This is really the reasoning part. You don't need to tell the dog what the toy's name is - the dog will figure it out himself. If you tell him to look for something he's never heard of, he will have a look around and if there's something new and unusual, he will guess that's what you meant. Isn't that sort of the way humans learn? At least it's certainly not the way dogs are normally trained.
I didn't know that they did it this way. I am not as impressed as I was before. The dog is going to realize which one is out of place just by the smell of the toy which obviously doesn't fit w/the rest. Trained dogs sniff out stuff that they recognize all the time. What's so different about them picking the one thing that is different?
Last I heard the average human had a vocab of around 2500 words or less.
From an article that I read on this exact topic (the dog that is) a few days ago it claimed that the average high-schooler graduating has a 60,000 word vocabulary. A quick search on news.google.com found:
But Lori Markson of the University of California at Berkeley stressed that children develop a diverse and extensive language base. A 5-year-old child knows 7,000 to 8,000 words and what they represent. An average adult knows 60,000 words. Educated adults may know upwards of 100,000 words. Most of these words are learned after a single exposure, said Markson, who collaborated with Bloom on a study of fast-mapping in children.
I'd rather listen to a 5 minute Avril Lavigne song than 5 more minutes of ads (although it is a pretty close call.
I will venture to guess that b/c most people do not know it's an ad (or don't care) that they will not only accept the money for this and run the ad but they will also run their standard ads as well.
In the latest twist, it's the radio stations themselves that have been reaching out to the labels, offering to play songs in the form of ads, often in the early morning hours when there tends to be an excess inventory of airtime. The practice is legal as long as the station makes an on-air disclosure of the label's sponsorship -- typically with an introduction such as "And now, Avril Lavigne's Don't Tell Me, presented by Arista Records."
To be sure, Don't Tell Me is a bona fide hit, even without spins being bought and paid for. Radio stations must play a song many thousands of times for it to crack the Billboard top 10. Nonetheless, a few hundred spins here and there can move a song up a place or two in the rankings -- and ensure that it is climbing rather than falling on the charts.
Hmm. The only thing I am sure about is that the music industry is making the sheep believe that a song is a hit at the expense of their own customers.
"In our business, perception is reality," he said. "The minute you're down in spins, these program directors drop the record."
If it is played 40 times a week people are going to hear it and *believe* that it is popular. When it gets artificially vaulted to the top of the charts more people are going to *believe* that it is popular.
Now. Where did the money come from for them to pay the radio stations to "advertise" the song? Music buyers. That's right. The wonderful conglomerates are at it again. Telling the sheep what to think is good and paying to make sure they hear it and keep buying it. Do you really want to keep supporting conglomerates that use shady tactics and your money to make some songs more popular than others?
No? Then supportfreedom of music and stop the roundabout tactics, money wasting, and bullshit.
But, but, but, according to GWB's webpage there have been four million jobs added since August! He told me he's optimistic about America because he believes in the people of America!
A new report released yesterday by the Labor Department on mass layoffs found that in the first quarter of this year, 4,633 workers were laid off because their jobs were moved overseas, a mere 2.5 percent of the total of 182,456 longer-term job losses reported by companies in the period.
Excuse me but zero jobs should be lost to overseas workers. You know why? Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it. Make it so fucking unattractive that the companies will NEVER even consider a foreign worker cheaper than a US native. I have a feeling that the person currently running the show wouldn't ever think of THAT. Remember he's optimistic about furthering his "base" of the "have mores".
Vote Bush/Cheney in '84 and you too can be optimistic and believe in the people of America!
Personally I found AT&T Wireless Customer Service to suck. Hard.
I had a phone that died. It just stopped working one day. I didn't drop it, flush it, stick it up my ass, or do any of the other things they asked when I claimed it didn't work... They told me I would have to send it in and pay a $35 fee. I could get a new damn phone w/a different providor for that.
After 4 hours on the phone, 6 different CSRs, and 2 different supervisors I got what I wanted. The cheapass phone replaced for free. I still was stuck w/the original battery that gets 3 hours to a charge.
