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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:27:57 -0500 From: David Miller <dm0@avana.net> Subject: Re: Drivers licenses

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It's a signal that is mixed and laid down by the machine. It covers the entire track. The cassette head only has two or four head depending on if it has auto-revers and moves the head.

So you are saying that the is a continuous track of varying amplitiude that defines the audio signal? And that your bias is a part of this?

Actualy a standard cassette tape has 4 tracks grouped in pairs. Each pair is given one of the channel. The audio that comes in is mixed with a bias signal (using a summing amp) and then laid down on the tape.

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From what I know, the bias is a parameter to the recording process and not the recording as it can be recovered from the magnets. It is something intended to forward-correct error, which is not intended to be interpreted in the future.

Huh? I have been involved in audio recording for over 20 years, acted as rodies for a host of bands (some of which actualy made records - but alas no money) and I must admit that the above sentences don't make any sense to me at all. Can you possible reword them? What magnets? 'paramter of the recording process'? 'forward-correct error'? 'interpreted in the future'? If your heads are magnetised you really should de-gauss them. They'll erase your tapes eventualy...

Looking for satellites?

No, to do that I use a C-band hooked to a alt-az mount and a digital modem. I'll probably just make a normal Newtonian and hood a CCD camera to it and feed my Video Toaster to digitize and enhance the images. I am particular inchanged by the Moon. I can look at it for extended periods. I was enchanted by it when Men stepped onto it for the first time. I very much hope that we (as a race) go back to stay...

Did you snag a job? I had a headhunter call tonight. It's been a year or so since they've bothered me.

I talked to BMC Software today. Looks like I'll probably go to work for them supporting their suite of database products. I should know tomorrow if they want to do the final interview which means I'll go to work for them on Monday.

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| The obvious is sometimes false; | | The unexpected sometimes true. |

You've gotta get this Pringles thing in order. Faith breaks the back of these types of philosophies. If you give in to faith, you should normally incorporate it. That doesn't mean that you have to explain it through the philosophy, but if that faith is the only thing that you know is indespensable, you need to reconsider how indespensable a philosophy that does not make room for it is.

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