please show me how to climb the ladder using $110/month. here i am saving thousands a month and after car repairs and medical expenses barely treading water with savings. somehow i'm convinced that your glib example applies to every single person who is poor. i'm not poor by society's standards, but acknowledging my $110/month phone bill i'm sure you can show me how i could be crashing lambos and presidential dinner parties in no time. what business should i invest my $110/month and how quickly will i become rich? you think your friend is poor because he spends $110/month on a cellphone? if he spent $20/month he'd still be poor. if he spent your $110 on facebook stock he'd owe you money. what on earth made you think there was any one thing you could point at to blame poor people for being poor? as if the rich did nothing to contribute either?
no, to be fair, a kid who is interested in how computers work is a nerd. most kids are not nerds. most kids are average, and will obviously do average things with objects they consider to be an average part of their lives. it doesn't matter what year it is. a kid like you in the 17th century was figuring out how printing presses worked, while the average person was reading serial novels in the newspaper. this article is profoundly irrelevant.
even better, it's a way for anti-science government reps to plant themselves (vis a vis some worthy nerd host) within the science community by assigning themselves IDs and then publish all kinds of distorted statistics to benefit whatever bill they're trying to sign themselves into legend with. global warming is bad for the profits of those paying for my campaigns? look at the pretty birdie while i get myself a researcher ID....
nature created us too. as joe rogan pointed out, nothing humans do is unnatural. if the universe is trying to process infinite information, it behooves it to grow some sentient organic interface it can use to speed things up.
irrational behavior is great for sales. this wasn't designed by scientifical scientists who know science, it's the equivalent of cricket cellular in japan. they're years ahead of us in being a technological society over in japan, so your phone manufacturer is the first person you think of when you suddenly need radiation detection:
"I received many tweets asking for some way to detect radiation" after the disaster, said Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son at a press conference in Tokyo. "So I decided, 'let's do it.'"
"fuck, why not?" Son continued, "we almost launched a phone that microwaves your food while it's in your mouth, but this fukushima disaster made that obsolete pretty quickly. we had to find some way to recoup those losses and this was an opportunity for us to turn lemons into lemonade."
somebody tell my aunt. she keeps sending me entire.wmv files attached to chain emails about this heroic serviceman or that cute religious fallacy. she might be family but she will soon be marked as spam.
anyone here ever play KoA:Reckoning? it was garbage. even the demo (not beta, the demo) had gamebreaking bugs. don't forget it was published by EA, who released it at the same time as their other game, mass effect 3. sorry if you're a R.A. Salvatore or Todd McFarlane fan. that game sucked shit.
this site does the same thing. one nice thing i enjoy about this site is the mobile app that lets me broadcast to my channel directly from my phone. so if i'm videotaping the police shooting at my black neighbors and they confiscate the phone, 1) there's no video files to copy or delete and 2) the video is already showing live to viewers of the channel, and recorded by the justin.tv site itself. i can login from any computer and rebroadcast or retrieve my video.
yep, this is correct. something nobody seems aware of is the massive glut of "artists" who want a piece of your disposable income. before streaming and mp3 players, bands had no route to exposure other than the demo tape. they sold themselves like any other kind of contractor to a music label, hoping to be one of the rare few who would get the marketing and nurturing they needed to become superstars. record labels held that kind of control due to the technology for recording and distributing music. three things happened that changed the industry to what we see today.
1. recording costs went WAY down. it wasn't all digital then, you had to splice really expensive magnetic tape with expert precision. doing multiple takes was expensive, so labels chose bands who not only had appeal, but the talent to perform in studio with few mistakes. now it's digital, and you can easily delete a take and record again in no time with little effort. this lets labels treat artists like mcdonald's cashiers rather than skilled creative labor - no skill is needed. it creates a revolving door of musician/singer employees, and the one-hit wonder phenomenon became something the labels sought after instead of trying to avoid. innovation and quality went down, and soon entered the autotuner as a crude airbrush for flaws.
2. distribution became ubiquitous for unsigned artists. the almighty demo tape gave way to self-owned labels, or a la carte sales in the internet marketplace. bands who struggled to tour and sell cds out of their trunk found it easier to make a MySpace page and sell zip files. the value of the music-as-product went way, way down for the general public, who were getting tired of paying $20 to find out if a cd had more than one good song -- which happened less and less because of #1 above. at this point supply for artists shot way past the demand. and that's why the real value of a recorded album is <$1, as opposed to $20.
