IT Service Management is not flavour of the month bullshit, it's simply the term for handling IT services and processes in an organization.
The problem starts when managers get too creative with their bullshit copy-paste newspeak and misuse the latest buzzwords they've just learned yesterday.
IT Service Management is good, ITIL has mostly good ideas on how to implement it. Unfortunately a lot of that good stuff tends to get lost at the management levels.
ITIL is basically just a framework for recommended procedures and stuff related to IT service management (not "management" as in managing people, generally, but as in managing services and processes). It is absolutely not a magic bullet to solve all IT problems, nor is it realistically possible to realize the whole ITIL shebang in a real-world organization. The point is that it formalizes and lot of good advice and sources inspiration for how to streamline IT in a corporate setting.
Is it perfect? Hell no. Is it better than the "let's invent the wheel, over and over again, separately in every single department" that a lot of IT people tend to fall back on. "We know better than anyone else how to do this, fuck off we don't need your interference" is not a good way to cooperate.
Yes, I have taken a could of ITIL courses, and I've worked in the field for ~8 years. I have never seen any organization implement all of ITIL, and I don't think I ever will. But I have seen it being used very successfully as an inspiration for the implementation of more streamlined and efficient processes.
I only hate the crap music. There is still so much amazingly good music being made, but just like every other decade, 99% of everything is shit. That's just how it is.
Then again, I'm only 31, so not really in the "get off my lawn" segment quite yet;-)
So you patronize artists who are overly sexist and promote violent ideals, and further lecture folks who make a similar judgement of the broad narrative of rap but also harbor commonplace racism. Neat.
And how is this different from rock music, for instance?
Mainstream rock of the 70s and 80s was definitely sexist and/or violent, depending on which bands you listened to.
I mostly agree with you, but the simple fact is that a lot of people primarily want to listen to what's popular, what they hear at clubs/bars or on the radio, what their friends like. And because their friends go to the same clubs/bars and listen to the same radio stations, pop music tends to become something of an echo chamber. People want to listen to popular music because it's popular.
And there's nothing wrong with that. People want to listen to the music that makes them happy, and if that happiness comes from a shared sense of popularity, that's OK too.
That same music tends to make a lot of other people (you and me) want to vomit, but on the other hand, pop fans would probably find my taste in music horrible and full of harsh noise. Luckily, people usually don't tend to force other people to listen to music they don't like.
Honestly, you would enjoy Spotify. It creates recommendations for you, based on your play history and playlists. You can share music and recommendations with friends, the curated playlists are actually really good and the selection is huuuuuge.
"Streaming" does not automatically imply "mainstream". 95% of the stuff I listen to on Spotify is obscure (it would certainly never feature on their main front page playlists/radios), but thanks to the gigantic user base, Spotify still manages to put together some really kickass weekly recommendations for me, usually with a number of artists I had never even heard of before.
What you're doing on Youtube is technically piracy. Now, I certainly don't agree with the people who made that decision, but I think that $9.99/month is amazing value for an absolutely gigantic library of music and personalized recommendations for new music you might like.
I'd do the same for movies too - at $29 or even $49 / mo for all major studios I'd spend far more every year than I do today, but would still happily sign up.
I agree. It would really take out the "do I want to spend money on this" factor?
Basically, it's like piracy, but legal and only slightly more expensive!
I totally forgot my point about the "On Spotify" vs "Not on Spotify" thing.
While I was going through my collection, I realized that I maybe only listen to ~200 songs on a regular basis, maybe even fewer than that. Everything else is just occasional listening or for novelty.
On the other hand, I used to spend $50 or more on new albums every single month. Spotify saves me a LOT of money.
Now guess what happened: I surprising amount of the time, I listen to albums on Spotify that I already own. It's just easier to listen to them in Spotify than to keep them separate. When I'm listening to albums that I haven't purchased, I'm often listening to the same albums or playlists over and over again. To be honest, it's possible that I'm just not even getting my money's worth, that if I'd gathered up all those $9.99/month payments, I could have purchased all the music that I listen to.
