I wish I could get a job as a futurist....think about it:
"What do you think is going to happen in the future???" "Um...dogs will bring soda to you when you whistle a Cradle of Filth song?" "OMFG THATZ BRILLIANT. HERE R MONIES, PLZ HAS MAH BABBIES!"
Never click on a URL within an email to take you to a website...always go directly to the website yourself.
Also, use some common sense. You're the 30,000th person today who has been told they are the one millionth visitor...ignore the temptation to smack that bear (or whatever flash ads are doing nowadays)
Note that the "$10,000" figure included all equipment...this includes instruments and microphones. I realize you can do it for much cheaper (and, depending on your genre of music, much cheaper), but factoring in high-quality mics, a solid-quality drum set, and good quality guitars/amps, $10,000 isn't all that unreasonable.
Again, that includes everything...instruments, cables, computer, software, hardware...everything. You can, of course, just spend $200 on a decent USB MIDI controller, $300 on a decent DAW, and do everything in software...but that's why I said it all depends:-)
That all depends on what you want to do with your music. The guy that lives on the first floor of our apartment complex is fairly popular locally, but at the moment he is just using the money he earns to save up for retirement. As for myself, I release all my music for free because it caters to a very small niche where there isn't too much available. I got started because I wanted to hear specific types of music, and was having a hard time actually finding it. Of course, now that I do it, I've come in contact with all kinds of people who make the same stuff...but I digress.
If you're good enough, your music alone will make you more popular. The Very Small, a band made up of people I went to middle and high school with, played at the 9:30 Club a couple of months ago (a place where people as big as Marylin Manson, John Mayer, Thievery Corporation, and Black Eyed Peas have played) They have also done a multi-coast tour, and are planning another one. Their advertising is done almost entirely through word-of-mouth and social networking sites.
It's hard, but if your music is actually good, it will eventually happen on its own.
The RIAA is just pissed of because it's finally realizing how useless they are at this point.
You no longer need a multi-million dollar studio to produce professional-sounding audio, nor do you need widespread advertising in "traditional" ways to get popular. $10,000 will buy you all the instruments, equipment, and distribution you need. Depending on your music, it likely will require even less than that.
80 GB is plenty. 10-15 GB for the OS and programs leaves 65-70 GB for/home
Like I said, I know it's enough, but I don't like having that little amount of space available on my system drive.
That's enough space for a very large music collection and lots of photos. You may not be able to store that many movies on it, but most people don't have any movies on their computers
Not that this is relevant to a system drive, but most people willing to spend the money on an SSD almost certainly do have movies on their computer.
and if you can afford an SSD and that many movies, you can afford the $40 for an extra hard drive.
It's not really a matter of not being able to afford it so much as not wanting to pay that much for that amount of space.
Agreed...if they keep the price points the same, but double capacity, I would be much more inclined to pick one up. I know you don't technically *need* alot of space for a system drive, but I don't like having such limited free space. 160GB would be the absolute bare minimum I would use for a system drive these days, and even that's kinda pushing it.
The price is still far too high. I recognize that an SSD can provide a good performance boost, but still...the prices are way too high. I'll likely give it another year or two before I pull the trigger on one.
There are some exceptions, such as The Fountain or anything else that is heavily visual, but for the most part I'll watch crappy quality video if I like what I'm watching.
That being said, there's no reason to settle for bad quality video...there's always a way around it (except for our copies of every Bill Nye episode...VHS tapes only age so well, know what I mean?)
Of course, it is a problem that you need to jailbreak an Iphone to enable basic functionality. But if the media has such a problem with that, maybe they could actually focus on that instead of praising Apple all the time
Thirded. Usually I would say Apple was just trying to keep people from unlocking their phones...but I think that was just a symptom of the problem they were trying to fix here.
Just because we're not talking about it doesn't mean someone out there isn't actively looking for them. All they have to do is read them to find out their contents, regardless if we chat about it or not.
I'm not talking about slashdot...I'm talking about the government and the media constantly talking about how wikileaks posted these documents...I assure you that if the government didn't publicly acknowledge it, and if the media stopped talking about it, FAR less people would be aware of their existence.
That's where we're lucky...our balcony faces a direction that is an undeveloped forest:-) It's not as good as getting away from everything, but it's better than facing development:-)
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I wish I could get a job as a futurist....think about it:
"What do you think is going to happen in the future???"
"Um...dogs will bring soda to you when you whistle a Cradle of Filth song?"
"OMFG THATZ BRILLIANT. HERE R MONIES, PLZ HAS MAH BABBIES!"
I never used Foursquare, because it reminds of the game the retarded kids have to play at recess.
You obviously never played foursquare with weightlifters using a bouncy medicine ball...shit is intense.
I know what people do with it, but why do they do it?
Never click on a URL within an email to take you to a website...always go directly to the website yourself.
