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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: What it isn't
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.055718.27177@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:57:18 GMT
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- With the recent discussion about oversampling and the like, I'd like to
- compile a list of "what it isn't."
-
- It always amazes me when you wander into discount stores, etc. and hear
- jewels like:
-
- "Oversampling is a method to get more data off the disc. 16 times as much!"
- or
- "Oversampling is a method to make sure that the data is correct. You see,
- you read it all 16 times and average it all together"
- or
- "A three-beam player reads three times as much information as a
- one-beam player"
-
- You get the idea.... So, if you've encountered such techno-babble before,
- about any facet of audio terminology, I'd be interested in seeing it.
- Either post it or mail it my way, and I'll compile a list which I'll
- post back to the group for laughs.
-
-
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- Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings
- gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of
- N2GPZ in ham radio circles communication. The device is inherently of
- 72355,1226 on CI$ no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877
-