FYI, Alternet is reporting Ohio vote tallying software and web development were also overseen by firms with potentially partisan interests. http://www.alternet.org/story/50941/
On Election Night 2004, the Republican Party not only controlled the vote-counting process in Ohio, the final presidential swing state, through a secretary of state who was a co-chair of the Bush campaign, but it also controlled the technology that allowed the tally of the vote in Ohio's 88 counties to be reported to the media and voters.
Bah. This is an important thing. Moreover, it's constantly ignored because these conversations are commonly dictated by too many know-it-alls with little knowledge about typography.
Quite frankly, the minor details of typography are not something people are -aware- of, but that does not mean proper typography doesn't significant effect readability, usability, comprehension, information architecture, and even the development process.
This is a problem that could be solved if people simply acknowledged that it was an important problem that needed to be solved.
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 18, @10:43PM
"The Philippine government and the International Foundation for Electoral System will be soliciting hackers to test the security of of their Internet voting system that will be tested in an upcoming pilot program."
UPDATE: Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 18, @10:53PM Internet voting has now been cracked.
The real reason vinyl sales are up is because turntablism has become incredibly accessible and popular. Vinyl has become the medium of choice for turntablism. Moreover, this has also invigorated the market for b-sides and remixes that are all but impossible to find unless you're looking at vinyl.
If sound quality or lack of DRM is having an impact on vinyl sales, I can't see it being big. Walk into any Guitar Center and look at the size of the DJ'ing department. That was nonexistent not too long ago. It's the Technics 1200s that are selling records.
Doesn't this strike anyone else as blatantly obvious?
I can only imagine Intel is naming their products after northern CA cities. If that's the case, why the hell would they pick "Santa Rosa" as the step-up from "Napa." If anything the "Santa Rosa" platform should be a downgrade that comes with a mustache, gets your 14 year-old daughter pregnant, and emanates an overpowering manure smell when it gets hot.
For this to be properly Vista'd Apple would need to delay this one more time... ideally a year or more. Then on that third release date they should release a public beta and use that as an excuse to delay the OS another 6 months. Finally, when it's actually released, it should have a ton of problems and Apple should force it upon everyone by making it a minimum system requirement something arbitrary like a new iPod.
Agreed. Moreover, I wonder how many of us replaced and upgraded our various cassette or CD players. I've easily owned 4 or 5 walkmen and several diskmen, and countless car and home players. It's not like Sony's sales numbers were grounded on devices that no one replaced. Overtime those product lines gained new features, grew smaller / lighter, needed fewer batteries, adopted new form factors, etc. Moreover, like large iPods, they were devices that had movable parts and crapped out from time to time.
There is also the issue of needing separate cassette and CD players for your car, home, patio, person, etc. Many people use one iPod for multiple environments. The iPod targets a much wider demographic then the Walkmen, so we shouldn't be surprised to see bigger sales numbers.
I'm not trying to advocate iPod scratches or failed hard drives, but context is nice.
Dude, you need to take a statistics class or something. We're dealing with market percentages, not licenses sold. If I have a cup that has 50 green M&Ms and 50 red M&Ms, and I add 10 green M&Ms and 5 red M&Ms, green M&Ms are now less then 50%, but that doesn't mean I lost green M&Ms.
You need to account for licenses sold in relationship to market growth, transitions to new OS, and consumers who have postponed purchases while waiting for new operating systems.
That said, PPC OS X usage dropped, Intel OS X usage increased, people are timing hardware purchases to coincide with Leopard's release, and people are cashing-in on their wait for Vista. These are factors that may reduce the PPC Mac OS percentage for March, but that is not the same thing as a reduced install base, nor is it a sign that the growth of Apple's install base is entering an extended stagnation.
It should be noted that, with or without Vista and IE 7, Blackboard is absolute GARBAGE.
I'm sorry, but after experiencing Blackboard in grad school, I would tend shift my suspicion to the incompetent developers and designers behind Blackboard, not the incompetent developers and designers behind Windows.
All in all, I think this boils down to the university's involvement with the service. When I was getting my a degree in industrial design I learned that the university had the right to republish anything that I designed for a school assignment. I wouldn't be surprised if publication rights were a fairly standard thing for most universities and disciplines.
I bring this up every time someone posts some Dvorak drivel, that said...
Why does Slashdot actually post an article that is classified to the "wave-off-wave-off" department? We all know people are going to think Dvorak is ridiculous flame bate, and we all know most of us aren't going to bother reading his garbage. What's the point of rewarding Dvorak with web traffic from Slashdot?
Dvorak's predictions about the tech industry, and especially Apple, are about as accurate as Dick Cheney's predictions about the war in Iraq.
Write a Dvorak filter, put a post-it note on your monitor, do something. By linking to his work you're indirectly paying him to be a tool.
Christ, if you're going to post John Dvorak articles, you might as well start posting V1AgRA spam that you get in your email.
Ya, it's becoming harder and harder to rip-off people with one hit single squished in a jewel case full of dog shit. And to that I raise my pint glass.
