The answer is none Record companies do not produce music. They loan artists money, and take that money back out of the artists' piddling percentage of the profits.
Before you start listing anything, remember that the artist makes the music, and the artist pays for the music to be recorded out of his/her own profits, and that the only material support the record company provides is a loan-sharking service that ensures that the artist is an indentured servant for most of his/her career.
The record company's contribution equals jack shit at the end of the day. They don't write the music. They don't perform it. They neither record the music, nor do they pay for it to be recorded. They are artistically and financially irrelevant to the process. Their only contribution is to loan money and control the artist's career.
For 5-6 years, Symantec has been selling software which was potentially compromised.
This does not surprise me. Symantec is the shit-king of shit software.
And, like many others here, I certainly threw all my weight into helping get that crap outta MY house several years ago. In fact, I personally headed up and executed our Windows XP rollout several years back to get rid of Win2k, and a major selling point in my cost-benefit analysis was dumping PCAnywhere, and all of the headaches, security holes, and bullshit with RDP and Remote Assistance.
What I unfortunately didn't count on was how slowly the business would move . . . but we are moving in the right direction, even if it has taken 5 years to get there.
I'm a bass player. For years, it's been common that high-quality expensive gear is made in the US, and cheap knockoffs overseas.
Now, Apple has re-defined that. They will gouge your eyes out for high-quality (if you believe their absurd marketing schemes, that is) hardware that is still made overseas.
$13 billion in profits is probably not entirely derived from short-changing their American workforce (who seriously believes those things can't be made here -- I don't) and adding to the already bursting trade deficit.
I guess I shouldn't complain, though. In America, the land of milk and honey, it's now considered fortunate to have a shitty McJob. God forbid the middle class could afford the fruits of their own labor.
They come in a few different types, last I checked.
Last I checked, the law of gravity worked the same no matter what you are made of. A hammer made out of feathers is just as heavy as a hammer made out of the same mass of metal.
And it falls at the same rate.
Nuking asteroids is stupidity. No, I do not think you understand what the fuck you are talking about at all. This isn't a cartoon.
believe we have a limited chance of detecting an asteroid before it comes too close to use a nuke.
I'm not sure you understand the issue. A nuke won't actually make an asteroid disappear in a ball of flame. This is not an episode of Star Wars where you fly through the debris of your kill. This is reality, where detonating an asteroid with a nuclear bomb just turns it into millions of pounds of rocks and dust that will hit the earth anyway. As it is the dust that will kill the whole planet's ecosystem, a nuke is the opposite of the right idea.
This is the society that in the last decade has discovered thousands of extrasolar planets. If we can't find and catalogue all of the near-earth threats in time to do something sane about them, we've got huge problems. The issue is not of technological capability. It is one of simple fucking priorities.
I think the nuke idea came from Edward Teller, who was basically a pyromaniac given a government grant.
He was just jazzed to blow up things, and applying gigantic nuclear explosions to meteorites would have given him jack-off material for the rest of his life.
Of course I think he's dead now, so we can do something that a sane person would.
I am not sure how religious bigotry proves your thesis that government is inherently illegal.
Howeer, as I often say to people who hate government (usually for no coherent reason), you are welcome to try the alternative. It's called feudalism, and it will develop wherever nobody is in charge.
Ignoring this is retarded, and it is what stupid fucking people without a real education do.
They don't "feel entitled", each company knows that if they don't take all the advantages China's manufacturing offers, someone else will and undercut them.
I love how you exaggerate the hell out of the position you don't like until it's so fucking silly it is irrelevant. This is called making up a strawman and then burning him down with a fucking nuclear bomb. But it doesn't convince me that shit-ass McJobs are an acceptable employment solution for Americans, nor that we should be happy with what we have.
I think the most pathetic thing any American can say is "well, just be thankful you have a job." Really, that's not exactly a ringing fucking endorsement of the American way of life.
They reduced the number of hours we could bank. It used to be 220. Now it's down to 160. I have worked there 17 years so I earn a whole PTO day every 2 weeks.
So I take my fucking time to keep it down under 160. Fortunately, I don't get a lot of flak for that.
However, I did have to come in to work on my vacation in December. That sucked ass . . . we are so understaffed that basically only one of us can be an expert on any given area. We don't have time to properly cross-train, and every time someone leaves, they eliminate the position instead of replacing the worker.
I'm hoping that as the job market recovers I can get the fuck out of here. I've reached the point where I think the company is starting to peak and is now going downhill. Management is starting to make stupid, panicky decisions. And the company has started repeatedly walking back promised comp time and raises. After promising them.
If we can ever get employment back up (meaning if we can ever get the stupid Tea Party fucks out of the way and get the economy to actually grow) I think a lot of American employers will be in a very strange position that they haven't had to deal with for a couple of decades -- the employer's market.
But first, we've got to stop practicing supply-side economics. It's cancer for the workers (and frankly for the customers as well).
Of course, this used to be Norton's, which was also CRAP.