3. distribution costs went way, way down in the digital marketplace when broadband reached critical mass. hosting one file on a server and charging for access carries much less operating cost than printing a cd and shipping it physically around the world. before broadband, i remember ripping cds and mailing copies via snail mail to my friends. that was expensive and now with broadband access it's pointless too.
there are far more artists today competing for your dollar because of these two things: cheap, accessible recording tech, and cheap, accessible distribution. it's just the way it is. i've been on the artist side of things, and it's just a cold reality that your cd price, your mp3 download, are just not worth as much as they used to be. this is the whole point of innovation in capitalism.
by contrast, merchandise has not changed much in its business model. you can't download physical t-shirts. you can't download physical stickers. (although you can download the design for each, the costs of making them physical are left to you the consumer). and attending a performance is something that can't be duplicated in any way that makes it equivalent. you can't download the experience of being in the crowd and feeling the music vibrate your body, feeling the presence of the performer. of all the things an artist tries to sell, this is the only one that will always have a constant value.
so in the same way that the recording/distribution costs of the past encouraged "survival of the talented" in the music industry, the buyer's market of music performances is filling that void. as a consumer you can own all the music you want, but you can't possibly see every artist in concert in your lifetime. you have to choose what experience you want, and you'll choose for very different reasons than you use to choose recorded music. labels must adapt to this or perish. the public is too savvy and too poor to judge a cd by its cover anymore. advertising dollars need to be allocated to offering recorded music -- it is the ad, the ad for the performance. right
Singer: Ok, then how about I give you recordings of the music for free, charge you to see me perform live and while you're there get you to buy my t-shirt?
Tatsuhiko Kodama, head of the radioisotope centre at the University of Tokyo and an outspoken critic of the government, questions the reports’ value. “I think international organizations should stop making hasty reports based on very short visits to Japan that don’t allow them to see what is happening locally,” he says.
he's not a moron, you just don't get it. he's comparing it to a situation where even if you do have the means to pick up and move it doesn't matter because the laws are the same in all the states. that's a bad situation. besides that, where there's a will, there's a way. people make sacrifices to get something they really really want, like more freedom.
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please show me how to climb the ladder using $110/month. here i am saving thousands a month and after car repairs and medical expenses barely treading water with savings. somehow i'm convinced that your glib example applies to every single person who is poor. i'm not poor by society's standards, but acknowledging my $110/month phone bill i'm sure you can show me how i could be crashing lambos and presidential dinner parties in no time. what business should i invest my $110/month and how quickly will i become rich? you think your friend is poor because he spends $110/month on a cellphone? if he spent $20/month he'd still be poor. if he spent your $110 on facebook stock he'd owe you money. what on earth made you think there was any one thing you could point at to blame poor people for being poor? as if the rich did nothing to contribute either?
no, to be fair, a kid who is interested in how computers work is a nerd. most kids are not nerds. most kids are average, and will obviously do average things with objects they consider to be an average part of their lives. it doesn't matter what year it is. a kid like you in the 17th century was figuring out how printing presses worked, while the average person was reading serial novels in the newspaper. this article is profoundly irrelevant.
even better, it's a way for anti-science government reps to plant themselves (vis a vis some worthy nerd host) within the science community by assigning themselves IDs and then publish all kinds of distorted statistics to benefit whatever bill they're trying to sign themselves into legend with. global warming is bad for the profits of those paying for my campaigns? look at the pretty birdie while i get myself a researcher ID....
Youtube would rather lose one ignorant user than a large group of ignorant users.
FTFYYSFI
nature created us too. as joe rogan pointed out, nothing humans do is unnatural. if the universe is trying to process infinite information, it behooves it to grow some sentient organic interface it can use to speed things up.
"I received many tweets asking for some way to detect radiation" after the disaster, said Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son at a press conference in Tokyo. "So I decided, 'let's do it.'"
"fuck, why not?" Son continued, "we almost launched a phone that microwaves your food while it's in your mouth, but this fukushima disaster made that obsolete pretty quickly. we had to find some way to recoup those losses and this was an opportunity for us to turn lemons into lemonade."
somebody tell my aunt. she keeps sending me entire .wmv files attached to chain emails about this heroic serviceman or that cute religious fallacy. she might be family but she will soon be marked as spam.
any article whose headline is a question can be answered "no."
anyone here ever play KoA:Reckoning? it was garbage. even the demo (not beta, the demo) had gamebreaking bugs. don't forget it was published by EA, who released it at the same time as their other game, mass effect 3. sorry if you're a R.A. Salvatore or Todd McFarlane fan. that game sucked shit.
this site does the same thing. one nice thing i enjoy about this site is the mobile app that lets me broadcast to my channel directly from my phone. so if i'm videotaping the police shooting at my black neighbors and they confiscate the phone, 1) there's no video files to copy or delete and 2) the video is already showing live to viewers of the channel, and recorded by the justin.tv site itself. i can login from any computer and rebroadcast or retrieve my video.
meh, it's a rerun. i want a new episode, dammit!
it takes on average 11 hours for Google to take action.
what he means is, the cronjob that runs ./dmca_takedown.sh is set to run every 11 hours. you really think google wouldn't automate this?
