Re:Bill Gates' loss = everyone's gain
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I am afraid the drop will benefit Mr Gates and Microsoft. The high valuations of some companies stocks has helped them to expand my giving them the funds to buy up other companies and so increase their competitive strengths. This will no longer be so easy. Microsoft, however, have so much money in the bank that they can still pick and choose the best emerging technologies and 'absorb' them into the company by buy-outs....not so good for the competitors....
First allow me to say this. I imagine most of us use MP3's 'responsibly'.......ie. Its a great way to sift the diamonds from the sand. What we like we buy.......(no MP3 stays on my HD longer than a week.....)
Of course, not everyone does it this way and 'Oh my Lord!' guess what happens..... ....The music industry loses a bunch of money in sales. When you consider the numerous ways in which they have screwed the public over the years I don't think we should lose too much sleep.
My main point is off-topic....."MP3's are a god awful way to listen to music"
Why is it so popular?
Small enough to download........and errrr.. thats about it...and what price do we pay...?
... The sound quality is abysmal...it is sub-CD and this may come as a shock to some of you, but good old analogue vinyl has vastly superior sound quality (ok...surface noise can be a problem)...
..just ONE revolution of a vinyl groove contains more musical information than a WHOLE CD. Vinyl holds information at a close to molecular level. "So what!" I hear you say. What does this information translate into..?...simply more detail and more realism.......and thus a more rewarding and emotionally involving experience. I presume (maybe naively) that most of us listen to music for this reason.
..all those 'know-all cowards' proclaiming the wonders of digits are flipping one to real human experience....
Looking at a reproduction of the good old Mona Lisa on a computer is not the same as the real thing....unless you want a faded jigsaw in soft focus with off colours that is.....and the same applies to CD/MP3's and vinyl.....Art needs analogue!
So if people want to hoard whole catalogues of artists work then leave them to it. It's their loss. They miss the point of music...let them scour the web sucking up digital dirt. The rest of us know how to feel.
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I am afraid the drop will benefit Mr Gates and Microsoft. The high valuations of some companies stocks has helped them to expand my giving them the funds to buy up other companies and so increase their competitive strengths. This will no longer be so easy. Microsoft, however, have so much money in the bank that they can still pick and choose the best emerging technologies and 'absorb' them into the company by buy-outs....not so good for the competitors....
This is just another non-debate........
First allow me to say this. I imagine most of us use MP3's 'responsibly'.......ie. Its a great way to sift the diamonds from the sand. What we like we buy.......(no MP3 stays on my HD longer than a week.....)
Of course, not everyone does it this way and 'Oh my Lord!' guess what happens.....
....The music industry loses a bunch of money in sales. When you consider the numerous ways in which they have screwed the public over the years I don't think we should lose too much sleep.
My main point is off-topic....."MP3's are a god awful way to listen to music"
Why is it so popular?
Small enough to download........and errrr.. thats about it...and what price do we pay...?
... The sound quality is abysmal...it is sub-CD and this may come as a shock to some of you, but good old analogue vinyl has vastly superior sound quality (ok...surface noise can be a problem)...
..just ONE revolution of a vinyl groove contains more musical information than a WHOLE CD. Vinyl holds information at a close to molecular level. "So what!" I hear you say.
What does this information translate into..?...simply more detail and more realism.......and thus a more rewarding and emotionally involving experience. I presume (maybe naively) that most of us listen to music for this reason.
..all those 'know-all cowards' proclaiming the wonders of digits are flipping one to real human experience....
Looking at a reproduction of the good old Mona Lisa on a computer is not the same as the real thing....unless you want a faded jigsaw in soft focus with off colours that is.....and the same applies to CD/MP3's and vinyl.....Art needs analogue!
So if people want to hoard whole catalogues of artists work then leave them to it. It's their loss. They miss the point of music...let them scour the web sucking up digital dirt.
The rest of us know how to feel.
Guy