1) voice id: all i know is that my random signals prof was always excited about voce applications of the autocorrelation. etc etc.
2) moderation: are you modding your own posts up to 2??:)
3) ucalgary: i actually almost went there for my undergrad. was admitted, had my rez room and everything, but got accepted elsewhere at the last minute. how you liking it there? (i noticed your doing your masters there.) and what are you intending to do when you finish off?
cocktail party: a la cdma spread spectrum communications? unless you've got the correct despreading sequence, and are syncronized, it's all just noise. hmmm... interesting. i wonder if it would be possible to identify a "spreading sequence" of someone's voice.
now wives around the world can "cancel out" the snoring of their hubby.
maa.... do i have the coolest gadget for you!
really cool thought:
a minature hearing aid type device, which you can selectively "lock on" voices you want, and cancel out everything else, including other voices.
awe yeah... wicked. just think, you could be at a deafening rock concert. first, you could "attenuate" the sound to a tollerable level. then, when your buddy a 100 feet a way shouts out to you, it can mute the concert, and let you hear only them. wicked!
zaoink! - pinky & the brain brain brain brain brain
This 40-Gig isn't direct-mod is it?? If it was I would be totally impressed. But at that distance I'm thinking no way. The chirp alone would be hideous. Wouldn't this be using some sort of exteral EA modulator?
As for using all this bandwidth, as soon as network-processing really takes off we will have need for all the bandwidth we can get. I pretty much mean tapping the pipes directly into processors - turning the net into a supercomputer.
And once the whole photonic crystal / optical computing thing gets taken care of... woah... all these "fat" optical pipes of the past will seem very small indeed.
The release claims invetion of DWDM. Maybe, but they didn't invent WDM. What does the "Dense" mean? Maybe a locker. Woooo.
Next, DPSK, also a claimed Lucent invention. I don't know... but it's been around for years... and just now getting used? Not sounding particularly spectacular.
Now forward error correction & Raman amps... kudos to that. Same with the distance.
Now we all wait for the real advancements... pushing the 40G/channel barrier. Yeawn... old news.... old news...
True-that with the EBDA fiber. Would be nice to take advantage of the existing, dark fiber.
i like the "even Canada" statement. said as if it were completely outrageous. "even timbucktwo..."
perhaps the weak Canadian dollar and the dual Canadian olympic hockey golds will be joined with a monumentous reverse brain drain. Canada's been complaining about it for years... maybe the US will get a kick at the can.
and i see the "baren glacier as soon as you hit the border" misconception is still alive and well. Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and others are massive metropolatin centers with similar climate to many US cities. in Vancouver it rarely freezes and typically has winter temperatures in the mid-high 40's. (that's around 8degC... eh?)
Heard of Terry Matthews? The guy that started Newbridge Networks (now Alcatel), Mitel, and many others? Well he's at the helm of March Networks now, focusing on Voice/Video/IP solutions.
Once it appeared that putting a lot of effort into mastery of chess wasn't doing anything for me besides making me better at chess, I gave it up.
Yeah, e-x-A-C-T-L-Y; what that guy said. I would have put it less elequently. "I gave it up because I realized that the people I was hanging out with were dorks, didn't get any girls, and I was one of them." Make sure you understand that's what I was thinking way back in Grade 4-5.
In the ongoing saga of me, I didn't magically become un-dorky by dropping the club. Still need work with the ladies. Kinda like the fact that I'm a bit of a geek. And I'm better off for knowing that there is so much more to people than a few things they do, people they hang out with, or how dorky they might act.
The TV in its earlier days was informative and delivered unique content. Exactly as radio was before that, and as newspaper was before that... and all these technologies had their high points, and they passed them.
But I'm really starting to think that the future lies in analog.
I mean, the big boys can't do squat to prevent us from making analog recordings... and they seem to be all but killing progress in the digitital world.
Maybe it's time for an antitrust case against the big boys...
Yeah, i'm finding that out pretty quickly. (about people moving) So that's why I try to stay in touch with my references a couple times a year. Just a "hey, what's new?" type thing. Some I even get non-work emails as well...
a different job at some point is inevitable, so...
Find someone at the company that will speak highly of you, put him/her down as one of your references. Find out for sure if your boss is really on your side. If not, find someone else.
Recently I spoke with the HR director of the company I work for. I was told that they called ALL of my references, and they all spoke very highly of me. Golden to know, because if you don't... one of those pesky ex-boss references could wind up screwing you over. Again.
love the stories. and the cool satellite-radio wrist watch. that stuff is exciting. with people like you and i we can make this stuff happen!
i'm sure your measure of happiness will be far greater tho.;)
1. thanks for the support.
spiffy. it's nice to know that others will rush to my defense when there's a dumbass afoot. and certainly when a response isn't dignified.
2. sometimes, i'm a dumbass too.
simulcast n : a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio)
more specifically, multiple Tx's. ie. GPS satellites.(differnt id's yes, but differnt delays from the same master timecode.
multicast: communication between a single sender and multiple receivers on a network
a la IPv6
unicast: communication between a single sender and a single receiver over a network
a la IPv4 p2p
so, in a lapse of concentration while passing back into normal space (what you know as 3D reality), i had a slip of the tounge. i meant multicast, a la IPv6. i'm a dumbass.
nice to know that most of you, that took the time to read what i said, understood what i meant.
