500k Albums is Gold, 1m Albums is Platinum, 2m is Multi-Platinum (double plat, triple plat, etc), 10m is Diamond.
US Sales for Radiohead look this... Pablo Honey - Platinum 1m-2m, The Bends - Gold 500-1m, OK Computer - 2 x Platinum 2m-3m, Kid A - Platinum 1m-2m, Amnesiac - Gold 500-1m, Hail to the Thief - Gold 500k-1m... For a total of ~5.5m-10m albums sold.
If they got 3$ per album sales (they wish) they'd have made ~16.5m-30m on cd sales alone.
If people paid an average of $5-$8 per album downloaded and 1m people downloaded the album that means they made almost 1/3-1/2 of their *total previous combined album sales* in a best case scenario and that doesn't include the boxed set people could have purchased. If you use realistic numbers for what the labels were paying them on each sale and use 1.2m downloads at an average of $5/ea... they probably made more money than they made from the labels on cd sales total across the board... or at least an equal amount.
The only thing the labels provide that is actually of value is getting your stuff played enough to get you to critical mass... but they rape you doing it.
If you can manage to be Valedictorian that is an extremely relevant qualification, after that nothing matters except graduation. Honestly even after your first couple jobs even being Valedictorian doesn't matter and work experience becomes far more important.
Let me beat an unfortunate fact into you now, school doesn't matter except to get you past hr to the people who actually KNOW something about the job you're doing.
1/3rd? More like 1/2. I had a family member consider a lawsuit against a previous employer (chemical asthma, no warning and no protection provided against the chemicals in question) and the attorney's take would have ended up all said and done ~48%
The truly paranoid use a room in the basement with at least two "serious" doors between them and the outside (metal reinforced solid wood) and no access from windows (glass blocked in small ones and large ones removed entirely. A few camera's seal the deal.
You know in general, I was kinda thinking the same thing about EMI, they're the first ones to do the Non-DRM iTunes thing, they're making agreements with youtube, etc... is it really possible that they've got someone over there that understands a bit of whats going on and doesn't have their head shoved a half foot up their ass?
I think you're making a big assumption there, I've worked for the government and with the police on several occasions... thus far I wouldn't consider most of them competent beyond a first year systems administrator, they have a lot of books that explain processes to them that were written by someone far more intelligent but often have to consult with someone who knows their shit to even complete the more difficult processes. If you do something that falls far outside their realm of commonly available and used encryption, knowledge, etc... you stand a fair chance of them not being able to break it *IF* you're not someone they consider a big fish. If you're someone they consider a big fish, they'll keep calling in bigger guns until they do get someone who can do whatever needs done to get into your data. Keep a nice sized tub of thermite on top of your pc that runs the full length with a magnesium strip in it and connect it to something that can ignite it... if you see them coming and can ignite it before they get to you, there won't be a pc and potentially a standing room by the time it finishes burning out... shy that, if they got undamaged physical hardware... they can get the data eventually if you're important enough.
The problem with albums are... 90% of the music sucks. Because a band puts out 1 good song I like doesn't mean I'm willing to pay 20$ for the cd to get 1 good song and 14 that blow donkey balls. I'll just pay for my one song thanks... hell that was exactly why I bought singles tapes in the 80s.
There are a few exceptional albums that are an exception to the rule, but mostly... even the best of bands, have trouble putting out 15 tracks that most everyone is going to like. Hell even 5 tracks.
... In some cases I integrate, in others I segment.
There have been jobs I've had where I slept at work and there have been jobs I've had where I left everyday at 5pm and not a second later.
A lot of what determines that is how I feel about my job, if I'm happy and feel the company appreciates me for my contributions, I'll integrate and give my all. If I'm unhappy and feel they're basically out to screw me and don't care about me then I segregate... I think most people are that way.
