Adding all the links to the article like this makes it read like suck.com. Now we know how suck.com has been doing it - with futuristic microsoft technology.
It is a conincidence that they went on "vacation" before news of this broke? hmmm . . .
also check out swift-generator - also perl based. Quite possibly the coolest.swf based tool of all.
- daniel
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then you get the best of both worlds.
Everyone can always use more math. Once you get to the end of the Calculus tunnel, you realize they are just teaching you how to think - something every good programmer needs to know. - daniel
the US has been taxing DATs since 1992.
Read all about it here. CD-Rs that are sold for home music recording are also taxed.
The whole thing is pretty stupid, because you can buy computer grade DATs and use them as audio DATs . The computer DATs are actually better quality tape, and cost much less (tax not included).
The money collected goes into some giant fund, but has yet to be paid out to any artists, and when it is paid out only the artists that have sold the most units will be paid.
are there any movies released that are not part of the MPAA? are there any studios not part of the MPAA? How much does it take to join and what are the requirements? Anyone want to start a movie studio?
For all this to come true, we need to recruit more than just programmers to open source.
How many open source projects have you downloaded and installed only to find ugly/unusable interfaces? We need to start recruiting artist to design/redesign projects so that average people will want to use them. The code can be a clean and elegant as possible, but without a good interface, the project will never fly in the general public
We also need to recruit DBS's to look the database schemas for projects. Programmers don't necessarily know how to set up a database, and often going back and redesigning it requires a complete rewrite, so it just doesn't happen.
There should be a point in every open source project where someone sits down and designs a decent interface and the DBA take a look at the db. Maybe Sourceforge can take up cause, and hire a few for just that purpose. It would greatly speed up the acceptance of open source projects. - daniel
I'm not trying to troll. My point is that if I am going to pay for music, I want the uncompressed version so that I can do anything I want with it - bandwith limitation aside.
The other point is that the the RIAA is somehow ok with compressed audio if payed for, but would go ape shit over uncompressed audio. Why? Becuase I can use the uncompressed audio for whatever I want. the compressed has to be used for what it was compressed for (ie mp3). sure you can uncompress it, but it sounds like crap.
If I have to pay to download a song, I want the full 44.1K or 96K version. the mp3's should be the free "preview" version.
In fact, If I am paying for the song, I want.aiff,.wav,.mp3,.mp4,.ra,.qt, and whatever else.version I could possibly ever need. More importantly, I should be able to download them when I need them, not just once.
But the record labels would never give in selling the full uncompressed version other than on the CD's. Screw 'em. If they want me to pay for it, I want the compressed version! Accept no substitutes. - daniel
why doesn't Napster themselves start up a micropayment schema? You download the song, they know who you are, and have your CC#, along with all your billing info, and you have an open account.
They can keep track of all your downloads, and bill you at the end of the month.
Napster can then pay the record label, the publishers, the managers, the producers, the laywers, the street promotion team, the direct radio promotion staff, and, in some rare cases, the artists.
They could turn themselves into something similar to the Harry Fox Agency. - daniel
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Part of the agreement is to turn in your log files to BMI/ASACP so they can pay the songwriters/publishers. The philosphy is to treat the downloads as public performances - much like radio.
You have to be the song writer (not just a member of the band) to collect publishing money. The money is paid out half to the writers and half to the publishing company. Anyone can be their own publishing company. - daniel
the Baptist Death Ray pages on Listensmart.com, Mp3.com, MusicBuilder.com, Riffage.com, and Garageband.com
These are the new record labels, and they are ripping off artists just like the old record labels. They want musicians to post songs to their sites, and keep ALL the income the generated. It's just a matter of time before they start buying physical record labels. Oh, wait. AOL already did that.
They all offer to sell musicians CD's, but no one is buying them. Plus, the musicians have to create pages at all the sites. Upload their songs over and over again. Re-type all their bios, etc. What a waste of time, not to mention doing self-promotion on all the sites, keeping track of all the message boards, multiple mailing lists, etc.
