You are missing the point. You list THREE manufacturers for each product, but you write the requirements that match the one you want and ONLY the one you want.
Hell, I've gotten two jobs because they wanted me and wrote the reqs based off of my resume.
Or FISA. One definition of a "US Person" (when determining if the government is forbidden from collecting on a target, one of the forbidding categories being "US Person") is a corporation fully incorporated in the United States. Although I hate the way Repubs say corporations are people (for tax arguments, I guess?), they are people when it comes to 4th amendment protection.
Hi have an iPad and it runs all of the major eReader formats. I assume Android is the same. Those of you saying you can buy a cheap $75 eReader, did you multiply 75 by the number of eBook formats out there, since those cheap ones only play their proprietary format?
That's how government contracts work. Also, this is how government job positions work. You write the requirements to match exactly the single person you want and only that person.
Wait, what? I shouldn't have to do anything with a hard drive for several years. My anecdote, however, is that hard drives die a sudden, horrible, unreversable, unannounced death long before the usable life span of the computer itself. Worst technology ever.
And what in the hell kind of analogy is akin to changing motor oil when talking about a hard drive? I should have been applying some sort of lubricant to the moving parts all these years????
...there are plenty of hard drives with "actual moving parts" that have lived forever.
Hmmm, been using 'puters since 1984 and still haven't found one that has a hard drive that, a) lived forever, or b) gave me a warning before it died a horrible death.
Seriously awful technology that is long overdue for an overhaul.
Steve Jobs never said Apple doesn't do at least some market research. What he said was the products don't stem from market research and boardroom decisions. I believe Apple's marketing is targeted at how to sell the really cool-yet-secrative things they are making now that none of us know about, as opposed to market research that dictates what they should make next.
Yep. Every slashdot nerd should be forced to read The Non-Designers Design Book. We all (generally) can spot a good design, but very few of us can say WHY something is good. Once you can say why something is good, then you can actually design things that are good.
It doesn't take a UI expert to understand that a bazillion primary colored tiles on a large external non-touch monitor is a bad design. It doesn't take a UI expert to understand there's no need for a touch interface on such a large vertical surface, as well. So, it doesn't take a UI expert to understand that a design that might be ok on a phone or a tablet computer, is completely worthless on a desktop paradigm.
Oops, now you got me switching my definition of chops. Dave Grohl has no shredding chops (i.e. 10000000 bmp, Dave Weckl-y amazing all over the kit weird time signature stuff). He has amazing musical chops for the style of music he plays....like Ringo.
Haha, you cite Stewart Copeland...one of my favorite drummers...Dude plays a million notes a song....every song...he just plays them in the context of a groove (which is awesome, and a lot in my style), and not all over the kit like somebody like Marco Minneman or Thomas Lang. I prefer groove monsters like Stewart Copeland to over-the-top drumming and "I'm the worst guitarist in the band so I get to play drums" Ringo style drumming.
Trust me, my favorite drummers play fewer notes than the big showy guys that make all the Hudson DVDs. My favorite of all time is Steve Gadd. That old drum battle video with him, Weckl, and Vinny C. shows what playing with restraint can do. Sure Weckl and Vinnie are shredding the kits, but it's a tiresome wall of sound. Gadd, on the other hand, knows how to space it out. And back to my litmus, as hard as I try, and as relative simple as most of Gadd's playing is, there's simply no recreating that sound. They are called Gadd-isms for a reason...people play "in the style" of Gadd, but nobody can play LIKE Gadd. Sure I could practice my ass off and play all those Weckl/Vinny C. riffs, but it's not to my taste. Vinny C., for the record can and does play with taste. Hell, he toured with Faith Hill for over a year. How much shreddin' can you do over the top of that fluff?
Nah, you've got it all wrong. There's all sorts of sophisticated music that I just don't get (classical, for one....snoooooze). What I'm saying is if that you aren't musically trained, I can see how the jazz form is lost on you. That's not saying ANYTHING about you and I'm not being all hipster either. It's like me trying to understand Rap/Hip Hop. It doesn't resonate with me because it is speaks to something I'm completely unfamiliar with. Therefore, my cognitive biases cause me to not like it (we tend to not like what we don't understand). Likewise for Country music. I don't get it. I'm not saying it's bad musical form (well, most canned country formats are exactly that, but who's to judge...), it doesn't speak to me because I wasn't raised on dirt roads with old trucks, hunting guns, and coon dogs (for one example). I'm a suburbanite raised on hard bop and free jazz (and some plain old rock and roll).
