Nickelback goes in my "Canadian Bands that aren't Rush, Loverboy, or Killer Dwarfs" folder. Extra points to anyone who knows who Killer Dwarfs are.
I haven't thought about organizing by color. Does red mean hot and blue mean cool? If so, are your red songs big hits and your blue songs sleepers? I listen to my music on MiniDisc, as such, I'm still basically making mix tapes in 2011. I want to organize my songs in a way that reflects mood, but I don't want to abandon my genre->performer->album format because I find that's still best for casual browsing.
The Music Genome Project's work is really interesting to me, and I would like to take advantage of genetic attributes in my own music searches because "hard rock" isn't a very worthwhile tag. Hard rock can mean everything from Deep Purple to Van Halen to Poison to Evanescence. That's a lot of difference. What is better for my needs are genome attributes like "Feel" and "Roots". I would benefit from odd custom attributes like "miami vice" and "belongs on an '80s sci-fi/horror movie soundtrack"
Does anyone know of a project to produce a quality audio player that has built-in search and allows you to add custom tags? Does FLAC and APE allow custom tags?
My "attic" is called "current". It used to be called "unindexed".
I suppose I'm still doing things the "wrong" inefficient way although I've dabbled into metatagging, spotlight searches, and data management software over the years. I keep coming back to folders out of fear of relying on a singular monolithic database that I know will just keep growing and growing. Some of my data has a high rotation rate. Stuff in "current/" reflects the wide collection of text files, random images, and links that I've accumulated since my last system refresh. Most of my other stuff remains untouched for months: photography/, music/, software/, etc.
The problem I have is that it is difficult to satisfactorily categorize groups of data that contain a broad context or a lot of contextual overlap using just a system of folders. I hate having to navigate huge directory trees, so my personal rule is not to go more than 3 directories deep. Music and TV recordings are my biggest trouble area. I categorize music by major genre, then by performer name, then by album. This is a constant exercise as I continue to digitize my large record collection. Categorizing by major genre is inadequate. Most of the music artists in my collection fit across multiple genres. My Yngwie Malmsteen collection is searchable across three different major genres: guitar virtuosos, hard rock, and heavy metal. This is because this guitarist is both a soloist composer, played in a heavy metal band "Steeler" and also played in a hard rock band "Alcatrazz" My Deep Purple and Frank Zappa collection get complicated easily too.
My backup is still USB and firewire hard drives. I still have stuff on optical. I no longer create DVD/Rs or CDROMs for my own storage as they are time-consuming and have never been very convenient. Plus, I get a lot of overlap in my data collections, so one group of related data may only take up 1GB but another will take up 5GB or 9GB, so I have to deal with spreading groups of data across discs. I'm actually running into this problem again with my disparate collection of USB and firewire HDDs.
Metatagging would definitely be better. And Mac OS X makes it easy with Spotlight. But it's such a task going back and metatagging the tens of thousands of files on my backups. What I need as a Mac user is a text field in Finder which quietly loads spotlight comments as I arrow through files, or perhaps the ability to press a key when highlighting a file, and having the file's metatags replace the file name so that I can make edits with the same motions that I would rename a file. cmd + I requires me to refocus.
What on earth are you talking about, you paranoid git? No one is saying that you have to use Starbuck's incredibly fast and free wireless access while enjoying a delicious and sweet blended coffee drink with your choice of flavors such as caramel, hazenut, mocha, and vanilla for a new low, low price.
And yet, a simple game of 20 questions with Tea Partiers, of which I have encountered many, always brings me back to a pathological distrust of government, foreigners, intellectual elites, and homosexuals, and resentment of two or more major American industries, and a deep near-paranoid suspicion that someone else is getting ahead on their labor. Don't look to the Tea Party for anything but anarchy. They remind me of vegan tree huggers that preach while gorging themselves synthesized soy foods made from palm oils harvested from the Amazon.
I am only using Bing on my Android phone right now, by choice. My mobile phone based searches are different from my home-based searches. I often need to find a restaurant. With Bing and my GPS active, I could simply type in a restaurant by name, and Bing would accurately return the restaurant I was looking for with a dial option as well as listings of several other restaurants in the area. Bing's video searches seems better than what Google provides, and the new way Google Images is presented really is a drag on my browser; otherwise Google still is my primary.
