It seems that were it to actually look at the actual music that you are listening to and not by reading playlist strings, then it would actually be a better tool.
Using Bayesian classification on the signal that you get (I would assume using FFT and perhaps feeding that through a neural net), you should then bypass any need for user classification at all (as I understand the current system now, it will fail if there are poorly/inaccurately named songs).
That said, this system would still be exposed to similar issues that the other one is (although I suspect from my previous experience with machine learning - the qualms people have of it missing out on a greater reason they choose songs would actually be unfounded, but I'm sure many would disagree with me), and more importantly - it would require far more processing power.
I'm moving next month - the 22nd is my last day in the states for awhile. I've grown quite fond of the bastard while I've had it. I don't care at all about shows that it thinks I will like (aside from it really being adamant that I would like more of my shows in other languages - lately it seems to think that I would prefer the spanish stations over much else). But I love being able to watch whatever the hell I want - specifically for me, the late night stuff. The Daily Show, Conan, Letterman, etc.
I really do wish that it could do multiple shows at the same time - right now I have to be watching nothing, or something it has already prerecorded in order for it to record something else. I would really like for it to be able to record two things at once - I haven't personally come to a situation where it has been more than two things, but having the ability to record N channels at once would be nice too. (N would have to be greater than 1, but as it passes 10 it gets pretty silly for my use... hell, past 4 even(
I have my eye on MythOS and FreeVo (I think those are the ones), but I don't think I will have internet at my apartment for some time, so that rules those out (in terms of getting the schedules and stuff). I'm hoping that my time away from it all will 1) allow the technology to move ahead and really impress me by the time I come back to it, and 2) allow me more time to either program or read.
I also wish that TiVo would allow me to jump ahead 15-30 seconds instead of larger amounts. that way I don't have to fast forward through an ad or show, but I can jump. There are increments that I can jump through now, but they look to be 10-15mins... not seconds.
they are making a handheld barcode scanner that would be used for grocery shopping. as you walk along putting groceries in your cart, you scan it in to the scanner that you have. then when you check out, instead of them scanning all of your groceries, they just take your handheld device and plug it in to see how much your bill is.
the obvious point that came up is how easily one could steal. so the store would instate a rule where they randomly scan all of someone's groceries.
I, and apparently many others at the major grocery chains that were approached with this idea, was skeptical that people would steal like crazy. so there were a bunch of test stores that were setup with the system to see how well it works out, and apparently it worked really well - they saw less theft that way than they did the "normal" way and the main problem they actually had were people ringing the same item up multiple times (accidentally I presume).
I don't recall the numbers off the top of my head as to how much faster this made the checkout process, but it was a very impressive number. every time I find myself standing in checkout lines and I see that they are using Symbol checkout scanning equipment (which is nearly every grocery store I've ever been in) - I always wish that they had that new personal scanner system.
I haven't followed Symbol's stock in over two years, but they used to have a pretty solid system last I looked. not sure how they are lately.
I was at the Boston Common theater last night watching A Mighty Wind - which I wouldn't suspect to be a wildly pirated movie. It was driving me crazy because it had a flicker over it the whole time - almostly like it was missing a frame, but not entirely, sort of a haze. I asked my friends if they noticed it and none of them did.
I'm hoping that maybe I'm just nuts and it isn't that I somehow am part of the population that can see the flicker and therefore get fucked over and can't go see movies that do this. It was really fucking annoying. It didn't matter too much since that movie is one that isn't really a visually stunning film - but if I watch the Matrix and it is like that, I will likely just burn the whole place down.
These college kids are sitting at a bar, having some drinks and discussing the days events. This older guy comes up and taps one of the kids on the shoulder. The kid turns around and the older man says "I fucked your mom!" The guys were all very taken aback by this and even more so when the guy just calmly said "go home" to the older man and turned around. The older man then smacked the guy on the back and said "Your mom sucked my cock!" Again, the college kids were shocked, and even more so when their friend remained calm and just tried to push the older man towards the door. But then the older man followed him right back and spun the kid around on the bar stool and yelled out "I fucked your mom in the ass!" This time, the college kids thought for sure that it was going to be go time - I fight surely had to happen now. But no, the kid just stood up and said "Listen dad, you've had too much to drink - just go home."
Perhaps it is only funny to me because it reminds me of my dad.
I filed an elegant and cost saving answer to the solution - but I want to make sure it is patented... they said it should get through in only 3 years. I feel like I'm helping.