Also, use some common sense. You're the 30,000th person today who has been told they are the one millionth visitor...ignore the temptation to smack that bear (or whatever flash ads are doing nowadays)
Note that the "$10,000" figure included all equipment...this includes instruments and microphones. I realize you can do it for much cheaper (and, depending on your genre of music, much cheaper), but factoring in high-quality mics, a solid-quality drum set, and good quality guitars/amps, $10,000 isn't all that unreasonable.
Again, that includes everything...instruments, cables, computer, software, hardware...everything. You can, of course, just spend $200 on a decent USB MIDI controller, $300 on a decent DAW, and do everything in software...but that's why I said it all depends :-)
That all depends on what you want to do with your music. The guy that lives on the first floor of our apartment complex is fairly popular locally, but at the moment he is just using the money he earns to save up for retirement. As for myself, I release all my music for free because it caters to a very small niche where there isn't too much available. I got started because I wanted to hear specific types of music, and was having a hard time actually finding it. Of course, now that I do it, I've come in contact with all kinds of people who make the same stuff...but I digress.
If you're good enough, your music alone will make you more popular. The Very Small, a band made up of people I went to middle and high school with, played at the 9:30 Club a couple of months ago (a place where people as big as Marylin Manson, John Mayer, Thievery Corporation, and Black Eyed Peas have played) They have also done a multi-coast tour, and are planning another one. Their advertising is done almost entirely through word-of-mouth and social networking sites.
It's hard, but if your music is actually good, it will eventually happen on its own.
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The RIAA is just pissed of because it's finally realizing how useless they are at this point.
You no longer need a multi-million dollar studio to produce professional-sounding audio, nor do you need widespread advertising in "traditional" ways to get popular. $10,000 will buy you all the instruments, equipment, and distribution you need. Depending on your music, it likely will require even less than that.
80 GB is plenty. 10-15 GB for the OS and programs leaves 65-70 GB for /home
Like I said, I know it's enough, but I don't like having that little amount of space available on my system drive.
That's enough space for a very large music collection and lots of photos. You may not be able to store that many movies on it, but most people don't have any movies on their computers
Not that this is relevant to a system drive, but most people willing to spend the money on an SSD almost certainly do have movies on their computer.
and if you can afford an SSD and that many movies, you can afford the $40 for an extra hard drive.
It's not really a matter of not being able to afford it so much as not wanting to pay that much for that amount of space.
Agreed...if they keep the price points the same, but double capacity, I would be much more inclined to pick one up. I know you don't technically *need* alot of space for a system drive, but I don't like having such limited free space. 160GB would be the absolute bare minimum I would use for a system drive these days, and even that's kinda pushing it.
The price is still far too high. I recognize that an SSD can provide a good performance boost, but still...the prices are way too high. I'll likely give it another year or two before I pull the trigger on one.
Not that any of you care -_-;;
So wait...how exactly did they get hold of passwords?
Whatever. We all know that Netscape Navigator was king back in the mid-90s.
I completely agree. I'm much more sensitive to crap audio quality than to crap video quality.
There are some exceptions, such as The Fountain or anything else that is heavily visual, but for the most part I'll watch crappy quality video if I like what I'm watching.
That being said, there's no reason to settle for bad quality video...there's always a way around it (except for our copies of every Bill Nye episode...VHS tapes only age so well, know what I mean?)
Free country, my ass. You no longer have freedom of speech.
And yet, you have the freedom to say what I just quoted without being thrown in some secret prison.
Still, I know what you're getting at. I'll leave it with a Bill Hicks quote:
"Go back to bed, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!"
...how's that "let companies police themselves" stance on net neutrality working out for you?
Of course, it is a problem that you need to jailbreak an Iphone to enable basic functionality. But if the media has such a problem with that, maybe they could actually focus on that instead of praising Apple all the time
They're afraid of being modded down.
Maybe McAfee or Symantec will have a solution.
nah, I think the vulnerability is bad enough...you're not hoping it would get WORSE, do you?
Thirded. Usually I would say Apple was just trying to keep people from unlocking their phones...but I think that was just a symptom of the problem they were trying to fix here.
Just because we're not talking about it doesn't mean someone out there isn't actively looking for them. All they have to do is read them to find out their contents, regardless if we chat about it or not.
I'm not talking about slashdot...I'm talking about the government and the media constantly talking about how wikileaks posted these documents...I assure you that if the government didn't publicly acknowledge it, and if the media stopped talking about it, FAR less people would be aware of their existence.
Anyone read the Jump 225 Trilogy by David Louis Edelman?
Thanks for the mention! I've never heard of it, but I know what I'm buying on my nook when I get home!
"These documents that this website released endanger the lives of men and women around the globe. THESE DOCUMENTS. THESE DOCUMENTS RIGHT HERE."
If you don't want people to know about what's in the documents, stop fucking talking about them.
Who I'm jealous of is my parents...they live in a house on the side of a mountain in North Carolina just outside of Asheville -_-;;
That's where we're lucky...our balcony faces a direction that is an undeveloped forest :-) It's not as good as getting away from everything, but it's better than facing development :-)