I do the same thing, and most people probably listen to albums they already own/already love most of the time. That's why they're our favorite albums:-)
When I started subscribing to Spotify, I divided my (ripped to MP3) music collection into two separate parts: "On Spotify" and "Not on Spotify", simply to get an overview of which albums I own and love, which aren't on Spotify for whichever reason. In my case, it's around 1,800 songs. The "On Spotify" part counted almost 15,000 songs. For now, I'm keeping everything locally, because I need MP3 files for my car and disk space is cheap.
There are some odd omissions on Spotify, but for the most part everything I want to listen to is covered. I think it's perfectly reasonable to have a relatively small selection of music that you actually listen to, very few people listen to thousands of songs anyway.
The $9.99 certainly does go towards granting access to the huge library of music on Spotify, but to me it actually goes mostly towards the recommendations, discovery features and well-integrated sharing of interesting music between friends. Music is a social experience, and a good shared platform helps immensely in facilitating that.
I basically only buy physical albums if I'm at a show and I really love the band, or if one of a very select few bands* puts out a new album on LP. Everything else is Spotify (which has saved me SO MUCH money every month, it's not even funny) or Bandcamp.
* Basically just 3 or 4 of my absolute favorite bands, who also happen to play genres that I think fit the LP format. Stoner rock, retro music in general, that sort of thing.
Spotify has an estimated 100 million users. The recommendation engine has ridiculous amounts of data available to it and as a result, the recommendations are damn solid. Will I like everything on my "Discover Weekly" list? No, of course not! But there is at least one or two tracks that I find really interesting every week, usually even more.
You could do myself and the OP a real solid though... tell us how to find this music. If it includes changing my lifestyle to hang out in seedy bars so that I can find one good artist in 20 years, your suggestion will be a no-go.
Start reading music blogs. I'm mostly into metal, so I read The Toilet Ov Hell, which covers a decently wide selection of metal, and has an opinionated and irreverent style that I really enjoy. I would say that site probably accounts for 80% of my new music discoveries. It introduced me to synthwave as well, way off the metal path, but similar in some ways. The trick is to find a music blog for the genres you like, but you can google for album reviews and find some of the more interesting sites after the first few obvious results. And as much as it may leave a bad taste in your mouth, there are usually plenty of Facebook groups for all kinds of genres. For instance, I post in one group where people basically just post one a link to any metal song they like on Youtube/Bandcamp/whatever every Friday, I've discovered some cool bands that way.
Secondly, start going to concerts! Find a local site, Facebook group, shared Google calendar or whatever that lists upcoming shows in your area. Interact with people! Make new friends! They'll introduce you to more bands and other people who may or may not share the exact same taste in music as you.
Honestly, I barely had a social circle 3 years ago, since moving away from two different circles of friends within a couple of years. Now I go to at least 3 concerts/month with the best and closest friends I've ever had, and we do a music quiz as a team once a month, they're introducing me to pen and paper RPGs, all kinds of stuff I never did before. And all because I pulled myself together to attend a metal festival in 2014, instead of just listening to music at home.
And surprisingly enough, a lot of that stuff is actually on Spotify and Google Play Music (and probably other streaming services too). If you want to get more indie than that, Bandcamp is a great place to look.
Really? Because from where I'm sitting, with an Spotify subscription, ~250 CDs and a bunch of merch bought at concerts, I feel like I'm being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of quality music being produced and performed today.
You just have to find one or more genres that are out of the mainstream, and don't get radio play, and you'll find a ton of amazing music from dedicated hard-working artists. My particular groove is mostly metal and dark synthwave, with a smattering of hard rock and a little bit of underground hip-hop thrown in (no gangsta rap, please).
Spotify has almost everything covered, as long as you stay away from the Big Popular Playlists. As soon as you start listening to the stuff you like, you'll be getting recommendations for similar artists, instead of the popular dreck.
And for the really interesting stuff, I hunt Bandcamp, which is by far my favorite music distribution platform. It mostly caters to indie artists, but a few labels are on there, and there is some actual real quality stuff to be found.
Music is still awesome, if you know where to look!
Personally, I like T2 because Robert Patrick is so damn good at portaying a completely unflinching, unfeeling and utterly inhuman killing machine. The CGI parts are dated by now, but his performance really sells the character.
You can't define it in absolute terms, only relative to other people.
People in general just want to have more stuff than other people, because it makes them feel superior. See for instance the study that showed with quite a high degree of certainty, that people in expensive cars stopped less often at intersections to let pedestrians cross.
