From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 17 15:24:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31BA14E52 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:24:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:24:09 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Greg Lehey" , Cc: Subject: RE: Video Stupidity (was RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit") Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:24:09 -0800 Message-ID: <000001bf3152$d9365880$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <19991117175351.61875@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wednesday, 17 November 1999 at 13:47:25 -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > > Then you tell me, why do we all set our VCRs to the fastest possible > > setting that provides the lowest possible quality? Are we just > all mistaken? > > You're mistaken on two points: first, we don't *all* do it. I never > do. And secondly, you mean the slowest setting, not the fastest. If > I need to explain that, we need to go back to Euclid and Newton and > argue from there. Isn't it faster, so that relativistic affects cause time to slow down? DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message