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

Comments

[amandalion]

omg that drives me nuts when i download music and the band/artist name is spelled in different ways so then on my ipod i have like three different places to go when i want to just play all their music.
but i mean that's what i get for stealing music, right?

[likesgadgets]

ha! what you really get for stealing music is the RIAA on your butt, so take the re-tagging challenge for what it's worth! :-)

[gregordv]

As in all things, I'm driven by what is most lazy. In this case, it would be to accept whatever the gods put into CDDB. That way, I can use MusicBrainz or whatever to pick up the canonical CDDB name for the track in case it ever goes astray (which I've spent a great deal of time doing this Christmas).

[getting Viz geeky]

One of the things we struggle with at Viz is the notion of distributed truth. When you have a system that is far flung through time and space, with people updating their data willy-nilly(*), especially when you take disconnected operations into account, what does the "truth copy" of the data mean?

Use case: we have one unit who spots an enemy tank (with one of these) and updates its position; at the same general moment, somebody else asserts that that same tank is half a mile away. Their information wends its way through the network (over a couple of 750ms satellite hops) and eventually end up at the same computer. Who do we trust? The guy that was "eyes on"? The guy who outranks him? The data that an hour

[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

[likesgadgets]

Oh, and for a building, the eyes-on data always wins regardless of age. :-)

I have a colleague who likes to say "mensurate." I think he wasn't held enough as a child; he seems really fixated on that word.

[gregordv]

BTW - If anybody else thinks that's cool stuff, let me know. We have lots of positions open in the Pittsburgh office.

Especially if you have a new baby and like gadgets. :-)