Even more surprising is that Asus has a sloppy manufacturing process. Well... not terribly. I bought a faulty motherboard from them once, but, that aside, their products really are top-notch.
You never told me what my irrational beliefs were. Rather, you did, but you just made them up.
Which irrational beliefs do you think that I hold on to?
It doesn't really matter. You can go off and feel that you've won. I already told you that. You're just going to keep harping at this pointless argument. All of that aside, I couldn't really care less what you think of me, since you have no impact on my life whatsoever. Also, I don't have a very high opinion of your intelligence, and, as such, don't believe that anything you say really reflects "fact." The fact that you become so riled up upon being asked for a citation exposes that you, in essence, are unwilling to accept any question of your authority on any topic. Unwillingess to be questioned in this matter, however, means that you are not used to actually having to speak with authority. Sure, you might manage a few people, you might even be in a position of power, but you're not used to having to back any of your claims with actual "fact." As such, your word can be accepted as no more than narcissistic blather.
Again, you can go off and feel that you've won. Please stop making this an insult-fest. If you are so gifted intellectually, then surely you can see that when you entered into this discussion, you sought nothing more than to sling some insults around and call me an idiot. This isn't how an intellectual would approach this conversation, nonetheless, this is how you approached it.
Also, as for my ignoring anything that goes counter to my beliefs. Every time I find a front on which to throw a fact at you, you just ignore that fact, or drop that front. I continue arguing the matter, but you censor anything out of thought that goes against your beliefes. It would appear, my foe, that you are, in fact, the republitard. I, on the other hand, have evaluated every one of your statements, and read your article, and everything. The same obviously can't be said for you, as, had you actually read one of the links I showed you, you would see that it was a prior discussion that you had entered to, in which nobody had cared of your "republitard" meme. Not even a slap on the back. Perhaps because they see it as a purile insult, the sort that would not grant them any intellectual endorsement.
It would have cost him thousands of dollars to register too. Of all the selfish things. He could have just paid obscene amounts of money to give up his anonymity. It's the cool thing to do you know.
My bet is that the TaggedForLife guy is actually part of a covert media campaign designed to socially prepare citizens to accept their RFID chips...
Oh boy! I can blog about how excited I am to inject myself with a microchip! I have no accessories designed to use this equipment, it's like owning a PS-3 a month early, but no games! Weeeeee!!! Holy keyless entry Batman! I can use this to have my car automatically unlock itself when I walk near, instead of fumbling around for a key fob!
Do you have any privacy concerns about having a chip that beacons your identification out and has no means of controlling this beaconing Slashdot? What do you think might happen that's negative? Aside from having your every move tracked, that is! Silly Slashdotters, they're only going to use RFID to track the bad people. No, not crooks hoping to murder you, the government! Where would crooks get an RFID reader anyway, sillypants?
Ta ta! I need to go install an RFID reader in my car!
That's the primary motivation for this, but it's really hard to sell people on the idea of massive invasions of their privacy, so openning your car door and buying drinks at bars sounds better.
The bottom line, the study suggests, is that little has changed in terms of income's general influence on individual voting patterns: in every presidential election since 1952, the richer a voter is, the more likely that voter is to vote Republican, regardless of ethnicity, sex, education or age.
I should clarify, just in case you do choose to actually read the link rather than falling back on your tired insult (which isn't that clever). It doesn't directly address education, it does address wealth. These aren't really intrinsically related, but then, neither is ownership of a passport.
One thing is for sure though, it does debunk a the myth regarding incomes. Another thing is for sure, it's actually written by authoritative sources, who apparently felt that financial background was a more important contributor to this matter.
I actually never said that I'm not convinced that educated people are not more liberal. I asked you to provide a citation. Again, that's what we do in academia. That's what's expected if you're going to cite statistics. I've provided a citation from an academic instition, written by a professor, that asserts that your statistic is a statistical myth. That the largest contributor to the mix is your fiduciary background.
You just never provided a citation. If you did, then you could cut and paste the link for me in your next message.
