Posted by Arny Krueger on 11/30/07 13:09

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in
message news:474FF179.D8FADD56@hotmail.com
> Richard Crowley wrote:
>
>> "Eeyore" wrote ...
>>> Richard Crowley wrote:
>>>> "Eeyore" wrote ...
>>>
>>>>> There is a BIG difference however. A true CODEC
>>>>> operates
>>>>> in real time. Zipping and unzipping files is however
>>>>> not a real time process.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wikipedia also takes the view that codecs must be
>>>>> real time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec
>>>>> "A codec is a device or program capable of performing
>>>>> encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or
>>>>> signal. "
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I can't see the words "real time" anywhere in
>>>> your quote (or on the whole page, for that matter).
>>>> Can you help us find them?
>>>
>>> A *signal* or *data stream* are real-time concepts.
>>>
>>> In comparison zipping and unzipping files is very much
>>> NOT real-time.
>>
>> Then we must agree to disagree. I take it you are not
>> a comptuer programmer? I've never before heard the
>> notion that a "data stream" had any temporal implication.
>
> Maybe the streams and rivers in your world run on a
> stop-start basis too ?

Actually, that's the formal definition between a river and a creek. ;-)

Creeks run start-stop, and rivers flow continuously.

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