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  1. Costs can be small by PiGuy · · Score: 2, Insightful · on How Much Does it Cost to Produce a Recording?

    After winning $100 in our high-school "battle-of-the-bands", my band of three people decided to make an album. We each chipped in another $66 for a total of $300, and with this money, recorded for 6 hours in a decent, small studio (small room, one employee). We made one hundred copies ourselves using plain-old CD-RW drives. The 100 CDs were $10, and the cases another $30 (I think). The guitarist's mom (who is a graphics designer) did the art, using pictures the guitarist took for his photo class. We printed those on store-bought CD inserts and labels ($10, maybe?), and stuck them together ourselves. Total cost? $350. We sold each CD for $10 ($5 for close friends).

    For $350, the quality of the album is pretty darn good, a whole lot better than our self-recorded one. All these recording costs seem simply absolutely ridiculous to me! Of course, professionals don't do 6-hour studio jobs, but then even The Police spent only $2000 for their first signed album.

  2. Costs can be small by PiGuy · · Score: 2, Insightful · on How Much Does it Cost to Produce a Recording?

    After winning $100 in our high-school "battle-of-the-bands", my band of three people decided to make an album. We each chipped in another $66 for a total of $300, and with this money, recorded for 6 hours in a decent, small studio (small room, one employee). We made one hundred copies ourselves using plain-old CD-RW drives. The 100 CDs were $10, and the cases another $30 (I think). The guitarist's mom (who is a graphics designer) did the art, using pictures the guitarist took for his photo class. We printed those on store-bought CD inserts and labels ($10, maybe?), and stuck them together ourselves. Total cost? $350. We sold each CD for $10 ($5 for close friends).

    For $350, the quality of the album is pretty darn good, a whole lot better than our self-recorded one. All these recording costs seem simply absolutely ridiculous to me! Of course, professionals don't do 6-hour studio jobs, but then even The Police spent only $2000 for their first signed album.

  3. Re:It has to be said... by _xeno_ · · Score: 1 · on Japan to Allow Human-Nonhuman Mixed Cloning
    (here's a bad idea...)

    Audio file of said quote off my web server.

  4. Mirrored by _xeno_ · · Score: 5, Informative · on KDE 3.0 Screenshots
    Try here (that's http://cstrike.res.wpi.net/offtopic/kde/kde3shots. html for those who don't trust me).

    We'll see how long this box can last...

  5. Mirrored by _xeno_ · · Score: 5, Informative · on KDE 3.0 Screenshots
    Try here (that's http://cstrike.res.wpi.net/offtopic/kde/kde3shots. html for those who don't trust me).

    We'll see how long this box can last...

  6. My own special mirror (in swedish chef) by stype · · Score: 1 · on SDMI Researchers Cancel Presentation After RIAA Threat

    Courtesy of dialectalizer, heres my local mirror in swedish chef:
    Reedeeng Betveee zee Leenes:
    Lessuns frum zee SDMI Chellenge-a
    -Stype

  7. Re:Too bad it won't live... by stype · · Score: 3 · on Red Hat CTO Responds To Allchin's Comments

    Ah well this image is so good, I'll mirror it for anyone who wants it. Of course I have to mirror it on the weakest piece of machinery I can find, for fun, so here it is on my sparcstation ipc, 25mhz, with 24 megs of ram running debian and apache. If I can find batteries for my palm I can setup a web server there too but that might take some time.
    Here it is.
    -Stype