Lars says that they take their "art" very seriously. Which means they enjoy making music and they try their hardest not to make shitty music.
Yet thousands more bands who still aren't out of the clubs (or don't want to be) enjoy making music but don't bogart their fans' dollars. Metallica has been in the business for two decades. So what's the problem? They didn't make money from Ride the Lightning? Master of Puppets? When they finally up and sold out to eMpTV and let them play that damned "Until It Sleeps" video from dawn till dusk (well, now I guess it's "Nothing Else Matters Live")? It's artists like these who put their faces everywhere so their bands become household names, and then want all the money they can possibly lay their hands on.
If you enjoy making music, you should enjoy it. Not milk it because you're a f***ing rock star.
Look around your desktop. That is, your real one, not the one on your computer. If it's a total mess but you can find everything (like any self-respecting user), then you're good to go. Same goes for HTML. If _you_ can understand it, then why should you care that other people need to do the same?
...what about the code trimmers of the world? I took a look at the XHTML 1 spec and found a lot of rather useless new ways to read tags; for instance - you must use quotes around _everything_. This includes hex numbers for bgcoloring, table width, and more. W3 also said that coders must now close all of their
tags, which proves completely useless. Plus, now W3 is weaning the hard-coders of the world off of and adding in since it's an empty tag.
Maybe I'm just complaining, but when I take a look at the results of my hard-coded page to see how big it is and how long people have to wait, the little things _do_ count. I do agree that this is some extremely trivial stuff to be yacking on about, but I feel that there are a few old-schoolers out there that'll agree with me. And if there aren't, well, it doesn't matter.
This better just be a rumor. How would the Big Three sell Macs, anyway? Movie previews (Viacom)? Lunchboxes with pictures of Donald Duck smashing a G3 tower when it gives him a Type 11 error (Disney - duh)? Or maybe even...well, nothing really sarcastic for Time-Warner.
Any way it goes, though, this is one dedicated user (even though my current Mac - Performa 6205 - got rated as the worst Mac ever) that will hang on for dear life and laugh at all the 95/98 hosers that have to wait months to play Quake III:Arena after it comes out for Mac first! He he...
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no desktop icons, no active desktop. just me, three geoshell bars, and a copy of 2xExplorer.
Let me see if I've got this straight...
Lars says that they take their "art" very seriously. Which means they enjoy making music and they try their hardest not to make shitty music.
Yet thousands more bands who still aren't out of the clubs (or don't want to be) enjoy making music but don't bogart their fans' dollars. Metallica has been in the business for two decades. So what's the problem? They didn't make money from Ride the Lightning? Master of Puppets? When they finally up and sold out to eMpTV and let them play that damned "Until It Sleeps" video from dawn till dusk (well, now I guess it's "Nothing Else Matters Live")? It's artists like these who put their faces everywhere so their bands become household names, and then want all the money they can possibly lay their hands on.
If you enjoy making music, you should enjoy it. Not milk it because you're a f***ing rock star.
Look around your desktop. That is, your real one, not the one on your computer. If it's a total mess but you can find everything (like any self-respecting user), then you're good to go. Same goes for HTML. If _you_ can understand it, then why should you care that other people need to do the same?
tags, which proves completely useless. Plus, now W3 is weaning the hard-coders of the world off of and adding in since it's an empty tag.
Maybe I'm just complaining, but when I take a look at the results of my hard-coded page to see how big it is and how long people have to wait, the little things _do_ count. I do agree that this is some extremely trivial stuff to be yacking on about, but I feel that there are a few old-schoolers out there that'll agree with me. And if there aren't, well, it doesn't matter.
Wow. This sucks.
This better just be a rumor. How would the Big Three sell Macs, anyway? Movie previews (Viacom)? Lunchboxes with pictures of Donald Duck smashing a G3 tower when it gives him a Type 11 error (Disney - duh)? Or maybe even...well, nothing really sarcastic for Time-Warner.
Any way it goes, though, this is one dedicated user (even though my current Mac - Performa 6205 - got rated as the worst Mac ever) that will hang on for dear life and laugh at all the 95/98 hosers that have to wait months to play Quake III:Arena after it comes out for Mac first! He he...