I opened a Facebook account for the purpose of promoting my music. When I finally had the account set up, I realized that it was of no use to me whatsoever. I realized later that the link for setting up an account for artists/musicians is actually pretty hard to find and is a separate kind of account.
When I tried to delete 'me' account I just got the option to deactivate not delete. I thought that very strange and a bit unsettling. What took them so long to add the option to delete?
I assumed that this was fiction based on the kind of things that do happen in real life and then exaggerated to humourous effect. Are we supposed to think this really happened and that the Thorne guy really delights in being so nasty to stupid people? Who in reality would waste so much time on something like this?
Anecdotal and irrelevant perhaps, but I had AT&T dial up years ago and it was shit.
Their rolling over and allowing scrutiny of the data that passes through their network by the NSA etc. Not good.
I wouldn't touch them.
I thought it was for 70+!
Doh! I suppose they have been aiming for the same age group for the past few decades - can't expect the magazine to grow-up with its original readership...
If this actually worked I can think of a few people that it might help. As rude and obnoxious some people's e-mails may be in tone often that tone reflects the kind of person or the mood of the person fairly accurately.
So if some of my psychotic customers were to suddenly start sending mellow polite e-mails I would definitely be suspicious at first. Then somewhat lost as I would not be able to gauge the true feeling behind the polite tone.
To me it is like putting o n an act - people who go about all smiles and pleasantries but are seething with anger in the inside are to my mind the worst to deal with. You never know where you stand with them.
I certainly don't condone raging, insane e-mail tone but using a tool to do the job instead of leaving it to the person with the tone problem to moderate their communication skills just doesn't seem like the right thing to do.
Those that think they need this plug-in probably really need other kinds of help! Lesson 1. Turn off the caps lock!
Some breeds such as German shepherds are very susceptible to arthritis and other joint problems. Some of them will effectively have the rear part of their bodies painfully seize up and not necessarily when they are in advanced years. Hence the harness wheel gizmo.
Sad really. The reason they get this in the first place is the years and years of inbreeding.
Paul McGann played the Doctor in a TV movie released 1996.
He starred opposite Richard E. Grant in Withnail and I. Perhaps that is the source of the confusion here.
I think this says more about twitter users than Americans.
Twitter users are more likely to be quite happy with themselves - if you know what I mean - while those of us who are more modest and value our privacy and thus do not use twitter are omitted from the Twitter demographic.
Silly study.
Mornings generally suck.
Night time is the right time.
you don't need to have a record 'deal' - you should BE a label if you intend to release your own music.
Just start your own. If you say you are a record label, you are a record label. To get tunes on iTunes you do need to go through a middleman. For a fee CDBaby will get your music quickly and fairly painlessly on all of the major distibution networks, iTunes etc.
Routenote also claim to be able to do it for free, though I haven't tried them yet.
There just doesn't seem to be a direct way to get your tunes on iTunes as the artist. Not sure why this is.
Growing up I had a pretty mottley bunch of teachers - few of them were very good - computers barely existed and somehow with a bit of work I survived the experience. I can't change that experience, but if I could I think I would have been very happy to have so many sources of information available to me. With some intelligence I think that the multiple sources of information available via both internet and installed software quickly teach the ability to cross-reference and fact check. Using the 'standard textbook' in a disillusioned, bored teacher's classroom often teaches next to nothing. I ended up pretty much memorizing for the exams but not really learning as much as I should. I have had to re-learn stuff and the internet has been a great source of information.
I am enthusiastic about the use of computers in education but I think there is a long way to go in implementing their use effectively. I also do not believe that there should be one standard way of doing so. Schools should determine how they implement the use of computers on an individual basis.
As I understand it the teachers often have very limited understanding of the computers themselves and the programmes run on them. In that situation there is little point in having them in the classroom. May as well just use the textbook.
In the home, I think there is potentially more immediate benefit to a child's education but only if the parents are computer literate and give constructive direction to the child.