That said, independent labels and independent acts NEED to release solid albums since they're not as well known.
Making more money then university faculty or administrative staff isn't very hard to do. You get into that line of work because you're making and impact and or getting solid benefits, not because you plan on owning a winter home in Aspen.
And as for the "stamp of approval..."... well, if you're attending a university for a stamp of approval you are, at the very least, not utilizing that resource properly.
I tend to view the bachelors degree as the high school diploma of the 21st century... so I guess that makes the honorary degree something akin to a rich man's GED.
As much as I love my current iPod, I'm well aware that I have had several hard drives fail on me, and I have seen countless "geniuses" hold the tiny bricks up to their ear waiting for a telltale "click...click...click." I hope these guys are using flash-based Nanos, because a number of their bigger siblings die from hanging out in a moving pants pocket. I'm not saying those tiny little hard drives a cursed, I'm simply saying that a 30gig iPod wouldn't be my first choice for something that was supposed to survive a plane crash without needing data recovery service.
All in all, there are a lot of misconceptions about graphic and interaction design. Design is by no means intended to make something look cool for cool's sake. Graphic and interaction design are disciplines that dedicated toward developing effective communication solutions. Design SHOULD enhance communication and user experience. That is, without a doubt, the whole point of design.
That said, we live in a culture where people are constantly bombarded with visual media, do-it-yourself design books, and easily accessible desktop publishing solutions. As a result, the sheer volume of horrible "designers" greatly outweighs the modest amount of trained professionals who actually know what they're doing.
But as for the parent topic here... the industry is changing and Interaction design is really starting to be recognized as the next big design industry. In 10 years a web or software dev team is not going to consist of isolated designers and isolated developers. CS students are graduating school having visited the design department, and graphic designers are leaving school having visited the CS department. Moreover, collaborative development environments are starting to emerge that allow designers and engineers to work in the same room at the same time.
As a professional you're probably never going to learn it all... you'd be in school forever. However, we can develop environments where experts are effectively able to communicate, comprehend, and collaborate with other experts.
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DSL is a network of pneumatic tubes. There's even a site where you can sign up and have a movie delivered to your house.
FYI, Alternet is reporting Ohio vote tallying software and web development were also overseen by firms with potentially partisan interests.
http://www.alternet.org/story/50941/
On Election Night 2004, the Republican Party not only controlled the vote-counting process in Ohio, the final presidential swing state, through a secretary of state who was a co-chair of the Bush campaign, but it also controlled the technology that allowed the tally of the vote in Ohio's 88 counties to be reported to the media and voters.
Bah. This is an important thing. Moreover, it's constantly ignored because these conversations are commonly dictated by too many know-it-alls with little knowledge about typography.
Quite frankly, the minor details of typography are not something people are -aware- of, but that does not mean proper typography doesn't significant effect readability, usability, comprehension, information architecture, and even the development process.
This is a problem that could be solved if people simply acknowledged that it was an important problem that needed to be solved.
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 18, @10:43PM
"The Philippine government and the International Foundation for Electoral System will be soliciting hackers to test the security of of their Internet voting system that will be tested in an upcoming pilot program."
UPDATE:
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 18, @10:53PM
Internet voting has now been cracked.
The real reason vinyl sales are up is because turntablism has become incredibly accessible and popular. Vinyl has become the medium of choice for turntablism. Moreover, this has also invigorated the market for b-sides and remixes that are all but impossible to find unless you're looking at vinyl.
If sound quality or lack of DRM is having an impact on vinyl sales, I can't see it being big. Walk into any Guitar Center and look at the size of the DJ'ing department. That was nonexistent not too long ago. It's the Technics 1200s that are selling records.
Doesn't this strike anyone else as blatantly obvious?
I can only imagine Intel is naming their products after northern CA cities. If that's the case, why the hell would they pick "Santa Rosa" as the step-up from "Napa." If anything the "Santa Rosa" platform should be a downgrade that comes with a mustache, gets your 14 year-old daughter pregnant, and emanates an overpowering manure smell when it gets hot.
What's next? Lodi? Truckee? Daly City?
preach on.
I swear, every week I get some sort of consolidation spam vaguely disguised as a threatening pink or yellow bill.
For this to be properly Vista'd Apple would need to delay this one more time... ideally a year or more. Then on that third release date they should release a public beta and use that as an excuse to delay the OS another 6 months. Finally, when it's actually released, it should have a ton of problems and Apple should force it upon everyone by making it a minimum system requirement something arbitrary like a new iPod.
Agreed.
Moreover, I wonder how many of us replaced and upgraded our various cassette or CD players. I've easily owned 4 or 5 walkmen and several diskmen, and countless car and home players. It's not like Sony's sales numbers were grounded on devices that no one replaced. Overtime those product lines gained new features, grew smaller / lighter, needed fewer batteries, adopted new form factors, etc. Moreover, like large iPods, they were devices that had movable parts and crapped out from time to time.