To answer the question above though, yes, most google employees would be integrators... but thats because integrators are made by having a good work place, segregators are made by having a bad work place. Previous experiences can also flavor that quite a bit, if you keep getting screwed at work why give them more than the minimum if they seem like every other job?
The only problem I see is basically as far as most people are concerned they violated the blogger by disclosing who they were... which is a lot like naming a source, if I had a story that would be the flatout last newspaper I would ever consider going to. They can't be trusted basically.
Non-Compete agreements are fairly common, that being said, I was at a company in Ohio who tried to enforce one. It flushed, the judge ruled that you can't deny a person the right to make a living in their field of expertise. The non-compete in question was "you can't work for another isp in the state of ohio for 12 months." (we were all sys admins)
See a psychiatrist if you're seriously considering going into sales. Sales is one of the most deceptive, lying, bullshit filled fields on the face of the earth... and you WANT to do this? Voluntary commission based sales people are at best one step above lawyers who are exactly the same except they also ruin other peoples lives at the same time... and both are at the bottom of the slum pit.
I would disagree with that-- if the outcome was purely determined by who yelled louder that would be true, but outcomes are rarely determined by that in any medium, let alone online.
OTHERWISE SINCE YOU DIDN'T BOTHER YELLING THIS WOULD MAKE ME WIN!
Whatever happened to having an active part in your kids life and knowing what they're doing rather than assuming anything on tv is okay and anything in video games are okay because they're a "kids toy".
The policies in the US are more detrimental to the citizens than what they may or may not prevent.
The fact is... since the laws enactment dozen of times people have demonstrated time and time again how they're completely non-effective.
Bravo for Canada... they're becoming like the us... only with considerably more sanity.
Boston is a good example of exactly what is wrong with the US... blowing up a lite brite... blowing up a traffic counter... etc. The people running the country are running amok and getting out of hand.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin, An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania.
... honestly, Christian groups have condemned Barney and Teletubbies, Harry Potter, the interweb, etc... it's a big yawn conspiracy. Whee, yet another condemation. For gods sake they wouldn't want kids to have any fun.
Whatever happened to parents taking an active part in their childrens life instead of blaming everything in the world for corrupting their children? Oh that's right they're too busy out crusading against everything to bother with, you know, raising their kids. God knows they need to make the world safer for the kids. [/sarcasm]
The honest truth of it is... unless you have a stellar launch line up of titles all first year consoles suck.
That being said the Wii is doing pretty fairly, it's STILL sold out completely where I live (Canton, OH)... Still can't find peripherals and some of the more popular games are hit and miss. Many of the Wii games have great party replay value also-- much like PS2 Guitar Hero, DDR, etc.
The PS3 is a great piece of hardware but suffers from having a crap launch lineup.
The 360 is... well the 360 its got a fair number of games but nothing that really reaches out and grabs me.
The PS2 is *still* the system of choice to have for most serious gaming if you're not into pc gaming.
I think next year will be a more significant teller for the consoles than this year has been or will be.
My only complaint with the apple drm is the quality. I like everything to be 192+ as I can hear the difference in anything under 192.
That being said, I buy some music from the itunes store and immediately rip it back to mp3 with myfairtunes -> ( http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=155 5 ) it's 100% of the quality of the original file just shy the drm... unfortunately the quality of the original file isn't great *shrug*. It works with the most recent versions of itunes too.
You know, I'm pretty sure that Microsoft is at fault here.
I mean, its obvious they wanted to create an iPod killer with the Zune... when they failed they decided to make Vista the iPod killer... albeit in a different way.
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Here's some interesting numbers:
... they probably made more money than they made from the labels on cd sales total across the board... or at least an equal amount.
500k Albums is Gold, 1m Albums is Platinum, 2m is Multi-Platinum (double plat, triple plat, etc), 10m is Diamond.
