Meh. Datamining is the equivalent of studying corn kernels in my feces, and trying to predict what I will decide to have for lunch tomorrow.
Or looking at an fMRI and proclaiming that the oar is bent.
I was gonna say something else...but I changed my mind.
Sociometric firms and national security agencies will pony up for ipod playlists so that they can cross reference them with other disparate sources of personal/behavioral information.
That's worth more than the music downloads, ipods and replacement batteries combined.
I'm seriously not meaning to troll here, but does your personal experience involve anything beyond repeating the words "Sociometrics, focus groups and datamining?"
It does, yes. I'm not trolling either, but like I said before-it's just my opinion. Take it with a grain of salt.
IMO, his "asshole routine" may be a product of thorough study of group dynamics, sociometry, behavioral profiling, datamining and the like.
When Apple employees get subjected to certain types of managerial behavior, it's possible that it's part of a larger plan to study reactions and adjust accordingly.
i respectfully disagree, IMO Apple utilizes all the tools at their disposal, and that includes focus groups, sociometrics, psychodrama, datamining. It's too important to leave to chance, there is too much at stake ($$) alot is riding on these secretive decisions. The competition is doing this.
Lots of tools at Steve Job's disposal these days which assist him in arriving at decisions. For example, during Apple Retail Store training, you might plant scripted actors amongst the employee-trainees to better access their authentic feelings and reactions to certain types of management styles. This goes on every where, everyday: whether joining a large church group or volunteering for jury duty.
Whether you apply for a job with a big Computer Company who are opening their first brand of retail stores, or you are joining a big new church, or if you are attending a first time face-to-face with online group members, there will probably be someone interested in subjecting you to sociometric study.
The individual is difficult to predict, but if you can place each individual into enough behavioral catagories or partitions, you begin to find patterns that are more predictable.
Thus, everything you do which connects you electronically to the 'grid' is a datamining feast for psych-bots.
Everytime you subscribe online and use different pieces of personal information for passwords or in lieu of signature, all those seemingly disparate pieces of info can be aggregated. Everytime you connect your musicpod to teh internets, it might be a trivial matter to send a small XML file of your songlist to the Mothership. All those songlists coupled with various other personal bits of information are valuable commodities to be bought and sold amongst corporations who want to study you and your behavioral profile.
television has been around much longer, much more time to study it's effects.
where is THAT disorder?
Radio has been around MUCH longer than television or internet. People listen to the radio incessantly.
where is THAT disorder?
Disorders are one man's label for another man. And we know how infallible man is.
We are seeing the dawning of a new age, the end of an era.
During the last depression, short-of-work/out-of-work men formed bands to suppliment their income. You played live, and got paid. Recorded music was nascent, and esentially used as advertising.
Enter, the meddlemen. The meddlemen began to see the popularity of recorded music, and devised business models around it. These "wedgies" posited themselves between the listener and the artist, while taking a cut for themselves. The economy improved, and this masked decades of greed and villiany.
Since recorded music did not require the physical presence of the meddlemen, they became rich and comfortable, staying at home while artists ran ragged all over the country and the world in an attempt to satiate the sudden explosion of music-fan hunger for all-natural auditory SSRIs.
But like sound waves, there are peaks and troughs. New depressions. The wedgies have been exposed, and no longer are artists willing to tithe their blood and sweat to the meddlemen in such a disproportionate way. The pendulum swings back.
I guess Microsoft should maintain their own bridge then. I've got a better idea.
Every single man, woman and child in the U.S. should incorporate themselves individually. All 300 million.
information blackout. nothing going in, nothing coming out. demon's last gasps.
"go back to bed america, here is american gladiators, watch this and get stupid. here's 56 channels of it, watch these pituary retards bash each other's skull in while you congratulate yourself for living in the land of freedom." Bill Hicks, 1992
Sometimes while surfing for asian pron,
I will inexplicably visit "Scary Squirrel World",
just to give fits to the DHS's ADVISE data-mining algorithms...
JH
http://www.scarysquirrel.org/page1.html
if the moderators would indulge me, i'd like to post a youtube link to a one and a half minute segment of John F. Kennedy's speech about free speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkryNyxlubY
it isn't my post, just happened across it and remembered this slashdot topic...
...and for sale on iTunes.
my point is: time to change the laws. Community sites like utoob should be considered free advertising. That's what they are. You can't buy that kind of good will. (but you certainly can sour it easily)
If the corporations were actually people, they would see how brand recognition from sites like utoob perpetuate revenue streams where there were none. the internet is not a push media, people seek stuff out on the net. I'll buy your s**** when i'm damn good n ready, but right now I want to see what all of the buzz iz about
Slashdot Mirror
Meh. Datamining is the equivalent of studying corn kernels in my feces, and trying to predict what I will decide to have for lunch tomorrow. Or looking at an fMRI and proclaiming that the oar is bent. I was gonna say something else...but I changed my mind.
