There are TONS of indie bands thriving in this environment. Let the dinosaurs fall with their distribution method, but rest assured quality material is not in short supply...
Developing artists (as opposed to "made" artists) take time to become mainstream, if they ever do. Some of the very best music in existence is necessarily on the fringe.
If you like physics, I can recommend a book which offers a ton of insight into the concepts you're mentioning, from a physicist/philosopher perspective.
He addresses and dispels popular, but outmoded concepts such as cosmic heat death. He also proposes ingenious ideas about why universal constants have the values they do, and why life appears in the universe. While sidestepping religious implications as much as possible, the perspective he offers into these topics seems to refine our insight into the creative powers of the universe, which some term God. It is dense with insight and worth reading.
It's the 21st century. Why are we, as users, still worrying about how our computers do anything? I don't give a crap how it does it! I reject the false necessity to know, or learn about, command line arguments to most elegantly execute some inconsequential instruction for a machine, or even to consider what a "program" is, for that matter. We have been stuck in a stale paradigm where humans are struggling to tinker with these machines. They ought to be transparent, and we should tolerate nothing less. No excuses! Computers as objects sitting on our desks and in our pockets, this is a transient phase. I certainly don't want to slow my thinking down to explain to some hopelessly logical "tool" so it can help me out!
Maybe once computers dissolve into the fabric of our lives, and aren't such a visible novelty, people will appreciate the absurdity of our servitude to their silent obtuseness?
A counterpoint is that Intel is a world leader in high tech manufacturing, and routinely builds end-to-end nanoscale high volume manufacturing processes AND factories, constantly. Like every other year. Innovations can be scaled pretty quickly in that environment.
Modern DAW software offers tempo mapping, which enables an engineer to create a click that breathes with a natural recording.
This means that a drummer can record a take with no click, and afterwards, the take can be mapped. Subsequent overdubs (and MIDI sync etc.) will have a click that changes with the tempo variations of the original recording.
It's a PITA, but is available.
You could conceivably record a natural drum take, construct a tempo map, and then have the band play live to the mapped click, which gives you the benefits of both worlds.
Arguably, natural selection has found a new tool, one that is much more efficient than genetic mutations - technology. It moves so fast that the criteria for "fittest" is transforming.
Humans give themselves too much credit I think. Technology is a product of consciousness, certainly, but both are tools of natural selection, with us as the vessels. As natural products of the universe, can we really do wrong even in our seemingly shortsighted moments? Maybe pretending that we can attain wisdom at all is the first mistake...
The difference is in attitude. Which is the controlling factor, and which follows?
Self-made rich people grow their lifestyle with their means, focusing on maximizing their income. Contrast that with someone who bags groceries, who spends less than they make. They do it because they can't afford to live any more lavishly - they're bumping up against a ceiling.
Maybe the rich got rich because they actually understand the difference between a necessity and a luxury, and they have a long-term goal?
> If you're in a single earner family today, you're either a CEO or you're on food stamps.
There are many, many different modes of life that allow for single income households to exist in modern America. If you implicitly mean existing while simultaneously perpetuating a complacent, consumerist lifestyle, then maybe. But the solution may be halfway between increasing our earning power and reducing complacency.
Uh, I wasn't born knowing everything, and I don't claim to do so now. I'd hate for some person to end my existence because they discovered they understood something that I may not!
How about a little compassion, education, and tolerance? Is that what you'd do to your child in that circumstance, or does it just apply to strangers? Or attorneys? Or businessmen? Or foreigners? Or aliens?
Plus, critical competitive technologies from US companies are legally forbidden to be exported to untrustworthy countries. India is on that list, by the way.
Isn't blatant IP ripoff more China's forte anyway?
In this case, the protection mindset is oriented towards overall network and data integrity and NOT for preserving the non-existent freedoms of individual machines and "owners".
The concept of a rogue owner makes perfect sense in this context.
The prez is always going to be eyebrow deep in mire and will be forced to do unpopular and ugly things to perpetuate the interests of the nation, but most importantly, he has some intellect and character this go-round.
He's not going to fix your problems. He's just going to steer the ship while looking out a little further towards the horizon, for what that's worth.
If direct neural interfacing ever becomes possible, it will be a one-way conversion. The benefits to be had transcend fashion, they represent human evolution, like gaining a 6th sense - the sense of tapping into the collective consciousness. Would you cut out your eyeballs because that interface to the world isn't trendy?
Our fallible memories are not an obstacle when the internet is there. Neural interface will free our minds to focus on short-term caching, processing, innovation, and content creation.
