Thanks to all the participants in this thread, I hope it was at least a
little educational, except maybe for some that seem to take everything
as a test to their imaginations of themselves being little computers,
and not human being with normal associations and lasting affections for
serious subjects in the field of digital signal processing.
When I first got on the World Wide Web, must have Mosaic in about '93,
after having used email for half a decade and enjoying participating on
bulletin boards and so on, it required a serious scientific workstation
and a serious network connection to be able to actually "browse" the
information on ftp and early http sites, and I counted myself lucky to
have those facilities at my disposal.
In the now, a list like this can be done on an old computer with a
un-optimal modem connection, and you're fine! Lot's have changed about
what people are used to, and what people get sued over on Twitter, etc.,
but some things remain the same: science isn't a dirty subject on the
big internet, and being able to download and view all kinds of
information has a democratizing effect, in the west, the 2d world, and
hopefully even the third world.
It seems still hard to distinguish though what people would for instance
sum up a scientific subject properly when history seems to call for it,
and win a Nobel Prize (like a Dutchman in the 90s for Physics), and what
people are only good for, say a government job to teach first year
technical studies, or who deserve to run a multinational or become a
famous professor in say the humanities, and I feel that that is because
a lot of fundamental science questions have been put in certain corners
since the Information Technology worlds has become more popular than
most of it's constituents deserved, and somewhat that applies here as
well, which is a pity, because good teachers valuable, leading
professors that come out right are scarce in the field of computers and
computer design, and frankly, the digital audio world isn't as much a
success as many people hope for!
Anyhow, nothing much to personally interest me in the subject of this
thread, except I'm more than average interested (and capable) in proper
scientific theories, and it happens to be an essential subject for
instance for first year (academic and otherwise, I'm sure) technical
science students, and for good reason. How are those FIR filters to be
considered non-linear, and how are those FFT effects going to filter
like a linear system ? Just saying.
Ir (M.Sc.) T. Verelst
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