I realize that you need to feel that you've won this argument. I realize that you think that simply repeating your stupid term, calling me stupid, and ignoring all of my arguments will help you to win. It won't. It won't make you look smart.
You can't even state what facts you think that I cling to. You just say that I cling to them and that I'm a republitard.
But how about this. I'll just say you won. You can feel special then.
Pandora's methodolgy seems to leave something to be desired in my opinion. I've only ever glossed over their projects description, but it reads something along the lines of "we tagged a bunch of songs based on bits that we thought were important, and then when you say you like or hate music, we adjust the selection a bit, as it relates to these bits."
That's all fine and good, but they never really describe what the algorithm is. What would probably yield more interesting results is a firm KNN implementation, where your songs are drawn from the K nearest neighbors likes and dislikes. Some sort of automatic feature selection could be used to determine maximum overlap. It might be possible that these features vary somewhat. It would be an interesting research topic, but I'm not really under the impression that Pandora treats this as a serious machine learning question. This is a domain that obviously is a good fit, and some of the work could yield an interesting paper or two.
The biggest barriers that I see, honestly, to that are that the effort to payout ratio is high on both ends of the axis. A company trying to do this would have a high initial investment in finding skilled personnel to write the software and draft the experiments and feature sets (probably PhDs), and a PhD looking to write a paper on this would have to put in an extremely high amount of effort in order to get data to support any given hypothesis, and would have to find a willing audience to go through all of those growth phases, all of this while fixing for growth in the popularity of the service and such.
Well, chrisd has replied saying that they'er trying to come up with a solution. To back that, they can tell what your credentials are a bit when you're in college, and a lot of the computer science majors are used to cranking out code fairly quickly with minimal supervision.
I think that the problems Google in developing a high school event involve things like, finding who has expertise, figuring out appropriate levels of oversight, if more oversight is needed, finding people willing to provide that guidance. Things like this.
I saw NitsujTPU typing to you. I snuck up behind him and snapped his neck!
Viva la resistance!! We'll kill all over those republitards tonight!! I'm off to censor a conservative broadcast that NitsujTPU was going to make on his conservative radio talkshow.
We'll silence all points of view that don't agree with ours in any way that we can... And I mean any way! (Since I don't believe in guns, I'm just going to bomb everyone. LOLOLOL!!!)
Anyway, From each according to his means, to each according to his needs! That's what I say, but not in a Socialist way!
Seriously, you sent me one link the whole time. That one link doesn't address the other 6 questions that I asked in the GGGP.
Also, seriously, you're just picking on the things that you've made up. You're wasting my time. You're an idiot.
Want me to insult you too?
Ok, you're a stupid jackass liberaltard. Look, I made up a new term. It fits you perfectly. A liberaltard is someone who needs to make things up in order to win arguments. Most are in their 30's, but still live with their mothers.
Ahh. Why don't you tell me how to pick which tracks I'd like to listen to on Last.FM, thereby circumventing the restrictions that they put on the service (IE, something that they didn't offer as part of the service, but you "worked around?")
I'm not really following that line of logic. I'll agree that the RIAA is freaked over a change in their business model, but their job is promoting bands, mastering recordings, and vending them. How exactly does selling their stuff online through Napster demonstrate their irrelevance? Do you think that teeny boppers aren't going to buy Brittney through this channel?
Perhaps "killjoe" is just a popular nickname, but it seems that your primary interests are FPS's, ranting incoherently, bandying your stupid term, and that you're not even American, you're Canadian.
Also, trust me, I'm at a very good school, not that that matters
Also, while we're at it, the world you're looking for is zealously, not zealotly, though, it's a nice attempt at correct diction.
You still dropped all of my questions, because you can't provide a proper response, because you know that you are wrong. If you are so intelligent, then answer the questions and stop with your new rhetorical flaw, "losing what shreds of coherency you started with."
It's not at all just like Pandora or Last.FM. You get to pick which tracks you listen to. You can't do this on Last.FM. You get only 5 shots but, well, they do have to make money somehow.
I have important things to do. You apparently have nothing important to do.
I am not a Republican.
