"...the students were asked to listen to popular music and rate how pleasurable they considered each song." I have to wonder how many hipster-types just dont find popular music pleasurable. I for one cant find much Pop music, as that is what pop basicallly means; or for that matter much popular music all that pleasurable. The overwhelming majority of it hits that subliminal message trigger in my brain. That and ask most music majors or theorists. much of it is composed of the same limited set of chord progressions.

Thie whole Idea is just wrong... Playing/singing along to recorded music is how every musician I have ever met/seen/played with has gotten their start and found their passion for music. Furthermore, Performing songs that everybody already knows is how most bands learn to play with each other, Cover band is the next progression. Many a high-school garage band I have seen belt out "Classics" Cover bands is the way to go, if said musician actually believes s/he can make a career, or even money at all, playing music. The next wedding you go to, ask the band if they paid their royalties... Is every musician going to have to pay royalties for performing these songs? What about music teachers? I took lessons for 6 years on the drums, maybe a third of the time was spent on rudimentary things, the rest was "see/ hear that?, watch me do it, and then you try" Learning how to adapt was everything, and this cannot be done without examples.... are they too stealing the recording? Although TFA might be a bit off, would like to see the actual wording used. If it is only stuff uploaded to the web, I dont necesarrily agree, but I can understand the concept. If you upload a video on YouTube, you are, as far as the way most of these laws were written, a broadcaster, and subject to those terms. Though it seems they can't keep up anyway, so it may be a moot point, You are not profiting from the theft of Intellectual Property, but Google is, for every song/video that they don't have an agreement to host. Of course they have no problem deleting videos to stay within the law, someone else will upload it or something nearly the same very soon and it will be online till the cycle repeats.

From a "real" guitar player, I Find this quite interesting, and honestly, is what I was craving from music games. It's like Powertab with a score at the end. Too bad it's not the first, and the games never came to fruition like guitar tabs do. I can't go find a song, find someone else's interpretation of it, and learn to play it how the "real" guitar players do. I never got the chance to use a MIDI guitar, which is basically what this game converts your guitar into, I'd imagine. The possibilities with those are endless, I've seen and heard great stuff. At the very least, This technology should be exploitable to that end, I believe. Anyone know? It'd probably be a real simple MIDI controller, but it'd be enough for any savvy OSS user, with the plethora of free studio tools available.

Dude! It's like "Super Grand Theft Auto"!!!

BAD's first post made me think of a parent giving their child their smartphone to play with while they are shopping. I couldn't figure why people were asking for his information and such. If it keeps him/her entertained, why not, with supervision, of course. it would certainly free up shopping trips which can be hard with a kid acting-up for everyone involved, parents, other customers, and employees, who in my experience can be fired for saying the wrong thing to, or in front of customers, all it takes is one complaint of that nature.

i think the problem is math is taught backwards, if at all correctly. I have never once in class found out how or why the formula's and expressions and equations were created. Never. Yet, almost all math I've found has had real-world implications, even in theory to the mathematicians who created it. In my experience, this was even more evident in higher-math courses such as calculus, where proofs were done with the same attitude as simple arithmetic. it got to a point where you didnt ask why, you just did the work and handed it in, knowing the theories and concepts with no real way to think about them. Were it not for my luck in several corresponding courses in calculus, biology, and several string theory and game theory specials courtesy of the Disovery Channel and PBS, I doubt I would ever have thought of the simple beauty of math and it as the ultimate language. Math is the one connecting function of everything, even in say, literature, timing is key to a great story, now how do you express time and its relations to other times? Math is important, theoretical math doubly so: Experimental and theoretical math is the boundary pusher of math and science, the two go hand-in-hand at that level. this is the concept that is lost when math becomes commonplace. all math started as a radical new idea of thinking, of explaining and analyzing. to me theoretical math is the benchmark that shows the boundary of human thought. To me somebody who cannot realize the importance of math, especially theoretical math and its relation to science has no right using a computer, which is above all designed to aide in these respects. we have computers to do math.... i.e. we give them rules and an equation to solve. we are now free to become creative mathematicians because we dont have to do the legwork until we get the right answer from the computer.