I installed Norton Tools on my Win95 box back in the day. Went to defrag the disk and it did this really, really, dumb thing. It defragged the FAT first, and then it started to actually move the files around.
When the program shot itself in the head about halfway through, and crashed the whole system, it came back up unbootable.
I realized then that Peter Norton sucks RANCID ASS at software design. Symantec seems to be continuing that tradition of SUCKING RANCID ASS at software design.
All in all, I will never EVER buy any of that half-baked, kindergarten-grade, fuck-off lazy SHIT SYMANTEC SOFTWARE again.
And I strongly recommend anyone else stay away from it like it is the fucking Ebola virus.
Actually in this article it was a double-blind test, and not even the players could tell which was which. Most of them when asked which of the violins they'd take home, chose one that had been manufactured three days before.
I guess the point is a $2500 violin could easily sound just the same as a $100 violin. With that much money on the line . . . .
I would rather be a machine made out of non-biological components
I'm sorry. I would rather enjoy the biological thrills of existence. You can't program an orgasm, or a laugh, or the thrill of looking down into a 1,200 foot chasm beneath your feet.
Lucas really needed an story editor who could stand up to him.
I remember reading that at Lucasfilm George is referred to in hushed tones of awe. The feigned reverence for him that everyone gives off means that criticism is impossible. Which explains why the prequels are so full of incredibly bad ideas.
I watch the prequels to see the world of Star Wars properly rendered with the best technology, but they can't hold a candle to the first two films, which were the best. I had the experience years ago, before the prequels were done, of watching the first three movies sequentially in a theater. It was after sitting through the first five hours of this experience that I realized that Return of the Jedi was a terrible film and looked awful next to the other two -- even as it was evident they had more money to spend. But by then Lucas had split from the Director's Guild, and he had that awful schmuck directing who did a perfectly ham-fisted job of it. And the story of ROTJ was in large scale identical to the story of the original. Started on Tatooine with two robots, picked up Han, moved on to the big battle, blow up yet another Death Star, everybody cheers. There was not much introduced in ROTJ that was different or new except the damn Ewoks, who were for the kids.
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Well, if only a few people are killing themselves things must be OK, then. Thank God. I was worried for a minute.
The answer is none Record companies do not produce music. They loan artists money, and take that money back out of the artists' piddling percentage of the profits.
What music does the record company produce?
Before you start listing anything, remember that the artist makes the music, and the artist pays for the music to be recorded out of his/her own profits, and that the only material support the record company provides is a loan-sharking service that ensures that the artist is an indentured servant for most of his/her career.
The record company's contribution equals jack shit at the end of the day. They don't write the music. They don't perform it. They neither record the music, nor do they pay for it to be recorded. They are artistically and financially irrelevant to the process. Their only contribution is to loan money and control the artist's career.
The invalidity of which you are apparently incapable of grasping.
This does not surprise me. Symantec is the shit-king of shit software.
And, like many others here, I certainly threw all my weight into helping get that crap outta MY house several years ago. In fact, I personally headed up and executed our Windows XP rollout several years back to get rid of Win2k, and a major selling point in my cost-benefit analysis was dumping PCAnywhere, and all of the headaches, security holes, and bullshit with RDP and Remote Assistance.
What I unfortunately didn't count on was how slowly the business would move . . . but we are moving in the right direction, even if it has taken 5 years to get there.
Courtesy of outsourcing manufacturing to China.
I'm a bass player. For years, it's been common that high-quality expensive gear is made in the US, and cheap knockoffs overseas.
Now, Apple has re-defined that. They will gouge your eyes out for high-quality (if you believe their absurd marketing schemes, that is) hardware that is still made overseas.
$13 billion in profits is probably not entirely derived from short-changing their American workforce (who seriously believes those things can't be made here -- I don't) and adding to the already bursting trade deficit.
I guess I shouldn't complain, though. In America, the land of milk and honey, it's now considered fortunate to have a shitty McJob. God forbid the middle class could afford the fruits of their own labor.
Could they have just manufactured the iPhone in the USA?
Is that crazy?
I thought I saw "banks using phone use to gouge"
And I said -- this is news?
Last I checked, the law of gravity worked the same no matter what you are made of. A hammer made out of feathers is just as heavy as a hammer made out of the same mass of metal.
And it falls at the same rate.
Nuking asteroids is stupidity. No, I do not think you understand what the fuck you are talking about at all. This isn't a cartoon.
I'm not sure you understand the issue. A nuke won't actually make an asteroid disappear in a ball of flame. This is not an episode of Star Wars where you fly through the debris of your kill. This is reality, where detonating an asteroid with a nuclear bomb just turns it into millions of pounds of rocks and dust that will hit the earth anyway. As it is the dust that will kill the whole planet's ecosystem, a nuke is the opposite of the right idea.
This is the society that in the last decade has discovered thousands of extrasolar planets. If we can't find and catalogue all of the near-earth threats in time to do something sane about them, we've got huge problems. The issue is not of technological capability. It is one of simple fucking priorities.