The best way for the musicians is the keep their mp3's on their own site where they can control the content and look and feel of the pages, keep track of downloads, and run one mailing list. Then have the new record labels link no them - and NOT deep link directly to the mp3 files. The band can then set up a system for micro payments if people like the music they download, and put banner ads on all the pages.
I certainly hope the first order of business is to integrate subselects and stored procedures. Dealing with MySQL without these two is amazingly annoying, and cuts down on the ability to port code from other Datbases.
Now if we can just get all the open source developers out there to learn how to set up database architecture, we'll be all set. - daniel
I ordered DSL on January 12. I finally got it working May 12. Everything that could have gone wrong, did. It's was quite amazing, and after the fourth month I became determined that hell was not going to freeze over before I got my damn link.
The original install date was 5 weeks after my order was placed. fine. I am in So Cal, and everyone and their dog spot wants DSL. Pac Bell shows up 2 days early to verify the line. The D-mark (it you want DSL, you MUST know where your D-mark is) is in my garage so I need to be home for any work to be done on the line. Thankfully I was home when Pac Bell showed up early. They verified the line, all was good, and the next day I got a e-mail from Covad saying Pac Bell would be there the next day. Whatever.
Covad shows up on the appropriate day to verify the inside wiring, and hook up the modem. I turned OFF my Linux box, so they wouldn't freak out and say they don't support that. Advice to others - take no chances with the install people. Covad hooks up the modem and installs some cables, and viola, no link. damn.
He goes off to the Central Office and I never hear from him again. Next day I call Qwest (ISP) to find out what the deal is. The e-mail Covad my question and cc: me. Now I have my Qwest tracking number and Covad tracking number. These are very very important numbers, I used them often.
Every day for the next month I call Covad with my tracking number to find out any progress. I managed to escalate my trouble ticket to "Red" status. Only ISP's can do this, but since I had all my tracking numbers and was always very nice to people on the phone, they hooked me up. I also got the direct line for the So Cal dispatch for Covad. I started to call them directly to schedule appts. Covad comes out three more times and Pac Bell comes out twice more, and they blame each other for the lack on link. One of the Covad installers checks the wrong box on his form, and cancels my order. dammit, beavis. I found this out the next time I call Covad, and they tell me my order was cancelled and only an ISP can re-instated it.
So I fire off an e-mail to everyone from Pac Bell, Covad and Qwest who every sent me anything - about 15 names total. Looks like one of them was a supervisor, because I got an appointment scheduled quickly (but no order new order # for Covad)
Time for a vendor meet.
Scheduling conflicts all around, and another month passes by. Finally, the day of the vendor meet in is early May. Klaus from Covad shows up early to inspect inside wiring and the modem. Turned out the modem has been fried due to Pac Bells testing. Klaus tells me he is in charge of Covad's LA installs and only get involved on the 3rd attempt, and 75% of the installs go without a hitch. The other 25% are pure hell. He also blames the breakup for AT&T for all their current problems, and mutters something about poor documentation, equipment installed improperly, or not at all. Klaus hates pre breakup AT&T. Klaus also configured my modem improperly.
Pac Bell changes the appt. to later in the day and Klaus has to leave, but he sends one of his proteges out to make sure it all works. He and the Pac Bell guy spend all day here and at the central office upgrading equipment. Two days later I have link. wow.
One last problem, the info I originally got from Qwest with my ISP addresses, subnet, etc was wrong, so two more days on the phone to Qwest I finally get the correct info, reconfigure my modem and now it all works. - daniel
Seagrams owns the Universal Music Group which owns these record labels:
A&M Records Farm Club Geffen Records Interscope Records Island Def Jam Music Group MCA Nashville MCA Records Mercury Nashville Verve Music Group Universal Classics Universal/Motown Records Group Universal Music Enterprises
I'm wondering if anyone assciated with either movie ever bothered to watch the TV series. Jim, Roland, Barney, and crew could do anything, and they did it with style, stelth and intelligence. This is just more Hollywood pap not worthy of the MI name. I refuse to see any MI movie that doesn't have the theme song in 5. Lalo where are you? The best thing that can come of this movie is FX putting the tv series back into rotation again. - daniel
MP3.com has stated that it will pay all artists on the performances of their music. Songwriters already get paid this way by radio stations. In the digital space records earn performance royalties as well.
