In many parts of the country (most anyplace outside major metropolitan areas) it's the ONLY Place to buy music. Some notable artists (who I'm too lazy to google for right now, but I think Nirvana was one) agreed to doing "clean" versions of their albums specifically so their fans in those areas could still buy the album.
Offtopic, but most of the 'undecided' voters that CNN interviewed after the Presidential debates turned out to be members of the campus Young Republicans hacking the media.
Re:The long tail is already here
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Apparently I wasn't explicit enough when I wrote "It's Wilco. It's Radiohead. It's the Roots. It's thousands of artists you've never heard of and likely never will.". Perhaps I should have made that last sentence "Not only those, but also thousands of artists" etc etc.
But just out of curiosity, you might try polling all of the people you know under 30 or over 45 and see how many have heard of Radiohead or Wilco or the Roots. Outside of the serious music fans, I'm willing to bet less than 20% have.
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The long tail resonates with me in a way that makes me think this is the future of entertainment. And it should be. If you want to see the salvation of the music industry, it is not DRM or 'the next big thing'. It's Wilco. It's Radiohead. It's the Roots. It's thousands of artists you've never heard of and likely never will.
Back in college I was a record collector. I would spend hours upon hours trolling every used record store in the Bay Area looking for obscure items on my 'must have' list. Whenever I visited a new city, I would always try to hit some used stores, regardless of the weather or the character of the neighborhoods they may be located in. I also spent nearly as much time in used book stores looking for anything that struck me as interesting at the time. Over the course of the years and several cross country moves I've shed most of the books and all of the vinyl. My cd collection has plummeted from several thousand down to a few hundred. And yet I now have access to more literature and music than ever.
I've been using iTunes for over a year now, and I've bought more music in the past 6 months through iTunes than in the entire 3 years prior to the release of iTunes. I don't spend much time listening to whatever is on the top 40 charts. Most of the artists I like live in the long tail. They are often even names you might know, but they are not chart toppers. They won't go platinum, but they'll still make money. I worked at a used CD store in Colorado for a while, and the owner there understood the long tail even though he didn't understand it as such. When people were selling us CDs he would just look at the titles and be able to tell you what it was worth without even looking it up on the computer. Here's a tip for you: you can always get top dollar for a Frank Zappa CD.
It appears that Radio Shack has learned their lesson. Last time I was in there the 'manager' (or that's what it said on his name tag) didn't ask me for anything other than method of payment. It was the best experience I've ever had in one of their stores.
Um, the debate is OS centric because that's the core of a computer system. Without it, the rest is pretty useless.
Realize that any current distro of any importance has fast GUI's (more than one of them, unlike Windows) and built in support for CD burning and DVD burning (unlike my Windows box at work that intermittently decides that it doesn't recognize CDRWs until I've rebooted twice).
You clearly haven't used linux in a few years if you thing that ugly fonts and hardware issues are still the norm.
Quite right you are. Moore even said in all his interviews that of course the movie is biased, the facts were all facts, and they were framed by his opinions.
They already have one in that price range. It's called the eMac. My wife has been using one for over a year doing professional audio production and is thrilled with it.
For a minute I was afraid the story was about the "programming language" Cold Fusion, which Macromedia seems to have killed. Complain all you want about Flash/Shockwave, but I will be eternally grateful to MM if they really have done away with CF once and for all.
"who in the United States does *not* already equate RedHat with Linux?"
Oh, just the tens of millions of people who don't work in technology. And the millions of IT people who are just clocking time to retirement and are still running Windows 98 even though program C for a living. So, really only about 80% of the public has never even heard of Linux. And I say this as an avid linux fan and user (Windows free for four years and counting).
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I don't think that's necessarily true. I started learning with DOS 6.22 and was a Win user exclusively until 1999. I finally got so sick of dealing with Windows shortcomings I started using Linux and found it much easier to use. My wife switched from Win to Mac in 2002 and has never looked back, and she is about as non-technical a user as you'll ever find.
I agree that it can be tough to change for some people, but for others it's not a problem at all. And if the new OS is easier to use than the old one, people will adapt fairly quickly.
I've been using GAIM on XP at work for 4 months now. It has had a total of one problem, when Yahoo changed protocols to screw third party IM clients. Downloaded the new version of GAIM less than 24 hours later and it worked fine.