I read. I don't watch Fox News... I don't even have television (I own the device, but have no cable, and there is no antenna signal here because of the geography). I get all of my news from newspapers (New York Times and campus papers). My friends come from a fairly diverse, multinational background.
As for education, I am pursuing my PhD.
As for my political orientation. I'm not a republican.
Your continued insistance that I am is only a sign that you want to win. You want, finally, to win an argument and feel smart. Simply put, you need to stop. You really need to stop. You're pissing me off. You're not replying to my posts. You can't answer a simple question. You can't reply to a single response, and you can't post that second URL. Every time I catch you in something, you just drop that from the conversation. Which is why all you have left is your stupid "republitard "word, something that an elementary school student could have contrived, which is indicative of your education and the fact that you're trying to emulate a talk radio host.
The fact that you can't enter into mature, intelligent discourse is indicative of the fact that you're just unwilling to accept that you've lost.
So, answer me these, if you're so intelligent:
1) How was my use of communist all that offensive? How did I indicate that this usage was because it is a charged word? 2) How was your usage of "genocide" like mine? 3) What are those two URLS that you posted further up? 4) What is my political orientation? 5) Why do you feel that using "retard" as an insult is appropriate behavior, when mentally retarded people cannot help their situation? Do you feel that this is appropriately sensitive? 6) What is your level of education?
and, as a bonus 7) Why can't you answer these questions and enter into mature discourse.
Failure to answer these questions will have you permanently established as a complete moron who is incapable of mature discourse.
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Even more surprising is that Asus has a sloppy manufacturing process. Well... not terribly. I bought a faulty motherboard from them once, but, that aside, their products really are top-notch.
Thanks. I get that a lot. I guess that I'm just well-liked.
You never told me what my irrational beliefs were. Rather, you did, but you just made them up.
Which irrational beliefs do you think that I hold on to?
It doesn't really matter. You can go off and feel that you've won. I already told you that. You're just going to keep harping at this pointless argument. All of that aside, I couldn't really care less what you think of me, since you have no impact on my life whatsoever. Also, I don't have a very high opinion of your intelligence, and, as such, don't believe that anything you say really reflects "fact." The fact that you become so riled up upon being asked for a citation exposes that you, in essence, are unwilling to accept any question of your authority on any topic. Unwillingess to be questioned in this matter, however, means that you are not used to actually having to speak with authority. Sure, you might manage a few people, you might even be in a position of power, but you're not used to having to back any of your claims with actual "fact." As such, your word can be accepted as no more than narcissistic blather.
Again, you can go off and feel that you've won. Please stop making this an insult-fest. If you are so gifted intellectually, then surely you can see that when you entered into this discussion, you sought nothing more than to sling some insults around and call me an idiot. This isn't how an intellectual would approach this conversation, nonetheless, this is how you approached it.
Also, as for my ignoring anything that goes counter to my beliefs. Every time I find a front on which to throw a fact at you, you just ignore that fact, or drop that front. I continue arguing the matter, but you censor anything out of thought that goes against your beliefes. It would appear, my foe, that you are, in fact, the republitard. I, on the other hand, have evaluated every one of your statements, and read your article, and everything. The same obviously can't be said for you, as, had you actually read one of the links I showed you, you would see that it was a prior discussion that you had entered to, in which nobody had cared of your "republitard" meme. Not even a slap on the back. Perhaps because they see it as a purile insult, the sort that would not grant them any intellectual endorsement.
In short, you're not too bright.
It would have cost him thousands of dollars to register too. Of all the selfish things. He could have just paid obscene amounts of money to give up his anonymity. It's the cool thing to do you know.
My bet is that the TaggedForLife guy is actually part of a covert media campaign designed to socially prepare citizens to accept their RFID chips...
Oh boy! I can blog about how excited I am to inject myself with a microchip! I have no accessories designed to use this equipment, it's like owning a PS-3 a month early, but no games! Weeeeee!!! Holy keyless entry Batman! I can use this to have my car automatically unlock itself when I walk near, instead of fumbling around for a key fob!
