80 cents to the record companies who have done essentially NOTHING except allow a form of sales that requires them to produce no physical product.
Depending on the business arrangement the record label is actually doing a lot of things including promotion, production advances, distribution and further A&R development. People working for record labels are not the RIAA themselves. The sheer ignorance in the assertation that Those Big Bad Record Companies don't do anything is mind boggling! For every record I can assure you that there are hundreds of hard working people's salaries represented in that 80% figure. When you take that into account 1/5th between two individual parties (artist and Apple) is really quite equitable.
Agreed. I find PocketPC users tend to be a little less utilitarian with their choice of purchase. My friend has 512MB of storage on his Dell Axium, he can play videos and mp3s however his contact manager is empty and he hasn't "got around to" syncing his PDA with his email inbox. This is not uncommon I find.
Conversely my old Palm m125 is full of everyone I would possibly contact, syncs my email, has tons of free games and features really innovative software that I actually use like ThinkDB and Thoughtmanager. This is purely annecdotal but in my experience PocketPC users tend to focus on the things they can brag about rather than the practical tasks they can accomplish with their PDA. There are of course exceptions to the rule, always.
Also I've found Palm's industrial designs to be a lot more refined and often more innovative than most PocketPCs. It makes sense considering that as the underdog PocketPC manufacturers are including more features as opposed to refining software and designs. It preys on that ingrained perception in technology consumers minds that the quantity of features is far more important than the quality. It makes sense because it's hard to make an assessment of quality on marketing material paper or websites...
What you're experiencing is a cost premium for albums that aren't being produced anymore. But they often get released again, especially around the time an artist is being promoted for a new album like Rush is/was for Vapour Trails.
User interface within Windows has been at acceptable to good levels since Windows 95. They aren't going to win any more of the desktop market by making it look fancier. Microsoft should instead be focusing completely on security, performance, interoperability, stability, and flexibility - you know, all of the things that are allowing Linux to kill Microsoft on the server side.
Yeah, it's really too bad this is a consumer operating system. You know where linux is the underdog. There are a lot of home users who need an accessible and usable interface than there are expert users who need to run a fail-proof operating system.
I completely disagree that Windows usability has been at "acceptable to good" levels since win95. Ask anybody with a disability about that, you'll get an honest answer. Not to mention internationalization. But leave it to linux zealots to down-play the importance of being able to use the computer and stress the importance of securing it. Awfully elitist if you think about it.
Security and stability are similarly as important as usability and accessibility. They both are not static issues.
This reads mostly like real oppositional bullshit. The claim that are personalities are hard written in our genetics is absolutely absurd and overly simplified. Everyone ought to read about mutability. The binary definitions of introvert/extrovert are really simplistic and I'm sure define most people as something they are not. I understand that introverts are a minority but this seems like a pretty puritanical philosophy on life that encourages people to pigeon-hole themselves. Speaking from personal perspective I can move between extroversion and introversion day-to-day sometimes hour-to-hour.
Also I think this book might be a bit of a placebo for those who are suffering from depression or social anxiety. Not so healthy.
With good software the bandwidth limitations of GPRS can be overcome. For instance perhaps trickling and moderately sized and compressed copy of the oldest modified image on the camera as you take shots would seem more appropriate to compose a real-time contact sheet back at the office. Having to be in a WiFi hotspot to throw 512mb+ of images back home seems a little superfluous to me.
The fact remains that both public WiFi hotspots and GPRS service is spotty except in areas where network access is fairly ubiquitous anyhow. Maybe in another 2-5 years, weather permitting.
Who would like a kitchen sink with your camera too?
... you end up paying for Ableton Live, which is strange and IMHO counter-intuitive
Ableton Live is for live performance which Soundtrack or Acid are not designed towards primarily. For instance you can play a riff into live, sample and loop it dynamically amongst other things.
Yeah, this is the obligatory karma whoring post about using jabber. This Sun IM is really only useful for on-site communication and I think is only intended as that. Why is this on the front page?
A well managed and promoted tour can make a band a lot more money than records these days. I think our focus on recordings rather than showmanship and musicianship in our culture is what causes talentless hacks with lotsa money and technology to make it big. More and more musicians I know are glad to embrace their lives as part of the "minstrel class" and give up on selling obscene quantities of records.
I dunno, I think anyone using an operating system with permissions would be a mighty bit hypocritical complaining about "permissions" on documents. It's not like they're enforcing screwed up IP law here.
Yeah, didn't Vice also defect from Montreal to NYC? They also made smart moves like opening the Vice store and their distribution model was different, it's free in your local hip Queen St. W record or clothing store. I'm sure your aware of this but I'm just pointing it out to others. I can say for certain but if Shift used those methods it would have been a different magazine.
Oh, and an important point I'd like to make is just because a company doesn't turn a profit doesn't mean their product is without value. In fact if people find value in a product and it can't find a way to be profitable it outlines a problem with the system in general. Not that think Shift couldn't have been profitable but the circumstances are likely very complex.
