This is one thing that I was wondering that you managed to put perfectly. It seems that the future focus of music is going to be in the DJ's/VJ's and those who focus on presenting the content. The content may be easily distributed and replicated these days, but it takes taste and a feel for ones audience to be truely great at setting up shows, mixed cd's, etc.
Hopefully we'll start so see more music "packages" become available, where artists with similar target audiences hook up with a talented DJ/VJ type person (not necessarily those labels specifically), and include different lineups of their songs. I do not mean the "OMG SUPER PARTY HITS 335.4235475236452364 2007 EDITION" cd's you see on infomercials, but ones created with the direct input of the artists involved AND such talent. We've seen that a true fan will purchase multiple versions of the same music and be happy as long as there is a reason to (IE: remixes, live version, even _specific_ live versions).
Music seems to be a lot like food, except for the "we die without it" part not being quite literal. And as many chef's know, presentation is everything. Good taste, insofar as it applies to a similar target audience, definitely DOES have value.
I agree with your first two points, its the third that is the unknown here that i was referring to to begin with.
My own first: What amount of time is required in terms of turnaround from the moment Congressman A says "Hey I have this idea.." to "Time to vote on my idea!".
Second: What amount of time is required in terms of wrapup after a vote to properly process the details, filing of proper papers, etc etc etc
and the whole being: Does the amount of time wasted due to rider items causing bickering/failed bills that need to be redone/etc outweigh the time required in the above processes.
Keep in mind that if a government is sufficiently slowed down, NOTHING can be responded to in terms of new developments too.
Disclaimer: I'm not american, but I am curious as to whether anyone has figures for this. it may well BE more effective overall to simply demand simpler (imagine the fun if they were referred to as Atomic) bills.
Considering how long these processes take, do you REALLY want to add administrative overhead to it?
Tough call personally, as I sure do not know any metrics on redundancies due to failed bills that had unrelated items tacked into them nor for how much overhead each new process would create. Logically it seems to be a situation where you dont want to have the encapsulating bureaucratic crap before and after the vote process for each and every possible line item, but government is rarely logical so I could easily be el wrongo.
Considering that theres surely more diverse stories available in the firehose, and that each iphone article is another story that is not on the front page, I'd say it affects the quality of the days articles.
The point is that even with filtering or ignoring iphone related stories its still annoying that this is taking the place of possibly interesting, or failing that at least DIVERSE news.
hope you feel better for thinking you're ripping into a mindless drone though.
I've noticed that every time we see an article about this issue we always get a plethora of people stating to the effect of "pfft, theres still the rest of the world out there to host servers on". Given that this is the case, and the recording industry is most likely aware of this fact, isnt it likely that this is what they would WANT?
It seems to me that they do not care about sustaining the revenues from these small operators, merely getting them hit out of the market completely. Not because they think its logical and valid but because these small stations allow for a lot more EXPOSURE to different musics. The Recording industry seems to be heart-set on controlling the united states listener market, indoctrinating them into their current "top 40 for your genre of choice" way of thinking. By keeping the royalties as a per-channel issue, the more styles people try to put out there, they have a direct incentive not to diversify. This allows the usual gang (CC, etc) to keep control of what music people are being exposed to.
How often to people buy cd's of bands they dont know? and if they manage to kill Fair-Use by the end of the day, they'll have it enforceably illegal to share with friends (in a MAFIAA perfect world).
Then all thats left is to mass produce more of the same crap, ensure its all the target market is exposed to, and guaranteeing revenue without need for unimportant points like "taste" or "quality". Seems to me the RIAA is slowly giving up on affecting the world and are instead trying to create a fortress out of the USA.
Funny thing is in those cases the issues were most likely true, people seem to be unable to comprehend though that a lot can change between 1999 and 2007 or even Jan 2007 to Jun 2007 =)
Funny thing is, I have heard of TBC but not of The Syndicate.
