You're absolutely correct. It is control of the RADIO that is the biggest stake here. Radio stations, now owned by half a dozen big corporations with well written contracts with record industry all adds up to a giant marketing chain.
What Napster does is break this chain. It allows _us_ to pick where, when and how we want to listen to music. Once you cut Radio out of the loop half of the recording industries business goes down the drain.
Haven't you seen the patterns? New album comes out, single gets played on the radio over and over and over. Then next single from the album gets played, then they rotate it back in. These "featured" singles get you to buy an entire CD which is more often than not, CRAP!
I think it's WRONG for people to not get paid for their music. But what the hell, why don't these rock bands get out of their contracts and sign new ones with napster. Bring forth the brave new world of rock and rollers!!!!!!!
UGH. I have to spend every day debugging hacked together code with no regard to commonly accepted standards, much less actual algorithms. If I could help it I would never hire a programmer who doesn't have formal training.
For example, there's no reason to have 24 nested if statements to analyze one string. You can't tell me that someone who learned this in school is not a better programmer.
Four year college was never intended to teach you everything. See above post where the person mentions that school only makes you trainable not trained.
In previous interviews and a documentary in the early '90s Scott has admitted to never actually reading _Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep_. Dick was quite upset with Scott as I understand, in fact, and against the production of the movie.
Although the movie is one of the greatest of all time and Because Philp K. Dick is no longer with us I'd urge readers and viewers to keep the book and the movie separate. Obviously the movie is just Scott's version of the Dick's theme.
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You're absolutely correct. It is control of the RADIO that is the biggest stake here. Radio stations, now owned by half a dozen big corporations with well written contracts with record industry all adds up to a giant marketing chain.
What Napster does is break this chain. It allows _us_ to pick where, when and how we want to listen to music. Once you cut Radio out of the loop half of the recording industries business goes down the drain.
Haven't you seen the patterns? New album comes out, single gets played on the radio over and over and over. Then next single from the album gets played, then they rotate it back in. These "featured" singles get you to buy an entire CD which is more often than not, CRAP!
I think it's WRONG for people to not get paid for their music. But what the hell, why don't these rock bands get out of their contracts and sign new ones with napster. Bring forth the brave new world of rock and rollers!!!!!!!
Yes, but a giant like RIAA will not be an ostrich and stick it's head in the sand. This would have come to head one way or another.
UGH. I have to spend every day debugging hacked together code with no regard to commonly accepted standards, much less actual algorithms. If I could help it I would never hire a programmer who doesn't have formal training.
For example, there's no reason to have 24 nested if statements to analyze one string. You can't tell me that someone who learned this in school is not a better programmer.
Four year college was never intended to teach you everything. See above post where the person mentions that school only makes you trainable not trained.
This Article suggests that they are.
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In previous interviews and a documentary in the early '90s Scott has admitted to never actually reading _Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep_. Dick was quite upset with Scott as I understand, in fact, and against the production of the movie.
Although the movie is one of the greatest of all time and Because Philp K. Dick is no longer with us I'd urge readers and viewers to keep the book and the movie separate. Obviously the movie is just Scott's version of the Dick's theme.