There is a Washington Post article that states that Google is increasingly having problems with spam in search results. http://wapo.st/ij8iWO
Yes, I think so; and so wouldn't that establish the case that something else drives us if we routinely act against our programming and do things that aren't expected of us? Admittedly, I'm not into philosophical questions about free will. I don't know whether there's an external world. I might just be a brain in a vat in a lab, but I really couldn't care less. So I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to this stuff, heh.
I think you're correct. That is, if we are talking this religiosity gene being an actual biochemical entity, then would just mean one is predisposed or has the genetic potential. I had the genetic predisposition to having blue eyes, but it didn't work out that way. I have a gene for alcoholism, but so far I'm fine.
If this religiosity gene isn't just another way of selling the "God Gene", then maybe it's more of a metaphorical genetic way of describing social behavior, akin to Pandora prescribing "genes" to define qualities in music. Does anyone know whether Sociologists describe things like this genetically?
Is individualism really the correct word though? I agree that faiths such as Buddhism don't squarely compare with the mass of "God commands" based faiths in circulation, but ultimately, it would seem that buddhists conform in much the same way. I have visited Buddhist monasteries, and the monks living therein never have seemed individualistic. I can say little about those lone gurus in India who do endurance feats to test their faith, but again, aren't they conformist as well?
I would start with observing an aggregation of rational purposeful behavior that generally works in the best interest of the person, but which sometimes violates societal expectations, better judgment, convenience, or personal programming. Obviously we want the subject to have a tendency to do things that are in his interest, otherwise we're dealing with a broken person that will likely fail in the game of evolution. My assumption is that we have deep-rooted programming driving us to survive and to make decisions that enhance the likelihood of our survival. We want the subject to be rational, and not some automaton spinning randomly around. I think if you observe this behavior often enough in enough subjects over a long period of time, you can safely say freewill exists.
You're forgetting another possibility: that a spacefaring race is aware of us and has decided they aren't interested in knowing us. There's precedent here on earth for hermit civilizations. We might say: "Well, a spacefaring race wouldn't be hermits." Okay, but they could be a bunch of idiots they'd rather not know. There's a precedent for this in my very own neighborhood.
Excellent, if there's strong evidence supporting that. It makes for a very interesting story, considering Tunisia. Unfortunately, those wanting a theocracy likely aren't above allowing the secularists to do the hard work of revolting whilst they wait for the opportunity to take over. I wonder how the U.S. will react to this. Mubarak is our ally. We train and support their military.
Ironically, I think I would choose the tyranny of a military despot over the freedom of a "loving" theocracy. Thankfully, I have never experienced either firsthand, but I am aware of life in the former Yugoslavia, East Germany, and Egypt. Either way, I am subjugated. Either way, I have to survive by not pissing off the government. But strong military despots have a proven ability to create stability, and the populace is generally equally oppressed regardless of their faith. In a theocracy, you had better be of the right religion, and even then, you could still be a target for the segments of society that are the most oppressed.
3D appealed to me as a kid. I saw Friday the 13th III, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, and Jaws III in 3D. I found that nothing great was made amazing by 3D, and nothing bad was made good. I don't like 5.1 audio. It's unnatural to me. Too often sounds appear to me coming from the wrong location. Stereo is all I need. I am an audiophile by the way which a rich investment in analog and digital hi-fi. I'm also not alone in preferring traditional stereo.
In any case, this is an Ebert complaint, and I don't care much for Ebert, so may he enjoy many many more 3D movies.
Don't be naive. But if you must, don't be insulting. It's not spouting off to point out the Muslim Brotherhood is a major rival, one with tremendous populist support, and one which could very easily destroy any secular movement. Nothing parent has said requires a stretch of the imagination. I'd wait until we see microblogging and vlogging activity from a large number of secularist rioters before I believe this is a pro-democracy rally à la Tiananmen Square.
