I am glad to see someone finally write this. I worked for one of the major labels for nearly a decade, largely on the business side. Frankly, I am fed up with hearing how "evil" the records companies were, and how exploited the artists were under the old system. When it comes right down to it, we invested in people. The vast majority of those investments never paid off. We made a lot of guesses about which bands and artists would be "commercially" marketable.
As a front employee, I spent tremendous amounts of time and effort evaluating up and coming artists, made the pitches to my bosses that we should invest in specific acts because they had talent and marketability. We spent money trying to help them create an image, and try to give them an edge to compete in the marketplace. Occasionally, it would pay off. Personally, I never saw what I was doing with quite the cynicism, and malice people usually ascribed to record label "fat cats." Our company executives, were like any company executives. They were reliant on all the hard work of their front line employees.
To me, the interesting part left out of all this is the fact that you could make a living in the music business. You could be skilled as a producer, engineer, session musician, manager, etc and make a living at it. Most of that money is just gone because artists do not get the venture capital to find their business anymore.
Interestingly, I make my living at one of the big tech companies now. (and I really like my job and make a good living).
Will watching porn on the Kindle Fire update my Amazon suggested deals with sex toys, farm implements, and old romance novels with Fabio on the covers?
It might not be so bad if they can get satellite TV, and Internet. Sure the latency would be bad, but they could just cache a bunch of content in Martian orbit. It could be an awesome off site deduplication store. I could sell it to the Feds. They are paranoid about Business Continuity.
If I worked at Intel in the group developing a product, I would keep my mouth shut, even if I was an intern. There are possibly a large group of smart dedicated people trying to make this happen.
I am less concerned about the lack of UMD. There are good consumer friendly reasons to lose the slow, fragile optical format. What concern me is the failure of Sony to make a better PSP experience. The ergonomics of device are horrible. They still failed to include dual analog controllers. How good is the internal speakers. Is battery life improved? Does bluetooth support DUN? Isn't the wireless still 802.11b? No multi-touch screen for an on screen keyboard?
UMD-less is the least oftheir problems.
That's baloney. For many centuries singers and bards were a primary entertainment, bringer of news, and preservers of history. How do you think the tales of Homer were propagated? Human history is primarily an oral history preserved through song. Why? Rhyme is more easily remembered.
Certainly the modern music industry is a predicate of the industrial revolution. People, and consumers still value fixed recordings of performances; however, digital recordings are a divisible good, and do not feel they are stealing when they copy a song or album. Someone else will pay the costs. It is simply another "Tragedy of the Commons." Especially when there is the "evil" record company executive who is exploiting the artist, anyhow.
Could you imagine that they run the rover over the American flag, then go back and forward a couple times, and for an encore, they wipe out the first steps. Then some Congress critter says, "Why there ought to be a law!"
In five years, Wikipedia will likely become the most authoritative source for all basic information. It really is becoming one of the most amazing cooperative human endeavors when you consider it's scope and scale on even the most mundane and obscure topics.
There are an awful lot of assumptions made in astronomical measurements. Numbers that are bandied about have huge margins for error based on a series of interdependent assumptions. Not only is this estimated to be 12 billion light years distant; obviously, this event occurred in the distant past near the beginning of the Universe itself.
I for one, would not get a new MacBook. For professional musicians, and prosumer hobbyists, Firewire audio interfaces are clearly superior to USB interfaces. I don't see that changing in the near future. Since Apple and Apogee are dominant parties in the music sector this decision surprises me.
Is Child porn really this huge of an issue. While I certainly know the sexual abuse of children is awful betrayal of childhood trust, and deserved to be penalized by society, I certainly don't want to make fighting the crime worse than the crime itself, and give law enforcement more tools ripe for abuse.
Comcast wants you use use their provided cable TV packages for you television viewing needs, especially the pay per view ON DEMAND function. Comcast is protecting their investments and profits.
I read this as "If you are streaming video, then you are undermining our cash cow, Cable TV, and we will do everything in our power to protect our most vital asset."
It is open enough with support for the Mobipocket software. Easily create supported books. I just bought the Sony PRS-505 because of just released firmware supporting EPUB and Adobe DRM. Really like the Sony reader.
I had both at one time or another. Nice idea, but they were just ahead of their time. I think I need to go get my Omnibook 300 out of storage. Yeah, I still have one.
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Cockatoos are some of the most adorable, sweet, cuddly...flip the switch...mean, aggressive, dangerous animals I have ever worked with.
I bet Intel is not amused by this. They have a huge presence in Chandler, AZ, and employ a multinational workforce.
All your base are belong to us.
