>everything innovative in the music world has been crushed by lawsuits.
Actually everything innovative in the music INDUSTRY has been crushed by lawsuits. It always was and alway will be. everything innovative in the music world world is doing just fine. Despite the bad intentions of the powerbrokers.
The 2 companies involved in sat radio are xm and sirus. Sirus already has severe cash problems and xm is projected to run out of cash sometime later in the year. Their stocks went through the roof during the NASDAQ rally last year with no product! At least the.com's had a product. Sat radio as of yet has no product or revenue stream.
If you think that this is a saviour to bland radio, think again. One of the largest investors in XM is Clear Channel. The company most believe is responsible for the bad state of radio today.
What we need is streaming ip based radio that is not controlled by corporate vampires to lead a new revolution in the fifth estate.
As someone who has been in the radio game for over 20 years I see this as a good thing. Not because it protects the fat cat idiots that controll the medium, but because it keeps them out of the streaming game. With the advent of streaming, the last thing we would want is this old media controlling a new one. Good. Get them out of streaming. That way the true innovators of the medium can create truly compelling content. We don't need the large broadcast companies turning streaming into another mindless, banal medium like radio has become.
I too was just a kid when all this crap hit the fan. But being a kid growing up in Miami while all this was going down made it really scary. I remember watching what seemed like endless trains carrying tanks and God knows what kind of military hardware through rail road tracks in my neighborhood. I remember the adults scared out of their whits and really thinking that it was the end of the world, or at the very least Miami would become ashes or invaded.
believe it or not the Newton had made a lot of inroads into this before Steve killed it. A lot of the apps for the Newton were specifically medical/hospital.
Um...
Wasn't the first web client and server -- built with NEXTSTEP at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee
? Without this 'not so great... desktop... Unix... that sucked", this page would not be here.
The point was... It was a computer for my mother, my grandmother, uncle fred. Why would they need a debugger? they wanted little pictures. but then again... why am I bothering to respond to some phony elite twerp. to them its a freekin toaster. they have no passion for this thing you can't function without. It's a toaster and the mac made white toast.
Mac was/is the OS for idiots. It was the great introductory OS and if you stuck with it you got good enough at the "voodoo" to get it to function the way you wanted it to
Things that made this idiots OS great:
- no CL...nothing underneath. If you wanted to 'troubleshoot' it was a matter of restarting and fiddling with intis. Archaic but it worked. (more or less) -The GUI was all. Nuthin' more, nuthin less. - It was an OS that the layman could understand. Logical, files, folders, hard drive on desktop, what ran the thing was in the system. You could pretty much put anything anywhere and it would work -blah, blah, blah...
I think the switch to nix is gonna piss off a lot of people. They have no idea what they are getting into. And it is NEXT, its not a mac. All that is gone.
I bought my mother a MAC. I sure as hell wouldn't install Linux on her machine. I could see explaining about kernels to her.Right! But I can deal with telling her 'you see that smiley faced guy that says system'. And that's just the beginning. Lets not forget that a ton of technologies that Apple didn't abandon in the 90's and almost all of the mac users have gotten used to will be gone. I think Steve screwed the pooch and this may just well be the real beginning of the end for apple.
Yes, I agree. I too considered an ibook for "quick and dirty" audio work but didn't because no mini plug in. I disagree with the -no professional is going to do audio without a third party solution-. If I'm really woried about audio, sure I'm gonna' use protools, but for 1/2 the quick and dirty stuff the mini plug, built in audio is fine. I occasionally need a mini/xlr matching box for balanced/unbalanced matching but thats about it. 16/44.1 is just fine. The dirty little secret is that FM radio's frequency won't get close to 22k. The only people that really notice are the gear heads. This is why a really great producer will mix down to a crappy pair of car speakers. In my view leaving out the built in audio out was a mistake and I'll just get some more milage out of my Lombard.
True, true. Also notice that Sheryl Crow gave $5,000 to the democrats as well. And if you remember she was one of the artists that gave her 2 cents on the works for hire issue before congress. At least the labels didn't win that one.
