Oh, I dunno about that. What if it turns out Nixon made some comment that incriminated him WRT getting JFK whacked for fixing the '60 election or maybe admitting he was one of those reptilian space aliens or some other whacky shit?
See, now here, we can make an analogy to the current state of affairs, because authors had a technology for reproduction and method for distribution of their work.
There was no technology for reproducing a musical performance at the time. You could reproduce a peice of _music_, given a proper chart and trained performers (including a conductor), but not a performance. It's not the same thing.
Those numbers are gross sales or profit to the performers? And as far as Ozzy goes, 20 mill from the TV show is celebrity pay, not musician pay. You seem to acknowledge that, but miss the point at the same time. WRT innovation, the last time the term could apply to OO musically was "Blizzard of Oz" which is 20 some years ago, and in fact, his contributions were mainly lyrical.
There will always be superstar musicians because music is one of the fundamental universal human likes.
Superstar musicians are a product of the business end. The scenarios you speak of have a business angle. In the early days of the current form of the business, it was more obvious that criminals were bankrolling a lot of production. At least in hindsight.
The "industry" is, was, and always will be about making money, not music. Making music has zero barriers to entry. Tickets for the pop star lotto are expensive.
IMO musicians actually have an edge in this regard. Music is a requirement at any kind of catered affair. Unless your art is ice sculpting, or face painting, there is no equivalent.
I see a couple of problems with the "live performance" scenario. Firstly, from the consumers POV, people are used to music wherever they might be. In the car, at work, and so on. There are some environments where canned music is the only way to go. Second, from the artist perspective, it places a requirement of business saavy on the musicians. Now, for a classically trained musician it might not be a problem, but how many pop wannabees are even capable of reading a chart, much less have a desire to deal with the business end of things? "Get a manager" you say. Well, okay, sure. Now we have a controlling third party in the mix and I think we all know how that works out.
The current system didn't just fall out of the sky. For ever one person who wants to be a professional, there are a thousand who want to win the pop star lotto and think they can get by without the essential skills. FWIW I used to earn my living as an audio engineer doing stage and studio, so I've seen both sides of the coin.
lobby congress to protect reasonable profits by establishing a flat license fee. Ultimately the fee would probably be paid by anyone who has an internet account,
Fuck that. I, for one, rarely, if ever, download music. Why should I subsidize the leeches?
If you were talking about _streaming_ content with a large quota and a fair pricing structure for additional content, then I might buy that. A flat tax (a rose by any other name) would be unfair.
You could counter argue that the proceeds are used to fund grants for artists, but if you think music sucks now, you'd really see some restrictions on lyrical content.
A flat "fee" scenario also doesn't address independant content producers. You have to have some kind of metering to ensure proper distribution of royalties.
Actually, the reason he's so litigation happy is his son is a lawyer and gets free legal advice. How do I know? Well, about 2 years ago I negotiated with Bob Novack about bringing his webserver in house. He was telling me tales of taking legal action against the co-lo he was using at the time and had plenty of stories about threatening people with legal action.
This guy is a dick, plain and simple. I was going to give him some serious discount and do the job for $50 an hour. His counter offer? $10 an hour. Then to add insult to injury, I started getting spam from him.
"Are so fun to watch" ARRRRRGGGH, thats so *much* fun to watch. Or perhaps you meant "their more funner too whatch". Anyway, It is a cool hack, but kind of ass backwards. When the rpms are up you should get better response. Not likely when the load is up.
Hey! FlightGear is more than a game! Our next release is really gonna kick ass. There have been a lot of cool additions since the last one (just after LWCE), like articulated models and a virtual cockpit. Oh, and FWIW FGFS doesn't use SDL it uses plib so it's not out of the realm of possiblity that you may see some of the other games that use that.
Um, I think his point is that most people think that Red Hat IS Linux.... Hahah Most people think linux is china, or air conditioning, or mebbe that kid in the peanuts cartoon.
On a serious note though, AOL is actually built on a Unix back end, so there are potentially enormous benefits to buying the RedHat expertise.
