How long can this take? I've been waiting for my vacuum energy fuel cell/antigravity device for years now. I've been holding up production of my "Year 2000 Flying Automobile" for almost two years now waiting for reality to be sufficiently redefined for it to function. Pretty soon those vulture capitalists are goint to come sniffing after my monopolar ceramic disks spinning in.1 degree kelvin mercury baths...
Programming is a practical art, like weaving, smithing or potting, where the artistry arises from graceful and elegant execution of function. When you write programs that aren't meant to be used, but rather admired aesthetically, then it would be fine art, as the above sometimes are as well.
Without denying the problem of subtle institutional/societal racism, when you go into a room with the lights turned off, do you say, "Flip the switch, its unlit in here?" Or what about, "It's sure unlit out with the moon behind those clouds?"
Every moment of activist time/energy that gets wasted on tedia like this is not spent on real issues like redlining and equal acess to jobs, education, and services.
If you want to find the racism in communications, look at deployment maps. Look at availability of high speed acess to schools in poor urban areas. Why do ethnic neighborhoods have to wait forever for last mile deployment even when they're middle-class economicaly. Get some priorities.
I'm not suggesting that "huge amounts of money" are justified or even preferable. What I am saying is tha a certain amount needs to be there to support working professionals or there won't be any professionals. If I could support myself purely as a sound engineer for $25k/yr I'd jump in a minute. As it is, I work a tech job part time and teach at a community college (trust me any musician can't become a good engeneer/producer, although many could) and run an independant label and frelance on various music and video projects. I could double my income by going IT full-time, but I don't because my love of music is more important to me than commercial success.
My point was that it takes lots of time and effort to get good at this, and that means not making money somewhere else. All else being equal, a pro will allways be better than a weekend warrior for the simple reason that they get more practice and have more oppertunities to develop and learn. "Real lovers of music" will certainly enjoy a good song performed well whatever the format, but should also care that the beauty of the artist's work reach their ears as intended.
Less sophisticated hardware requires more listenning and sublety of craft, not less. Good music will allways be good music, but compare a Paul McCartney Beatles song and a Paul McCartney Wings song. Goerge Martin makes a difference.
He was able to do things in the studio that sound better than 90% of engeneers out there today with 1/10th the gear. That's the difference I'm talking about, not mega-label glitz factories.
Even though the cost of technology for recording continues to drop, the cost of professional expertise can only go so far. Most of the money the labels spend isn't for the recording or pressing, it's for the promotion and marketing.
Putting excellent inexpensive tools into the hands of an amateur doesn't make that person a pro, any more than tinkering with gcc makes me a programmer. Except for that rare natural genius, being a good sound engeneer takes years of effort and training. The reason their so expensive is thay can usually cannot work 40 hours-week unless they are emplyoed by 2 dozen or so top studios in the world, at which point they can charge an arm and a leg for being the very best.
What worries me, both as a listenner and as a music professional, is who will pay these people in the future? Digital tips and performance fees and so forth are all well and good for performers, but if noone is to make any money from recordings in the future, quality will reflect that price.
Verizon uses hybrid fiber/coax networks in the St Petersburg area in FL and in Ventura County CA... cable modems. These things have been hybrid since the beginning of digital cable deployment. This is why cable modem systems deploy so much faster; fiber good, copper bad.
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Some of the most successful OSS technology is licensed under the GNU General Public License or GPL. The GPL mandates that any software that incorporates source code already licensed under the GPL will itself become subject to the GPL. When the resulting software product is distributed, its creator must make the entire source code base freely available to everyone, at no additional charge. This viral aspect of the GPL poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it. It also fundamentally undermines the independent commercial software sector because it effectively makes it impossible to distribute software on a basis where recipients pay for the product rather than just the cost of distribution."
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The GPL asserts that any product derived from source code licensed under it becomes subject to the GPL itself. When the resulting software product is distributed, the creator must make all of the source code available, at no additional charge. This effectively makes it impossible for commercial software companies to include source code that is licensed under the GPL into their products, since by doing so, they are constrained to give away the fruits of their labor."
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd think the timing was by design somehow, rather I think the timing of Craig's speach was in response to this sort of thing boiling in the industry for some time now. Here's the Mundie Text and the/. article.