Wow! You demonstrated that you either didn't read my post or already had your mind made up before you did.
I was just pointing out that politics makes strange bedfellows, especially in the entertainment biz where creative freedom is fine... but don't screw with my bank account. When it comes to money "I'll make a deal with the devil, Al Gore or Richard Nixon.". You are an uptight coward aren't you.
When you check on the link for the political contributions from wired, the third highest donation on the list is from :
Gail Zappa
Intercontinental Absurdities
President
$104,000
Intercontinental Absurdities is the label of former all around musical whacko and genius Frank Zappa and Gail I believe is his daughter. What makes this most amusing is that his label is the third highest entertainment donator to the democratic party. The very same party that is nominating Al (I invented the internet) Gore for President. If I remember correctly, this Frank Zappa is the very some musician who testified before Congress when Al's wife Tipper was trying to ban all kinds of music and entertainment from public consumption with that screwy political action committee she started. He made her look like a real bitch before the cameras and was one of the people who kept her from domination as the conscience of the entertainment industry.
Amazing... fight them from taking away your freedom one day and the next your donating a hundred grand to elect them as president.
I have a combined 35 years in radio and ganging my head against computer monitors and I can tell you that Mr Curry is full of crap. The last thing peer to peer needs is any baggage from a horrid medium like radio. Lemmings like him destroyed a once great medium and turned it into a large pile of dung run by dirt bag salesman. Let people run peer to peer and keep the manicured hands of scum bag salesman as far away as possible.
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I've still got the arm band that came with the single.
>everything innovative in the music world has been crushed by lawsuits.
Actually everything innovative in the music INDUSTRY has been crushed by lawsuits. It always was and alway will be. everything innovative in the music world world is doing just fine. Despite the bad intentions of the powerbrokers.
Me too. I've barely used OS 9 except to print, use photoshop, protools, word, filemaker pro, peak, etc...
The 2 companies involved in sat radio are xm and sirus. Sirus already has severe cash problems and xm is projected to run out of cash sometime later in the year. Their stocks went through the roof during the NASDAQ rally last year with no product! At least the .com's had a product. Sat radio as of yet has no product or revenue stream.
If you think that this is a saviour to bland radio, think again. One of the largest investors in XM is Clear Channel. The company most believe is responsible for the bad state of radio today.
What we need is streaming ip based radio that is not controlled by corporate vampires to lead a new revolution in the fifth estate.
As someone who has been in the radio game for over 20 years I see this as a good thing. Not because it protects the fat cat idiots that controll the medium, but because it keeps them out of the streaming game. With the advent of streaming, the last thing we would want is this old media controlling a new one. Good. Get them out of streaming. That way the true innovators of the medium can create truly compelling content. We don't need the large broadcast companies turning streaming into another mindless, banal medium like radio has become.
I'm going to go catch the flick this weekend.
I too was just a kid when all this crap hit the fan. But being a kid growing up in Miami while all this was going down made it really scary. I remember watching what seemed like endless trains carrying tanks and God knows what kind of military hardware through rail road tracks in my neighborhood. I remember the adults scared out of their whits and really thinking that it was the end of the world, or at the very least Miami would become ashes or invaded.
Gotta be. I agree. Can't you see NYC full of sidewalk surfing hovercraft techno-weenies replacing their Razors with i-mac colored hovercrafts.
Link to his bio ---> http://www.usfirst.org/bios/dean.html
believe it or not the Newton had made a lot of inroads into this before Steve killed it. A lot of the apps for the Newton were specifically medical/hospital.
Um... Wasn't the first web client and server -- built with NEXTSTEP at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee ? Without this 'not so great... desktop... Unix... that sucked", this page would not be here.
The point was...
It was a computer for my mother, my grandmother, uncle fred. Why would they need a debugger? they wanted little pictures.
but then again... why am I bothering to respond to some phony elite twerp.
to them its a freekin toaster. they have no passion for this thing you can't function without. It's a toaster and the mac made white toast.
I'm sure this will not go over well but...
Mac was/is the OS for idiots.
