The number of artists who get a seven figure advance is very, very tiny. Most artists sign everything away based on a promise of promotion for one album and one tour.
Of course, the purpose is to get us talking about them again, since much of the buzz lately has been about Ubuntu and Fedora. And with simple scripts available to add proprietary codecs to Ubuntu, there are few to no reasons to pay for Linspire, and pay again for access to their library of OSS apps.
If you're going to be a desktop Linux newbie, with any distro, you're going to have to ask stupid questions on forums. The Ubuntu forums are informative, and by far the friendliest that I have encountered. After some forum-surfing, that's why I chose Ubuntu over Suse or Fedora. Mandriva is under too much turmoil, and Mepix didn't seem like it had a large/stable organization behind it.
Linux is ready. But the applications aren't, especially for professionals. Rosegarden can't replace SONAR, GIMP can't replace Photoshop, Nvu/Blufish can't replace Dreamweaver, Ardour can't replace ProTools. I have a dual-boot of Ubuntu and WinXP on my laptop, but if I'm doing anything other than browsing and emailing, I boot into Windows.
It's not just a matter of being a small fish, it's that, depending on the file sharing network, the RIAA would have to upload at least part of the file to you in order to prove that you downloaded it. And in order to upload at least part of the file to you, they would have to publish it on a P2P network. Which might have two possible effects: Either making it legal for you to download, or making their evidence illegal.
More is not always necessary or even better. That film is scanned at 2k-4k does not mean it is capable of displaying 4k lines of resolution. And horizontal resolution is not the only metric. One can also consider accuracy of reproduction, saturation of color, likelihood of flaws, etc. Also take into consideration that digital allows the filmmaker to instantly experience what is captured by the camera. There is no way to do that with film.
1080p is superior, or at least equivalent to 35mm film. But the best directors and DP's still shoot on film, because they know how, and they aren't going to risk their careers, and hundreds of millions of dollars by moving to digital too soon. As with audio, it will take a new generation of technicians and artists, who grow up with the new technology, to bring it mainstream.
If you care at all about sound quality, that's no good. You never ever want to convert from one compressed format to another. Janus will be cracked when you can strip the DRM from a WMA file without having to reconvert the audio.
Janus is a better target, because of the subscription scheme -- you can download hundreds of thousands of files for a few bucks a month. Crack Fair Play, and you still have to spend 99 cents to download the file. But if you crack Janus, you can download a million files for ten bucks, and keep them after you cancel your subscription.
Well, you got some karma for it, but Microsoft is actually the author of one of the most successfuly DRM schemes. Apple's Fair Play has been cracked, but to my knowledge Microsoft's Janus scheme is still protecting music downloaded from sites like Napster and Rhapsody. The only way around it is the analog hole, which requires realtime playback and strips all metatags.
Those of us who want to clear the good name of Bittorrent should do things like seed our favorite Linux flavor, and get our music from places where artists share freely under the Creative Commons license.
that there will be no next big idea is that IBM and all the other big corps hold vaguely-worded patents on nearly every conceivable idea. Of course, that leaves room for inconceivable ideas, and for winning patent lawsuits. But that's not a lot of room in which inventors can operate.
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For the same reason they don't want Rhapsody selling tunes to iPod users. Apple sells an integrated user experience, and they make money on hardware, software, and content. Why would they give away a slice of that yummy pie?
that the broadband video-on-demand revolution is happening right now, and that television networks are extinct? And that telecoms are scared spitless by Skype and Vonage? Predicting the end of newspapers is so 1997.
The Nokia is a browsing device. That's all. It has no hard drive. Despite the fact that it's roughly the same form factor, it's nowhere near the same kind of device. My cell phone is shaped like my tv remote, and they both have number keypads. That doesn't make them comparable.
Songwriters automatically make concrete royalties off of record sales. But songwriters are not guaranteed payment on public performances, because no one tracks individual performances. Songwriter royalties on public performances are based on sampling data, which ignores the long tail, and overpays the top 100. Same as it ever was...
The assumption is that every artist is a live performer. While live performance is one talent, recording, remixing, songwriting, arranging, and many other musical skills don't lend themselves well to the stage. But music would be much poorer without them.
There will always be a place for live bands. But I hope we as a society don't lose the ability to reward those who create music in other ways.
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Where do baby universes come from?
Well, when two universes love each other very much...They agree you should be able to, but they want to be able to monitor it, and charge you for it.
The number of artists who get a seven figure advance is very, very tiny. Most artists sign everything away based on a promise of promotion for one album and one tour.