So I drive around in the Minneapolis metro and have frequent call and service drops. I have to redial numbers 10+ times after 9pm because I just can't get through. Sometimes a call will go through and will drop after a minute forcing me into an AOL-like re-dial session from 1997.
I got a T-mobile Sidekick. I have had to call them twice. Once for money back and once for changing my plan (upgrade).
No sweat, no complaints, no bitchiness, no nothing. My calls don't drop, I can get a call through on the first try, and my roaming is free.
Sorry but T-mobile doesn't suck as bad as AT&T for me.
The call center I worked for while in college hired people that were dumb. Real fucking dumb. Not only did they do that they basically pushed you through training even if you SUCKED at being a CSR. They figured you'd learn as you went.
Well that's all fine and good. Some of us knew what the hell we were talking about. Problem was that AT&T changed *DAILY* yes it says daily what it let us say about stuff. One day we could say this and another day completely contradict ourselves.
It's not entirely the CSR's fault. There is only so much they are allowed to do.
If you get one that sucks hang up on the idiots and call right back. Keeping playing Russian Roulette till you hit someone that sounds like they have half a brain.
This is INSIGHTFUL? In a country that is supposedly built on "freedoms"? We aren't allowed to control our own content?
We are supposed to cover "indecent" *ART* because it gives some conservative a hardon? We are supposed to hide "boobs" from children who used to suckle them for food? We are supposed to shelter ourselves from hearing four-letter words because they might make us sinners?
As I have said before, I find it far more interesting that the FCC has anything to say about any of this anyway. Who the hell decided that because they "oversee" the frequencies that they get to decide for the rest of the country what is "right" and what is "wrong"?
Sorry but it isn't up to government bodies to decide what's best for us. We're quite capable of doing that ourselves.
What's next? CNET gets a "Cease & Desist" letter from SCO because the company's name was used in this story?
Nah, Slashdot is next because their users are expressing negative opinions that haven't been proven in court and they are the reason for the decline of SCOX stock.
I'm more concerned with tracking my movements as a CITIZEN *obeying* the law.
So now we are going to be tracked when we aren't doing anything wrong just because they want to have the infastructure in place in case we do?
I don't care what they say. I pay taxes that fund the roads. *WE* own the roads not *them*. This is where you find those fucking RFID tags and wipe em, remove em, or change em.
Welcome to 1984. Please put your arms up so the safety belt can secure itself for you. Please state your full name, your national ID number, and your intended destination...
Linux is NOT obviously more rock solid. People have been saying this for years but it is simply no longer true. Win2k and XP effectively eliminated the stability gap, especially when compared to KDE or Gnome.
My uptime for Linux: 10:06:12 up 174 days, 23:47, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
My uptime for XP is about 3 days.
I am not complaining about XP's uptime. It's usually up for weeks at a time and I could have probably let it go longer but the system was slow (maybe a memory leak?) and needed a freshing up. I updated some programs that would have required a restart and let it go.
In light of the fact that w/o tweaking, fiddling, or thinking my XP machine routinely outperforms a supposedly much faster Linux machine on the GUI side of things.
I have a 2x400 Celeron running XP and a 1.8Ghz Celeron running Linux.
Linux is obviously more rock solid and has a lot less problems with forced restarts due to updates and whatnot but I just don't think it responds as well as XP seems to.
I know, I know, the Slashbotters will tell you that MSFT plays games with how apps load because they are partially in memory or whatever... No offense but if I have to take a small memory hit to make my apps load faster than a machine with 1/3 the speed then so be it.
What's to say that isn't exactly what he did? How the hell would we know that this is what the radiation of the universe sounds like?
I can't be anything but skeptical with a blatant iPod plug in the days when "research" is presented about topics that directly correlated with up-in-coming movie releases.
I realize that not many of you will get to listen to these fine MP3s but let me tell you they are certainly nothing even close to music and certainly not something I would put on my iPod to listen to.