....and even more surprised how many agents turn up at the door tomorrow.
this is the post HeckRuler was responding to. your reading glasses are not on tight enough, or your filter isn't low enough.
yep, this is correct. something nobody seems aware of is the massive glut of "artists" who want a piece of your disposable income. before streaming and mp3 players, bands had no route to exposure other than the demo tape. they sold themselves like any other kind of contractor to a music label, hoping to be one of the rare few who would get the marketing and nurturing they needed to become superstars. record labels held that kind of control due to the technology for recording and distributing music. three things happened that changed the industry to what we see today.
1. recording costs went WAY down. it wasn't all digital then, you had to splice really expensive magnetic tape with expert precision. doing multiple takes was expensive, so labels chose bands who not only had appeal, but the talent to perform in studio with few mistakes. now it's digital, and you can easily delete a take and record again in no time with little effort. this lets labels treat artists like mcdonald's cashiers rather than skilled creative labor - no skill is needed. it creates a revolving door of musician/singer employees, and the one-hit wonder phenomenon became something the labels sought after instead of trying to avoid. innovation and quality went down, and soon entered the autotuner as a crude airbrush for flaws.
2. distribution became ubiquitous for unsigned artists. the almighty demo tape gave way to self-owned labels, or a la carte sales in the internet marketplace. bands who struggled to tour and sell cds out of their trunk found it easier to make a MySpace page and sell zip files. the value of the music-as-product went way, way down for the general public, who were getting tired of paying $20 to find out if a cd had more than one good song -- which happened less and less because of #1 above. at this point supply for artists shot way past the demand. and that's why the real value of a recorded album is <$1, as opposed to $20.
3. distribution costs went way, way down in the digital marketplace when broadband reached critical mass. hosting one file on a server and charging for access carries much less operating cost than printing a cd and shipping it physically around the world. before broadband, i remember ripping cds and mailing copies via snail mail to my friends. that was expensive and now with broadband access it's pointless too.
there are far more artists today competing for your dollar because of these two things: cheap, accessible recording tech, and cheap, accessible distribution. it's just the way it is. i've been on the artist side of things, and it's just a cold reality that your cd price, your mp3 download, are just not worth as much as they used to be. this is the whole point of innovation in capitalism.
by contrast, merchandise has not changed much in its business model. you can't download physical t-shirts. you can't download physical stickers. (although you can download the design for each, the costs of making them physical are left to you the consumer). and attending a performance is something that can't be duplicated in any way that makes it equivalent. you can't download the experience of being in the crowd and feeling the music vibrate your body, feeling the presence of the performer. of all the things an artist tries to sell, this is the only one that will always have a constant value.
so in the same way that the recording/distribution costs of the past encouraged "survival of the talented" in the music industry, the buyer's market of music performances is filling that void. as a consumer you can own all the music you want, but you can't possibly see every artist in concert in your lifetime. you have to choose what experience you want, and you'll choose for very different reasons than you use to choose recorded music. labels must adapt to this or perish. the public is too savvy and too poor to judge a cd by its cover anymore. advertising dollars need to be allocated to offering recorded music -- it is the ad, the ad for the performance. right
Singer: Ok, then how about I give you recordings of the music for free, charge you to see me perform live and while you're there get you to buy my t-shirt?
Lady in street Oh, well that's reasonable.
"cool story bro" would have been more succinct. thanks for coming out.
reminds me of that scene in Cryptonomicon when Randy is trying to selectively delete evidence that can incriminate Epiphyte.
we want a clone army, and we want them all to dress like boba fett. and you know this.
anyone remember Cave Story? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05GxrxJ53A
Tatsuhiko Kodama, head of the radioisotope centre at the University of Tokyo and an outspoken critic of the government, questions the reports’ value. “I think international organizations should stop making hasty reports based on very short visits to Japan that don’t allow them to see what is happening locally,” he says.
he's not a moron, you just don't get it. he's comparing it to a situation where even if you do have the means to pick up and move it doesn't matter because the laws are the same in all the states. that's a bad situation. besides that, where there's a will, there's a way. people make sacrifices to get something they really really want, like more freedom.
nah. haven't you heard? it's unconstitutional. it'll go away on its own.
everyone saw how he made the company by stabbing the people closest to him in the back. what did you think he was going to do with the IPO?
you missed the got=not typo. heil grammar!
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