"Artists have always needed sponsors", like Van Gogh?
Mr. Simmons has never impressed me as a musician. (I feel the same way about KISS than I did about Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Like "Why Bother?") Its a question of taste.
What I object to is that the artist always seems to get fucked by the very promotion machine that makes him or her the "artiste du jour" and then cuts the artist to ribbons with drugs and debauchery before moving onto the next "artists du jour". (I don't see KISS headlining anywhere anymore, now do I? [But then I wouldn't go see KISS play anyway, so I ain't looking am I?])
I have a great deal more respect for the Jonathan Coultons of the world than for the Gene Simmons.
If KISS had not been promoted and had to go forth on their talent only, they'd still be a bar band, playing at a strip mall in some suburb somewhere, with day jobs to go to. (Like MOST artists.)
I'll find out what all the fuss is about, exactly how many Bogomips is does, and get a new Linux box, (for $200 [but plus shipping from Berkeley CA. {which is just up the road from the company that makes the boxes.}])
to NOT sound like everything you write is uncorroborated and unsupported supposition?
When I write on my blogs or for my podcast, I publish the links web pages or to Amazon book purchasing links where I got my information. (If nothing else, it makes me look like I'm well read.)
That way, if there is a problem with the source, I can tell people to stop arguing with me and take the problem up with my source.
If my sources turn out to be wrong, I can apologize for getting misled without having to defend the thought processes that led to the point of contention.
My first box was hooked up to a KSR-33 teletype machine and has a front panel with toggle switches and LEDs.
(Actually, I lie. My first box I got to screw with was a Wang 2200, but that was the school's where I was going. But the Altair "Switch Bitch" was mine.)
are part two of the problems with/of broadcasting.
When a hurricane, twister, flood, earthquake happens in your location, you can kiss the media good bye. (Its the advertisers who pay these idiots the cheapest rates to get the broadest ad coverage.)
The become irrelevant by design because they are centrally controlled and simply can't afford to give local coverage to anything. Anything happens in your town, unless its a really sturdy major metropolitan center, you'll never hear a word about it.
As for the media cartels you mention, they're largely becoming irrelevant.
They're just not essential. Music may be the food of love but it makes a poor sandwich. The same holds true for any media.
And if we have some other more convenient delivery mechanism, (like not having to put up with ads chopping up and cutting into the content or have to be sitting with asses on the seat at precisely X o'clock) we'll use it, and there's nothing the broadcasters can do about it.
When we set up a marketplace where the consumer can negotiate directly with a producer to get what we want... NBC, et alis 're going to be shown the door and told not to slam it on their way out.
I am a grumpy, bitter old, petulant child.
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Everybody I hear lately (including some other 'younger than me' forty year olds) waxes nostalgic for TV that they gave a damn about, (way back in the nineties.:-) I. gave up on TV as a medium about then anyway. (Now I'm doing podcasting, instead of sucking on the glass teat. [And no, you're not welcome to listen unless you have MS too, {in which case: "Welcome to the 'cast!"}])
And PBS is not quite the model to do things by.
Its still a network and I can't ignore the hokey cooking shows that take time from Ken Burns documentaries, and vice versa.
Its still a *broadcast network* and if I'm not there at 11:00 PM to watch Charlie Rose, well then I pick up whatever episode I want whenever I want off the web.
So who needs PBS? Charlie Rose certainly doesn't.
The *broadcast model* is BROKEN and the internet model WORKS.
They make their money by controlling access to TRANSMITTERS and screwing:
* producers (the people who actually put the shows together,) * consumers (the people who want to watch the shows the producers put together) AND * advertisers, (the people who pony up the cash for access to the process while getting sold on nebulous "audience share" numbers based on the "facts" that people don't have any friggin' lives, families, pets, bladders or colons to distract them.)
NBC and the rest of the broadcasters are entirely UNNECESSARY on the internet.
No wonder they're running around like buggy whip makers after Henry Ford.
They're all going to get KILLED (and the world will go on fine after they're gone.)
They first show that gets to solicit money directly from the audience is going to slaughter them; absolutely slaughter them.
and, given the fact that I've got a Windows box down right now (unit cost: >$400) because of a faulty CPU fan (component cost: $20), I'm quite happy to pay Apple for quality hardware and get OS X as a bonus.
The opportunity to install Windows on any piece of unreliable crap is hardly what I'd call a WISE choice.
At least, with Apple, the installer will refuse to install on inadequate hardware (I own a lot of Macs and some of it is ancient, unlike my Windows boxes, where I can't seem to hang onto a box past the MTBF of the crappiest component.) That's the difference.
I've got old boxes of both kinds under my office desks.
The Macs are just turned off.
The Windows are unplugged because of the fire hazard.
In fact, the moment your market can't generate income, like after a hurricane, a tornado, an eruption or a tsunami, it gets dropped and further rolled up into a larger conglomeration.
