It is official; Netcraft confirms: music in South Korea is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered South music Korean community when IDC confirmed that South Korean music market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all other entertainment. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that music in South Korea has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. music in South Korea is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Pop Star comprehensive stardom contest.
You don't need to be a Slashdotter to predict South Korea's musical future. The hand writing is on the wall: music in South Korea faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for music in South Korea because music in South Korea is dying. Things are looking very bad for music in South Korea. As many of us are already aware, music in South Korea continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Pop Music is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its sexy singers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Pop Star developers Hon Chi Ko and Pom Pom Fo only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Pop Music is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Disco Pop Star Koo states that there are merely 7000 listeners of Disco. How many users of Rock are there? Let's see. The number of Rock versus Disco songs on the radio is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 listeners of Rock. Other genre songs on Usenet are about half of the volume of Rock songs. Therefore there are about 700 listeners of alternative music. A recent article put South Korean chick flick Disco at about 80 percent of the music in the South Korean market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 music listeners. This is consistent with the number of songs on the radio.
Due to the troubles at Pyonyong, political instability, abysmal sales and so on, Disco Music went out of business and was taken over by eminent American pop-stars such as the well endowed Britney Spears, who tries to sell what is called "american pop trash". Now American Pop is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that music in South Korea has steadily declined in market share. music in South Korea is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If music in South Korea is to survive at all it will be among dilettante entertainment dabblers. music in South Korea continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, music in South Korea is dead.
That is WHY we need good crypto -- if we ever hope of having true freedom of speech, crypto is the key.
You might be interested in this - Meta-Net. There's a lot of these networks out there and they are growing. And there are people out there who realize that it is important to do this before it's too late.
If you're looking for a bag that does not at all look like a notebook bag, I'd suggest one of the samsonite backpacks that double up for carrying notebooks.
They have two compartments, one for the notebook and one for other things. It's really comfortable, easy to carry around and very weildy. I travel a lot, too, and it's been really great.
It's been more than a year since I got mine, and it's in top notch condition. Very highly recommended.
Happened to a friend once outside a club. She had kept her stuff in the trunk before entering the club, and just took her id and her wallet. Someone had seen her do this, and when she came back everything was lost.
It's probably a better idea to put things in your trunk beforehand and then go wherever the hell you're going. You can try making sure that there's nobody around, but I'm sure that the guys who do this sort of thing are probably very organized and will keep subtle watch.
Better yet, don't carry things unless you absolutely have to.
Hmm, actually from what I heard, the proposal wasn't suggesting that it would all be made free.
Merely that the contents that could be made free would be, the rest would be up for a price (based on what you need) -- something like a huge searchable database, where you pay for what you access.
I can't bother looking for it, but I think it's more likely that is the case. Especially considering the point that you brought up.
Yeah, and when the worm goes around, they'll get hold of some poor perky teenager from Germany who was just trying to show off his 7337 skills to his friends and haul his ass for a few million dollars.
While the real culprits who are behind these things for reasons of greed get by unscathed, with a few hundred thousand dollars of hike for the "brilliant idea" that some PHB came up with.
We could go on and on about this, but I'll just say this - the medical community in general is quite biased against the way research is often presented in this particular area.
From the same page you linked in the first article, they contradict themselves in the sections 4.23 and 4.24. FYI, speaking from personal experience, there _is_ no withdrawal symptoms. And in the cases where people choked on your own vomit, they were most likely under the influence of either alchohol or other chemicals.
And the second article still does not say anything conclusive -
While all of the long-term effects of marijuana use are not yet known...
t is hard to find out whether marijuana alone causes cancer because many people who smoke marijuana also smoke cigarettes and use other drugs...
It is not certain whether marijuana damages the immune system of people...
People who smoke marijuana regularly may develop many of the same breathing problems that tobacco smokers have...
Doctors advise pregnant women not to use any drugs because they might harm the growing fetus...
I do not see *anything* that says, "Cannabis has been conclusively known to cause Foo" - hmm, sounds more like carefully worded propaganda than anything else, to me.
I know people who've used it for differing amounts of time, and _all_ of them show differing degrees of damage: from general dim-wittedness, to shaking hands. To top all this is the social cost.
Funny, I know people who've used it for differing amounts of time, and some of them also happen to have won such things as the Nobel Prize. I think between that and shaky hands, they'd choose shaky hands any day. I do agree that Marijuana may cause motor problems, but then again so does coffee.