I wonder if older guilds like this realize that theres a HUGE number of us who have been MMOing since the Majormud learn-to-type-or-die-pvp days. We arent special, we're gaming dorks =)
Alternative? Drop our tech back a couple hundred years, go agrarian. We've only picked up, eh, around 5 billion people since then...Better for the world if they starve, right? At least they won't have to be soulless users of math. THANK you. So many people seem to forget that for many of the initiatives they want to work to actually WORK, you'd either need more resources than our planet has available or a LOT less humans consuming them.
However, i'm sure not a one would be willing to toss the "if they should be liable to die then etc etc etc" Dickensry...
As for hunter-gatherers....cannibalism would certainly shore up the numbers >=) Two humans with one stone... (morbid joke of course)
Mayor Adam West: MY GOD! Somebody's stealing my water!
Meg: It just went down the drain.
Mayor Adam West: They're crafty I tell you. It happens when you least expect it.
[Waters plant.]
Mayor Adam West: SHOW YOURSELVES, DAMN YOU! I've been investigating them for months. It has cost $150,000 dollars of the taxpayers' money, but I'll find the culprits if it costs me a million.
This is something that came to mind after the article concerning Soviet Era videogames. Your "home run" society rings close to the "high score" society. I wonder how different things could be if being the alpha werent seen as such a driving force.
I forget the comedian on Dr. Katz who said it but it was referring to fans at sporting events shouting "We're number 1! We're number 1" "No, you're a little confused, THEY'RE number 1, you're fat and drunk."
Well, liquid oxy and hydrogen? would cost more and require much R&D into cost effective fail safe containment equiment but would at least be plausible.
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The question then becomes: Can Prince launch nuclear weapons using his touch-tone phone?!
This is one thing that I was wondering that you managed to put perfectly. It seems that the future focus of music is going to be in the DJ's/VJ's and those who focus on presenting the content. The content may be easily distributed and replicated these days, but it takes taste and a feel for ones audience to be truely great at setting up shows, mixed cd's, etc.
Hopefully we'll start so see more music "packages" become available, where artists with similar target audiences hook up with a talented DJ/VJ type person (not necessarily those labels specifically), and include different lineups of their songs. I do not mean the "OMG SUPER PARTY HITS 335.4235475236452364 2007 EDITION" cd's you see on infomercials, but ones created with the direct input of the artists involved AND such talent. We've seen that a true fan will purchase multiple versions of the same music and be happy as long as there is a reason to (IE: remixes, live version, even _specific_ live versions).
Music seems to be a lot like food, except for the "we die without it" part not being quite literal. And as many chef's know, presentation is everything. Good taste, insofar as it applies to a similar target audience, definitely DOES have value.
So what you're saying is the more they tighten their grip, the more stars will slip through their fingers? =D
And then...The Vermicious Knids...
I agree with your first two points, its the third that is the unknown here that i was referring to to begin with.
My own first: What amount of time is required in terms of turnaround from the moment Congressman A says "Hey I have this idea.." to "Time to vote on my idea!".
Second: What amount of time is required in terms of wrapup after a vote to properly process the details, filing of proper papers, etc etc etc
and the whole being: Does the amount of time wasted due to rider items causing bickering/failed bills that need to be redone/etc outweigh the time required in the above processes.
Keep in mind that if a government is sufficiently slowed down, NOTHING can be responded to in terms of new developments too.
Disclaimer: I'm not american, but I am curious as to whether anyone has figures for this. it may well BE more effective overall to simply demand simpler (imagine the fun if they were referred to as Atomic) bills.
Considering how long these processes take, do you REALLY want to add administrative overhead to it?
Tough call personally, as I sure do not know any metrics on redundancies due to failed bills that had unrelated items tacked into them nor for how much overhead each new process would create. Logically it seems to be a situation where you dont want to have the encapsulating bureaucratic crap before and after the vote process for each and every possible line item, but government is rarely logical so I could easily be el wrongo.
