Automatic Transmission Reviews

This book trys to use simple language to explain many complicated topics, and it fails to expain well. The author is knowledgable on telephone operations, but other than that, don't expect to learn anything from this book. I want to learn more about VOIP/ATM, H.323, CELP, but I feel very very disappointed after read through the whole book. If you're a design engineer, don't expect to learn angthing from it. If you're a high school student, or a household wife, this may be a good book.

The author's background explanation of IP was a nightmare.

His insistance that UDP is a member of the TCP/IP protocol suite is such a skewed perspective that it made me wonder if he had any competence with IP at all and made me suspicious of the remainder of the material. If he held this viewpoint for some reason (historical, or otherwise and not simply complete ignorance of the subject matter) I somehow missed that.

The editing was atrocious, which didn't help at all.

The author provides his e-mail to give comments and feedback, which I tried to do when I found that I had so many notes and errata that I was having trouble writing them all down in the book's jacket. However the e-mail addresses given for the author are no longer working. (Perhaps wisely!)

The first 3 chapters were a garbled intro to IP.

The sections on speech production and digitization in Chapter 4 were very good. Chapter 5 on telephony was a good chapter. Chapter 6 included a nice simple explanation of SIP.

Chapter 7 was about VoIP equipment which is probably OBE.

Chapter 8 was a complete joke. Explaining ping and traceroute, which should probably have been covered in the beginning sections on IP, but which most likely was boiler plate from other publications by this author.

I got this book free from Cisco and it was worth every penny.

I normally do not write reviews but when I noted a person said this book was for a 'housewife' and gave it one star I thought something was amiss. I found this book to be very practical, with numerous examples that show 'how to do it.' I purchased other books on this topic and found them to be filled with standards literature from the ITU. Thus, I was perplexed how someone could rate this book with one star when its significantly better that the others that spend most pages repeating ITU specifications.

The back cover praise says "I only wish it was available to our staff as we developed some of our earliest services."

This might be true for somebody who has been a lawyer or a doctor his whole life and then one morning wakes up with the idea of building a Mobile Location Service.

On the other end anybody who only knows what Mobile Location Services are all about will find this book poor.

It just tells what is all the stuff you might need without delving into any detail. It simply restates the problem. For example the chapter about map displaying is only about "illuminating" us on what a rasted image is compared to a vectorial. At the end of it you won't know anything you didn't know before and won't be anywhere ahead to building your service.

In the end it looks more like a newspaper Sunday edition article to be read by that lawyer or that doctor than like a book who could be of any use to somebody wishing to build a Mobile Location Service.

Jagoe has set a new standard in writing what must surely become the ne plus ultra industry bible of MLS. The book brings together a wide variety of topics ranging from in-depth explanations of postioning technology and spatial analysis to an overview of market drivers and future trends. (I have found the latter to be particularly useful in setting strategy for my business in the wireless space.) Two thumbs and one antenna up for this excllent volume!

Transmission modle and trouble shooting

Haynes manuals are for amatures; the majority of info that is needed is not given. Instead, you are referred to your repair shop, this is NOT why you would buy the book. I also misunderstood in thinking this book covered a Ford A4OD trans.

haynes manuals are for amatures, the majority of info needed is not given, insted you are referred to your repair shop, not why you would buy the book.

In its prime, this was probably a good manual. However, time marches on and this manual has not kept pace. The newer Ford automatics from the early 90's on are not covered. If you want info for earlier models, this would be a good reference, otherwise, you'll likely be disappointed.

To think that a tree gave its life for this book is very depressing. Contents are so general as to be absolutely useless.

Nothing to the point for specific transmissions

you get totally lost in it.