The thing I hate about mixes is their lack of proportional control. I'd like to hear a _little_ Reggae, not 1/2 Reggae, or even 1/5 Reggae, maybe one Reggae song every three hours. I've got a great Reggae station in Pandora, but as soon as it's in a mix, it seriously overdoes its presence.
So, yeah, my Chrome will do this (fans) but only when I'm on a Reddit page full of animated GIFs... if you computer is always doing this, maybe you should close your Reddit window once in awhile?
Isn't the whole thing missing the point?
I mean, really, when's the last time you were concerned about which browser to use because you only had 6 hours of battery left if you used Chrome to surf, instead of 7 if you used Edge?
Um, no. In previous Chrome builds (<53) it would spin laptop fans endlessly even when nothing was going on and use at least 50% CPU, at close to max freq. Battery life was significantly worsened just by having Chrome open. So when was the last time I was concerned about battery life due to which browser? A couple of months ago it was a real problem. Now they're close enough that Chrome is usable, because it's so much better as a browser and only a little worse on the battery.
If you bitch to them loudly enough, they just might start taking classical seriously. Especially if you've signed up for their $10/month service and you're threatening to leave.
They score music on "dimensions" and what they need to do to fix the classical selection is add dimensions that classical listeners care about, then as you rate their selections up or down, they'll steer future selections toward things you've liked and away from things you've disliked (and they'll always still slip in "heavy rotation promoted" songs that even vaguely resemble your ratings - this is how they keep your prices down, by extracting money from other sources.)
Right now, I'd bet their engine is "blind" to the dimensions you care about, so all the ratings in the world won't matter, they'll still be playing you Baby Mozart because it's by the same composer you liked in another song.
I'm surprised at how much time I used to spend making "mixtapes," or even just straight tapes of albums. Couldn't play vinyl in the car, and over half my listening time was in the car.
With Pandora, if you take the time to rate the songs they choose for you, you can get a pretty decent "station" for listening after about 20-30 ratings. Or, you can just name one song and listen to whatever garb they think matches that, and it's still always better than listening to radio with ads.
I've had a continuous Pandora One subscription since 2008... I used it free off and on since about 2005. I think I bought my last CD from Amazon (or anywhere) in about 2007. We sold our (combined) CD collection to a used-dealer around 2010. Don't miss 'em, do wish Pandora had better offline support - paying $0.01/MB to get music while on the road is a little crazy when you can load every song you've ever heard at full quality onto a $10 chip that's smaller than a fingernail.
It's all about the ads. Can we get decent music, in the style we are in the mood for, without ads? I was good with that at $3/month, I'm starting to squirm at $5/month - $10/month is clearly over the line for me.
I mean, really, when's the last time you were concerned about which browser to use because you only had 6 hours of battery left if you used Chrome to surf, instead of 7 if you used Edge? And, if you're on battery for that long, odds are you're binge-watching a series on Netflix while camping or something, and you will be far more concerned with the battery performance of your wireless connection and the video rendering engine, rather than the browser.
Far far more important than differences in browser energy consumption is the performance of your battery manager and whether or not your laptop battery is performing like new, bricked like so many get after a couple of years, or bulging out and threatening to catch fire like it's a 2006 MacBookPro.
Waking up and going about your normal daily activities is a violation of several laws, some with potential for serious punishment.
Bragging about beating the system and attaching your name to it - that's more likely to attract attention and get one or more of those many laws enforced.
Even when there are no written laws against the action in question, "the system" has its ways of punishing the irritating.
Algorithms decide and optimize as they are tuned to... they're also easy to cheat, game, and otherwise manipulate - human managers can adapt and compensate when worker bees start to game the system.
To me, the interesting question is: what is the statute of limitations in this case? If taxes are like murder, then there is no expiration date on prosecution and governments can dig infinitely deep into the past seeking back taxes. If it is seven years, how much of that $21B pre-dates the limits of back-collection? I am anticipating some back-room horse trading that will settle on a negotiated start date for tax liability under the new enforcement interpretation of the existing laws.
Therein lies the $21B question. In the past, it was questionable but nobody questioned it, and, crucially, no court ruled on it. Now that there are hundreds of Billions at stake (Apple isn't the only corporation interpreting the laws this way), the tax ministries are calling the question for a ruling.
If the corporations wanted protection under our legal system, they should have brought this issue to court at a time when they could have obtained a favorable ruling. Instead, the politicians are betting that, in the current climate, the courts will rule against the corporations and, so, they are pressing the point now. Sit back and enjoy the show as corporations now attempt to buy off the politicians, in multiple countries simultaneously, to get them to back down / drop the issue, or even press the case in court and then deliberately botch the prosecution (just enough) to obtain a ruling favorable to the corporations.
