This was the same story which they gave for the Netscape trial, that Windows IS highly dependent on IE. Looks like MS's stance has not changed since then. But whether they are telling the truth is anybody's guess....
The actual winner in this market is, ofcourse ARM. And with this, the era of having a processor core/architecture as IP has arrived. With good development tools, and power and MHz, ARM has a good roadmap ahead. I wonder what happened to the competing MIPS core.
Thats a lot of dung thrown on Malvar's face, and that too without evidence. There is quite a lot of processing in WMA, apart from "just" reducing the range.
Second, as Netscape has showed (so far), a business plan that calls for fast world domination is not a good match for a technological plan that involves a lot of experimentation and careful evolution....
I tend to disagree with that statement. A company should have both a good business plan, and an equivally good technical plan. Look at what Microsoft does. It has both of these. Otherwise it would have been dead long ago. What Microsoft lacks technically, it compensates in its deal making, and where it lacks in business strategy, it has good expertise. Where it has both, it is a winner...
The actual quality for any fixed CBR will vary across compression codecs used, though
Thats exactly what I meant. Think of it this way: MP3Pro or WMA or AAC get more compression ratios by looking at more dimensions of the audio signal, compared to MP3.
I am not able to check out their site, but if what you are saying is true, then they can always achieve a desired compression ratio because, in some higher dimension, the "lossy" compressed information can always be made to be "intelligible", and hence we can always make a claim on the compression ratio.
Have you ever heard of the cost of these "tiny" CF devices? They are ~500$++, and still not available in the market. And you expect somebody to buy them when media as cheap as a few cents are available NOW??
They are not violating the patents. All the inventors say is that, if X company is selling the products for a price, they need a percentage. If Y company is giving it away for free, or if the volumes are less than a specified amount, then they are not violating any law, as long as they do not make money out of it.
Anyway, apart from commercial encoders, there are few options for good quality encoding, other than LAME.
And as far transcoding MP3 to vorbis, in general, it is not advisable to transcode at all, and a lot has been said about this in the vorbis dev forum.
WM is completely different from MPEG. Unfortunately, this is going to be quite a price sensitive market, and hence as you mentioned, there will be quite a number of players with multiple formats support, as having a common processor helps in reducing costs while giving more features.
Dremedia's solution is better and will result in a less costlier solution, compared to what is made by ECSL. The ECSL protoype is more of a "retrievel only" tech, rather than a "indexing + retrieval" type. For one thing, the latter problem is an order of magnitude harder than retrieval alone. For another, you need an already captioned content to start with.
There is another company that plans to use pattern recognition for recognition of advertisements and music.
BTW, it is Dremedia's technology which goes into the guts of Autonomy's tools, not the otherway round, as mentioned in the article.
I am a novice in this field, but I remember reading about the fact that, it is not the capability of a single "computational unit" like the one portrayed, but the combined capability of computational units that make the difference. Though we have only O(10^3) per unit, surely we must be able to utilise N of these units where N is a rather large number, so that N*O(0^3) is quite large?
If it were a known phenomenon like space dust, then it should have been caught during the assembly/testing process. If it really happens to be so, then that would be a serious lapse on the NASA's part, wouldnt be it? On the other hand, we need to think about why this did not happen in any of the previous probes, and only specifically this?
Ultimately, what it means is that though the internet was born of freedom, it is going to be controlled by a few companies which have bandwidth, and a few companies which provide access to that bandwidth through their software. The fun thing is that all the content companies will be keen to reach this deal, as they have been shutting down many sites for file sharing....
Apple can never survive in the low priced, low performance market. It must know this anyway, having targeted the high end market for quite a long time. Competing with other HD based devices which offer better features at a better price is tough. What I feel is that Apple wants to popularise its Firewire interface through this product, than anything else....
Well, I can take the challenge if you want it:)
After all it is supposed to depend only on the listener!
But the point I wanted to raise was that only a few people will have access to such equipment, and hence it may not be as widely spread as the use of a free software.
Dataplay has been there for more than a year now, and dataplay itself has gone far ahead than just being a startup to a company which has non-exclusive deals with record companies for its format. Even portable players have started supporting it. My question is, why is slashdot covering it now?
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Mp3pro would be the one of my choice, if many songs become available on the internet.
Thats a lot of dung thrown on Malvar's face, and that too without evidence. There is quite a lot of processing in WMA, apart from "just" reducing the range.
Most Rippers including winDAC support ogg ripping. And most players including winAMP have vorbis plugins.
I tend to disagree with that statement. A company should have both a good business plan, and an equivally good technical plan. Look at what Microsoft does. It has both of these. Otherwise it would have been dead long ago. What Microsoft lacks technically, it compensates in its deal making, and where it lacks in business strategy, it has good expertise. Where it has both, it is a winner...
Thats exactly what I meant. Think of it this way: MP3Pro or WMA or AAC get more compression ratios by looking at more dimensions of the audio signal, compared to MP3.
I am not able to check out their site, but if what you are saying is true, then they can always achieve a desired compression ratio because, in some higher dimension, the "lossy" compressed information can always be made to be "intelligible", and hence we can always make a claim on the compression ratio.
Anyway, apart from commercial encoders, there are few options for good quality encoding, other than LAME.
And as far transcoding MP3 to vorbis, in general, it is not advisable to transcode at all, and a lot has been said about this in the vorbis dev forum.
"...A recently announced Microsoft compression technology, code-named Corona, can fit three movies onto a single DVD disk..."
well, you can make out the rest.
BTW, it is Dremedia's technology which goes into the guts of Autonomy's tools, not the otherway round, as mentioned in the article.
Ultimately, what it means is that though the internet was born of freedom, it is going to be controlled by a few companies which have bandwidth, and a few companies which provide access to that bandwidth through their software. The fun thing is that all the content companies will be keen to reach this deal, as they have been shutting down many sites for file sharing....
After all it is supposed to depend only on the listener!
But the point I wanted to raise was that only a few people will have access to such equipment, and hence it may not be as widely spread as the use of a free software.