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 Thursday, May 10, 2007
started 5/10/2007; 3:16:28 AM - last post 5/14/2007; 7:15:33 PM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, May 10, 2007 
5/10/2007; 7:16:28 AM (reads: 6861, responses: 2)
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Nice 
Strategic Optional Framework Position
Anybody heard HD radio yet?
| | Just read this about HD radio, which points to this. Meanwhile I had a conversation with the chief engineer for a pile of radio stations in the vicinity here, in which he told me basically that HD radio sucks because it modulates on the upper and lower edges of the analog signal, causing interference to adjacent channels. Actually, I've been noticing that as well, and wondering what the hell it was. Suddenly my highly selective radios seem to be getting more adjacent channel interference. Turns out it's HD, screwing up Old Radio while underserving the New. |
| | So I'm wondering... do you or anybody you know have an HD receiver? Have you noticed a difference? Do you care? Just wondering. |
Perhaps a good sign
Help Sun shine in your pocket
| | Support open spectrum. Demand real competition. Ask for investigations of past spectrum auctions, and the return of frequencies obtained through fraud. Demand that systems be built-out. |
| | It will take political pressure to create the kind of competitive wireless market in which something like a $30 Internet phone can be made available. Time to bring it. |
| | You have to know how much this pissed-off McNealy, Zander and Schmidt, all at once. Schmidt was key in Java's rising, and he probably still loves his baby. Zander is getting forced into a corner, and must be looking for an effective strategy to re-take MOT's once-dominant position in the cellphone handset space, and is likely to trust his golf buddies. |
| | After 25 years at Sun, including 22 years as Sun's CEO, McNealy has to be looking for his swan song. Absolute dominance of the software used on cellphones would do it. If he can manage to corrall MOT and Nokia, he'll have done it. |
| | I'd say Jonathan is looking for a score here too. I'd add one more bonus: the opportunity for customers to use mobile phones as VRM devices. |
Knowing more than you can blog
| | What JP's talking about here are tacit and explicit knowledge, about how the former far exceeds the latter and how, as Polanyi once said, in perhaps his only quotable line, "We know more than we can tell". I can go on about Polanyi to boring lengths because, back at Guilford College, where Steve Lewis and I were among the small handful philosophy majors in the Class of '69, we actually majored in Polanyi, thanks to professor Donald Millholland, who was obsessed about the dude. To Don, Polanyi was It. And in those days there weren't many other philosphy teachers operating at Guilford. (One of the best, Carroll S. Feagins, had fallen sick, and the others took up far less intellectual space than Don Millholland.) |
| | Yet, to put it generously, Polanyi was a minor philosopher. I'm not knocking Polanyi's thinking, which continues to influence mine (and, I suppose, Steve's, and Tom Brown's — Tom was the philosophy major in the Class of '68, I believe). But hey: the dude was, and still is, obscure. Not to mention obtuse. Freeman Dyson once told me that Arthur Koestler once said, at an event honoring his friend Polanyi, that the latter had written a book that was too important to ignore yet too dense to read. Or something like that. My conversation with Freeman took place at one of the much-missed PC Fora his daughter Esther put on. I had first heard Freeman at a lecture he gave the late Polanyi's honor at the University of North Carolina, back in the early 80s. |
| | Anyway, reading JP dropping Polanyi's name (and with the Hugarian Mihaly, no less) seems more than coincidental. Like, maybe The Matrix is working. |
| | Anyway, Dr. Weinberger actually taught philosophy for awhile back in the past someplace. Coincidence? |
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Tom Brown - Re: Thursday, May 10, 2007
5/10/2007; 3:10:01 PM (reads: 833, responses: 0)
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Dave, your mention of Polanyi and Don Millholland piqued my curiosity and lo and behold I found a well-underlined, old, paperback copy of Polanyi's, The tacit Dimension, on one of my bookshelves that was used in one of the philosophy seminars held at Carroll Feagins' house. Ditto on the denseness of Polanyi and add Ernst Cassirer, Heidegger, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein to that list. Actually, I still have a fondness for Whitehead as I participated in a study group on Whitehead after graduating from Guilford with professor Frederic Crownfield who audited a class with Whitehead at Harvard --that sort of connection provided me some insight if not understanding of Whitehead. On a side note, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon was required reading in one of the core curriculum English courses at Guilford. By the way, Ru Sabre, a new instructor at Guilford then was also an interesting fellow.
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Randy Hoffman - HD Radio
5/14/2007; 11:15:33 PM (reads: 801, responses: 0)
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Here's another no-so-secret silliness about HD Radio: Most of the large radio operators plan on dividing their HD signals into multiple feeds (stations)similar to what cable operators do with their video signals. Net end result: more stations they can program and sell.
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