Around here, regular health checks are mandatory to keep your driver's license after 70.
Of course, now that the boomers are facing the possibility of losing their licences, they're putting pressure on politicians to raise it to 80 or abolish the checks altogether.
You must have extremely shitty cinemas where you live. Around here, the standard is ridiculously high, picture and sound quality is spot on, people are generally very well-behaved and the seats are amazing (electric reclining leather armchairs!). I'll grant you that snacks and drinks are horribly overpriced, though.
I changed my passwords on the affected sites, based on the list of Cloudflare-using sites that's been publicized. All of my passwords are randomly-generated strings, so even if one site was completely compromised, all of my other accounts would be fine.
Since I don't personally transmit any sensitive data through the affected sites, I'm reasonably sure that is all I have to bother about Cloudbleed. The situation is a lot worse for people running bitcoin etc. transactions through affected sites.
The whole point is that you break the dependency on fossil fuels. The electricity can come from any source. Today it may come from coal, tomorrow it may be nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal or some other source.
All the more reason that it's puzzling that artists would leave their own income on the table and allow scalpers to make the extra money. Why not play more shows at conventional prices or auction the tickets to eliminate the profit margin of scalpers?
It's only puzzling to people who think everything in this world revolves around extracting as much short-term profit as possible from any given situation. These artists are in it for the long run. They don't play music simply for profit, you'll only last a couple of years with that attitude. They play music because they love playing music, and they're trying to make it last for as long as possible. And like I've explained multiple times before, you can't just add shows or build in room for more shows into the touring schedule. You have to account for available venue, staff, your own crew and a whole host of other money and time sinks.
That is the major flaw in your thinking. You cannot think outside your market paradigm. The relationship between performers, fans, touring, recording and a host of other factors is a hell of a lot more complicated than a simple market model.
Like I've told you a couple of times: We've made it illegal to resell tickets above face value here, and it works. I don't care about your market theories, this is about what works in the real world, not in your textbooks.
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IT Service Management is not flavour of the month bullshit, it's simply the term for handling IT services and processes in an organization.
The problem starts when managers get too creative with their bullshit copy-paste newspeak and misuse the latest buzzwords they've just learned yesterday.
IT Service Management is good, ITIL has mostly good ideas on how to implement it. Unfortunately a lot of that good stuff tends to get lost at the management levels.
ITIL is basically just a framework for recommended procedures and stuff related to IT service management (not "management" as in managing people, generally, but as in managing services and processes). It is absolutely not a magic bullet to solve all IT problems, nor is it realistically possible to realize the whole ITIL shebang in a real-world organization. The point is that it formalizes and lot of good advice and sources inspiration for how to streamline IT in a corporate setting.
Is it perfect? Hell no. Is it better than the "let's invent the wheel, over and over again, separately in every single department" that a lot of IT people tend to fall back on. "We know better than anyone else how to do this, fuck off we don't need your interference" is not a good way to cooperate.
Yes, I have taken a could of ITIL courses, and I've worked in the field for ~8 years. I have never seen any organization implement all of ITIL, and I don't think I ever will. But I have seen it being used very successfully as an inspiration for the implementation of more streamlined and efficient processes.
I only hate the crap music. There is still so much amazingly good music being made, but just like every other decade, 99% of everything is shit. That's just how it is.
Then again, I'm only 31, so not really in the "get off my lawn" segment quite yet ;-)
This just in: Copyright infringers are normal people like everyone else, with similar shitty taste.
So you patronize artists who are overly sexist and promote violent ideals, and further lecture folks who make a similar judgement of the broad narrative of rap but also harbor commonplace racism. Neat.
And how is this different from rock music, for instance?
Mainstream rock of the 70s and 80s was definitely sexist and/or violent, depending on which bands you listened to.
I mostly agree with you, but the simple fact is that a lot of people primarily want to listen to what's popular, what they hear at clubs/bars or on the radio, what their friends like. And because their friends go to the same clubs/bars and listen to the same radio stations, pop music tends to become something of an echo chamber. People want to listen to popular music because it's popular.
And there's nothing wrong with that. People want to listen to the music that makes them happy, and if that happiness comes from a shared sense of popularity, that's OK too.