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Gravity affects light, which is massless.
Developing artists (as opposed to "made" artists) take time to become mainstream, if they ever do. Some of the very best music in existence is necessarily on the fringe.
Penultimate != "the ultimate ultimate"
Penultimate
Lee Smolin's Life of the Cosmos
He addresses and dispels popular, but outmoded concepts such as cosmic heat death. He also proposes ingenious ideas about why universal constants have the values they do, and why life appears in the universe. While sidestepping religious implications as much as possible, the perspective he offers into these topics seems to refine our insight into the creative powers of the universe, which some term God. It is dense with insight and worth reading.
It's the 21st century. Why are we, as users, still worrying about how our computers do anything? I don't give a crap how it does it! I reject the false necessity to know, or learn about, command line arguments to most elegantly execute some inconsequential instruction for a machine, or even to consider what a "program" is, for that matter. We have been stuck in a stale paradigm where humans are struggling to tinker with these machines. They ought to be transparent, and we should tolerate nothing less. No excuses! Computers as objects sitting on our desks and in our pockets, this is a transient phase. I certainly don't want to slow my thinking down to explain to some hopelessly logical "tool" so it can help me out!
Maybe once computers dissolve into the fabric of our lives, and aren't such a visible novelty, people will appreciate the absurdity of our servitude to their silent obtuseness?
A counterpoint is that Intel is a world leader in high tech manufacturing, and routinely builds end-to-end nanoscale high volume manufacturing processes AND factories, constantly. Like every other year. Innovations can be scaled pretty quickly in that environment.
I AM the 65 year old grandmother example, and you're looking pretty nice too, sonny!
This means that a drummer can record a take with no click, and afterwards, the take can be mapped. Subsequent overdubs (and MIDI sync etc.) will have a click that changes with the tempo variations of the original recording.
It's a PITA, but is available.
You could conceivably record a natural drum take, construct a tempo map, and then have the band play live to the mapped click, which gives you the benefits of both worlds.
that's a Scottish term, referring to magic mushrooms and ecstasy. Tha droogs ahh a creeativ catalyst! Liquid motors!!!
Humans give themselves too much credit I think. Technology is a product of consciousness, certainly, but both are tools of natural selection, with us as the vessels. As natural products of the universe, can we really do wrong even in our seemingly shortsighted moments? Maybe pretending that we can attain wisdom at all is the first mistake...
Self-made rich people grow their lifestyle with their means, focusing on maximizing their income. Contrast that with someone who bags groceries, who spends less than they make. They do it because they can't afford to live any more lavishly - they're bumping up against a ceiling.
Maybe the rich got rich because they actually understand the difference between a necessity and a luxury, and they have a long-term goal?
That was verging on verbal abuse. Break the cycle!
that's a neat trick!
> If you're in a single earner family today, you're either a CEO or you're on food stamps.
There are many, many different modes of life that allow for single income households to exist in modern America. If you implicitly mean existing while simultaneously perpetuating a complacent, consumerist lifestyle, then maybe. But the solution may be halfway between increasing our earning power and reducing complacency.
Uh, I wasn't born knowing everything, and I don't claim to do so now. I'd hate for some person to end my existence because they discovered they understood something that I may not!
How about a little compassion, education, and tolerance? Is that what you'd do to your child in that circumstance, or does it just apply to strangers? Or attorneys? Or businessmen? Or foreigners? Or aliens?
'All signs point to yes'
Intel does not have factories in India
Plus, critical competitive technologies from US companies are legally forbidden to be exported to untrustworthy countries. India is on that list, by the way.
Isn't blatant IP ripoff more China's forte anyway?
Music and film production suites frequently employ DSP chips, which are nestled cosily onto PCI cards. They are quite common in these industries.
Isn't vpro intended for business ?
In this case, the protection mindset is oriented towards overall network and data integrity and NOT for preserving the non-existent freedoms of individual machines and "owners".
The concept of a rogue owner makes perfect sense in this context.
Seriously, this is the real world after all.
The prez is always going to be eyebrow deep in mire and will be forced to do unpopular and ugly things to perpetuate the interests of the nation, but most importantly, he has some intellect and character this go-round.
He's not going to fix your problems. He's just going to steer the ship while looking out a little further towards the horizon, for what that's worth.
Our fallible memories are not an obstacle when the internet is there. Neural interface will free our minds to focus on short-term caching, processing, innovation, and content creation.
brought a tear to my eye...
I'd like to sip from that ppstream!
probably more like pointing a video camera at a monitor, the "hall of mirrors" effect...