As far as I know, all of my passwords are ********
Easier to remember that way.
actually, for a lot of my passwords I use bad math - like "16x12=42" - the biggest problem I've seen from it is it screws up my ability to do math.
The worst password system I've seen is in the online banking system that BankOne uses (which also applies to the credit cards that they run). It won't allow you to use certain characters on the keyboard - it forces them to be 6 (!!!) alphanumeric characters. They might have changed their system since I last saw it - I cancelled my account and wrote them a letter telling them they were retarded when they implemented that.
Nothing like severely limiting the keyspace for making good security.
You should note that your PDA only works in tiger sparse environments.
Were I to throw you and the PDA into a tiger rich environment (a tiger cage at the zoo), it would fail.
For a count of tigers that is one, then it does okay - assuming that value of one is sufficiently low. For excessively large values of one, it then fails again.
I followed the links in the article and glanced over it and even searched on Bitstream's own site using their font finder...
I just want to see what the fonts look like without having to install/download the actual files.
I'm sure that it would be far too silly for them to have all of this talk and not have a link that shows what they look like - so I'm obviously retarded for not finding said link.
Anyone want to help a special needs kid and give me a link to what the font looks like?
I just recently purchased a Garmin Legend GPS and they have a $50 rebate on it - I sure hope it isn't as bad as the last time I had a rebate for something - my AT&T cable modem service.
AT&T's deal was "sign-up now and get 3 months free!" Hot damn, that was a good deal. Granted, they had totally screwed up my billing in the past and as a result, I swore never to use any of their products ever again. I switched to DSL, had far too many problems, and... well, I had to go back to AT&T since they are the monoply here in Cambridge (although it was really RoadRunner that got bought up by MediaOne that got bought out by AT&T who then got taken over by Comcast - lovely). I could rant for a whole page about all of that, but it isn't about rebates.
So anyway, I sign up, and ask about the 3 months free (being suspicious that I was having to pay an awful lot straight off considering it was "free"). They told me that they would send me 3 (actually, it might have been 6 months free - but either way, what they did still stands) rebate coupons in the mail, and I should hang on to those, and then every other month I should send them in with my bill. These rebates weren't universal "I am your free month of cable" rebates - but actually had a value associated with them that was only good towards the cable bill - I think $80 or so. So I thought, okay, this is a pain in the ass, I have to remember which months to use these and then not lose them... but cool. So I setup a reminder on my computer that would pop up every other month to tell me to use them, and I put them in a drawer so I wouldn't lose them, and I was silly with faith in the system.
So what should happen is every month you get a bill, but every other month you send in a rebate coupon with it and you get that month free. In theory. What really happened was that the first month was $75. The second month was $95, and the rebate didn't cover all of it. The third month was $150. The fourth month was $98. The fourth month mentioned that there was a billing mishap, and this one was only $40. And it went on like that for over a year - just arbitrary numbers, but always higher on the months that I was to use a rebate coupon. I called them about it and they said that it was all normal and that I shouldn't worry about it. Right. I was only using basic service - it isn't as if I was racking up outside charges beyond just what should have been a standard rate.
At the end of that year I got a notice saying that I was eligible to be part of a class action lawsuit against AT&T for fucked-up billing (oh, if only they had really worded it that way) and that if I wanted, I could sign up to be included - what would I get out of it? 3 months free cable. With rebates. They also said that if I wasn't a current customer, they would waive the setup fee for me. Fantastic - since they always do that anyway - I've never known anyone to pay that setup fee.
I should note that AT&T also fucked up both my cell phone bill and my fiancee's cell phone bills (different occasions and different years). I quit their service and had continued billing issues as part of the closing out process - my fiancee has stayed with them and says they seem to have resolved the billing since and our cable and her cell phone bills are constant now.
AT&T is on my list of companies that are retarded and I avoid using them if that is an option.
My mom used to work with a division of IBM and when I heard how large just their NC buildings were, I thought the same thing - wow, now I see where MS makes its money.
Then I wondered about switching to Linux and how much that would *save* them.
