I totally agree with the parent.
I listen to Triple J for all of the above-mentioned artists and many more! Hey even William Shatner appeared on Triple J's Hottest 100 this year (with the single "Common People".).
But a week or two ago on the Triple J current affairs show "hack", someone suggested in an interview that INDIE labels were increasing sales at the expense of the mainstream labels. Which means the p2p isn't really affecting either labels.
The other major difference over the EU and UK spec DVB-T specifications is the bandwidth of digital channels broadcasted on VHF (maybe UHF too)in Australia. Australia's channel bandwidth is 7MHz whilst the UK and EU (I believe, correct me if I am wrong) is 8 MHz. Which means they can fit more content per channel.
I remember reading in Australian Personal Computer Magazine a few months back, a review they did on a software package that did allow you to mount ext2 and ext3 partitions under windows 2000 and Windows XP. I can't remember the name of the package, but It was a closed source / proprietary solution. But fuctionality like this is the sort of thing that M$ usually leaves to ISVs...
How about instead of giving the 10% tax to OSS Projects, give it to schools, health care, etc. That way Microsoft and other companies which don't use open standards get penalised, whilst at the same time OSS doesn't benefit. This allows OSS projects to continue as they are and win on their own merits of Standards, Openness and stability (like they have done so far) and not thru government intervention (via unfair advantage). Oh, and Health and Education Departments benefit as wellâ¦;)
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I totally agree with the parent. I listen to Triple J for all of the above-mentioned artists and many more! Hey even William Shatner appeared on Triple J's Hottest 100 this year (with the single "Common People".). But a week or two ago on the Triple J current affairs show "hack", someone suggested in an interview that INDIE labels were increasing sales at the expense of the mainstream labels. Which means the p2p isn't really affecting either labels.
The other major difference over the EU and UK spec DVB-T specifications is the bandwidth of digital channels broadcasted on VHF (maybe UHF too)in Australia. Australia's channel bandwidth is 7MHz whilst the UK and EU (I believe, correct me if I am wrong) is 8 MHz. Which means they can fit more content per channel.
I remember reading in Australian Personal Computer Magazine a few months back, a review they did on a software package that did allow you to mount ext2 and ext3 partitions under windows 2000 and Windows XP. I can't remember the name of the package, but It was a closed source / proprietary solution. But fuctionality like this is the sort of thing that M$ usually leaves to ISVs...
How about instead of giving the 10% tax to OSS Projects, give it to schools, health care, etc. That way Microsoft and other companies which don't use open standards get penalised, whilst at the same time OSS doesn't benefit. This allows OSS projects to continue as they are and win on their own merits of Standards, Openness and stability (like they have done so far) and not thru government intervention (via unfair advantage). Oh, and Health and Education Departments benefit as well⦠;)
Oh that's right! you have to live in a city here to get an decent 'modern' services. Can't wait til we get electricity, but.