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Perhaps that's Google's intention. They are using your human intelligence to make educated guesses, rather than using AI. Your choices will be added to their dataset.

I agree with all this.

But, a major motivation to remaster old records is due to copyright expiring on the old recordings, particularly in Europe. A remastered release is considered a new release in terms of copyright, which can therefore be protected, I believe.

The depressing mountain of very cheap public domain John Coltrane (for just one example) "reissues" by every man and his dog was foreseen by the record companies.

And, while I'm here, these cheap reissues of expired copyright recordings often say they are "remastered" when all they've done is tweak the equaliser and added some phasing. For no other reason, these RVG remasters are great in order to identify the reference recording amongst the deluge of bedroom re-hashes.

(And, RIP Bobby Hutcherson. RVG's remasters of his recordings sparkle).

Someone was almost murdered. Of course it matters.

Give her the phone! GIVE HER THE PHONE!!

edit: OK, I'm being downvoted. That's fine. But, why put your irreplaceable life in mortal danger for the sake of keeping hold of replaceable consumer electronics? That's the disconnect I'm finding hard to process.

True. But for it to succeed and be widely adopted, it really needs an organization that is able to host it for the masses.

Email didn't evolve with Gmail. Only the UI evolved.

It could be suggested that Wave was a revolution rather than an evolution, and that was its greatest weakness. I'm sad that it's gone.

That's not a logo. It's Camelia, the spokesbug for Perl 6!

(Perl reaching out to pre-schoolers, it seems)

UPDATE: It appears that the logo was designed by Larry Wall. I now see its brilliance!

It appears that that article applies to situations where you need to make a choice.

When you accept the UI defaults, someone has chosen your meal or movie for you - no choice needs to be made.

Having a choice doesn't mean you need to make a choice. There's a thing called default settings that apply to those who want to be told what to do.

The choice you are making between different ways of dying has nothing do to with the point being made.