I am glad to see someone finally write this. I worked for one of the major labels for nearly a decade, largely on the business side. Frankly, I am fed up with hearing how "evil" the records companies were, and how exploited the artists were under the old system. When it comes right down to it, we invested in people. The vast majority of those investments never paid off. We made a lot of guesses about which bands and artists would be "commercially" marketable. As a front employee, I spent tremendous amounts of time and effort evaluating up and coming artists, made the pitches to my bosses that we should invest in specific acts because they had talent and marketability. We spent money trying to help them create an image, and try to give them an edge to compete in the marketplace. Occasionally, it would pay off. Personally, I never saw what I was doing with quite the cynicism, and malice people usually ascribed to record label "fat cats." Our company executives, were like any company executives. They were reliant on all the hard work of their front line employees. To me, the interesting part left out of all this is the fact that you could make a living in the music business. You could be skilled as a producer, engineer, session musician, manager, etc and make a living at it. Most of that money is just gone because artists do not get the venture capital to find their business anymore. Interestingly, I make my living at one of the big tech companies now. (and I really like my job and make a good living).
She put a bullet Through his hat But he's had closer Shaves than that With Burma-Shave
It's a great big universe, and we're all really puny.
Apparently, you never lived in Los Angeles.
Will watching porn on the Kindle Fire update my Amazon suggested deals with sex toys, farm implements, and old romance novels with Fabio on the covers?
It might not be so bad if they can get satellite TV, and Internet. Sure the latency would be bad, but they could just cache a bunch of content in Martian orbit. It could be an awesome off site deduplication store. I could sell it to the Feds. They are paranoid about Business Continuity.
If I worked at Intel in the group developing a product, I would keep my mouth shut, even if I was an intern. There are possibly a large group of smart dedicated people trying to make this happen.
I am less concerned about the lack of UMD. There are good consumer friendly reasons to lose the slow, fragile optical format. What concern me is the failure of Sony to make a better PSP experience. The ergonomics of device are horrible. They still failed to include dual analog controllers. How good is the internal speakers. Is battery life improved? Does bluetooth support DUN? Isn't the wireless still 802.11b? No multi-touch screen for an on screen keyboard? UMD-less is the least oftheir problems.
Yes, that's the only way to do it, by motorcycle...and nice hotels.
That's baloney. For many centuries singers and bards were a primary entertainment, bringer of news, and preservers of history. How do you think the tales of Homer were propagated? Human history is primarily an oral history preserved through song. Why? Rhyme is more easily remembered. Certainly the modern music industry is a predicate of the industrial revolution. People, and consumers still value fixed recordings of performances; however, digital recordings are a divisible good, and do not feel they are stealing when they copy a song or album. Someone else will pay the costs. It is simply another "Tragedy of the Commons." Especially when there is the "evil" record company executive who is exploiting the artist, anyhow.
"General Atomics" Sounds like a company from a 1950's Robert Heinlein novel.
Could you imagine that they run the rover over the American flag, then go back and forward a couple times, and for an encore, they wipe out the first steps. Then some Congress critter says, "Why there ought to be a law!"
In five years, Wikipedia will likely become the most authoritative source for all basic information. It really is becoming one of the most amazing cooperative human endeavors when you consider it's scope and scale on even the most mundane and obscure topics.
Erosion has probably already destroyed the first footsteps on the Moon.
There are an awful lot of assumptions made in astronomical measurements. Numbers that are bandied about have huge margins for error based on a series of interdependent assumptions. Not only is this estimated to be 12 billion light years distant; obviously, this event occurred in the distant past near the beginning of the Universe itself.
I for one, would not get a new MacBook. For professional musicians, and prosumer hobbyists, Firewire audio interfaces are clearly superior to USB interfaces. I don't see that changing in the near future. Since Apple and Apogee are dominant parties in the music sector this decision surprises me.
Is Child porn really this huge of an issue. While I certainly know the sexual abuse of children is awful betrayal of childhood trust, and deserved to be penalized by society, I certainly don't want to make fighting the crime worse than the crime itself, and give law enforcement more tools ripe for abuse.
Comcast wants you use use their provided cable TV packages for you television viewing needs, especially the pay per view ON DEMAND function. Comcast is protecting their investments and profits.
I read this as "If you are streaming video, then you are undermining our cash cow, Cable TV, and we will do everything in our power to protect our most vital asset."
It is open enough with support for the Mobipocket software. Easily create supported books. I just bought the Sony PRS-505 because of just released firmware supporting EPUB and Adobe DRM. Really like the Sony reader.
It's $700!
I had both at one time or another. Nice idea, but they were just ahead of their time. I think I need to go get my Omnibook 300 out of storage. Yeah, I still have one.