It's awful. Things that function as multi-state buttons now look like hyperlinks. Low-contrast shading "highlights" state changes. Other buttons, formerly intuitive and multi-state, now summon fly-up menus from the bottom of the screen (like the loop one/all button in Music app).
"WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO RUIN MY COMPANY?" -- Steve Jobs, c. 2003
In a sense, you're right. Songs probably don't even try to compete with more articulate music. I think they're fine in their simplicity. What's sad is that the vast majority don't even know what a more refined music is and why they should listen to it.
Did you know that most traditional, complex music systems - such as Indian modal and Raga - are taught for YEARS first only as vocal expression? By SINGING, one practices the musical elements by internalizing it - in the body. One is often not permitted to touch an instrument for one or more years...
Singing is a primary, forceful creative expression. It wasn't concocted to mask bad productions. There is lyric. There is music. There is music and lyric together. Each are distinct. Sometimes, there is a powerful an collaborative effect. Some music is never written, unless the writer is moved so, by the line that is written or sung - then comes an inspiration!
There are some powerful musics that first erupt as song, and their makers could not tell you where one started and the other ends.
I would suggest going to a good black church on a couple of weekends. You might see simplicity and "refinement" differently, than listening to what passes for "song" in the commercial marketplace.
Music is a language - among other things. Music can be an expression of otherwise inchoate feelings and non-verbal awareness or sensations.
Not having REAL music - which means the playing, presence of human expression - is a loss of part of the spectrum of being human. Machines can mimic timing, tone and timbre - but machines cannot groove. They cannot translate yearning or joy into trembling fingertips... into welling breath.
Music can be as simple as banging your hand on a log... But everybody can make music. Everybody SHOULD make music. Teach music, learn music, love music.
... then you also need to convince them not to buy $200 sports jerseys, $100 bottles of Tequila, and designer clothes...
Your data-less, prejudicial canard is based on the Regan-era false-trope of the "Welfare Queen". It's a way of expressing contempt for the poor and for those who have an economic condition of disadvantage institutionally guaranteed by public and corporate policy. You get to hate, and to justify your lack of compassion. Way to go.
The fact is this: "You need to convince them" is key. Billions of dollars are spend convincing the entire American public they need this valueless, empty bullshit. The "You" in your prescription had better be prepared to spend at a commensurate level to counter the consumerist brainwashing.
But I suspect that you don't really have your own opinions, do you? You get to select those pre-digested doctrines which allow you to justify your current role and station, while assuaging your fear of losing position.
- 1 Normalize and socialize the idea of drones as a common, novel feature of US civilian airspace. Contextualize debate on practical advantage over risks and intrusion.
- 2 Position Amazon as a fixture in people's discourse and attention. First, during an expected competitive and difficult shopping season and ultimately for long-term.
It is because of corporate food production, factory farming and industrial "recipes" that make cheap and plentiful Soylent Soy or Corpulent Corn - with added glutimate to overstimulate appetite generation.
These are the product of an agribusiness that has made this production a part of public policy, through the US Farm Bill and other legislative manipulation.
If you are deliberately misinformed, marketed to death, and underpaid, the last thing you need to solve for the attendant health effects is more pills. It's like plugging your nostrils, because you have a cold.
But I bet the pharmaceutical and health-insurance rackets love the idea...
Cause they're "Wired Sideways" and UPhil is a lateral move, which proves Gur is a nutless bitch. Now, how should I contextualize my next, meaningless and pointlessly provocative troll?
We are in serious National Lampoon, circa '73 territory.
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Try hitting "forward" or "reverse" to the next/previous track, without looking. With out accidentally changing volume, or switching "shuffle".
Right.
Try doing WHILE looking! Still the deuce to do!
This was perfectly positioned, and responded to the right touch, prior to 7 - even with the 6.x face lift.
TOTAL DISASTER. I now use a 3rd party player, after 3 months of bitch-fight with Ives' abortion.
It's awful. Things that function as multi-state buttons now look like hyperlinks. Low-contrast shading "highlights" state changes. Other buttons, formerly intuitive and multi-state, now summon fly-up menus from the bottom of the screen (like the loop one/all button in Music app).
"WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO RUIN MY COMPANY?"
-- Steve Jobs, c. 2003
iOS7 would have gotten Jony FIRED if Jobs were still alive. Give the man a gong, and "Sir" Ives fucks everything to hell.
The man was a great PHYSICAL designer of cases and objects. Not allowed near software UXD in Steve's lifetime. Now you know why.
Nothing works well, any longer - shadows and reflections or not. The laundry list of how screwed the music app deserved a post of its own.
Red chevrons? REALLY? Lotus Notes, Borland SideKick and ccMail.
