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can't find the thread that suggested CMC was the best in the world or that any drive could get any particular disc to burn perfectly. That, like dry rot, must have been made up.

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Occam's Razor (also spelled Ockham's Razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. It forms the basis of methodological reductionism, and is also called the principle of parsimony or law of economy.

In its simplest form, Occam's Razor states that one should make no more assumptions than needed. Put into everyday language, it says

Numquam ponenda est pluritas sine necessitate. [Latin]
which translates to:

Entities are not to be multiplied without necessity.
or

Multiples should never be used if not necessary.
or

"Shave off" (omit) unnecessary entities in explanations.
But the more commonly used translations are:

Given two equally predictive theories, choose the simpler, and The simplest answer is usually the correct answer.
For example, after a storm, one notices that a tree has fallen. Based on the evidence of the storm and the fallen tree, a reasonable hypothesis would be that the storm blew down the tree; this hypothesis requires one to suspend his or her disbelief very little, as there exist strong logical connections binding what one already knows to this solution (seeing and hearing storms does indeed tend to indicate the existence of storms; storms are more than capable of felling trees). A rival hypothesis claiming that the tree was knocked over by marauding 200-metre tall space aliens, while being theoretically possible and arriving at the same end result (namely, the tree being knocked down), requires many additional assumptions (concerning the very existence of aliens, their ability and desire to travel interstellar distances, their ability and desire to (un-)intentionally knock down trees, the alien biology that allows them to be 200 metres tall in terrestrial gravity, etc.), each additional assumption itself having a possibility of error and effectively diminishing the likelihood of the hypothesis overall. Thus the theory with less assumptions is logically the more practical option.

The principle of Occam's Razor has inspired numerous expressions including: "parsimony of postulates", the "principle of simplicity", the "KISS principle" (Keep It Simple, Stupid), and in some medical schools "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras".

Adding another layer of irony, many modern scientists and mathematicians seriously propose that the basic "entities" of reality may be "bits of information", for example, the digits of binary code, in which case the entities of William of Ockham might be seen as foreshadowing the logic of George Boole and modern computing.

In the popular fictional television series X-Files the character Fox Mulder references the Occam's Razor as the "Occam's principle of limited imagination" probably in an attempt to emphasize that, after all, it is still a guideline rather than a scientific law.

In the 1997 film "Contact" starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConoghay, McConoghay's charcter Palmer Joss refrenced Occam's Razor as a reason to disblieve Elenor Arroway's (Jodie Foster) claim that she really had made alien contact.



Because there are an infinite number of theories which fit any body of evidence equally well, and all make radically different predictions, if science cannot choose between them, then science can never determine any useful theories. So far the only known way to usefully choose between the infinite number of theories which fit a body of evidence is Occam's Razor. For this reason Occam's Razor is seen as an indispensable aspect of science, without which science ceases to function entirely.

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There are some poor quality factories making discs, but Ritek, Prodisc, and CMC are not among them.

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My only suggestion was that those who complain about quality ought to identify the quality problem so that #1 can be ruled out.

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But many ppl reading this might say i saw joeryan or luckepene say Memorex was great, best burnt at 16x and slap a label on it too. Then they come to the Nero forum with their problems.. Thats where you could help. But you will probably be off to another thing by then, and us regulars who tried to discourage this are left to clean up YOUR mess. See where im coming from.

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Must have been my firmware out of date that caused the disc to fail as it couldnt be high quality CMC discs. Why they are known around the world as the best.. AAARGGGHH. i almost puked..
Live with CRC errors and perfectly fine movies dieing on you if you like memorex and CMC thats all im saying.

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My point all along has been that until actual descriptions of problems appear, it is unscientific to proclaim one brand or another as poor quality.

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I believe I already answered that one in an earlier post. If people can buy TY or Verbatim discs cheaper than they can buy CMC discs, they should jump at the bargain.

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