For good or ill, Wikipedia has pretty much replaced a physical copy of an encyclopedia and is arguably 'more fun' for a child than leafing through a thick tome. And one page of Wikipedia can lead on to a myriad of related topics that can certainly broaden and deepen the knowledge of a subject - probably more so than in the print version.
But let's not forget the many things a child can learn using a computer that they might have learned a different way some years ago.
Music programmes are really great for teaching basic music theory with the added sense of achievement of being able to compose a complete mixed piece of music - not just hammering out a piece on a piano.
Photo-editing and graphic design applications do not replace doing these things with physical materials but as part of the software installed are a really affordable way for a family to give a child a grounding in these creative areas and possibly lead to an interest in a career in a related field of employment.
If the child is simply allowed to spend all computer time social networking or watching the tubes there is no educational benefit that I can perceive, but it is up to the parents to see to it that the computer is put to good use - use that can be fun, educational and fulfilling at the same time.
Another drawback I have seen with my own child is that the computers at school are usually older models, are poorly maintained, very crash prone - these are Macs running OS X - so there is really no excuse. The reason the computers are in this condition is due to incompetent users - teachers and kids. The kids have an excuse. Theay are kids! To my mind, the teachers do not.
Apparently they lack a competent Mac IT guy at the school.
Having said all that, good text books and a good teacher (a rare specimen unfortunately) are all that is really needed. Computers may just be an enhancement in the overal scheme of education. If a teacher thinks that a computer is there to reduce their work load, then I think they should just retire and get an office job...
Sorry, I don't know how to do paragraphs(!)
In the past few years I have uploaded many of my own recordings to my website and made them freely available for download, primarily so that the other musicians I played with could hear our efforts without me needing to burn CDs and mail them out. The result of this is that some of these tracks have been downloaded many thousands of times and I don't have a penny to show for it.
The countries downloading most are Russian Federation, China and Germany.
Are these lost sales? No. Did the creative work fail? No. Would I like to have been paid for the downloads? Yes! But without a marketing department, I'm pretty much stuck with giving it away and hoping it points people to the music I do have for sale at iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby.com etc.
You can't judge a creative work on it's financial success. As others have said, the most financially successful creative works are often (but not always) least artistically successful.
If a creative person decides to not create because of fear of piracy then they must not have a particularly strong creative urge. I believe people create because they need to not because they think they will get rich from it.
Just my two and sixpence...
loath though I am to debunk an ever amusing stereotype of NJ, it is true that some parts of NJ are in fact scenic.
Some parts are quite the opposite.
I am not from nor do I live in New Jersey.
how naive of me. I had just assumed that people stopped cheating in exams around the time they reached young adulthood if not sooner.
In college I can only remember one classmate cheating in an exam - but he was a bit 'special' and somehow I couldn't really hold it against him.
I love this high tech bit:
'...burned onto a CD for evidence' How futuristic. Can we learn more about this new CD technology they plan to implement? It might be the next big thing.
I know it has been said before many, many times but if you want to protect children from stuff they shouldn't see on the internet then it is the parents' duty to monitor what they see and do on it.
Simple as that. State butt out of families.
Keep it free and nasty and abolish Windows!
I'm familiar with this notion - probably from a previous/. linked blog article - but this is ironic to me because numerous past pop 'classic' hits were slightly speeded up when pressed to make them more groovy or something. As a musician it is a real pain to be stumped while trying to play along with a tune, playing a guitar that is perfectly in tune to not be able to play along at all because the record company decided it should be just a bit faster to be a hit.
My favourite example - the Kinks 'I need You'. Great song but it not supposed to be that fast. So suppose you slow it down to the speed it was recorded at - no problem on You Tube! Maybe.
Chances are most listeners would not even notice their favourite tune slowing down or speeding up just a bit.
It's all a bloody racket anyway in both senses of the word!
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I opened a Facebook account for the purpose of promoting my music. When I finally had the account set up, I realized that it was of no use to me whatsoever. I realized later that the link for setting up an account for artists/musicians is actually pretty hard to find and is a separate kind of account. When I tried to delete 'me' account I just got the option to deactivate not delete. I thought that very strange and a bit unsettling. What took them so long to add the option to delete?
