Past Garmin street-map software has been PC Only. I talked to some of the developers of the mac products (listed in previous postings) and they have told me that Garmin keeps the u/l d/l formats proprietary. This is really too bad since i'd bet a good part of the early-adopter market use macintosh.
I specified when I submitted my dissertation to diss abstracts that they were not authorized to distribute it and- amazingly, mine isn't on the list of available dissertations. I believe that you sign the document that says that you retain copyright but you allow them to sell them and send you a wee percentage (i think it adds up to about $3 or something). I didn't want people being ripped off by them, so mine is available for free, but with copyright...
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One of the more 'in touch' folks on my RR newsgroups reports that there is language in the press release that appears to be similar to the DSL notion of "we'll give you the pipe, we'll give you an ISP (aol) if you want it, otherwise you get it from where you want it".
As an early owner of the original Magnavox Oddesy I sometimes feel compelled to stick a piece of static-cling, translucent, colored plastic on people and attempt to beat them to death with a square ping-pong ball.
A few years ago I went around dressed in overalls, trying to violently jump on people's heads. Sadly, my leaps were insufficient for all but the smallest humans.
Someday people will understand the difference between correlation and causation. I can only dream.
The highest subband reaches all the way to Nyquist (22.050 kHz)
I think in turn you're confusing sampling theory with perceptual ability / signal detection theory. Something that "reaches all the way to Nyquist" doesn't say anything in particular about the ROC nor the information encoded, nor even the system in question (for example, the Nyquist for visual contrast sensitiviy?). There is no 'Nyquist' for sound per-se. Just because a system can generate information at a rate twice the minimum needed to avoid sampling artifacts doesn't mean that it is generating accurate information. Your statement is really 0 information.
Most audio compression of the mp3 variety uses perceptual coding, it doesn't just 'cut off' audio above 16 kHz, it reshuffles what 'information' is encoded.
Petty theoretical issues aside, you are quite correct when you point out that the quality of the encoders varies widely. Once you encode it poorly there's very little you can do to play it back well. Most of the encoders I've heard are really poor, usually seriously screwing up the high end (of course where a lot of the perceptual information is), I certainly need to check out the Fraunhofer apparently.
Take a stroll back to the start of the 80's with me, remember the flaks saying that "Since Compact Disks cost less to produce that savings will be passed on to the consumer!"
So, recordings are more than 2x the price they were then (vinyl new release- $7.99, CD new release 17.99). If people will pay for it, they will charge it. Like I really needed to say that... just call me captain tautology.
I was a bit shocked that they tracked him via his own phone number. good greif, I mean AOL sends me 1,000 of those free account CD things a week, there are pay phones, credit card # generators, hell, it is easy to just pull someone's line off the drop at the back of their house. he was clearly not thinking at 100% capacity.
Interesting. So, lets say it just is keeping records of the playing in RAM, then, at some point it locks up because the RAM is full. Then, a) throw it away or b)you hook it up and get dinged for playing "there's something about mary" 256 times.
I know that some cable boxes do this, if they can't communicate back upstream they just cache the 'viewing' of a pay per view, then upload it later.
Whew- taking this a little personally aren't we? Keep telling yourself "It's only a multi-billion dollar company, it's only a multi-billion dollar company..." over and over again until you are "clear" (scientology speak)
Funny, one of the things that Microsoft's GUID is built from is, in fact, the ethernet ID.
If you've ever run any of the multi-media SW that I helped write back in the early 90's (not likely, but still) you've had non-network software look at your ethernet ID. Run Mathematica? it looks at your ethernet ID to build its $MachineID. Countless other programs do. Read the article again.
Of course not only can you get creamed for programming, you also can get it for downloading, even connecting...
I would think that there are some first-amendment type issues when were talking about programming though, right? I mean, its one thing to write it, another to deploy it.
How much you wanna bet that the ethernet card that created the file in which the virus was embeded is presently either a) ash or b) under several feet of water.
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Past Garmin street-map software has been PC Only. I talked to some of the developers of the mac products (listed in previous postings) and they have told me that Garmin keeps the u/l d/l formats proprietary. This is really too bad since i'd bet a good part of the early-adopter market use macintosh.