CNN reported today that everyone should panic. PANIC NOW.
PANIC!
You're not panicing, PANIC DAMMIT! Panic Code Red. PANIC PANIC PANIC AND TUNE INTO CNN AND PANIC!
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I need a machine that'll get me heated up and blown for about five minutes. It's all I need really.
Conversely my old Palm m125 is full of everyone I would possibly contact, syncs my email, has tons of free games and features really innovative software that I actually use like ThinkDB and Thoughtmanager. This is purely annecdotal but in my experience PocketPC users tend to focus on the things they can brag about rather than the practical tasks they can accomplish with their PDA. There are of course exceptions to the rule, always.
Also I've found Palm's industrial designs to be a lot more refined and often more innovative than most PocketPCs. It makes sense considering that as the underdog PocketPC manufacturers are including more features as opposed to refining software and designs. It preys on that ingrained perception in technology consumers minds that the quantity of features is far more important than the quality. It makes sense because it's hard to make an assessment of quality on marketing material paper or websites...
Not true! Rush's entire back catalog has been re-mastered and released from $12-13 each. You can get them for $10 each at the HMV in downtown Toronto.
What you're experiencing is a cost premium for albums that aren't being produced anymore. But they often get released again, especially around the time an artist is being promoted for a new album like Rush is/was for Vapour Trails.
DHTML? I'm having flashbacks to 1996.
Yeah, it's really too bad this is a consumer operating system. You know where linux is the underdog. There are a lot of home users who need an accessible and usable interface than there are expert users who need to run a fail-proof operating system.
I completely disagree that Windows usability has been at "acceptable to good" levels since win95. Ask anybody with a disability about that, you'll get an honest answer. Not to mention internationalization. But leave it to linux zealots to down-play the importance of being able to use the computer and stress the importance of securing it. Awfully elitist if you think about it.
Security and stability are similarly as important as usability and accessibility. They both are not static issues.
Also I think this book might be a bit of a placebo for those who are suffering from depression or social anxiety. Not so healthy.
With good software the bandwidth limitations of GPRS can be overcome. For instance perhaps trickling and moderately sized and compressed copy of the oldest modified image on the camera as you take shots would seem more appropriate to compose a real-time contact sheet back at the office. Having to be in a WiFi hotspot to throw 512mb+ of images back home seems a little superfluous to me.
The fact remains that both public WiFi hotspots and GPRS service is spotty except in areas where network access is fairly ubiquitous anyhow. Maybe in another 2-5 years, weather permitting.
Who would like a kitchen sink with your camera too?
... you end up paying for Ableton Live, which is strange and IMHO counter-intuitive
Ableton Live is for live performance which Soundtrack or Acid are not designed towards primarily. For instance you can play a riff into live, sample and loop it dynamically amongst other things.
"dot-bio boom"?! There's an over-simplified buzzword raped straight from CNN.
Eww, that furry cartoon holding the amiga beachball is kinda creeping me out.
Thank you sound meter!
Personally I think the matrix code background says professional much louder than words like "monotonic", "inelastic" and "valuation".
Yeah, they all love to get fucked!
Etch them into gold platters. They'll last really long that way.
Yeah, this is the obligatory karma whoring post about using jabber. This Sun IM is really only useful for on-site communication and I think is only intended as that. Why is this on the front page?
I feel like I rent my inkjet printer.
Oh please, just how nave is that? As if he isn't still very much connected to Halliburton in unofficial ways.
You know that makes you sound like a bit of a philistine, right? Perhaps you mean that nobody should be solely a recording artist these days?
A well managed and promoted tour can make a band a lot more money than records these days. I think our focus on recordings rather than showmanship and musicianship in our culture is what causes talentless hacks with lotsa money and technology to make it big. More and more musicians I know are glad to embrace their lives as part of the "minstrel class" and give up on selling obscene quantities of records.
Works for me.
I dunno, I think anyone using an operating system with permissions would be a mighty bit hypocritical complaining about "permissions" on documents. It's not like they're enforcing screwed up IP law here.
And the security will probably suck.
Yeah, didn't Vice also defect from Montreal to NYC? They also made smart moves like opening the Vice store and their distribution model was different, it's free in your local hip Queen St. W record or clothing store. I'm sure your aware of this but I'm just pointing it out to others. I can say for certain but if Shift used those methods it would have been a different magazine.
Oh, and an important point I'd like to make is just because a company doesn't turn a profit doesn't mean their product is without value. In fact if people find value in a product and it can't find a way to be profitable it outlines a problem with the system in general. Not that think Shift couldn't have been profitable but the circumstances are likely very complex.
That's right, we're only supposed to read about America on slashdot! Nothing important ever came out of Canada. How self-loathing is that?!
CNN reported today that everyone should panic. PANIC NOW. PANIC! You're not panicing, PANIC DAMMIT! Panic Code Red. PANIC PANIC PANIC AND TUNE INTO CNN AND PANIC!