How can it not be about money? If I want to buy the single, "Money", for example, and have to buy the whole album, then I've spent $10 more than if I just bought the single. Multiply that times a million brain dead 20-somethings who find Pink Floyd's music to be cutely retro and that's a lot of money.
I hate to break it to you, but there were bad singles on albums since the very first album. Pink Floyd is crazy if they think ever single song on every album deserves the same listener attention. Some songs are just better than others and some are indeed fluff.
If Pink Floyd were serious, why not just make a single track that plays from front to end, forcing the listener to hear it the way that is in line with their artistic vision?
Musicians need to get over themselves. You don't exist without people buying your music (or if you do, you exist like I do, playing 2 or 3 times a month for fun/free beer). If people want to buy a song without buying the rest of the songs, then so be it. If they can't buy just the one or three they want, then the just won't buy any.
You've got it backwards. It is not a crime to see a classified document if you aren't cleared for that level of classification. It is a crime to show somebody a classified document who isn't cleared to see it, however.
why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?
To protect methods and sources. If the bad guys find out HOW we collect on them, they'll stop doing whatever is we use to exploit them.
For example, if a news report says, "US officials have learned that Abu Hamsa is traveling to Yemen" and Abu Hamsa only told one person via cell phone that he was traveling to Yemen, then Abu Hamsa knows his cell phone and any associated encryption have been been compromised. Abu Hamsa stops using his cell phone and we lose that intel. Substitute "cell phone" for "email" or "courier" or "letter" or "smoke signals" and you should see why we need to protect information like this from getting out.
Wow, a bit sensitive are we? I thought my post was pretty tongue-in-cheek, given the whole second half of it...
Anyway, internal combustion engines, at their core, are rather simple designs, and there hasn't been any major gains over the years like you see in other industries. Technology (electronics, computers, etc) have made them more complex and more efficient, but we have yet to make real progress with engines at the core mechanical level.
I don't think "today's automotive engineers" are as awesome as you think. The internal combustion engine has had pathetic progress in the past 30 years or so. Sure we get more horsepower, better fuel efficiency and better safety out of today's cars than your 1974 Pontiac, but I expect a whole lot more progress every 25 years. I also think that Big Oil prefers that we don't make progress and therefore on second thought, engineers are pretty awesome, even though they are hamstrung.
But in your analogy, the dealership has to prove that you did something that warrants voiding the warranty, whereas Apple can just kill your app because it wants to.
No, it's more like if you want to sell brake-pads to that Honda Civic owner, you can only sell them through the Honda dealership's parts department...there ya go...a horrible car analogy for today.
Your anecdote is indeed awesome, but your car sucked even when it was brand new. My 1999 Ford Contour SVT has been nicknamed "Old Reliable" in our family. Yeah, the fit and finish has sucked from day one, and it's all creaky and old, but it has had exactly notdivisiblebyzero percent fewer problems than my 2 year old Mazdaspeed3 (also heavily Ford influenced).
The iPad obviously doesn't have a keyboard! I mean you surf the web by just THINKING the URL you want to go to and the iPad magically takes you there...duh!
Wait, those work on my iPhone and it doesn't have Flash. Just sayin' because for all the nay-saying that goes on about the lack of Flash on the iPhone, a hell of a lot of Flash sites work on my iPhone.
Smashing Magazine is the first link in our bookmarks (Instructional design firm). It's more of an inspirational site than a technical site. We go there for the tips/tricks/freestuff--not for any in-depth professional reference material. It's more like a peer's portfolio, less like an instruction manual.
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If this one is supposed to be extra-special, then I am not seeing it.
That's because you are judging the quality of the website by the number of errors on their home page instead of the quality of the content.
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Maybe because Smashing are a much more respected design firm than those overly-simplistic guys at webpagesthatsuck?
Your post should be +5, not the one you are responding too.
Seriously, that guy rips the very existence of design guides, then provides his own (poor) summary of most well known design principles--parsimony, black text/white background/(red) call out color..etc.
Then he injects ridiculous amounts of bias in his coding examples which are not relevant to the discussion at hand. It's like another command prompt geek coming to a Mac forum and yelling at people who build UIs for a living (cough, happenseverydaytomeonslashdot, cough).
It's one of my favorites too, but it is sort of the antithesis of Slashdot from both content and layout perspectives. Smashing is sort of the OSX to the command prompt that is Slashdot.
I've been in the federal system now for over 17 years, and I've never "clocked in". I fail to see how this is to prevent me from "cheating on my hours" when nobody cares about how many hours I work in the first place.
The reason you have to give fingerprints for a federal job is to pass the security background checks required for the job.
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How can it not be about money? If I want to buy the single, "Money", for example, and have to buy the whole album, then I've spent $10 more than if I just bought the single. Multiply that times a million brain dead 20-somethings who find Pink Floyd's music to be cutely retro and that's a lot of money.
