Thursday, September 23, 2010

Muddiest Point

I sort of felt conflicted between the Wikipedia article on “Data Compression” and the DVD-HQ article on “Data Compression Basics.” Because both sources specifically mentioned about “lossy” and “lossless” formats in regards to this tool, I knew right away I had to focus my attention on that concept. Of course, this saved me a lot of trouble in terms of where to look, only to realize the path I took had another barrier of vagueness to confront. I later found myself in a situation where I was constantly looking back and forth between the articles, just for the sake of making sure I was interpreting those terminologies correctly. I started having a strange feeling the two sources felt like one and the same article. Whatever description I was able to conjure, I had to make it was not only brief enough to be compacted into a nutshell, but also able to establish a connection with the other two articles. Otherwise, I would have ended up needing to rewrite everything I had already provided, as well as to reread all the articles, in hopes of having better luck of trying to find another way all the required readings could possibly be related.

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  1. I found some of the terminology challenging, I linked what I could and focussed on what the final implications were with regards to usage. I guess I'm only going to use these things, I'll leave the tweaking to those with the know-how

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