I have encountered zero bugs with GAIM, which I consider very unusual for anything running on Windows.
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I don't know about fans, but some hip-hop artists have incredibly diverse tastes in music. Next time Cribs is on take a look at the CD collection of the hip hop stars. Everything from classic R&B to jazz to 80's metal to country (both old and new) to the most obscure eurotrash art scene music. That's how the good ones keep their music fresh.
Zappa also described (and IIRC started working on a patent for) a music delivery system that functions much like the elusive Video On Demand. He assumed (this was the mid 80's) that the consumers would select whatever music they want through their TV, it would transfer over cable along with the album art/liner notes/whatever else that they could view while listening to the music, and they would be billed monthly for the service.
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Well, average reimage time at the gov't agency I'm at is 3 days. That varies, though. Gave them a laptop in March, got it back in June.
OS reloads take longer, because you've got anywhere from 2-5 days before you get the box back, and then usually a whole day reinstalling all your tools and apps that aren't part of the Common Computing Environment build (IBM Websphere Studio, for example, which takes 2+ hours to install on a 2Ghz P4 with 1G of RAM).
All machines run here run AV software and are updated nightly and have "scan on access" set (and users are not local admins, so they can't undo it).
In spite of all that, we still get virus infections on occassion. I would estimate our average machine downtime in the group I'm in as 5 days/year, however.
Having just bought the boxed Personl Edition 9.1 (dammit), I feel fairly safe saying that this 1 cd ISO is the same as the boxed CD. The Personal box contains 2 cds, a live cd and an install cd. A pretty full featured installation with only 1CD, as well.
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Neither of whom is his father, and that is the connection that Stern was citing as why he has the job he does.
In many parts of the country (most anyplace outside major metropolitan areas) it's the ONLY Place to buy music. Some notable artists (who I'm too lazy to google for right now, but I think Nirvana was one) agreed to doing "clean" versions of their albums specifically so their fans in those areas could still buy the album.
Offtopic, but most of the 'undecided' voters that CNN interviewed after the Presidential debates turned out to be members of the campus Young Republicans hacking the media.
Apparently I wasn't explicit enough when I wrote
"It's Wilco. It's Radiohead. It's the Roots. It's thousands of artists you've never heard of and likely never will.". Perhaps I should have made that last sentence "Not only those, but also thousands of artists" etc etc.
But just out of curiosity, you might try polling all of the people you know under 30 or over 45 and see how many have heard of Radiohead or Wilco or the Roots. Outside of the serious music fans, I'm willing to bet less than 20% have.
The long tail resonates with me in a way that makes me think this is the future of entertainment. And it should be. If you want to see the salvation of the music industry, it is not DRM or 'the next big thing'. It's Wilco. It's Radiohead. It's the Roots. It's thousands of artists you've never heard of and likely never will.
Back in college I was a record collector. I would spend hours upon hours trolling every used record store in the Bay Area looking for obscure items on my 'must have' list. Whenever I visited a new city, I would always try to hit some used stores, regardless of the weather or the character of the neighborhoods they may be located in. I also spent nearly as much time in used book stores looking for anything that struck me as interesting at the time. Over the course of the years and several cross country moves I've shed most of the books and all of the vinyl. My cd collection has plummeted from several thousand down to a few hundred. And yet I now have access to more literature and music than ever.
I've been using iTunes for over a year now, and I've bought more music in the past 6 months through iTunes than in the entire 3 years prior to the release of iTunes. I don't spend much time listening to whatever is on the top 40 charts. Most of the artists I like live in the long tail. They are often even names you might know, but they are not chart toppers. They won't go platinum, but they'll still make money. I worked at a used CD store in Colorado for a while, and the owner there understood the long tail even though he didn't understand it as such. When people were selling us CDs he would just look at the titles and be able to tell you what it was worth without even looking it up on the computer. Here's a tip for you: you can always get top dollar for a Frank Zappa CD.
Already posted on my blog, but what the hell.
It appears that Radio Shack has learned their lesson. Last time I was in there the 'manager' (or that's what it said on his name tag) didn't ask me for anything other than method of payment. It was the best experience I've ever had in one of their stores.
