It's sad to see that the pipe logo has been surgically removed from the sgi site. it makes me want to go to Mountain View and insert a large pipe into Belluzo's tail pipe.
DAMN! that logo was COOL.
-------------------------------- check out my music. you might actually like it.
Interesting.. I guess it's running on the 2000 line of newtons, I'll be very suprised if it also runs on the "lesser" newts and the emate, but you never know...
though I guess this is not going to be the next big trend in PDA software.. (especialy since newton was "steved") it is cool, kudos to the coder.
The fact that the record co's totaly missed the net as an emarging distribution channel, and discarding of ideas like costum CD distribution, was (probably) a very big reason why MP3 has become as wide spread as it has.
And frankly, I am gratfull for their stupidity..:-)
I am a amature musician, and I had a nice chance to use internet distribution for a track I made, a few months ago.
Due to a govrement decision to rase student tuition fees, a student strike was initiated in Israel.
There were demonstrations, marches, all the useall stuff.
I decided to contribute, and made a little dance/trance track that used a sample from a speach of leader of the student council. I compressed it as a MP3, I put it on a site, and through two local mailing lists got people to know. I asked in my post for people to download it and get it on the radio, demonstration sites, and so on.
In less then a week the track got played on radio stations, and all the demonstration sites. My estamete that 10,000 Israelis downloaded it (there were a few FTP sites that I couln't monitor, including the main geocities site.)
I also tried to interest a record company to get out as a single, to gain more exposure. but by the time they responded, everyone who needed to have a copy, got one.
( you can read the whole story and if you like Download the track from:
Slashdot Mirror
It's sad to see that the pipe logo has been surgically removed from the sgi site. it makes me want to go to Mountain View and insert a large pipe into Belluzo's tail pipe.
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DAMN! that logo was COOL.
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check out my music
you might actually like it.
hehe.
:-)
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I guess this is the true victory of slashdot, a higher ranking then all of zdnets sites together. Aint that cool?
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check out my music
you might actually like it.
hmmm...
Interesting.. I guess it's running on the 2000 line of newtons, I'll be very suprised if it also runs on the "lesser" newts and the emate, but you never know...
though I guess this is not going to be the next big trend in PDA software.. (especialy since newton was "steved") it is cool, kudos to the coder.
Eitan.
I don't think anyone should worry about mp3 becommig outdated.
Mp3 is so wide spread, and has so much original (and unoriginal) music alwredy encoded, that no MPx is likely to take it's place, in the near future
Very nice article, you really nail it there.
:-)
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The fact that the record co's totaly missed the net as an emarging distribution channel, and discarding of ideas like costum CD distribution, was (probably) a very big reason why MP3 has become as wide spread as it has.
And frankly, I am gratfull for their stupidity..
I am a amature musician, and I had a nice chance to use internet distribution for a track I made, a few months ago.
Due to a govrement decision to rase student tuition fees, a student strike was initiated in Israel.
There were demonstrations, marches, all the useall stuff.
I decided to contribute, and made a little dance/trance track that used a sample from a speach of leader of the student council.
I compressed it as a MP3, I put it on a site, and through two local mailing lists got people to know. I asked in my post for people to download it and get it on the radio, demonstration sites, and so on.
In less then a week the track got played on radio stations, and all the demonstration sites. My estamete that 10,000 Israelis downloaded it (there were a few FTP sites that I couln't monitor, including the main geocities site.)
I also tried to interest a record company to get out as a single, to gain more exposure. but by the time they responded, everyone who needed to have a copy, got one.
( you can read the whole story and if you like Download the track from:
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/8
)
Fact is, that without the widespread distribution of MP3 players and music, I wouldn't have a chance to get that track heard by all those people.
Eitan.