I assumed that this was fiction based on the kind of things that do happen in real life and then exaggerated to humourous effect. Are we supposed to think this really happened and that the Thorne guy really delights in being so nasty to stupid people? Who in reality would waste so much time on something like this?
Anecdotal and irrelevant perhaps, but I had AT&T dial up years ago and it was shit. Their rolling over and allowing scrutiny of the data that passes through their network by the NSA etc. Not good. I wouldn't touch them.
But what if you really enjoy certain activities even though they are things that you are not necessarily best suited to according to the scan?
It takes more than aptitude to be good at something. How do you measure ambition, drive, passion, dedication, work ethic, etc.?
While I'm sure the beer is very flavourful, the presentation is tasteless.
I thought it was for 70+! Doh! I suppose they have been aiming for the same age group for the past few decades - can't expect the magazine to grow-up with its original readership...
If this actually worked I can think of a few people that it might help. As rude and obnoxious some people's e-mails may be in tone often that tone reflects the kind of person or the mood of the person fairly accurately.
So if some of my psychotic customers were to suddenly start sending mellow polite e-mails I would definitely be suspicious at first. Then somewhat lost as I would not be able to gauge the true feeling behind the polite tone.
To me it is like putting o n an act - people who go about all smiles and pleasantries but are seething with anger in the inside are to my mind the worst to deal with. You never know where you stand with them.
I certainly don't condone raging, insane e-mail tone but using a tool to do the job instead of leaving it to the person with the tone problem to moderate their communication skills just doesn't seem like the right thing to do.
Those that think they need this plug-in probably really need other kinds of help! Lesson 1. Turn off the caps lock!
Why am I not surprised that this is a windows only port?
Some breeds such as German shepherds are very susceptible to arthritis and other joint problems. Some of them will effectively have the rear part of their bodies painfully seize up and not necessarily when they are in advanced years. Hence the harness wheel gizmo. Sad really. The reason they get this in the first place is the years and years of inbreeding.
Really? I kind of like him, but the Dr. Who episode/film he was in wasn't much good. Not sure it was really his fault.
Paul McGann played the Doctor in a TV movie released 1996. He starred opposite Richard E. Grant in Withnail and I. Perhaps that is the source of the confusion here.
Yes, but he conveniently came back to life in the G3 series, didn't he? and Ultra Magnus was just not up to the job.
I am very glad to hear of Mr. Murdoch's failure.
I think this says more about twitter users than Americans. Twitter users are more likely to be quite happy with themselves - if you know what I mean - while those of us who are more modest and value our privacy and thus do not use twitter are omitted from the Twitter demographic. Silly study. Mornings generally suck. Night time is the right time.
Swim? I thought they sort of scuttled about on the bottom. Why would they start 'swimming' towards the surface?
you don't need to have a record 'deal' - you should BE a label if you intend to release your own music. Just start your own. If you say you are a record label, you are a record label. To get tunes on iTunes you do need to go through a middleman. For a fee CDBaby will get your music quickly and fairly painlessly on all of the major distibution networks, iTunes etc. Routenote also claim to be able to do it for free, though I haven't tried them yet. There just doesn't seem to be a direct way to get your tunes on iTunes as the artist. Not sure why this is.