Do you have any privacy concerns about having a chip that beacons your identification out and has no means of controlling this beaconing Slashdot? What do you think might happen that's negative? Aside from having your every move tracked, that is! Silly Slashdotters, they're only going to use RFID to track the bad people. No, not crooks hoping to murder you, the government! Where would crooks get an RFID reader anyway, sillypants?
Ta ta! I need to go install an RFID reader in my car!
That's the primary motivation for this, but it's really hard to sell people on the idea of massive invasions of their privacy, so openning your car door and buying drinks at bars sounds better.
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The bottom line, the study suggests, is that little has changed in terms of income's general influence on individual voting patterns: in every presidential election since 1952, the richer a voter is, the more likely that voter is to vote Republican, regardless of ethnicity, sex, education or age.
I guess.
Perhaps you need to brush up on yours...
I just wanted you to post the link. Thanks.
Actually, I was never all that convinced of it. Are you still convinced of all of the junk that you just made up about me?
I should clarify, just in case you do choose to actually read the link rather than falling back on your tired insult (which isn't that clever). It doesn't directly address education, it does address wealth. These aren't really intrinsically related, but then, neither is ownership of a passport.
:-D
One thing is for sure though, it does debunk a the myth regarding incomes. Another thing is for sure, it's actually written by authoritative sources, who apparently felt that financial background was a more important contributor to this matter.
Anyway, good luck with your link
I actually never said that I'm not convinced that educated people are not more liberal. I asked you to provide a citation. Again, that's what we do in academia. That's what's expected if you're going to cite statistics. I've provided a citation from an academic instition, written by a professor, that asserts that your statistic is a statistical myth. That the largest contributor to the mix is your fiduciary background.
You just never provided a citation. If you did, then you could cut and paste the link for me in your next message.
I realize that you need to feel that you've won this argument. I realize that you think that simply repeating your stupid term, calling me stupid, and ignoring all of my arguments will help you to win. It won't. It won't make you look smart.
You can't even state what facts you think that I cling to. You just say that I cling to them and that I'm a republitard.
But how about this. I'll just say you won. You can feel special then.
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Where's your link about democrats and education?
And, why are you picking on me (and looking like an idiot... it's not working)? Again, I've done none of the things that you seem to claim.
Your cool little term seemed to be a hit with everyone here:
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Liberltard, duhhhh. Hahahahaha!
killjoe, you're so smart. How can I be like you?
Have you learned how to answer a question yet? What a liberaltard!
Stop wasting my time.
Yes, but you never posted the link that you claim to have.
Also, I never called democrats communists.
You just decided that I have.
So, anyway, go away until you can speak like an adult.
Pandora's methodolgy seems to leave something to be desired in my opinion. I've only ever glossed over their projects description, but it reads something along the lines of "we tagged a bunch of songs based on bits that we thought were important, and then when you say you like or hate music, we adjust the selection a bit, as it relates to these bits."
That's all fine and good, but they never really describe what the algorithm is. What would probably yield more interesting results is a firm KNN implementation, where your songs are drawn from the K nearest neighbors likes and dislikes. Some sort of automatic feature selection could be used to determine maximum overlap. It might be possible that these features vary somewhat. It would be an interesting research topic, but I'm not really under the impression that Pandora treats this as a serious machine learning question. This is a domain that obviously is a good fit, and some of the work could yield an interesting paper or two.
The biggest barriers that I see, honestly, to that are that the effort to payout ratio is high on both ends of the axis. A company trying to do this would have a high initial investment in finding skilled personnel to write the software and draft the experiments and feature sets (probably PhDs), and a PhD looking to write a paper on this would have to put in an extremely high amount of effort in order to get data to support any given hypothesis, and would have to find a willing audience to go through all of those growth phases, all of this while fixing for growth in the popularity of the service and such.
Unfortunate.
Well, chrisd has replied saying that they'er trying to come up with a solution. To back that, they can tell what your credentials are a bit when you're in college, and a lot of the computer science majors are used to cranking out code fairly quickly with minimal supervision.