Um, the debate is OS centric because that's the core of a computer system. Without it, the rest is pretty useless.
Realize that any current distro of any importance has fast GUI's (more than one of them, unlike Windows) and built in support for CD burning and DVD burning (unlike my Windows box at work that intermittently decides that it doesn't recognize CDRWs until I've rebooted twice).
You clearly haven't used linux in a few years if you thing that ugly fonts and hardware issues are still the norm.
As the saying goes
"Steal a hundred dollars and you're a crook, steal a hundred thousand and you're a banker."
Occam's Razor? What the hell are you talkin' 'bout, boy? I use a Gillette, myself. And what does all that have to do with computers anyhow?
Quite right you are. Moore even said in all his interviews that of course the movie is biased, the facts were all facts, and they were framed by his opinions.
They already have one in that price range. It's called the eMac. My wife has been using one for over a year doing professional audio production and is thrilled with it.
For a minute I was afraid the story was about the "programming language" Cold Fusion, which Macromedia seems to have killed. Complain all you want about Flash/Shockwave, but I will be eternally grateful to MM if they really have done away with CF once and for all.
Actually, the US is a Republic that uses Representative Democracy as it's political system. If you're going to pick nits, expect to get picked back ;)
"who in the United States does *not* already equate RedHat with Linux?"
Oh, just the tens of millions of people who don't work in technology. And the millions of IT people who are just clocking time to retirement and are still running Windows 98 even though program C for a living. So, really only about 80% of the public has never even heard of Linux. And I say this as an avid linux fan and user (Windows free for four years and counting).
I don't think that's necessarily true. I started learning with DOS 6.22 and was a Win user exclusively until 1999. I finally got so sick of dealing with Windows shortcomings I started using Linux and found it much easier to use. My wife switched from Win to Mac in 2002 and has never looked back, and she is about as non-technical a user as you'll ever find.
I agree that it can be tough to change for some people, but for others it's not a problem at all. And if the new OS is easier to use than the old one, people will adapt fairly quickly.
I've been using GAIM on XP at work for 4 months now. It has had a total of one problem, when Yahoo changed protocols to screw third party IM clients. Downloaded the new version of GAIM less than 24 hours later and it worked fine.
I have encountered zero bugs with GAIM, which I consider very unusual for anything running on Windows.
I don't know about fans, but some hip-hop artists have incredibly diverse tastes in music. Next time Cribs is on take a look at the CD collection of the hip hop stars. Everything from classic R&B to jazz to 80's metal to country (both old and new) to the most obscure eurotrash art scene music. That's how the good ones keep their music fresh.
Zappa also described (and IIRC started working on a patent for) a music delivery system that functions much like the elusive Video On Demand. He assumed (this was the mid 80's) that the consumers would select whatever music they want through their TV, it would transfer over cable along with the album art/liner notes/whatever else that they could view while listening to the music, and they would be billed monthly for the service.
I have a 6 month old daughter.
A friend of mine said yesterday that he woke up at 4.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. I simply replied "As a parent, I can only say 'Screw you'."
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Well, average reimage time at the gov't agency I'm at is 3 days. That varies, though. Gave them a laptop in March, got it back in June.
OS reloads take longer, because you've got anywhere from 2-5 days before you get the box back, and then usually a whole day reinstalling all your tools and apps that aren't part of the Common Computing Environment build (IBM Websphere Studio, for example, which takes 2+ hours to install on a 2Ghz P4 with 1G of RAM).
All machines run here run AV software and are updated nightly and have "scan on access" set (and users are not local admins, so they can't undo it).
In spite of all that, we still get virus infections on occassion. I would estimate our average machine downtime in the group I'm in as 5 days/year, however.
Sony has several retail stores around the world.
Having just bought the boxed Personl Edition 9.1 (dammit), I feel fairly safe saying that this 1 cd ISO is the same as the boxed CD. The Personal box contains 2 cds, a live cd and an install cd. A pretty full featured installation with only 1CD, as well.
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If MSFT could provide those in any consistent manner, I would consider them an option. Until then, it's not even worth discussing.
Arguable. Most of the people I work with have to reboot about once a week. While that's not terrible, it's still not great.