It's a bit premature to say that these Egyptians are protesting out of a desire for a real chance of democracy. They already see themselves as a democracy. It is quite possible that these rioters represent various Islamic factions such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and have the ultimate goal of re-establishing Egypt as a theocratic democracy, which in reality, won't be much of a democracy at all. As Egypt is an important military ally of the United States, this is a potentially bad for the west as Mubarak has supported the U.S. over the years.
Hmm, I didn't know that Chic-Fil-A espoused Christian values when I suggested it. That might explain why my neighborhood franchise never seems to be open on sundays in a busy marketplace. I just was suggesting a delicious chicken filet sandwich that will do horrible things to your stomach afterwards.
I'll argue against equivocating mobile phones, iPhone or otherwise, to console games for the sake of playing devil's advocate. A reason some people might complain about Apple and Motorola blocking apps or preventing certain uses and not Microsoft or Sony might be that video game consoles are an establishment technology, something that a few generations have grown up with. As such, there's been an acceptance of the fact that a game console, whilst being a computer, is locked down and simplified versus a personal computer. Smartphones are still very new, having evolved from the PDA. The PDA did not have an app store, but instead followed the PC tradition of the user searching for the software he wants to run, acquiring it, and then installing it on his device. As a developer, you could acquire your platform SDK easily, develop your own app, and release it without seeking permission, and without worry that the platform's owner would somehow intervene. Today's Android and iOS based devices break that tradition in favor of an iTunes-like model that is still relatively new. Furthermore, when one sees an Android or iPhone, it's easy to relate that device directly to their home computer, so it may be natural for the user to mistakingly assume that he possesses all the privileges and powers on that environment as he would on a home computer. Whereas, video game consoles are still largely viewed as appliances, smartphones are perhaps imagined as replacements for netbooks, laptops, PDAs, and a number of other computing devices we might keep around for limited uses.
Gut feeling, no pun intended, but I'm fairly certain that McDonald's meat isn't as bad as you suggest for two reasons: USDA laws regarding meat processing and the iconic status McDonald's has. To the vegetable lasagna crowd and the anti-corp crowd, McDonald's is the big Satan. The company has a lot of watchdogs actively looking to expose something like this. Taco Bell apparently fell under the radar for a while.
I'm not saying you're wrong though. Just that, I feel very safe eating at McDonald's vs Taco Bell. Let's argue it out over a Chic-Fil-A.
I'm a native German speaker, followed by British English. I speak American English daily as I live in the US, though I use British slang normally. To compound things even more, I'm southern German, and my dialect is a mix of proper German with southern Bavarian and Austrian words and phrases, especially for cooking. For example, I say "Champignons" instead of "Pilze" and "Grüß Gott" instead of "Guten Tag" where formality dictates. Language is so personal. I can understand people having a near revolt over any attempt to change one's language or even declare a formal, proper dialect.
If there was ever an objective reason not to change the English writing system, or writing systems in general, is that we run the risk of losing the history of a word. I'm not just meaning the true origin of a word: Greek, Latin, etc., but also the journey a word takes over the centuries - the reasons "tomb", "comb", and "bomb" aren't pronounced the same. I suppose it only matters to language geeks though, eh?
Exactly. Americans claim to want to know everything their government does, but absent context and sufficient prior studying, nearly everything the government does looks wasteful and/or corrupt. The rest of it just looks boring and tedious. Most people - including even people in political circles have only the most casual interest in the workings of government. Therefore, demanding the right to know and the right of approval over everything the government does is simply unreasonable. It would be impossible for a democracy, let alone any government form, to function efficiently if public consensus was truly required.
You could be right. Having Assange out there does benefit the intelligence community in a couple of ways: wikileaks might actually provide intelligence that we don't already have, and can easily leak intelligence we want him to leak.
Hypothetically yes, but in practice, the chances of the world uniting around you is pretty slim. It's not as if the lone superpower in the world represents the only source of conflict for other countries. But, yes you do suffer ultimately at least in terms of the world's opinion. I do believe a nation ought to seek the respect of other nations just as we as individuals ought to seek the respect of others. Seems only natural.
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Nickelback goes in my "Canadian Bands that aren't Rush, Loverboy, or Killer Dwarfs" folder. Extra points to anyone who knows who Killer Dwarfs are.
