wild with the sticks and bashing himself in the head, etc.
One nearly had a hart attack when I offered to help carry some of his stuff inside for a performance.
The one anoying habbit they do have is taking up all the attractive women around, and neigther band is that popular and they're both small skinny guys
Mycroft
Well usually it's just laziness, cluelesness, or a false sense of invulnerability but not always.
I only started regularly running one after upgradeing a windows box to xp which came down with a msblaster within 5 minutes of going online, this when the crappy lines out here barely support 28.8. This was only the second time I've ever gotten a virus, the first I got off of a 5.25" floppy back in the early 90's.
I would rather not run one. Why? because I'm sick of programs that take over the system, lock thier processes into bootup in 5 different ways, and when you 'turn it off' all your really doing is hiding the controlls, not turning it off.
I'm running McAfee pro, and it tries to connect to home EVERY 5 MINUTES! on win9x systems it will dial out to do so if it can. If not it will pop up the connect dialog. EVERY 5 MINUES!. this is insane. And in parts of the world where you pay per minute on all phone calls can be costly. Some people have gotten huge phone bills because of this. They know it doese this but will not fix it.
And thats just one companies product. Symantec advertises 'product activation' right on the box. and others do simular things.
I'm really sick of this sort of thing. McAfee pro comes with a 2 computer license so I also installed it on My brother's computer and the wanting to dial out every 5 minutes was creating serious issues and couldn't be turned off so he had to uninstall it.
This is why some people don't install a.v. software, the software often behaves so much like a virus(that you PAID for) that they wonder what the point is.
Sorry for the rant, but AV software just isn't an unmitigated good anymore.
Mycroft
Hmm well I'd definate trade my principles, the ones I had in highschool anyway assuming they haven't passed away.... Oh wait you meant, errr never mind.
Mycroft
(sorry I couldn't stop myself:) )
I'm not positive but I'm pretty shure anything big enough to make a significant change in the earth's orbit is likely big enough to seriously wreck it. The earth is not solid all the way through. Hopefully someone with more experience/expertise/data would care to speak..?
Mycroft