Your quaint story aside, one has nothing to do with the other. Realize that now in the age where CD and even DVD recorders exist, the video game industry has just recently surpassed the film industry in terms of revenue. Halo 2 is now the highest grossing (maybe in the shortest amount of time, something like that) media item ever.
There's no hard luck among the major players, least of all Sony. If the quality has gone down in games, it's because the big media publishers have realized just how big a buck can be made from games. Just like when the film and music industry big boys figured this out, they've begun to sell you the most efficient media available: old wine in new bottles. If the quality's gone down of late, it's they've found (in enough cases to make them a profit, anyway) that innovation doesn't usually have as high a yield as simply putting out the same crap over and over again.
Simple, I learned this from Murdoch on the A-Team.
All you need to do is take a polaroid of the movie theatre from the detector's perspective, then affix something to prop up the polarioid in front of the detector. Voila!
A shift of 0.3MW really isn't that much of a shift in the scheme of things, it just depends on how dependent we'd be on solar. Almost every power generation company routinely produces more MWs than they can use at the current time (at some point or another), and the extra energy is traded realtime at market; a fluctuation that minor would just reduce the overage they previously had available for trade, or simply necessitate the purchase of another company's energy.
However, if we're talking about regional suppliers very much dependent on solar, yeah, there'd be a problem, as probably all of their production would go decrease at once.
Price is the universal differentiator, though. A USB drive is still relatively expensive, whereas I can buy a floppy drive for ~$8.00, and a 100 pack of floppies for a straberry poptart (maybe cinnamon sugar, depends on the store).
To be fair, I'm staring at a little stuffed boxing monkey that Treeloot.com sent me in 2000 from punching the monkey. At least *I* got something out of the deal.
1) You may want to record good quality audio. Maybe from several sources simultaneously.
That 'maybe' is an 'absolutely' if you're remotely thinking about recording drums. At that rate, even a decent 16-channel input is going to cost a few thousand.
Also, the time-dependency is key to their patent, transparency is nothing new, they're adding the time-dependent part as a "feature", making it novel and unique, or at least that's what they're claiming.
Especially when the story mentions the head exorcist of the Catholic Church definitively calling this the work of the devil, when the local priest decided to sit this one out and let science have a go at it first. These people obviously aren't *that* removed from the outside world, even if they are filthy, filthy Italians.
You're right in that the RIAA will get their cut no matter what, however, depending on the size of the band/label/distributor, on who sets up tours, etc. the band might make more money on the cd from a tour. For a most "independent" labels (quoted because some labels called independent still may distribute through major label distribution channels, or may be members of the RIAA themselves), the band sees a larger cut of the merchandise sold on tour. I can't vouch for the specifics (i.e. whether or not it's because merch sold by the artist at shows doesn't officialy enter any distribution channels, and thus they don't get charged distribution fees) of the matter, but from what I've been told, it's generally the case for medium to smaller labels.
It's not a question of who's less deserving at all. At the most basic, you can reduce the problem to two candidates in separate countries who are equally "deserving" (both in the sense of being qualified for the job, as well as the humanitarian sense, as you're more likely to mean): the only difference being [roughly] the disparity in the cost of living, which allows the company to pay fewer real dollars in salary.
I'm not going to go so far as to say that this is immoral, but surely you can concede that morality has nothing to do with capitalism (as your question, does, in effect, relate to morality).
Greed is part of human nature. in a communist society for instance, whoever distributes the rations will probably take a much larger amount for himself. The strength in capitalism lies in the fact that it uses greed for good.
I really don't see how it uses it for "good", and you sure don't back it up with logic. I'm not a proponent of communism or socialism, but just like the communist organizers will and do apportion themselves much more in terms of resources, what do you think big business executives do? It's all an old boys' network of white collared men patting themselves on the back and similarly apportioning themselves a much, much larger portion of resources than their consumers.
Point me to the big difference, and I'll be on my way, thanks.
The reason the sequencing functionality is rarely used on Tritons in the studio is that you have to put up with that tiny little display to use that functionality. As someone else said, this is pretty much a PC in a nice grey box, and thus I'd imagine that since most people do their sequencing on a desktop machine with a desktop-sized display, the neko wil have a niche right away.
