Somebody please moderate up the above. I suggest both "insightful" and "informative". I look forward to vindicating whoever does in metamoderation. Changing topic slightly, doesn't it seem that those on the "it's not theft" side of the arguement are mostly the ones wanting something created by someone else's labor and not their own?
My last broadcast gig was in '94 (we all got replaced by a computer), but I suspect it still works the same as it did the 20+ years up 'til then. Record companies send promotional copies to radio stations in the hopes of getting airplay. The program director and/or the music director get weekly phone calls and occasional in person visits from "reps", sometimes employees of the record companies, sometimes independant contractors, to find out what the station is playing, what the station is thinking about playing, whether the station and the record promoters can work together on some sort of promo (free T-shirts, etc.), and to generally try to get the station to play whatever the promoters are pushing that week. So far the station's not out any money. The station does, however, pay blanket licensing fees (larger in larger markets, as I recall) to outfits like ASCAP, BMI, SEASAC. Once a year, the station has to make a list of everything it played over the course of a "week" (sometimes that "week" isn't seven consecutive days but rather Monday of some week, Tuesday of some other, etc.) That data (which used to have to be compiled by hand, what a chore)is added and averaged with the data from all the other stations and those blanket fees are divided up among the "owners" of the various songs proportionately to the airplay those songs got, at least theoretically.
The biggest reason people use Win9x over NT is that when they went down to Sam's club or Circuit City or wherever, the computer they bought was pre-loaded with 9x.
You can pretty much count on Cringely for a good column every week but the one about the X box is last weeks (changes every Thursday)and you can get to it by clicking here.
Are you sure the time signal is coming from your cable company. My JVC gets one from the local PBS affiliate (over cable, but if I was using rabbit ears with the VCR instead it would still work). I agree that the average cable company can't be trusted to know what day it is, let alone the correct time.
memo to moderators- Since you are apparently being recruited from streetcorners these days allow me to point out that in the above post I was being sarcastic.
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If it was summarized, it wouldn't be Katz : )
Somebody please moderate up the above. I suggest both "insightful" and "informative".
I look forward to vindicating whoever does in metamoderation.
Changing topic slightly, doesn't it seem that those on the "it's not theft" side of the arguement are mostly the ones wanting something created by someone else's labor and not their own?
My last broadcast gig was in '94 (we all got replaced by a computer), but I suspect it still works the same as it did the 20+ years up 'til then.
Record companies send promotional copies to radio stations in the hopes of getting airplay. The program director and/or the music director get weekly phone calls and occasional in person visits from "reps", sometimes employees of the record companies, sometimes independant contractors, to find out what the station is playing, what the station is thinking about playing, whether the station and the record promoters can work together on some sort of promo (free T-shirts, etc.), and to generally try to get the station to play whatever the promoters are pushing that week. So far the station's not out any money.
The station does, however, pay blanket licensing fees (larger in larger markets, as I recall) to outfits like ASCAP, BMI, SEASAC. Once a year, the station has to make a list of everything it played over the course of a "week" (sometimes that "week" isn't seven consecutive days but rather Monday of some week, Tuesday of some other, etc.) That data (which used to have to be compiled by hand, what a chore)is added and averaged with the data from all the other stations and those blanket fees are divided up among the "owners" of the various songs proportionately to the airplay those songs got, at least theoretically.
and I almost had my karma up high enough for that (Score:2) :(
If I had mod points I'd try to give you all 5. : )
The biggest reason people use Win9x over NT is that when they went down to Sam's club or Circuit City or wherever, the computer they bought was pre-loaded with 9x.
You can pretty much count on Cringely for a good column every week but the one about the X box is last weeks (changes every Thursday)and you can get to it by clicking here.
"Get your scissorhands off me, you damn dirty stinking ape!"
And so the point of using an important, easily recognizable part of the song was to leverage some one else's efforts and creativity?
Maybe the moderation system should include things like "insightful troll" that gives a +1 and a -1 at the same time : )
As opposed to midget gas giants? : )
"I coulda been a star, but I just ran out of gas."
If you have time to go out and look you're obviously not spending enough time on learning computer stuff : )
I looked in the phone book under Coward, A. but apparently you've an unlisted number.
So are these 13 just wandering around muttering "I coulda been a star!"?
Are cabs in NYC a mere fraction of the cost of cabs most anywhere else or does everybody live 1 block away from their jobs?
Has anyone else looked at that picture of the Lincoln? I'm having a hard time convincing myself it's not a photograph.
Are you sure the time signal is coming from your cable company. My JVC gets one from the local PBS affiliate (over cable, but if I was using rabbit ears with the VCR instead it would still work).
I agree that the average cable company can't be trusted to know what day it is, let alone the correct time.
Watch the above get moderated up
Sheesh!
memo to moderators-
Since you are apparently being recruited from streetcorners these days allow me to point out that in the above post I was being sarcastic.
to the moderator-
I was trying to lure them *away* from Slashdot!
Unmoderated troll threads available here.
Imagine if we'd missed out on valuable information like that.
Around here 1970 is largely "Before Puberty".
I thought that hydrogen was fusion fuel and that helium is the product of that fusion.
65 MYBP? Million years before petroleum?