Coke got sensitive classified military information that their delivery vehicle that was three hours late was sitting in the parking lot of a local bar all that time.
(The corollary is that the driver they fired was a son of a local party official. Bad idea.)
I never tried The Ramones for that, but I'm sure it would have worked well.
I found that cranking up Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor through a pair of 120 watt tube amps into some fairly efficient speakers was highly effective retaliation.
I'd worked at a loudspeaker manufacturer as a teen. I'd picked up some pretty impressive gear, and rarely lost a stereo war.:)
Rush's "Camera Eye" is also a great "neighbor be good" tune at high volume.
White noise (I actually prefer pink noise with a rolloff at higher frequencies) works well for me. Several people have posted links to mp3s of rain, surf and such.
I personally found that Tangerine Dream, Kitaro, and the like were quite good for studying and covering distractions, but it may vary for you or still be too distracting.
Spider Goat, Spider Goat, makes the thread for your spider coat! Spins cloth with eight legged speed, Any color, any weave. Take note, Here comes the Spider Goat!
Rant mode on: I work on laboratory equipment for a university. I spend a lot of my time and frustration on the phone with the companies who make scientific gear. Breaking out of canned menus and hold only works sometimes and often just results in voicemail sans returned calls or email.
Yes, for the 14th time this call, I did know that you have a web site.
If the answer I needed was on the web site, I would have gotten it there.
If I wanted to order a new machine, I would've dialed sales directly. You make that easy.
If my user wanted to drop N thousand dollars to have your tech come out three times again to fix a simple problem, they wouldn't have come to me out of frustration
I want tech support so I can ask a technical question that YOU (the company) removed the manual that had the answer from your web site.
And when we drop half a million on a machine, I expect better than some lame voice menu system with only a very few highly overworked tech support types on the other end.
(There. I feel better. But only till I get in another phone runaround with the instrument makers. Don't let me get started about them dropping support and parts for instruments after as short a time as possible.)
In the late eighties, I (like many other undergrads) were required to "volunteer" to be the subjects of psych and sociology studies when we were in intro psychology classes.
I talked a good bit with a particular political science prof whose specialty was survey research and the measurement of public opinion. I noted that no reasonable researcher would try to extrapolate such a biased sample to be representative of the world population. He pretty much agreed and lamented the situation.
Yet, that was exactly what was being done. Ignoring the myriad flaws in the research I could see with just the viewpoint of participating, none of the people doing the studies that I talked to saw any reason to control for the completely unrepresentative sample.
They were quite happy to make predictions equally about inner city youth, Appalachian rural elderly and middle aged residents of The Hamptons all from studies that were exclusively late teen early twenties college students.
I was appalled that this "goop" might end up being used as the basis for social policy decisions.
You mean by looking at twenty years of newspaper articles they were able to predict that there will be a large increase in the number of cases of influenza during November 2013 to March 2014 compared to the preceding 5 months?
Or, when disaster causes infrastructure to break down and crowds refugees into unsanitary temporary housing there's a high likelyhood of more cholera breaking out than at other times?
Gee. Color me impressed.
How is this greatly different than many different types of analysts have been doing for decades via headline counts in world newspapers and the like? (See John Naisbitt of Megatrends fame, for example. And he certainly wasn't the first.)
The math used to find the probabilities may be a bit better, and it may be more automated, but it's not particularly new.
"This article is pure flamebait. Slashdot should be better than this"
It's taken a steep dive in quality since the new overlords took over.
The idea of gun manufacturers being worried about image can play into the hands of those currently blatting about violent games having an effect in the real world.
I wouldn't be surprised if this gets linked to with the line accompanying "Gun manufacturers pay money to video games, thus proving they influence people."
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It's obvious you're just a shill for the the American running dog government posting on behalf of their lackey, Apple. [need to post at 1:45 pm]
So, you're saying that ACs aren't all underpaid bored guys wearing military uniforms that troll slashdot from an office on the outskirts of Shanghai?
Coke got sensitive classified military information that their delivery vehicle that was three hours late was sitting in the parking lot of a local bar all that time.
(The corollary is that the driver they fired was a son of a local party official. Bad idea.)
I never tried The Ramones for that, but I'm sure it would have worked well.
I found that cranking up Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor through a pair of 120 watt tube amps into some fairly efficient speakers was highly effective retaliation.
I'd worked at a loudspeaker manufacturer as a teen. I'd picked up some pretty impressive gear, and rarely lost a stereo war. :)
Rush's "Camera Eye" is also a great "neighbor be good" tune at high volume.
I know the problem you describe well.