There *is* more than a snowball's chance in hell here. If you read the topic, it says label would pay the PUBLISHER, not the artist. I'm not sure exactly how that all works, or even if that's right, but if you look on a cd, you'll see something along the lines of "All songs published by SomethingSomething/BMI." Where BMI is one of a few publishing houses.
The headline says "system", not "operating system". His point was that Sun has a knack for putting together state-of-the-art servers, even though the UltraSPARCs may not be best in show. Operating system is part of that, but this troll doesn't even know what he's trolling.
THIS IS NOT A QUESTION IT IS A FACT. The RIAA is FILING LAWSUITS for COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT, NOT STEALING. The only part of their campaign that says STEALING is the public relations part. People LIKE YOU tend not to know the meaning or implication of COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, and seem to think that somehow stealing is worse. It's a completely psychological thing. I don't know why you're telling people that copyright infringement is WORSE than STEALING, infringement is a MUCH greater crime in the eyes of the civil court.
Uhh...as an amateur musician myself, I have to question what you mean by "not like the stuff you usually hear on MTV". Are you suggesting that everyone that releases a cd just remixes old jazz records? I'm not even sure how to take that. "Real" music is quite subjective, and just because something released doesn't have the complexity of a Baroque fugue certainly does note mean that it's not "real". That being said, a lot of music that comes out on major labels _does_ take a lot of time and effort. The difference in album turnaround time is simply that: these people *do* do this for a living, and can afford to put 10+ hours a day into recording; these people have the resources to rent out [or simply use their label's] high-class studios with very expensive gear for weeks at a time; and they're working with producers and engineers who devote their lives producing music, and have recorded many, many artists and albums.
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Your quaint story aside, one has nothing to do with the other. Realize that now in the age where CD and even DVD recorders exist, the video game industry has just recently surpassed the film industry in terms of revenue. Halo 2 is now the highest grossing (maybe in the shortest amount of time, something like that) media item ever.
There's no hard luck among the major players, least of all Sony. If the quality has gone down in games, it's because the big media publishers have realized just how big a buck can be made from games. Just like when the film and music industry big boys figured this out, they've begun to sell you the most efficient media available: old wine in new bottles. If the quality's gone down of late, it's they've found (in enough cases to make them a profit, anyway) that innovation doesn't usually have as high a yield as simply putting out the same crap over and over again.
Simple, I learned this from Murdoch on the A-Team.
All you need to do is take a polaroid of the movie theatre from the detector's perspective, then affix something to prop up the polarioid in front of the detector. Voila!
Easy, because a lot of people trust the BBC's analysis of campaign material a lot more than they trust, say, Fox News.
That wasn't very insightful.
It's "you're", for the contraction of "you are". Don't even get me started on F-in.
A shift of 0.3MW really isn't that much of a shift in the scheme of things, it just depends on how dependent we'd be on solar. Almost every power generation company routinely produces more MWs than they can use at the current time (at some point or another), and the extra energy is traded realtime at market; a fluctuation that minor would just reduce the overage they previously had available for trade, or simply necessitate the purchase of another company's energy.
However, if we're talking about regional suppliers very much dependent on solar, yeah, there'd be a problem, as probably all of their production would go decrease at once.
Price is the universal differentiator, though. A USB drive is still relatively expensive, whereas I can buy a floppy drive for ~$8.00, and a 100 pack of floppies for a straberry poptart (maybe cinnamon sugar, depends on the store).
To be fair, I'm staring at a little stuffed boxing monkey that Treeloot.com sent me in 2000 from punching the monkey. At least *I* got something out of the deal.
Thank you, Venture Capital!
Out of curiosity why are MOTU cards not supported? A friend of mine uses a 24-channel I/O card of theirs, and I was just wondering.
1) You may want to record good quality audio. Maybe from several sources simultaneously.
That 'maybe' is an 'absolutely' if you're remotely thinking about recording drums. At that rate, even a decent 16-channel input is going to cost a few thousand.
easily set transparency?
Goddamn, that was hard.
Also, the time-dependency is key to their patent, transparency is nothing new, they're adding the time-dependent part as a "feature", making it novel and unique, or at least that's what they're claiming.
Especially when the story mentions the head exorcist of the Catholic Church definitively calling this the work of the devil, when the local priest decided to sit this one out and let science have a go at it first. These people obviously aren't *that* removed from the outside world, even if they are filthy, filthy Italians.
that 'Colored markings on the street' would have indicated the presence of neighborhood children with sidewalk chalk..