GMailFS. Why wait to see how long before microsofts offerings are available.
Overhead is a bit of a pain but its certainly useable, unless you're wanting to swap to it of course =).
But did you stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night?
Considering that theres surely more diverse stories available in the firehose, and that each iphone article is another story that is not on the front page, I'd say it affects the quality of the days articles.
The point is that even with filtering or ignoring iphone related stories its still annoying that this is taking the place of possibly interesting, or failing that at least DIVERSE news.
hope you feel better for thinking you're ripping into a mindless drone though.
Why can't the iphone stories stop. I barely cared before but jesus tapdancing christ i'm sick of it.
Mod me down for all of it, how much press does a single friggan appliance need.
I've noticed that every time we see an article about this issue we always get a plethora of people stating to the effect of "pfft, theres still the rest of the world out there to host servers on". Given that this is the case, and the recording industry is most likely aware of this fact, isnt it likely that this is what they would WANT?
It seems to me that they do not care about sustaining the revenues from these small operators, merely getting them hit out of the market completely. Not because they think its logical and valid but because these small stations allow for a lot more EXPOSURE to different musics. The Recording industry seems to be heart-set on controlling the united states listener market, indoctrinating them into their current "top 40 for your genre of choice" way of thinking. By keeping the royalties as a per-channel issue, the more styles people try to put out there, they have a direct incentive not to diversify. This allows the usual gang (CC, etc) to keep control of what music people are being exposed to.
How often to people buy cd's of bands they dont know? and if they manage to kill Fair-Use by the end of the day, they'll have it enforceably illegal to share with friends (in a MAFIAA perfect world).
Then all thats left is to mass produce more of the same crap, ensure its all the target market is exposed to, and guaranteeing revenue without need for unimportant points like "taste" or "quality". Seems to me the RIAA is slowly giving up on affecting the world and are instead trying to create a fortress out of the USA.
Funny thing is in those cases the issues were most likely true, people seem to be unable to comprehend though that a lot can change between 1999 and 2007 or even Jan 2007 to Jun 2007 =)
Funny thing is, I have heard of TBC but not of The Syndicate.
I wonder if older guilds like this realize that theres a HUGE number of us who have been MMOing since the Majormud learn-to-type-or-die-pvp days. We arent special, we're gaming dorks =)
However, i'm sure not a one would be willing to toss the "if they should be liable to die then etc etc etc" Dickensry...
As for hunter-gatherers....cannibalism would certainly shore up the numbers >=) Two humans with one stone... (morbid joke of course)
Didn't verify sources so grain of salt, and the ads on the site make one wonder as to the validity, but heres the only take I have found.
Mayor Adam West: MY GOD! Somebody's stealing my water!
Meg: It just went down the drain.
Mayor Adam West: They're crafty I tell you. It happens when you least expect it.
[Waters plant.]
Mayor Adam West: SHOW YOURSELVES, DAMN YOU! I've been investigating them for months. It has cost $150,000 dollars of the taxpayers' money, but I'll find the culprits if it costs me a million.
Ahh, finally read about the Breach of Contract fee in your contract, eh?
*snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap*.
Dont forget, sunglasses indoors and a black beret.
This is something that came to mind after the article concerning Soviet Era videogames. Your "home run" society rings close to the "high score" society. I wonder how different things could be if being the alpha werent seen as such a driving force.
I forget the comedian on Dr. Katz who said it but it was referring to fans at sporting events shouting "We're number 1! We're number 1" "No, you're a little confused, THEY'RE number 1, you're fat and drunk."
Well, liquid oxy and hydrogen? would cost more and require much R&D into cost effective fail safe containment equiment but would at least be plausible.
Thats it! once I get my hands on a time machine I'm going back and punching Norbert Wiener in the face.
"...in 0 time at all!"
or he meant that it was also close to the smell of a burning turd covered in hair =)
media references for all!
And the greeks would have points concerning obvious adaptations of prior art!