I for one don't recall hearing any directors or studios complaining about the damage to their artistic vision when their films get edited for TV audiences and they get a big royalty check
In this case they OK the changes or OK there being changes.
that statement alone shows how little you know, PacBell is a pitchers park. While Bonds can drive it into the water there have been only 35 or so splash hits in the 3 years that PacBell has been open, more than half of them hit by Barry Bonds. A quick look at baseball-reference.com shows that pacbell's ParkFactor is the lowest in the national league at 91-92, it is a true pitchers park. Last season the Giants hit 72 home runs at home but 126 away, opponents hit 42 at Pacbell and 74 at their home ballpark.
While I do think that many players juice, more so in the minors than in the majors, before the 90's their was a belief that lifting weights and bulking up slowed down bat speed, and made it harder to hit. Professional/Elite athletes of all sports have always tried to get any edge they could, whether it is Amphetamines/Steriods/Blood Doping/Altitude Training/Bat Corking/BaseBall Scuffing/Jersey Greasing, it has all been done for centuries, and will forever. Come on if you told 100 people that they could probably become rich and famous but may lose 10% of their life I bet 90 peopple would take it.
Are you high? That would be the memorial of stupidity, that says that we do not learn from our mistakes. If you want NASA to do real exploration you would want them to immediately retire the shuttle, and replace it with launch vehicles that are suited for the work they do.
My guess is that they were negotiating terms for the Term UNIX, and the talks broke down. It would probably be best (and cheaper) for them to compromise and settle.
Porn would kill their business model. The truth is that netflix make more money when people don't return their DVD's. Porn users have a tendancy to be insatiable.
While laziness can be a virtue for a good programmer, the truth is that Macros lead down that ugly slippery slope that ends in completely unreadable code. It may work great for a few programmers, however once you start working on large projects with many people coming and going you end up with a freaking mess.
First of all 100 bands make money touring, that isn't the same 100 bands that makes bank recording. There are bands that sell very few records, but do sell out high priced shows, Super Diamond is a great example as they don't sell any records, but they sell out a whole weekend of 1000 seat venues at $25 a pop. Jam bands are another one, Widespread Panic (sold out 4 dates at the Warfield in less than a week), Ween, String Cheese, etc have a fair number of people who go to all their shows, thus really driving up the the profit. Good for them, I don't really care for these bands but many people are entertained by them. 2 good places to see a fairly popular band's touring finances are Man or Astroman?'s talks money and Steve Albini's major labels: the problem with music
I'm sorry I gave real numbers, maybe you should do the same. I also know promoters, touring musicians and club owners. None of these people make any money from shows.
Again you know not what you talk about. When was the last time you were at a show? What was the size of the venue? I go out at least once a week, to venues of all sizes.
Read the Steve Albini Baffler article. Did the tour make money? No it grossed $50K an had $50,800 in expenses, and another 15K went to management. I know touring musicians, they make more money off selling records than they do playing live. Look at the size of venues, add up the total in tickets sold. Look at how many people are working. The money isn't there. I gave real numbers, why don't you give some.
Bzzzt wrong, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Only make money for a select few, probably about 100 bands total. For most of the others they end up costing money. Some small places now expect some bands to Pay to Play. Lets look at some statistics. This weekend there are 44 sets of music listed for san francisco on Pollstar, there are at least 40 more not listed as pollstar only lists the biggest places. Of those 44 that are listed there are 5 that will make a profit on the night for playing. The Postal Service (They sold out their show so fast they added a matinee.), The Melvins, again 2 shows, however they have to move their stuff between venues, maybe 2 more, but doubtful. If we look at the venue's, bands at Slims (One of SF's larger "Indie" venues) may make money, if they have only a single opener and they sell out a high ticket priced show, which isnt all that likely. (Slims holds about 500 people $8.00 a ticket split between 2 bands, a couple of sound guys, and a couple of stage hands/merch guys, is $300 per person, a decent night's wage. However you have to take out the cost of travel, food (It's hard to cook a meal on the road), lodging, booking and management, that $300.00 disapears in a hurry.
Sure some bands make bank, the ones that play in The Fillmore, Warfield, and the arenas, but on most nights those places are empty and Slim's, The Elbo Room, and Bottom of the Hill, has a few guys trying their number 1 super fan's happy.
EPIC wants big fish because Richard M. Smith wants to be in the news. Going after slashdot won't get him there. The problem with EPIC is that they go to the press before they contact the company in question. What will happen is Amazon will add an age check to their site (I would say that the "wishlist" is a very kid friendly and public potential issue maybe they can keep that to just the friends list). What should happen is that EPIC should work with the companies and the sites before going to the FTC.
Actually the site or portion of their site has to be targeted toward children. Since those contests are old it is questionable that they are targeted toward children. Slashdot also could be considered in violation of COPPA, they do report about video games, and very young culture in general. In fact I would say there are a higher percentage of slashdot posters under the age of 13 than there are amazon posters. Just posting an e-mail address is a violation of COPPA.
