Sex appeal is the only force left with respect to the evolution of human beings. We're far too smart to be influenced by anything less barring a catastrophic environmental change.
And where are the most sexally appealing people these days? The internet! Where else can you masturbate to a picture of a highly attractive person while chatting to an intelligent one at the same time! Let the breeding begin!
There's also the problem of cosmic radiation which is fatal to humans if exposed to it for too long. If I remember correctly, a simple journey to Mars would be impossible to achieve unless there was a way to shield the craft from cosmic radiation. Does anyone know if there has already been a methode developed to deflect the radiation?
I played doom since the day it came out on my 286-12MHZ box. And somehow I still became a rational engineer with a family and no history of violence....
Of course you did! You can't see a thing playing Doom on a 286-12Mhz! I had a hard enough time making out what I was shooting on a 386-25Mhz!
Hmmm...Go into debt to be taught how to code better and more innovative software so the university can sell it at a profit while you get little out of their benefit other than graduating and probably finding employment in the ever growing and creatively stunted field of white collar paper pusher? Sounds reasonable to me.
my electronic music geek friends and i have a site at dot9 and we are in the process of having all our music encoded to ogg. unfortunately we have to educate a lot of the people who d/l the songs about the format, but i guess we're doing our part to spread the knowledge of ogg vorbis and it's amazing low bitrate encoding.
i think the 'free rider' theory has some teeth in this matter. the classic example of the free rider, that i know of from reading Randall Collins' book 'Sociological Insight', is someone who takes the bus every day and one day the transit system decides to have people donate any amount of money they want to take the bus. this includes not paying anything at all. what tends to happen is people start thinking up excuses or reasons not to pay like 'I don't take the bus often enough' or 'Someone else will pay.' after a while, very few people pay to take the bus.
i suspect irc kids being in a similar situation. it's easier for them to d/l the software off themselves when you have the means to do so instead of going down to store to buy a game that you haven't played very much other than a demo or at all. all the while they are able to think up reasons and excuses like the one you mentioned (it's not good enough to buy) or it's popular enough not to have them pay for it (others will pay).
Obviously the main difference between software piracy and stealing is that when someone steals someone else's television set that television is removed from the original owner. software piracy is the equivalent of someone, somehow, being able to magically create an exact copy of that television set for practically nothing and using that copy for his/herself. the owner misses nothing. the resources aren't being distributed, they are being multiplied.
'I mean how long did the RIAA think all this could last? Lets see what exactly do they do? They write the music right? No wait. They play it? Again no. So then... they record it? Nope. Basically they get rich, I think thats all they really do.'
It's called 'investing.' You have to guess which artists will be successful and which will fail.
Here's an example of a missed opportunity of good investing:
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
'They'll dump you and then just phone up the model agency and ask for 5 more people who look OK and can sort-of dance. No singing ability required.'
Have you seen an 'nsync or a britney and a christina show? There's some major work and choreography involved. These people are far from talentless. There's a reason why they are so popular and it's certainly not just because they're good looking or 'can soft-of dance.' The music industry might have hoards of money but they can't just buy talent. They find talent and exploit it for all it's worth until they find the next successful artist.
The music industry aren't creators of musical culture as much as they are opportunists with dollar signs in their eyes. Whether it is song&dance or metal or electronica or cajun, they don't care as long as their's profit to be made.
I've yet to see any Linux ads on television. Maybe if enough money was rounded up for some television time there might be some more interest. The fact the ad was on television would alone cause enough of a stir.
'2. Alternative Advocacy:
a) Put Linux on every computer you can.
b) Educate, amuse, and entertain the people you come into contact with about the alternatives. Make it fun, not a chore.'
I would love to have Linux on my computer if only I could keep running the audio apps and music composing software I constantly use in Windows. My room mate installed Linux on his computer and tried to run a program we both use frequently called Buzz in Wine but it would barely work.
Until I'm able to find some composing software for Linux which equals or rivals the one's available for Windows, i'm stuck with Microsoft.
to me because i never deal with major releases. rarely will i ever buy anything released (or as a more exact term: distributed) by universal or...ummm, universal and...universal. as an avid music listener and composer this copy protection doesn't really bother me at all. so i can't play or rip a charlie pride or possibly some other boy band disc on my PC. i won't cry over it.
as most of us know, most of the major labels (label?) have so many middle men and procedures that very little of the money off a CD is given to the artist. the artist mostly sells their music to the label to be given promotion and financial advances to be able to pay rent and eat...barely. i was in a group that was signed to a major label which was associated to universal. the group is still paying off a loan the group had taken out to pay for studio time. i believe the label had paid part of the studio fee. the guitarist works as a ticket agent for a local theatre. the drummer is working 70 hours per week as a session drummer and barely makes 15 thousand cdn per year i think. i have to work as a customer service representative for a cellphone company to survive and focus on music in between my shifts.
a lot of the labels i do respect are small ones. one without an almost infinit budget to spend on promotional videos, banners, radio airplay, etc. most of these small labels also split the profits 50/50 between the people behind the label and the artists. the middle people who work for these small labels mostly do it for free. the most they get are free label releases and get into shows. and, most of the time, the label barely breaks even. yet they keep releasing albums whenever they can. why? because they _believe_ in and _love_ music!
