Probably. But would they have if they didn't spend big bucks to have "Nevermind" professionally produced, leading to Nirvana's explosion in popularity and prompting DGC to re-release "Bleach" with the might of a national distribution machine backing it up?
The answer is probably still yes -- at $600, they most likely broke even by selling the album out of their trunks at shows before they ever caught major label attention. But without the major label, they'd just have been another unknown indie band who put together a CD on their own.
the studios and equipment have already been bought and paid for
No they haven't!
Okay, they actually have been, but that doesn't mean there's not a cost associated with them. Those things were bought using money brought in by previous projects, and therefore your project will need to bring money in to the studio too, so that the equipment can be maintained and upgraded.
I'm no elitist, but you really cannot get anything approaching true professional-quality sound from a home PC, unless you shuttle off all the actual recording and I/O to expensive dedicated hardware and use the PC just for hard disk storage and maybe a little digital processing.
An Audigy and a copy of Cakewalk Pro do work fine for "low-fi" recording, which is not inherently bad -- the state of low-fi today is roughly equivalent to the state-of-the-art a generation ago, which is good enough a lot of the time.
But you're not going to make it onto MTV that way.
Why the hell'd you make the assumption that a whole new recording studio has to be built for each and every album that's recorded? That's utter nonsense.
I don't even feel like pointing out the other inaccuracies and contradictory statements in your post now...
The truth is, most games HAVE had ratings on them since today's 11-year-olds were in diapers. What's being proposed here is federal legislation making it a crime to sell games with certain ratings to children.
There's no need for this. The same rulings that upheld states' and cities' power to prevent mature books and films from being sold to children, common sense says, also apply to video games.
Why did the movie industry adopt the system of ratings we have now? To hear Jack Valenti tell it, it was so that the government would NOT interfere. Similarly, the government should not interfere here either.
Also note, that the majority of stolen cars are stolen for their parts.
This is not because the parts are more valuable than the whole, at least not in the obvious way.
By stripping a stolen car for parts, the stolen materials become that much harder to track. The vehicle's VIN might be stamped on the engine block and the dashboard, but the muffler and the seats and the tires and the catalytic converter probably don't have any unique identifying marks at all. Once those are sold, the owner of the car has NO chance of recovering them.
How could _any_ rational person think that a clone of your old dog would know you and know the old tricks when it was born? They said it TWICE in the article, which makes me think someone somewhere thinks this is possible.
Well, the second time they said it was a clone of the first...
What they should do is focus on making a PCI card that you can insert into your PC and utilize its hardware to make it a "console" system in that it can hold the controllers and play all the games - for a minimal cost.
That's a great idea -- take a PCI card with a couple of USB ports, bundle it with a couple of cheap USB joysticks and a CD-R with MAME on it, and market it as an "arcade in your computer"!
Oh, wait, MAME only runs ~3600 different ROMs, nowhere near 32,000. I guess you'd have to bundle NESticle on the CD-R too.
Will bending the card cause a head crash? Or are these more like zip drives, in which the read head is in the reader and causes a head crash only when inserted?
The worst part about 10-digit local calls is never being sure whether it's free or toll.
This is something that the wireless networks are doing right. They bill you based on how long you're on the system, not where the other end of the call is located.
I don't even think about long distance charges anymore, because a 10-minute call across the country costs me the same as a 10-minute call across the street.
Free? Since when is broadcast TV free? I pay for it every time I buy something that is advertised on television, since product sales are how those companies make back ad costs.
You're under no obligation to do that.
Given that the public owns the broadcast frequency spectrum (fneh), you're under no obligation to buy or do anything in exchange for receiving a broadcast TV signal. It's in the air whether you take it or leave it.
Is the content of that signal protected by copyright? Of course. Can you re-publish copyrighted work in any other medium without repercussions? Of course not!
How about Walking-Only zones (handicapped excepted) in certain areas as opposed to shooting things down individually before they are even being shipped....geez
These zones already exist, they're called "sidewalks".
Because Slashdot's favorite buzzwords are not the solutions to all the world's problems.
If only we could install Linux on this ear of corn, we could end world hunger forever! Unfortunately Monsanto already installed a proprietary kernel in it.
It's no secret that the American education system is, shall we say, lacking in almost every regard except being flush with funding.
No. We shall not say that.
The United States is home to more elite colleges and universities than any other country in the world. Is that a sign of a lacking educational system?
If you were referring to primary and secondary schooling, public schools in particular, yeah the US school system cranks out a lot of idiots. But this is because most people ARE idiots. While we may not have the best scores of all the first-world nations, we're not THAT far below the rest either.