US Mechanical royaltys are at least 8.1 cents a song. Paid to the song writer with 3% cut going to the Harry Fox Agency for overhead of collecting the royalty. You aren't going to get such prices.
There are a lot of problems with Albini's article. One is that he lists a fairly good selling band as example, a poor selling band (and there are much much more of them than ones that are in Albini's words "hits") would end up costing their company money (only 10,000 copies sold, still quite a few, and the company is in the hole $700,000), even though the band ends up with their advance and publishing money (they do get publishing money, in Albini's case the song writers get $.07 per song per album sold minus ascap fees, if we assume 10 songs then the writers are getting $150,000). So really the bottom line assuming entire band write all the songs should read $400,000/(number of members in the band). Another thing that Albini's rant quite starkly portrays is that touring looses money, in this case $875.00. Thats right you go on the road (and work very hard) you end up with less money at the end. Thus the idea that the recordings should be free and people should only be paid to perform simply doesn't fly. What Albini was trying to say here is that Big Record Companies (eg Warner, Sony) are a rip off, and Small Artist Run Places (in this case specifically Touch And Go, I think he was pissed about the Butthole Surfers going to Warner) will make the artist more money. Ask Albini what he thinks of Shawn Fanning or the like getting rich on the backs of Slint, Low, Big Black, The Pixies, or even Bush and he will tell you another story.
Although they own many patents that cover a variety of the web (including a patent that covers all toolbars which return metadata, eg. the Google toolbar). The B&N suit was simply for the fact that B&N had completely copied their site. Usually when you want to establish patent you sue a small company that can't afford to defend themselves before you go after the big guys.
Because Lucas would rather live in Northern California. I guess they should move Pixar to the dark side as well, because it is having a hard time making "hits". BTW does anyone think it is funny that the creator of the Star Wars universe is relocating to the center of the Star Trek universe?
Slashdot Mirror
In this case they OK the changes or OK there being changes.
that statement alone shows how little you know, PacBell is a pitchers park. While Bonds can drive it into the water there have been only 35 or so splash hits in the 3 years that PacBell has been open, more than half of them hit by Barry Bonds. A quick look at baseball-reference.com shows that pacbell's ParkFactor is the lowest in the national league at 91-92, it is a true pitchers park. Last season the Giants hit 72 home runs at home but 126 away, opponents hit 42 at Pacbell and 74 at their home ballpark.
While I do think that many players juice, more so in the minors than in the majors, before the 90's their was a belief that lifting weights and bulking up slowed down bat speed, and made it harder to hit. Professional/Elite athletes of all sports have always tried to get any edge they could, whether it is Amphetamines/Steriods/Blood Doping/Altitude Training/Bat Corking/BaseBall Scuffing/Jersey Greasing, it has all been done for centuries, and will forever. Come on if you told 100 people that they could probably become rich and famous but may lose 10% of their life I bet 90 peopple would take it.Are you high? That would be the memorial of stupidity, that says that we do not learn from our mistakes. If you want NASA to do real exploration you would want them to immediately retire the shuttle, and replace it with launch vehicles that are suited for the work they do.
g gEasterbrook/GreggEasterbrookShuttle.html (and not the last if the shuttle keeps flying) catastrophe. the second article is a mirror, as the same article at time.com requires payment.
Read Greg Easterbrook's essays about the shuttle, first the one he wrote 25 years ago before the , and then the one he wrote after the latest http://www.icmm.csic.es/jeiglesias/newsletter/Gre
Don't think for a moment that google is not tracking and saving this.
My guess is that they were negotiating terms for the Term UNIX, and the talks broke down. It would probably be best (and cheaper) for them to compromise and settle.
Porn would kill their business model. The truth is that netflix make more money when people don't return their DVD's. Porn users have a tendancy to be insatiable.
While laziness can be a virtue for a good programmer, the truth is that Macros lead down that ugly slippery slope that ends in completely unreadable code. It may work great for a few programmers, however once you start working on large projects with many people coming and going you end up with a freaking mess.
Doesn't this smell like a future standard mob type scam... I mean you used to be able to buy VCR's that "fell off a truck", now you can get subnets!
You know Pogue Mahone means kiss my ass, I like the idea of a Pogue Press....
Damn I'm going to Vansterdam next weekend and the pink-back is at a 5 year high, just my luck!
I just have one word
Yawn.
First of all 100 bands make money touring, that isn't the same 100 bands that makes bank recording. There are bands that sell very few records, but do sell out high priced shows, Super Diamond is a great example as they don't sell any records, but they sell out a whole weekend of 1000 seat venues at $25 a pop. Jam bands are another one, Widespread Panic (sold out 4 dates at the Warfield in less than a week), Ween, String Cheese, etc have a fair number of people who go to all their shows, thus really driving up the the profit. Good for them, I don't really care for these bands but many people are entertained by them. 2 good places to see a fairly popular band's touring finances are Man or Astroman?'s talks money and Steve Albini's major labels: the problem with music
I'm sorry I gave real numbers, maybe you should
do the same. I also know promoters, touring musicians and club owners. None of these people make any money from shows.
