Relativity theorizes that there is no such thing as simultaneity between cause and effect. Effect happens after cause. All processes take a nonzero amount of time to complete. This delay has a name (of course). It's called latency . In audio, latency...

A friend recently purchased for me a copy of a game, let's call it "Society III", that he knew I'd like. I had been an avid player of Society and Society II, and Amazon was having a $9.95 special. The game arrived in a standard manufacturer box, with...

Quantization adds noise. Taking a nice continuous signal and expressing it as distinct integers will introduce a round-off error, which means you've added random fluctuations to the signal, which is the definiton of noise. Remember that noise is inevitable...

Apologies for the lack of posts. We're sooo close to getting Vista out the door, there's been little time for anything else recently. I assure you more audio posts are forthcoming. :) Meanwhile, make sure you go here and get ready for the best OS ever...

Raymond Chen , noble defender of language, pointed out today that fellow Microsofties have now taken to inventing adjectives , in addition to nouns and verbs. Though Raymond's example is pretty benign, it does bring out the usual champions for language...