*shrug*
But then ofcourse, this is more of an opinion based argument than anything else, so we both could go on ad infinitum:-)
And my family _is_ from Shimla. So I say this as a stakeholder: if dope is one of the things attracting you there, stay away!
I used to live in Jammu. More than anything it's the weather that attracts me to that part of India, in generla. But lately, it's quite sad that tourism and other problems have destroyed the place:-/
Release a product out in the open, let people hack up everything they can that is possible and merely observe and tweak the product without breaking it (come on, "it's in Beta" argument).
And once the product is reasonably stable, release it as a proper version with all the features and viola! You won't be breaking the system for a while, you've eliminated a large number of potential hacks such as this one and your system is already widely adopted.
Personally, that's the idea of Beta, and I'm happy that there is atleast *one* company out there who hold true to that principle.
I meant that as a funny comment, but I *am* (originally) from India. And well, Shimla is a nice place but that helps too.
*shrug*
#begin rant
Don't destroy yourself smoking dope.
Well, that's true for just about everything isn't it? Alchohol, smoking, even coffee. But that's a very generic statement to make. Smoking dope != destroying yourselves, and I'm sure you're aware of quite a few counter-examples to your point.
Besides, generalizing marijuana under the rest of the dope is not quite fair -- there is a reason it is legal in some countries. Not to mention that even Hinduism and several ancient texts mention people smoking pot (hell, bhang is still taken in sweets during certain festivals).
Maybe I'll show you a couple of relevant points from Wikipedia on Cannabis -
No fatal overdose due to cannabis use has ever been recorded in humans.
Although it may become habitual, the use of cannabis does not result in physical dependence.
There is little decisive scientific evidence about long-term psychological, neurological, and cognitive effects of cannabis use. Many old studies which purported to demonstrate such effects were deeply flawed, with strong bias and poor methodology.
It's got far more positives than negatives -- it would help if people did not have preconceived notions on Cannabis being evil yada yada yada:-/
The problem with Microsoft is that they're so stuck up that they simply do not know HOW to comply with standards.
Last week, I had asked the designer of my company to come up with a new logo - and he had it out as a transparent PNG. And guess what? IE does not support Alpha channel in PNGs. So no transparency. D'oh!
Ofcourse, Microsoft's website had a long-winded solution of detecting the browser and using a DirectX object tag and what not to get IE to render the PNG. Huh?
And oh, someone on one of Microsoft's forums had commented that "we" Opensource evangelists should stop trying to invent new things and stick to older formats like GIF. What a dumbass. GIF supports just 256 colours, and if you want rich transparency at an economic size, PNG is the way to go. But no, MS won't let that by now, will they?
I'm largely technology agnostic, but it is this kind of attitude that really really puts me of. And being a corporate entity, we cannot afford to say, to hell with all IE users.
And now with AOL teaming up with IE, it just seems more stupid than ever. Sheesh, two companies that have absolutely no respect for standards or compliance with a bad trackrecord of trying to stifle innovation. Should be fun.
Well, in that case, certifications would indeed be useful. You could try talking to the contractors and ask them what market is likely to be good, and what not -- usually, they've a pretty good idea of these things.
Like another poster mentioned somewhere, SAP is another area that seems to be forever in need of people. You could try that, and you could get in touch with other contractors, who may be able to help you out in this regard.
And another thing I've noticed in contractor based jobs is that you would need to beef up your resume -- a lot of times, good people with non-jazzed up resumes get rejected. You may want to keep that in mind -- sadly, it's an industry where you would need to sell yourself, if you know what I mean.
What's wrong in getting a certification from another place?
Hell, I've gotten my certifications for various things in physics from places across the world -- simply because it gives me an opportunity to travel, and it helps me get another perspective of things.
It's an experience. If anything, you should be glad that the candidate is willing to go to various places, learn, and adapt. Not to mention the familiarity with new places.
Just out of curiosity, _you_ have not given me a reason - why NOT?
It's not like am committing a crime -- I chose to go to another place -- why do you expect me to provide me any justification other than, "simply because I wanted to"?
Raman Spectroscopy refers to a spectroscopic analysis method for condensed matter based on Raman Scattering, which was by put forward by Sir CV Raman, a pioneering Indian physicist in optics and a Nobel Laureate. Incidentally, his nephew also Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar also won the Nobel Prize for work related to Black Holes.