I like that idea alot. Sort of a software wholesale co-op. It's sort of like Napster's propsed subscription service, only tied to one's hardware cost instaid of a flat fee. That'd be really nice, as it would effectively make software pricing progressive with respect to income; i.e. those with ample money would have bought more expensive kit, those with a hand me down PII 266 likely don't have as much to spend.
The trouble is that above net is a backbone provider. Most end-users don't know what a backbone is, let alone through which one or ones their ISP leases connections.
Seems like they're focusing their limited manufacturing power on area of greater profit-margin. Sure, people will get their CRTs elsewhere, but if they can increase their LCD volume by a significant amount, who cares? If they make $100 on a 17"CRT and $800 on an LCD they can actually make more money selling fewer monitors if they can meet the lcd demand.
The point is not that we have these things, but that we don't have the option to vote with our dollars on most products in any meaningful way. These companies know that they can get away with so much precicely because we can't live without them.
You grossly overestimate my ability to lobby. Perhaps I'll buy a Senator lunch do discuss issues that are important to me, or offer to run commercials on his behalf?
If I'm such a moron, why don't you tell me where I can get anything that I don't grow in my own garden with seeds I gathered in the wild or make from animals I domesticated myself that doesn't send a kickback to a chemical company,a biotech company,or whatever. I'd happily shop there. I'm too much of a moron to survive as a nomadic hunter/gatherer so I'm pretty much at the mervy of these pseudo-people.
We as Americans have certainly been party to our share of such atrocities. Small-pox blankets to the Native Americans anyone? If that had been a Capitalist/Plutocracy evil empire instaid of a Communist/Oligarchy evil empire, they could have used their economic muscle to turn whole nations into labor camps through economic muscle. There's be people in Indonesia making $600 guitars for $.10/hour in rooms with one lightbulb and dirt floors. There'd be wars in Africa over who gets to sell diamonds to them at a low-low price that exclusive consortia can demand...
"The main reason is that because corporations have "personhood" under the law, but no one has to pay the price of any wrong they do. Also, these "persons" can afford the best lawyers and the best politicians to get their way."
Corperations serve to shield the shareholders from the wrongs that are done on their behalf. If we got a group of people together and gassed a town in India, we would be extradited and jailed. When Union Carbide does it, the get a nice big tax write-off, err fine.
If our gas-gang were sued by the Indian government, we would all loose everything we have. The U/C shareholders would only have their stock devalued. The corperate veil is the ultimate tool of plutocratic supremacy. These pseudo-persons dilute the decision-making process so widely that the "normal" people involve can all feel like it's not their fault, or plausably deny knowlege or whatever. This is by design! This is how people who would not normally hurt anyone have turned blind eyes to every form of exploitation from slavery to unsafe SUV's.
Governments have this problem also, but there is at least some accountability. If we as citizens folow an imperialist dictator, we will suffer the inevitable wars and sorrows that would bring. As much of a sham as govt accountability is when barely half of us vote and 90% of those votes are for the entrenched interests/parties, corperations are far worse.
Noone ever voted for a chemical company, or signed a referendum on holding adjusted$ wages stagnant since the seventies while exexutive salaries go through the roof. Marketing infests our very minds. People describe themselves as "consumers" without a hint of irony or shame. If the government used the kind of marketing that businesses do, it'd be positively Orwellian.
That's brilliant! One can't help but admire the evil genius with which they engineer this sort of thing. This is almost as good as when ISP's couldn't handle Win95 PPP clients to their servers without using expensive M$ network software. If only they had some great Doctor Doom style dialogue...
You were an arrogant fool, Torvalds, to pit your will agains mine. Soon you shall learn as Ellison did, that to the PC,... the Gates are closed!
Back before there were op-amps that were worth a damn, inucto-capacitant networks were the way to make equalizers/filters. They're still used in boutique models for their phase characteristics. I wonder if this new implimentation will find its way into tunable frequency devices like EQ or DACs.
The trademark issue doesn't hinge on commercial vs non-commercial use, but rather on context. I could go into business as General Motors brand toilet plungers and all GM could do was bury me with legal fees in hopes that I couldn't go the distance to win the case. This is why AoL needn't fear Aim toothpaste coming after them, as they don't make internet software. This is also how we have Apple Computers' mark side by side with Apple Records.