Any more proof that jazz is a difficult genre to appreciate? Try any of the garbage "smooth jazz" at your local grocery store for size.
Look, jazz is about mastery of an instrument and virtuosity, and of course, improv. You can't improv without understanding musical theory because it will sound like noise. But like I said, if you don't understand musical theory, it probably just sounds like displeasing noise to you.
And you are right, there is no objective standard. Well, except for that giant catalogues of jazz standards, I suppose.
Actually that's not exactly what *I* said. I was responding to the post above that inferred some sort of chemical/hormonal reaction to music. I was basically rejecting this notion and saying my joy from jazz (not so much classical) is based on my understanding of the musical form. I can see how people who aren't trained in music can find Jazz to be unpleasant to listen to. It's like watching a movie in a foreign language or studying something you have no understanding/interest in...booooring.
To contradict myself, however, I do find metal (really hard metal) to be very effective when I'm running or am under a tight deadline at work. It does "pump me up", as I imagine techno pumps up kids who are also chemically pumped up on X, except I'm only pumped up on natural endorphins as opposed to synthetic amphetamine.
I'm talking musical chops, not "I can play 1500000000000 single strokes in a minute" kind of chops.
But still, there's a basic modicum of skill and coordination that Ringo lacks to be considered a GREAT drummer. Like I said, he's a good musician. Pretty much any good musician can get a couple of drumsticks and "play to the music" with a few pointers from a teacher like me. This is why there are so many jokes out there about the bands who's drummer is the drummer by default because he was the worst guitarist. Then there's people like Dave Grohl who are have NO chops at all but play perfectly. He's better than his band's drummer, ironically, but he won't be filling in on a variety show like American Idol or something like that which requires a well rounded musical background in many musical styles, is all I'm saying.
Ringo? Well, he was the first pop drummer success (yeah yeah, Buddy Rich, got it, but he didn't play pop music). Compare Ringo to other drummers of the same era (Bonham comes immediately to mind) and the Ringo apologists come out in even more full force.
The final litmus for me, as a drummer, is if I can play it as well and in the same style, then it isn't too terribly great, otherwise I'd be a full-time professional musician and not just a live stand in for when random drummer is in rehab in the middle of a summer tour.
Even minimalistic pop chords have at least three notes per chord, so it's more like 12 or 16 vs. 26. Then there's how you play them...strummed, arppegiated, pizzacattoed, slurred together...that's just the style of evoking the notes, then there's the order they are played in, the style, the voice, the timbral quality, etc. etc. etc.
In English, only certain letter combinations are valid. In music there is no such limitation, so you can do far more with fewer combos.
I would not be surprised if some chemical also enhanced the enjoyment of a good classical or jazz tune.
This chemical is called a deep understanding of music and appreciation for art. Does that make me a snob? Probably, but I know I don't need any stupid drug to enjoy fine art and good music.
I'm a part-time professional drummer (trained at university). The only people who think Ringo is a good drummer are those older than me (I'm 42), and Ringo himself. Just ask him.
Ringo is a lefty with obvious right-hand weaknesses, but he plays on a right-handed kit, which has made him adapt, which is what gives him that unique Ringo sound (5 notes where there would normally be 4 or 6, for a Ringo drum lick standard).
There's a reason Ringo doesn't do drum solos or drum clinics/dvds. He has very limited chops. This isn't to say he isn't a musical drummer, he's just not the god that old Beatle fanboys think he is.
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You are missing the point. You list THREE manufacturers for each product, but you write the requirements that match the one you want and ONLY the one you want.
Hell, I've gotten two jobs because they wanted me and wrote the reqs based off of my resume.