the major labels might have had the right intentions in the beginning but they lost it over time. they are always worried about losing anything or even breaking even. there must always be a finacial profit, hence: copy protected CDs.
if i go on a p2p client right now and look for any music i really enjoy i will rarely find any. but if i put in nsync or some other pop stars i get hundreds if not thousands of hits. are we to seriously believe that all these mp3s i'm staring at are killing universal's profits? and even if they are, does that mean they won't be able to throw another few million towards an 'entertaining' music video, meant always to be promotional, instead a truely creative piece of visual art? i wouldn't be surprised there are many truely great thought provoking artists who are washing dishes for a living because their vision doesn't match a potential and exploitable demographic.
major labels aren't the end all/be all of music distribution. i think a lot of you are forgetting that. the music industry, as a giant corporate machine, is useless. they are simply the bigger kid with the biggest wad of cash in their pocket who are able to buy bits of your attention span and environment. this is not a new idea! you all know this i'm sure, but i get the feeling that many of you are leaving it behind.
a lot of artists look up to these great promotional machines as their way of getting larger exposure but they simply don't realize that unless they become quite big the machine will just spit them out and they will be left to fend for themselves yet again. also, major labels invest in cultural fads for finacial gain while most small labels invest in art simply because they enjoy music. who do you think i give more respect as a music lover and an artist?
i know this goes a little off topic, but it does relate to why these copy protection cds aren't really that important unless all you listen to is what universal records is putting out. i'm willing to bet that small record labels find the whole concept of copy protection laughable. they don't necessarily agree with people ripping complete albums and people making complete album copies and never investing any money into their efforts to share music they love, but they do know that mp3s are an excellent way of people knowing about them because they can't afford buying the amount of promotional space and time major labels can. personally i've found MUCH more music and artists i like because of mp3s than watching television or listening to the radio. again, this is not a new idea!
you DON'T need to eat up everything the major labels feed you because what they are feeding you is entertainment for the sake of profit. they almost never give people any challenging or thought provoking art simply because they love it.
here, i'll make it even easier for you: replace 'major labels' with 'microsoft' and 'small labels' with 'open source'. it's almost exactly the same situation.
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And where are the most sexally appealing people these days? The internet! Where else can you masturbate to a picture of a highly attractive person while chatting to an intelligent one at the same time! Let the breeding begin!
There's also the problem of cosmic radiation which is fatal to humans if exposed to it for too long. If I remember correctly, a simple journey to Mars would be impossible to achieve unless there was a way to shield the craft from cosmic radiation. Does anyone know if there has already been a methode developed to deflect the radiation?
Why does this statement scare me a little?
'I got a NAUGHTY feeling about this.'
i'm eager for the day that p2ps support ogg vorbis. how difficult could it be?
Of course you did! You can't see a thing playing Doom on a 286-12Mhz! I had a hard enough time making out what I was shooting on a 386-25Mhz!
Hmmm...Go into debt to be taught how to code better and more innovative software so the university can sell it at a profit while you get little out of their benefit other than graduating and probably finding employment in the ever growing and creatively stunted field of white collar paper pusher? Sounds reasonable to me.
Karma backlash caused by senedipity 2?
well, is it?
my electronic music geek friends and i have a site at dot9 and we are in the process of having all our music encoded to ogg. unfortunately we have to educate a lot of the people who d/l the songs about the format, but i guess we're doing our part to spread the knowledge of ogg vorbis and it's amazing low bitrate encoding.
i suspect irc kids being in a similar situation. it's easier for them to d/l the software off themselves when you have the means to do so instead of going down to store to buy a game that you haven't played very much other than a demo or at all. all the while they are able to think up reasons and excuses like the one you mentioned (it's not good enough to buy) or it's popular enough not to have them pay for it (others will pay).
Obviously the main difference between software piracy and stealing is that when someone steals someone else's television set that television is removed from the original owner. software piracy is the equivalent of someone, somehow, being able to magically create an exact copy of that television set for practically nothing and using that copy for his/herself. the owner misses nothing. the resources aren't being distributed, they are being multiplied.
i was able to read a significant amount of threads in the 2001 topic while i was waiting for my excite email account to load. going on 15 minutes now.
How about 'Lackintosh?'
'I mean how long did the RIAA think all this could last? Lets see what exactly do they do? They write the music right? No wait. They play it? Again no. So then... they record it? Nope. Basically they get rich, I think thats all they really do.'
It's called 'investing.' You have to guess which artists will be successful and which will fail.
Here's an example of a missed opportunity of good investing:
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
'They'll dump you and then just phone up the model agency and ask for 5 more people who look OK and can sort-of dance. No singing ability required.'
Have you seen an 'nsync or a britney and a christina show? There's some major work and choreography involved. These people are far from talentless. There's a reason why they are so popular and it's certainly not just because they're good looking or 'can soft-of dance.' The music industry might have hoards of money but they can't just buy talent. They find talent and exploit it for all it's worth until they find the next successful artist.
