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- I had considered doing last.fm for my initial comparison report but wasn't sure how to find the community underneath. You mention that there are things other than music discussed but when you explain it, its about music so i'm a little confused there. Do you mean that music is tied into every discussion whether or not it is the main focus of the topic?
- May 5, 2011 9:16 AM
- Well thats just scary. I had known that they keep transcripts of all calls and texts and such but i didn't know about all of the other data that they have recorded. the most shocking to me is that they are recording the gyroscopic data from the iphone. That seems like data that would be useless or difficult to interpret. the only thing that comes to mind is using the accelerometer to measure accelerating and decelerating on highways to map traffic patterns in real time based off of people phones. that would be pretty cool...
- May 5, 2011 9:19 AM
- I found it interesting that Allegra was always treating her game pod like it was her own child. she responded in a matronly manner whenever it was threatened. whats heightens this idea is that fact that the game pods are made out of a flesh, like you mentioned, bus also that they appear alive and are connected via an "umbi cord" which is a direct reference to an umbilical cord that a baby would have. I think cronenburg is showing how technology and the blending machine and flesh is calling attention to the way some people treat their technology.
- May 5, 2011 9:23 AM
- Sounds like ok cupid is rather in depth with its questions. Posting false pictures has been a problem since internet chatrooms first popped up some 10 years ago. there's really no feasible way to ensure that they are actually current or even the same person. you can easily photoshop and manipulate pictures today and just as easily put in false data for your questionare answers. The problem with online dating is that you can entirely shape how a person views you especially since it has more personal information than say facebook does. that being said if an outdated photo is the worst problem you have when meeting someone from an online dating site then thats pretty good.
- May 5, 2011 9:34 AM
- I agree that peer reviewing is very beneficial and that leniency is a handicapping move, rather than being nice. We've all gotten the "your paper is pretty good" comment and no real feedback, teaching the students to properly comment on papers not only helps the person they are reviewing but allows them to be more critical of their own work when doing revisions. they say teaching someone is the best review you can have, why is it that we only teach others math to solidify out knowledge of that topic, why doesn't this extend to the liberal arts side of things?
- May 5, 2011 9:38 AM
- this is a really cool field that is popping up. my friend has a phone that actually shows the weather in the background of the phone. so if its raining outside the phone will have little water droplets on the screen or if its sunny there is a animated sun that is shining in the background of the picture. this only works with the preprogrammed backgrounds but its a starrt. facial recognition software is a little invasive, i agree but it can have practical applications such as recognition software that uses your webcam to see that it is you logging into your computer for extra security, like a thumbprint scan.
- May 5, 2011 9:41 AM
- while an at-at would be the sweetest thing since high fructose corn syrup, the practicality of such a behemoth is limited, i mean you need a piece of cable to take it down like in empire strikes back. I did read an interesting article in the same vein in Wired magazine. it was an article on a guy who is nearly done building a mechanical spiderwalker thing that has the operator sit in the middle where all teh legs meet and sits on a rotating seat that directs the machine kind of like a video game. forward of the controls is which ever way the operator is facing so it allows for quit direction changes and more agile movement. that at at would have trouble skittering off to teh left, or even listing lazily (couldn't resist that star wars joke).
- May 5, 2011 9:55 AM
- I agree that reality is just a perception, just look at those fanatical wow and everquest players. they dont even need a game pod to leave reality for days at a time and live in another world. while these people are typically shunned, are they really that different from neo in their own perceptions of reality, or what matters. its surprising that an economy has sprung up from these games and people will pay real money for in game money and items. its actually pretty amazing that we can generate monetary flow in reality through in game commerce and desires for better weapons. this is kind of a modern day parallel that precedes the direction existenz went with the "what is reality question"
- May 5, 2011 9:51 AM
- well i can say that employers have started using facebook as a way to judge potential new employees. they will look through your face book to determine if you drink or smoke or do drugs. they use it as a means to get a look at the personal you that you don't want to necessarily tell them about, and how that personal you would interact in their business. so i recommend setting you profile to private haha or at least don't have anything you wouldn't want your boss to know about.
- May 5, 2011 9:55 AM
- man i wish i had stumbled onto this a month ago. i was in a bike accident that left my thumbnail all black and awesome looking. it would have been comforting to see other peoples nail injuries and know that i'll be ok even though its going to fall off and i will have an alien thumb for a few months. does this site have a discussion attached to the photos or is it all photo based?
- May 5, 2011 9:59 AM