I'll belive it when I see it. They sent out a record bag to everyone already. big deal. They are making TONS of money because of all the musicians that are putting mp3s on their site, but they aren't compensating the same musicians. And they shouldn't compensate just the top 1%, but ALL of them.
Song writers get paid through BMI and ASCAP for "performances" of their songs, and the payoff goes to the songwriters, not the bands. In any event, the amount of money per artist is minuscule for a new artist. No way anyone can eeek a living off of BMI royalties unless there is a large corporation backing you. - daniel
With all this nonsense going on between the RIAA and the mp3 folks, how will the artists be able to make a living at making music?
The future is mp3 and other digital transfers of music, this is obvious, but how will any artists that don't have the RIAA or other such organization behind them actually be able to make a living at creating music with the rampant piracy of copyrighted music getting more and more out of control?
I don't see how any new artists will be able to make money. I don't see how small independent labels will be able to survive. I don't see any monetary incentive for new artists to try to make a living at music. It costs enough money just to get started (instruments, equipment, studio costs, etc), being able to re-coup those costs seems impossible if no one ever pays for your music.
The end result of this will be that only the most bland, sellable artists will be able to make a living because they are the ones that the large labels can afford to push (high probability of sellability). All the other artists willing to take a risk are out of luck.
We are destroying the possibility of artist in the future to be able to make a living doing what they really want to do by stealing their livelihood away from them.
We used to have a Flash intro screen on our site. We even won Macromedia's Site of the Day. Most of the user feedback we got from users was about the Flash Intro - it was actually turning lots of people away.
Now, the first thing I do when I see a Flash Intro is look for the "skip intro" button, or hit the back button as fast as possible.
Flash can be a very usefull tool when used properly, and a time soaking intro is not a proper use. Sites start to loose eyeballs if everything isn't loaded in 5 seconds, so what on earth makes anyone thing that a 30 second intro is going to do any good. - daniel
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It is a conincidence that they went on "vacation" before news of this broke? hmmm . . .
- daniel
wireless RAID 0 for an entire dorm building. Just think of the possibilites!
- daniel
http://www.php.net/manual/ref.swf.php.
also check out swift-generator - also perl based. Quite possibly the coolest .swf based tool of all.
- daniel
Everyone can always use more math. Once you get to the end of the Calculus tunnel, you realize they are just teaching you how to think - something every good programmer needs to know.
- daniel
do only top level domain's count, or does guiness.really.fuckingsucks.net count as well?
- daniel
Stack the deck with a bunch of anti-patent software engineers, and plug all the holes from the inside.
You know you want to use the "Denied" stamp on anything requesting a software patent.
- daniel
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mywebj/
If you don't like the new mp3.com contracts, or if you think mp3.com won't be able to recover, then help out on the project and start your own server.
- daniel
free money for the labels, but since this isn't from the sale of records, it won't go to the artists, and they will get fucked yet again.
- daniel
The whole thing is pretty stupid, because you can buy computer grade DATs and use them as audio DATs . The computer DATs are actually better quality tape, and cost much less (tax not included).
The money collected goes into some giant fund, but has yet to be paid out to any artists, and when it is paid out only the artists that have sold the most units will be paid.
- daniel
are there any movies released that are not part of the MPAA? are there any studios not part of the MPAA? How much does it take to join and what are the requirements? Anyone want to start a movie studio?
it is time to get to know our enemy. . . . .
- daniel
How many open source projects have you downloaded and installed only to find ugly/unusable interfaces? We need to start recruiting artist to design/redesign projects so that average people will want to use them. The code can be a clean and elegant as possible, but without a good interface, the project will never fly in the general public
We also need to recruit DBS's to look the database schemas for projects. Programmers don't necessarily know how to set up a database, and often going back and redesigning it requires a complete rewrite, so it just doesn't happen.
