>>Most people won't be able to notice higher fidelity
Do you really think so? (not being a smart-ass...i'm really asking)
mp3 is barely tolerable to me.
Have you see any sort of consumer surveys or studies about tolerance levels of this?
Even if it were shown that people were ok with the fidelity of mp3, I would expect that when something came out that
was significantly better, their expectations would change.
>>computer storage space is becoming larger and less expensive
true, and this will always be the case.
but again, i think consumer expectations change to what is available.
so right now, let's say, you can put the entire Foo Fighter oeuvre on an ipod.
at some point storage increases in capacity and decreases in price and/or mp9 (6 versions after mp3)
comes out allowing you to put all the Foo Fighter music, plus all of Mozart's and Beethoven's works,
all of Chet Baker's albums, etc. onto a thing the same size as your original ipod.
The sheep will buy accordingly.
I agree with you to a point, ie, after digital, no need to go further.
However, I don't see mp3 as the ultimate in digital.
Soon enough, there will be something with far more fidelity and occupying far less space.
I used to work in military avionics as well and I couldn't agree with you more.
I'm not blaming anyone, the software is very complex.
In particular, a real-time, real-fast enviroment can generate an endless supply of scenarios that simply cannot be anticipated.
Jason Lanier, credited with coining the phrase "Virtual Reality", addresses this question and other related ones in the May 2005 issue of "The Sun" magazine.
This was my first programming experience, too.
First i was writing the actual machine code, then in assembler. It first occurred to me that i could get paid to do this when one day my father (an aeronautical engineer) said to me, 'You know, what you're doing here isn't much more difficult than what they're doing at work'.
I still think its a great machine, but I'm probably looking thru rose colored glasses.
What i got from studying computer science, as opposed to software engineering, was the it changed the way my brain functioned through courses such as Calculus, Diffy Q, Number Theory.
It depends on what you want to do for a career. If you want to make web sites or work on consumer applications (e.g. a word processor), then you don't need the math for the most part. If you want to work in research, then you do.
That's a valid point, but when I was selling Java to the boffins i work for, their concern was the weakness of Sun, so I had to convince them that Sun was not going out of business anytime soon.
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nice twist, sir, well said.
I can quit anytime I want.
The ability to solve puzzles != The ability to write well-structured, well-documented code.
BINGO!
In military radio communications, there is something called frequency hopping. Maybe this can be implemented here.
>>Most people won't be able to notice higher fidelity
Do you really think so? (not being a smart-ass...i'm really asking)
mp3 is barely tolerable to me.
Have you see any sort of consumer surveys or studies about tolerance levels of this?
Even if it were shown that people were ok with the fidelity of mp3, I would expect that when something came out that
was significantly better, their expectations would change.
>>computer storage space is becoming larger and less expensive
true, and this will always be the case.
but again, i think consumer expectations change to what is available.
so right now, let's say, you can put the entire Foo Fighter oeuvre on an ipod.
at some point storage increases in capacity and decreases in price and/or mp9 (6 versions after mp3)
comes out allowing you to put all the Foo Fighter music, plus all of Mozart's and Beethoven's works,
all of Chet Baker's albums, etc. onto a thing the same size as your original ipod.
The sheep will buy accordingly.
I agree with you to a point, ie, after digital, no need to go further. However, I don't see mp3 as the ultimate in digital. Soon enough, there will be something with far more fidelity and occupying far less space.
I used to work in military avionics as well and I couldn't agree with you more.
I'm not blaming anyone, the software is very complex.
In particular, a real-time, real-fast enviroment can generate an endless supply of scenarios that simply cannot be anticipated.
good advice
I had never heard of enlightenment, so i googled and found www.enlightenment.org, but firefox says it can't find it. is it usually there?
>> I presume that this position is number 20 on GPS receiving equipment. Just a guess. i didn't know for certain, either, which is why i asked
Is there a way to know which # (1..24) this one is replacing?
Just curious...it would be fun to know when i turn on my GPS receiver.
Jason Lanier, credited with coining the phrase "Virtual Reality", addresses this question and other related ones in the May 2005 issue of "The Sun" magazine.
This was my first programming experience, too. First i was writing the actual machine code, then in assembler. It first occurred to me that i could get paid to do this when one day my father (an aeronautical engineer) said to me, 'You know, what you're doing here isn't much more difficult than what they're doing at work'. I still think its a great machine, but I'm probably looking thru rose colored glasses.
but the very fact that something can change, even though it doesn't necessarily change, by observation is all that the theory requires
What i got from studying computer science, as opposed to software engineering, was the it changed the way my brain functioned through courses such as Calculus, Diffy Q, Number Theory. It depends on what you want to do for a career. If you want to make web sites or work on consumer applications (e.g. a word processor), then you don't need the math for the most part. If you want to work in research, then you do.
That's a valid point, but when I was selling Java to the boffins i work for, their concern was the weakness of Sun, so I had to convince them that Sun was not going out of business anytime soon.
Teoma also distinguishes between paid/not paid