For a long, LONG time now, all the albums that have been coming out have been absolute garabage. There has been very little out there that calls to me and begs to be bought. The record industry would like to blame Mp3 files and P2P networks (Kazaa, WinMX, etc) for the awful sales of records lately, but I think that you have to look at two facts before finding a scapegoat to point the finger at.
First of all, sales on EVERYTHING have been awful in the last year. The stock market is down, companies are reporting huge losses, and everyone is just going insane and pulling out. Everyone is selling nad no one is buying.
Second fact is, even without the marketing catastrophe of this past year, you have to look at the simple fact plaguing the entire music market right now: Everything that has been coming out has been total crap that people won't listen to for more than a few weeks and then forget about.
Right now, if I had the option to get 10 CDs from before 2000 rather than 20 CDs from after that time period for the same price, I'd go with 10 CDs from before 2000 for sure.
I think that record labels and artists have one thing and one thing only to fear and to face: that they can no longer just shrinkwrap any old trashy music with absolutely no talent (Britney Spears, Nelly? Wow!) and sell it like candy to a bunch of kids. These kids are no longer so easily convinced. If there is only one decent song, or only two decent songs, on an album, they won't go out there and buy it when they can get just the mp3s of those songs.
In other news, further research has found that the atmospheric gasses on Venus are actually made up of insect farts... farts, and burps. Oddly enough however it is believe that the smell produced would actually be a pleasant one to humans.
Yeah... I don't think that guy/gal is as smart as he/she thinks. People are stealing from Mac and Microsoft. Well, call Xerox and ask them what they think about their idea of a "GUI". Stolen. Call the guy who wrote DOS and ask him how he feels about his $50K fortune. Stolen.
Microsoft/Apple bullying the Linux community for "stealing" anything (All of which is free and/or open source to begin with! So... WTF?) is ridiculous... that's defenitely a pot calling a kettle black...
Yep, that's what I think... soon enough, someone will look at this, and start an open-source, GPL'd, community project to rival it. Hopefully, however, instead of separating users even more (as DEs such as GNOME and KDE have done) it will unite them... is this possible? Hmm...
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For a long, LONG time now, all the albums that have been coming out have been absolute garabage. There has been very little out there that calls to me and begs to be bought. The record industry would like to blame Mp3 files and P2P networks (Kazaa, WinMX, etc) for the awful sales of records lately, but I think that you have to look at two facts before finding a scapegoat to point the finger at. First of all, sales on EVERYTHING have been awful in the last year. The stock market is down, companies are reporting huge losses, and everyone is just going insane and pulling out. Everyone is selling nad no one is buying. Second fact is, even without the marketing catastrophe of this past year, you have to look at the simple fact plaguing the entire music market right now: Everything that has been coming out has been total crap that people won't listen to for more than a few weeks and then forget about. Right now, if I had the option to get 10 CDs from before 2000 rather than 20 CDs from after that time period for the same price, I'd go with 10 CDs from before 2000 for sure. I think that record labels and artists have one thing and one thing only to fear and to face: that they can no longer just shrinkwrap any old trashy music with absolutely no talent (Britney Spears, Nelly? Wow!) and sell it like candy to a bunch of kids. These kids are no longer so easily convinced. If there is only one decent song, or only two decent songs, on an album, they won't go out there and buy it when they can get just the mp3s of those songs.
NOTEPAD! DUH.
They also demonstrated that you could probably beowulf several dozen lower-cost systems for the same price and get even better performance...
In other news, further research has found that the atmospheric gasses on Venus are actually made up of insect farts... farts, and burps. Oddly enough however it is believe that the smell produced would actually be a pleasant one to humans.
Yeah... I don't think that guy/gal is as smart as he/she thinks. People are stealing from Mac and Microsoft. Well, call Xerox and ask them what they think about their idea of a "GUI". Stolen. Call the guy who wrote DOS and ask him how he feels about his $50K fortune. Stolen.
Microsoft/Apple bullying the Linux community for "stealing" anything (All of which is free and/or open source to begin with! So... WTF?) is ridiculous... that's defenitely a pot calling a kettle black...
Are you sure? OEone main page Look again. Bold red letters... ring a bell?
Yep, that's what I think... soon enough, someone will look at this, and start an open-source, GPL'd, community project to rival it. Hopefully, however, instead of separating users even more (as DEs such as GNOME and KDE have done) it will unite them... is this possible? Hmm...
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