I mentioned that to my mom and she said that they discussed it many times, but they ran figures on how much money they spent/lost just switching from one *program* to another (training and help desk support), let alone to a whole new operating system. She was in the department that hired temps and they used software that scanned in resumes and then fed them to a database and allowed searches on it and such. At the time, I worked for a company that had a superior product to what they had, it was cheaper, and had a better UI. She said in order for them to switch (after they looked into it), due mostly to training, it would add on over $2million in costs to the overall price - and their current system "worked" so they were going to change. And that was just her group which was "only" a few thousand people. You could argue that were the software easy enough to work with, you wouldn't need to train the users... but if you think that way, you give the users WAY too much credit - something one learns quickly in the software industry - if you are writing software for end users, remember that your end users are fat dumber than you can ever estimate.
Essentially the only way you could switch (easily and cost effectively) over an office is if it were very small, and if the users were already relatively tech savvy.
for the most part, any savings in OS and program cost is lost in productivity lost during the switch and the increased support for people that are essentially all newbies at that point.
I want to see their quarter results come out with the CEO saying "Well, it seems we are really tanking and there is no hope at all. I would say that largely, all of this is my fault."
Hey, at least they have profit - who cares if it is way down?
I give you high points on style - any well worded arguement should include "ass", "fucking", and "teabagging" - and excellent use of "stupid" to help your cause, I intially felt I might be swayed, but then there is the whole factual basis of your arguement which is lacking... so I guess I would still in the end find that you are wrong.
That said, you did say "fucking dumbass" and I need to go lookup the internet discussion rules, but I think that might trump any rational thought that I might have actually made - damn.
And if you read the other posts in this thread, you would actually see that I don't even like SGI, so I guess that rules out the "fanboy" part - but I'll give you "dumbass" - that one is dead on... I really am a dumbass.
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It seems that were it to actually look at the actual music that you are listening to and not by reading playlist strings, then it would actually be a better tool.
Using Bayesian classification on the signal that you get (I would assume using FFT and perhaps feeding that through a neural net), you should then bypass any need for user classification at all (as I understand the current system now, it will fail if there are poorly/inaccurately named songs).
That said, this system would still be exposed to similar issues that the other one is (although I suspect from my previous experience with machine learning - the qualms people have of it missing out on a greater reason they choose songs would actually be unfounded, but I'm sure many would disagree with me), and more importantly - it would require far more processing power.
ooo - cool - thanks!
sounds like something I might know had I read the instructions at all.
now if only they had a single key for it instead of a 6 key combo.
I'm moving next month - the 22nd is my last day in the states for awhile.
I've grown quite fond of the bastard while I've had it.
I don't care at all about shows that it thinks I will like (aside from it really being adamant that I would like more of my shows in other languages - lately it seems to think that I would prefer the spanish stations over much else).
But I love being able to watch whatever the hell I want - specifically for me, the late night stuff. The Daily Show, Conan, Letterman, etc.
I really do wish that it could do multiple shows at the same time - right now I have to be watching nothing, or something it has already prerecorded in order for it to record something else.
I would really like for it to be able to record two things at once - I haven't personally come to a situation where it has been more than two things, but having the ability to record N channels at once would be nice too. (N would have to be greater than 1, but as it passes 10 it gets pretty silly for my use... hell, past 4 even(
I have my eye on MythOS and FreeVo (I think those are the ones), but I don't think I will have internet at my apartment for some time, so that rules those out (in terms of getting the schedules and stuff).
I'm hoping that my time away from it all will 1) allow the technology to move ahead and really impress me by the time I come back to it, and 2) allow me more time to either program or read.
I also wish that TiVo would allow me to jump ahead 15-30 seconds instead of larger amounts. that way I don't have to fast forward through an ad or show, but I can jump. There are increments that I can jump through now, but they look to be 10-15mins... not seconds.
excellent!!
it is good to see that they didn't get left out of the SEC investigations - I feel so bad for the companies that never get that joy.
glad to see you could grasp the theme of that which we are talking about.
I'm proud of you. seriously.
they are making a handheld barcode scanner that would be used for grocery shopping. as you walk along putting groceries in your cart, you scan it in to the scanner that you have.
then when you check out, instead of them scanning all of your groceries, they just take your handheld device and plug it in to see how much your bill is.
the obvious point that came up is how easily one could steal. so the store would instate a rule where they randomly scan all of someone's groceries.
I, and apparently many others at the major grocery chains that were approached with this idea, was skeptical that people would steal like crazy.
so there were a bunch of test stores that were setup with the system to see how well it works out, and apparently it worked really well - they saw less theft that way than they did the "normal" way and the main problem they actually had were people ringing the same item up multiple times (accidentally I presume).