You're right in that the RIAA will get their cut no matter what, however, depending on the size of the band/label/distributor, on who sets up tours, etc. the band might make more money on the cd from a tour. For a most "independent" labels (quoted because some labels called independent still may distribute through major label distribution channels, or may be members of the RIAA themselves), the band sees a larger cut of the merchandise sold on tour. I can't vouch for the specifics (i.e. whether or not it's because merch sold by the artist at shows doesn't officialy enter any distribution channels, and thus they don't get charged distribution fees) of the matter, but from what I've been told, it's generally the case for medium to smaller labels.
Are you suggesting that they are pretty tight now? I'd be inclined to disagree, they're already pretty loose.
It's not a question of who's less deserving at all. At the most basic, you can reduce the problem to two candidates in separate countries who are equally "deserving" (both in the sense of being qualified for the job, as well as the humanitarian sense, as you're more likely to mean): the only difference being [roughly] the disparity in the cost of living, which allows the company to pay fewer real dollars in salary.
I'm not going to go so far as to say that this is immoral, but surely you can concede that morality has nothing to do with capitalism (as your question, does, in effect, relate to morality).
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Greed is part of human nature. in a communist society for instance, whoever distributes the rations will probably take a much larger amount for himself. The strength in capitalism lies in the fact that it uses greed for good.
I really don't see how it uses it for "good", and you sure don't back it up with logic. I'm not a proponent of communism or socialism, but just like the communist organizers will and do apportion themselves much more in terms of resources, what do you think big business executives do? It's all an old boys' network of white collared men patting themselves on the back and similarly apportioning themselves a much, much larger portion of resources than their consumers.
Point me to the big difference, and I'll be on my way, thanks.
The reason the sequencing functionality is rarely used on Tritons in the studio is that you have to put up with that tiny little display to use that functionality. As someone else said, this is pretty much a PC in a nice grey box, and thus I'd imagine that since most people do their sequencing on a desktop machine with a desktop-sized display, the neko wil have a niche right away.
Oh yah and the 15" LCD (admitedly not all that impressive but still. . . .(
A 15" LCD on a laptop: Been there.
A 15" Touchscreen LCD on a MIDI keyboard workstation: HOLY SHIT.
Have you ever used a Korg Triton? Its display is 1 color and maybe 5".
no, no, no.
There *is* more than a snowball's chance in hell here. If you read the topic, it says label would pay the PUBLISHER, not the artist. I'm not sure exactly how that all works, or even if that's right, but if you look on a cd, you'll see something along the lines of "All songs published by SomethingSomething/BMI." Where BMI is one of a few publishing houses.
Holy crap, you stole the crap out of my name!
The headline says "system", not "operating system". His point was that Sun has a knack for putting together state-of-the-art servers, even though the UltraSPARCs may not be best in show. Operating system is part of that, but this troll doesn't even know what he's trolling.
IDIOT.
THIS IS NOT A QUESTION IT IS A FACT. The RIAA is FILING LAWSUITS for COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT, NOT STEALING. The only part of their campaign that says STEALING is the public relations part. People LIKE YOU tend not to know the meaning or implication of COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, and seem to think that somehow stealing is worse. It's a completely psychological thing. I don't know why you're telling people that copyright infringement is WORSE than STEALING, infringement is a MUCH greater crime in the eyes of the civil court.
Uhh...as an amateur musician myself, I have to question what you mean by "not like the stuff you usually hear on MTV". Are you suggesting that everyone that releases a cd just remixes old jazz records? I'm not even sure how to take that. "Real" music is quite subjective, and just because something released doesn't have the complexity of a Baroque fugue certainly does note mean that it's not "real". That being said, a lot of music that comes out on major labels _does_ take a lot of time and effort. The difference in album turnaround time is simply that: these people *do* do this for a living, and can afford to put 10+ hours a day into recording; these people have the resources to rent out [or simply use their label's] high-class studios with very expensive gear for weeks at a time; and they're working with producers and engineers who devote their lives producing music, and have recorded many, many artists and albums.
Hi! I notice you haven't bought contraceptives in the past couple weeks.
My boyfriend broke up with me, you insensitive clod! *sob sob*