i can't let it bother me
this is asinine. an article from the new york times about the ipod's shuffle feature. some of the more brilliant quotes:
Lucy Shaw, a social worker in New York, has stopped using Shuffle altogether. "It was totally not reading my moods," she said. It would play upbeat music when she was feeling low--and dark, somber selections when she was feeling upbeat.
The iPod "knows somehow when I am reaching the end of my reserves, when my motivation is flagging," Greist insisted. "It hits me up with 'In Da Club,' and then all of a sudden I am in da club."i want to throw you in da fire. you're all fools. IT'S RANDOM. an apple guy says himself in the article, "The funny thing about it is that it really is random... When you turn on Shuffle Songs, it creates a randomized list of all the music on your iPod without repeating a song."
At the MacSlash discussion site, one posting said: "I'm pretty sure iTunes is not sorting my songs randomly. It seems to learn. I'd say it's using some Bayesian logic and/or simple neural networks to vary probabilities of songs to be selected and adjust parameters of selection by the user's history of song skipping."i'm pretty sure you're an idiot. it's not a cat or a monkey or something. it's a frickin hard drive with a wheel and some buttons and a headphone jack. now i know why lewis black always sounds like his head's going to explode.
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