There is also the issue of needing separate cassette and CD players for your car, home, patio, person, etc. Many people use one iPod for multiple environments. The iPod targets a much wider demographic then the Walkmen, so we shouldn't be surprised to see bigger sales numbers.
I'm not trying to advocate iPod scratches or failed hard drives, but context is nice.
Dude, you need to take a statistics class or something. We're dealing with market percentages, not licenses sold. If I have a cup that has 50 green M&Ms and 50 red M&Ms, and I add 10 green M&Ms and 5 red M&Ms, green M&Ms are now less then 50%, but that doesn't mean I lost green M&Ms.
You need to account for licenses sold in relationship to market growth, transitions to new OS, and consumers who have postponed purchases while waiting for new operating systems.
That said, PPC OS X usage dropped, Intel OS X usage increased, people are timing hardware purchases to coincide with Leopard's release, and people are cashing-in on their wait for Vista. These are factors that may reduce the PPC Mac OS percentage for March, but that is not the same thing as a reduced install base, nor is it a sign that the growth of Apple's install base is entering an extended stagnation.
What record did it break? Fastest train to almost break the speed record?
It should be noted that, with or without Vista and IE 7, Blackboard is absolute GARBAGE.
I'm sorry, but after experiencing Blackboard in grad school, I would tend shift my suspicion to the incompetent developers and designers behind Blackboard, not the incompetent developers and designers behind Windows.
All in all, I think this boils down to the university's involvement with the service. When I was getting my a degree in industrial design I learned that the university had the right to republish anything that I designed for a school assignment. I wouldn't be surprised if publication rights were a fairly standard thing for most universities and disciplines.
I bring this up every time someone posts some Dvorak drivel, that said...
Why does Slashdot actually post an article that is classified to the "wave-off-wave-off" department? We all know people are going to think Dvorak is ridiculous flame bate, and we all know most of us aren't going to bother reading his garbage. What's the point of rewarding Dvorak with web traffic from Slashdot?
Dvorak's predictions about the tech industry, and especially Apple, are about as accurate as Dick Cheney's predictions about the war in Iraq.
Write a Dvorak filter, put a post-it note on your monitor, do something. By linking to his work you're indirectly paying him to be a tool.
Christ, if you're going to post John Dvorak articles, you might as well start posting V1AgRA spam that you get in your email.
true true.
here's the phone in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-XFK8zOt9E
This think strikes me as another clunky convergence device with a million buttons..
I would tend to agree with Morari here.
Ya, it's becoming harder and harder to rip-off people with one hit single squished in a jewel case full of dog shit. And to that I raise my pint glass.
That said, independent labels and independent acts NEED to release solid albums since they're not as well known.
Making more money then university faculty or administrative staff isn't very hard to do. You get into that line of work because you're making and impact and or getting solid benefits, not because you plan on owning a winter home in Aspen.
... well, if you're attending a university for a stamp of approval you are, at the very least, not utilizing that resource properly.
And as for the "stamp of approval..."
I tend to view the bachelors degree as the high school diploma of the 21st century...
so I guess that makes the honorary degree something akin to a rich man's GED.
By all accounts I really should have some sort of semen related "Music Load" joke, but I can't think of one at the moment.
It's nice to know that your state, like New Mexico, will have solved all of its problems and will have spare time to craft Pluto-related legislation.
As much as I love my current iPod, I'm well aware that I have had several hard drives fail on me, and I have seen countless "geniuses" hold the tiny bricks up to their ear waiting for a telltale "click...click...click." I hope these guys are using flash-based Nanos, because a number of their bigger siblings die from hanging out in a moving pants pocket. I'm not saying those tiny little hard drives a cursed, I'm simply saying that a 30gig iPod wouldn't be my first choice for something that was supposed to survive a plane crash without needing data recovery service.
We're finally ready for our war with the USSR 40 years ago.
All in all, there are a lot of misconceptions about graphic and interaction design. Design is by no means intended to make something look cool for cool's sake. Graphic and interaction design are disciplines that dedicated toward developing effective communication solutions. Design SHOULD enhance communication and user experience. That is, without a doubt, the whole point of design.
That said, we live in a culture where people are constantly bombarded with visual media, do-it-yourself design books, and easily accessible desktop publishing solutions. As a result, the sheer volume of horrible "designers" greatly outweighs the modest amount of trained professionals who actually know what they're doing.
But as for the parent topic here... the industry is changing and Interaction design is really starting to be recognized as the next big design industry. In 10 years a web or software dev team is not going to consist of isolated designers and isolated developers. CS students are graduating school having visited the design department, and graphic designers are leaving school having visited the CS department. Moreover, collaborative development environments are starting to emerge that allow designers and engineers to work in the same room at the same time.
As a professional you're probably never going to learn it all... you'd be in school forever. However, we can develop environments where experts are effectively able to communicate, comprehend, and collaborate with other experts.
No way. If he's with Wãrez he can get in with a tough Mexican East LA gang.
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