Sociometric firms and national security agencies will pony up for ipod playlists so that they can cross reference them with other disparate sources of personal/behavioral information. That's worth more than the music downloads, ipods and replacement batteries combined.
It does, yes. I'm not trolling either, but like I said before-it's just my opinion. Take it with a grain of salt.
I speak from personal experience. My personal experience differs from the press releases and profiles out of Cupertino.
IMO, his "asshole routine" may be a product of thorough study of group dynamics, sociometry, behavioral profiling, datamining and the like. When Apple employees get subjected to certain types of managerial behavior, it's possible that it's part of a larger plan to study reactions and adjust accordingly.
i respectfully disagree, IMO Apple utilizes all the tools at their disposal, and that includes focus groups, sociometrics, psychodrama, datamining. It's too important to leave to chance, there is too much at stake ($$) alot is riding on these secretive decisions. The competition is doing this.
Lots of tools at Steve Job's disposal these days which assist him in arriving at decisions. For example, during Apple Retail Store training, you might plant scripted actors amongst the employee-trainees to better access their authentic feelings and reactions to certain types of management styles. This goes on every where, everyday: whether joining a large church group or volunteering for jury duty.
Whether you apply for a job with a big Computer Company who are opening their first brand of retail stores, or you are joining a big new church, or if you are attending a first time face-to-face with online group members, there will probably be someone interested in subjecting you to sociometric study. The individual is difficult to predict, but if you can place each individual into enough behavioral catagories or partitions, you begin to find patterns that are more predictable. Thus, everything you do which connects you electronically to the 'grid' is a datamining feast for psych-bots. Everytime you subscribe online and use different pieces of personal information for passwords or in lieu of signature, all those seemingly disparate pieces of info can be aggregated. Everytime you connect your musicpod to teh internets, it might be a trivial matter to send a small XML file of your songlist to the Mothership. All those songlists coupled with various other personal bits of information are valuable commodities to be bought and sold amongst corporations who want to study you and your behavioral profile.
television has been around much longer, much more time to study it's effects. where is THAT disorder? Radio has been around MUCH longer than television or internet. People listen to the radio incessantly. where is THAT disorder? Disorders are one man's label for another man. And we know how infallible man is.
We are seeing the dawning of a new age, the end of an era.
During the last depression, short-of-work/out-of-work men formed bands to suppliment their income. You played live, and got paid. Recorded music was nascent, and esentially used as advertising.
Enter, the meddlemen. The meddlemen began to see the popularity of recorded music, and devised business models around it. These "wedgies" posited themselves between the listener and the artist, while taking a cut for themselves. The economy improved, and this masked decades of greed and villiany.
Since recorded music did not require the physical presence of the meddlemen, they became rich and comfortable, staying at home while artists ran ragged all over the country and the world in an attempt to satiate the sudden explosion of music-fan hunger for all-natural auditory SSRIs.
But like sound waves, there are peaks and troughs. New depressions. The wedgies have been exposed, and no longer are artists willing to tithe their blood and sweat to the meddlemen in such a disproportionate way. The pendulum swings back.
Balance.
will it remove voices from your head??
information blackout. nothing going in, nothing coming out. demon's last gasps.
"go back to bed america, here is american gladiators, watch this and get stupid. here's 56 channels of it, watch these pituary retards bash each other's skull in while you congratulate yourself for living in the land of freedom." Bill Hicks, 1992
Kenny's still getting the hang of his new yacht over there in Dubai
Or get everyone to start smoking. (Bill Hicks ref)
Sometimes while surfing for asian pron, I will inexplicably visit "Scary Squirrel World", just to give fits to the DHS's ADVISE data-mining algorithms... JH http://www.scarysquirrel.org/page1.html
if the moderators would indulge me, i'd like to post a youtube link to a one and a half minute segment of John F. Kennedy's speech about free speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkryNyxlubY it isn't my post, just happened across it and remembered this slashdot topic...
They just wanted to log what everybody was so damned curious about..now that they know....
...and for sale on iTunes. my point is: time to change the laws. Community sites like utoob should be considered free advertising. That's what they are. You can't buy that kind of good will. (but you certainly can sour it easily) If the corporations were actually people, they would see how brand recognition from sites like utoob perpetuate revenue streams where there were none. the internet is not a push media, people seek stuff out on the net. I'll buy your s**** when i'm damn good n ready, but right now I want to see what all of the buzz iz about
so i guess ALL Comedy Central content isn't really correct.
What about Tex-Edit Plus? Seems like the Applescript implementation is pretty good..
It's time for a paradigm shift.
I record in my own home studio. I burn my own CD's. I create my own cover art and liner notes with Photoshop.
Now I need distribution. Hmm, what's this? Internet thingy?....
Great. Now all I need is a digitally secure file format that I can encode my music to, and my fans can download and pay
me for (PayPal, Visa/MC)
Make it open source.
Hey, RIAA...it must suck to be you.