I haven't thought about organizing by color. Does red mean hot and blue mean cool? If so, are your red songs big hits and your blue songs sleepers? I listen to my music on MiniDisc, as such, I'm still basically making mix tapes in 2011. I want to organize my songs in a way that reflects mood, but I don't want to abandon my genre->performer->album format because I find that's still best for casual browsing.
The Music Genome Project's work is really interesting to me, and I would like to take advantage of genetic attributes in my own music searches because "hard rock" isn't a very worthwhile tag. Hard rock can mean everything from Deep Purple to Van Halen to Poison to Evanescence. That's a lot of difference. What is better for my needs are genome attributes like "Feel" and "Roots". I would benefit from odd custom attributes like "miami vice" and "belongs on an '80s sci-fi/horror movie soundtrack"
Does anyone know of a project to produce a quality audio player that has built-in search and allows you to add custom tags? Does FLAC and APE allow custom tags?
My "attic" is called "current". It used to be called "unindexed".
I suppose I'm still doing things the "wrong" inefficient way although I've dabbled into metatagging, spotlight searches, and data management software over the years. I keep coming back to folders out of fear of relying on a singular monolithic database that I know will just keep growing and growing. Some of my data has a high rotation rate. Stuff in "current/" reflects the wide collection of text files, random images, and links that I've accumulated since my last system refresh. Most of my other stuff remains untouched for months: photography/, music/, software/, etc.
The problem I have is that it is difficult to satisfactorily categorize groups of data that contain a broad context or a lot of contextual overlap using just a system of folders. I hate having to navigate huge directory trees, so my personal rule is not to go more than 3 directories deep. Music and TV recordings are my biggest trouble area. I categorize music by major genre, then by performer name, then by album. This is a constant exercise as I continue to digitize my large record collection. Categorizing by major genre is inadequate. Most of the music artists in my collection fit across multiple genres. My Yngwie Malmsteen collection is searchable across three different major genres: guitar virtuosos, hard rock, and heavy metal. This is because this guitarist is both a soloist composer, played in a heavy metal band "Steeler" and also played in a hard rock band "Alcatrazz" My Deep Purple and Frank Zappa collection get complicated easily too.
My backup is still USB and firewire hard drives. I still have stuff on optical. I no longer create DVD/Rs or CDROMs for my own storage as they are time-consuming and have never been very convenient. Plus, I get a lot of overlap in my data collections, so one group of related data may only take up 1GB but another will take up 5GB or 9GB, so I have to deal with spreading groups of data across discs. I'm actually running into this problem again with my disparate collection of USB and firewire HDDs.
Metatagging would definitely be better. And Mac OS X makes it easy with Spotlight. But it's such a task going back and metatagging the tens of thousands of files on my backups. What I need as a Mac user is a text field in Finder which quietly loads spotlight comments as I arrow through files, or perhaps the ability to press a key when highlighting a file, and having the file's metatags replace the file name so that I can make edits with the same motions that I would rename a file. cmd + I requires me to refocus.
What on earth are you talking about, you paranoid git? No one is saying that you have to use Starbuck's incredibly fast and free wireless access while enjoying a delicious and sweet blended coffee drink with your choice of flavors such as caramel, hazenut, mocha, and vanilla for a new low, low price.
And yet, a simple game of 20 questions with Tea Partiers, of which I have encountered many, always brings me back to a pathological distrust of government, foreigners, intellectual elites, and homosexuals, and resentment of two or more major American industries, and a deep near-paranoid suspicion that someone else is getting ahead on their labor. Don't look to the Tea Party for anything but anarchy. They remind me of vegan tree huggers that preach while gorging themselves synthesized soy foods made from palm oils harvested from the Amazon.
How are you guys playing these games? Are you maintaining an old system just for games, or are you running virtual machines?
I am only using Bing on my Android phone right now, by choice. My mobile phone based searches are different from my home-based searches. I often need to find a restaurant. With Bing and my GPS active, I could simply type in a restaurant by name, and Bing would accurately return the restaurant I was looking for with a dial option as well as listings of several other restaurants in the area. Bing's video searches seems better than what Google provides, and the new way Google Images is presented really is a drag on my browser; otherwise Google still is my primary.
