it'd be nice if Google posted the raw data so bored people could do some number crunching and maybe come up with some quantitative observations about internet trends. Maybe they do? I dunno. I'm not bored enough to find out.
And you, sir, are correct! It's also a joke about people taking life far too seriously when we're all actually just conduits for energy transfer and vehicles for the proliferation of entropy.
It's pseudo-diurnal oscilation. In a time series graph of most natural phenomena you see it. "Day time" behavior differs from "nigh time" behavior, that's all. If it really is about 52 peaks per year, then i would say the "Day time" of google is the weekend and the "night time" is the work week. Of course, to be absoultely sure you'd have to see the units on the x axis.
You point? If people pay 2.50 for a single song, they're morons...and I don't think most people will actually pay that much for a single song. What this does is it provides an incentive for buying less popular music. I don't see that as a bad thing, and if you don't like it you can buy your music someplace else. Itunes is not the only online music store that sells popular music. It just happens to be the crappiest.
This is a thinly veil attempt to drive people to search out "better", less popular music. As more people download a new pop song, its price increases, and people will be (hopefully) less willing to pay the inflated price and move onto another, less expensive, song/artist. This will give independent artists more exposure on itunes, and give the fans of their music a bit of a price break. Since most of the music I like isn't even on itunes, i don't really give a crap. I think this *Could* lead to more diversity in what's bought, though. Could lead to interesting results.
Er...No. I use the best operating system for my platform that suits my needs. Being poor and not owning a Mac, I use linux. When I had a Mac, when i wasn't quite so poor, I bought the operating system happily. I even bought upgrades. Why? Because it was the best for the platform I was on and it suited my needs perfectly. That said, I would happily pay for non-DRMed digital video content if it were available, much like how i currently happily pay for non-DRMed digital music from independent bands I like. Until then, i'll get it however I can.
Why is it amazing that it runs on cold fusion and fusebox? It's slow and buggy as hell. And...fusebox is made to be used with cold fusion...there's nothing innovative there.
I have no idea where your free market comment came from...i never said myspace was a free market. I said it's basically used as a marketing tool for people and products. And yeah, it is like AOL, and it's becoming more like it as it matures. User-created content is being replaced by corporate-stamped content from Fox. There are myspace pages for fox shows, fox-signed bands, who knows maybe there will soon be a fox news myspace page. Anyway...your comments really added nothing to this discussion. And your use of "LOLz" made me want to gouge out my eyeballs.
Wow. That's the most inaccurate picture of myspace i've ever seen. Myspace is not a beautiful anarchist e-topia. No, fuck that. It's a place where people can artificially inflate their egos, pretend to be things they're not to increase popularity (since the capital on myspace is your friend count, and nothing more), and places extreme emphasis on the superficial. No, it's not an anarchist e-topic. It's just like everyday life in the modern world. Even more, it's a centralized means for Fox to make a shit load in ad revenew. I'm always sure i've got privoxy fired up when i go on myspace.
It's basically one giant rumor mill. There is no natural judicial system as you describe. The majority of messages i see posted on bulletins (the way to disseminate information to all your friends simply) are chain letters.
You mention your brother's band and how myspace is a huge non-corporate marketing aparatus. It's definitely the best thing around for indie bands, and it has definitely helped a lot of local bands i see at bars...but if you look at the featured artist on their front page, you'll only see ones that are ones signed to fox-owned labels. So, while it does have extreme potential for small-band marketing, it's also a huge corporate marketing force for shitty, overrated music. Before fox bought myspace, pretty much only independent bands were featured artists.
No, myspace is not your anarchist utopia. It's just another way to make business as usual hip for us mindless youngins. That said, i've "hooked up" with quite a few attractive ladies from myspace. So, it does have legitimate use.
Linux won't turn into that, because linux is not an operating system. There will be distributions that will turn into that, like Fedora, SuSE and Mandrake already have, but since you can build a kernel yourself and compile an entire system from the ground up...again...yourself, it will not turn into huge bloatware from an OS standpoint.
