I would definitely agree that $0.99 for a song is a ripoff. I think $1 to play 3 songs in a bar is probably a ripoff.
I know I don't speak for everyone, but as far as music goes, I don't listen to individual songs, but albums. There have been very few bands as of recently that have an album that you can listen to straight through.
I'm a musician so I definately have a longer musical attention span than most. I'm sure writers don't really appreciate tabloids, artists don't appreciate the posters you see at Wal-Mart, etc.
Starting to ramble I guess, but my point is that a 3 minute song hardly constitutes music anyway, it's more of an idea. Compare with Mile's Davis's 'Bitches Brew' or Beethoven's 9th. You can't make a 3 min clip out of those songs.
To me 99% of what is on i-tunes is worth less than a dime a dozen.
A few years ago in college, one of my professors was giving away a table full of programming/comp sci books. I stumbled on 'Basic COBOL' or something like that and joked "You can probably just throw this one out." He laughed and said it was the most widely used language on the planet. At the time I didn't really believe it, but kept it anyway, I'll have to crack it open and take a peek.
Just wait till they embed RFID tags in license plates. Seriously, it can't be THAT long till it happens.
Why do people act as if we don't have any control over what happens to us? 'Oh gee, not too long before were turned into slaves. Oh well whaddya do?'
The fuck if I'm ever putting any RFID tags on my car and the hell if I'm paying any ticket given to me by a camera/computer.
I'm not letting my city turn into a slot machine for the police department. If they want to hand out tickets, they need to be human issued on the spot, not 2 weeks later in the mail.
I just started using Pandora recently. I looked into stream ripping, but it was more of a hassle than it was worth.
It is FAR easier to hook up my computer to my tuner and record directly from the radio or the cable stations I get on the TV.
It's a damn shame this whole thing, I had finally found a venue to discover new music. Back to the record stores for some used classic vinyl I guess.
If the music labels can't figure out that Pandora is bringing the people who haven't bought a CD since the 90's back into their market, and then shuts Pandora down, fuck them, I'll keep working on my used vinyl collection and pirating the music I can't find used. These guys really need to get a clue.
Also, the industry needs to effectively communicate why consumers or enterprise users should pay more for less storage
For the consumers, or average Joe, there is no reason to pay more for less storage.
The trade off is reliability. For 99%, if not more of the people using pc's today, a generic 120gb hd does the job just fine. On my desktop, I've never had any of the 3 hard drives fail in the last 12 years that I've been using them, or any time before that for that matter.
From a fundamental electronics standpoint, SSD is amazing. It's what I dreamed of making in the early 80's when I was first turned on to electronics by ham radio and Apple//.
As TFA states, it's not practical for now other than USB drives, which is fine. I just hope the development of these devices continue to recieve funding, because in the long run, it will be a boon to the PC industry.
Say a player needs a bunch of X cloth to make a new robe. The player could grind it out himself, buy it, or set up a quest from a template for another player to do it.
(kill, get) X (monsters, items, npc) for X (gold, items).
(I just woke up, my imagination coprocessor is still booting up.)
This is already how it works, and it's not in the artist's interest.
The initial recording of the album is generally payed for by a loan from the recording company.
The album is recorded and then the band tours and tours to pay it off while receiving pennies from record sales and almost nothing from playing concerts.
Additionally, then The Beatles wouldn't have been able to release Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, or Let it Be.
I taught myself BASIC on an Apple ][e when I was eight or so from books I checked out at the library.
It's fairly easy to read, i.e. TO, FOR, LET, GOTO etc, are self explanatory.
The most important thing to get through to him is program flow, learning other languages is cake once you understand how to efficiently break a task into parts.
For example, wine v0.9.58 works perfectly for me; I blindly updated to.59 only to find that ctrl/shift + mouse clicks were bugged, therefore screwing me in WoW. Had to revert back.
Usually, updates are a good thing, but not always.
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I would definitely agree that $0.99 for a song is a ripoff. I think $1 to play 3 songs in a bar is probably a ripoff.
I know I don't speak for everyone, but as far as music goes, I don't listen to individual songs, but albums. There have been very few bands as of recently that have an album that you can listen to straight through.
I'm a musician so I definately have a longer musical attention span than most. I'm sure writers don't really appreciate tabloids, artists don't appreciate the posters you see at Wal-Mart, etc.
Starting to ramble I guess, but my point is that a 3 minute song hardly constitutes music anyway, it's more of an idea. Compare with Mile's Davis's 'Bitches Brew' or Beethoven's 9th. You can't make a 3 min clip out of those songs.
To me 99% of what is on i-tunes is worth less than a dime a dozen.
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A few years ago in college, one of my professors was giving away a table full of programming/comp sci books. I stumbled on 'Basic COBOL' or something like that and joked "You can probably just throw this one out." He laughed and said it was the most widely used language on the planet. At the time I didn't really believe it, but kept it anyway, I'll have to crack it open and take a peek.
Just wait till they embed RFID tags in license plates. Seriously, it can't be THAT long till it happens.
Why do people act as if we don't have any control over what happens to us?