And oh, Raman's work also explained why the sky is blue, incidentally:-)
Most people forget that shorcuts are short-term positives and long term negatives.
While a PhD may take time, it's worth its weight in gold. However, then again getting into something like a PhD is quite pointless if you are not interested in the subject to begin with.
Or perhaps you mean the Indian Capital of New Delhi?
Anyway, I would say just this -- get a degree. A degree is infinitely better than any certifications that you may take. While certifications are nice things to have, a degree speaks a whole lot more.
If you have one, work on a master's part time. Much better than wasting money on these things.
But that's just me. And personally, when I hire, I do not look for either of these -- degrees or certifications -- but rather technical skill and talent. Things like Opensource projects and other kinds of experience plays a bigger role than either of those.
But ofcourse, you may come across PHBs who think otherwise. At which point it becomes a call of judgement.
That, and the fact that my operators change based on where I'm, if I've roaming.
For instance, my cellphone is registered to T-mobile in Atlanta, but when I'm in Los Alamos, it changes to Cingular. So, that would mean that not only should they correlate, they would also have to know which user is using what provider at that moment, and where.
Given the animosity between these guys, I don't see that happening any time soon:-/
Slashdot Mirror
No no!! That is *not* the way to go about it.
Here, let me show you, child.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: music in South Korea is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered South music Korean community when IDC confirmed that South Korean music market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all other entertainment. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that music in South Korea has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. music in South Korea is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Pop Star comprehensive stardom contest.
You don't need to be a Slashdotter to predict South Korea's musical future. The hand writing is on the wall: music in South Korea faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for music in South Korea because music in South Korea is dying. Things are looking very bad for music in South Korea. As many of us are already aware, music in South Korea continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Pop Music is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its sexy singers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Pop Star developers Hon Chi Ko and Pom Pom Fo only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Pop Music is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Disco Pop Star Koo states that there are merely 7000 listeners of Disco. How many users of Rock are there? Let's see. The number of Rock versus Disco songs on the radio is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 listeners of Rock. Other genre songs on Usenet are about half of the volume of Rock songs. Therefore there are about 700 listeners of alternative music. A recent article put South Korean chick flick Disco at about 80 percent of the music in the South Korean market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 music listeners. This is consistent with the number of songs on the radio.
Due to the troubles at Pyonyong, political instability, abysmal sales and so on, Disco Music went out of business and was taken over by eminent American pop-stars such as the well endowed Britney Spears, who tries to sell what is called "american pop trash". Now American Pop is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that music in South Korea has steadily declined in market share. music in South Korea is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If music in South Korea is to survive at all it will be among dilettante entertainment dabblers. music in South Korea continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, music in South Korea is dead.
Fact: music in South Korea is dying
(blatantly stolen from an AC *BSD troll)
Not as long as we have good crypto.
That is WHY we need good crypto -- if we ever hope of having true freedom of speech, crypto is the key.
You might be interested in this - Meta-Net. There's a lot of these networks out there and they are growing. And there are people out there who realize that it is important to do this before it's too late.
Welcome to paranoia, albeit justified.
If you're looking for a bag that does not at all look like a notebook bag, I'd suggest one of the samsonite backpacks that double up for carrying notebooks.
You can get one off eBay for about $25.
They have two compartments, one for the notebook and one for other things. It's really comfortable, easy to carry around and very weildy. I travel a lot, too, and it's been really great.
It's been more than a year since I got mine, and it's in top notch condition. Very highly recommended.
Happened to a friend once outside a club. She had kept her stuff in the trunk before entering the club, and just took her id and her wallet. Someone had seen her do this, and when she came back everything was lost.
It's probably a better idea to put things in your trunk beforehand and then go wherever the hell you're going. You can try making sure that there's nobody around, but I'm sure that the guys who do this sort of thing are probably very organized and will keep subtle watch.
Better yet, don't carry things unless you absolutely have to.
Do not take that tone with me, Dave.
Do you hear me?
Hmm, actually from what I heard, the proposal wasn't suggesting that it would all be made free.
Merely that the contents that could be made free would be, the rest would be up for a price (based on what you need) -- something like a huge searchable database, where you pay for what you access.
