And now, no Monad in Longhorn either.
Seriously, with Monad going MIA, and most of the other technologies either similarly MIA (WinFS) or being back-ported to XP (Avalon), what incentive are consumers going to have to upgrade to Longhorn?
They must have one hell of a big surprise under their cape to unleash, because so far nothing is looking compelling.
They must have one hell of a big surprise under their cape to unleash, because so far nothing is looking compelling.
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Lets start a company and build an OS !!!
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DRM!!
Everyone's favorite!
Originally posted by Xool
The surprise is:
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DRM!!
Everyone's favorite!
Digital Radio Mondiale...
http://www.drm.org/system/technicalaspect.php
"DRM: Technical Aspects of The On-Air System
DRM is the world's only, non-proprietary digital radio system for short-wave, AM/medium-wave and long-wave. It has been endorsed by the ITU, IEC and ETSI. While DRM currently covers the broadcasting bands below 30 MHz, the DRM consortium voted in March 2005 to begin the process of extending the system to the broadcasting bands up to 108 MHz. The design, development and testing phases are expected to be completed by 2007-2009.
DRM is the only universal, non-proprietary digital AM radio system with near-FM quality sound available to markets worldwide.
The quality of DRM audio is excellent, and the improvement upon analogue AM is immediately noticeable. DRM can be used for a range of audio content, including multi-lingual speech and music.
Besides providing near-FM quality audio, the DRM system has the capacity to integrate data and text. This additional content can be displayed on DRM receivers to enhance the listening experience.
Unlike digital systems that require a new frequency allocation, DRM uses existing AM broadcast frequency bands. The DRM signal is designed to fit in with the existing AM broadcast band plan, based on signals of 9 kHz or10kHz bandwidth. It has modes requiring as little as 4.5kHz or 5kHz bandwidth, plus modes that can take advantage of wider bandwidths, such as 18 or 20kHz.
Simulcast testing is underway.
Many existing AM transmitters can be easily modified to carry DRM signals.
DRM applications will include fixed and portable radios, car receivers, software receivers and PDAs. Several early prototype DRM receivers have been produced, including a software receiver. The DRM system uses a type of transmission called COFDM (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex). This means that all the data, produced from the digitally encoded audio and associated data signals, is shared out for transmission across a large number of closely spaced carriers. All of these carriers are contained within the allotted transmission channel. The DRM system is designed so that the number of carriers can be varied, depending on factors such as the allotted channel bandwidth and degree of robustness required.
The DRM system can use three different types of audio coding, depending on broadcasters? preferences. MPEG4 AAC audio coding, augmented by SBR bandwidth extension, is used as a general-purpose audio coder and provides the highest quality. MPEG4 CELP speech coding is used for high quality speech coding where there is no musical content. HVXC speech coding can be used to provide a very low bit-rate speech coder.
The robustness of the DRM signal can be chosen to match different propagation conditions."
Originally posted by Aquatic
Longhorn probably won't be out until 2007 or 2008, I'm guessing.
I think MS is shitting it's pants with fear -- seriously -- and wants to make sure Longhorn gets out BEFORE 2007, when powermacs are running intel chips.
Originally posted by Aquatic
Longhorn probably won't be out until 2007 or 2008, I'm guessing.
Buy which time OS X 10.15 will be out
lol