Do you WANT your town wiped off the metaphorical map?
I start my uploads and the speed is about 187..210KB/s...
At the start.
At the finish its down to 51KB/s.
I tick downwards by 1..3KB/s.
They're NOT discriminating against anybody, they're discriminating against EVERYBODY who's not SUCKING at their pipe but who's UPLOADING anything instead.
If they weren't protected from competition, there'd be riots and mass desertion.
But its cable and they're taking every advantage of the legislation on their cable company turf protection.
When FiOS gets here, I am so gone from their customer rolls.
Each parenthesized section can be knocked out without affecting the overall sentence structure (but each segment augments the previous one and nothing else.)
As a lover of Formal Languages and Automata, I THINK this way.
I'd put up with it if my MS was alleviated. (And don't worry too much about the cost, I'll find a way to pay for it. [I'll be able to work. {Insert rant about insurance companies that will let you die before they pay and gu'mint agencies that won't help you until you're destitute from having to sell off EVERYTHING, (your house, your car, your furniture, your jewelry, your computers, your retirement savings, your grave [I'm not fuckin' kidding!])... right here.}])
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and I have a documentation technique named after me.
/. actually have brains.
I also have written about twenty or so articles about computer programming and object-orientation and have a few bogs about things.
Some people who post to
And what have YOU managed to talk a publisher into?
"Artists have always needed sponsors", like Van Gogh?
Mr. Simmons has never impressed me as a musician. (I feel the same way about KISS than I did about Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Like "Why Bother?") Its a question of taste.
What I object to is that the artist always seems to get fucked by the very promotion machine that makes him or her the "artiste du jour" and then cuts the artist to ribbons with drugs and debauchery before moving onto the next "artists du jour". (I don't see KISS headlining anywhere anymore, now do I? [But then I wouldn't go see KISS play anyway, so I ain't looking am I?])
I have a great deal more respect for the Jonathan Coultons of the world than for the Gene Simmons.
If KISS had not been promoted and had to go forth on their talent only, they'd still be a bar band, playing at a strip mall in some suburb somewhere, with day jobs to go to. (Like MOST artists.)
I would hesitate to look at Gene Simmons for any kind of intelligent statement on anything.
I never liked KISS.
I needed a new box anyway.
and on 360 class big iron.
AND there is even one dialect ( http://pl1gcc.sourceforge.net/ ) for the GCC.
Porting Multics may not be that big a job IF you have the source code.
The power of Multics lies in the ideas it implemented, not it whatever hardware it ran on.
(Even though the hardware was rather special it is well enough documented to be reducible to an implementation on a Turing machine.)
I'll find out what all the fuss is about, exactly how many Bogomips is does, and get a new Linux box, (for $200 [but plus shipping from Berkeley CA. {which is just up the road from the company that makes the boxes.}])
to NOT sound like everything you write is uncorroborated and unsupported supposition?
When I write on my blogs or for my podcast, I publish the links web pages or to Amazon book purchasing links where I got my information. (If nothing else, it makes me look like I'm well read.)
That way, if there is a problem with the source, I can tell people to stop arguing with me and take the problem up with my source.
If my sources turn out to be wrong, I can apologize for getting misled without having to defend the thought processes that led to the point of contention.
My first box was hooked up to a KSR-33 teletype machine and has a front panel with toggle switches and LEDs.
(Actually, I lie. My first box I got to screw with was a Wang 2200, but that was the school's where I was going. But the Altair "Switch Bitch" was mine.)
I ignore them (are they banner ads or something?)
Why, I'll even forward it to any address they want.
and its what drives all human endeavor.
Just look at this entire industry...
Really...
.dmg.
I'd sooner lay down and spread my ass cheeks in an AIDS ward than I install a strange
are part two of the problems with/of broadcasting.
When a hurricane, twister, flood, earthquake happens in your location, you can kiss the media good bye. (Its the advertisers who pay these idiots the cheapest rates to get the broadest ad coverage.)
The become irrelevant by design because they are centrally controlled and simply can't afford to give local coverage to anything. Anything happens in your town, unless its a really sturdy major metropolitan center, you'll never hear a word about it.
As for the media cartels you mention, they're largely becoming irrelevant.
They're just not essential. Music may be the food of love but it makes a poor sandwich. The same holds true for any media.
And if we have some other more convenient delivery mechanism, (like not having to put up with ads chopping up and cutting into the content or have to be sitting with asses on the seat at precisely X o'clock) we'll use it, and there's nothing the broadcasters can do about it.
When we set up a marketplace where the consumer can negotiate directly with a producer to get what we want... NBC, et alis 're going to be shown the door and told not to slam it on their way out.