There should be a point in every open source project where someone sits down and designs a decent interface and the DBA take a look at the db. Maybe Sourceforge can take up cause, and hire a few for just that purpose. It would greatly speed up the acceptance of open source projects.
- daniel
The other point is that the the RIAA is somehow ok with compressed audio if payed for, but would go ape shit over uncompressed audio. Why? Becuase I can use the uncompressed audio for whatever I want. the compressed has to be used for what it was compressed for (ie mp3). sure you can uncompress it, but it sounds like crap.
- daniel
In fact, If I am paying for the song, I want .aiff, .wav, .mp3, .mp4, .ra, .qt, and whatever else .version I could possibly ever need. More importantly, I should be able to download them when I need them, not just once.
But the record labels would never give in selling the full uncompressed version other than on the CD's. Screw 'em. If they want me to pay for it, I want the compressed version! Accept no substitutes.
- daniel
They can keep track of all your downloads, and bill you at the end of the month.
Napster can then pay the record label, the publishers, the managers, the producers, the laywers, the street promotion team, the direct radio promotion staff, and, in some rare cases, the artists.
They could turn themselves into something similar to the Harry Fox Agency.
- daniel
BMI and ASACP are already all over this.
http://www.bmi.com/iama/webcast er/au tomated/index.asp
Part of the agreement is to turn in your log files to BMI/ASACP so they can pay the songwriters/publishers. The philosphy is to treat the downloads as public performances - much like radio.
- daniel
Here is how BMI is collecting money for published songs:
You have to be the song writer (not just a member of the band) to collect publishing money. The money is paid out half to the writers and half to the publishing company. Anyone can be their own publishing company.
- daniel
the Baptist Death Ray pages on Listensmart.com, Mp3.com, MusicBuilder.com, Riffage.com, and Garageband.com
These are the new record labels, and they are ripping off artists just like the old record labels. They want musicians to post songs to their sites, and keep ALL the income the generated. It's just a matter of time before they start buying physical record labels. Oh, wait. AOL already did that.
They all offer to sell musicians CD's, but no one is buying them. Plus, the musicians have to create pages at all the sites. Upload their songs over and over again. Re-type all their bios, etc. What a waste of time, not to mention doing self-promotion on all the sites, keeping track of all the message boards, multiple mailing lists, etc.
The best way for the musicians is the keep their mp3's on their own site where they can control the content and look and feel of the pages, keep track of downloads, and run one mailing list. Then have the new record labels link no them - and NOT deep link directly to the mp3 files. The band can then set up a system for micro payments if people like the music they download, and put banner ads on all the pages.
- daniel
Now if we can just get all the open source developers out there to learn how to set up database architecture, we'll be all set.
- daniel
I ordered DSL on January 12. I finally got it working May 12. Everything that could have gone wrong, did. It's was quite amazing, and after the fourth month I became determined that hell was not going to freeze over before I got my damn link.
The original install date was 5 weeks after my order was placed. fine. I am in So Cal, and everyone and their dog spot wants DSL. Pac Bell shows up 2 days early to verify the line. The D-mark (it you want DSL, you MUST know where your D-mark is) is in my garage so I need to be home for any work to be done on the line. Thankfully I was home when Pac Bell showed up early. They verified the line, all was good, and the next day I got a e-mail from Covad saying Pac Bell would be there the next day. Whatever.
Covad shows up on the appropriate day to verify the inside wiring, and hook up the modem. I turned OFF my Linux box, so they wouldn't freak out and say they don't support that. Advice to others - take no chances with the install people. Covad hooks up the modem and installs some cables, and viola, no link. damn.
He goes off to the Central Office and I never hear from him again. Next day I call Qwest (ISP) to find out what the deal is. The e-mail Covad my question and cc: me. Now I have my Qwest tracking number and Covad tracking number. These are very very important numbers, I used them often.