When I was about 9, I used to vaporize copper wires by shorting them across partially inserted plugs... the copper would sort of plate the nearby wall plate, when it didn't cover it with carbon. Quite amazing how big a wire you can do that with without tripping a 15A breaker.
Sadly, I am 'murican, and this whole election cycle has been nothing but depressing news, I'm completely uninspired to research either of the major candidates because I feel cheated by only being given these two choices. My limited impression of Trump's VP selection is that he's vanilla, bland, and otherwise un-remarkable. I don't think I'd ever sign off on DT to "handle the football" or be the "great deciderator" as GWBush called himself, just too much off the wall rhetoric and position reversals with him to trust him with a nuclear option. So, that leaves voting for an un-likable woman, or making a statement voting for some other candidate who will never win. We'll see where emotion and propaganda take me by November.
but even if he (Trump) doesn't go senile in office,
Why wait to worry about that. He (conveniently) can't remember saying things that are -- literally -- on video tape *now* -- like supporting the war in Iraq (video w/Howard Stern) and military intervention in Libya (video w/Matt Lauer). Though, to be fair, even Matt Lauer didn't remember Trump supporting the latter, despite The Daily Show Uncovers Video with Trump Telling Lauer He Supports War on Libya
Rush Limbaugh apparently forgot that he, himself was strung out on oxycodone while he was bashing drug abusers on his radio show. Or, maybe that's just the conservative way: "do as I say, not as I do."
Regardless of the hype machines, this election, more than any in recent memory, should be one where the Vice Presidential candidates are as closely scrutinized as the Presidentials. Trump would be the oldest president ever at time of election - his plastic surgery and makeup may make him look reasonably healthy, but even if he doesn't go senile in office, he's more of a lightning rod for assassination (think: anxious foreign powers) than even Obama was.
Hillary may be a chick, but she too has seen too many springs, and has not led the pampered life of a private sector CEO / television star. And the senility question looms large for her as well.
Well, it would be interesting to find out that the Milky Way is the oldest galaxy in the Universe, and that life really does take 4B years to evolve intelligence.
Actually, this observation would seem to imply that we are, indeed, at the center of the universe after all - if it's the same in all directions.
Now, the challenge is to invent a cosmological explanation for how you can travel a billion light years in any direction and then find the same thing: that you are still at the center of the universe.
I wouldn't hold 3 houses against BS, or any candidate - even if one is a $600K beach house, which is probably pretty modest, as beach houses go.... Any candidate who is brazen enough to sell a house to a party interested in an up-coming vote (at any price, really, but) for double its current market value, and obviously then to reverse a previously held policy conviction and vote for their buyer's interests... that's what I wish our media would focus on, flog in the spotlight and get people to care about.
We have so many people in this world with time on their hands and little of value to do, more of them should objectively follow our elected leaders and hold them accountable for their actions, especially policy reversals, and drive the political system toward greater transparency. If you've put yourself in public office, affecting the lives of millions with the way you vote on issues, you shouldn't have privacy or secrecy in your personal business dealings, except in cases of extreme national security sensitivity, and that should be another drive: to reduce the need for that.
Congressmen's wives and even relatives/close friends engaged in insider trading, shady real-estate deals, development projects dependent on political action... I'd get behind Trump's slogan if it were "Make America Great, Finally," because - in truth - there was no golden era. Pre World War II was pretty bleak in so many ways. If I had to pick an era to call "Great" I'd go for the late 60s/early 70s, and those years were still stained with Vietnam, business as usual corruption, rampant lingering racism and prejudices, and an economy that more or less demanded dual income households to maintain "middle class" status - at least in my part of the country. Inflation was a serious economic problem in the late 70s, and division of wealth has been on greased skids to hell since 1980.
Or, we could all live like Hawaiians, ignore the political crap and just enjoy life for what it is - pretty good, overall.
I've met Rubio in person, before he was a Senator. He "wowed the crowd" at one of his "100 ideas" base-building exercises. Sounded like a great guy who really cared about us and our issues and like he might be able to make something happen. Then months went by, and nothing happened.
Rubio made positive change in absolutely NONE of his "100 ideas" - maybe he got a little education for himself about what the people want, but he did absolutely nothing to help any of us. Some (about 20) of the ideas did come to fruition, but no thanks to efforts on Rubio's part, they made progress without his help.
Rubio is a typical politician, making a buck for himself here and there in exchange for giving other people bigger money through laws he votes for or against. Check into his personal home sales after the 2008 real-estate bust, it's just one of many publically available stories about why Rubio isn't worthy to hold public office at any level.
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The thing I hate about mixes is their lack of proportional control. I'd like to hear a _little_ Reggae, not 1/2 Reggae, or even 1/5 Reggae, maybe one Reggae song every three hours. I've got a great Reggae station in Pandora, but as soon as it's in a mix, it seriously overdoes its presence.