I think the nuke idea came from Edward Teller, who was basically a pyromaniac given a government grant.
He was just jazzed to blow up things, and applying gigantic nuclear explosions to meteorites would have given him jack-off material for the rest of his life.
Of course I think he's dead now, so we can do something that a sane person would.
I am not sure how religious bigotry proves your thesis that government is inherently illegal.
Howeer, as I often say to people who hate government (usually for no coherent reason), you are welcome to try the alternative. It's called feudalism, and it will develop wherever nobody is in charge.
Ignoring this is retarded, and it is what stupid fucking people without a real education do.
Such self-serving bullshit.
Dear Lord. "Suicide nets aren't all that bad, mmmkay?"
It is mind-boggling the depths to which people will delve to excuse bullshit like this. MIND BOGGLING.
I love how you exaggerate the hell out of the position you don't like until it's so fucking silly it is irrelevant. This is called making up a strawman and then burning him down with a fucking nuclear bomb. But it doesn't convince me that shit-ass McJobs are an acceptable employment solution for Americans, nor that we should be happy with what we have.
I think the most pathetic thing any American can say is "well, just be thankful you have a job." Really, that's not exactly a ringing fucking endorsement of the American way of life.
Shut up, Mitt.
They reduced the number of hours we could bank. It used to be 220. Now it's down to 160. I have worked there 17 years so I earn a whole PTO day every 2 weeks.
So I take my fucking time to keep it down under 160. Fortunately, I don't get a lot of flak for that.
However, I did have to come in to work on my vacation in December. That sucked ass . . . we are so understaffed that basically only one of us can be an expert on any given area. We don't have time to properly cross-train, and every time someone leaves, they eliminate the position instead of replacing the worker.
I'm hoping that as the job market recovers I can get the fuck out of here. I've reached the point where I think the company is starting to peak and is now going downhill. Management is starting to make stupid, panicky decisions. And the company has started repeatedly walking back promised comp time and raises. After promising them.
If we can ever get employment back up (meaning if we can ever get the stupid Tea Party fucks out of the way and get the economy to actually grow) I think a lot of American employers will be in a very strange position that they haven't had to deal with for a couple of decades -- the employer's market.
But first, we've got to stop practicing supply-side economics. It's cancer for the workers (and frankly for the customers as well).
Of course, this used to be Norton's, which was also CRAP.
I installed Norton Tools on my Win95 box back in the day. Went to defrag the disk and it did this really, really, dumb thing. It defragged the FAT first, and then it started to actually move the files around.
When the program shot itself in the head about halfway through, and crashed the whole system, it came back up unbootable.
I realized then that Peter Norton sucks RANCID ASS at software design. Symantec seems to be continuing that tradition of SUCKING RANCID ASS at software design.
All in all, I will never EVER buy any of that half-baked, kindergarten-grade, fuck-off lazy SHIT SYMANTEC SOFTWARE again.
And I strongly recommend anyone else stay away from it like it is the fucking Ebola virus.
You must be new here. Companies NEVER play fair like that.
Guys, I read the whole trilogy at age 9. Then again at 10. 11. 12. I read it once a year for a decade, more or less.
It's really a good book. I've read thousands. Very few works of literature compare to it at all. Depth, intensity . . . it's some gerat stuff.
Wow. Why don't you go back to school? Instead of complaining that you don't understand a phrase that is undoubtedly hundreds of years old.
Actually in this article it was a double-blind test, and not even the players could tell which was which. Most of them when asked which of the violins they'd take home, chose one that had been manufactured three days before.
I guess the point is a $2500 violin could easily sound just the same as a $100 violin. With that much money on the line . . . .
In a double-blind test, even experienced violinists and violin makers cannot reliably identify the sound of a Stradivarius over a newly-made violin.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/01/02/violinists-can%E2%80%99t-tell-the-difference-between-stradivarius-violins-and-new-ones/
I'm sorry. I would rather enjoy the biological thrills of existence. You can't program an orgasm, or a laugh, or the thrill of looking down into a 1,200 foot chasm beneath your feet.
I remember reading that at Lucasfilm George is referred to in hushed tones of awe. The feigned reverence for him that everyone gives off means that criticism is impossible. Which explains why the prequels are so full of incredibly bad ideas.
I watch the prequels to see the world of Star Wars properly rendered with the best technology, but they can't hold a candle to the first two films, which were the best. I had the experience years ago, before the prequels were done, of watching the first three movies sequentially in a theater. It was after sitting through the first five hours of this experience that I realized that Return of the Jedi was a terrible film and looked awful next to the other two -- even as it was evident they had more money to spend. But by then Lucas had split from the Director's Guild, and he had that awful schmuck directing who did a perfectly ham-fisted job of it. And the story of ROTJ was in large scale identical to the story of the original. Started on Tatooine with two robots, picked up Han, moved on to the big battle, blow up yet another Death Star, everybody cheers. There was not much introduced in ROTJ that was different or new except the damn Ewoks, who were for the kids.