US Sales for Radiohead look this... Pablo Honey - Platinum 1m-2m, The Bends - Gold 500-1m, OK Computer - 2 x Platinum 2m-3m, Kid A - Platinum 1m-2m, Amnesiac - Gold 500-1m, Hail to the Thief - Gold 500k-1m... For a total of ~5.5m-10m albums sold.
If they got 3$ per album sales (they wish) they'd have made ~16.5m-30m on cd sales alone.
If people paid an average of $5-$8 per album downloaded and 1m people downloaded the album that means they made almost 1/3-1/2 of their *total previous combined album sales* in a best case scenario and that doesn't include the boxed set people could have purchased. If you use realistic numbers for what the labels were paying them on each sale and use 1.2m downloads at an average of $5/ea
The only thing the labels provide that is actually of value is getting your stuff played enough to get you to critical mass... but they rape you doing it.
You can quantify how well a sysadmin is doing his job by how little down time there is on mission critical systems that he has control over.
You're confusing small companies with large companies.
If you can manage to be Valedictorian that is an extremely relevant qualification, after that nothing matters except graduation. Honestly even after your first couple jobs even being Valedictorian doesn't matter and work experience becomes far more important.
Let me beat an unfortunate fact into you now, school doesn't matter except to get you past hr to the people who actually KNOW something about the job you're doing.
Nice to see we're dipping back into cold war era collective fear mongering.
My government sickens me.
1/3rd? More like 1/2. I had a family member consider a lawsuit against a previous employer (chemical asthma, no warning and no protection provided against the chemicals in question) and the attorney's take would have ended up all said and done ~48%
The truly paranoid use a room in the basement with at least two "serious" doors between them and the outside (metal reinforced solid wood) and no access from windows (glass blocked in small ones and large ones removed entirely. A few camera's seal the deal.
You know in general, I was kinda thinking the same thing about EMI, they're the first ones to do the Non-DRM iTunes thing, they're making agreements with youtube, etc... is it really possible that they've got someone over there that understands a bit of whats going on and doesn't have their head shoved a half foot up their ass?
I think you're making a big assumption there, I've worked for the government and with the police on several occasions... thus far I wouldn't consider most of them competent beyond a first year systems administrator, they have a lot of books that explain processes to them that were written by someone far more intelligent but often have to consult with someone who knows their shit to even complete the more difficult processes. If you do something that falls far outside their realm of commonly available and used encryption, knowledge, etc... you stand a fair chance of them not being able to break it *IF* you're not someone they consider a big fish. If you're someone they consider a big fish, they'll keep calling in bigger guns until they do get someone who can do whatever needs done to get into your data. Keep a nice sized tub of thermite on top of your pc that runs the full length with a magnesium strip in it and connect it to something that can ignite it... if you see them coming and can ignite it before they get to you, there won't be a pc and potentially a standing room by the time it finishes burning out... shy that, if they got undamaged physical hardware... they can get the data eventually if you're important enough.
It's disgusting anyone should need to tell "big brother" jack shit about what they're doing.
Whatever happened to "Innocent until proven guilty."
Oh yeah, that was 9/11 when the American people got raped by overzealous politicians and a dictator wanna-be.
The problem with albums are... 90% of the music sucks. Because a band puts out 1 good song I like doesn't mean I'm willing to pay 20$ for the cd to get 1 good song and 14 that blow donkey balls. I'll just pay for my one song thanks... hell that was exactly why I bought singles tapes in the 80s.
There are a few exceptional albums that are an exception to the rule, but mostly... even the best of bands, have trouble putting out 15 tracks that most everyone is going to like. Hell even 5 tracks.
... In some cases I integrate, in others I segment.
There have been jobs I've had where I slept at work and there have been jobs I've had where I left everyday at 5pm and not a second later.
A lot of what determines that is how I feel about my job, if I'm happy and feel the company appreciates me for my contributions, I'll integrate and give my all. If I'm unhappy and feel they're basically out to screw me and don't care about me then I segregate... I think most people are that way.
