You know where I can really see this being useful? For displaying music. I sing in a choir and organising music is a pain. During rehearsal skipping to the same page the conductor is looking at can be very time consuming and confusing. But with a set of connected ebooks (or emanuscripts, if you like) he conductor could always make sure people got the the right page instantly.
It could be equally useful for orchestras.
The introduction of engine management units and the drive to have *everything* on the car controlled by proprietary chip has stopped many mechanics working on cars. When my car died recently I was forced to take it to the offical dealer because my usual mechanic didn't have the ultra-expensive piece of custom equiment needed to fix the problem.
Well, here in the uk we have shazam, where you hold your phone up to a speaker and the system texts you back the name of the song.
Also, I remember hearing about a system a guy developed based on a higher-lower note pattern identification process. Basically, it keeps asking you "is the next note higher, lower or the same as the last?". Apparently you only had to do this about 10 times on average to identify a unique song.
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You know where I can really see this being useful? For displaying music. I sing in a choir and organising music is a pain. During rehearsal skipping to the same page the conductor is looking at can be very time consuming and confusing. But with a set of connected ebooks (or emanuscripts, if you like) he conductor could always make sure people got the the right page instantly. It could be equally useful for orchestras.
It looks like an upside down WW2 bomber with legs.
Is there a little gunner in that round turret on top?
The introduction of engine management units and the drive to have *everything* on the car controlled by proprietary chip has stopped many mechanics working on cars. When my car died recently I was forced to take it to the offical dealer because my usual mechanic didn't have the ultra-expensive piece of custom equiment needed to fix the problem.
Well, here in the uk we have shazam, where you hold your phone up to a speaker and the system texts you back the name of the song.
Also, I remember hearing about a system a guy developed based on a higher-lower note pattern identification process. Basically, it keeps asking you "is the next note higher, lower or the same as the last?". Apparently you only had to do this about 10 times on average to identify a unique song.
oh dear, seems this guy's server is smaller than a hamster too.
He also has some kind of a inverse homer simpson beard thing going on.
Not quite. The link at the top requires registration. The google link (or the slashdot link for that matter) does not.
It's for exactly that reason that I would want to do work on my car myself.
Well, you'll know it's a cold call for certain if they don't know who the hell they're calling.
Ha! That thing is so off a james bond set.
I can only wonder what might come along and top these guys.
SCO actually getting their $699 license fee?
A friend of mine had a Casio vdb-1000 well over 10 years ago. If anything it seems smaller than the fossil.