So, yeah, my Chrome will do this (fans) but only when I'm on a Reddit page full of animated GIFs... if you computer is always doing this, maybe you should close your Reddit window once in awhile?
Isn't the whole thing missing the point?
I mean, really, when's the last time you were concerned about which browser to use because you only had 6 hours of battery left if you used Chrome to surf, instead of 7 if you used Edge?
Um, no. In previous Chrome builds (<53) it would spin laptop fans endlessly even when nothing was going on and use at least 50% CPU, at close to max freq. Battery life was significantly worsened just by having Chrome open. So when was the last time I was concerned about battery life due to which browser? A couple of months ago it was a real problem. Now they're close enough that Chrome is usable, because it's so much better as a browser and only a little worse on the battery.
If you bitch to them loudly enough, they just might start taking classical seriously. Especially if you've signed up for their $10/month service and you're threatening to leave.
They score music on "dimensions" and what they need to do to fix the classical selection is add dimensions that classical listeners care about, then as you rate their selections up or down, they'll steer future selections toward things you've liked and away from things you've disliked (and they'll always still slip in "heavy rotation promoted" songs that even vaguely resemble your ratings - this is how they keep your prices down, by extracting money from other sources.)
Right now, I'd bet their engine is "blind" to the dimensions you care about, so all the ratings in the world won't matter, they'll still be playing you Baby Mozart because it's by the same composer you liked in another song.
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I'm surprised at how much time I used to spend making "mixtapes," or even just straight tapes of albums. Couldn't play vinyl in the car, and over half my listening time was in the car.
With Pandora, if you take the time to rate the songs they choose for you, you can get a pretty decent "station" for listening after about 20-30 ratings. Or, you can just name one song and listen to whatever garb they think matches that, and it's still always better than listening to radio with ads.
I've had a continuous Pandora One subscription since 2008... I used it free off and on since about 2005. I think I bought my last CD from Amazon (or anywhere) in about 2007. We sold our (combined) CD collection to a used-dealer around 2010. Don't miss 'em, do wish Pandora had better offline support - paying $0.01/MB to get music while on the road is a little crazy when you can load every song you've ever heard at full quality onto a $10 chip that's smaller than a fingernail.
It's all about the ads. Can we get decent music, in the style we are in the mood for, without ads? I was good with that at $3/month, I'm starting to squirm at $5/month - $10/month is clearly over the line for me.
Isn't the whole thing missing the point?
I mean, really, when's the last time you were concerned about which browser to use because you only had 6 hours of battery left if you used Chrome to surf, instead of 7 if you used Edge? And, if you're on battery for that long, odds are you're binge-watching a series on Netflix while camping or something, and you will be far more concerned with the battery performance of your wireless connection and the video rendering engine, rather than the browser.
Far far more important than differences in browser energy consumption is the performance of your battery manager and whether or not your laptop battery is performing like new, bricked like so many get after a couple of years, or bulging out and threatening to catch fire like it's a 2006 MacBookPro.
Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, smells like a duck - it's a duck.
Waking up and going about your normal daily activities is a violation of several laws, some with potential for serious punishment.
Bragging about beating the system and attaching your name to it - that's more likely to attract attention and get one or more of those many laws enforced.
Even when there are no written laws against the action in question, "the system" has its ways of punishing the irritating.
Algorithms decide and optimize as they are tuned to... they're also easy to cheat, game, and otherwise manipulate - human managers can adapt and compensate when worker bees start to game the system.
Maybe the EU will settle for a restoration of the headphone jack?
Ireland was an EU member before Apple was (recently) profitable.
To me, the interesting question is: what is the statute of limitations in this case? If taxes are like murder, then there is no expiration date on prosecution and governments can dig infinitely deep into the past seeking back taxes. If it is seven years, how much of that $21B pre-dates the limits of back-collection? I am anticipating some back-room horse trading that will settle on a negotiated start date for tax liability under the new enforcement interpretation of the existing laws.
If what Apple did was legal in the past
Therein lies the $21B question. In the past, it was questionable but nobody questioned it, and, crucially, no court ruled on it. Now that there are hundreds of Billions at stake (Apple isn't the only corporation interpreting the laws this way), the tax ministries are calling the question for a ruling.
If the corporations wanted protection under our legal system, they should have brought this issue to court at a time when they could have obtained a favorable ruling. Instead, the politicians are betting that, in the current climate, the courts will rule against the corporations and, so, they are pressing the point now. Sit back and enjoy the show as corporations now attempt to buy off the politicians, in multiple countries simultaneously, to get them to back down / drop the issue, or even press the case in court and then deliberately botch the prosecution (just enough) to obtain a ruling favorable to the corporations.