In fact, there was no reason to mentio the iPod at all.
Yeah sounds like Mozilla is certainly the browser that most people should choose. Editing config files and screwing around with speed issues after idle time.
Just what normal Windows users need. More system slow downs.
Tivo is a service. It occurs to me that trying to use one of these alternatives will work great until the automated TV listing parser stops working due to a moved web page or some other problem.
I am more trusting of a freely available software package rather than a service. What happens if Tivo goes bankrupt or ups the price or whatever?
If a website changes and code needs to be fixed the people running the software will do so and get the changes down to the endusers quickly.
Even if it doesn't work anymore at least I wouldn't be losing money like I would if Tivo died.
And no.. I dont go walking around the grocery store asking strangers where the broccoli is..
Why not? Are you one of those assholes that stares blankly at me when I do? Yes ma'am, I am trying to kill you by asking where the broccoli is...
What is wrong w/our communities when we want to study social networks via the web and we can't even have social networks IRL?
Everyone is afraid of real life because the truth sucks. The bullshit personas people create for themselves on any of these Internet networks are just what people want. More situational drama to escape reality.
Who knows? Currently the driving forces behind deeming media displays as indecent are powerful government lobbies from conservative right-wingers who believe that the world should be sugar and spice.
Do I want small interest groups deciding for me what is decent for me? Nah. I think that people are quite capable to make those choices for themselves.
My biggest complaint about this is that the non-natives are funding this venture through the USDA Rural Utilities Service... Why doesn't their own tribe fund this effort? I have a feeling that they making more than enough money there to foot the $2.8 million bill themselves. Isn't that what those things are on reservations for? To build better Native American communities?
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This is really the reasoning part. You don't need to tell the dog what the toy's name is - the dog will figure it out himself. If you tell him to look for something he's never heard of, he will have a look around and if there's something new and unusual, he will guess that's what you meant. Isn't that sort of the way humans learn? At least it's certainly not the way dogs are normally trained.
I didn't know that they did it this way. I am not as impressed as I was before. The dog is going to realize which one is out of place just by the smell of the toy which obviously doesn't fit w/the rest. Trained dogs sniff out stuff that they recognize all the time. What's so different about them picking the one thing that is different?
Last I heard the average human had a vocab of around 2500 words or less.
From an article that I read on this exact topic (the dog that is) a few days ago it claimed that the average high-schooler graduating has a 60,000 word vocabulary. A quick search on news.google.com found:
But Lori Markson of the University of California at Berkeley stressed that children develop a diverse and extensive language base. A 5-year-old child knows 7,000 to 8,000 words and what they represent. An average adult knows 60,000 words. Educated adults may know upwards of 100,000 words. Most of these words are learned after a single exposure, said Markson, who collaborated with Bloom on a study of fast-mapping in children.
I'd rather listen to a 5 minute Avril Lavigne song than 5 more minutes of ads (although it is a pretty close call.
I will venture to guess that b/c most people do not know it's an ad (or don't care) that they will not only accept the money for this and run the ad but they will also run their standard ads as well.
In the latest twist, it's the radio stations themselves that have been reaching out to the labels, offering to play songs in the form of ads, often in the early morning hours when there tends to be an excess inventory of airtime. The practice is legal as long as the station makes an on-air disclosure of the label's sponsorship -- typically with an introduction such as "And now, Avril Lavigne's Don't Tell Me, presented by Arista Records."
To be sure, Don't Tell Me is a bona fide hit, even without spins being bought and paid for. Radio stations must play a song many thousands of times for it to crack the Billboard top 10. Nonetheless, a few hundred spins here and there can move a song up a place or two in the rankings -- and ensure that it is climbing rather than falling on the charts.
Hmm. The only thing I am sure about is that the music industry is making the sheep believe that a song is a hit at the expense of their own customers.
"In our business, perception is reality," he said. "The minute you're down in spins, these program directors drop the record."
If it is played 40 times a week people are going to hear it and *believe* that it is popular. When it gets artificially vaulted to the top of the charts more people are going to *believe* that it is popular.
