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#304061 - 14/11/2007 10:46 They took our ideas (again!)
pca
old hand

Registered: 20/07/1999
Posts: 1102
Loc: UK
Damn. Yet another idea that is patented years after we had it. Hugo and I were discussing this exact same idea nearly 10 years ago!

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#304062 - 15/11/2007 00:26 Re: They took our ideas (again!) [Re: pca]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
Must be hell on all those Yokohama's, Kumho's, and Sumitomo's.
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#304063 - 15/11/2007 03:32 Re: They took our ideas (again!) [Re: FireFox31]
music
addict

Registered: 25/06/2002
Posts: 456
Ok, this is not directly related.
But your post brought to mind the "singing" Tesla coils that Robotic linked to a while back.

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#304064 - 17/11/2007 03:54 Re: They took our ideas (again!) [Re: pca]
altman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
To be fair, I was planning to make the rumble strips on the side of the motorway say "wake up" if we had enough resolution on the average set of tyres

Hugo

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#304065 - 17/11/2007 14:06 Re: They took our ideas (again!) [Re: pca]
Robotic
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Registered: 06/04/2005
Posts: 2026
Loc: Seattle transplant
Would the strips be lane related? You could mix in a little 'Dance-Dance Revolution' in with your freeway time!

On another note (ha!), I recently had a rental car with Sirius satellite radio and was truly disappointed in the lack of a 'next track' button!
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#304066 - 19/11/2007 05:17 Re: They took our ideas (again!) [Re: altman]
music
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Registered: 25/06/2002
Posts: 456
Quote:
I was planning to make the rumble strips on the side of the motorway say "wake up"


OK, now that is cool!

I guess, in a sense, you could use spectrographic techniques similar to those from the favorite songs to watch thread.
Well, actually, more the inverse of that. But you get my drift.
Fun with Fourier.

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#304067 - 20/11/2007 00:54 Re: They took our ideas (again!) [Re: Robotic]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
They work fine the way they are. I won't tell how I know this.
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#305186 - 17/12/2007 11:34 Re: They took our ideas (again!) [Re: gbeer]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4172
Loc: Cambridge, England
What's that old saying? Those who don't understand track profiles are condemned to reinvent them? This doesn't look all that new, but I only just found it: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Moodbar

There's even a "paper" linked from that page, claiming that "little research has been openly published" into this problem. Yes. That's because we -- mainly Toby -- completely solved it nine years ago. ;\)

Peter

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