I also object to your 'flush with funding' comment. Have you ever met a public school teacher who was sufficiently compensated for the work they do?
Okay, your examples cite land, toxic chemicals, and firearms as things that the government restricts how you may use them even if they belong wholly to you.
This is about a garage door opener. It's not the same thing, and it can't be construed as the same thing unless you throw out the entire concept of 'scope'.
I would include a reference to a coffee-hot lawsuit except that defenders of the right to be stupid would start flaming me.
OOPS, TOO LATE!
The only ones exercising their right to be stupid in the 'infamous' McDonald's hot coffee case were McDonald's themselves.
If McD's had been free of fault, the woman spilling coffee on her lap would have only resulted in mild discomfort and stained clothing. Instead, she got serious burns and required immediate medical attention. If she had tried to drink the coffee, she would have damaged her mouth and throat quite badly.
Do you deserve to have the skin on your genitals peel off for a single act of clumsiness? Of course not, no one does. McD's was sued and punished because their behavior was unsafe and led to injury. It was a completely legitimate lawsuit.
The FAT people suing FAsT food chains because they didn't know eating FAT would make them FAT, on the other hand...
Slashdot Mirror
I'm guessing the've made their $600 back.
Probably. But would they have if they didn't spend big bucks to have "Nevermind" professionally produced, leading to Nirvana's explosion in popularity and prompting DGC to re-release "Bleach" with the might of a national distribution machine backing it up?
The answer is probably still yes -- at $600, they most likely broke even by selling the album out of their trunks at shows before they ever caught major label attention. But without the major label, they'd just have been another unknown indie band who put together a CD on their own.
the studios and equipment have already been bought and paid for
No they haven't!
Okay, they actually have been, but that doesn't mean there's not a cost associated with them. Those things were bought using money brought in by previous projects, and therefore your project will need to bring money in to the studio too, so that the equipment can be maintained and upgraded.
I'm no elitist, but you really cannot get anything approaching true professional-quality sound from a home PC, unless you shuttle off all the actual recording and I/O to expensive dedicated hardware and use the PC just for hard disk storage and maybe a little digital processing.
An Audigy and a copy of Cakewalk Pro do work fine for "low-fi" recording, which is not inherently bad -- the state of low-fi today is roughly equivalent to the state-of-the-art a generation ago, which is good enough a lot of the time.
But you're not going to make it onto MTV that way.
When we the last time you actually listened to AM radio though?
For me, it was when I was about 10, and got one of those crystal-radio kits for my birthday with the jumper wires and the springs.
Why the hell'd you make the assumption that a whole new recording studio has to be built for each and every album that's recorded? That's utter nonsense.
I don't even feel like pointing out the other inaccuracies and contradictory statements in your post now...
It's my understanding that in Americia you run with a free market which means that the public at large decides who will success and who will fail.
If it weren't for corporate lobbying pervading the government, your understanding would be accurate.
In practice, there's no such thing as a Free Market (libre or gratis).
I think you missed the point of the article. All those warnings that you think are unnecessary, maybe they're not so unnecessary after all...
Of course, after seeing the list here you'll have quite a hard time finding any music to buy.
Bullshit.
There's thousands and thousands of non-RIAA CDs released each and every year. You just have to look a little harder to find them.
I recommend CD Baby as a starting point.
The truth is, games these days should be rated.
The truth is, most games HAVE had ratings on them since today's 11-year-olds were in diapers. What's being proposed here is federal legislation making it a crime to sell games with certain ratings to children.
There's no need for this. The same rulings that upheld states' and cities' power to prevent mature books and films from being sold to children, common sense says, also apply to video games.
Why did the movie industry adopt the system of ratings we have now? To hear Jack Valenti tell it, it was so that the government would NOT interfere. Similarly, the government should not interfere here either.
...parents have a right to raise their children as they see fit by not letting them play video games...
Parents also have a right to raise their children as they see fit by letting them play AS MUCH VIDEO GAMES AS THEY WANT.
This bill, if it becomes law, will in fact impede parents' rights to choose how to raise their children.
Just say no to a Federally Authorized Nanny-State.
Also note, that the majority of stolen cars are stolen for their parts.
This is not because the parts are more valuable than the whole, at least not in the obvious way.
By stripping a stolen car for parts, the stolen materials become that much harder to track. The vehicle's VIN might be stamped on the engine block and the dashboard, but the muffler and the seats and the tires and the catalytic converter probably don't have any unique identifying marks at all. Once those are sold, the owner of the car has NO chance of recovering them.