To answer the question above though, yes, most google employees would be integrators... but thats because integrators are made by having a good work place, segregators are made by having a bad work place. Previous experiences can also flavor that quite a bit, if you keep getting screwed at work why give them more than the minimum if they seem like every other job?
The only problem I see is basically as far as most people are concerned they violated the blogger by disclosing who they were... which is a lot like naming a source, if I had a story that would be the flatout last newspaper I would ever consider going to. They can't be trusted basically.
Arrrggg... the !!!!! and ad hominem attacks got me. You win.
Non-Compete agreements are fairly common, that being said, I was at a company in Ohio who tried to enforce one. It flushed, the judge ruled that you can't deny a person the right to make a living in their field of expertise. The non-compete in question was "you can't work for another isp in the state of ohio for 12 months." (we were all sys admins)
Here's another one--
See a psychiatrist if you're seriously considering going into sales. Sales is one of the most deceptive, lying, bullshit filled fields on the face of the earth... and you WANT to do this? Voluntary commission based sales people are at best one step above lawyers who are exactly the same except they also ruin other peoples lives at the same time... and both are at the bottom of the slum pit.
I would disagree with that-- if the outcome was purely determined by who yelled louder that would be true, but outcomes are rarely determined by that in any medium, let alone online.
OTHERWISE SINCE YOU DIDN'T BOTHER YELLING THIS WOULD MAKE ME WIN!
*rolls eyes*
Whatever happened to having an active part in your kids life and knowing what they're doing rather than assuming anything on tv is okay and anything in video games are okay because they're a "kids toy".
The policies in the US are more detrimental to the citizens than what they may or may not prevent.
The fact is... since the laws enactment dozen of times people have demonstrated time and time again how they're completely non-effective.
Bravo for Canada... they're becoming like the us... only with considerably more sanity.
Boston is a good example of exactly what is wrong with the US... blowing up a lite brite... blowing up a traffic counter... etc. The people running the country are running amok and getting out of hand.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin, An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania.
... honestly, Christian groups have condemned Barney and Teletubbies, Harry Potter, the interweb, etc... it's a big yawn conspiracy. Whee, yet another condemation. For gods sake they wouldn't want kids to have any fun.
Whatever happened to parents taking an active part in their childrens life instead of blaming everything in the world for corrupting their children? Oh that's right they're too busy out crusading against everything to bother with, you know, raising their kids. God knows they need to make the world safer for the kids. [/sarcasm]
The honest truth of it is... unless you have a stellar launch line up of titles all first year consoles suck.
That being said the Wii is doing pretty fairly, it's STILL sold out completely where I live (Canton, OH)... Still can't find peripherals and some of the more popular games are hit and miss. Many of the Wii games have great party replay value also-- much like PS2 Guitar Hero, DDR, etc.
The PS3 is a great piece of hardware but suffers from having a crap launch lineup.
The 360 is... well the 360 its got a fair number of games but nothing that really reaches out and grabs me.
The PS2 is *still* the system of choice to have for most serious gaming if you're not into pc gaming.
I think next year will be a more significant teller for the consoles than this year has been or will be.
I'm glad they want an iPod tax everyone wants something... I want a winning lottery ticket but you don't see anyone opting to give me one do you?
My only complaint with the apple drm is the quality. I like everything to be 192+ as I can hear the difference in anything under 192.
5 5 ) it's 100% of the quality of the original file just shy the drm ... unfortunately the quality of the original file isn't great *shrug*. It works with the most recent versions of itunes too.
That being said, I buy some music from the itunes store and immediately rip it back to mp3 with myfairtunes -> ( http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15
Pity I can't moderate you "tool bag". Love you conspiracy theorists. Just like I'd love to be shot in the head with a 12 gauge.
You know, I'm pretty sure that Microsoft is at fault here.
I mean, its obvious they wanted to create an iPod killer with the Zune... when they failed they decided to make Vista the iPod killer... albeit in a different way.