3. my view of codecs.
is ogg wonderful? why not. is ogg great because it's free & open? sure. rah rah rah. will ogg rock my world? probably not. here's why. after ogg there will be something else. something better. it's evolution baby (PJ rocks!). just like divx/mpeg4 is all the rage for videos today. yesterday it was mpeg2. tomorrow it will be mpeg5.
4. now some clarification and insight on what needs to be done.
i picture the different OSI layers like spinning plates (radiohead reference - these musicans know more than they lead on!). the top of the stack of plates is spinning fastest. (layer7: apps, codecs, etc.) the bottom plate is spinning the slowest. (layer1: physical electrical/light impulses). IPv6 kinda covers Network, Transport, & Session layers (3-5). but it influences everything.
on the top end, we have the apps. all they need is a few changes in code. easy as pie.
in the middle, we have IPv6. and on towards the bottom we have the phsycal equipment and fiber optic lines. problem is, so much of these lower layers are intermixed. what i mean is, you might think your special because your router is software upgradable to IPv6. but really, to do multicasting right, the whole network topology will need some shuffling. and because those "plates" spin slower and slower towards the bottom... it takes a long time. (kind of ironic that progress along each layer costs about the same)
and hence, my origional posting about my impatience for all this to happen.
yes, this is a small evolutional step. but when does the simulcasting revolution begin? i'm itching for something akin to broadcast: where we only use bandwidth once, not in multiples of however many listeners we have.
Slashdot Mirror
likely a Canadian. It's like a right of passage up there or something.
...now that's innovation...
...Microsoft® Innovation (TM)
these guys created a program to add extra info to images by watermarking them.
they explain how they do it:
1) a frequency transform
2) add watermark
3) inverse frequency transform
...and have the equations to prove it...
shouldn't be too difficult to do similar things with audio.
woo... salivate at the thought of all the hidden info that might be already encoded in images and cds you see every day!!
ERTW!!!
From the Matthias Wandel's Link Section
Slashdot - what a waste of time, but we all read it!
heh. :) 3 thoughts:
:)
1) voice id: all i know is that my random signals prof was always excited about voce applications of the autocorrelation. etc etc.
2) moderation: are you modding your own posts up to 2??
3) ucalgary: i actually almost went there for my undergrad. was admitted, had my rez room and everything, but got accepted elsewhere at the last minute. how you liking it there? (i noticed your doing your masters there.) and what are you intending to do when you finish off?
cocktail party: a la cdma spread spectrum communications? unless you've got the correct despreading sequence, and are syncronized, it's all just noise. hmmm... interesting. i wonder if it would be possible to identify a "spreading sequence" of someone's voice.
fun fun.
now wives around the world can "cancel out" the snoring of their hubby.
maa.... do i have the coolest gadget for you!
really cool thought:
a minature hearing aid type device, which you can selectively "lock on" voices you want, and cancel out everything else, including other voices.
awe yeah... wicked. just think, you could be at a deafening rock concert. first, you could "attenuate" the sound to a tollerable level. then, when your buddy a 100 feet a way shouts out to you, it can mute the concert, and let you hear only them. wicked!
zaoink! - pinky & the brain brain brain brain brain
turning the laser on and off faster ...
This 40-Gig isn't direct-mod is it?? If it was I would be totally impressed. But at that distance I'm thinking no way. The chirp alone would be hideous. Wouldn't this be using some sort of exteral EA modulator?
As for using all this bandwidth, as soon as network-processing really takes off we will have need for all the bandwidth we can get. I pretty much mean tapping the pipes directly into processors - turning the net into a supercomputer.
And once the whole photonic crystal / optical computing thing gets taken care of... woah... all these "fat" optical pipes of the past will seem very small indeed.
hmmm let's see:
The release claims invetion of DWDM. Maybe, but they didn't invent WDM. What does the "Dense" mean? Maybe a locker. Woooo.
Next, DPSK, also a claimed Lucent invention. I don't know... but it's been around for years... and just now getting used? Not sounding particularly spectacular.
Now forward error correction & Raman amps... kudos to that. Same with the distance.
Now we all wait for the real advancements... pushing the 40G/channel barrier. Yeawn... old news.... old news...
True-that with the EBDA fiber. Would be nice to take advantage of the existing, dark fiber.
This is why many artists are taking a stand:
:/
Recording Artists Coalition
(take a look, you'll be suprized who's there)
ps. I think I did hear one person boo... I'm sure he/she got to enjoy the remainder of the grammays outside.
i like the "even Canada" statement. said as if it were completely outrageous. "even timbucktwo..."
perhaps the weak Canadian dollar and the dual Canadian olympic hockey golds will be joined with a monumentous reverse brain drain. Canada's been complaining about it for years... maybe the US will get a kick at the can.
and i see the "baren glacier as soon as you hit the border" misconception is still alive and well. Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and others are massive metropolatin centers with similar climate to many US cities. in Vancouver it rarely freezes and typically has winter temperatures in the mid-high 40's. (that's around 8degC... eh?)
