Yep. Note also how fan fiction actually competes with what was the midlist of books. Fan fiction is laughed at for the hideous shit, but lots of it is passable quality if you like the characters, and it turns out the precious commodity is reader time and attention. So it plays out just like with music, except you need even less equipment. It's also totally a folk culture - the writers are the readers.
What you're missing is that the mainstream has never been about seeking out aesthetic quality. The driving force has always been to market things they know how to market. Weird shit can spend its time in the indie leagues, and we can pick it up later.
I'm annoyed Slashdot didn't use the quote about how everyone else is giving away zero-marginal-cost digital steaks, even if they’re actually reconstituted tofu or maybe poop.
You might think that, but I mentioned the problem in the article for live musicians: in the '80s they were competing with boring television, now they're competing with an Internet full of ATTENTION GRABBING EVERYTHING. I wrote that bit from talking to musicians who can't even get decent pay for gigs any more and are wondering what the fuck happened.
Yeah, LMMS doesn't come with an autotune plugin. It will in due course.
(I use LMMS as the example because it is not professional equipment - it is totally a toy. It literally doesn''t even have "undo". But I use and enjoy playing with it.)
Professional recording artists sell fuck-all these days. In the UK: in 1983, Red Guitars got to #8 in the indie charts with 60,000 sales of "Good Technology". In 2013, Rihanna has a mainstream number one album with under 10,000 sales.
The important thing to remember is that "pop music" is not actually all that popular. It's mostly a way to get publicity for your live shows and yourself as a celebrity - buy yourself onto the iTunes top 40. You've never heard of half these people because they are not actually popular.
tl;dr Apple is allergic to the GPL v2, and really allergic to the GPL v3. They were never happy about gcc being their base compiler, so they've been funding the hell out of LLVM/Clang so they can use that as their base compiler instead. Apple is also the main backer of FreeBSD.
"could draw as little as 4.5 WATTS!!!!! in specific usage scenarios" is entirely made of weasels, including the "4.5 watts" without some solid benchmarking.
This story is entirely press release and is made of air.
I live in the suburbs of London. I've been doing my supermarket shopping online for the past ten years. Not having to go to Tesco on a Saturday afternoon and overcome the urge to stab every fucker I see there in the face is worth every penny of the (typically) £5 delivery fee.
New York is a plausible place to do this, as it has the density of population. Might have a harder time in the 'burbs.
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I used to be a music journalist, so "Old man yells at cloud" describes my life pretty accurately.
Yep. Note also how fan fiction actually competes with what was the midlist of books. Fan fiction is laughed at for the hideous shit, but lots of it is passable quality if you like the characters, and it turns out the precious commodity is reader time and attention. So it plays out just like with music, except you need even less equipment. It's also totally a folk culture - the writers are the readers.
This already happens. Deadmau5 has confessed he basically shows up, presses "play" and dances a lot. (no cite readily to hand, sorry)
I blame neoliberalism. Day jobs are fucking horrible these days too.
What you're missing is that the mainstream has never been about seeking out aesthetic quality. The driving force has always been to market things they know how to market. Weird shit can spend its time in the indie leagues, and we can pick it up later.
Yeah, that's 'cos there's not enough free autotune plugins.
There's very little worth doing that you can't do with the older cracked version. ... so I hear.
I'm annoyed Slashdot didn't use the quote about how everyone else is giving away zero-marginal-cost digital steaks, even if they’re actually reconstituted tofu or maybe poop.
Radio ... that's the thing you listen to in your car, right? When the MP3s on your phone are too varied.
In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people.
You might think that, but I mentioned the problem in the article for live musicians: in the '80s they were competing with boring television, now they're competing with an Internet full of ATTENTION GRABBING EVERYTHING. I wrote that bit from talking to musicians who can't even get decent pay for gigs any more and are wondering what the fuck happened.
Yeah, LMMS doesn't come with an autotune plugin. It will in due course.
(I use LMMS as the example because it is not professional equipment - it is totally a toy. It literally doesn''t even have "undo". But I use and enjoy playing with it.)
I stole it from Roughly Drafted, but I don't orgasm at the sight of an Apple logo, so feel free to take it ;-)
Professional recording artists sell fuck-all these days. In the UK: in 1983, Red Guitars got to #8 in the indie charts with 60,000 sales of "Good Technology". In 2013, Rihanna has a mainstream number one album with under 10,000 sales.
The important thing to remember is that "pop music" is not actually all that popular. It's mostly a way to get publicity for your live shows and yourself as a celebrity - buy yourself onto the iTunes top 40. You've never heard of half these people because they are not actually popular.
tl;dr Apple is allergic to the GPL v2, and really allergic to the GPL v3. They were never happy about gcc being their base compiler, so they've been funding the hell out of LLVM/Clang so they can use that as their base compiler instead. Apple is also the main backer of FreeBSD.
"could draw as little as 4.5 WATTS!!!!! in specific usage scenarios" is entirely made of weasels, including the "4.5 watts" without some solid benchmarking.
This story is entirely press release and is made of air.
One who can read, one who can count, one to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.
With people like this in power, the US's scientific and engineering dominance will remain unstoppable!
If you treat everyone as a disposable contractor, you may have trouble getting unquestioning loyalty from them.
Q. Why do NSA security assessors travel in threes?
A. One who can read, one who can count, and one to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.
A robot that will protect us from the terrible secret of space!
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cryonics
I live in the suburbs of London. I've been doing my supermarket shopping online for the past ten years. Not having to go to Tesco on a Saturday afternoon and overcome the urge to stab every fucker I see there in the face is worth every penny of the (typically) £5 delivery fee.
New York is a plausible place to do this, as it has the density of population. Might have a harder time in the 'burbs.
If you never want to run apps on it, ever, then Windows 8 is apparently a nice interface for touch.
Who the hell manages to become responsible for 1000s of systems and networks without being forced to document them as part of their job ?
Lots of people. Welcome to system administration! Here's your accordion.
(I spent three years documenting furiously. We finally got a third sysadmin. He found my notes incomprehensible. Sigh.)
Keep them on as a consultant, and *pay* that $$$ per hour when you need to.
(This assumes they are quality folk in the first place, of course.)