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From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: forgotten versions
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:19:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AB2777AE-7B53-4B0F-BDEF-7B9FAFC9786B@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202206220214.25M2E9A81850003@darkstar.fourwinds.com>

the early versions of the audio compression stuff were not quite is good as
the later versions (which became apples stuff) but compressed to substantially
smaller size. ken compressed 2-3 hrs or so of music for my wedding and that
was rather less than a CD.

> On Jun 21, 2022, at 7:14 PM, Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:
> 
> George Michaelson writes:
>> There was this persisting story that Ken got permission from somebody
>> like CBS or Sony to have a very large amount of classical music on a
>> 400MB drive, for research purposes. No, really: he was doing some
>> psycho-acoustic thing comparing compressed to uncompressed for
>> somebody, or improving on the fraunhoffer algorithms which became MP3.
>> The point was, the rest of us had to listen to CDs and Ken had the
>> complete works of Bach (or something) on a hard drive, which we were
>> told he kept in the office, and played at home over a landline of some
>> horrendously high bandwidth, un-imaginable speeds like a megabit,
>> imagine, a MILLION of those suckers. How dare he. Thats more than the
>> whole of queensland. I imagine the truth is much less interesting, and
>> there was no major IPR fraud going on at the labs coding stuff as MP3
>> like we imagined, under the table.
>> 
>> I imagine this would also have been a Datakit T-1. But surely that was
>> a 1.44mbit carrier? T1 was smaller than E1 because europeans and
>> asians learned to count to 32 not 24.
>> 
>> -G
> 
> This reminds me of a Ken story from the late '90s.  I was at a conference
> that I won't name where Ken gave a talk about his compression work; if I
> remember correctly his goal was to fit all of the Billboard Top 100 songs
> of all time onto a single CD.  He showed us the big stack of disks that he
> made to give to us, but then said that to his surprise the the lawyers
> refused to give permission.  At that point he became very focused on messing
> with his slides while everyone got up, got in line, and took a disc.  After
> the pile was gone Ken looked up and nonchalantly continued his talk.
> 
> That might also have been the conference at which Ken showed us videos of
> him in a MIG.
> 
> Jon


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-22  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-16 23:06 [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2022-06-16 23:17 ` [TUHS] " Earl Baugh
2022-06-16 23:18 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-16 23:44   ` George Michaelson
2022-06-17  0:10     ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-17 16:23     ` [TUHS] Sockets vs Streams (was " Bakul Shah
2022-06-17 17:43       ` [TUHS] " Paul Winalski
2022-06-17 22:52       ` Dan Stromberg
2022-06-17  7:20 ` [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2022-06-17  7:33   ` Rob Pike
2022-06-17  8:34   ` arnold
2022-06-17 10:52 ` arnold
2022-06-18  7:05 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19  7:50   ` Rob Pike
2022-06-19  8:17     ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19  8:53       ` Rob Pike
2022-06-19  9:02         ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19  9:14           ` arnold
2022-06-19  9:19             ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19  9:23               ` arnold
2022-06-19 11:37                 ` Matthias Bruestle
2022-06-19 14:47         ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-06-19 16:27           ` Al Kossow
2022-06-19 18:32           ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-06-19 18:38             ` Dan Cross
2022-06-21 23:56               ` Jacob Moody
2022-06-22  0:13                 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-22  0:48                   ` Rob Pike
2022-06-22  1:55                     ` George Michaelson
2022-06-22  2:10                       ` Bakul Shah
2022-06-22  2:14                       ` Jon Steinhart
2022-06-22  2:19                         ` Andrew Hume [this message]
2022-06-22  2:58                           ` Rob Pike
2022-06-22  3:09                             ` George Michaelson
2022-06-22  2:16                   ` Andrew Hume
2022-06-22  2:55                   ` Brad Spencer
2022-06-17 14:50 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-18  0:35 Douglas McIlroy
2022-06-18  5:00 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-06-18  5:13   ` Adam Thornton
2022-06-18 16:58     ` Clem Cole
2022-06-18 17:18       ` Warner Losh
2022-06-18 17:57         ` Clem Cole
2022-06-18 19:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-22 12:06 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-23  0:02 ` Dan Cross
2022-06-23  2:18 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-24  6:47 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-25 19:16 ` Anthony Martin
2022-06-25 20:45   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-27  0:57     ` Kevin Bowling

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