Also, the "useability" problems that people still harp on with linux are kind of a red herring, if RedHat had a stripped down/dumbed down consumerized version for Joe Sixpack (and
hardware issues are kinda moot at this point) it would be a boon. AOL may just be the one to do this, (and I'm sure this'll be a karma killer) they have the marketing machine and know all about catering to morons.
Y'know what? It occurred to me that the real reason they push the sample rate to 96Khz it removes the need for low pass filters to prevent aliasing. Less circuitry == cheaper to produce. The fact that the average person thinks more is
better makes it seem like it's better than it really is. The higher bitrate is a definite improvement though.
Good, but not golden ear good. Analog tape is about 105 db
I hadda chuckle though, the heading here says "any audio connector you can think of".... No balanced 1/4", no XLR, no bantam jacks, not to mention no external 5 pin DIN for midi. Still, not bad for consumer gear
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Okay, I've been thinking this since I read the article... Anytime I downloaded a precompiled binary from sourceforge, it was a tarball. Last time I checked tarballs weren't elf format executable binaries. So even if the server is tainted, the tarball won't be.
This is Microsoft's way of attacking Linux. Investing an $80,000+bonuses salary in a lying-ass-sack-of-shit salesperson is more cost-effective than hiring two QA engineers. Yeah actually, it is more cost effective.
If a salesman is getting 80K a year as a base salary, I can guarantee you he's closing nearly a million in sales. If his total take is 80k, then his base salary is probably more like 20k and the rest is commission. Bottom line, salesmen close deals, and revenue comes from closing deals, not QA.
Nobody ever signed a contract because of a QA engineer. Maybe that sucks but it's reality.
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Linux will never make proper toast
without Pantone for calibration.
gotta be a bitch. That's something like
138,889 floppies. If they're 1/8 inch
that's a stack about a quarter mile
high!
Metric time is for communists
Oh, I dunno about that. What if it turns out Nixon
made some comment that incriminated him WRT getting JFK whacked for fixing the '60 election or maybe
admitting he was one of those reptilian space aliens
or some other whacky shit?
I guess you never used Chimera, that was pretty nasty.
Okay, so it wasn't me. Isn't Opera spamware
till you pay for it?
See, now here, we can make an analogy to the current state of affairs, because authors had a technology for reproduction and method for distribution of their work.
There was no technology for reproducing a musical
performance at the time. You could reproduce a peice of _music_, given a proper chart and trained performers (including a conductor), but not a performance. It's not the same thing.
Those numbers are gross sales or profit to the performers?
And as far as Ozzy goes, 20 mill from the TV show is celebrity pay, not musician pay. You seem to acknowledge that, but miss the point at the same time. WRT innovation, the last time the term could apply to OO musically was "Blizzard of Oz" which is
20 some years ago, and in fact, his contributions were mainly lyrical.
There will always be superstar musicians because music is one of the fundamental universal human likes.
Superstar musicians are a product of the business end. The scenarios you speak of have a business angle. In the early days of the current form of the business, it was more obvious that criminals were bankrolling a lot of production. At least in hindsight.
The "industry" is, was, and always will be about making money, not music.
Making music has zero barriers to entry.
Tickets for the pop star lotto are expensive.
Most musicians make very little money from records--they get most of their $$$ from playing gigs.
Eh-heh.. Most musicians have day jobs.
IMO musicians actually have an edge in this regard.
Music is a requirement at any kind of catered affair.
Unless your art is ice sculpting, or face painting,
there is no equivalent.
I see a couple of problems with the "live performance" scenario.
Firstly, from the consumers POV, people are used to music wherever they might be. In the car, at work, and so on. There are some environments where canned music is the only way to go.
Second, from the artist perspective, it places a requirement of business saavy on the musicians. Now,
for a classically trained musician it might not be a problem, but how many pop wannabees are even capable of reading a chart, much less have a desire to deal with the business end of things?
"Get a manager" you say. Well, okay, sure. Now we have a controlling third party in the mix and I think we all know how that works out.
The current system didn't just fall out of the sky.