Now. Where did the money come from for them to pay the radio stations to "advertise" the song? Music buyers. That's right. The wonderful conglomerates are at it again. Telling the sheep what to think is good and paying to make sure they hear it and keep buying it. Do you really want to keep supporting conglomerates that use shady tactics and your money to make some songs more popular than others?
No? Then support freedom of music and stop the roundabout tactics, money wasting, and bullshit.
But, but, but, according to GWB's webpage there have been four million jobs added since August! He told me he's optimistic about America because he believes in the people of America!
A new report released yesterday by the Labor Department on mass layoffs found that in the first quarter of this year, 4,633 workers were laid off because their jobs were moved overseas, a mere 2.5 percent of the total of 182,456 longer-term job losses reported by companies in the period.
Excuse me but zero jobs should be lost to overseas workers. You know why? Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it. Make it so fucking unattractive that the companies will NEVER even consider a foreign worker cheaper than a US native. I have a feeling that the person currently running the show wouldn't ever think of THAT. Remember he's optimistic about furthering his "base" of the "have mores".
Vote Bush/Cheney in '84 and you too can be optimistic and believe in the people of America!
Personally I found AT&T Wireless Customer Service to suck. Hard.
I had a phone that died. It just stopped working one day. I didn't drop it, flush it, stick it up my ass, or do any of the other things they asked when I claimed it didn't work... They told me I would have to send it in and pay a $35 fee. I could get a new damn phone w/a different providor for that.
After 4 hours on the phone, 6 different CSRs, and 2 different supervisors I got what I wanted. The cheapass phone replaced for free. I still was stuck w/the original battery that gets 3 hours to a charge.
So I drive around in the Minneapolis metro and have frequent call and service drops. I have to redial numbers 10+ times after 9pm because I just can't get through. Sometimes a call will go through and will drop after a minute forcing me into an AOL-like re-dial session from 1997.
I got a T-mobile Sidekick. I have had to call them twice. Once for money back and once for changing my plan (upgrade).
No sweat, no complaints, no bitchiness, no nothing. My calls don't drop, I can get a call through on the first try, and my roaming is free.
Sorry but T-mobile doesn't suck as bad as AT&T for me.
The call center I worked for while in college hired people that were dumb. Real fucking dumb. Not only did they do that they basically pushed you through training even if you SUCKED at being a CSR. They figured you'd learn as you went.
Well that's all fine and good. Some of us knew what the hell we were talking about. Problem was that AT&T changed *DAILY* yes it says daily what it let us say about stuff. One day we could say this and another day completely contradict ourselves.
It's not entirely the CSR's fault. There is only so much they are allowed to do.
If you get one that sucks hang up on the idiots and call right back. Keeping playing Russian Roulette till you hit someone that sounds like they have half a brain.
This is INSIGHTFUL? In a country that is supposedly built on "freedoms"? We aren't allowed to control our own content?
We are supposed to cover "indecent" *ART* because it gives some conservative a hardon? We are supposed to hide "boobs" from children who used to suckle them for food? We are supposed to shelter ourselves from hearing four-letter words because they might make us sinners?
Come on.
As I have said before, I find it far more interesting that the FCC has anything to say about any of this anyway. Who the hell decided that because they "oversee" the frequencies that they get to decide for the rest of the country what is "right" and what is "wrong"?
Sorry but it isn't up to government bodies to decide what's best for us. We're quite capable of doing that ourselves.
Your sense of humor escapes you.
What's next? CNET gets a "Cease & Desist" letter from SCO because the company's name was used in this story?
Nah, Slashdot is next because their users are expressing negative opinions that haven't been proven in court and they are the reason for the decline of SCOX stock.
I'm more concerned with tracking my movements as a CITIZEN *obeying* the law.
So now we are going to be tracked when we aren't doing anything wrong just because they want to have the infastructure in place in case we do?
I don't care what they say. I pay taxes that fund the roads. *WE* own the roads not *them*. This is where you find those fucking RFID tags and wipe em, remove em, or change em.