Read the Steve Albini Baffler article. Did the tour make money? No it grossed $50K an had $50,800 in expenses, and another 15K went to management. I know touring musicians, they make more money off selling records than they do playing live. Look at the size of venues, add up the total in tickets sold. Look at how many people are working. The money isn't there. I gave real numbers, why don't you give some.
Only make money for a select few, probably about 100 bands total. For most of the others they end up costing money. Some small places now expect some bands to Pay to Play. Lets look at some statistics. This weekend there are 44 sets of music listed for san francisco on Pollstar, there are at least 40 more not listed as pollstar only lists the biggest places. Of those 44 that are listed there are 5 that will make a profit on the night for playing. The Postal Service (They sold out their show so fast they added a matinee.), The Melvins, again 2 shows, however they have to move their stuff between venues, maybe 2 more, but doubtful. If we look at the venue's, bands at Slims (One of SF's larger "Indie" venues) may make money, if they have only a single opener and they sell out a high ticket priced show, which isnt all that likely. (Slims holds about 500 people $8.00 a ticket split between 2 bands, a couple of sound guys, and a couple of stage hands/merch guys, is $300 per person, a decent night's wage. However you have to take out the cost of travel, food (It's hard to cook a meal on the road), lodging, booking and management, that $300.00 disapears in a hurry.
Sure some bands make bank, the ones that play in The Fillmore, Warfield, and the arenas, but on most nights those places are empty and Slim's, The Elbo Room, and Bottom of the Hill, has a few guys trying their number 1 super fan's happy.
Considering that When you try to write a review on amazon along the top in bold size=4 font they say....
Write Your Own Review
Under 13? Use our Kid's Review Form.
I think that EPIC's claims go too far.
EPIC wants big fish because Richard M. Smith wants to be in the news. Going after slashdot won't get him there. The problem with EPIC is that they go to the press before they contact the company in question. What will happen is Amazon will add an age check to their site (I would say that the "wishlist" is a very kid friendly and public potential issue maybe they can keep that to just the friends list). What should happen is that EPIC should work with the companies and the sites before going to the FTC.
Actually the site or portion of their site has to be targeted toward children. Since those contests are old it is questionable that they are targeted toward children. Slashdot also could be considered in violation of COPPA, they do report about video games, and very young culture in general. In fact I would say there are a higher percentage of slashdot posters under the age of 13 than there are amazon posters. Just posting an e-mail address is a violation of COPPA.
US Mechanical royaltys are at least 8.1 cents a song. Paid to the song writer with 3% cut going to the Harry Fox Agency for overhead of collecting the royalty. You aren't going to get such prices.
When the IPod first came out, the bare Toshiba drive was priced at $500.00.
There are a lot of problems with Albini's article. One is that he lists a fairly good selling band as example, a poor selling band (and there are much much more of them than ones that are in Albini's words "hits") would end up costing their company money (only 10,000 copies sold, still quite a few, and the company is in the hole $700,000), even though the band ends up with their advance and publishing money (they do get publishing money, in Albini's case the song writers get $.07 per song per album sold minus ascap fees, if we assume 10 songs then the writers are getting $150,000). So really the bottom line assuming entire band write all the songs should read $400,000/(number of members in the band). Another thing that Albini's rant quite starkly portrays is that touring looses money, in this case $875.00. Thats right you go on the road (and work very hard) you end up with less money at the end. Thus the idea that the recordings should be free and people should only be paid to perform simply doesn't fly. What Albini was trying to say here is that Big Record Companies (eg Warner, Sony) are a rip off, and Small Artist Run Places (in this case specifically Touch And Go, I think he was pissed about the Butthole Surfers going to Warner) will make the artist more money. Ask Albini what he thinks of Shawn Fanning or the like getting rich on the backs of Slint, Low, Big Black, The Pixies, or even Bush and he will tell you another story.
We can pay slashdot to learn earlier why we shouldn't have to pay for software/music/movies. Anyone subscribing want to set up a mirror/proxy?
Although they own many patents that cover a variety of the web (including a patent that covers all toolbars which return metadata, eg. the Google toolbar). The B&N suit was simply for the fact that B&N had completely copied their site. Usually when you want to establish patent you sue a small company that can't afford to defend themselves before you go after the big guys.
How many times has Amazon sued for infringement? The answer is one, and in that single case it was personal.
Because Lucas would rather live in Northern California. I guess they should move Pixar to the dark side as well, because it is having a hard time making "hits". BTW does anyone think it is funny that the creator of the Star Wars universe is relocating to the center of the Star Trek universe?