{"id":649,"date":"2005-01-11T22:50:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T01:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=649"},"modified":"2005-01-11T22:50:51","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T01:50:51","slug":"random-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Random != Random"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he name for Apple&#8217;s new iPod, <em>iPod Shuffle<\/em> reminds me of the very first Sony MD player I bought . If I&#8217;m not wrong, I was one of the first people to actually have one. (I think it was that old, it&#8217;s not even listed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minidisc.org\/part_Players_Sony.html\">on this page<\/a> [note to Alfons: picture please?]). Two completely different technologies: one apparently meant to replace the audio-cassettes. The other, well, to make you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodshuffle\/specs.html\">look fancy<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the name that bothers me and it&#8217;s the name that brings up memories (note, exactly last year I wrote something about <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/000937.html\">MD players too<\/a>) to my MD player&#8217;s <em>random\/shuffle mode<\/em>: it never worked. It did work, but after a couple of hours listening I was always able to exactly guess <em>which<\/em> song was going to be played next. To make matters worse: every individual disk appeared to have its own &#8216;randomness&#8217; factor. I always wondered if I was the only person in the world who ever noticed this behaviour. Maybe things went better after.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Note<\/em>: I&#8217;m aware of the fact that true randomness does not really exist on computers. Actually, it&#8217;s one of the more complex problems in computing and programming.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name for Apple&#8217;s new iPod, iPod Shuffle reminds me of the very first Sony MD player I bought . If I&#8217;m not wrong, I was one of the first people to actually have one. (I think it was that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=649\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}