I rarely or ever get a song stuck in my head as a reaction to hearing it. It's usually much later, and by that I mean a song I haven't heard in weeks or months before it pops in my head one day. Right upon waking up is most common, in fact, when I haven't heard anything at all for hours.
Now the songs that do get stuck I usually don't know that well, so I maybe have a chorus or a couple of lines and can't complete it, and I think that's possibly related to your theory it's about resolution. What I don't know is where it came from in the first place, if maybe my subconscious is just continually playing songs to me in the background, and they only come to the foreground when they get stuck. It's weird enough thinking I've got an invisible radio running in my head, I may have to go get my fillings checked.
You're being sarcastic, but 1) there are a whole lot of people who work this way because they don't really seem to like folder structure, and 2) a lot of search features actually seem to encourage people to work this way. I prefer nested folders myself (I do better remembering a path than, say, remembering the precise name of a file) but I know people who would rather search than organize. And there are *other* people, like my boss, who can't remember location or file name, but have a precise grasp on the date they last touched a file. It's downright weird when instructions for finding a file include "I can't tell you the file name, but go to this area, select all files, sort by date and look for last Friday."
I've only recently gotten into Pandora, but every time it's on I find myself noting some new artist I'd never heard before or not really paid attention to that I'd like to track down. It's serving as a fantastic recommendations tool. And yes, if I decide I like someone enough, I'll buy their stuff online because it really is easy, convenient, and reliable, and the price is acceptable.
I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I create BOTH for the joy of creating and for the hopes of a monetary reward. And often times when I have to choose between which of many creative things I could be doing, I'm at least in part swayed by which one might provide income. I say this as a writer rather than musician, though, which possibly changes my perspective - music and writing aren't really shared and enjoyed in the same ways.
One of our company employees wanted a new laptop, so he ran over his with his truck. He got a new laptop. At least that was the story I was told from the tech. The tech is a bit of a joker, so it might have been an accident and not intentional. But the laptop was U-shaped and pretty definitively run over, and I'm struggling to imagine a sane person who would put a laptop that close to a car wheel.
You're not the only one. I've been waiting for the Dawkins reply, too. I thought the video thing was something else, since they didn't do anything to make it sound like it was in response to questions. Furthermore, I read Slashdot because I want to *read* things. I never bother with video articles.
most good programmers have memorized pi out to at least 15+ decimal places.
This is the exact opposite of what I consider good programming. It's easily looked up and copy/pasted, if it's not built into the code already. If you need it, you can put it in once and refer to it globally. It's inexcusable to potentially insert an error here relying on memory and typing accuracy when a computerized reference will be 100% perfect.
That being said, I'd like to do this too. That way I can replay what I said to my wife to finally prove to her that what she thinks she heard is not what I said. Or so I can know once an for all if I'm nuts and my memory has gotten even worse than I thought.
I, too, wonder about this one. I'm convinced she's a less reliable interpreter of events than I am, and I'd love to either have proof so I can trust myself more, or be shown wrong so that I get over it and learn some humility. But likely we'd just be unhappy about it either way.
Gee, that's funny. What I remember, even without camera, is my father-in-law walking my wife down the aisle, pausing, and then offering her a handshake before turning and trying to me a kiss.
(Okay, okay, thankfully that was the rehearsal, not the real show. But I also have a different definition of perfection than you do, I think.)
Or wave your hands in front of the camera as a flag for a "note to self" moment. Can't tell you how many little things I've forgotten because I couldn't or didn't write them down. Knowing they were recorded could be handy.
Whee, I got replied to! I haven't read Diamond Age, but I do like Stephenson, so it's on my eventual reading list. Guess I've got more incentive to check it out now.
spammers use random generators and word lists - your experience is likely purely coincidental' (I call total BS on this since you would clearly be receiving all kinds of spam from the exact same sources at other emails on the domain
Sometimes this really is true, though. I had a customer accuse me of selling his custom address, but he'd picked a two-letter code as the custom part. I'm 99% sure it was just a lucky guess by a spammer. I've certainly also gotten batches of spam that were clearly a sequence of common names and short strings.