Growing up I had a pretty mottley bunch of teachers - few of them were very good - computers barely existed and somehow with a bit of work I survived the experience. I can't change that experience, but if I could I think I would have been very happy to have so many sources of information available to me. With some intelligence I think that the multiple sources of information available via both internet and installed software quickly teach the ability to cross-reference and fact check. Using the 'standard textbook' in a disillusioned, bored teacher's classroom often teaches next to nothing. I ended up pretty much memorizing for the exams but not really learning as much as I should. I have had to re-learn stuff and the internet has been a great source of information. I am enthusiastic about the use of computers in education but I think there is a long way to go in implementing their use effectively. I also do not believe that there should be one standard way of doing so. Schools should determine how they implement the use of computers on an individual basis. As I understand it the teachers often have very limited understanding of the computers themselves and the programmes run on them. In that situation there is little point in having them in the classroom. May as well just use the textbook. In the home, I think there is potentially more immediate benefit to a child's education but only if the parents are computer literate and give constructive direction to the child. For good or ill, Wikipedia has pretty much replaced a physical copy of an encyclopedia and is arguably 'more fun' for a child than leafing through a thick tome. And one page of Wikipedia can lead on to a myriad of related topics that can certainly broaden and deepen the knowledge of a subject - probably more so than in the print version. But let's not forget the many things a child can learn using a computer that they might have learned a different way some years ago. Music programmes are really great for teaching basic music theory with the added sense of achievement of being able to compose a complete mixed piece of music - not just hammering out a piece on a piano. Photo-editing and graphic design applications do not replace doing these things with physical materials but as part of the software installed are a really affordable way for a family to give a child a grounding in these creative areas and possibly lead to an interest in a career in a related field of employment. If the child is simply allowed to spend all computer time social networking or watching the tubes there is no educational benefit that I can perceive, but it is up to the parents to see to it that the computer is put to good use - use that can be fun, educational and fulfilling at the same time. Another drawback I have seen with my own child is that the computers at school are usually older models, are poorly maintained, very crash prone - these are Macs running OS X - so there is really no excuse. The reason the computers are in this condition is due to incompetent users - teachers and kids. The kids have an excuse. Theay are kids! To my mind, the teachers do not. Apparently they lack a competent Mac IT guy at the school. Having said all that, good text books and a good teacher (a rare specimen unfortunately) are all that is really needed. Computers may just be an enhancement in the overal scheme of education. If a teacher thinks that a computer is there to reduce their work load, then I think they should just retire and get an office job... Sorry, I don't know how to do paragraphs(!)
In the past few years I have uploaded many of my own recordings to my website and made them freely available for download, primarily so that the other musicians I played with could hear our efforts without me needing to burn CDs and mail them out. The result of this is that some of these tracks have been downloaded many thousands of times and I don't have a penny to show for it. The countries downloading most are Russian Federation, China and Germany. Are these lost sales? No. Did the creative work fail? No. Would I like to have been paid for the downloads? Yes! But without a marketing department, I'm pretty much stuck with giving it away and hoping it points people to the music I do have for sale at iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby.com etc. You can't judge a creative work on it's financial success. As others have said, the most financially successful creative works are often (but not always) least artistically successful. If a creative person decides to not create because of fear of piracy then they must not have a particularly strong creative urge. I believe people create because they need to not because they think they will get rich from it. Just my two and sixpence...
loath though I am to debunk an ever amusing stereotype of NJ, it is true that some parts of NJ are in fact scenic. Some parts are quite the opposite. I am not from nor do I live in New Jersey.
how naive of me. I had just assumed that people stopped cheating in exams around the time they reached young adulthood if not sooner. In college I can only remember one classmate cheating in an exam - but he was a bit 'special' and somehow I couldn't really hold it against him. I love this high tech bit: '...burned onto a CD for evidence' How futuristic. Can we learn more about this new CD technology they plan to implement? It might be the next big thing.
and WTF is menistration?
not true
I know it has been said before many, many times but if you want to protect children from stuff they shouldn't see on the internet then it is the parents' duty to monitor what they see and do on it. Simple as that. State butt out of families. Keep it free and nasty and abolish Windows!
Feel free to use any of my tunes for your future videos. Just make sure to give credit!
I'm familiar with this notion - probably from a previous /. linked blog article - but this is ironic to me because numerous past pop 'classic' hits were slightly speeded up when pressed to make them more groovy or something. As a musician it is a real pain to be stumped while trying to play along with a tune, playing a guitar that is perfectly in tune to not be able to play along at all because the record company decided it should be just a bit faster to be a hit.
My favourite example - the Kinks 'I need You'. Great song but it not supposed to be that fast. So suppose you slow it down to the speed it was recorded at - no problem on You Tube! Maybe.
Chances are most listeners would not even notice their favourite tune slowing down or speeding up just a bit.
It's all a bloody racket anyway in both senses of the word!