Heard of Terry Matthews? The guy that started Newbridge Networks (now Alcatel), Mitel, and many others? Well he's at the helm of March Networks now, focusing on Voice/Video/IP solutions.
They have several sweet DVR systems made for your purpose.
- everything IP based
- 16 channels @ 30fps
- controlls PTZ
- muliple event/alarm monitoring
- and so much more
I have a buddy that worked there and is just raving about the stuff.
Once it appeared that putting a lot of effort into mastery of chess wasn't doing anything for me besides making me better at chess, I gave it up.
Yeah, e-x-A-C-T-L-Y; what that guy said. I would have put it less elequently. "I gave it up because I realized that the people I was hanging out with were dorks, didn't get any girls, and I was one of them." Make sure you understand that's what I was thinking way back in Grade 4-5.
In the ongoing saga of me, I didn't magically become un-dorky by dropping the club. Still need work with the ladies. Kinda like the fact that I'm a bit of a geek. And I'm better off for knowing that there is so much more to people than a few things they do, people they hang out with, or how dorky they might act.
A lesson learned well, you might say.
The TV in its earlier days was informative and delivered unique content. Exactly as radio was before that, and as newspaper was before that... and all these technologies had their high points, and they passed them.
... and like the internet is now.
Just call me analog boy.
But I'm really starting to think that the future lies in analog.
I mean, the big boys can't do squat to prevent us from making analog recordings... and they seem to be all but killing progress in the digitital world.
Maybe it's time for an antitrust case against the big boys...
Yeah, i'm finding that out pretty quickly. (about people moving) So that's why I try to stay in touch with my references a couple times a year. Just a "hey, what's new?" type thing. Some I even get non-work emails as well...
I smell a /. poll if I ever heard one.
.... er maybe that's just my christmas tree on fire!
a different job at some point is inevitable, so...
Find someone at the company that will speak highly of you, put him/her down as one of your references. Find out for sure if your boss is really on your side. If not, find someone else.
Recently I spoke with the HR director of the company I work for. I was told that they called ALL of my references, and they all spoke very highly of me. Golden to know, because if you don't... one of those pesky ex-boss references could wind up screwing you over. Again.
Corporations are helping us to reach Nirvana...
Well, at least they aren't helping us reach Metalica...
Metali-who? Never heard of it. I only buy stuff I can try out in mp3 first.
thanks for the support.
;)
follow-up is here
love the stories. and the cool satellite-radio wrist watch. that stuff is exciting. with people like you and i we can make this stuff happen! i'm sure your measure of happiness will be far greater tho.
thanks for the support.
follow-up is here
wow, so many good issues brought up.
1. thanks for the support.
spiffy. it's nice to know that others will rush to my defense when there's a dumbass afoot. and certainly when a response isn't dignified.
2. sometimes, i'm a dumbass too.
simulcast n : a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio)
more specifically, multiple Tx's. ie. GPS satellites.(differnt id's yes, but differnt delays from the same master timecode.
multicast: communication between a single sender and multiple receivers on a network
a la IPv6
unicast: communication between a single sender and a single receiver over a network
a la IPv4 p2p
so, in a lapse of concentration while passing back into normal space (what you know as 3D reality), i had a slip of the tounge. i meant multicast, a la IPv6. i'm a dumbass.
nice to know that most of you, that took the time to read what i said, understood what i meant.
3. my view of codecs.
is ogg wonderful? why not. is ogg great because it's free & open? sure. rah rah rah. will ogg rock my world? probably not. here's why. after ogg there will be something else. something better. it's evolution baby (PJ rocks!). just like divx/mpeg4 is all the rage for videos today. yesterday it was mpeg2. tomorrow it will be mpeg5.
4. now some clarification and insight on what needs to be done.
i picture the different OSI layers like spinning plates (radiohead reference - these musicans know more than they lead on!). the top of the stack of plates is spinning fastest. (layer7: apps, codecs, etc.) the bottom plate is spinning the slowest. (layer1: physical electrical/light impulses). IPv6 kinda covers Network, Transport, & Session layers (3-5). but it influences everything.
on the top end, we have the apps. all they need is a few changes in code. easy as pie.
in the middle, we have IPv6. and on towards the bottom we have the phsycal equipment and fiber optic lines. problem is, so much of these lower layers are intermixed. what i mean is, you might think your special because your router is software upgradable to IPv6. but really, to do multicasting right, the whole network topology will need some shuffling. and because those "plates" spin slower and slower towards the bottom... it takes a long time. (kind of ironic that progress along each layer costs about the same)
and hence, my origional posting about my impatience for all this to happen.
as usual, google know's all about the mBone.
cheers.
break from reading
or
break to read?
evil prof's seem to think the latter...
yes, this is a small evolutional step. but when does the simulcasting revolution begin? i'm itching for something akin to broadcast: where we only use bandwidth once, not in multiples of however many listeners we have.