That same music tends to make a lot of other people (you and me) want to vomit, but on the other hand, pop fans would probably find my taste in music horrible and full of harsh noise. Luckily, people usually don't tend to force other people to listen to music they don't like.
Honestly, you would enjoy Spotify. It creates recommendations for you, based on your play history and playlists. You can share music and recommendations with friends, the curated playlists are actually really good and the selection is huuuuuge.
"Streaming" does not automatically imply "mainstream". 95% of the stuff I listen to on Spotify is obscure (it would certainly never feature on their main front page playlists/radios), but thanks to the gigantic user base, Spotify still manages to put together some really kickass weekly recommendations for me, usually with a number of artists I had never even heard of before.
What you're doing on Youtube is technically piracy. Now, I certainly don't agree with the people who made that decision, but I think that $9.99/month is amazing value for an absolutely gigantic library of music and personalized recommendations for new music you might like.
I'd do the same for movies too - at $29 or even $49 / mo for all major studios I'd spend far more every year than I do today, but would still happily sign up.
I agree. It would really take out the "do I want to spend money on this" factor?
Basically, it's like piracy, but legal and only slightly more expensive!
I totally forgot my point about the "On Spotify" vs "Not on Spotify" thing.
While I was going through my collection, I realized that I maybe only listen to ~200 songs on a regular basis, maybe even fewer than that. Everything else is just occasional listening or for novelty.
On the other hand, I used to spend $50 or more on new albums every single month. Spotify saves me a LOT of money.
Now guess what happened: I surprising amount of the time, I listen to albums on Spotify that I already own. It's just easier to listen to them in Spotify than to keep them separate. When I'm listening to albums that I haven't purchased, I'm often listening to the same albums or playlists over and over again. To be honest, it's possible that I'm just not even getting my money's worth, that if I'd gathered up all those $9.99/month payments, I could have purchased all the music that I listen to.
I do the same thing, and most people probably listen to albums they already own/already love most of the time. That's why they're our favorite albums :-)
When I started subscribing to Spotify, I divided my (ripped to MP3) music collection into two separate parts: "On Spotify" and "Not on Spotify", simply to get an overview of which albums I own and love, which aren't on Spotify for whichever reason. In my case, it's around 1,800 songs. The "On Spotify" part counted almost 15,000 songs. For now, I'm keeping everything locally, because I need MP3 files for my car and disk space is cheap.
There are some odd omissions on Spotify, but for the most part everything I want to listen to is covered. I think it's perfectly reasonable to have a relatively small selection of music that you actually listen to, very few people listen to thousands of songs anyway.
The $9.99 certainly does go towards granting access to the huge library of music on Spotify, but to me it actually goes mostly towards the recommendations, discovery features and well-integrated sharing of interesting music between friends. Music is a social experience, and a good shared platform helps immensely in facilitating that.
What about people who add it to their "My Music" or playlists in whichever streaming service they use, and play it back regularly?
Shouldn't those deliberate actions count more?
I basically only buy physical albums if I'm at a show and I really love the band, or if one of a very select few bands* puts out a new album on LP. Everything else is Spotify (which has saved me SO MUCH money every month, it's not even funny) or Bandcamp.
* Basically just 3 or 4 of my absolute favorite bands, who also happen to play genres that I think fit the LP format. Stoner rock, retro music in general, that sort of thing.
Seriously, this.
Spotify has an estimated 100 million users. The recommendation engine has ridiculous amounts of data available to it and as a result, the recommendations are damn solid. Will I like everything on my "Discover Weekly" list? No, of course not! But there is at least one or two tracks that I find really interesting every week, usually even more.
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You could do myself and the OP a real solid though... tell us how to find this music. If it includes changing my lifestyle to hang out in seedy bars so that I can find one good artist in 20 years, your suggestion will be a no-go.
Start reading music blogs. I'm mostly into metal, so I read The Toilet Ov Hell, which covers a decently wide selection of metal, and has an opinionated and irreverent style that I really enjoy. I would say that site probably accounts for 80% of my new music discoveries. It introduced me to synthwave as well, way off the metal path, but similar in some ways. The trick is to find a music blog for the genres you like, but you can google for album reviews and find some of the more interesting sites after the first few obvious results. And as much as it may leave a bad taste in your mouth, there are usually plenty of Facebook groups for all kinds of genres. For instance, I post in one group where people basically just post one a link to any metal song they like on Youtube/Bandcamp/whatever every Friday, I've discovered some cool bands that way.