That's not to say all spam works that way, and I know plenty of companies do sell their lists.
Also, is the email address sufficiently non-obvious that spammers aren't just guessing it? I received one complaint from a user accusing me of selling his email to spammers. I investigated and found he'd used a two-letter username at his domain for the address, which I'm betting a spammer just guessed. When I used to have a catchall going I'd see a stream of spam come in for a@domain, adam@domain, alice@domain, b@domain, bill@domain... etc. Any address that's very short or a common name is likely to just be guessed at some point.
Do not track applies because you're visiting someone else's territory. There should already be a default inability to track your car based on the same logic that I'm not allowed to place a bug on your car and track you now. Companies should have to be given explicit permission to be able to do so. Opt-in rather than opt-out.
Yep. I've also simply just put some off with the intention of coming back at a later date. Most of them stay open for months afterward, so if you sign up you can still see the lectures and do many of the quizzes or assignments. It makes me look like a dropout, but I'd rather do that than not sign up and hope the next time the class comes around my schedule is better.
My participation also varies widely by course. Some I just want lectures, some I want to do everything. I don't really care about a certificate for any of them.
Conversely, the requirements of the course can vary a lot, and many don't give you a good sense ahead of time what the demands are. One class that I hoped would be in depth turned out to be a shallow treatment with a mere 30-40 minutes of lecture per week and minimal (or redundant) extra reading materials. Another that I thought might be a casual overview turned out to have 4-5 hours of lectures every week. A third course, dealing with literature, was kind enough to post the 8 books for the class a month ahead of time, but neglected to mention the syllabus only covered small parts of most of the books. At first I went into a panic trying to get reading done, then faced the inevitable and gave up halfway through, then the class started and I realized I'd wasted (for class purposes; interesting literature shouldn't be a waste) a bunch of time. I'd really like estimates ahead of time for what a class will take, and without those I have to get in to the course and then find out.
It's also rare to find any classes that pre-post materials so you can get ahead and work around life obstacles. That's fine in traditional college where schooling generally is your primary concern, but for online courses it's almost assuredly something you're squeezing in around other aspects of life. One sick kid or one business trip can set me back a week. I'd be happy to get ahead to avoid those things, but if I end up behind I'm more inclined to give up the struggle since I know I'm already losing points for missing deadlines.
I'm drifting offtopic here, but I think in general the college professors still tend to think about these classes as being a bit more like traditional classes, where attendance is often required, deadlines need to be firm to fit to the institution's semester schedules, students have paid for and in some sense *need* the class to graduate. Speaking for a moment strictly of free MOOC's (not online college courses like TFA), most of those things should go out the window. There's little reason not to let people start early and see lectures ahead of time, and the computer shouldn't care about when or how you do most of the homework. Peer assessments and final exams might still need to be on a schedule, but that's about it. And as for completing a course vs. dropping out - in every class I've taken I emphasized to the instructors in the course survey that being late and not doing all assignments shouldn't mean they think of me as a dropout. I'm just doing what I like with their free offering, and doubly emphasized I'm quite happy with what I'm getting for my level of participation, even if it's not what they'd expect from a traditional student.
Our utilities company is already using smartphones, GPS, and GIS apps to pinpoint underground cables and pipes with much greater accuracy than in the past, but a visual overlay from the glasses would be yet another improvement.
Personally, I just want a Terminator-style HUD that shows me targets and vital stats so I can pretend I'm a time-traveling, killing machine.
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If you called it Drop-Kick Starter, that'd sound really badass.
No offense taken. Just throwing out other perspectives. And a system that limits your choice like the Paperwhite would be a real pain, I agree.
I rarely or ever get a song stuck in my head as a reaction to hearing it. It's usually much later, and by that I mean a song I haven't heard in weeks or months before it pops in my head one day. Right upon waking up is most common, in fact, when I haven't heard anything at all for hours.
