I plead guilty to still liking Fatboy Slim, which I'm sure would have
been very chic three years ago -- now it means I have no taste, apparently.
Well, I must really have no taste, as I liked FatBoy Slim back before he was Fatboy Slim, back when he was the lowley bassest and backup singer for the Housemartins.
If there are no major labels to underwrite recording and promotion costs, will there be any more big, slick, impressive bands touring nationwide? Or will acoustic folk make a comeback? Will local bands be all there is? Will big expensive stadium rock be underwritten by beer and cigarette companies? By Citicorp?
First point: If by local bands you mean bands not signed to major labels, aka indie rock bands, then, since many already tour nationally, and charge less for shows, then there is no problems with the gigantic corporate rock mess. This happened in the late 70's and early 80's, punk was accepted because many people stopped wanting to pay to hear rich prog-rock bands play 3 hour long concerts in stadiums where the only seats actually sold had a crappy view of the band.
Point the second: Who owns all of the stadiums now? The Tweeter Center, the Fleet Center, all arenas are owned by huge mega-corps anyway, the combination of these owners, and TicketMaster's near Monopoly on Tickets, means that Stadium concerts cost over $50 per seat in the crap sections, where you spend most of your time staring at a concrete support.
Please define children, Is a 17 year-old more vulnerable to a fps than an 18 year-old? How about a 16 year-old, how do we determine what ages are vulnerable to violent images, are all 18 year-olds more mature than all 17 year-olds?
Well, since the iMac is a monitor and a computer in one, I don't think that the LCD monitors are for the I macs, but rather the G4 and dual G4 machines.
One of the things people have said about with copyright protection on hard drives and CD-ROM drives is that anything requiring a hardware up-grade would fail because why would you upgrade to that. If for some reason all CD-ROM drives were recalled, then wouldn't we all have to get new ones? Wouldn't that be the "best"(for the RIAA/MPAA, worst for us) time to release copy-protected CD-ROM/harddrives?
That's probably true for major label acts, but not necessarily true for smaller acts. I've known bands that have made a release for under $500 dollars including recording and producing the media. This band has sold way more than 50 tapes at $10 each, which means $$profits$$. Of course those go into paying venues for the ability to play there. And the loop continues...
I know many unsigned bands, or bands that have formed their own labels to distribute themselves, and they need the 'publicity' more than the money, independant bands make money by doing day jobs, and trying to save up enough to tour, or make an album. The money they might make by playing a show is spent on food, gas and other items needed while on tour. Most smaller indie bands sell more cd's at shows than from any other method, and so to sell more CD's/tapes/12"/7" they need more people to see their shows. Releasing their music free on-line will lead to more people at their shows, and hopefully those people will buy merchandise at the show to support their bands.
Parents are now being advised to give their children no privacy, to prevent another shooting/mass murder event (It's funny, but my parents told me this). They are being encouraged to listen in over phone calls, to monitor their on-line activites (viewing the history and cache of the web browser), searching their rooms from time to time, spying on them, following their kids around after school, etc. It seems like kids aren't supposed to have any privacy anymore. My parents didn't spend too much quality time with me when I was younger, and i grew up just fine. They left me alone and I took the values I learned when I was very, very young and turned out all right. When parents try and control their kids lives and spend way too much time with them kids become resentful, and when parents don't trust their kids the kids won't talk to their parents. So the trick is to find the right balence between privacy and contact. If you are a good parent eventually your kids will trust you and come to talk to you without you forcing them.
Well I for one "love" Corel's idea's of native apps, right now they have a Linux port of WordPerfect, but how long will they keep porting. Corel hopes to use the help they are giving to the Wine project to allow Corel's Windows products to run without being ported. Soon they will drop all Linux support content in Wine's emulation to run their products, while they still get to have their name in the open source community and appear as a great company. If they are doing this what's to stop other companies from doing the exact same thing? Now would you feel like a second class citizen for running apps under wine?
FreeBSD already runs most linux applications, except vmware, without a problem, and still companies port software for FreeBSD, including realplayer and Netscape. OS/2 was not helped by it's lack of apps, but it failed to gain use for other reasons as well. OS/2 was direct competition with NT (Old versions)and couldn't compete with the user base/support/already made apps for NT. Also OS/2's place amongst Geeks was removed by Linux and FreeBSD which are both superior to OS/2. Plus IBM didn't market or support OS/2 very well. Plus the author of the article (IMHO) is not trying to say that FreeBSD is vastly superior to Linux, but that it has it's place in the world, and that it soon may get a surge of new users.
Brian
P.S. It's the end of the day, and after working all day i'm too lazy to check for spelling/grammer mistakes
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I plead guilty to still liking Fatboy Slim, which I'm sure would have been very chic three years ago -- now it means I have no taste, apparently.