Oblig: http://marshallbrain.com/manna...
Manna - management by algorithm - the final precursor step to total automation.
When I was about 9, I used to vaporize copper wires by shorting them across partially inserted plugs... the copper would sort of plate the nearby wall plate, when it didn't cover it with carbon. Quite amazing how big a wire you can do that with without tripping a 15A breaker.
Sadly, I am 'murican, and this whole election cycle has been nothing but depressing news, I'm completely uninspired to research either of the major candidates because I feel cheated by only being given these two choices. My limited impression of Trump's VP selection is that he's vanilla, bland, and otherwise un-remarkable. I don't think I'd ever sign off on DT to "handle the football" or be the "great deciderator" as GWBush called himself, just too much off the wall rhetoric and position reversals with him to trust him with a nuclear option. So, that leaves voting for an un-likable woman, or making a statement voting for some other candidate who will never win. We'll see where emotion and propaganda take me by November.
but even if he (Trump) doesn't go senile in office,
Why wait to worry about that. He (conveniently) can't remember saying things that are -- literally -- on video tape *now* -- like supporting the war in Iraq (video w/Howard Stern) and military intervention in Libya (video w/Matt Lauer). Though, to be fair, even Matt Lauer didn't remember Trump supporting the latter, despite The Daily Show Uncovers Video with Trump Telling Lauer He Supports War on Libya
Rush Limbaugh apparently forgot that he, himself was strung out on oxycodone while he was bashing drug abusers on his radio show. Or, maybe that's just the conservative way: "do as I say, not as I do."
Regardless of the hype machines, this election, more than any in recent memory, should be one where the Vice Presidential candidates are as closely scrutinized as the Presidentials. Trump would be the oldest president ever at time of election - his plastic surgery and makeup may make him look reasonably healthy, but even if he doesn't go senile in office, he's more of a lightning rod for assassination (think: anxious foreign powers) than even Obama was.
Hillary may be a chick, but she too has seen too many springs, and has not led the pampered life of a private sector CEO / television star. And the senility question looms large for her as well.
Well, it would be interesting to find out that the Milky Way is the oldest galaxy in the Universe, and that life really does take 4B years to evolve intelligence.
Actually, this observation would seem to imply that we are, indeed, at the center of the universe after all - if it's the same in all directions.
Now, the challenge is to invent a cosmological explanation for how you can travel a billion light years in any direction and then find the same thing: that you are still at the center of the universe.
Good point, there are no good choices.
I wouldn't hold 3 houses against BS, or any candidate - even if one is a $600K beach house, which is probably pretty modest, as beach houses go.... Any candidate who is brazen enough to sell a house to a party interested in an up-coming vote (at any price, really, but) for double its current market value, and obviously then to reverse a previously held policy conviction and vote for their buyer's interests... that's what I wish our media would focus on, flog in the spotlight and get people to care about.
We have so many people in this world with time on their hands and little of value to do, more of them should objectively follow our elected leaders and hold them accountable for their actions, especially policy reversals, and drive the political system toward greater transparency. If you've put yourself in public office, affecting the lives of millions with the way you vote on issues, you shouldn't have privacy or secrecy in your personal business dealings, except in cases of extreme national security sensitivity, and that should be another drive: to reduce the need for that.
Congressmen's wives and even relatives/close friends engaged in insider trading, shady real-estate deals, development projects dependent on political action... I'd get behind Trump's slogan if it were "Make America Great, Finally," because - in truth - there was no golden era. Pre World War II was pretty bleak in so many ways. If I had to pick an era to call "Great" I'd go for the late 60s/early 70s, and those years were still stained with Vietnam, business as usual corruption, rampant lingering racism and prejudices, and an economy that more or less demanded dual income households to maintain "middle class" status - at least in my part of the country. Inflation was a serious economic problem in the late 70s, and division of wealth has been on greased skids to hell since 1980.
Or, we could all live like Hawaiians, ignore the political crap and just enjoy life for what it is - pretty good, overall.
Apple was the first to leak customer location data in bulk.
I've met Rubio in person, before he was a Senator. He "wowed the crowd" at one of his "100 ideas" base-building exercises. Sounded like a great guy who really cared about us and our issues and like he might be able to make something happen. Then months went by, and nothing happened.
Rubio made positive change in absolutely NONE of his "100 ideas" - maybe he got a little education for himself about what the people want, but he did absolutely nothing to help any of us. Some (about 20) of the ideas did come to fruition, but no thanks to efforts on Rubio's part, they made progress without his help.
Rubio is a typical politician, making a buck for himself here and there in exchange for giving other people bigger money through laws he votes for or against. Check into his personal home sales after the 2008 real-estate bust, it's just one of many publically available stories about why Rubio isn't worthy to hold public office at any level.