Merry Gentlemen

[likesgadgets]

So, I'm re-ripping most of my holiday CDs to FLAC, and in so doing, I have noticed these three versions of a popular Christmas carol's title on different albums:

• God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Now, seeing these three versions makes one consider more closely the differences between them. In the

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[likesgadgets]

Very interesting...

RE: article on RPDAs: " When a forward observer lazes a target, the PFED instantaneously records the direction, distance and vertical interval to the target, and optionally the heading and speed for moving targets, along with GPS position data for point-of-origin reference of the laze."

AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! "Laze?" You've got to be kidding me! What's next, the RFP for a Shark-With-A-Frickin'-Lazer-Attached-To-Its-Head?

I like to associate the quality of metadata with its proximity to the entity being described, both in "distance" and time. So, I will always prefer song titles, capitalization, punctuation, and lyrics out of the jacket booklet than off a random lyrics site, whose data was generated by someone who typed in what she thought she heard while her roommate was on the phone with her BFF Chicky. But, if the booklet is from a cheap compilation CD that's just re-releasing the songs, the original release artist's data takes priority if there's a conflict. And, IMHO, AMG and CDDB have CRAP for classical music, and a lot of pop music too.

So, in your use case, there could be weights for age, quality, and target mobility used to "score" the data. The eyes-on data beats the SIGINT data of the same age, but SIGINT data may beat thirty-minute-old eyes-on data. And, you include a data field for Rank of Observer, but you ignore it in the core engine. ;-)

I have recently done some custom work in OPNET's 3DNV product, and I have to agree that properly visualizing your system's behavior is critical for its proper evolution and development. Plus, it looks way awesome, and it's bonzer to have a joystick on your desk at work. ;-)

The disturbing thing about iTunes is that somehow it has generated apparently identical duplicate artists and genres in its database. I have two entries for "Holiday" with different things in them. I've checked for spaces, but can't find anything obviously hidden.

Seems to me we gave up Consistency back in Sewickley too... we were ahead of our time, I guess. Or, just independently brilliant. :-)

You can get long-winded in my journal any time you like. The more often, the better. :-)