From watching the realmedia thing, it seems like the sounds sample it gave for recognizing the four words in random order with noise played a word, then silence, then word, etc.
Couldn't the system simply be detecting the length of the signal and interpreting it that way? With so few sample words it seems hard to tell how the thing is really working -- something which is not really explained.
I agree -- it is probably best to decide based on what SPECIFICALLY you want to do. I know that in general, as a starting point the top schools are MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UIUC (no particular order).
I go to UCB, undergrad, and I haven't spoken to too many EECS grad students, but those I have talked to are very excited about the resources the school has. The faculty at UCB (and in collaboration with some other good schools) are responsible for things like RISC, RAID, and distributed web servers. Kinda neat. =)
It is possible to tell the diff between a WAV ripped from a CD and a 128kbit MP3 version of that wav. Pretty much you can only hear it in certain parts of certain songs. Cymbals and such, for instance.
The advantage of 10:1 compression is very inviting. For audiophiles you can simply encode at a higher rate, 160 or 192, and not use joint stereo, and you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in the sound quality. At these rates you can still get 7 or 8:1 compression.
Hehehe, that reminds me of what I put in my high school yearbook quote: "I wonder how many people will use the Robert Frost quote about nonconformity this year."
Heh, for the last two years of high school I was the yearbook editor. Even though my high school was somewhat small, with a senior class of ~200, there was one thing that could be guaranteed: Someone would put Yoda's "Do. Or do not. There is no try." quote under their picture.
One scary phenomenon I have noticed is that many kids have quoted rappers. The problem with this is that most of rap is a rip-off of works that have been popular in the past (uh, hi puff daddy). Which gives rise to GROSSLY mis-attributed quotes.
Check this out, from my yearbook:
"That which does not kill us only makes us stronger" --Tupac
Sigh. Yeah, Tupac really came up with that one on his own. That is just an example. There are many more examples of rappers who shaped our world with their wisdom. I just hope when these people begin running the world... they realize how stupid they sounded.
One method I heard about talked about introducing small pinholes into the DVD layer, much like the old Apple II bad sector copy protection.
Well, I don't really think that will matter, if I understand what you mean.
You might know that Playstation CDs have some kind of information on them that cannot be written by a CDR. So what people have done is copied the CDs and "modchipped" their playstations. A simple soldering job of a $10 chip onto the mobo of your PSX can accomplish this.
Moral: ANY copy protection scheme can and will be defeated. As long as DVD-copying hardware is available at the consumer level, people will rent games from blockbuster and copy them.
I agree. The point is to get children INTERACTING rather than just sitting passive.
The docs are not trying to do anything else other than encourage a development that is rich with HUMAN INTERACTION! Imagine that. It should not be surprising that interaction is better for development than passivity (a word?). No one is saying we should ban TV from our children -- just that we should not raise our children with the televesion. The tube is a poor replacement for strong mother/father figures.
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From watching the realmedia thing, it seems like the sounds sample it gave for recognizing the four words in random order with noise played a word, then silence, then word, etc.
Couldn't the system simply be detecting the length of the signal and interpreting it that way? With so few sample words it seems hard to tell how the thing is really working -- something which is not really explained.
Maybe I'm just way off tho.
See title. Seems apple's legal dept didnt like them for some reason. Anyone have an alternate URL? Or is it not even worth looking at? =)
I agree -- it is probably best to decide based on what SPECIFICALLY you want to do. I know that in general, as a starting point the top schools are MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UIUC (no particular order).
I go to UCB, undergrad, and I haven't spoken to too many EECS grad students, but those I have talked to are very excited about the resources the school has. The faculty at UCB (and in collaboration with some other good schools) are responsible for things like RISC, RAID, and distributed web servers. Kinda neat. =)
--Gabe
It is possible to tell the diff between a WAV ripped from a CD and a 128kbit MP3 version of that wav. Pretty much you can only hear it in certain parts of certain songs. Cymbals and such, for instance.
The advantage of 10:1 compression is very inviting. For audiophiles you can simply encode at a higher rate, 160 or 192, and not use joint stereo, and you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in the sound quality. At these rates you can still get 7 or 8:1 compression.
It's hard to be more off-topic, but Jar Jar is OBVIOUSLY a poor replacement for chewy.
Hehehe, that reminds me of what I put in my high school yearbook quote: "I wonder how many people will use the Robert Frost quote about nonconformity this year."
Heh, for the last two years of high school I was the yearbook editor. Even though my high school was somewhat small, with a senior class of ~200, there was one thing that could be guaranteed: Someone would put Yoda's "Do. Or do not. There is no try." quote under their picture.
One scary phenomenon I have noticed is that many kids have quoted rappers. The problem with this is that most of rap is a rip-off of works that have been popular in the past (uh, hi puff daddy). Which gives rise to GROSSLY mis-attributed quotes.
Check this out, from my yearbook:
"That which does not kill us only makes us stronger" --Tupac
Sigh. Yeah, Tupac really came up with that one on his own. That is just an example. There are many more examples of rappers who shaped our world with their wisdom. I just hope when these people begin running the world... they realize how stupid they sounded.
One method I heard about talked about introducing small pinholes into the DVD layer, much like the old Apple II bad sector copy protection.
Well, I don't really think that will matter, if I understand what you mean.
You might know that Playstation CDs have some kind of information on them that cannot be written by a CDR. So what people have done is copied the CDs and "modchipped" their playstations. A simple soldering job of a $10 chip onto the mobo of your PSX can accomplish this.
Moral: ANY copy protection scheme can and will be defeated. As long as DVD-copying hardware is available at the consumer level, people will rent games from blockbuster and copy them.
-Furious
I agree. The point is to get children INTERACTING rather than just sitting passive.
The docs are not trying to do anything else other than encourage a development that is rich with HUMAN INTERACTION! Imagine that. It should not be surprising that interaction is better for development than passivity (a word?). No one is saying we should ban TV from our children -- just that we should not raise our children with the televesion. The tube is a poor replacement for strong mother/father figures.