Reading and commenting from a Samsung Infuse. It's my first Android phone, granted, but so far I'm not displeased. Couple of lockups and occasional lag; other than that: crystal clear screen, gorgeous color, awesome video. I've heard bitching about fonts, but I've never noticed any problem. I've heard raves and rants about most popular phones, so while I listen to such comments, I keep the salt shaker handy at the same time.
Let me see here...if Google doesn't allow the Chinese government to censor its search results such that its own people won't even be able to read the truth about what happened in their own country (e.g. The Tianenmen Square massacre), then this will put them out of touch with the rest of the world?
How would the kids say it these days?
WTFLOL
The legal system is evil not google.
If you do the evil bidding of evil men, you're evil.
Our own government has been telling us for years that if we continue granting China Most Favored Trade Nation status, our influence will change them into a human-rights respecting, environmentally responsible bunch. How's that been working out?
Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars on MARKETING. And on "licensing" drugs developed by the National Institutes of Health and the universities and teaching hospitals it funds.
Welcome to the monetization of everything. I should charge bystanders every time I fart, since the emitted gas is likely a valuable energy resource.
Seriously, tho...
Maybe instead of trying to club people over the head with a business model they find annoying, maybe one should just come up with a new model that makes people want to do business with one.
I am sure there are other issues as well. That said, I cannot see how shutting down a tablature site benefits the musicians at all; if anything, it encourages recording sales.
I'd tend to agree with this. However...
Tablature does not convey rhythm at all.
True in the case of some tab, not all. Books and magazines often use a form of tab that essentially uses fret number as note heads, encircling half notes and whole notes, and putting staves and flags (as needed) above quarter, eighth...etc. This eliminates the need for double-staff systems.
Tablature is non-portable. It is not a notation that makes sense for playing the music on any other instrument or singing it.
So? It was designed for fretboard-type, polyphonic, stringed instruments. Which is why players of such instruments were using it before "standard" notation was formalized. It seems pretty sensible to transcribe guitar music in guitar notation. Pianists and others will have transcribe to their notation just like we guitarists have had to muck with standard notation when tablature fell out of favor (perhaps because of notation elitists, but that is just a guess).
Tablature misses the visual cues that standard notation has. For instance, in standard notation, notes of higher pitch are higher on the staff, and there is a correlation between the distance between notes on the staff and the distance between the actual pitches. Not so with tablature.
If you keep in mind the nature of the guitar and that it's tuned in fifths (fourths in the case of the 3rd/2nd string pair), you can perceive the relative motion of a line of guitar music. In any case, I see no real use for such cues outside the context of actually working out the pitches, unless perhaps you have perfect pitch. If the notation tells you how to play the piece without undue struggle, it's good.
Learning tablature is not the same as learning to read music. This one is somewhat obvious, but the student's understanding of music in general increases just by learning standard notation.
I can sum this up in two words. "Non sequitur".
I do not begrudge you your (misguided) belief that we poor guitarists would be better musicians if only we'd abandon our sensible tablature and use your confounded "standard" notation.
Just be aware that when entering MY world, your opinion will be...somewhat disfavored.
I have assisted my stepfather, a self-employed auto mechanic with over 30 years' experience, several times with item 1. I have often done item 2.
In fact, because I'm a highly literate person and he never graduated high school, I've occasionally had to help him interpret the sometimes-cryptic, unclear writing in rebuild manuals. But he can rebuild transmissions and I can't. Hell, a friend of his who is an ASE-certified mechanic isn't very good at it.
My observation is that the manuals are reference material for people who already know basically how to rebuild a transmission. Inexperience can lead to so many errors, such as cutting a seal while seating it (happens A LOT; you DID remember to put petroleum jelly on it before attempting to seat it, yes?), dropping a check ball or two, overtorqueing the valve-body bolts... Oh, and you DO know how to remove/install a snap ring, don't you? Cuz the book assumes you know such simple things.
I'm not trying to bust your chops (well, maybe a little:-P); I'm just suggesting that saying "any literate (and presumably intelligent) person can do T" where T is some arbitrary, complex technical task, can be (dependent on the specific T) true only in a way so abstract as to be virtually inapplicable to the real affairs of our real world.
Now with respect to pro-se representation, and as others have pointed, given the time limitations and the possible consequenses of failure, you have even MORE reason to hire an expert.
[Abrams] says his company is committed to "transparency" and is making it easier for users to uninstall its software. For instance, it runs a site called MyPCTuneup.com, which he claims uninstalls all its adware. Abram has also paid to promote this site on Google and Yahoo. So when users search for information on Direct Revenue programs such as "Twaintec," "Abetterinternet," "Bestoffers" and "Better Internet" on Google or Yahoo, the first advertising link that appear next to the search results now point them to MyPCTuneup.
So a user has to know that they have a piece of malware, know the name of the company that made it, search on that and scan the sponsored hits to find a site, the name of which does not suggest that it will putatively uninstall said malware?
You know, my other programs just show up in the "Add/Remove Programs" list. That's how you make programs easy to uninstall.
But then, what do you expect from an industry whose workers spout meaningless drivel such as this:
Anyone in this business for more than four years has some dirty laundry. But anybody who has a desire to continue to grow wants to shed it, clean it up and address it going forward. Companies like ourselves that have been around have some history to address or clarify now and again.
Or this:
The test of this business is going to be postlegislation...Who can provide the coolest applications and most value to consumers?
How about "who can stop behaving like corporate asses and respect the wishes of users not to have our scumware on their machines"?
Hear, hear! The same "False Latinization" of English underlies the rule prohibiting split infinitives. Which rule is doubly ridiculous when one considers that in Latin it is impossible to split an infinitive - an infinitive is indicated by the spelling of the verb, not by the addition of a preposition.
