If it takes 200 people (counting the actual artist) to produce an album, why should the artist get more than 1/200th of the profits? What makes them so deserving of this huge windfall, leaving the other 199 equally hard-working (and probably better educated and less drug-addicted) staff to fight over the remaining scraps?
Scraps? Those 199 people get paid up front. They work for a living. The "artists" take the risk. They make it, or they don't. If their album doesn't sell, they don't make money. If they hit the big time, they get rich, and nobody gets to be jealous. They could just as easily have ended up nowhere. Meanwhile the other 199 people would still have that $$$.
The artists take the risk, and therefore deserve the huge windfaell.
Would you prefer the type of arrangement we see in the movie industry? Tom Hanks makes a movie and gets paid $20 million. The other 500 people involved in the movie get... well, far, far less, needless to say. Is that fair? Doesn't the guy who puts in overtime painting the sets so they'll be dry for tomorrow's shoot deserve just as much pay as the trained monkey spouting lines (that someone else wrote for him) in front of the camera (which is being run by another low-paid professional)?
It's what the market will bear. If you don't like Tom Hanks' $20m price, don't pay him. If enough people don't pay him $20m, his price will go down. You can hire a nobody actor for $20,000. Your film may not get as much exposure, or it may be a big success and you'll launch that actor into future stardom. Again, everybody else in the movie industry works for a living. They make good money at it too -- they have nice unions out there. Don't cry on their behalf.
So which situation would you prefer? Relatively equal distribution for all, including the artist (a la music), or grossly disproportionate distribution of the profits (a la movies)?
I understand your point, but I think that part of the allure of music is "hitting it big". My problem with the music industry is this:
I bought a bunch of DVDs from a bargain bin at Wal-Mart for $6 each.
I can't get CDs for less than $10 each.
Nobody can tell me that the production costs for a CD is higher than that for a movie (can they?), so why aren't CDs priced competitively with other things out there?
Send them a doodle of an octopus giving them the finger 8 times. RvB? Nice.
Just use an open WAP as your switch and you will be covered. When they sue you, thermite your hard-drives and then claim that someone else used your WAP to download that stuff... Thermite shmermite. I'm pretty sure the RIAA doesn't get access to your physical PC before they sue you. Possibly they won't get access to it ever. Certainly you'll have plenty of time to casually move those MP3s to another location.
American beer is not crap. I'm reading this post on Fat Tire #4 for the night, and I can't be happier. The American beer that you get imported is crap. Americans don't drink it because it tastes good, we drink it to get drunk. I have Coors Light in the fridge for when it's time to get hammered. Hammered. But for drinking, for when you want beer that doesn't taste like crap, when you want to enjoy the taste, the experience, you need to find your own niche. Fat Tire, where sold, is my/our niche. You may have your own where you live. If you visit us in Colorado(the skiing is great!), be sure to try it.
The final alternative is less eloquent: student revolt, in the form of litigation if need be. This year, formal complaints have been issued by several groups to the top University of California and California State University systems allege that
Are you sure? WMA supports compression from < 96kbps to mathematically lossless (somewhere around 450-950kbps), I'd think that they'd at least use VBR... I have no first-hand knowledge of what bitrate they're using, and the article in question doesn't mention it. Where'd you hear this?
Get a Rio Volt. Please don't get a Rio Volt. I've gone through 3 already--bought one, bought another one, got #2 replaced under warranty, and #3 recently broke. My next portable MP3 player will be made by a different company. This is both a reflection on the company in general and the quality of their MP3 player products. I went through hell getting the player replaced under warranty.
"How many people do you know that use Outlook and may have your email in their address book? The bitch of the matter?" There is an easy defence against this:... bla bla sneakemail bla bla
That works just fine, but it gets even easier: Own your own domain. Have your e-mail setup to forward *@yourdomain.com to your actual e-mail address. Never give anyone your e-mail address. Give everybody different e-mail addresses to e-mail you at. Your friend jenny can e-mail you at jenny@yourdomain or whatever she'd like. When you sign up for something, use an e-mail address like theirproduct@yourdomain or theirdomain.com@yourdomain. Then you always know who's sending you what e-mail, and if one of the aliases gets bogged down with spam, flag it, bounce it, do as you will.
I bought my domain for $30 for 2 years, including the mail service (I don't have the resources to set up my own mail server). It works great and I don't get any spam.
Is all the extra work that these worms and what not are causing for us IT folks, good for our industry in general? Certainly it keeps us busy just keeping everything running, and that's gotta keep a few people on the payroll.
If that's the case, I'd like to send a shout-out to all the virus and worm authors out there: you infect my computer and I'll pop a cap in yo azz, but as long as you just infect the clueless newbies, and it helps me separate them from their cash, I give you the thumbs up.