How could _any_ rational person think that a clone of your old dog would know you and know the old tricks when it was born? They said it TWICE in the article, which makes me think someone somewhere thinks this is possible.
Well, the second time they said it was a clone of the first...
What they should do is focus on making a PCI card that you can insert into your PC and utilize its hardware to make it a "console" system in that it can hold the controllers and play all the games - for a minimal cost.
That's a great idea -- take a PCI card with a couple of USB ports, bundle it with a couple of cheap USB joysticks and a CD-R with MAME on it, and market it as an "arcade in your computer"!
Oh, wait, MAME only runs ~3600 different ROMs, nowhere near 32,000. I guess you'd have to bundle NESticle on the CD-R too.
What bad? The RIAA SHOULD be suing individuals for violating copyright by trafficking MP3's.
The individuals are ultimately the ones responsible. ISPs, P2P services, etc., are merely conduits.
Will bending the card cause a head crash? Or are these more like zip drives, in which the read head is in the reader and causes a head crash only when inserted?
I fixed your post.
The worst part about 10-digit local calls is never being sure whether it's free or toll.
This is something that the wireless networks are doing right. They bill you based on how long you're on the system, not where the other end of the call is located.
I don't even think about long distance charges anymore, because a 10-minute call across the country costs me the same as a 10-minute call across the street.
Free? Since when is broadcast TV free? I pay for it every time I buy something that is advertised on television, since product sales are how those companies make back ad costs.
You're under no obligation to do that.
Given that the public owns the broadcast frequency spectrum (fneh), you're under no obligation to buy or do anything in exchange for receiving a broadcast TV signal. It's in the air whether you take it or leave it.
Is the content of that signal protected by copyright? Of course. Can you re-publish copyrighted work in any other medium without repercussions? Of course not!
How about Walking-Only zones (handicapped excepted) in certain areas as opposed to shooting things down individually before they are even being shipped....geez
These zones already exist, they're called "sidewalks".
Don't answer the question for Kevin, anonymous troll, he's capable of answering it himself if he chooses.
The bottom line is, if Kevin hadn't broken the law, he wouldn't have gone to jail. Thus, the question asked of him is a valid one.
Because Slashdot's favorite buzzwords are not the solutions to all the world's problems.
If only we could install Linux on this ear of corn, we could end world hunger forever! Unfortunately Monsanto already installed a proprietary kernel in it.
Where's Q104.3? Where's the NPR stations? Where's 102.7 WNEW, former home of Opie & Anthony? Where are the NJ stations like NJ101.5 and 89.5 WSOU?
Your list is incomplete. I get more stations along the FM dial in the NYC area than any other place I've been.
Because anything Slashdotters don't like is illegal, except for those things that are illegal but Slashdotters like so therefore it should be legal.
Clear?
It's no secret that the American education system is, shall we say, lacking in almost every regard except being flush with funding.
No. We shall not say that.
The United States is home to more elite colleges and universities than any other country in the world. Is that a sign of a lacking educational system?
If you were referring to primary and secondary schooling, public schools in particular, yeah the US school system cranks out a lot of idiots. But this is because most people ARE idiots. While we may not have the best scores of all the first-world nations, we're not THAT far below the rest either.
I also object to your 'flush with funding' comment. Have you ever met a public school teacher who was sufficiently compensated for the work they do?
Okay, your examples cite land, toxic chemicals, and firearms as things that the government restricts how you may use them even if they belong wholly to you.
This is about a garage door opener. It's not the same thing, and it can't be construed as the same thing unless you throw out the entire concept of 'scope'.
I would include a reference to a coffee-hot lawsuit except that defenders of the right to be stupid would start flaming me.
OOPS, TOO LATE!
The only ones exercising their right to be stupid in the 'infamous' McDonald's hot coffee case were McDonald's themselves.
If McD's had been free of fault, the woman spilling coffee on her lap would have only resulted in mild discomfort and stained clothing. Instead, she got serious burns and required immediate medical attention. If she had tried to drink the coffee, she would have damaged her mouth and throat quite badly.
Do you deserve to have the skin on your genitals peel off for a single act of clumsiness? Of course not, no one does. McD's was sued and punished because their behavior was unsafe and led to injury. It was a completely legitimate lawsuit.
The FAT people suing FAsT food chains because they didn't know eating FAT would make them FAT, on the other hand...
Riiiiiiight. ...What's a cubit?