I don't recall the numbers off the top of my head as to how much faster this made the checkout process, but it was a very impressive number.
every time I find myself standing in checkout lines and I see that they are using Symbol checkout scanning equipment (which is nearly every grocery store I've ever been in) - I always wish that they had that new personal scanner system.
I haven't followed Symbol's stock in over two years, but they used to have a pretty solid system last I looked. not sure how they are lately.
I really hope it hasn't.
I was at the Boston Common theater last night watching A Mighty Wind - which I wouldn't suspect to be a wildly pirated movie.
It was driving me crazy because it had a flicker over it the whole time - almostly like it was missing a frame, but not entirely, sort of a haze.
I asked my friends if they noticed it and none of them did.
I'm hoping that maybe I'm just nuts and it isn't that I somehow am part of the population that can see the flicker and therefore get fucked over and can't go see movies that do this.
It was really fucking annoying. It didn't matter too much since that movie is one that isn't really a visually stunning film - but if I watch the Matrix and it is like that, I will likely just burn the whole place down.
That reminds me of one of my favorite jokes.
These college kids are sitting at a bar, having some drinks and discussing the days events. This older guy comes up and taps one of the kids on the shoulder. The kid turns around and the older man says "I fucked your mom!"
The guys were all very taken aback by this and even more so when the guy just calmly said "go home" to the older man and turned around.
The older man then smacked the guy on the back and said "Your mom sucked my cock!"
Again, the college kids were shocked, and even more so when their friend remained calm and just tried to push the older man towards the door.
But then the older man followed him right back and spun the kid around on the bar stool and yelled out "I fucked your mom in the ass!"
This time, the college kids thought for sure that it was going to be go time - I fight surely had to happen now.
But no, the kid just stood up and said "Listen dad, you've had too much to drink - just go home."
Perhaps it is only funny to me because it reminds me of my dad.
I hate it when you drink and then post dad.
sounds like when I used to go on dates
I filed an elegant and cost saving answer to the solution - but I want to make sure it is patented... they said it should get through in only 3 years.
I feel like I'm helping.
while I do use a variation of bad math in my passwords on some accounts - the example was just a joke, as was the top part of my post.
the xchino guy has the right idea
that said, I think this thread is getting pretty funny with all of the flaming.
I'm not worried about this account and especially not worried about the old school account.
for any of my accounts that matter, I use the totally uncrackable method of "password"
As far as I know, all of my passwords are ********
Easier to remember that way.
actually, for a lot of my passwords I use bad math - like "16x12=42" - the biggest problem I've seen from it is it screws up my ability to do math.
The worst password system I've seen is in the online banking system that BankOne uses (which also applies to the credit cards that they run).
It won't allow you to use certain characters on the keyboard - it forces them to be 6 (!!!) alphanumeric characters.
They might have changed their system since I last saw it - I cancelled my account and wrote them a letter telling them they were retarded when they implemented that.
Nothing like severely limiting the keyspace for making good security.
in a related study, engineering isn't necessarily the best way to be social.
that jerk on the tour that told you chicks dig engineers was a lying bastard.
You should note that your PDA only works in tiger sparse environments.
Were I to throw you and the PDA into a tiger rich environment (a tiger cage at the zoo), it would fail.
For a count of tigers that is one, then it does okay - assuming that value of one is sufficiently low. For excessively large values of one, it then fails again.
Yes, but neither can match the beauty of Wingdings.
I use that badboy for everything.
Paul: You eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?
Tommy: Ha ha ha, why?
I followed the links in the article and glanced over it and even searched on Bitstream's own site using their font finder...
I just want to see what the fonts look like without having to install/download the actual files.
I'm sure that it would be far too silly for them to have all of this talk and not have a link that shows what they look like - so I'm obviously retarded for not finding said link.
Anyone want to help a special needs kid and give me a link to what the font looks like?
I just recently purchased a Garmin Legend GPS and they have a $50 rebate on it - I sure hope it isn't as bad as the last time I had a rebate for something - my AT&T cable modem service.
... well, I had to go back to AT&T since they are the monoply here in Cambridge (although it was really RoadRunner that got bought up by MediaOne that got bought out by AT&T who then got taken over by Comcast - lovely).
AT&T's deal was "sign-up now and get 3 months free!"
Hot damn, that was a good deal. Granted, they had totally screwed up my billing in the past and as a result, I swore never to use any of their products ever again. I switched to DSL, had far too many problems, and
I could rant for a whole page about all of that, but it isn't about rebates.