Or FISA. One definition of a "US Person" (when determining if the government is forbidden from collecting on a target, one of the forbidding categories being "US Person") is a corporation fully incorporated in the United States. Although I hate the way Repubs say corporations are people (for tax arguments, I guess?), they are people when it comes to 4th amendment protection.
Because Motorola Mobility is dead in the water and Apple is the world's most valuable tech company. What a horrible idea you have.
Somebody is still butt hurt that Apple started using Intel processors...
Hi have an iPad and it runs all of the major eReader formats. I assume Android is the same. Those of you saying you can buy a cheap $75 eReader, did you multiply 75 by the number of eBook formats out there, since those cheap ones only play their proprietary format?
That's how government contracts work. Also, this is how government job positions work. You write the requirements to match exactly the single person you want and only that person.
Wait, what? I shouldn't have to do anything with a hard drive for several years. My anecdote, however, is that hard drives die a sudden, horrible, unreversable, unannounced death long before the usable life span of the computer itself. Worst technology ever.
And what in the hell kind of analogy is akin to changing motor oil when talking about a hard drive? I should have been applying some sort of lubricant to the moving parts all these years????
You are right. I haven't been doing shit because for my $1000-ish dollars, I expect shit to just work.
...there are plenty of hard drives with "actual moving parts" that have lived forever.
Hmmm, been using 'puters since 1984 and still haven't found one that has a hard drive that, a) lived forever, or b) gave me a warning before it died a horrible death.
Seriously awful technology that is long overdue for an overhaul.
Steve Jobs never said Apple doesn't do at least some market research. What he said was the products don't stem from market research and boardroom decisions. I believe Apple's marketing is targeted at how to sell the really cool-yet-secrative things they are making now that none of us know about, as opposed to market research that dictates what they should make next.
Well, it's still Windows so there's no hope in ever getting rid of ctrl+alt+del.
And if you don't know the name, what do you do?
Turn in your geek card?
Yep. Every slashdot nerd should be forced to read The Non-Designers Design Book. We all (generally) can spot a good design, but very few of us can say WHY something is good. Once you can say why something is good, then you can actually design things that are good.
It doesn't take a UI expert to understand that a bazillion primary colored tiles on a large external non-touch monitor is a bad design. It doesn't take a UI expert to understand there's no need for a touch interface on such a large vertical surface, as well. So, it doesn't take a UI expert to understand that a design that might be ok on a phone or a tablet computer, is completely worthless on a desktop paradigm.
...and OS X is down from $129 to $19.99.
That's not true. The leading cause for most traffic accidents is "failure to yield right-of-way".
Oops, now you got me switching my definition of chops. Dave Grohl has no shredding chops (i.e. 10000000 bmp, Dave Weckl-y amazing all over the kit weird time signature stuff). He has amazing musical chops for the style of music he plays....like Ringo.
Haha, you cite Stewart Copeland...one of my favorite drummers...Dude plays a million notes a song....every song...he just plays them in the context of a groove (which is awesome, and a lot in my style), and not all over the kit like somebody like Marco Minneman or Thomas Lang. I prefer groove monsters like Stewart Copeland to over-the-top drumming and "I'm the worst guitarist in the band so I get to play drums" Ringo style drumming.
Trust me, my favorite drummers play fewer notes than the big showy guys that make all the Hudson DVDs. My favorite of all time is Steve Gadd. That old drum battle video with him, Weckl, and Vinny C. shows what playing with restraint can do. Sure Weckl and Vinnie are shredding the kits, but it's a tiresome wall of sound. Gadd, on the other hand, knows how to space it out. And back to my litmus, as hard as I try, and as relative simple as most of Gadd's playing is, there's simply no recreating that sound. They are called Gadd-isms for a reason...people play "in the style" of Gadd, but nobody can play LIKE Gadd. Sure I could practice my ass off and play all those Weckl/Vinny C. riffs, but it's not to my taste. Vinny C., for the record can and does play with taste. Hell, he toured with Faith Hill for over a year. How much shreddin' can you do over the top of that fluff?