I concur with those who've pointed out that grammar and spelling are less often sacrificed on the altar of Clarity than on that of Pure Laziness. It's been my experience that messages replete with errors are harder to read than messages which have had some attention lavished on them, even a little.
On the other hand, one or two of the messages presented in the article suffered from another affliction at least as much as from poor spelling and grammar: an affliction I once heard termed "the rhetoric of nasrcissism." That means that the writing is affectatious; it's aimed more at impressing someone with the eloquence and (by implication) intelligence of the writer than it is at clear communication.
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Reading and commenting from a Samsung Infuse. It's my first Android phone, granted, but so far I'm not displeased. Couple of lockups and occasional lag; other than that: crystal clear screen, gorgeous color, awesome video. I've heard bitching about fonts, but I've never noticed any problem. I've heard raves and rants about most popular phones, so while I listen to such comments, I keep the salt shaker handy at the same time.
Utter, fatuous crap.
Let me see here...if Google doesn't allow the Chinese government to censor its search results such that its own people won't even be able to read the truth about what happened in their own country (e.g. The Tianenmen Square massacre), then this will put them out of touch with the rest of the world?
How would the kids say it these days?
WTFLOL
If you do the evil bidding of evil men, you're evil.
Our own government has been telling us for years that if we continue granting China Most Favored Trade Nation status, our influence will change them into a human-rights respecting, environmentally responsible bunch. How's that been working out?
Google wanted the money. Period.
+ infinity. It don't get much clearer than that.
Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars on MARKETING. And on "licensing" drugs developed by the National Institutes of Health and the universities and teaching hospitals it funds.
Welcome to the monetization of everything. I should charge bystanders every time I fart, since the emitted gas is likely a valuable energy resource. Seriously, tho... Maybe instead of trying to club people over the head with a business model they find annoying, maybe one should just come up with a new model that makes people want to do business with one.
I'd tend to agree with this. However...
Tablature does not convey rhythm at all.
True in the case of some tab, not all. Books and magazines often use a form of tab that essentially uses fret number as note heads, encircling half notes and whole notes, and putting staves and flags (as needed) above quarter, eighth...etc. This eliminates the need for double-staff systems.
Tablature is non-portable. It is not a notation that makes sense for playing the music on any other instrument or singing it.
So? It was designed for fretboard-type, polyphonic, stringed instruments. Which is why players of such instruments were using it before "standard" notation was formalized. It seems pretty sensible to transcribe guitar music in guitar notation. Pianists and others will have transcribe to their notation just like we guitarists have had to muck with standard notation when tablature fell out of favor (perhaps because of notation elitists, but that is just a guess).
Tablature misses the visual cues that standard notation has. For instance, in standard notation, notes of higher pitch are higher on the staff, and there is a correlation between the distance between notes on the staff and the distance between the actual pitches. Not so with tablature.
If you keep in mind the nature of the guitar and that it's tuned in fifths (fourths in the case of the 3rd/2nd string pair), you can perceive the relative motion of a line of guitar music. In any case, I see no real use for such cues outside the context of actually working out the pitches, unless perhaps you have perfect pitch. If the notation tells you how to play the piece without undue struggle, it's good.
Learning tablature is not the same as learning to read music. This one is somewhat obvious, but the student's understanding of music in general increases just by learning standard notation.
I can sum this up in two words. "Non sequitur".
I do not begrudge you your (misguided) belief that we poor guitarists would be better musicians if only we'd abandon our sensible tablature and use your confounded "standard" notation.
Just be aware that when entering MY world, your opinion will be...somewhat disfavored.
Sir, I would bet a dollar that you have:
1)Never rebuilt a transmission.
2)Never seen a transmission-rebuild manual.
I have assisted my stepfather, a self-employed auto mechanic with over 30 years' experience, several times with item 1. I have often done item 2.
In fact, because I'm a highly literate person and he never graduated high school, I've occasionally had to help him interpret the sometimes-cryptic, unclear writing in rebuild manuals. But he can rebuild transmissions and I can't. Hell, a friend of his who is an ASE-certified mechanic isn't very good at it.
My observation is that the manuals are reference material for people who already know basically how to rebuild a transmission. Inexperience can lead to so many errors, such as cutting a seal while seating it (happens A LOT; you DID remember to put petroleum jelly on it before attempting to seat it, yes?), dropping a check ball or two, overtorqueing the valve-body bolts... Oh, and you DO know how to remove/install a snap ring, don't you? Cuz the book assumes you know such simple things.
I'm not trying to bust your chops (well, maybe a little :-P); I'm just suggesting that saying "any literate (and presumably intelligent) person can do T" where T is some arbitrary, complex technical task, can be (dependent on the specific T) true only in a way so abstract as to be virtually inapplicable to the real affairs of our real world.
Now with respect to pro-se representation, and as others have pointed, given the time limitations and the possible consequenses of failure, you have even MORE reason to hire an expert.
Hear, hear! The same "False Latinization" of English underlies the rule prohibiting split infinitives. Which rule is doubly ridiculous when one considers that in Latin it is impossible to split an infinitive - an infinitive is indicated by the spelling of the verb, not by the addition of a preposition.
I concur with those who've pointed out that grammar and spelling are less often sacrificed on the altar of Clarity than on that of Pure Laziness. It's been my experience that messages replete with errors are harder to read than messages which have had some attention lavished on them, even a little. On the other hand, one or two of the messages presented in the article suffered from another affliction at least as much as from poor spelling and grammar: an affliction I once heard termed "the rhetoric of nasrcissism." That means that the writing is affectatious; it's aimed more at impressing someone with the eloquence and (by implication) intelligence of the writer than it is at clear communication.