Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Digital Audio Compression
This great article from the NYTimes.com discusses the pros/cons of various forms of bitrate encoding. As digital storage gets cheaper by the day, music companies are starting to increase the bitrate sampling of songs they make available online (currently for a premium). Some are even taking Super Audio CD tracks and sampling them at ridiculous [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Piano Wire by Eric Porres
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Surface Computing
Popular Mechanics has a terrific video demonstration of Microsoft’s recently announced surface computing hardware. I’ve been a multitouch fan for a while (have a ThinkPad X61T with screen input for example, and of course Apple’s upcoming iPhone features multitouch prominently), and this demo shows where multitouch is going. You’ll be able to find these multitouch [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Things that make me go "hmmm" by Eric Porres
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
How Projects are Conceived…and Executed….
Funny little visual about how projects evolve from conception to reality, from various points of view (the customer, the analyst, the business consultant, etc.).
Comments Off - Posted in Humor by Eric Porres
Monday, May 7th, 2007
Dave Brubeck like you’ve never heard…
A new take on Take 5. Thanks to Hespos for pointing this out.