Secondly, start going to concerts! Find a local site, Facebook group, shared Google calendar or whatever that lists upcoming shows in your area. Interact with people! Make new friends! They'll introduce you to more bands and other people who may or may not share the exact same taste in music as you.
Honestly, I barely had a social circle 3 years ago, since moving away from two different circles of friends within a couple of years. Now I go to at least 3 concerts/month with the best and closest friends I've ever had, and we do a music quiz as a team once a month, they're introducing me to pen and paper RPGs, all kinds of stuff I never did before. And all because I pulled myself together to attend a metal festival in 2014, instead of just listening to music at home.
And surprisingly enough, a lot of that stuff is actually on Spotify and Google Play Music (and probably other streaming services too). If you want to get more indie than that, Bandcamp is a great place to look.
Really? Because from where I'm sitting, with an Spotify subscription, ~250 CDs and a bunch of merch bought at concerts, I feel like I'm being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of quality music being produced and performed today.
You just have to find one or more genres that are out of the mainstream, and don't get radio play, and you'll find a ton of amazing music from dedicated hard-working artists. My particular groove is mostly metal and dark synthwave, with a smattering of hard rock and a little bit of underground hip-hop thrown in (no gangsta rap, please).
Spotify has almost everything covered, as long as you stay away from the Big Popular Playlists. As soon as you start listening to the stuff you like, you'll be getting recommendations for similar artists, instead of the popular dreck.
And for the really interesting stuff, I hunt Bandcamp, which is by far my favorite music distribution platform. It mostly caters to indie artists, but a few labels are on there, and there is some actual real quality stuff to be found.
Music is still awesome, if you know where to look!
The problem is that they'll end up killing innocent young people as well.
Personally, I like T2 because Robert Patrick is so damn good at portaying a completely unflinching, unfeeling and utterly inhuman killing machine. The CGI parts are dated by now, but his performance really sells the character.
How rich does anyone need to be?
You can't define it in absolute terms, only relative to other people.
People in general just want to have more stuff than other people, because it makes them feel superior. See for instance the study that showed with quite a high degree of certainty, that people in expensive cars stopped less often at intersections to let pedestrians cross.
Around here, regular health checks are mandatory to keep your driver's license after 70.
Of course, now that the boomers are facing the possibility of losing their licences, they're putting pressure on politicians to raise it to 80 or abolish the checks altogether.
You must have extremely shitty cinemas where you live. Around here, the standard is ridiculously high, picture and sound quality is spot on, people are generally very well-behaved and the seats are amazing (electric reclining leather armchairs!). I'll grant you that snacks and drinks are horribly overpriced, though.
I changed my passwords on the affected sites, based on the list of Cloudflare-using sites that's been publicized. All of my passwords are randomly-generated strings, so even if one site was completely compromised, all of my other accounts would be fine.
Since I don't personally transmit any sensitive data through the affected sites, I'm reasonably sure that is all I have to bother about Cloudbleed. The situation is a lot worse for people running bitcoin etc. transactions through affected sites.
The whole point is that you break the dependency on fossil fuels. The electricity can come from any source. Today it may come from coal, tomorrow it may be nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal or some other source.
but if that's what people are willing to pay...
The scalpers should be rewarded for their greed?
All the more reason that it's puzzling that artists would leave their own income on the table and allow scalpers to make the extra money. Why not play more shows at conventional prices or auction the tickets to eliminate the profit margin of scalpers?
It's only puzzling to people who think everything in this world revolves around extracting as much short-term profit as possible from any given situation. These artists are in it for the long run. They don't play music simply for profit, you'll only last a couple of years with that attitude. They play music because they love playing music, and they're trying to make it last for as long as possible. And like I've explained multiple times before, you can't just add shows or build in room for more shows into the touring schedule. You have to account for available venue, staff, your own crew and a whole host of other money and time sinks.
That is the major flaw in your thinking. You cannot think outside your market paradigm. The relationship between performers, fans, touring, recording and a host of other factors is a hell of a lot more complicated than a simple market model.
Like I've told you a couple of times: We've made it illegal to resell tickets above face value here, and it works. I don't care about your market theories, this is about what works in the real world, not in your textbooks.