The greatest fear of the record companies with on line music is that they will miss the ability to control what you hear. They don't want you to hear a lot of different music. Diversity is their enemy.
The math is simple, from Capitalism 101: The profits are bigger if you sell a million copies from one artist, than 100 thousand from 10 artists. That's why they spend so much money with payola: you can't even know that there's music out there that can bring you happiness, joy, spleen, sadness, that can heal you, that's beauty and colorful. You will just be able hear the lastest poor pop-rock hit that's playing in the radio. Napster isn't a monster because it allows you to download any music for free, but because it allows you to download NEW music, songs that they don't control.
The entry barrier is to forbid anyone (that's not their big corportation partner) to help you choose find new music you may like.
This is quite different when said consumer is a true music enthusiast, who often favor a few small productions houses with more specialized acts
The music from the record companies are all the same. They just invest in a half-dozen genres (see Grammy most important categories), each one with similar products. The small labels are different. I've already bought CDs just because they are from a small label I know that has high quality among their criteria.
The big labels don't want diversity, they want you to hear always the same crap. Crap that can be substituted with the next fashion.
Wait till some musics start to be released just on line. Yes, it will be that kind of music that won't sell a million of copies and which the target consumer is an well educated one, with lot of computer gadjets (think jazz and techno). The record companies won't have the distribution costs and can even charge more from you. It will be too late to complain.
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Postfix users mail list is also very good. Wietse Venema himself answers a lot of questions. I'm using postfix for years and never needed a book.
Sites about the same topic have a lot of link between them. If you register everybody whos in your referrer log, all this network of sites will be more relevant to searches.
They don t say that having unpopular sites give you no ranking, they just say that as more popular the site that links to you, more ranking you ll have.
I agree. Usability teachers should give their students a open source application to test. Why spend time testing something you can't influence? Testing Gnome or KDE they would have chance to see their suggestions approved by the developers. Which other OS could be influenced this way?
Is there any site that mantains a pool of open-source projects that want to be reviewd?
No. The problem is that the government still should define what is terrorism. You can have thousands of examples. The USA never gave a Visa to anyone that belonged to a comunist party, even the democratic ones as the from France and Italy. Martin Luther King was investigated due to anti-american activities. They would investigate anyone that has contrary opinions to the american government.
OS2 Warp always had an excellent DOS support. You could tweak every option to make your DOS program compatible. It was more compatible than Windows! If a program breaks in a new Windows version it's a software problem, it it breaks in a no application OS, it's the OS problem.
I've just changed my email program to Kmail, KDE mail program. It has a great feature, the ability to bounce emails. I have a public email, every time someone put me in a public mailling list of jokes or something like that, I bounce the message and they think the email is invalid.
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The greatest fear of the record companies with on line music is that they will miss the ability to control what you hear. They don't want you to hear a lot of different music. Diversity is their enemy.
The math is simple, from Capitalism 101: The profits are bigger if you sell a million copies from one artist, than 100 thousand from 10 artists. That's why they spend so much money with payola: you can't even know that there's music out there that can bring you happiness, joy, spleen, sadness, that can heal you, that's beauty and colorful. You will just be able hear the lastest poor pop-rock hit that's playing in the radio. Napster isn't a monster because it allows you to download any music for free, but because it allows you to download NEW music, songs that they don't control.
The entry barrier is to forbid anyone (that's not their big corportation partner) to help you choose find new music you may like.
The music from the record companies are all the same. They just invest in a half-dozen genres (see Grammy most important categories), each one with similar products. The small labels are different. I've already bought CDs just because they are from a small label I know that has high quality among their criteria. The big labels don't want diversity, they want you to hear always the same crap. Crap that can be substituted with the next fashion.
Wait till some musics start to be released just on line. Yes, it will be that kind of music that won't sell a million of copies and which the target consumer is an well educated one, with lot of computer gadjets (think jazz and techno). The record companies won't have the distribution costs and can even charge more from you. It will be too late to complain.
Postfix users mail list is also very good. Wietse Venema himself answers a lot of questions. I'm using postfix for years and never needed a book.
Sites about the same topic have a lot of link between them. If you register everybody whos in your referrer log, all this network of sites will be more relevant to searches. They don t say that having unpopular sites give you no ranking, they just say that as more popular the site that links to you, more ranking you ll have.
If it were not for the poor mexicans, who would do the dishes?
I agree. Usability teachers should give their students a open source application to test. Why spend time testing something you can't influence? Testing Gnome or KDE they would have chance to see their suggestions approved by the developers. Which other OS could be influenced this way? Is there any site that mantains a pool of open-source projects that want to be reviewd?
No. The problem is that the government still should define what is terrorism. You can have thousands of examples. The USA never gave a Visa to anyone that belonged to a comunist party, even the democratic ones as the from France and Italy. Martin Luther King was investigated due to anti-american activities. They would investigate anyone that has contrary opinions to the american government.
OS2 Warp always had an excellent DOS support. You could tweak every option to make your DOS program compatible. It was more compatible than Windows! If a program breaks in a new Windows version it's a software problem, it it breaks in a no application OS, it's the OS problem.
I've just changed my email program to Kmail, KDE mail program. It has a great feature, the ability to bounce emails. I have a public email, every time someone put me in a public mailling list of jokes or something like that, I bounce the message and they think the email is invalid.