Now the songs that do get stuck I usually don't know that well, so I maybe have a chorus or a couple of lines and can't complete it, and I think that's possibly related to your theory it's about resolution. What I don't know is where it came from in the first place, if maybe my subconscious is just continually playing songs to me in the background, and they only come to the foreground when they get stuck. It's weird enough thinking I've got an invisible radio running in my head, I may have to go get my fillings checked.
The songs that get stuck in my head are ones I don't know well enough to finish.
You're being sarcastic, but 1) there are a whole lot of people who work this way because they don't really seem to like folder structure, and 2) a lot of search features actually seem to encourage people to work this way. I prefer nested folders myself (I do better remembering a path than, say, remembering the precise name of a file) but I know people who would rather search than organize. And there are *other* people, like my boss, who can't remember location or file name, but have a precise grasp on the date they last touched a file. It's downright weird when instructions for finding a file include "I can't tell you the file name, but go to this area, select all files, sort by date and look for last Friday."
YOLO.
Yes. You Obviously Like Owls.
I've only recently gotten into Pandora, but every time it's on I find myself noting some new artist I'd never heard before or not really paid attention to that I'd like to track down. It's serving as a fantastic recommendations tool. And yes, if I decide I like someone enough, I'll buy their stuff online because it really is easy, convenient, and reliable, and the price is acceptable.
Painters and musicians I can almost see in a service economy. What would you have the novel writers do?
I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I create BOTH for the joy of creating and for the hopes of a monetary reward. And often times when I have to choose between which of many creative things I could be doing, I'm at least in part swayed by which one might provide income. I say this as a writer rather than musician, though, which possibly changes my perspective - music and writing aren't really shared and enjoyed in the same ways.
One of our company employees wanted a new laptop, so he ran over his with his truck. He got a new laptop. At least that was the story I was told from the tech. The tech is a bit of a joker, so it might have been an accident and not intentional. But the laptop was U-shaped and pretty definitively run over, and I'm struggling to imagine a sane person who would put a laptop that close to a car wheel.
You're not the only one. I've been waiting for the Dawkins reply, too. I thought the video thing was something else, since they didn't do anything to make it sound like it was in response to questions. Furthermore, I read Slashdot because I want to *read* things. I never bother with video articles.
Who makes $1-2 billion per year as a salary on a regular basis?
most good programmers have memorized pi out to at least 15+ decimal places.
This is the exact opposite of what I consider good programming. It's easily looked up and copy/pasted, if it's not built into the code already. If you need it, you can put it in once and refer to it globally. It's inexcusable to potentially insert an error here relying on memory and typing accuracy when a computerized reference will be 100% perfect.
That being said, I'd like to do this too. That way I can replay what I said to my wife to finally prove to her that what she thinks she heard is not what I said. Or so I can know once an for all if I'm nuts and my memory has gotten even worse than I thought.
I, too, wonder about this one. I'm convinced she's a less reliable interpreter of events than I am, and I'd love to either have proof so I can trust myself more, or be shown wrong so that I get over it and learn some humility. But likely we'd just be unhappy about it either way.
Gee, that's funny. What I remember, even without camera, is my father-in-law walking my wife down the aisle, pausing, and then offering her a handshake before turning and trying to me a kiss.
(Okay, okay, thankfully that was the rehearsal, not the real show. But I also have a different definition of perfection than you do, I think.)
Or wave your hands in front of the camera as a flag for a "note to self" moment. Can't tell you how many little things I've forgotten because I couldn't or didn't write them down. Knowing they were recorded could be handy.
Whee, I got replied to! I haven't read Diamond Age, but I do like Stephenson, so it's on my eventual reading list. Guess I've got more incentive to check it out now.
spammers use random generators and word lists - your experience is likely purely coincidental' (I call total BS on this since you would clearly be receiving all kinds of spam from the exact same sources at other emails on the domain
Sometimes this really is true, though. I had a customer accuse me of selling his custom address, but he'd picked a two-letter code as the custom part. I'm 99% sure it was just a lucky guess by a spammer. I've certainly also gotten batches of spam that were clearly a sequence of common names and short strings.