There is a Washington Post article that states that Google is increasingly having problems with spam in search results. http://wapo.st/ij8iWO
Yes, I think so; and so wouldn't that establish the case that something else drives us if we routinely act against our programming and do things that aren't expected of us? Admittedly, I'm not into philosophical questions about free will. I don't know whether there's an external world. I might just be a brain in a vat in a lab, but I really couldn't care less. So I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to this stuff, heh.
I think you're correct. That is, if we are talking this religiosity gene being an actual biochemical entity, then would just mean one is predisposed or has the genetic potential. I had the genetic predisposition to having blue eyes, but it didn't work out that way. I have a gene for alcoholism, but so far I'm fine.
If this religiosity gene isn't just another way of selling the "God Gene", then maybe it's more of a metaphorical genetic way of describing social behavior, akin to Pandora prescribing "genes" to define qualities in music. Does anyone know whether Sociologists describe things like this genetically?
Is individualism really the correct word though? I agree that faiths such as Buddhism don't squarely compare with the mass of "God commands" based faiths in circulation, but ultimately, it would seem that buddhists conform in much the same way. I have visited Buddhist monasteries, and the monks living therein never have seemed individualistic. I can say little about those lone gurus in India who do endurance feats to test their faith, but again, aren't they conformist as well?
I'd like to see something quantitative with high confident levels proving that homosexuality becomes more likely as any event occurs.
I would start with observing an aggregation of rational purposeful behavior that generally works in the best interest of the person, but which sometimes violates societal expectations, better judgment, convenience, or personal programming. Obviously we want the subject to have a tendency to do things that are in his interest, otherwise we're dealing with a broken person that will likely fail in the game of evolution. My assumption is that we have deep-rooted programming driving us to survive and to make decisions that enhance the likelihood of our survival. We want the subject to be rational, and not some automaton spinning randomly around. I think if you observe this behavior often enough in enough subjects over a long period of time, you can safely say freewill exists.
You're forgetting another possibility: that a spacefaring race is aware of us and has decided they aren't interested in knowing us. There's precedent here on earth for hermit civilizations. We might say: "Well, a spacefaring race wouldn't be hermits." Okay, but they could be a bunch of idiots they'd rather not know. There's a precedent for this in my very own neighborhood.
Shut up, you. Mr. Wizard blew away everything Discovery channel has put out. Otherwise, yes, you're correct about MythBusters.
Excellent, if there's strong evidence supporting that. It makes for a very interesting story, considering Tunisia. Unfortunately, those wanting a theocracy likely aren't above allowing the secularists to do the hard work of revolting whilst they wait for the opportunity to take over. I wonder how the U.S. will react to this. Mubarak is our ally. We train and support their military.
Ironically, I think I would choose the tyranny of a military despot over the freedom of a "loving" theocracy. Thankfully, I have never experienced either firsthand, but I am aware of life in the former Yugoslavia, East Germany, and Egypt. Either way, I am subjugated. Either way, I have to survive by not pissing off the government. But strong military despots have a proven ability to create stability, and the populace is generally equally oppressed regardless of their faith. In a theocracy, you had better be of the right religion, and even then, you could still be a target for the segments of society that are the most oppressed.
3D appealed to me as a kid. I saw Friday the 13th III, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, and Jaws III in 3D. I found that nothing great was made amazing by 3D, and nothing bad was made good. I don't like 5.1 audio. It's unnatural to me. Too often sounds appear to me coming from the wrong location. Stereo is all I need. I am an audiophile by the way which a rich investment in analog and digital hi-fi. I'm also not alone in preferring traditional stereo.
In any case, this is an Ebert complaint, and I don't care much for Ebert, so may he enjoy many many more 3D movies.
Don't be naive. But if you must, don't be insulting. It's not spouting off to point out the Muslim Brotherhood is a major rival, one with tremendous populist support, and one which could very easily destroy any secular movement. Nothing parent has said requires a stretch of the imagination. I'd wait until we see microblogging and vlogging activity from a large number of secularist rioters before I believe this is a pro-democracy rally à la Tiananmen Square.