'Oh gee, not too long before were turned into slaves. Oh well whaddya do?'
The fuck if I'm ever putting any RFID tags on my car and the hell if I'm paying any ticket given to me by a camera/computer.
I'm not letting my city turn into a slot machine for the police department. If they want to hand out tickets, they need to be human issued on the spot, not 2 weeks later in the mail.
I just started using Pandora recently. I looked into stream ripping, but it was more of a hassle than it was worth.
It is FAR easier to hook up my computer to my tuner and record directly from the radio or the cable stations I get on the TV.
It's a damn shame this whole thing, I had finally found a venue to discover new music. Back to the record stores for some used classic vinyl I guess.
If the music labels can't figure out that Pandora is bringing the people who haven't bought a CD since the 90's back into their market, and then shuts Pandora down, fuck them, I'll keep working on my used vinyl collection and pirating the music I can't find used. These guys really need to get a clue.
... you're doing it wrong.
Also, the industry needs to effectively communicate why consumers or enterprise users should pay more for less storage
For the consumers, or average Joe, there is no reason to pay more for less storage.
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The trade off is reliability. For 99%, if not more of the people using pc's today, a generic 120gb hd does the job just fine. On my desktop, I've never had any of the 3 hard drives fail in the last 12 years that I've been using them, or any time before that for that matter.
From a fundamental electronics standpoint, SSD is amazing. It's what I dreamed of making in the early 80's when I was first turned on to electronics by ham radio and Apple
As TFA states, it's not practical for now other than USB drives, which is fine. I just hope the development of these devices continue to recieve funding, because in the long run, it will be a boon to the PC industry.
Bury the physical prints of the pictures, burying the digital data makes the problem more complex than it should be.
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Perhaps players could also give out quests?
Say a player needs a bunch of X cloth to make a new robe. The player could grind it out himself, buy it, or set up a quest from a template for another player to do it.
(kill, get) X (monsters, items, npc) for X (gold, items).
(I just woke up, my imagination coprocessor is still booting up.)
does anyone else get a sinking suspicion that we might look a bit biased to outsiders?
I am new here, and this site is terribly biased.
This is already how it works, and it's not in the artist's interest.
The initial recording of the album is generally payed for by a loan from the recording company.
The album is recorded and then the band tours and tours to pay it off while receiving pennies from record sales and almost nothing from playing concerts.
Additionally, then The Beatles wouldn't have been able to release Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, or Let it Be.
Because the sign says so!
There's a Chinese restaurant down the street from me called 'Daily Food Restaurant'.
(Sure, you can http if you have bad/no p2p access, but it would be a real degradation of patch-download time if you tried.)
Absolutely not. I get my patches from filefront and it's much quicker, ESPECIALLY if you reinstall and have to repatch everything.
Generally I'll get around 800kb/s via http, whereas p2p is around 100 (for WoW anyway).
Wow totally didn't see the 'is'. Funny how easily your brain can filter things out.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interestingly Interestingly - in an interesting manner.
I taught myself BASIC on an Apple ][e when I was eight or so from books I checked out at the library.
It's fairly easy to read, i.e. TO, FOR, LET, GOTO etc, are self explanatory.
The most important thing to get through to him is program flow, learning other languages is cake once you understand how to efficiently break a task into parts.
Sure, it's a publicity stunt, but I think it's pretty cool. Fits their electronic theme well, and just looks neat.
Nothing wrong with trying something new. Have you seen most of the other videos out there?
You fail at math.
3 (tops) video cards over 12 years is 600 bucks.
2 processors over 12 years is 300 bucks.
Thats 900 total.
BTW, I'm in a "real band" and it pays more than 900 a week, just playing in local bars.
IMHO, one player games are dull as hell.
Been playing 'video games' since 1985 or so and one player RPG's have had their day.
I would much rather play a 2 player RPG or better yet, a 10 million player RPG.
It's your own fault for buying a console expecting certain games, and moreover longevity.
I hope not to come off as a troll, but seriously, get a decent gaming PC and upgrade your video card every 3-4 years and your processor every 5-7.
I don't see the point in buying console systems that will be outdated in 3-5 years at this point as the technology is rising as quickly as it has.
Pigeonhole yourself as you please, but it is your own fault.
My mom told me a story from when I was 3.
One of my parents would read to me before I went to bed each night.
One night, as my mom was reading to me, the phone rang and she said she'd be right back.
When she got back, to her surprise, I was reading where she left off.
I also do remember reading before I was in kindergarten, and when I was in kindergarten, my classmates were amazed that I could read.
(I should add my mom is also an elementary teacher, maybe had something to do with it.)
You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever,
But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun.
Newer is NOT always better.
.59 only to find that ctrl/shift + mouse clicks were bugged, therefore screwing me in WoW. Had to revert back.
Anyone who uses linux should know this.
For example, wine v0.9.58 works perfectly for me; I blindly updated to
Usually, updates are a good thing, but not always.
So the yellowcake isn't a lie?
Scuppered? Seriously?
I guarantee that came from a 'word of the day.'