I think that the problems Google in developing a high school event involve things like, finding who has expertise, figuring out appropriate levels of oversight, if more oversight is needed, finding people willing to provide that guidance. Things like this.
Perhaps. I think that they'll form alliances with the channels of distribution and we'll have status quo.
http://www.xfire.com/profile/killjoe
killjoe!! We've wonz0red!!! LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
I saw NitsujTPU typing to you. I snuck up behind him and snapped his neck!
Viva la resistance!! We'll kill all over those republitards tonight!! I'm off to censor a conservative broadcast that NitsujTPU was going to make on his conservative radio talkshow.
We'll silence all points of view that don't agree with ours in any way that we can... And I mean any way! (Since I don't believe in guns, I'm just going to bomb everyone. LOLOLOL!!!)
Anyway, From each according to his means, to each according to his needs! That's what I say, but not in a Socialist way!
Why are you trolling like this?
Seriously, you sent me one link the whole time. That one link doesn't address the other 6 questions that I asked in the GGGP.
Also, seriously, you're just picking on the things that you've made up. You're wasting my time. You're an idiot.
Want me to insult you too?
Ok, you're a stupid jackass liberaltard. Look, I made up a new term. It fits you perfectly. A liberaltard is someone who needs to make things up in order to win arguments. Most are in their 30's, but still live with their mothers.
Ahh. Why don't you tell me how to pick which tracks I'd like to listen to on Last.FM, thereby circumventing the restrictions that they put on the service (IE, something that they didn't offer as part of the service, but you "worked around?")
I'm not really following that line of logic. I'll agree that the RIAA is freaked over a change in their business model, but their job is promoting bands, mastering recordings, and vending them. How exactly does selling their stuff online through Napster demonstrate their irrelevance? Do you think that teeny boppers aren't going to buy Brittney through this channel?
I did a quick google search on your nickname.
Perhaps "killjoe" is just a popular nickname, but it seems that your primary interests are FPS's, ranting incoherently, bandying your stupid term, and that you're not even American, you're Canadian.
Also, trust me, I'm at a very good school, not that that matters
Also, while we're at it, the world you're looking for is zealously, not zealotly, though, it's a nice attempt at correct diction.
You still dropped all of my questions, because you can't provide a proper response, because you know that you are wrong. If you are so intelligent, then answer the questions and stop with your new rhetorical flaw, "losing what shreds of coherency you started with."
It's not at all just like Pandora or Last.FM. You get to pick which tracks you listen to. You can't do this on Last.FM. You get only 5 shots but, well, they do have to make money somehow.
You keep repeating yourself.
I have important things to do. You apparently have nothing important to do.
I am not a Republican.
I read. I don't watch Fox News... I don't even have television (I own the device, but have no cable, and there is no antenna signal here because of the geography). I get all of my news from newspapers (New York Times and campus papers). My friends come from a fairly diverse, multinational background.
As for education, I am pursuing my PhD.
As for my political orientation. I'm not a republican.
Your continued insistance that I am is only a sign that you want to win. You want, finally, to win an argument and feel smart. Simply put, you need to stop. You really need to stop. You're pissing me off. You're not replying to my posts. You can't answer a simple question. You can't reply to a single response, and you can't post that second URL. Every time I catch you in something, you just drop that from the conversation. Which is why all you have left is your stupid "republitard "word, something that an elementary school student could have contrived, which is indicative of your education and the fact that you're trying to emulate a talk radio host.
The fact that you can't enter into mature, intelligent discourse is indicative of the fact that you're just unwilling to accept that you've lost.
So, answer me these, if you're so intelligent:
1) How was my use of communist all that offensive? How did I indicate that this usage was because it is a charged word?
2) How was your usage of "genocide" like mine?
3) What are those two URLS that you posted further up?
4) What is my political orientation?
5) Why do you feel that using "retard" as an insult is appropriate behavior, when mentally retarded people cannot help their situation? Do you feel that this is appropriately sensitive?
6) What is your level of education?
and, as a bonus
7) Why can't you answer these questions and enter into mature discourse.
Failure to answer these questions will have you permanently established as a complete moron who is incapable of mature discourse.