If the purpose of audio layer 3 MPEGs is, like so many people claim, to hear artists they would not usually hear, and then buy the record, why is MP3 the format of choice? If you REALLY planned on buying the 44.1 kHz version later, why not go with something infinitely smaller and quicker to download, such as RealAudio? If you were really going to buy the CD later, wouldn't quality be a non-issue, to a point?
I wish all bands could be as cool as Massive Attack, who released their Mezzanine album on their website (mp3)a month before it was actually released. Apparently being herad is no longer what matters to most bands.. or their managements. Artists.... Yeah right!
Cool. That's a good way to create a buzz and get people to buy the CD - on my list of most amazing songs ever is "Protection" by Massive Attack, and if I had to listen to that, cranked up, in a room all alone with the lights out, compressed as a layer 3 file as opposed to the full 44.1 kHz, I would kill myself, or someone close to me.
Massive Attack is not a band that fares well at low fidelity.
(And it doesn't hurt, btw, that Massive Attack is on a major label, with an already substantial following. I certainly think they deserve to get paid for their work... Don't you? "Being heard" is only a means for getting people to support your work financially. If they already have your whole LP for free, will they?)
however, in mandrin, a commonly used idiom remarkably resembles the american-english personal-worth-as-money idiom.
Which would only be relevant as a counterargument if I had claimed that the US is materialistic because of the idiom.
I think your observation is right on point. I was going to point out that these constructions don't exist in Spanish, et. al. because language evolves to reflect the people who use it. Por ejemplo, I was reading the paper, and I forget the word, but they used a word that exists in Mexico, meaning people the PRI trucks in to their sham rallies. There's no translation 'cause we don't have this thing in English. I think "idioms" are a very important reflection of culture, and your post was not at all off the mark.
Although, you know, come to think of it, regardless of American consumer culture's being fucked up, it is kind of accurate; someone is worth X amount of dollars when the bill collectors come. Although, maybe it reflects a deeper-seated classist mentality that those who attain that much money deserve it more, are somehow "worth" it.
Bill Gates is worth more than your child's teachers, vinyl
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If the purpose of audio layer 3 MPEGs is, like so many people claim, to hear artists they would not usually hear, and then buy the record, why is MP3 the format of choice? If you REALLY planned on buying the 44.1 kHz version later, why not go with something infinitely smaller and quicker to download, such as RealAudio? If you were really going to buy the CD later, wouldn't quality be a non-issue, to a point?
What is significant about being white?
Well, a statistically smaller chance of getting pulled over by the cops or thrown in jail, for one. Or being poor.
Actually, this seems to make more sense with programmers. f-- corporate hackers, vinyl
the last time I checked it was against most (all?) major religions
Satanism.
I wish all bands could be as cool as Massive Attack, who released their Mezzanine album on their website (mp3)a month before it was actually released. Apparently being herad is no longer what matters to most bands.. or their managements. Artists.... Yeah right!
Cool. That's a good way to create a buzz and get people to buy the CD - on my list of most amazing songs ever is "Protection" by Massive Attack, and if I had to listen to that, cranked up, in a room all alone with the lights out, compressed as a layer 3 file as opposed to the full 44.1 kHz, I would kill myself, or someone close to me.
Massive Attack is not a band that fares well at low fidelity.
(And it doesn't hurt, btw, that Massive Attack is on a major label, with an already substantial following. I certainly think they deserve to get paid for their work... Don't you? "Being heard" is only a means for getting people to support your work financially. If they already have your whole LP for free, will they?)
VIVA LA VINYL!
however, in mandrin, a commonly used idiom remarkably resembles the american-english personal-worth-as-money idiom.
Which would only be relevant as a counterargument if I had claimed that the US is materialistic because of the idiom.
I think your observation is right on point. I was going to point out that these constructions don't exist in Spanish, et. al. because language evolves to reflect the people who use it. Por ejemplo, I was reading the paper, and I forget the word, but they used a word that exists in Mexico, meaning people the PRI trucks in to their sham rallies. There's no translation 'cause we don't have this thing in English. I think "idioms" are a very important reflection of culture, and your post was not at all off the mark.
Although, you know, come to think of it, regardless of American consumer culture's being fucked up, it is kind of accurate; someone is worth X amount of dollars when the bill collectors come. Although, maybe it reflects a deeper-seated classist mentality that those who attain that much money deserve it more, are somehow "worth" it.
Bill Gates is worth more than your child's teachers,
vinyl