LAST EDITED ON Oct-10-03 AT 04:19 PM (EST)
 
Braveheart,

Thanks for your support!

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I discussed some of my work with Braveheart who is quite competent to understand what my work is and has been in the past, so I very much appreciate his endorsement.

Regarding computers in general (Braveheart knows this): All computers today (well, 99.9% of them) use what is called the von Neumann architecture (after a famous 20th century mathematician who didn't really invent it, but wrote a well-circulated, very influential memo about it). What this means is that as a practical matter, there is no difference between large computer systems and small computer systems, especially when it comes to number crunching --- except for speed. The actual hardware implementations can be quite different, and the speeds can be quite different, but one can perform any analysis on a Dell that can be done on a workstation in terms of the type of thing that is required for signal analysis. Anyone who says anything different doesn't know what they're talking about. The typical Dell systems sold today are far, far more capable than the engineering workstations I used to perform computational physics tasks on when I was working for a Fortune 500 company. There are special machines out there that are "parallelized," but this type of machine is gross overkill for the task at hand.

The task here was to analyze the alleged conversation --- not all conversation, the alleged conversation. I found it. I enhanced it and showed that the allegations that these noises are conversation are false. I challenge those who believe otherwise to enhance the conversations, to write up their results so that others can repeat their analysis, and to post MP3 files so we can listen to them. Anyone who cannot do that should shut up. Anyone who would criticize my analysis on the basis of hardware and software used without addressing any technical issues is proving themselves incompetent to discuss the matter and should also shut up. It's difficult, not to mention a waste of valuable time, to say in words just how idiotic such criticism is.

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On edit: I'm not specifically endorsing Dell; I've never owned one, and I built my own system. I use that term because I think a lot of people know the name.