For ever one person who wants to be a professional,
there are a thousand who want to win the pop star lotto and think they can get by without the essential skills.
FWIW I used to earn my living as an audio engineer doing stage and studio, so I've seen both sides of the coin.
lobby congress to protect reasonable profits by establishing a flat license fee. Ultimately the fee would probably be paid by anyone who has an internet account,
Fuck that. I, for one, rarely, if ever, download music. Why should I subsidize the leeches?
If you were talking about _streaming_ content with a
large quota and a fair pricing structure for additional content, then I might buy that. A flat tax (a rose by any other name) would be unfair.
You could counter argue that the proceeds are used to fund grants for artists, but if you think music sucks
now, you'd really see some restrictions on lyrical content.
A flat "fee" scenario also doesn't address independant content producers. You have to have some kind of metering to ensure proper distribution of royalties.
There are no easy solutions to the problem.
a small pair of sidecutters will always be useful
Amanda Pays, she was pretty hot.
Actually, the reason he's so litigation happy is his son is a lawyer and gets free legal advice. How do I know? Well, about 2 years ago I negotiated with Bob Novack about bringing his webserver in house. He was telling me tales of taking legal action against the co-lo he was using at the time and had plenty of stories about threatening people with legal action.
This guy is a dick, plain and simple. I was going to give him some serious discount and do the job for $50 an hour. His counter offer?
$10 an hour. Then to add insult to injury, I started getting spam from him.
"Are so fun to watch"
ARRRRRGGGH, thats so *much* fun to watch.
Or perhaps you meant "their more funner too whatch".
Anyway, It is a cool hack, but kind of ass backwards. When the rpms are up you should get
better response. Not likely when the load is up.
Hey! FlightGear is more than a game! Our next release is really gonna kick ass. There have been
a lot of cool additions since the last one (just after LWCE), like articulated models and a virtual cockpit. Oh, and FWIW FGFS doesn't use SDL it uses plib so it's not out of the realm of possiblity that you may see some of the other games that use that.
Is this a surprise? Gotta wonder how much of the tech China bought during the Clinton administration is booby-trapped
Um, I think his point is that most people think that Red Hat IS Linux....
Hahah Most people think linux is china, or air conditioning, or mebbe that kid in the peanuts cartoon.
On a serious note though, AOL is actually built on a Unix back end, so there are potentially enormous benefits to buying the RedHat expertise.
Also, the "useability" problems that people still harp on with linux are kind of a red herring, if RedHat had a stripped down/dumbed down consumerized version for Joe Sixpack (and
hardware issues are kinda moot at this point) it would be a boon. AOL may just be the one to do this, (and I'm sure this'll be a karma killer) they have the marketing machine and know all about catering to morons.
Y'know what? It occurred to me that the real reason they push the sample rate to 96Khz it removes the need for low pass filters to prevent aliasing. Less circuitry == cheaper to produce. The fact that the average person thinks more is
better makes it seem like it's better than it really is. The higher bitrate is a definite improvement though.
2" analog tape at 30 IPS. Digital audio blows.
Good, but not golden ear good. Analog tape is about 105 db
I hadda chuckle though, the heading here says "any audio connector you can think of".... No balanced 1/4", no XLR, no bantam jacks, not to mention no external 5 pin DIN for midi. Still, not bad for consumer gear
Okay, I've been thinking this since I read the article... Anytime I downloaded a precompiled binary from sourceforge, it was a tarball. Last time I checked tarballs weren't elf format executable binaries. So even if the server is tainted, the tarball won't be.
This is Microsoft's way of attacking Linux. Investing an $80,000+bonuses salary in a lying-ass-sack-of-shit salesperson is more cost-effective than hiring two QA engineers.
Yeah actually, it is more cost effective.
If a salesman is getting 80K a year as a base salary, I can guarantee you he's closing nearly a million in sales. If his total take is 80k, then his base salary is probably more like 20k and the rest is commission. Bottom line, salesmen close deals, and revenue comes from closing deals, not QA.
Nobody ever signed a contract because of a QA engineer. Maybe that sucks but it's reality.