White noise (I actually prefer pink noise with a rolloff at higher frequencies) works well for me. Several people have posted links to mp3s of rain, surf and such.
I personally found that Tangerine Dream, Kitaro, and the like were quite good for studying and covering distractions, but it may vary for you or still be too distracting.
Thank heaven it's not the Frivolous and Silly Fraud Office.
I exercise by lifting coffee cups.
Spider Goat, Spider Goat,
makes the thread for your spider coat!
Spins cloth with eight legged speed,
Any color, any weave.
Take note,
Here comes the Spider Goat!
"I've been working from home for the past 3 years."
So, how do you work from home as a Walmart greeter?
"I suffer in the office so you have to as well"
But it's so much more satisfying than roasting bugs under a magnifying glass, though it scratches the same neurotic itch.
Rant mode on: I work on laboratory equipment for a university. I spend a lot of my time and frustration on the phone with the companies who make scientific gear. Breaking out of canned menus and hold only works sometimes and often just results in voicemail sans returned calls or email.
Yes, for the 14th time this call, I did know that you have a web site.
If the answer I needed was on the web site, I would have gotten it there.
If I wanted to order a new machine, I would've dialed sales directly. You make that easy.
If my user wanted to drop N thousand dollars to have your tech come out three times again to fix a simple problem, they wouldn't have come to me out of frustration
I want tech support so I can ask a technical question that YOU (the company) removed the manual that had the answer from your web site.
And when we drop half a million on a machine, I expect better than some lame voice menu system with only a very few highly overworked tech support types on the other end.
(There. I feel better. But only till I get in another phone runaround with the instrument makers. Don't let me get started about them dropping support and parts for instruments after as short a time as possible.)
Yeah, I can see where that could be useful:
Apple: Doing our best to remind you it's OUR gadget, not yours.
In the late eighties, I (like many other undergrads) were required to "volunteer" to be the subjects of psych and sociology studies when we were in intro psychology classes.
I talked a good bit with a particular political science prof whose specialty was survey research and the measurement of public opinion. I noted that no reasonable researcher would try to extrapolate such a biased sample to be representative of the world population. He pretty much agreed and lamented the situation.
Yet, that was exactly what was being done. Ignoring the myriad flaws in the research I could see with just the viewpoint of participating, none of the people doing the studies that I talked to saw any reason to control for the completely unrepresentative sample.
They were quite happy to make predictions equally about inner city youth, Appalachian rural elderly and middle aged residents of The Hamptons all from studies that were exclusively late teen early twenties college students.
I was appalled that this "goop" might end up being used as the basis for social policy decisions.
"Randian philosophy to pick the best brain"
I could kinda see James Randi coming to that same choice.
"Correlation does not equal causation."
It may be true, but a surprising result requires equally compelling proof.
There may well be something very different that just happens to track in time with the bag ban.
That should have been "in the same period" rather than "in one year". (The mind and writing ability is the first thing to go. :P)
And it's Greenpeace that's the source?
Isn't this a little like the US complaining that Turkmenistan has upped its military spending?
Greenpeace does far more than that in one year, and it's just one group.
Exactly. No one would believe the boring truth when the other option is a juicy conspiracy theory.
I make people think I'm another harmless fool on the internet.
By pretty much being another harmless fool on the internet.
Remember. Sincerity is the key to everything.
Once you can fake that, the rest is easy.
Hello...?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
"Would that be counted as "groundbreaking" ??"
They do groundbreaking research over at the Caterpillar's Earth Mechanics lab in Mossville every day.
You mean by looking at twenty years of newspaper articles they were able to predict that there will be a large increase in the number of cases of influenza during November 2013 to March 2014 compared to the preceding 5 months?
Or, when disaster causes infrastructure to break down and crowds refugees into unsanitary temporary housing there's a high likelyhood of more cholera breaking out than at other times?
Gee. Color me impressed.
How is this greatly different than many different types of analysts have been doing for decades via headline counts in world newspapers and the like? (See John Naisbitt of Megatrends fame, for example. And he certainly wasn't the first.)
The math used to find the probabilities may be a bit better, and it may be more automated, but it's not particularly new.
"This article is pure flamebait. Slashdot should be better than this"
It's taken a steep dive in quality since the new overlords took over.
The idea of gun manufacturers being worried about image can play into the hands of those currently blatting about violent games having an effect in the real world.
I wouldn't be surprised if this gets linked to with the line accompanying "Gun manufacturers pay money to video games, thus proving they influence people."
"Well, this Californian was in Chicago last week and it was 12F. So, that's why."
Yeah, that can get old even for us Illinoisans.
But, on the other hand, it does help persuade the Californians to go back home after visiting. ;)