Everybody I hear lately (including some other 'younger than me' forty year olds) waxes nostalgic for TV that they gave a damn about, (way back in the nineties. :-) I. gave up on TV as a medium about then anyway. (Now I'm doing podcasting, instead of sucking on the glass teat. [And no, you're not welcome to listen unless you have MS too, {in which case: "Welcome to the 'cast!"}])
And PBS is not quite the model to do things by.
Its still a network and I can't ignore the hokey cooking shows that take time from Ken Burns documentaries, and vice versa.
Its still a *broadcast network* and if I'm not there at 11:00 PM to watch Charlie Rose, well then I pick up whatever episode I want whenever I want off the web.
So who needs PBS? Charlie Rose certainly doesn't.
The *broadcast model* is BROKEN and the internet model WORKS.
NBC has total control over transmitters.
"We doan need no stinkin transmittters."
They make their money by controlling access to TRANSMITTERS and screwing:
* producers (the people who actually put the shows together,)
* consumers (the people who want to watch the shows the producers put together) AND
* advertisers, (the people who pony up the cash for access to the process while getting sold on nebulous "audience share" numbers based on the "facts" that people don't have any friggin' lives, families, pets, bladders or colons to distract them.)
NBC and the rest of the broadcasters are entirely UNNECESSARY on the internet.
No wonder they're running around like buggy whip makers after Henry Ford.
They're all going to get KILLED (and the world will go on fine after they're gone.)
They first show that gets to solicit money directly from the audience is going to slaughter them; absolutely slaughter them.
This entire series of threads is irrelevant.
Apple just doesn't give a crap if somebody else's hardware is capable of running OS X.
Whoopdeedoo! We can run OS X on any damn hardware, just as long as we don't expect any support.
Big shit!
What makes OS X OS X is the post hardware sale's software support.
Its all about the updates. 10.4.1 through 10 came for FREE over the time I've had it installed.
Meanwhile, I don't dare let Microsoft update anything since SP2 because something will get fucked up.
If you don't want to pay virtually the same for hardware, go fuck yourself.
And don't bitch that this or that component might cost less using Linux or Windows.
If you think so, then go ahead and BUY IT. And live with the consequences.
Apple doesn't give a flying fuck, and neither do I.
and, given the fact that I've got a Windows box down right now (unit cost: >$400) because of a faulty CPU fan (component cost: $20), I'm quite happy to pay Apple for quality hardware and get OS X as a bonus.
The opportunity to install Windows on any piece of unreliable crap is hardly what I'd call a WISE choice.
At least, with Apple, the installer will refuse to install on inadequate hardware (I own a lot of Macs and some of it is ancient, unlike my Windows boxes, where I can't seem to hang onto a box past the MTBF of the crappiest component.) That's the difference.
I've got old boxes of both kinds under my office desks.
The Macs are just turned off.
The Windows are unplugged because of the fire hazard.
Quit your carping.
Its not like they had a worthy opponent in their hardware design space.
Customer service 101 dude.
and I'm GLAD TO.
/. ... that just too fuckin bad...
Unlike Windows (my wife's PC is stuck behind a firewall on XPsp2) which is not worth updating to Vista.
Unlike Linux, which just isn't quite there yet in terms of media usability (producing, not consuming [and that's still got a little ways to go.])
OS X has always been worth it since 10.1 and its only getting better faster.
And if Apple just ignores the OS segment of
and you can kiss local news goodbye.
That's EXACTLY what happened in New Orleans.
In fact, the moment your market can't generate income, like after a hurricane, a tornado, an eruption or a tsunami, it gets dropped and further rolled up into a larger conglomeration.
Do you WANT your town wiped off the metaphorical map?
'cause that's what'll happen...
I upload 3 shows a week. Each is about 25..50MB.
I start my uploads and the speed is about 187..210KB/s...
At the start.
At the finish its down to 51KB/s.
I tick downwards by 1..3KB/s.
They're NOT discriminating against anybody, they're discriminating against EVERYBODY who's not SUCKING at their pipe but who's UPLOADING anything instead.
If they weren't protected from competition, there'd be riots and mass desertion.
But its cable and they're taking every advantage of the legislation on their cable company turf protection.
When FiOS gets here, I am so gone from their customer rolls.
Each parenthesized section can be knocked out without affecting the overall sentence structure (but each segment augments the previous one and nothing else.)
:-)
As a lover of Formal Languages and Automata, I THINK this way.
Scary isn't it?
I'd put up with it if my MS was alleviated. (And don't worry too much about the cost, I'll find a way to pay for it. [I'll be able to work. {Insert rant about insurance companies that will let you die before they pay and gu'mint agencies that won't help you until you're destitute from having to sell off EVERYTHING, (your house, your car, your furniture, your jewelry, your computers, your retirement savings, your grave [I'm not fuckin' kidding!]) ... right here.}])
the fact that you get to chew 'baca is small consolation if you're his entree for lunch
What else would a Wookie be doing on Endor?
It's an Ewok farm.