Nah, you've got it all wrong. There's all sorts of sophisticated music that I just don't get (classical, for one....snoooooze). What I'm saying is if that you aren't musically trained, I can see how the jazz form is lost on you. That's not saying ANYTHING about you and I'm not being all hipster either. It's like me trying to understand Rap/Hip Hop. It doesn't resonate with me because it is speaks to something I'm completely unfamiliar with. Therefore, my cognitive biases cause me to not like it (we tend to not like what we don't understand). Likewise for Country music. I don't get it. I'm not saying it's bad musical form (well, most canned country formats are exactly that, but who's to judge...), it doesn't speak to me because I wasn't raised on dirt roads with old trucks, hunting guns, and coon dogs (for one example). I'm a suburbanite raised on hard bop and free jazz (and some plain old rock and roll).
Any more proof that jazz is a difficult genre to appreciate? Try any of the garbage "smooth jazz" at your local grocery store for size.
Look, jazz is about mastery of an instrument and virtuosity, and of course, improv. You can't improv without understanding musical theory because it will sound like noise. But like I said, if you don't understand musical theory, it probably just sounds like displeasing noise to you.
And you are right, there is no objective standard. Well, except for that giant catalogues of jazz standards, I suppose.
Actually that's not exactly what *I* said. I was responding to the post above that inferred some sort of chemical/hormonal reaction to music. I was basically rejecting this notion and saying my joy from jazz (not so much classical) is based on my understanding of the musical form. I can see how people who aren't trained in music can find Jazz to be unpleasant to listen to. It's like watching a movie in a foreign language or studying something you have no understanding/interest in...booooring.
To contradict myself, however, I do find metal (really hard metal) to be very effective when I'm running or am under a tight deadline at work. It does "pump me up", as I imagine techno pumps up kids who are also chemically pumped up on X, except I'm only pumped up on natural endorphins as opposed to synthetic amphetamine.
I'm talking musical chops, not "I can play 1500000000000 single strokes in a minute" kind of chops.
But still, there's a basic modicum of skill and coordination that Ringo lacks to be considered a GREAT drummer. Like I said, he's a good musician. Pretty much any good musician can get a couple of drumsticks and "play to the music" with a few pointers from a teacher like me. This is why there are so many jokes out there about the bands who's drummer is the drummer by default because he was the worst guitarist. Then there's people like Dave Grohl who are have NO chops at all but play perfectly. He's better than his band's drummer, ironically, but he won't be filling in on a variety show like American Idol or something like that which requires a well rounded musical background in many musical styles, is all I'm saying.
Ringo? Well, he was the first pop drummer success (yeah yeah, Buddy Rich, got it, but he didn't play pop music). Compare Ringo to other drummers of the same era (Bonham comes immediately to mind) and the Ringo apologists come out in even more full force.
The final litmus for me, as a drummer, is if I can play it as well and in the same style, then it isn't too terribly great, otherwise I'd be a full-time professional musician and not just a live stand in for when random drummer is in rehab in the middle of a summer tour.
I had to look up "pablum". Seems that sums everything up perfectly in one word!
Even minimalistic pop chords have at least three notes per chord, so it's more like 12 or 16 vs. 26. Then there's how you play them...strummed, arppegiated, pizzacattoed, slurred together...that's just the style of evoking the notes, then there's the order they are played in, the style, the voice, the timbral quality, etc. etc. etc.
In English, only certain letter combinations are valid. In music there is no such limitation, so you can do far more with fewer combos.
I would not be surprised if some chemical also enhanced the enjoyment of a good classical or jazz tune.
This chemical is called a deep understanding of music and appreciation for art. Does that make me a snob? Probably, but I know I don't need any stupid drug to enjoy fine art and good music.
I'm a part-time professional drummer (trained at university). The only people who think Ringo is a good drummer are those older than me (I'm 42), and Ringo himself. Just ask him.
Ringo is a lefty with obvious right-hand weaknesses, but he plays on a right-handed kit, which has made him adapt, which is what gives him that unique Ringo sound (5 notes where there would normally be 4 or 6, for a Ringo drum lick standard).
There's a reason Ringo doesn't do drum solos or drum clinics/dvds. He has very limited chops. This isn't to say he isn't a musical drummer, he's just not the god that old Beatle fanboys think he is.