I posted-- it looks like he'd sell data based on song similarities, but not user information. As long as the information is not specific to the user, then I'm fine with selling demographics.
I'm having a tough time figuring out what Audioscrobbler's privacy policy is. Is RJ collecting information to sell to marketers? Does this bother anyone that there is no up-front privacy policy? Or is everyone too busy saying geewhiz?
It's because Slashdot editors never check for spelling errors. I can't believe how many go by every day. I mean, when your job is to post half a dozen stories, wouldn't you think there would be a system for catching even the most common spelling mistakes? Get it together. Use your perl hax0ring skillz to run the articles through aspell or ispell.
Yes, but if you don't understand the laws of form in nature, you will not be able to craft an algorithm that could even come close to solving problems of this order. I think this is the missing component. Dynamics cannot attest for all solutions. I might be accused of skirting dangerously close to vitalism, but if we are to fully understand such problems, we need to find the source of nature's creativity. Randomness doesn't explain it. There are other scarcely understood laws of nature.
mozilla has built-in popup killer. 1.2 has solved the speed issues. I've been using mozilla off and on since milestone 8. Mostly off. I used to think it was the bloated, most unusable piece of crap. I've changed my mind. It may be a little bloated, but it is very usable.
Fossil-formation is actually a rare process. Every critter that dies is not going to leave a fossil, far from it. It takes a particular set of circumstances to produce a fossil-- such as quick and complete burying under sediments or igneous flow. Evolution theory itself is evolving to explain the processes as they are better understood.
Currently, Gould's Punctuated evolution is given greater credence than pure Darwinism. That means that changes occur very rapidly leaving the chance that the fossil record will reveal every gradation of change between species much smaller. The chance that a fossil in one of the stable periods of speciation to be higher.
As for your question on why there aren't individuals in different states of evolution. Human beings are not microbes. We have this function called sex which recombines genes and traits, local variations persist but because of this amazing sex thing you see fuzzy areas between the local variations. This is called genetic drift. With modern conveyances of travel, these variations are getting less and less significant. All told, though, human beings show a wide diversity of traits from those diminishing isolations.
The Bible may contain some encoded historical facts (a massive flood), but it is a far from accurate historical document. For instance, there is very little archeological evidence to support the jewish enslavement in egypt and the subsequent journey from bondage. Do you stop believing in that? There is much more evidence to support evolution than the historical bible. If you choose to ignore that, then you are responsible for your own continuities.
It's just a freakin pinata. I want to see Wheaton square off with the real thing. Well, they could at least get a guy in a purple foam suit. Maybe I'll crash this event in costume and call WW to the mat. "Stop picking on paper effigies and fight someone your own size!"
I think a better explanation is that Spider-Man is better written and better directed than Attack of the Clones. Occam's Razor and all that.
I agree here totally. Spiderman was focused, true to the spirit of the original story, and took on only what it could chew. Lucas is grappling with a beast-- he wants political intrigue, romance, mythmaking, but he sets this in a script that contains the sketchiest plot. It is really just a series of obstacles for the characters without a structure to hang it on. Another thing: acting. The acting in Clones sucks ass. McGuire and Dunst trounced any performance in Clones. Christopher Lee and Samuel Jackson were barely trying. And it shows.
Hmm. Said document was written with Word 10. What a mess the source is. Flies in the face of the message, a bit, methinks. No dtd, no css, just a mass of formatting. I was hoping to see it was written using docbook standards or some open source tools.
On windows, I use the command line on a daily basis. Pkzip is in my bin directory. It tends to be faster than winzip, accepts options/arguments that I don't have to go searching for. Tar on unix is even more powerful/fast. Get off your lazy mouse and learn to slap the keyboard.
Archiver is a GUI tool that will open tarballs available on KDE 2. It is part of a default KDE install. It's amazing how many folks here talk the talk, but have not walked the walk.
Dismissing Stallman so thoroughly was kind of sickening. I'm not a gnu acolyte, I've got nothing to gain or lose by saying so, but to treat the gnu tools and the compiler as trivial is disrespectful. Young forgets his roots-- he has been waltzing with the big boys too long. He's not drinking mountain dew, it's champagne.
Read a little history about monopolies, would you? Quality of product has nothing to do with the success of a corporate entity. It is control over lines of supply. This is what made the British Empire so successful in the 19th century. It is what made the robber barons so successful. How did they do it? By destroying the competition. Treachery, lies and underhanded deals were the FUD of the 19th century.
It seems Microsoft apologists are getting very sloppy.
Absolutely. The canon all-in-one fax/copy/scan is a very large doorstop that never worked close to expectations. However, I have different needs for portable devices. More devices=more chance of losing one. I can keep track of one device a little easier.
Right on. And open source has more of the qualities of the 4th neural circuit: hence the pushes for internationalization and inter-operability. The Free Software folks are therefore better poised for space migration, intelligence increase and extended lifespan once that 5th circuit starts popping.
Don't know why I'm responding to obvious bait, but maybe you have a brain.
You are confusing privacy and the right of the government to use evidence collected against you. It may be trivial to garner such information, but is it legal to use it to conduct an investigation?
This phrase has many meanings. Sun Sunim (I think that's the spelling), a Korean zen master, interpreted this saying as, "Buddha's buddha nature is no better than your buddha nature."
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I set you in charge of cleaning up the depleted uranium. Put your ideals where your mouth is.
I posted-- it looks like he'd sell data based on song similarities, but not user information. As long as the information is not specific to the user, then I'm fine with selling demographics.
