Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
 

I found an hour. It was in a tray with the spare change and car keys. It's in fairly good shape -- looks like it was only used a couple times to watch TV. If anyone's clock is still missing an hour, I'll post a link for downloading it (takes about an hour).

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/me hands AngleWyrm a medal.

Cause that post deserves one.

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Please post the link.

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aye, did you come up with that yourself?

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heh, ya. Was gonna make a countdown timer page to link to also, but...it'd take me more than an hour http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

For a more interesting hour, Gravity Probe-B preliminary reports are due next week. Frame dragging and spatial distortions.

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Cool.

One thing I've wondered is, if mass is partially relative to the speed of light, what is the speed of light relative to?

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Anything and everything that isn't accelerating, as long as the reference frame you use has the object in question at rest.

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Ah, but at rest relative to what?

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Your reference frame. To do meaningful calculations in any situation where relativity has a significant impact you will at some point simply have to arbitrarily define what is at rest. You can choose absolutely anything you want, it will all work out correctly regardless, but you have to pick something.

Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
 

Hehehe, read this and had to chuckle.

Yes, it's the change in daylight savings time, but that's not why I'm snickering.

I'm snickering because 98SE doesn't have this problem at all. I set time to PDT manually on the new day. On the usual day, I fired up my bawx, and 98SE politely said, "Hey, boss, it's time to set the clock ahead. You want me to do that?"

I replied "no", and that was the end of it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Why, why, why are more sophisticated mechanisms, (and there can be no doubt that XP is far more advanced and sophisticated than 98SE), always more subject to quirky little problems like this?