artists let people publicly perform (play their records) and distribute their music (mix cds, and perfomances) to hopefully increases sells (of their records/cds), and in the end just promote the music.
That's a reasonable, what's not reasonable is Signal 11's instance that all music becomes free advertising for the concerts.
If all music is free there is no album to promote by giving away mp3s.
My proposal: disband the RIAA. Make music free. Let artists profit directly from their works in the form of concerts.
Bang! You've just made it impossible for many studio musicians to make a living.
Boom! You just killed off Techno and Industrial and any other form of music that's hard to play live. I mean really, I love Kraftwerk, but I'm not about to pay 20 bucks to see 4 guys on stage press play on a DAT machine.
There has to be a middle ground that continues to make it worthwhile for people to make these forms of music.
Hostility, as I pointed out in a previous comment, is found in the real world in the same proportions as it is on f.e. Slashdot. It's there, it's part of human life
Sure it is. But if you're in a bar between a group of hippies and drunken cops and shout out "Down with the man!" Who gets pounded? Mostly you.
In the world of newsgroups, the hippies take the beating and you get to sit there laughing.
That's what personal responsability does. It makes the person who deserves the beating, get the beating
Personnally, what I'd like to see even more than electronic personal responsibility is some sort of parity of effort.
In the real world to annoy two hundred people each for half an hour takes a hundred hours of prank calls. In the net world it takes 30 seconds to redirect follows-up to rec.guns or talk.abortion.
My understanding is that IEE 1391 (aka firewire) is a peer-peer connection whereas USB is host-based.
It's 1394, otherwise you're correct...
So, to return to the point, what evidence have you that firewire is a dead-end technology?
I'm not going to say dead end, but it's certainly not doing well. It's been available for a few years longer than USB, but has less market support and fewer products available. Many of the big companies are avoiding it, Intel isn't putting support into their chipsets and the Micros~1 ddk support is ultra weak. And if you can't write Windows drivers for a device, it won't get mass market appeal.
Consumer market where unit costs are critical, is completely different from the techical market where robustness, functionality and future development path credibility is much more highly valued
Except where are the professional products that use Firewire? The only products I know of currently are Sony video cameras, and those appear to be targeted at the consumer level.
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That's a reasonable, what's not reasonable is Signal 11's instance that all music becomes free advertising for the concerts.
If all music is free there is no album to promote by giving away mp3s.
-Rob
Bang! You've just made it impossible for many studio musicians to make a living.
Boom! You just killed off Techno and Industrial and any other form of music that's hard to play live. I mean really, I love Kraftwerk, but I'm not about to pay 20 bucks to see 4 guys on stage press play on a DAT machine.
There has to be a middle ground that continues to make it worthwhile for people to make these forms of music.
-Rob
Hostility, as I pointed out in a previous comment, is found in the real world in the same proportions as it is on f.e. Slashdot. It's there, it's part of human life
Sure it is. But if you're in a bar between a group of hippies and drunken cops and shout out "Down with the man!" Who gets pounded? Mostly you.
In the world of newsgroups, the hippies take the beating and you get to sit there laughing.
That's what personal responsability does. It makes the person who deserves the beating, get the beating
Personnally, what I'd like to see even more than electronic personal responsibility is some sort of parity of effort.
In the real world to annoy two hundred people each for half an hour takes a hundred hours of prank calls. In the net world it takes 30 seconds to redirect follows-up to rec.guns or talk.abortion.
Doesn't seem fair to me.
-Rob
My understanding is that IEE 1391 (aka firewire) is a peer-peer connection whereas USB is host-based.
It's 1394, otherwise you're correct...
So, to return to the point, what evidence have you that firewire is a dead-end technology?
I'm not going to say dead end, but it's certainly not doing well. It's been available for a few years longer than USB, but has less market support and fewer products available. Many of the big companies are avoiding it, Intel isn't putting support into their chipsets and the Micros~1 ddk support is ultra weak. And if you can't write Windows drivers for a device, it won't get mass market appeal.
Consumer market where unit costs are critical, is completely different from the techical market where robustness, functionality and future development path credibility is much more highly valued
Except where are the professional products that use Firewire? The only products I know of currently are Sony video cameras, and those appear to be targeted at the consumer level.
-Rob