It's a bit premature to say that these Egyptians are protesting out of a desire for a real chance of democracy. They already see themselves as a democracy. It is quite possible that these rioters represent various Islamic factions such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and have the ultimate goal of re-establishing Egypt as a theocratic democracy, which in reality, won't be much of a democracy at all. As Egypt is an important military ally of the United States, this is a potentially bad for the west as Mubarak has supported the U.S. over the years.
Hmm, I didn't know that Chic-Fil-A espoused Christian values when I suggested it. That might explain why my neighborhood franchise never seems to be open on sundays in a busy marketplace. I just was suggesting a delicious chicken filet sandwich that will do horrible things to your stomach afterwards.
I'll argue against equivocating mobile phones, iPhone or otherwise, to console games for the sake of playing devil's advocate. A reason some people might complain about Apple and Motorola blocking apps or preventing certain uses and not Microsoft or Sony might be that video game consoles are an establishment technology, something that a few generations have grown up with. As such, there's been an acceptance of the fact that a game console, whilst being a computer, is locked down and simplified versus a personal computer. Smartphones are still very new, having evolved from the PDA. The PDA did not have an app store, but instead followed the PC tradition of the user searching for the software he wants to run, acquiring it, and then installing it on his device. As a developer, you could acquire your platform SDK easily, develop your own app, and release it without seeking permission, and without worry that the platform's owner would somehow intervene. Today's Android and iOS based devices break that tradition in favor of an iTunes-like model that is still relatively new. Furthermore, when one sees an Android or iPhone, it's easy to relate that device directly to their home computer, so it may be natural for the user to mistakingly assume that he possesses all the privileges and powers on that environment as he would on a home computer. Whereas, video game consoles are still largely viewed as appliances, smartphones are perhaps imagined as replacements for netbooks, laptops, PDAs, and a number of other computing devices we might keep around for limited uses.
Gut feeling, no pun intended, but I'm fairly certain that McDonald's meat isn't as bad as you suggest for two reasons: USDA laws regarding meat processing and the iconic status McDonald's has. To the vegetable lasagna crowd and the anti-corp crowd, McDonald's is the big Satan. The company has a lot of watchdogs actively looking to expose something like this. Taco Bell apparently fell under the radar for a while.
I'm not saying you're wrong though. Just that, I feel very safe eating at McDonald's vs Taco Bell. Let's argue it out over a Chic-Fil-A.
I'm a native German speaker, followed by British English. I speak American English daily as I live in the US, though I use British slang normally. To compound things even more, I'm southern German, and my dialect is a mix of proper German with southern Bavarian and Austrian words and phrases, especially for cooking. For example, I say "Champignons" instead of "Pilze" and "Grüß Gott" instead of "Guten Tag" where formality dictates. Language is so personal. I can understand people having a near revolt over any attempt to change one's language or even declare a formal, proper dialect.
If there was ever an objective reason not to change the English writing system, or writing systems in general, is that we run the risk of losing the history of a word. I'm not just meaning the true origin of a word: Greek, Latin, etc., but also the journey a word takes over the centuries - the reasons "tomb", "comb", and "bomb" aren't pronounced the same. I suppose it only matters to language geeks though, eh?
Exactly. Americans claim to want to know everything their government does, but absent context and sufficient prior studying, nearly everything the government does looks wasteful and/or corrupt. The rest of it just looks boring and tedious. Most people - including even people in political circles have only the most casual interest in the workings of government. Therefore, demanding the right to know and the right of approval over everything the government does is simply unreasonable. It would be impossible for a democracy, let alone any government form, to function efficiently if public consensus was truly required.
You could be right. Having Assange out there does benefit the intelligence community in a couple of ways: wikileaks might actually provide intelligence that we don't already have, and can easily leak intelligence we want him to leak.
Hypothetically yes, but in practice, the chances of the world uniting around you is pretty slim. It's not as if the lone superpower in the world represents the only source of conflict for other countries. But, yes you do suffer ultimately at least in terms of the world's opinion. I do believe a nation ought to seek the respect of other nations just as we as individuals ought to seek the respect of others. Seems only natural.