I can't bother looking for it, but I think it's more likely that is the case. Especially considering the point that you brought up.
Yeah, and when the worm goes around, they'll get hold of some poor perky teenager from Germany who was just trying to show off his 7337 skills to his friends and haul his ass for a few million dollars.
While the real culprits who are behind these things for reasons of greed get by unscathed, with a few hundred thousand dollars of hike for the "brilliant idea" that some PHB came up with.
Eh. Welcome to corporate Amerika!
Jamie, you're right -- it does seem to be a Moz. renderer bug rather than a Slashcode one.
It seems to render fine on MSIE 6.0, however both Moz. 1.7.3 and Firefox 1.0 seem to freak out.
Should probably submit it to Bugzilla sometime.
I seem to have found a Slashdot bug.
Foo bar.
Something
Something more
Is this still Italic? Yup it is.
Strange, the following code causes Slashcode to get foobared -
From the same page you linked in the first article, they contradict themselves in the sections 4.23 and 4.24. FYI, speaking from personal experience, there _is_ no withdrawal symptoms. And in the cases where people choked on your own vomit, they were most likely under the influence of either alchohol or other chemicals.
And the second article still does not say anything conclusive -
While all of the long-term effects of marijuana use are not yet known...
t is hard to find out whether marijuana alone causes cancer because many people who smoke marijuana also smoke cigarettes and use other drugs...
It is not certain whether marijuana damages the immune system of people...
People who smoke marijuana regularly may develop many of the same breathing problems that tobacco smokers have...
Doctors advise pregnant women not to use any drugs because they might harm the growing fetus...
:-)
:-/
I do not see *anything* that says, "Cannabis has been conclusively known to cause Foo" - hmm, sounds more like carefully worded propaganda than anything else, to me.
I know people who've used it for differing amounts of time, and _all_ of them show differing degrees of damage: from general dim-wittedness, to shaking hands. To top all this is the social cost.
Funny, I know people who've used it for differing amounts of time, and some of them also happen to have won such things as the Nobel Prize. I think between that and shaky hands, they'd choose shaky hands any day. I do agree that Marijuana may cause motor problems, but then again so does coffee.
*shrug*
But then ofcourse, this is more of an opinion based argument than anything else, so we both could go on ad infinitum
And my family _is_ from Shimla. So I say this as a stakeholder: if dope is one of the things attracting you there, stay away!
I used to live in Jammu. More than anything it's the weather that attracts me to that part of India, in generla. But lately, it's quite sad that tourism and other problems have destroyed the place
Well, *most* probably, but not necessarily ;) Know what I mean? Neither do I.
Well, that's the idea isn't it?
And Google is doing a brilliant job of it, IMHO.
Release a product out in the open, let people hack up everything they can that is possible and merely observe and tweak the product without breaking it (come on, "it's in Beta" argument).
And once the product is reasonably stable, release it as a proper version with all the features and viola! You won't be breaking the system for a while, you've eliminated a large number of potential hacks such as this one and your system is already widely adopted.
Personally, that's the idea of Beta, and I'm happy that there is atleast *one* company out there who hold true to that principle.
*shrug*
#begin rant
Don't destroy yourself smoking dope.
Well, that's true for just about everything isn't it? Alchohol, smoking, even coffee. But that's a very generic statement to make. Smoking dope != destroying yourselves, and I'm sure you're aware of quite a few counter-examples to your point.
Besides, generalizing marijuana under the rest of the dope is not quite fair -- there is a reason it is legal in some countries. Not to mention that even Hinduism and several ancient texts mention people smoking pot (hell, bhang is still taken in sweets during certain festivals).
Maybe I'll show you a couple of relevant points from Wikipedia on Cannabis -
No fatal overdose due to cannabis use has ever been recorded in humans.
Although it may become habitual, the use of cannabis does not result in physical dependence.
There is little decisive scientific evidence about long-term psychological, neurological, and cognitive effects of cannabis use. Many old studies which purported to demonstrate such effects were deeply flawed, with strong bias and poor methodology.
:-/
It's got far more positives than negatives -- it would help if people did not have preconceived notions on Cannabis being evil yada yada yada
#end rant
Agreed.
The problem with Microsoft is that they're so stuck up that they simply do not know HOW to comply with standards.