Of course, the purpose is to get us talking about them again, since much of the buzz lately has been about Ubuntu and Fedora. And with simple scripts available to add proprietary codecs to Ubuntu, there are few to no reasons to pay for Linspire, and pay again for access to their library of OSS apps.
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It's a joke.If you're going to be a desktop Linux newbie, with any distro, you're going to have to ask stupid questions on forums. The Ubuntu forums are informative, and by far the friendliest that I have encountered. After some forum-surfing, that's why I chose Ubuntu over Suse or Fedora. Mandriva is under too much turmoil, and Mepix didn't seem like it had a large/stable organization behind it.
Linux is ready. But the applications aren't, especially for professionals. Rosegarden can't replace SONAR, GIMP can't replace Photoshop, Nvu/Blufish can't replace Dreamweaver, Ardour can't replace ProTools. I have a dual-boot of Ubuntu and WinXP on my laptop, but if I'm doing anything other than browsing and emailing, I boot into Windows.
It's not just a matter of being a small fish, it's that, depending on the file sharing network, the RIAA would have to upload at least part of the file to you in order to prove that you downloaded it. And in order to upload at least part of the file to you, they would have to publish it on a P2P network. Which might have two possible effects: Either making it legal for you to download, or making their evidence illegal.
Well, according to your own Human Interface Guidelines, you shouldn't be using a foot icon at all!
My Motorola phone crashes a couple of times a week. I can't remember the last time my Windows laptop crashed.
I wonder what percentage of people using IE at any given time actually clicked through an EULA on that particular PC.
More is not always necessary or even better. That film is scanned at 2k-4k does not mean it is capable of displaying 4k lines of resolution. And horizontal resolution is not the only metric. One can also consider accuracy of reproduction, saturation of color, likelihood of flaws, etc. Also take into consideration that digital allows the filmmaker to instantly experience what is captured by the camera. There is no way to do that with film.
1080p is superior, or at least equivalent to 35mm film. But the best directors and DP's still shoot on film, because they know how, and they aren't going to risk their careers, and hundreds of millions of dollars by moving to digital too soon. As with audio, it will take a new generation of technicians and artists, who grow up with the new technology, to bring it mainstream.
If you care at all about sound quality, that's no good. You never ever want to convert from one compressed format to another. Janus will be cracked when you can strip the DRM from a WMA file without having to reconvert the audio.
Janus is a better target, because of the subscription scheme -- you can download hundreds of thousands of files for a few bucks a month. Crack Fair Play, and you still have to spend 99 cents to download the file. But if you crack Janus, you can download a million files for ten bucks, and keep them after you cancel your subscription.
Well, you got some karma for it, but Microsoft is actually the author of one of the most successfuly DRM schemes. Apple's Fair Play has been cracked, but to my knowledge Microsoft's Janus scheme is still protecting music downloaded from sites like Napster and Rhapsody. The only way around it is the analog hole, which requires realtime playback and strips all metatags.
Those of us who want to clear the good name of Bittorrent should do things like seed our favorite Linux flavor, and get our music from places where artists share freely under the Creative Commons license.
that there will be no next big idea is that IBM and all the other big corps hold vaguely-worded patents on nearly every conceivable idea. Of course, that leaves room for inconceivable ideas, and for winning patent lawsuits. But that's not a lot of room in which inventors can operate.
For the same reason they don't want Rhapsody selling tunes to iPod users. Apple sells an integrated user experience, and they make money on hardware, software, and content. Why would they give away a slice of that yummy pie?
that the broadband video-on-demand revolution is happening right now, and that television networks are extinct? And that telecoms are scared spitless by Skype and Vonage? Predicting the end of newspapers is so 1997.
The Nokia is a browsing device. That's all. It has no hard drive. Despite the fact that it's roughly the same form factor, it's nowhere near the same kind of device. My cell phone is shaped like my tv remote, and they both have number keypads. That doesn't make them comparable.
Songwriters automatically make concrete royalties off of record sales. But songwriters are not guaranteed payment on public performances, because no one tracks individual performances. Songwriter royalties on public performances are based on sampling data, which ignores the long tail, and overpays the top 100. Same as it ever was...
Yes, you can. And they'll transfer you to the department where they charge you $99 to answer your question.
The assumption is that every artist is a live performer. While live performance is one talent, recording, remixing, songwriting, arranging, and many other musical skills don't lend themselves well to the stage. But music would be much poorer without them.
There will always be a place for live bands. But I hope we as a society don't lose the ability to reward those who create music in other ways.I downloaded one album from iTunes. I got a gift certificate. Several songs were corrupted upon download. I never did get to listen to them.