That's not to say all spam works that way, and I know plenty of companies do sell their lists.
Also, is the email address sufficiently non-obvious that spammers aren't just guessing it? I received one complaint from a user accusing me of selling his email to spammers. I investigated and found he'd used a two-letter username at his domain for the address, which I'm betting a spammer just guessed. When I used to have a catchall going I'd see a stream of spam come in for a@domain, adam@domain, alice@domain, b@domain, bill@domain ... etc. Any address that's very short or a common name is likely to just be guessed at some point.
He he. First thing I thought when I saw this headline was, "Somebody ought to go and start a Society for the Public Domain" already!
Do not track applies because you're visiting someone else's territory. There should already be a default inability to track your car based on the same logic that I'm not allowed to place a bug on your car and track you now. Companies should have to be given explicit permission to be able to do so. Opt-in rather than opt-out.
Maybe throw in a "Pray I do not alter the deal further" just for fun?
Yep. I've also simply just put some off with the intention of coming back at a later date. Most of them stay open for months afterward, so if you sign up you can still see the lectures and do many of the quizzes or assignments. It makes me look like a dropout, but I'd rather do that than not sign up and hope the next time the class comes around my schedule is better.
My participation also varies widely by course. Some I just want lectures, some I want to do everything. I don't really care about a certificate for any of them.
Conversely, the requirements of the course can vary a lot, and many don't give you a good sense ahead of time what the demands are. One class that I hoped would be in depth turned out to be a shallow treatment with a mere 30-40 minutes of lecture per week and minimal (or redundant) extra reading materials. Another that I thought might be a casual overview turned out to have 4-5 hours of lectures every week. A third course, dealing with literature, was kind enough to post the 8 books for the class a month ahead of time, but neglected to mention the syllabus only covered small parts of most of the books. At first I went into a panic trying to get reading done, then faced the inevitable and gave up halfway through, then the class started and I realized I'd wasted (for class purposes; interesting literature shouldn't be a waste) a bunch of time. I'd really like estimates ahead of time for what a class will take, and without those I have to get in to the course and then find out.
It's also rare to find any classes that pre-post materials so you can get ahead and work around life obstacles. That's fine in traditional college where schooling generally is your primary concern, but for online courses it's almost assuredly something you're squeezing in around other aspects of life. One sick kid or one business trip can set me back a week. I'd be happy to get ahead to avoid those things, but if I end up behind I'm more inclined to give up the struggle since I know I'm already losing points for missing deadlines.
I'm drifting offtopic here, but I think in general the college professors still tend to think about these classes as being a bit more like traditional classes, where attendance is often required, deadlines need to be firm to fit to the institution's semester schedules, students have paid for and in some sense *need* the class to graduate. Speaking for a moment strictly of free MOOC's (not online college courses like TFA), most of those things should go out the window. There's little reason not to let people start early and see lectures ahead of time, and the computer shouldn't care about when or how you do most of the homework. Peer assessments and final exams might still need to be on a schedule, but that's about it. And as for completing a course vs. dropping out - in every class I've taken I emphasized to the instructors in the course survey that being late and not doing all assignments shouldn't mean they think of me as a dropout. I'm just doing what I like with their free offering, and doubly emphasized I'm quite happy with what I'm getting for my level of participation, even if it's not what they'd expect from a traditional student.
Our utilities company is already using smartphones, GPS, and GIS apps to pinpoint underground cables and pipes with much greater accuracy than in the past, but a visual overlay from the glasses would be yet another improvement.
Personally, I just want a Terminator-style HUD that shows me targets and vital stats so I can pretend I'm a time-traveling, killing machine.
They could call it Black Adder, which involves both a snake and a British comedy. Problem solved!