So anyway, I sign up, and ask about the 3 months free (being suspicious that I was having to pay an awful lot straight off considering it was "free").
They told me that they would send me 3 (actually, it might have been 6 months free - but either way, what they did still stands) rebate coupons in the mail, and I should hang on to those, and then every other month I should send them in with my bill. These rebates weren't universal "I am your free month of cable" rebates - but actually had a value associated with them that was only good towards the cable bill - I think $80 or so.
So I thought, okay, this is a pain in the ass, I have to remember which months to use these and then not lose them... but cool.
So I setup a reminder on my computer that would pop up every other month to tell me to use them, and I put them in a drawer so I wouldn't lose them, and I was silly with faith in the system.
So what should happen is every month you get a bill, but every other month you send in a rebate coupon with it and you get that month free.
In theory.
What really happened was that the first month was $75. The second month was $95, and the rebate didn't cover all of it. The third month was $150. The fourth month was $98. The fourth month mentioned that there was a billing mishap, and this one was only $40. And it went on like that for over a year - just arbitrary numbers, but always higher on the months that I was to use a rebate coupon.
I called them about it and they said that it was all normal and that I shouldn't worry about it.
Right.
I was only using basic service - it isn't as if I was racking up outside charges beyond just what should have been a standard rate.
At the end of that year I got a notice saying that I was eligible to be part of a class action lawsuit against AT&T for fucked-up billing (oh, if only they had really worded it that way) and that if I wanted, I could sign up to be included - what would I get out of it?
3 months free cable. With rebates. They also said that if I wasn't a current customer, they would waive the setup fee for me. Fantastic - since they always do that anyway - I've never known anyone to pay that setup fee.
I should note that AT&T also fucked up both my cell phone bill and my fiancee's cell phone bills (different occasions and different years). I quit their service and had continued billing issues as part of the closing out process - my fiancee has stayed with them and says they seem to have resolved the billing since and our cable and her cell phone bills are constant now.
AT&T is on my list of companies that are retarded and I avoid using them if that is an option.
oh sure, you act like I'm not a 350lb middle aged woman on AOL.
LOL OMG WTF BBQ
yeah, I just now reread that and felt pretty "fat dumb" myself :)
I think I should just go into the kitchen here at work and snort an entire bag off coffee grounds - maybe that would help.
My mom used to work with a division of IBM and when I heard how large just their NC buildings were, I thought the same thing - wow, now I see where MS makes its money.
Then I wondered about switching to Linux and how much that would *save* them.
I mentioned that to my mom and she said that they discussed it many times, but they ran figures on how much money they spent/lost just switching from one *program* to another (training and help desk support), let alone to a whole new operating system.
She was in the department that hired temps and they used software that scanned in resumes and then fed them to a database and allowed searches on it and such. At the time, I worked for a company that had a superior product to what they had, it was cheaper, and had a better UI. She said in order for them to switch (after they looked into it), due mostly to training, it would add on over $2million in costs to the overall price - and their current system "worked" so they were going to change. And that was just her group which was "only" a few thousand people.
You could argue that were the software easy enough to work with, you wouldn't need to train the users... but if you think that way, you give the users WAY too much credit - something one learns quickly in the software industry - if you are writing software for end users, remember that your end users are fat dumber than you can ever estimate.
Essentially the only way you could switch (easily and cost effectively) over an office is if it were very small, and if the users were already relatively tech savvy.
for the most part, any savings in OS and program cost is lost in productivity lost during the switch and the increased support for people that are essentially all newbies at that point.
I want to see their quarter results come out with the CEO saying "Well, it seems we are really tanking and there is no hope at all. I would say that largely, all of this is my fault."
Hey, at least they have profit - who cares if it is way down?
I give you high points on style - any well worded arguement should include "ass", "fucking", and "teabagging" - and excellent use of "stupid" to help your cause, I intially felt I might be swayed, but then there is the whole factual basis of your arguement which is lacking... so I guess I would still in the end find that you are wrong.
That said, you did say "fucking dumbass" and I need to go lookup the internet discussion rules, but I think that might trump any rational thought that I might have actually made - damn.
And if you read the other posts in this thread, you would actually see that I don't even like SGI, so I guess that rules out the "fanboy" part - but I'll give you "dumbass" - that one is dead on... I really am a dumbass.