Welcome to 1984. Please put your arms up so the safety belt can secure itself for you. Please state your full name, your national ID number, and your intended destination...
I am actually currently using it for a webserver, email/IRC (w/screen), and downloading a torrent.
The only time the load avg. goes above 0.00 is when I am compiling something.
Linux is NOT obviously more rock solid. People have been saying this for years but it is simply no longer true. Win2k and XP effectively eliminated the stability gap, especially when compared to KDE or Gnome.
My uptime for Linux: 10:06:12 up 174 days, 23:47, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
My uptime for XP is about 3 days.
I am not complaining about XP's uptime. It's usually up for weeks at a time and I could have probably let it go longer but the system was slow (maybe a memory leak?) and needed a freshing up. I updated some programs that would have required a restart and let it go.
In light of the fact that w/o tweaking, fiddling, or thinking my XP machine routinely outperforms a supposedly much faster Linux machine on the GUI side of things.
I have a 2x400 Celeron running XP and a 1.8Ghz Celeron running Linux.
Linux is obviously more rock solid and has a lot less problems with forced restarts due to updates and whatnot but I just don't think it responds as well as XP seems to.
I know, I know, the Slashbotters will tell you that MSFT plays games with how apps load because they are partially in memory or whatever... No offense but if I have to take a small memory hit to make my apps load faster than a machine with 1/3 the speed then so be it.
What's to say that isn't exactly what he did? How the hell would we know that this is what the radiation of the universe sounds like?
I can't be anything but skeptical with a blatant iPod plug in the days when "research" is presented about topics that directly correlated with up-in-coming movie releases.
Perhaps he used this program to covert GIFs into WAV files (it makes a picture in the spectrogram that you can see w/a program like Audacity).
I realize that not many of you will get to listen to these fine MP3s but let me tell you they are certainly nothing even close to music and certainly not something I would put on my iPod to listen to.
In fact, there was no reason to mentio the iPod at all.
Is it coincidental that the MP3s sound an awful lot like a bomb fuse burning and then a toilet flushing?
The Universe was created by the big bang in the high-school men's bathroom!
Yeah sounds like Mozilla is certainly the browser that most people should choose. Editing config files and screwing around with speed issues after idle time.
Just what normal Windows users need. More system slow downs.
Tivo is a service. It occurs to me that trying to use one of these alternatives will work great until the automated TV listing parser stops working due to a moved web page or some other problem.
I am more trusting of a freely available software package rather than a service. What happens if Tivo goes bankrupt or ups the price or whatever?
If a website changes and code needs to be fixed the people running the software will do so and get the changes down to the endusers quickly.
Even if it doesn't work anymore at least I wouldn't be losing money like I would if Tivo died.
And no.. I dont go walking around the grocery store asking strangers where the broccoli is..
Why not? Are you one of those assholes that stares blankly at me when I do? Yes ma'am, I am trying to kill you by asking where the broccoli is...
What is wrong w/our communities when we want to study social networks via the web and we can't even have social networks IRL?
Everyone is afraid of real life because the truth sucks. The bullshit personas people create for themselves on any of these Internet networks are just what people want. More situational drama to escape reality.
Dial 411 for assistance.
Do you seriously think this would ever work?
Who knows? Currently the driving forces behind deeming media displays as indecent are powerful government lobbies from conservative right-wingers who believe that the world should be sugar and spice.
Do I want small interest groups deciding for me what is decent for me? Nah. I think that people are quite capable to make those choices for themselves.
I am pretty certain that we don't need a governing body telling us what is decent and what isn't.
I think that it should be up to the people to decide through boycott and public displays of disapproval.
Keep government control out of our lives.
My biggest complaint about this is that the non-natives are funding this venture through the USDA Rural Utilities Service... Why doesn't their own tribe fund this effort? I have a feeling that they making more than enough money there to foot the $2.8 million bill themselves. Isn't that what those things are on reservations for? To build better Native American communities?