It was the great introductory OS and if you stuck with it you got good enough at the "voodoo" to get it to function the way you wanted it to
Things that made this idiots OS great:
- no CL...nothing underneath. If you wanted to 'troubleshoot' it was a matter of restarting and fiddling with intis. Archaic but it worked. (more or less)
-The GUI was all. Nuthin' more, nuthin less.
- It was an OS that the layman could understand. Logical, files, folders, hard drive on desktop, what ran the thing was in the system. You could pretty much put anything anywhere and it would work
-blah, blah, blah...
I think the switch to nix is gonna piss off a lot of people. They have no idea what they are getting into. And it is NEXT, its not a mac. All that is gone.
I bought my mother a MAC. I sure as hell wouldn't install Linux on her machine. I could see explaining about kernels to her.Right! But I can deal with telling her 'you see that smiley faced guy that says system'. And that's just the beginning. Lets not forget that a ton of technologies that Apple didn't abandon in the 90's and almost all of the mac users have gotten used to will be gone.
I think Steve screwed the pooch and this may just well be the real beginning of the end for apple.
Exactly!
Fire the marketing maggots and hire more programmers.
Yes, I agree.
I too considered an ibook for "quick and dirty" audio work but didn't because no mini plug in.
I disagree with the -no professional is going to do audio without a third party solution-. If I'm really woried about audio, sure I'm gonna' use protools, but for 1/2 the quick and dirty stuff the mini plug, built in audio is fine. I occasionally need a mini/xlr matching box for balanced/unbalanced matching but thats about it. 16/44.1 is just fine. The dirty little secret is that FM radio's frequency won't get close to 22k. The only people that really notice are the gear heads. This is why a really great producer will mix down to a crappy pair of car speakers.
In my view leaving out the built in audio out was a mistake and I'll just get some more milage out of my Lombard.
The applestore is down. At thirty bucks a pop.
aint that a bitch
Tenon announced a future release. Some may remember them for machten.
http://www.tenon.com/
Give me a computer with a nipple any day.
mugwump
To you maybe, but not to an auto mechanic.
I realize that there is a bit of sarcasm here but I must disagree with the spirit of your post.
The point of a "machine" is to make them transparent. How many of you would be able to fix your own cars or repair a stove?
Physician, heal thyself.
True, true.
Also notice that Sheryl Crow gave $5,000 to the democrats as well. And if you remember she was one of the artists that gave her 2 cents on the works for hire issue before congress. At least the labels didn't win that one.
That's right. His daughter is "moon unit". I gotta go put on HOT RATS now!
Wow! You demonstrated that you either didn't read my post or already had your mind made up before you did.
I was just pointing out that politics makes strange bedfellows, especially in the entertainment biz where creative freedom is fine... but don't screw with my bank account. When it comes to money "I'll make a deal with the devil, Al Gore or Richard Nixon.".
You are an uptight coward aren't you.
When you check on the link for the political contributions from wired, the third highest donation on the list is from : Gail Zappa Intercontinental Absurdities President $104,000 Intercontinental Absurdities is the label of former all around musical whacko and genius Frank Zappa and Gail I believe is his daughter. What makes this most amusing is that his label is the third highest entertainment donator to the democratic party. The very same party that is nominating Al (I invented the internet) Gore for President. If I remember correctly, this Frank Zappa is the very some musician who testified before Congress when Al's wife Tipper was trying to ban all kinds of music and entertainment from public consumption with that screwy political action committee she started. He made her look like a real bitch before the cameras and was one of the people who kept her from domination as the conscience of the entertainment industry. Amazing... fight them from taking away your freedom one day and the next your donating a hundred grand to elect them as president.
I have a combined 35 years in radio and ganging my head against computer monitors and I can tell you that Mr Curry is full of crap. The last thing peer to peer needs is any baggage from a horrid medium like radio. Lemmings like him destroyed a once great medium and turned it into a large pile of dung run by dirt bag salesman. Let people run peer to peer and keep the manicured hands of scum bag salesman as far away as possible.
--- I feel much beter now---