A short note in reference to somone's post concerning the fact that an artist may (at will) make their music available on the net etc. Did anyone stop to think what impact this may have on the artists future in the "music business" ? What usually happends when an artist signs on to a record company? (Remember George Michel vs. Sony) Usually the artist will have to sign off ownership of most of all he ever has and ever will create to the company... basically what I'm trying to say is that, as an artist, posting your music freely on the net, may damage you chances in the "music industry" etc... Do you think that some "suit" somewhere is fit to decide what is good music and worthy of publication? I don't. Bottom line is that an artist signed to a label has very little control over what get's published, not to mention that most of the profit of what get's published goes to the label... Music becomes popular only through awareness; Currently (save for the net) some execs. somewhere (MTV, Sony et. al) decide what we are entiteled to be aware of... like it, do you? I vehemantly hate how the "industry" seems to have not only consumers but also artist eating out of the palm of their hands, all artist worry about is getting a record contract with a big label etc. Why? What's that got to do with art? Nothing. It's just the little matter that they control who get's heard and who doesn't. For me, that's what mp3's etc is all about... freedom for us & freedom for the artists. (I guess I overshot the shortnesss a while back...;)... Being a musician myself I'd hardly object to an artist being paid, but I think the money should come from concerts, radio stations, tv & such... as it mostly already does... not from record sales, the artist that actually made a living on record sales are quite few in number...
Do any of you really think that Intel is going to make the same misstake again? Never will there be a low-end processor outperforming a high-end one again. And besides, everyone keeps comparing overclocked celerons with un-overclocked P!!!'s... Didn't you stop to think that the P!!!'s are highly clockkable aswell? (Not to even mention the Athlons that arn't even multiplier-locked) Alas, FSB speed has a dramatic impact on perfomance as a whole... In my last upgrade i made a severe misstake and bought a C466 PPGA only to discover that due to the 66mhz FSB my old C300@450 was faster... Luckily the local shop allowed me to change my mind and thus I now have a P3/450 rock solid at 560mhz with a 124mhz FSB... It came out with three times more performance than then both of the old celerons... and this with only 1/4-1/5 higher cpu clock... No use having a hotly clocked cpu on a slow bus, it'll just be throwing idle cycles waiting for the rest of the machine... AMD will be my next step, atleast they give you the freedom to push the product as far as you want to , not like intel who keeps trying to control us with their stinking multiplier locks...
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A short note in reference to somone's post concerning the fact that an artist may (at will) make their music available on the net etc. Did anyone stop to think what impact this may have on the artists future in the "music business" ? ... basically what I'm trying to say is that, as an artist, posting your music freely on the net, may damage you chances in the "music industry" etc... Do you think that some "suit" somewhere is fit to decide what is good music and worthy of publication? I don't. Bottom line is that an artist signed to a label has very little control over what get's published, not to mention that most of the profit of what get's published goes to the label... Music becomes popular only through awareness; Currently (save for the net) some execs. somewhere (MTV, Sony et. al) decide what we are entiteled to be aware of... like it, do you? I vehemantly hate how the "industry" seems to have not only consumers but also artist eating out of the palm of their hands, all artist worry about is getting a record contract with a big label etc. Why? What's that got to do with art? Nothing. It's just the little matter that they control who get's heard and who doesn't. For me, that's what mp3's etc is all about ... freedom for us & freedom for the artists. (I guess I overshot the shortnesss a while back... ;) ... Being a musician myself I'd hardly object to an artist being paid, but I think the money should come from concerts, radio stations, tv & such ... as it mostly already does ... not from record sales, the artist that actually made a living on record sales are quite few in number ...
What usually happends when an artist signs on to a record company? (Remember George Michel vs. Sony) Usually the artist will have to sign off ownership of most of all he ever has and ever will create to the company
Do any of you really think that Intel is going to make the same misstake again? Never will there be a low-end processor outperforming a high-end one again. And besides, everyone keeps comparing overclocked celerons with un-overclocked P!!!'s ... Didn't you stop to think that the P!!!'s are highly clockkable aswell? (Not to even mention the Athlons that arn't even multiplier-locked) Alas, FSB speed has a dramatic impact on perfomance as a whole ... In my last upgrade i made a severe misstake and bought a C466 PPGA only to discover that due to the 66mhz FSB my old C300@450 was faster ... Luckily the local shop allowed me to change my mind and thus I now have a P3/450 rock solid at 560mhz with a 124mhz FSB ... It came out with three times more performance than then both of the old celerons ... and this with only 1/4-1/5 higher cpu clock ... No use having a hotly clocked cpu on a slow bus, it'll just be throwing idle cycles waiting for the rest of the machine ... AMD will be my next step, atleast they give you the freedom to push the product as far as you want to , not like intel who keeps trying to control us with their stinking multiplier locks ...