Agreed.
I bagged the whole "professional musician" bit a long time ago because I refused to suck the corporate c..K and was sick of starving to death and making our own tapes and cd's in the basement.
Musicians have been around for how many thousand years ? And they have traditionally been payed to show up at your castle or event and play. Only in this century have musicians actually made money (???) off their "art" by actually selling their (souls) music.
I agree - free music distro on the internet is the only answer and will save us from producer-driven pig-vomnit like N'Sync. I'm still an avid and active musician, I just distro for free and hopefully get gigs whenever possible.
(now that I have a job to back me up, I can say that - I couldn't about 5 years ago and I do indeed empathize woth musicians trying to make a profession out of it.
I've bought Black Sabbath Vol. 4 no less than 4 times in my life. At least 3 on LP (cause they wear out) and once on CD. I used to think this was OK because Sabbath (in whatever lineup) was getting the cash. As I've gotten older I've learned that they are getting much less, actually nothing from resale on their music (see the article by Steve Albini that was posted on/. here )
This is the same for all the Zappa and other music I've re-bought on CD. What to do ?
Would you rather spring the cash for re-buys or have your name/id/muscial prefs tracked by a record company ?
BTW - if you think M$ is evil (and I agree) ask any entertainment lawyer (who you're sure will be honest with you) how thoroughly, completely and consistently record labels rape 9999 out of 10000 bands they work with. I know, I was in the biz for a while.
Get a turntable and record from LP to CD. That's what I do. I do it for my own use and I don't redistribute. Screw record companies and copyright. The bands don't get anything out of it anyway. And especially screw Metallicorp !
While I can't say I'm exactly unhappy with the last 8 years I think the best vote this year is to vote ALL the bums out. I'm not going to tout the abilities of any candidate, and any non-Rep or non-Dem candidate would have one HELL of a time getting anything done in office . . .
A vote for Nader, Brown or Buchanan (The devil himself) is an attempt to rattle the cage and that's a great idea.
Offended and amused by Bush ? Wary of Gore and more of the same polished promises? Vote for somebody else.
What does this say about the cards? If 3DFX was to come out on top in this suit, would NVIDIA have to issue a truncated version of their drivers discluding the parts in question ? The reason I switched to nNVIDIA from 3dfx was that 3dfx's Linux support was questionable and performance was not nearly as high as my friends using NVIDIA cards. I hope this doesn't change.
Now that StarOffice has been open-sourced, will anybody split up all the apps into discrete applications ? Meaning, I like the SO spreadsheet and word processsor but I hate that open-the-whole-stupid-desktop just to run either. I'd like to be able to run JUST the spreadsheet or JUST the word processor, not that whole foofy desktop.
PS - I use Applixware, I'm just wondering if this concern is shared by anybody else.
JB
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Agreed. I bagged the whole "professional musician" bit a long time ago because I refused to suck the corporate c..K and was sick of starving to death and making our own tapes and cd's in the basement.
Musicians have been around for how many thousand years ? And they have traditionally been payed to show up at your castle or event and play. Only in this century have musicians actually made money (???) off their "art" by actually selling their (souls) music.
I agree - free music distro on the internet is the only answer and will save us from producer-driven pig-vomnit like N'Sync. I'm still an avid and active musician, I just distro for free and hopefully get gigs whenever possible.
(now that I have a job to back me up, I can say that - I couldn't about 5 years ago and I do indeed empathize woth musicians trying to make a profession out of it.
I've bought Black Sabbath Vol. 4 no less than 4 times in my life. At least 3 on LP (cause they wear out) and once on CD. I used to think this was OK because Sabbath (in whatever lineup) was getting the cash. As I've gotten older I've learned that they are getting much less, actually nothing from resale on their music (see the article by Steve Albini that was posted on /. here )
This is the same for all the Zappa and other music I've re-bought on CD. What to do ?
Would you rather spring the cash for re-buys or have your name/id/muscial prefs tracked by a record company ? BTW - if you think M$ is evil (and I agree) ask any entertainment lawyer (who you're sure will be honest with you) how thoroughly, completely and consistently record labels rape 9999 out of 10000 bands they work with. I know, I was in the biz for a while. Get a turntable and record from LP to CD. That's what I do. I do it for my own use and I don't redistribute. Screw record companies and copyright. The bands don't get anything out of it anyway. And especially screw Metallicorp !
just my 2 pfennig
While I can't say I'm exactly unhappy with the last 8 years I think the best vote this year is to vote ALL the bums out. I'm not going to tout the abilities of any candidate, and any non-Rep or non-Dem candidate would have one HELL of a time getting anything done in office . . .
A vote for Nader, Brown or Buchanan (The devil himself) is an attempt to rattle the cage and that's a great idea.
Offended and amused by Bush ? Wary of Gore and more of the same polished promises? Vote for somebody else.
Vote the bums out - just f*****g vote !
JB
What does this say about the cards? If 3DFX was to come out on top in this suit, would NVIDIA have to issue a truncated version of their drivers discluding the parts in question ? The reason I switched to nNVIDIA from 3dfx was that 3dfx's Linux support was questionable and performance was not nearly as high as my friends using NVIDIA cards. I hope this doesn't change.
JB
Now that StarOffice has been open-sourced, will anybody split up all the apps into discrete applications ? Meaning, I like the SO spreadsheet and word processsor but I hate that open-the-whole-stupid-desktop just to run either. I'd like to be able to run JUST the spreadsheet or JUST the word processor, not that whole foofy desktop. PS - I use Applixware, I'm just wondering if this concern is shared by anybody else. JB