I'm having a tough time figuring out what Audioscrobbler's privacy policy is. Is RJ collecting information to sell to marketers? Does this bother anyone that there is no up-front privacy policy? Or is everyone too busy saying geewhiz?
It's because Slashdot editors never check for spelling errors. I can't believe how many go by every day. I mean, when your job is to post half a dozen stories, wouldn't you think there would be a system for catching even the most common spelling mistakes? Get it together. Use your perl hax0ring skillz to run the articles through aspell or ispell.
Excellent idea. I see a corollary with the squid's jet propulsion system. Marvelously inventive.
Yes, but if you don't understand the laws of form in nature, you will not be able to craft an algorithm that could even come close to solving problems of this order. I think this is the missing component. Dynamics cannot attest for all solutions. I might be accused of skirting dangerously close to vitalism, but if we are to fully understand such problems, we need to find the source of nature's creativity. Randomness doesn't explain it. There are other scarcely understood laws of nature.
mozilla has built-in popup killer. 1.2 has solved the speed issues. I've been using mozilla off and on since milestone 8. Mostly off. I used to think it was the bloated, most unusable piece of crap. I've changed my mind. It may be a little bloated, but it is very usable.
Greedhead, you are so funny.
You're in the wrong place. I suggest www.stupidity.com
When science catches up, it just ceases to be science fiction.
Fossil-formation is actually a rare process. Every critter that dies is not going to leave a fossil, far from it. It takes a particular set of circumstances to produce a fossil-- such as quick and complete burying under sediments or igneous flow. Evolution theory itself is evolving to explain the processes as they are better understood.
Currently, Gould's Punctuated evolution is given greater credence than pure Darwinism. That means that changes occur very rapidly leaving the chance that the fossil record will reveal every gradation of change between species much smaller. The chance that a fossil in one of the stable periods of speciation to be higher.
As for your question on why there aren't individuals in different states of evolution. Human beings are not microbes. We have this function called sex which recombines genes and traits, local variations persist but because of this amazing sex thing you see fuzzy areas between the local variations. This is called genetic drift. With modern conveyances of travel, these variations are getting less and less significant. All told, though, human beings show a wide diversity of traits from those diminishing isolations.
The Bible may contain some encoded historical facts (a massive flood), but it is a far from accurate historical document. For instance, there is very little archeological evidence to support the jewish enslavement in egypt and the subsequent journey from bondage. Do you stop believing in that? There is much more evidence to support evolution than the historical bible. If you choose to ignore that, then you are responsible for your own continuities.
It's just a freakin pinata. I want to see Wheaton square off with the real thing. Well, they could at least get a guy in a purple foam suit. Maybe I'll crash this event in costume and call WW to the mat. "Stop picking on paper effigies and fight someone your own size!"
I think a better explanation is that Spider-Man is better written and better directed than Attack of the Clones. Occam's Razor and all that.
I agree here totally. Spiderman was focused, true to the spirit of the original story, and took on only what it could chew. Lucas is grappling with a beast-- he wants political intrigue, romance, mythmaking, but he sets this in a script that contains the sketchiest plot. It is really just a series of obstacles for the characters without a structure to hang it on. Another thing: acting. The acting in Clones sucks ass. McGuire and Dunst trounced any performance in Clones. Christopher Lee and Samuel Jackson were barely trying. And it shows.
You ever tried to run ME, 2000 or XP on said 200 Mhz box? I thought not. You're right though, there's bloat on all three sides.
Hmm. Said document was written with Word 10. What a mess the source is. Flies in the face of the message, a bit, methinks. No dtd, no css, just a mass of formatting. I was hoping to see it was written using docbook standards or some open source tools.
On windows, I use the command line on a daily basis. Pkzip is in my bin directory. It tends to be faster than winzip, accepts options/arguments that I don't have to go searching for. Tar on unix is even more powerful/fast. Get off your lazy mouse and learn to slap the keyboard.
Archiver is a GUI tool that will open tarballs available on KDE 2. It is part of a default KDE install. It's amazing how many folks here talk the talk, but have not walked the walk.
Dismissing Stallman so thoroughly was kind of sickening. I'm not a gnu acolyte, I've got nothing to gain or lose by saying so, but to treat the gnu tools and the compiler as trivial is disrespectful. Young forgets his roots-- he has been waltzing with the big boys too long. He's not drinking mountain dew, it's champagne.
Read a little history about monopolies, would you? Quality of product has nothing to do with the success of a corporate entity. It is control over lines of supply. This is what made the British Empire so successful in the 19th century. It is what made the robber barons so successful. How did they do it? By destroying the competition. Treachery, lies and underhanded deals were the FUD of the 19th century.
It seems Microsoft apologists are getting very sloppy.
Absolutely. The canon all-in-one fax/copy/scan is a very large doorstop that never worked close to expectations. However, I have different needs for portable devices. More devices=more chance of losing one. I can keep track of one device a little easier.
Dude, you had a floppy drive? I am so jealous. I'm still using this cassette jobber.
Right on. And open source has more of the qualities of the 4th neural circuit: hence the pushes for internationalization and inter-operability. The Free Software folks are therefore better poised for space migration, intelligence increase and extended lifespan once that 5th circuit starts popping.
P.A.T.R.I.O.T.=Provides Abusive Tyrants Really Intrusive Observational Tools
Don't know why I'm responding to obvious bait, but maybe you have a brain.
You are confusing privacy and the right of the government to use evidence collected against you. It may be trivial to garner such information, but is it legal to use it to conduct an investigation?
This phrase has many meanings. Sun Sunim (I think that's the spelling), a Korean zen master, interpreted this saying as, "Buddha's buddha nature is no better than your buddha nature."