The music industry aren't creators of musical culture as much as they are opportunists with dollar signs in their eyes. Whether it is song&dance or metal or electronica or cajun, they don't care as long as their's profit to be made.
Heh.
'Look man! A rock! And it's alive! How do i know? Cuz there's a whole bunch of them and their all under water! Cool.'
I've yet to see any Linux ads on television. Maybe if enough money was rounded up for some television time there might be some more interest. The fact the ad was on television would alone cause enough of a stir.
'For some reason this reminds me of the movie Armageddon.'
Why would anyone WANT to be reminded of the movie Armegeddon?
'2. Alternative Advocacy:
a) Put Linux on every computer you can.
b) Educate, amuse, and entertain the people you come into contact with about the alternatives. Make it fun, not a chore.'
I would love to have Linux on my computer if only I could keep running the audio apps and music composing software I constantly use in Windows. My room mate installed Linux on his computer and tried to run a program we both use frequently called Buzz in Wine but it would barely work.
Until I'm able to find some composing software for Linux which equals or rivals the one's available for Windows, i'm stuck with Microsoft.
Someone should really help this guy out. pitfall
Here.
excerpt from the 'heritage' ad:
Some guy: 'Isn't that right Mr. Marconi?'
Mr. Marconi: 'Yes...Over the ocean...Through the Air...For the first time...Ever.'
It's almost as amazing as the people trapped in the mines who drank their own...you know.
maybe i could teach my cat to use it. oh wait, cats always land on their feet anyway. a dog? really intoxicated people?
we'll see what come of this.
to me because i never deal with major releases. rarely will i ever buy anything released (or as a more exact term: distributed) by universal or...ummm, universal and...universal. as an avid music listener and composer this copy protection doesn't really bother me at all. so i can't play or rip a charlie pride or possibly some other boy band disc on my PC. i won't cry over it.
as most of us know, most of the major labels (label?) have so many middle men and procedures that very little of the money off a CD is given to the artist. the artist mostly sells their music to the label to be given promotion and financial advances to be able to pay rent and eat...barely. i was in a group that was signed to a major label which was associated to universal. the group is still paying off a loan the group had taken out to pay for studio time. i believe the label had paid part of the studio fee. the guitarist works as a ticket agent for a local theatre. the drummer is working 70 hours per week as a session drummer and barely makes 15 thousand cdn per year i think. i have to work as a customer service representative for a cellphone company to survive and focus on music in between my shifts.
a lot of the labels i do respect are small ones. one without an almost infinit budget to spend on promotional videos, banners, radio airplay, etc. most of these small labels also split the profits 50/50 between the people behind the label and the artists. the middle people who work for these small labels mostly do it for free. the most they get are free label releases and get into shows. and, most of the time, the label barely breaks even. yet they keep releasing albums whenever they can. why? because they _believe_ in and _love_ music!
the major labels might have had the right intentions in the beginning but they lost it over time. they are always worried about losing anything or even breaking even. there must always be a finacial profit, hence: copy protected CDs.
if i go on a p2p client right now and look for any music i really enjoy i will rarely find any. but if i put in nsync or some other pop stars i get hundreds if not thousands of hits. are we to seriously believe that all these mp3s i'm staring at are killing universal's profits? and even if they are, does that mean they won't be able to throw another few million towards an 'entertaining' music video, meant always to be promotional, instead a truely creative piece of visual art? i wouldn't be surprised there are many truely great thought provoking artists who are washing dishes for a living because their vision doesn't match a potential and exploitable demographic.
major labels aren't the end all/be all of music distribution. i think a lot of you are forgetting that. the music industry, as a giant corporate machine, is useless. they are simply the bigger kid with the biggest wad of cash in their pocket who are able to buy bits of your attention span and environment. this is not a new idea! you all know this i'm sure, but i get the feeling that many of you are leaving it behind.
a lot of artists look up to these great promotional machines as their way of getting larger exposure but they simply don't realize that unless they become quite big the machine will just spit them out and they will be left to fend for themselves yet again. also, major labels invest in cultural fads for finacial gain while most small labels invest in art simply because they enjoy music. who do you think i give more respect as a music lover and an artist?
i know this goes a little off topic, but it does relate to why these copy protection cds aren't really that important unless all you listen to is what universal records is putting out. i'm willing to bet that small record labels find the whole concept of copy protection laughable. they don't necessarily agree with people ripping complete albums and people making complete album copies and never investing any money into their efforts to share music they love, but they do know that mp3s are an excellent way of people knowing about them because they can't afford buying the amount of promotional space and time major labels can. personally i've found MUCH more music and artists i like because of mp3s than watching television or listening to the radio. again, this is not a new idea!
you DON'T need to eat up everything the major labels feed you because what they are feeding you is entertainment for the sake of profit. they almost never give people any challenging or thought provoking art simply because they love it.
here, i'll make it even easier for you: replace 'major labels' with 'microsoft' and 'small labels' with 'open source'. it's almost exactly the same situation.