In a sense, you're right. Songs probably don't even try to compete with more articulate music. I think they're fine in their simplicity. What's sad is that the vast majority don't even know what a more refined music is and why they should listen to it.
Did you know that most traditional, complex music systems - such as Indian modal and Raga - are taught for YEARS first only as vocal expression? By SINGING, one practices the musical elements by internalizing it - in the body. One is often not permitted to touch an instrument for one or more years...
Singing is a primary, forceful creative expression. It wasn't concocted to mask bad productions. There is lyric. There is music. There is music and lyric together. Each are distinct. Sometimes, there is a powerful an collaborative effect. Some music is never written, unless the writer is moved so, by the line that is written or sung - then comes an inspiration!
There are some powerful musics that first erupt as song, and their makers could not tell you where one started and the other ends.
I would suggest going to a good black church on a couple of weekends. You might see simplicity and "refinement" differently, than listening to what passes for "song" in the commercial marketplace.
Music is a language - among other things. Music can be an expression of otherwise inchoate feelings and non-verbal awareness or sensations.
Not having REAL music - which means the playing, presence of human expression - is a loss of part of the spectrum of being human. Machines can mimic timing, tone and timbre - but machines cannot groove. They cannot translate yearning or joy into trembling fingertips... into welling breath.
Music can be as simple as banging your hand on a log... But everybody can make music. Everybody SHOULD make music. Teach music, learn music, love music.
Now, where IS my Earth Wind and Fire track?
We're super secret agents! We are 1984 on chrome wheels! Our Nemesis won, BECAUSE HE CHEATED!
If he played fair, we'd STILL catch him!
This message brought to you by a big government agency with a secret budget and a mission to not ever lie. Honest.
FASCISM is to blame!
A: Ex-Wife's Bedroom
I preferred him in the Ghostbusters movies.
That's a better way to state my #2. :-)
Walmart to Install Surface-to-Air Missiles on Store Rooftops to Shoot Down Amazon Drones
Your attitude is all platitude.
... then you also need to convince them not to buy $200 sports jerseys, $100 bottles of Tequila, and designer clothes...
Your data-less, prejudicial canard is based on the Regan-era false-trope of the "Welfare Queen". It's a way of expressing contempt for the poor and for those who have an economic condition of disadvantage institutionally guaranteed by public and corporate policy. You get to hate, and to justify your lack of compassion. Way to go.
The fact is this: "You need to convince them" is key. Billions of dollars are spend convincing the entire American public they need this valueless, empty bullshit.
The "You" in your prescription had better be prepared to spend at a commensurate level to counter the consumerist brainwashing.
But I suspect that you don't really have your own opinions, do you? You get to select those pre-digested doctrines which allow you to justify your current role and station, while assuaging your fear of losing position.
Was NOT to propose a "Drone Delivery Service" -
Instead it is a PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATION.
- 1 Normalize and socialize the idea of drones as a common, novel feature of US civilian airspace. Contextualize debate on practical advantage over risks and intrusion.
- 2 Position Amazon as a fixture in people's discourse and attention. First, during an expected competitive and difficult shopping season and ultimately for long-term.
"...Trumps YOUR nearsightedness and fears. I'm and EXPERT! On CLIMATE!"
So? FuckUshima!
It is the cause. It IS a social one.
It is because of corporate food production, factory farming and industrial "recipes" that make cheap and plentiful Soylent Soy or Corpulent Corn - with added glutimate to overstimulate appetite generation.
These are the product of an agribusiness that has made this production a part of public policy, through the US Farm Bill and other legislative manipulation.
If you are deliberately misinformed, marketed to death, and underpaid, the last thing you need to solve for the attendant health effects is more pills. It's like plugging your nostrils, because you have a cold.
But I bet the pharmaceutical and health-insurance rackets love the idea...
The man WHO PROVED that GOD lives inside a QUARK!??!
So what they actually called the shop is 'To the starses.' Or possibly 'To the altar.'
We hates it, forever!
Laika burgers! Well done!
"Is it getting hot in this capsule, or is it just m....."
FWOOOFFF!
Whisleblower into woodchipper syndrome.
Cause they're "Wired Sideways" and UPhil is a lateral move, which proves Gur is a nutless bitch. Now, how should I contextualize my next, meaningless and pointlessly provocative troll?
We are in serious National Lampoon, circa '73 territory.
Koch blocking?
You have won "Comment of the Day"!
Find another job.
These are not the only problems, just the ones you have seen.
Rap is a technique, not a genre.
Hiphop is a genre.
Q: Is this fellow related to the guy who DDoS'd the Koch brothers for 60 seconds?