I've found that to be less true for people who listen to alternative music, and thus had to actively seek out their music, than those who listen to the music considered mainstream. If the peer-pressure is to listen to non-popular music, I suspect you've confused causation with correlation: people who listen to non-mainstream music seek out different peers to be "pressured" by.
Then we find technological and political means of maintaining the global temperature at a level which preserves both human civilization and diverse ecosystems best, to the extent that we can.
One need not subscribe to a "love our Mother Earth" / anthropomorphic Gaia fantasy, nor even be anti-technological, to still identify climate change as a problem. Right now, the costs created by climate change are externalities, which is why the market doesn't respond in a way that mitigates them.
You can see this effect in the Huffington Post. During the run up to the 2010 election it was full of investigative reporting and could be seen as a source for substantive "news".
Dear Mister Future-man:
Do you have any stock tips or winning lottery numbers you could share with those of us living in your past?
After all, the probability of it coming from some some jobless person in his underpants, who is very insecure and defensive of the own reality, and has built his happy-place, is pretty close to 100%.;)
I'm not wearing any underpants, you insensitive clod!
This will, of course, lead to an uptick in US-based webhosting for German businesses. Great news, really. Unless Germany wants to create its own Great Firewall.
Wristwatches - Not a chance. I've tried doing it since my last watch broke, but have hated it the entire time. Can't wait until I can get the inclination to go find a new watch.
What you're telling me is that, for the time being, the mobile phone is replacing the watch. My watch has broken, and I love it (it's a classic Seiko from the 1980s - nothing very expensive, but it suits me - or so I thought) but I've gone over 2 years without feeling bothered enough to get it fixed.
On the other hand, Neolithic people had perfectly functional and valuable neurosurgeons, had tools with better-than-millimetre precision, were capable of large-scale transatlantic sea voyages and were building some very good echo chambers.
Trepanation is all fine and well, but they still smelled like ass.
What you want is called the "Jitterbug." A simple, dedicated phone designed for confused old people who are frightened by technology and change, and sit in their homes watching re-runs of the Andy Griffith show.
Funny, I have just been noticing how long it's been since I've used either of my iPods or my other mp3 players. I just play music and podcasts with my Android phone. I have to agree with the article - the dedicated mp3 player's days are numbered.
It's interesting that it isn't a question of the technology - my last 4 phones were all *capable* of playing mp3s, but it was just too much of a hassle. The interfaces were very, very clunky, getting music into them was a hassle, and the iPod was slimmer, easier, and more convenient. Now, however, the phone wins: the music interface is good enough, and it supports Pandora, last.fm, imeem, etc - imeem lets me store my collection online, so we're talking about access to my entire mp3 collection anywhere. (I actually prefer Lala, but they haven't got their Android or iPhone apps up yet...)
The hold-out on the list for me at this point is the camera. Even low-end digital cameras are much more useful than cameras in phones to me.
Status symbols change over time. Owning velvet pants used to be a status symbol, as was literacy (especially among women.) They aren't anymore.
And displaying status isn't stupid - it will get you laid, get you out of trouble, attract more interesting people to you, get people to do things for you, etc. You may not like status games, or may not be good at them. But dismissing them as "stupid" reeks of sour grapes.
... that anyone who knows anything about it will be able to identify as a cheap knock-off, and you as a wanna-be, within moments. If you want to use a wristwatch as a status symbol, that's fine - but you actually need to have the status (and wealth.) Nothing sadder than trying to write a symbolic check that you can't existentially cash.
The Android app store sells less because it is dominated by a culture of "free" (as in beer) and the Apple app store is not. I run Android and wish it would do well, but if I were designing games, I would not target the Android if my model was to make money by selling games. If I were Zynga, Playfish, or Playdom, however, using the "Freemium" model, I'd be all over the Android. Look at Ian Bogost's article describing the ridiculousness of people asking for refunds for 99 cent games as an indication of how hard it is to make money selling games on mobile platforms.
(Gamers, look at the future of gaming: it is Farmville, and you created it through your cheapness, greed, and immaturity.)
If the problem were accuracy in some objective sense, I would agree with you. But this application is about training a system to match human consensus on the perception of music - the "wisdom of the crowds" is the target, not just the source. It risks "scientizing" popular taste, to make it look like the different categories, genres, and features that people hear are "real" parts of the music. But taken more narrowly, this approach is appropriate for this problem.
As much as I wish it could be for me, there's some serious lacks. The biggest ones are that Google Gears doesn't work and that not all the privacy and security features are working. The lack of working "Create Application Shortcut" (SSB) is another big not-yet-ism.
I have seen universities littered with the wounded, deflated egos and crushed dreams of high-school geeks who had grown up being told how smart they were.
There was something that was vitally different from your experience to your brothers: you had your brother as a sibling, and your brother had you as a sibling.
Depending on the family dynamics involved, siblings can often take very opposite interests to each other, either to distinguish themselves from each other or in response to parents who, themselves, characterize their children differently. Birth order also has an effect (oldest children and only children tend to perform better in IQ tests, partially because they have more uninterrupted adult attention during crucial developmental years. This means, of course, that cultures and social groups that tend to smaller family sizes will show a higher average IQ than those with larger ones.)
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I've found that to be less true for people who listen to alternative music, and thus had to actively seek out their music, than those who listen to the music considered mainstream. If the peer-pressure is to listen to non-popular music, I suspect you've confused causation with correlation: people who listen to non-mainstream music seek out different peers to be "pressured" by.
Then we find technological and political means of maintaining the global temperature at a level which preserves both human civilization and diverse ecosystems best, to the extent that we can.