Last week, I had asked the designer of my company to come up with a new logo - and he had it out as a transparent PNG. And guess what? IE does not support Alpha channel in PNGs. So no transparency. D'oh!
Ofcourse, Microsoft's website had a long-winded solution of detecting the browser and using a DirectX object tag and what not to get IE to render the PNG. Huh?
And oh, someone on one of Microsoft's forums had commented that "we" Opensource evangelists should stop trying to invent new things and stick to older formats like GIF. What a dumbass. GIF supports just 256 colours, and if you want rich transparency at an economic size, PNG is the way to go. But no, MS won't let that by now, will they?
I'm largely technology agnostic, but it is this kind of attitude that really really puts me of. And being a corporate entity, we cannot afford to say, to hell with all IE users.
And now with AOL teaming up with IE, it just seems more stupid than ever. Sheesh, two companies that have absolutely no respect for standards or compliance with a bad trackrecord of trying to stifle innovation. Should be fun.
Well, I usually tell them that I'm leaving the country.
That works like a charm everytime, and they just can't argue against that now can they?
Ofcourse, I had a bad experience once when the guy wanted to know *why* I was leaving the country.
Ehmmm.
Do you know what's funny?
Microsoft killed Netscape, and AOL gobbled it up. And out of which, Mozilla was born.
Now Mozilla has come back to bite IE in the ass -- Firefox is simply the best browser out there.
And now, AOL is teaming up with Microsoft, at a time when IE's marketshare is definitely receding.
Who says there isn't justice? It's almost poetic.
Well, in that case, certifications would indeed be useful. You could try talking to the contractors and ask them what market is likely to be good, and what not -- usually, they've a pretty good idea of these things.
Like another poster mentioned somewhere, SAP is another area that seems to be forever in need of people. You could try that, and you could get in touch with other contractors, who may be able to help you out in this regard.
And another thing I've noticed in contractor based jobs is that you would need to beef up your resume -- a lot of times, good people with non-jazzed up resumes get rejected. You may want to keep that in mind -- sadly, it's an industry where you would need to sell yourself, if you know what I mean.
Goodluck!
What's wrong in getting a certification from another place?
Hell, I've gotten my certifications for various things in physics from places across the world -- simply because it gives me an opportunity to travel, and it helps me get another perspective of things.
It's an experience. If anything, you should be glad that the candidate is willing to go to various places, learn, and adapt. Not to mention the familiarity with new places.
Just out of curiosity, _you_ have not given me a reason - why NOT?
It's not like am committing a crime -- I chose to go to another place -- why do you expect me to provide me any justification other than, "simply because I wanted to"?
Dude, we all know that Shimla is much better for other reasons. ;-)
Raman Spectroscopy refers to a spectroscopic analysis method for condensed matter based on Raman Scattering, which was by put forward by Sir CV Raman, a pioneering Indian physicist in optics and a Nobel Laureate. Incidentally, his nephew also Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar also won the Nobel Prize for work related to Black Holes.
:-)
And oh, Raman's work also explained why the sky is blue, incidentally
*That* was a beautiful comment. Summed up the irony of the groupthink quite well.
Hats off, mate!
Yup, agreed.
Most people forget that shorcuts are short-term positives and long term negatives.
While a PhD may take time, it's worth its weight in gold. However, then again getting into something like a PhD is quite pointless if you are not interested in the subject to begin with.
Or perhaps you mean the Indian Capital of New Delhi?
Anyway, I would say just this -- get a degree. A degree is infinitely better than any certifications that you may take. While certifications are nice things to have, a degree speaks a whole lot more.
If you have one, work on a master's part time. Much better than wasting money on these things.
But that's just me. And personally, when I hire, I do not look for either of these -- degrees or certifications -- but rather technical skill and talent. Things like Opensource projects and other kinds of experience plays a bigger role than either of those.
But ofcourse, you may come across PHBs who think otherwise. At which point it becomes a call of judgement.
I do not know if you meant to be funny or simply didn't get it, but I think he meant Thai. Consider the phonetics, too.
True.
:-/
That, and the fact that my operators change based on where I'm, if I've roaming.
For instance, my cellphone is registered to T-mobile in Atlanta, but when I'm in Los Alamos, it changes to Cingular. So, that would mean that not only should they correlate, they would also have to know which user is using what provider at that moment, and where.
Given the animosity between these guys, I don't see that happening any time soon