Here's the emotional breakdown on the attack paragraph: "The GPL turns our existing concepts of intellectual property rights on their heads" FEAR. "Some of the tension I see between the GPL and strong business models is by design, and some of it is caused simply because there remains a high level of legal uncertainty around the GPL--uncertainty that translates into business risk"DOUBT,. Not that this should come as a surprise, it's just so shameless.
I'm curious to see which if any "mainstream" news carriers pick up this story. Craig's letter got coverage in the NYTimes. Will this letter appear beyond CNet,/.,and ZDTV? Maybe with AoL/TW weighing in against M$ CNN might pick it up. This is what saddens me in the FUD war. When computer science visionaries speak, geeks listen. When M$ speaks, everyone hears.
There's a particularly sad part of the interview where he talks about how being able to explore and discover on your own is such a wonderful way to learn. How many organs do you have to hock to see the WinSource?
Most programmers get paid to program. Most musicians don't get paid to make music. 3/4 of the people I knew in music school are either teachers (full time if their lucky) or working some sort of clerical job. It's all well and good to advocate giving it away when you allready draw a healthy salary practicing the skills you love, but be sure to let me know the next time you se an ad: Wanted Performer/Composer to engage in entertainment through original music.$35k +health and 401k
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How long can this take? I've been waiting for my vacuum energy fuel cell/antigravity device for years now. I've been holding up production of my "Year 2000 Flying Automobile" for almost two years now waiting for reality to be sufficiently redefined for it to function. Pretty soon those vulture capitalists are goint to come sniffing after my monopolar ceramic disks spinning in .1 degree kelvin mercury baths...
Programming is a practical art, like weaving, smithing or potting, where the artistry arises from graceful and elegant execution of function. When you write programs that aren't meant to be used, but rather admired aesthetically, then it would be fine art, as the above sometimes are as well.
Every moment of activist time/energy that gets wasted on tedia like this is not spent on real issues like redlining and equal acess to jobs, education, and services.
If you want to find the racism in communications, look at deployment maps. Look at availability of high speed acess to schools in poor urban areas. Why do ethnic neighborhoods have to wait forever for last mile deployment even when they're middle-class economicaly. Get some priorities.
My point was that it takes lots of time and effort to get good at this, and that means not making money somewhere else. All else being equal, a pro will allways be better than a weekend warrior for the simple reason that they get more practice and have more oppertunities to develop and learn.
"Real lovers of music" will certainly enjoy a good song performed well whatever the format, but should also care that the beauty of the artist's work reach their ears as intended.
He was able to do things in the studio that sound better than 90% of engeneers out there today with 1/10th the gear. That's the difference I'm talking about, not mega-label glitz factories.
Putting excellent inexpensive tools into the hands of an amateur doesn't make that person a pro, any more than tinkering with gcc makes me a programmer. Except for that rare natural genius, being a good sound engeneer takes years of effort and training. The reason their so expensive is thay can usually cannot work 40 hours-week unless they are emplyoed by 2 dozen or so top studios in the world, at which point they can charge an arm and a leg for being the very best.
What worries me, both as a listenner and as a music professional, is who will pay these people in the future? Digital tips and performance fees and so forth are all well and good for performers, but if noone is to make any money from recordings in the future, quality will reflect that price.
Verizon uses hybrid fiber/coax networks in the St Petersburg area in FL and in Ventura County CA... cable modems. These things have been hybrid since the beginning of digital cable deployment. This is why cable modem systems deploy so much faster; fiber good, copper bad.
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If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd think the timing was by design somehow, rather I think the timing of Craig's speach was in response to this sort of thing boiling in the industry for some time now. Here's the Mundie Text and the
I like that idea alot. Sort of a software wholesale co-op. It's sort of like Napster's propsed subscription service, only tied to one's hardware cost instaid of a flat fee. That'd be really nice, as it would effectively make software pricing progressive with respect to income; i.e. those with ample money would have bought more expensive kit, those with a hand me down PII 266 likely don't have as much to spend.
The trouble is that above net is a backbone provider. Most end-users don't know what a backbone is, let alone through which one or ones their ISP leases connections.
I allways found gopher to be much more responsive than the web. Maybe I should try Lynx.
