Yeah Bowie whatever. If you want good made-by-geeks-for-geeks post-punk, check out The Poster Children. They're releasing their whole next album in MP3 format. And they have a cool single available now for free -- "dedicated to anyone who spends most of his/her waking hours sitting in a small room, in front of a computer (and ENJOYS it!)."
While the major labels are fussing about stuff like this, the indies and smaller companies are taking the lead. Ubergeek band Poster Children recently left Reprise partly so they could do stuff like this: their new album will be available in stores on CD (including nifty enhanced CD stuff they programmed themselves) or you can pay a small amount and download the whole thing.
And, there's a full-length free track which seems very appropriate for/.ers: 6x6.
Don't call me I won't pick up the phone
Don't try knocking I won't answer the door
Apartment of my dreams, surrounded by machines This room's got everything I need
I still don't understand what all of this going on about adding 5 or 6 new TLDs is. Why not just allow any new TLD to be created, just as second-level domains are now? There's no good technical reason this can't be done.
Well, these things are very geographically dependent. If you're on one of the coasts, you're right, your salary is probably going to be higher.
Other factors:
1. A lot of us work at universities. We get paid less. That drags the curve down.
2. They took a pretty broad approach to the term "sysadmin", as is obvious by the inclusion of Macs. (No offense, but maintaining personal computers is hardly a sysadmin job.)
Ok, cute hal commercial. But what's this silliness about macs being the only systems designed to be y2k compliant? Fsckin' VMS uses 4-digit years in hardware and software...
This isn't particularly groundbreaking or anything. Check out Good Noise, where you can download singles (or whole albums, for a small price) from SpinArt artists like Frank Black. And I'm sure others here can put together a decent list of other semi-big-names who have released MP3 singles already.
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And, there's a full-length free track which seems very appropriate for
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What, the microfiche? It's not special machine-readable microfiche or anything!
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Oh, for what it's worth: apparently we (Boston University) have the full source -- on microfiche.
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Larry Wall, "Perl: The First Post-Modern Programming Language"
George Lebl (GNOME), "Application Programming Using the GNOME Libraries"
Jon "Maddog" Hall (Linux International), "The Ten Reasons Why..."
and so on, really.
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It's good to see the bazaar lowering prices, but it's a little late now.
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Other factors:
1. A lot of us work at universities. We get paid less. That drags the curve down.
2. They took a pretty broad approach to the term "sysadmin", as is obvious by the inclusion of Macs. (No offense, but maintaining personal computers is hardly a sysadmin job.)
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At least, they claim not to be. At least, ZDNet says so.
http://www.zdnet.com/ zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2182458,00.html
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