Using the Artist will most likely get you going down the wrong path.
You're telling me. I put in "misfits" and got all kinds of artsy techno crap. Though i did find a hilarious midi-ish version of skulls...which i believe is because they couldn't get the rights to play that song...
Well, you know, the actual FACT of it being cool or not has nothing to do with the fact that it might make someone feel cooler by doing it. For example, skinny white guys in baggy clothes. They look like fucking morons trying to be all gangster gangster and whatnot, but they THINK and FEEL cooler because of it. I want to shoot them in the head along with slashdot users who use ^H^H^H^H to pretend they're on some arcane unix terminal browsing slashdot with a telnet client, when they're probably actually at their hip student intern job on some windows 2k/XP box debugging in-house.NET apps.
Eh, that's a closed minded retort. Introverts will still inform people that they're superior, just in a passive-agressive way. You'll almost never see an introvert go toe to toe with someone over superiority, but you better fuckin' believe that after an introvery deals with someone they feel superior to, they'll inform their friends, collegues, and those they feel close to of their superiority. And, yeah, that's still arrogance.
so does the whole tired ^H^H^H thing make you feel cool? More of a geek than you actually are? I'm kind of sick of seeing it used...usually by people who don't even know what it's all about.
Er...i think what's more apparent is YOUR stupidity. He wasn't saying the optimizations in GTK and Gnome is what was slowing Fedora's release cycle down. He way saying that BECAUSE of things slowing the release cycle down (like those you listed) Fedora users will have to wait until the next release to get all the nice things that are now going into GTK and Gnome. Unless they want to install "unstable" stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft Bob and Clippy.
it'd be nice if Google posted the raw data so bored people could do some number crunching and maybe come up with some quantitative observations about internet trends. Maybe they do? I dunno. I'm not bored enough to find out.
And you, sir, are correct! It's also a joke about people taking life far too seriously when we're all actually just conduits for energy transfer and vehicles for the proliferation of entropy.
I blame it on Reagan.
er, reverse day time and night time. Daytime is the work week, night time is the weekend.
It's pseudo-diurnal oscilation. In a time series graph of most natural phenomena you see it. "Day time" behavior differs from "nigh time" behavior, that's all. If it really is about 52 peaks per year, then i would say the "Day time" of google is the weekend and the "night time" is the work week. Of course, to be absoultely sure you'd have to see the units on the x axis.
I'd say a more noble calling than motherhood is running an abortion clinic.
Regression is usually the first step to creating a model. It's where you analyze trends and discover variables.
Interestingly enough I just got a school-sponsored e-mail that wished me a merry christmas after finals.
You point? If people pay 2.50 for a single song, they're morons...and I don't think most people will actually pay that much for a single song. What this does is it provides an incentive for buying less popular music. I don't see that as a bad thing, and if you don't like it you can buy your music someplace else. Itunes is not the only online music store that sells popular music. It just happens to be the crappiest.
This is a thinly veil attempt to drive people to search out "better", less popular music. As more people download a new pop song, its price increases, and people will be (hopefully) less willing to pay the inflated price and move onto another, less expensive, song/artist. This will give independent artists more exposure on itunes, and give the fans of their music a bit of a price break. Since most of the music I like isn't even on itunes, i don't really give a crap. I think this *Could* lead to more diversity in what's bought, though. Could lead to interesting results.
Er...No. I use the best operating system for my platform that suits my needs. Being poor and not owning a Mac, I use linux. When I had a Mac, when i wasn't quite so poor, I bought the operating system happily. I even bought upgrades. Why? Because it was the best for the platform I was on and it suited my needs perfectly. That said, I would happily pay for non-DRMed digital video content if it were available, much like how i currently happily pay for non-DRMed digital music from independent bands I like. Until then, i'll get it however I can.
Why is it amazing that it runs on cold fusion and fusebox? It's slow and buggy as hell. And...fusebox is made to be used with cold fusion...there's nothing innovative there.