I hate to break it to you, but there were bad singles on albums since the very first album. Pink Floyd is crazy if they think ever single song on every album deserves the same listener attention. Some songs are just better than others and some are indeed fluff.
If Pink Floyd were serious, why not just make a single track that plays from front to end, forcing the listener to hear it the way that is in line with their artistic vision?
Right. And I'm sure you've never skipped a track or shuffled your mighty Pink Floyd CDs?
A+ for the rest of the rant though.
Musicians need to get over themselves. You don't exist without people buying your music (or if you do, you exist like I do, playing 2 or 3 times a month for fun/free beer). If people want to buy a song without buying the rest of the songs, then so be it. If they can't buy just the one or three they want, then the just won't buy any.
You've got it backwards. It is not a crime to see a classified document if you aren't cleared for that level of classification. It is a crime to show somebody a classified document who isn't cleared to see it, however.
Ok, then hold your Representative accountable, but leave the President, Senators and the entire Judicial branch alone.
why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?
To protect methods and sources. If the bad guys find out HOW we collect on them, they'll stop doing whatever is we use to exploit them.
For example, if a news report says, "US officials have learned that Abu Hamsa is traveling to Yemen" and Abu Hamsa only told one person via cell phone that he was traveling to Yemen, then Abu Hamsa knows his cell phone and any associated encryption have been been compromised. Abu Hamsa stops using his cell phone and we lose that intel. Substitute "cell phone" for "email" or "courier" or "letter" or "smoke signals" and you should see why we need to protect information like this from getting out.
Wow, a bit sensitive are we? I thought my post was pretty tongue-in-cheek, given the whole second half of it...
Anyway, internal combustion engines, at their core, are rather simple designs, and there hasn't been any major gains over the years like you see in other industries. Technology (electronics, computers, etc) have made them more complex and more efficient, but we have yet to make real progress with engines at the core mechanical level.
I don't think "today's automotive engineers" are as awesome as you think. The internal combustion engine has had pathetic progress in the past 30 years or so. Sure we get more horsepower, better fuel efficiency and better safety out of today's cars than your 1974 Pontiac, but I expect a whole lot more progress every 25 years. I also think that Big Oil prefers that we don't make progress and therefore on second thought, engineers are pretty awesome, even though they are hamstrung.
But in your analogy, the dealership has to prove that you did something that warrants voiding the warranty, whereas Apple can just kill your app because it wants to.
No, it's more like if you want to sell brake-pads to that Honda Civic owner, you can only sell them through the Honda dealership's parts department...there ya go...a horrible car analogy for today.
Your anecdote is indeed awesome, but your car sucked even when it was brand new. My 1999 Ford Contour SVT has been nicknamed "Old Reliable" in our family. Yeah, the fit and finish has sucked from day one, and it's all creaky and old, but it has had exactly notdivisiblebyzero percent fewer problems than my 2 year old Mazdaspeed3 (also heavily Ford influenced).
Awesome post. I couldn't think of two better examples of companies that let the bottom line dictate everything (GM and Microsoft).
The modern Army is a highly professional organization. There's no need for porn. Plus, some people can actually control themselves.
It's not the job of the government to not allow you to cook because you aren't good at it, which is exactly what the previous post is advocating.
The iPad obviously doesn't have a keyboard! I mean you surf the web by just THINKING the URL you want to go to and the iPad magically takes you there...duh!
no being treated like an imbecile.
This says more about you than it does Apple.
Wait, those work on my iPhone and it doesn't have Flash. Just sayin' because for all the nay-saying that goes on about the lack of Flash on the iPhone, a hell of a lot of Flash sites work on my iPhone.
Yes, because it would be great public policy to keep people with other interests and obligations away from computers...
Smashing Magazine is the first link in our bookmarks (Instructional design firm). It's more of an inspirational site than a technical site. We go there for the tips/tricks/freestuff--not for any in-depth professional reference material. It's more like a peer's portfolio, less like an instruction manual.
If this one is supposed to be extra-special, then I am not seeing it.
That's because you are judging the quality of the website by the number of errors on their home page instead of the quality of the content.
Maybe because Smashing are a much more respected design firm than those overly-simplistic guys at webpagesthatsuck?
Your post should be +5, not the one you are responding too.
Seriously, that guy rips the very existence of design guides, then provides his own (poor) summary of most well known design principles--parsimony, black text/white background/(red) call out color..etc.
Then he injects ridiculous amounts of bias in his coding examples which are not relevant to the discussion at hand. It's like another command prompt geek coming to a Mac forum and yelling at people who build UIs for a living (cough, happenseverydaytomeonslashdot, cough).
It's one of my favorites too, but it is sort of the antithesis of Slashdot from both content and layout perspectives. Smashing is sort of the OSX to the command prompt that is Slashdot.
I've been in the federal system now for over 17 years, and I've never "clocked in". I fail to see how this is to prevent me from "cheating on my hours" when nobody cares about how many hours I work in the first place.
The reason you have to give fingerprints for a federal job is to pass the security background checks required for the job.