RZ,nI: Claude Shannon

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Gabaly, Stephen J wrote: [fact snipped] [misinformed twaddle snipped] Ain't a lot of things I know about that I can claim to be what we might term an 'expert' in, but after getting a BSEE when I was 19, filing 11 patents in 20 years, and working for the last 15 years as an audio systems engineer, consultant, acoustician, and facility designer in Hollywood (10 years as Chief Engineer, MGM Studios)... well, Shannon and Nyquist and Olson and Fletcher&Munson, Beranek, Massa, Wendte, et.al., have always seemed to generate the correct solutions to my particular problems, whenever I consult their work, as I do to this day, designing recording facilities and new cinema theatres in India. Mr. Steven, now that you have publically announced your rather generalistic, simplistic, and {I feel) unsupported criticism, might I suggest a more careful re-reading of those portions of Shannon you think are in error, and then posting here (tho semi off-topic) your rigorous proofs of same, so some of us who make our livings using this data can then modify our own information? I for one, would be quite grateful to you, because a couple of multi-million dollar projects I have in hand, as we speak, will need some revisions if you are, in fact, correct. I anxiously await your reply.... Cheers John PS Since Shannon was the first to reduce to science the art of switchng circuit design, perhaps (by a stretch) this can be construed to be [sorta] on topic. ;}