One need not subscribe to a "love our Mother Earth" / anthropomorphic Gaia fantasy, nor even be anti-technological, to still identify climate change as a problem. Right now, the costs created by climate change are externalities, which is why the market doesn't respond in a way that mitigates them.
You can see this effect in the Huffington Post. During the run up to the 2010 election it was full of investigative reporting and could be seen as a source for substantive "news".
Dear Mister Future-man:
Do you have any stock tips or winning lottery numbers you could share with those of us living in your past?
After all, the probability of it coming from some some jobless person in his underpants, who is very insecure and defensive of the own reality, and has built his happy-place, is pretty close to 100%. ;)
I'm not wearing any underpants, you insensitive clod!
This will, of course, lead to an uptick in US-based webhosting for German businesses. Great news, really. Unless Germany wants to create its own Great Firewall.
To be honest, I would prefer death to 23 years of that kind of hell.
Wristwatches - Not a chance. I've tried doing it since my last watch broke, but have hated it the entire time. Can't wait until I can get the inclination to go find a new watch.
What you're telling me is that, for the time being, the mobile phone is replacing the watch. My watch has broken, and I love it (it's a classic Seiko from the 1980s - nothing very expensive, but it suits me - or so I thought) but I've gone over 2 years without feeling bothered enough to get it fixed.
Yes, but it wasn't the mobile phone what killed the answering machine. Voice mail, on land lines, did that years ago.
On the other hand, Neolithic people had perfectly functional and valuable neurosurgeons, had tools with better-than-millimetre precision, were capable of large-scale transatlantic sea voyages and were building some very good echo chambers.
Trepanation is all fine and well, but they still smelled like ass.
any fashionable man knows that a watch is how a guy shows off.
Any fashionable man with a /. ID with 6 digits or less. Younger men show off with their cell phones, fashionable or not.
Excuse me, I have to tie an onion to my belt.
I think Doctor Manhattan solved that problem well.
What you want is called the "Jitterbug." A simple, dedicated phone designed for confused old people who are frightened by technology and change, and sit in their homes watching re-runs of the Andy Griffith show.
I've bred. I could die of cell phone radiation tomorrow, but the species will continue!
Yes, yes. You're welcome. Just doing my part.
In philosophy and rhetoric, "begging the question" is a technical term, as well.
No, it isn't. It separates the kids who went to state schools from those who went to good ones. A very valuable distinction.
Funny, I have just been noticing how long it's been since I've used either of my iPods or my other mp3 players. I just play music and podcasts with my Android phone. I have to agree with the article - the dedicated mp3 player's days are numbered.
It's interesting that it isn't a question of the technology - my last 4 phones were all *capable* of playing mp3s, but it was just too much of a hassle. The interfaces were very, very clunky, getting music into them was a hassle, and the iPod was slimmer, easier, and more convenient. Now, however, the phone wins: the music interface is good enough, and it supports Pandora, last.fm, imeem, etc - imeem lets me store my collection online, so we're talking about access to my entire mp3 collection anywhere. (I actually prefer Lala, but they haven't got their Android or iPhone apps up yet...)
The hold-out on the list for me at this point is the camera. Even low-end digital cameras are much more useful than cameras in phones to me.
Status symbols change over time. Owning velvet pants used to be a status symbol, as was literacy (especially among women.) They aren't anymore.
And displaying status isn't stupid - it will get you laid, get you out of trouble, attract more interesting people to you, get people to do things for you, etc. You may not like status games, or may not be good at them. But dismissing them as "stupid" reeks of sour grapes.
... that anyone who knows anything about it will be able to identify as a cheap knock-off, and you as a wanna-be, within moments. If you want to use a wristwatch as a status symbol, that's fine - but you actually need to have the status (and wealth.) Nothing sadder than trying to write a symbolic check that you can't existentially cash.
The Android app store sells less because it is dominated by a culture of "free" (as in beer) and the Apple app store is not. I run Android and wish it would do well, but if I were designing games, I would not target the Android if my model was to make money by selling games. If I were Zynga, Playfish, or Playdom, however, using the "Freemium" model, I'd be all over the Android. Look at Ian Bogost's article describing the ridiculousness of people asking for refunds for 99 cent games as an indication of how hard it is to make money selling games on mobile platforms.
(Gamers, look at the future of gaming: it is Farmville, and you created it through your cheapness, greed, and immaturity.)
Show me a overweight Olympic level marathon runner, and I might believe it.
Um, your post is a poster child for the correlation/causation truism.
If the problem were accuracy in some objective sense, I would agree with you. But this application is about training a system to match human consensus on the perception of music - the "wisdom of the crowds" is the target, not just the source. It risks "scientizing" popular taste, to make it look like the different categories, genres, and features that people hear are "real" parts of the music. But taken more narrowly, this approach is appropriate for this problem.
"User side"? This is Linux we're talking about. What is this "user" moon-speak you keep babbling.
As much as I wish it could be for me, there's some serious lacks. The biggest ones are that Google Gears doesn't work and that not all the privacy and security features are working. The lack of working "Create Application Shortcut" (SSB) is another big not-yet-ism.
Chrome for Mac is in the 20% limbo, it seems.
I have seen universities littered with the wounded, deflated egos and crushed dreams of high-school geeks who had grown up being told how smart they were.
There was something that was vitally different from your experience to your brothers: you had your brother as a sibling, and your brother had you as a sibling.
Depending on the family dynamics involved, siblings can often take very opposite interests to each other, either to distinguish themselves from each other or in response to parents who, themselves, characterize their children differently. Birth order also has an effect (oldest children and only children tend to perform better in IQ tests, partially because they have more uninterrupted adult attention during crucial developmental years. This means, of course, that cultures and social groups that tend to smaller family sizes will show a higher average IQ than those with larger ones.)