I found that disabling MSN IM causes Outlook Express to stop responding for several seconds upon starting it up. When I used OE, that was unacceptable. So I set the security permissions on the IM executable file to deny myself read permissions. I don't have access to run IM, so there's no way that it can be in use. OE doesn't seem to mind that, and I'm down one icon in the systray.
does this f22 make you proud, dork ? do you feel that you know what does the "disturbing talk" really mean ? do you feel that your country has a right to do what it does now ? check yer dow & nasdaq shit and come back later saying - you haven't served yer country bro.
I read news.google.com, and they have a surprising amount of sports coverage of either cricket or soccer. I glaze right over it. I'm sure others skip things that don't interest them as well.
It is very flimsy. no, more like: It was very flimsy.
I'm tired of the anal-retentativeness I always see here on Slashdot! You guys need to take a chill pill. Smoke a bowl. Throw a hand grenade. Become a weatherman. Close enough, you know?/. isn't like computer code, if there's a tiny little inconsistency, just move on.
Seriously. All this music I've been pirating has left my pockets less empty. I may as well donate the money they would have gotten (had they been cool about the whole MP3 thing) to their enemy.
I was generalizing. I own a 9500 'coz it's cheaper and does what I want. I'm a gamer. I play games. You, as a non-gamer, may not know what graphics card to get, but gamers will know. So ask a gamer. If you need to game. Otherwise get something cheap.
The mass market will buy the box with the prettier logo, The box with the lower price, or the box that magazine xyz (that they read) says is best.
Most of the people I know don't do that -- they say, "Hey ZB, which graphics card should I get?" and I say, "ATI Radeon 9700" and they say, "OK" and that's that. I assume anyone in the market for gaming graphics cards knows someone they can ask for advice.
I developed a personal serve with no I/O that's 1/4 the weight of an iPod. It runs great, but since it has no I/O, you're just going to have to trust me.
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If it takes 200 people (counting the actual artist) to produce an album, why should the artist get more than 1/200th of the profits? What makes them so deserving of this huge windfall, leaving the other 199 equally hard-working (and probably better educated and less drug-addicted) staff to fight over the remaining scraps?
... well, far, far less, needless to say. Is that fair? Doesn't the guy who puts in overtime painting the sets so they'll be dry for tomorrow's shoot deserve just as much pay as the trained monkey spouting lines (that someone else wrote for him) in front of the camera (which is being run by another low-paid professional)?
Scraps? Those 199 people get paid up front. They work for a living. The "artists" take the risk. They make it, or they don't. If their album doesn't sell, they don't make money. If they hit the big time, they get rich, and nobody gets to be jealous. They could just as easily have ended up nowhere. Meanwhile the other 199 people would still have that $$$.
The artists take the risk, and therefore deserve the huge windfaell.
Would you prefer the type of arrangement we see in the movie industry? Tom Hanks makes a movie and gets paid $20 million. The other 500 people involved in the movie get
It's what the market will bear. If you don't like Tom Hanks' $20m price, don't pay him. If enough people don't pay him $20m, his price will go down. You can hire a nobody actor for $20,000. Your film may not get as much exposure, or it may be a big success and you'll launch that actor into future stardom. Again, everybody else in the movie industry works for a living. They make good money at it too -- they have nice unions out there. Don't cry on their behalf.
So which situation would you prefer? Relatively equal distribution for all, including the artist (a la music), or grossly disproportionate distribution of the profits (a la movies)?
I understand your point, but I think that part of the allure of music is "hitting it big".
My problem with the music industry is this:
I bought a bunch of DVDs from a bargain bin at Wal-Mart for $6 each.
I can't get CDs for less than $10 each.
Nobody can tell me that the production costs for a CD is higher than that for a movie (can they?), so why aren't CDs priced competitively with other things out there?
Send them a doodle of an octopus giving them the finger 8 times.
RvB? Nice.
Just use an open WAP as your switch and you will be covered. When they sue you, thermite your hard-drives and then claim that someone else used your WAP to download that stuff...
Thermite shmermite. I'm pretty sure the RIAA doesn't get access to your physical PC before they sue you. Possibly they won't get access to it ever. Certainly you'll have plenty of time to casually move those MP3s to another location.
The WAP excuse should work perfectly.
American beer is not crap. I'm reading this post on Fat Tire #4 for the night, and I can't be happier. The American beer that you get imported is crap. Americans don't drink it because it tastes good, we drink it to get drunk. I have Coors Light in the fridge for when it's time to get hammered. Hammered. But for drinking, for when you want beer that doesn't taste like crap, when you want to enjoy the taste, the experience, you need to find your own niche. Fat Tire, where sold, is my/our niche. You may have your own where you live. If you visit us in Colorado(the skiing is great!), be sure to try it.