Well, I must really have no taste, as I liked FatBoy Slim back before he was Fatboy Slim, back when he was the lowley bassest and backup singer for the Housemartins.
If there are no major labels to underwrite recording and promotion costs, will there be any more big, slick, impressive bands touring nationwide? Or will acoustic folk make a comeback? Will local bands be all there is? Will big expensive stadium rock be underwritten by beer and cigarette companies? By Citicorp?
First point:
If by local bands you mean bands not signed to major labels, aka indie rock bands, then, since many already tour nationally, and charge less for shows, then there is no problems with the gigantic corporate rock mess. This happened in the late 70's and early 80's, punk was accepted because many people stopped wanting to pay to hear rich prog-rock bands play 3 hour long concerts in stadiums where the only seats actually sold had a crappy view of the band. Point the second:
Who owns all of the stadiums now? The Tweeter Center, the Fleet Center, all arenas are owned by huge mega-corps anyway, the combination of these owners, and TicketMaster's near Monopoly on Tickets, means that Stadium concerts cost over $50 per seat in the crap sections, where you spend most of your time staring at a concrete support.
Please define children, Is a 17 year-old more vulnerable to a fps than an 18 year-old? How about a 16 year-old, how do we determine what ages are vulnerable to violent images, are all 18 year-olds more mature than all 17 year-olds?
Well, since the iMac is a monitor and a computer in one, I don't think that the LCD monitors are for the I macs, but rather the G4 and dual G4 machines.
One of the things people have said about with copyright protection on hard drives and CD-ROM drives is that anything requiring a hardware up-grade would fail because why would you upgrade to that. If for some reason all CD-ROM drives were recalled, then wouldn't we all have to get new ones? Wouldn't that be the "best"(for the RIAA/MPAA, worst for us) time to release copy-protected CD-ROM/harddrives?
That's probably true for major label acts, but not necessarily true for smaller acts. I've known bands that have made a release for under $500 dollars including recording and producing the media. This band has sold way more than 50 tapes at $10 each, which means $$profits$$. Of course those go into paying venues for the ability to play there. And the loop continues...
I know many unsigned bands, or bands that have formed their own labels to distribute themselves, and they need the 'publicity' more than the money, independant bands make money by doing day jobs, and trying to save up enough to tour, or make an album. The money they might make by playing a show is spent on food, gas and other items needed while on tour. Most smaller indie bands sell more cd's at shows than from any other method, and so to sell more CD's/tapes/12"/7" they need more people to see their shows. Releasing their music free on-line will lead to more people at their shows, and hopefully those people will buy merchandise at the show to support their bands.
sorry for any incoherance, need sleep or coffee
Parents are now being advised to give their children no privacy, to prevent another shooting/mass murder event (It's funny, but my parents told me this). They are being encouraged to listen in over phone calls, to monitor their on-line activites (viewing the history and cache of the web browser), searching their rooms from time to time, spying on them, following their kids around after school, etc. It seems like kids aren't supposed to have any privacy anymore. My parents didn't spend too much quality time with me when I was younger, and i grew up just fine. They left me alone and I took the values I learned when I was very, very young and turned out all right. When parents try and control their kids lives and spend way too much time with them kids become resentful, and when parents don't trust their kids the kids won't talk to their parents. So the trick is to find the right balence between privacy and contact. If you are a good parent eventually your kids will trust you and come to talk to you without you forcing them.
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Just a couple of cents for
xphase
Well I for one "love" Corel's idea's of native apps, right now they have a Linux port of WordPerfect, but how long will they keep porting. Corel hopes to use the help they are giving to the Wine project to allow Corel's Windows products to run without being ported. Soon they will drop all Linux support content in Wine's emulation to run their products, while they still get to have their name in the open source community and appear as a great company. If they are doing this what's to stop other companies from doing the exact same thing? Now would you feel like a second class citizen for running apps under wine?
My two cents worth...
FreeBSD already runs most linux applications, except vmware, without a problem, and still companies port software for FreeBSD, including realplayer and Netscape. OS/2 was not helped by it's lack of apps, but it failed to gain use for other reasons as well. OS/2 was direct competition with NT (Old versions)and couldn't compete with the user base/support/already made apps for NT. Also OS/2's place amongst Geeks was removed by Linux and FreeBSD which are both superior to OS/2. Plus IBM didn't market or support OS/2 very well. Plus the author of the article (IMHO) is not trying to say that FreeBSD is vastly superior to Linux, but that it has it's place in the world, and that it soon may get a surge of new users.
Brian
P.S. It's the end of the day, and after working all day i'm too lazy to check for spelling/grammer mistakes