I have no idea where your free market comment came from...i never said myspace was a free market. I said it's basically used as a marketing tool for people and products. And yeah, it is like AOL, and it's becoming more like it as it matures. User-created content is being replaced by corporate-stamped content from Fox. There are myspace pages for fox shows, fox-signed bands, who knows maybe there will soon be a fox news myspace page. Anyway...your comments really added nothing to this discussion. And your use of "LOLz" made me want to gouge out my eyeballs.
You can call this one a closed minded retort as well. That is, if you consider using dictionary definitions closed minded.
And, I do.
mmmm unprotected sex in an omlete of disease....
Dude....why the fuck would you even want that to be a reality?! Thats...sick...
I agree in spirit, but you do sound like an elitist condescending douche. Almost bitter.
Wow. That's the most inaccurate picture of myspace i've ever seen. Myspace is not a beautiful anarchist e-topia. No, fuck that. It's a place where people can artificially inflate their egos, pretend to be things they're not to increase popularity (since the capital on myspace is your friend count, and nothing more), and places extreme emphasis on the superficial. No, it's not an anarchist e-topic. It's just like everyday life in the modern world. Even more, it's a centralized means for Fox to make a shit load in ad revenew. I'm always sure i've got privoxy fired up when i go on myspace.
It's basically one giant rumor mill. There is no natural judicial system as you describe. The majority of messages i see posted on bulletins (the way to disseminate information to all your friends simply) are chain letters.
You mention your brother's band and how myspace is a huge non-corporate marketing aparatus. It's definitely the best thing around for indie bands, and it has definitely helped a lot of local bands i see at bars...but if you look at the featured artist on their front page, you'll only see ones that are ones signed to fox-owned labels. So, while it does have extreme potential for small-band marketing, it's also a huge corporate marketing force for shitty, overrated music. Before fox bought myspace, pretty much only independent bands were featured artists.
No, myspace is not your anarchist utopia. It's just another way to make business as usual hip for us mindless youngins. That said, i've "hooked up" with quite a few attractive ladies from myspace. So, it does have legitimate use.
Linux won't turn into that, because linux is not an operating system. There will be distributions that will turn into that, like Fedora, SuSE and Mandrake already have, but since you can build a kernel yourself and compile an entire system from the ground up...again...yourself, it will not turn into huge bloatware from an OS standpoint.
Using the Artist will most likely get you going down the wrong path.
You're telling me. I put in "misfits" and got all kinds of artsy techno crap. Though i did find a hilarious midi-ish version of skulls...which i believe is because they couldn't get the rights to play that song...
Well, you know, the actual FACT of it being cool or not has nothing to do with the fact that it might make someone feel cooler by doing it. For example, skinny white guys in baggy clothes. They look like fucking morons trying to be all gangster gangster and whatnot, but they THINK and FEEL cooler because of it. I want to shoot them in the head along with slashdot users who use ^H^H^H^H to pretend they're on some arcane unix terminal browsing slashdot with a telnet client, when they're probably actually at their hip student intern job on some windows 2k/XP box debugging in-house .NET apps.
Eh, that's a closed minded retort. Introverts will still inform people that they're superior, just in a passive-agressive way. You'll almost never see an introvert go toe to toe with someone over superiority, but you better fuckin' believe that after an introvery deals with someone they feel superior to, they'll inform their friends, collegues, and those they feel close to of their superiority. And, yeah, that's still arrogance.
so does the whole tired ^H^H^H thing make you feel cool? More of a geek than you actually are? I'm kind of sick of seeing it used...usually by people who don't even know what it's all about.
wireless is not a requirement for all users to get online like TCP/IP is. Stop bitching, that's a piss poor analogy.
Er...i think what's more apparent is YOUR stupidity. He wasn't saying the optimizations in GTK and Gnome is what was slowing Fedora's release cycle down. He way saying that BECAUSE of things slowing the release cycle down (like those you listed) Fedora users will have to wait until the next release to get all the nice things that are now going into GTK and Gnome. Unless they want to install "unstable" stuff.