Every day for the next month I call Covad with my tracking number to find out any progress. I managed to escalate my trouble ticket to "Red" status. Only ISP's can do this, but since I had all my tracking numbers and was always very nice to people on the phone, they hooked me up. I also got the direct line for the So Cal dispatch for Covad. I started to call them directly to schedule appts. Covad comes out three more times and Pac Bell comes out twice more, and they blame each other for the lack on link. One of the Covad installers checks the wrong box on his form, and cancels my order. dammit, beavis. I found this out the next time I call Covad, and they tell me my order was cancelled and only an ISP can re-instated it.
So I fire off an e-mail to everyone from Pac Bell, Covad and Qwest who every sent me anything - about 15 names total. Looks like one of them was a supervisor, because I got an appointment scheduled quickly (but no order new order # for Covad)
Time for a vendor meet.
Scheduling conflicts all around, and another month passes by. Finally, the day of the vendor meet in is early May. Klaus from Covad shows up early to inspect inside wiring and the modem. Turned out the modem has been fried due to Pac Bells testing. Klaus tells me he is in charge of Covad's LA installs and only get involved on the 3rd attempt, and 75% of the installs go without a hitch. The other 25% are pure hell. He also blames the breakup for AT&T for all their current problems, and mutters something about poor documentation, equipment installed improperly, or not at all. Klaus hates pre breakup AT&T. Klaus also configured my modem improperly.
Pac Bell changes the appt. to later in the day and Klaus has to leave, but he sends one of his proteges out to make sure it all works. He and the Pac Bell guy spend all day here and at the central office upgrading equipment. Two days later I have link. wow.
One last problem, the info I originally got from Qwest with my ISP addresses, subnet, etc was wrong, so two more days on the phone to Qwest I finally get the correct info, reconfigure my modem and now it all works.
- daniel
Seagrams owns the Universal Music Group which owns these record labels:
A&M Records
Farm Club
Geffen Records
Interscope Records
Island Def Jam Music Group
MCA Nashville
MCA Records
Mercury Nashville
Verve Music Group
Universal Classics
Universal/Motown Records Group
Universal Music Enterprises
- daniel
I'm wondering if anyone assciated with either movie ever bothered to watch the TV series. Jim, Roland, Barney, and crew could do anything, and they did it with style, stelth and intelligence. This is just more Hollywood pap not worthy of the MI name. I refuse to see any MI movie that doesn't have the theme song in 5. Lalo where are you? The best thing that can come of this movie is FX putting the tv series back into rotation again.
- daniel
I'll belive it when I see it. They sent out a record bag to everyone already. big deal. They are making TONS of money because of all the musicians that are putting mp3s on their site, but they aren't compensating the same musicians. And they shouldn't compensate just the top 1%, but ALL of them.
Song writers get paid through BMI and ASCAP for "performances" of their songs, and the payoff goes to the songwriters, not the bands. In any event, the amount of money per artist is minuscule for a new artist. No way anyone can eeek a living off of BMI royalties unless there is a large corporation backing you.
- daniel
The future is mp3 and other digital transfers of music, this is obvious, but how will any artists that don't have the RIAA or other such organization behind them actually be able to make a living at creating music with the rampant piracy of copyrighted music getting more and more out of control?
I don't see how any new artists will be able to make money.
I don't see how small independent labels will be able to survive.
I don't see any monetary incentive for new artists to try to make a living at music.
It costs enough money just to get started (instruments, equipment, studio costs, etc), being able to re-coup those costs seems impossible if no one ever pays for your music.
The end result of this will be that only the most bland, sellable artists will be able to make a living because they are the ones that the large labels can afford to push (high probability of sellability). All the other artists willing to take a risk are out of luck.
We are destroying the possibility of artist in the future to be able to make a living doing what they really want to do by stealing their livelihood away from them.
- daniel
Now, the first thing I do when I see a Flash Intro is look for the "skip intro" button, or hit the back button as fast as possible.
Flash can be a very usefull tool when used properly, and a time soaking intro is not a proper use. Sites start to loose eyeballs if everything isn't loaded in 5 seconds, so what on earth makes anyone thing that a 30 second intro is going to do any good.
- daniel