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I specified when I submitted my dissertation to diss abstracts that they were not authorized to distribute it and- amazingly, mine isn't on the list of available dissertations. I believe that you sign the document that says that you retain copyright but you allow them to sell them and send you a wee percentage (i think it adds up to about $3 or something). I didn't want people being ripped off by them, so mine is available for free, but with copyright...
One of the more 'in touch' folks on my RR newsgroups reports that there is language in the press release that appears to be similar to the DSL notion of "we'll give you the pipe, we'll give you an ISP (aol) if you want it, otherwise you get it from where you want it".
How's that for a run on sentence?
Anyway, more conjecture for the ol' grist mill.
So, lets see if I get this straight, they're not fried any more?
As an early owner of the original Magnavox Oddesy I sometimes feel compelled to stick a piece of static-cling, translucent, colored plastic on people and attempt to beat them to death with a square ping-pong ball.
A few years ago I went around dressed in overalls, trying to violently jump on people's heads. Sadly, my leaps were insufficient for all but the smallest humans.
Someday people will understand the difference between correlation and causation. I can only dream.
I think in turn you're confusing sampling theory with perceptual ability / signal detection theory. Something that "reaches all the way to Nyquist" doesn't say anything in particular about the ROC nor the information encoded, nor even the system in question (for example, the Nyquist for visual contrast sensitiviy?). There is no 'Nyquist' for sound per-se. Just because a system can generate information at a rate twice the minimum needed to avoid sampling artifacts doesn't mean that it is generating accurate information. Your statement is really 0 information.
Most audio compression of the mp3 variety uses perceptual coding, it doesn't just 'cut off' audio above 16 kHz, it reshuffles what 'information' is encoded.
Petty theoretical issues aside, you are quite correct when you point out that the quality of the encoders varies widely. Once you encode it poorly there's very little you can do to play it back well. Most of the encoders I've heard are really poor, usually seriously screwing up the high end (of course where a lot of the perceptual information is), I certainly need to check out the Fraunhofer apparently.
Take a stroll back to the start of the 80's with me, remember the flaks saying that "Since Compact Disks cost less to produce that savings will be passed on to the consumer!"
So, recordings are more than 2x the price they were then (vinyl new release- $7.99, CD new release 17.99). If people will pay for it, they will charge it. Like I really needed to say that... just call me captain tautology.
Hasn't this information been around in the form of LOC records for quite a while?
I was a bit shocked that they tracked him via his own phone number. good greif, I mean AOL sends me 1,000 of those free account CD things a week, there are pay phones, credit card # generators, hell, it is easy to just pull someone's line off the drop at the back of their house. he was clearly not thinking at 100% capacity.
Interesting. So, lets say it just is keeping records of the playing in RAM, then, at some point it locks up because the RAM is full. Then, a) throw it away or b)you hook it up and get dinged for playing "there's something about mary" 256 times.
I know that some cable boxes do this, if they can't communicate back upstream they just cache the 'viewing' of a pay per view, then upload it later.
Whew- taking this a little personally aren't we? Keep telling yourself "It's only a multi-billion dollar company, it's only a multi-billion dollar company..." over and over again until you are "clear" (scientology speak)
Funny, one of the things that Microsoft's GUID is built from is, in fact, the ethernet ID.
If you've ever run any of the multi-media SW that I helped write back in the early 90's (not likely, but still) you've had non-network software look at your ethernet ID. Run Mathematica? it looks at your ethernet ID to build its $MachineID. Countless other programs do. Read the article again.
Of course not only can you get creamed for programming, you also can get it for downloading, even connecting...
I would think that there are some first-amendment type issues when were talking about programming though, right? I mean, its one thing to write it, another to deploy it.
I had the same thought last night especially when the news came out about the 'tracking'. I mean, how hard is it to forge the GUID, right?
How much you wanna bet that the ethernet card that created the file in which the virus was embeded is presently either a) ash or b) under several feet of water.
Almost 10 years to the day that Fleishman & Pons announced their little ol' contraption. At least this announcement was at APS... right?
Hasn't this reached urban myth status yet?