Seems like they're focusing their limited manufacturing power on area of greater profit-margin. Sure, people will get their CRTs elsewhere, but if they can increase their LCD volume by a significant amount, who cares? If they make $100 on a 17"CRT and $800 on an LCD they can actually make more money selling fewer monitors if they can meet the lcd demand.
The point is not that we have these things, but that we don't have the option to vote with our dollars on most products in any meaningful way. These companies know that they can get away with so much precicely because we can't live without them.
You grossly overestimate my ability to lobby. Perhaps I'll buy a Senator lunch do discuss issues that are important to me, or offer to run commercials on his behalf?
If I'm such a moron, why don't you tell me where I can get anything that I don't grow in my own garden with seeds I gathered in the wild or make from animals I domesticated myself that doesn't send a kickback to a chemical company,a biotech company,or whatever. I'd happily shop there. I'm too much of a moron to survive as a nomadic hunter/gatherer so I'm pretty much at the mervy of these pseudo-people.
We as Americans have certainly been party to our share of such atrocities. Small-pox blankets to the Native Americans anyone? If that had been a Capitalist/Plutocracy evil empire instaid of a Communist/Oligarchy evil empire, they could have used their economic muscle to turn whole nations into labor camps through economic muscle. There's be people in Indonesia making $600 guitars for $.10/hour in rooms with one lightbulb and dirt floors. There'd be wars in Africa over who gets to sell diamonds to them at a low-low price that exclusive consortia can demand...
If our gas-gang were sued by the Indian government, we would all loose everything we have. The U/C shareholders would only have their stock devalued. The corperate veil is the ultimate tool of plutocratic supremacy. These pseudo-persons dilute the decision-making process so widely that the "normal" people involve can all feel like it's not their fault, or plausably deny knowlege or whatever. This is by design! This is how people who would not normally hurt anyone have turned blind eyes to every form of exploitation from slavery to unsafe SUV's.
Governments have this problem also, but there is at least some accountability. If we as citizens folow an imperialist dictator, we will suffer the inevitable wars and sorrows that would bring. As much of a sham as govt accountability is when barely half of us vote and 90% of those votes are for the entrenched interests/parties, corperations are far worse.
Noone ever voted for a chemical company, or signed a referendum on holding adjusted$ wages stagnant since the seventies while exexutive salaries go through the roof. Marketing infests our very minds. People describe themselves as "consumers" without a hint of irony or shame. If the government used the kind of marketing that businesses do, it'd be positively Orwellian.
Back before there were op-amps that were worth a damn, inucto-capacitant networks were the way to make equalizers/filters. They're still used in boutique models for their phase characteristics. I wonder if this new implimentation will find its way into tunable frequency devices like EQ or DACs.
The trademark issue doesn't hinge on commercial vs non-commercial use, but rather on context. I could go into business as General Motors brand toilet plungers and all GM could do was bury me with legal fees in hopes that I couldn't go the distance to win the case.
This is why AoL needn't fear Aim toothpaste coming after them, as they don't make internet software. This is also how we have Apple Computers' mark side by side with Apple Records.
Eric's done this sort of thing before. Originally, verizonreallysucks.com pointed to the Communications Workers of America site.
Here's the emotional breakdown on the attack paragraph:
"The GPL turns our existing concepts of intellectual property rights on their heads" FEAR . "Some of the tension I see between the GPL and strong business models is by design, and some of it is caused simply because there remains a high level of legal uncertainty around the GPL--uncertainty that translates into business risk"DOUBT,.
Not that this should come as a surprise, it's just so shameless.
I'm curious to see which if any "mainstream" news carriers pick up this story. Craig's letter got coverage in the NYTimes. Will this letter appear beyond CNet, /.,and ZDTV? Maybe with AoL/TW weighing in against M$ CNN might pick it up.
This is what saddens me in the FUD war. When computer science visionaries speak, geeks listen. When M$ speaks, everyone hears.
There's a particularly sad part of the interview where he talks about how being able to explore and discover on your own is such a wonderful way to learn. How many organs do you have to hock to see the WinSource?
Most programmers get paid to program. Most musicians don't get paid to make music. 3/4 of the people I knew in music school are either teachers (full time if their lucky) or working some sort of clerical job.
It's all well and good to advocate giving it away when you allready draw a healthy salary practicing the skills you love, but be sure to let me know the next time you se an ad:
Wanted Performer/Composer to engage in entertainment through original music.$35k +health and 401k