The final alternative is less eloquent: student revolt, in the form of litigation if need be. This year, formal complaints have been issued by several groups to the top University of California and California State University systems allege that
Pleast finish this sentence.
Nice post. Thanks.
I spend like 45 minutes looking through all of those. Excellent. What else do you have for me?
If you want to read a great story about how a web developer's laptop was lost (no data lost, as he keeps full backups at all times) and then found, read this first thread: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire
followed by the second thread: Un Fookin Believeable. Laptop Found.
The guy that finds his laptop e-mails him and tells him this great story.
The story is worth a read, check it out!
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Are you sure? WMA supports compression from < 96kbps to mathematically lossless (somewhere around 450-950kbps), I'd think that they'd at least use VBR...
I have no first-hand knowledge of what bitrate they're using, and the article in question doesn't mention it. Where'd you hear this?
Waah.
Oh, and if I hear, "well, let's crack on then" one more time, I swear I'm going to lose it. I swear.
Get a Rio Volt.
Please don't get a Rio Volt. I've gone through 3 already--bought one, bought another one, got #2 replaced under warranty, and #3 recently broke. My next portable MP3 player will be made by a different company. This is both a reflection on the company in general and the quality of their MP3 player products. I went through hell getting the player replaced under warranty.
"How many people do you know that use Outlook and may have your email in their address book? The bitch of the matter?" ... bla bla sneakemail bla bla
There is an easy defence against this:
That works just fine, but it gets even easier:
Own your own domain.
Have your e-mail setup to forward *@yourdomain.com to your actual e-mail address.
Never give anyone your e-mail address. Give everybody different e-mail addresses to e-mail you at. Your friend jenny can e-mail you at jenny@yourdomain or whatever she'd like.
When you sign up for something, use an e-mail address like theirproduct@yourdomain or theirdomain.com@yourdomain.
Then you always know who's sending you what e-mail, and if one of the aliases gets bogged down with spam, flag it, bounce it, do as you will.
I bought my domain for $30 for 2 years, including the mail service (I don't have the resources to set up my own mail server). It works great and I don't get any spam.
Is all the extra work that these worms and what not are causing for us IT folks, good for our industry in general? Certainly it keeps us busy just keeping everything running, and that's gotta keep a few people on the payroll.
If that's the case, I'd like to send a shout-out to all the virus and worm authors out there: you infect my computer and I'll pop a cap in yo azz, but as long as you just infect the clueless newbies, and it helps me separate them from their cash, I give you the thumbs up.
I found that disabling MSN IM causes Outlook Express to stop responding for several seconds upon starting it up. When I used OE, that was unacceptable. So I set the security permissions on the IM executable file to deny myself read permissions. I don't have access to run IM, so there's no way that it can be in use. OE doesn't seem to mind that, and I'm down one icon in the systray.
does this f22 make you proud, dork ? do you feel that you know what does the "disturbing talk" really mean ? do you feel that your country has a right to do what it does now ? check yer dow & nasdaq shit and come back later saying - you haven't served yer country bro.
Someone set us up the bomb
I read news.google.com, and they have a surprising amount of sports coverage of either cricket or soccer. I glaze right over it. I'm sure others skip things that don't interest them as well.
We are not the nerds you are looking for.
What's this "we" stuff? I'll keep playing BF:1942 until something decent comes out like that. Or Planetside. Mmm, Planetside...
It is very flimsy. no, more like: It was very flimsy.
/. isn't like computer code, if there's a tiny little inconsistency, just move on.
I'm tired of the anal-retentativeness I always see here on Slashdot! You guys need to take a chill pill. Smoke a bowl. Throw a hand grenade. Become a weatherman. Close enough, you know?
IBM did not offer to buy them. So SCO will try to raise the noise level some more.
SCO reminds me of North Korea.
Seriously. All this music I've been pirating has left my pockets less empty. I may as well donate the money they would have gotten (had they been cool about the whole MP3 thing) to their enemy.
I was generalizing. I own a 9500 'coz it's cheaper and does what I want. I'm a gamer. I play games. You, as a non-gamer, may not know what graphics card to get, but gamers will know. So ask a gamer. If you need to game. Otherwise get something cheap.
The mass market will buy the box with the prettier logo, The box with the lower price, or the box that magazine xyz (that they read) says is best.
Most of the people I know don't do that -- they say, "Hey ZB, which graphics card should I get?" and I say, "ATI Radeon 9700" and they say, "OK" and that's that. I assume anyone in the market for gaming graphics cards knows someone they can ask for advice.
and a targetted victim moves at 1 foot per second
:)
hahaha. By my calculations, that's a step every 3 seconds. What are you, a mime?
I developed a personal serve with no I/O that's 1/4 the weight of an iPod. It runs great, but since it has no I/O, you're just going to have to trust me.