Automated checkout in grocery stores, and for that matter (as someone said) ATMs are both great technology that gives us a choice. People crave human contact and aren't going to go to a restaurant that has no humans in it - its part of the reason that people go out. Nothing can replace a really great waiter/waitress that you have interaction with.
--Aslan
We'll devise robots that can run on solar power resulting in Robots that will become increasingly independent and we will abuse our 'authority' over them. A war between robots and humans will result in our blacking out the sky to take away their power; they will enslave us and put us in a large Virtual reality simulation called . ..oh wait this was a movie wasn't it?
--Aslan
I would think that without having to pay the costs of the distribution channels the artist would be in much better shape financially. Out of every CD dollar purchased a good deal of it goes to the store that sold the CD, the distribution company that gave the store the CD, the record company, etc; half of them are removed from the equation in this model.
There are good examples of indi musicians such as Over The Rhine who have successfully gotten rid of alot of the crap that gets pushed into the costs of marketing a CD and they're better off as a result.
Linkin Park? Cry me a river; they're better off in the long run financially - just because people are buying into a per track model doesn't mean that an album has to die. All that a disc is is a reflection of the current mindset of a band and where they are at a given moment; a snapshot, if you will. It's not an independent work that should stand by itself (rarely does that exist, anyway).
I feel like the best thing to come to the music industry in a while is now here and working...why shoot it in the foot?
--Aslan
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I would totally agree and I think GenX is the one group that could potentially overrun ageism; why? I think we've seen so much change in the past 10 or so years since we've been in school that the expectation is there that our knowledgebase will be obsolete if we don't learn new things. I'm not a coder, but I would be foolish to think that the network I support could stay forever at NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 or even Windows at all. Sure MS has a foothold right now in corporate america, but 3 years from now it could be redhat; the result? my knowledge of Active Directory could be useless. As long as people realize that, and prepare for a complete knowledge update every 2 to 3 years they'll survive.
I work at a medium sized University in the midwest as a IT staffer for one of it's colleges. My credo has always been work with the best technology and be ready to switch when necessary. Unfortunately, we've been a strong MS shop for a while, but I have an OS X and Redhat presence that can grow if need be.
MS doesn't realize that there are alternatives that can come and bite them if they get too restrictive.
I would think that to add a name to a dictonary is the highest possible market penetration that a company could achieve. When someone calls a product by your name (e.g. who doesn't call facial tissues 'Kleenex' or depending on your preference go into a restaurant and ask for a 'Coke' or a 'Pepsi' only to be told...we have the other...is that o.k.).
My gut reaction is that the folk at google should be pleased when the world is associating 'Internet searching' to their product.
--pete
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Automated checkout in grocery stores, and for that matter (as someone said) ATMs are both great technology that gives us a choice. People crave human contact and aren't going to go to a restaurant that has no humans in it - its part of the reason that people go out. Nothing can replace a really great waiter/waitress that you have interaction with. --Aslan
We'll devise robots that can run on solar power resulting in Robots that will become increasingly independent and we will abuse our 'authority' over them. A war between robots and humans will result in our blacking out the sky to take away their power; they will enslave us and put us in a large Virtual reality simulation called . . .oh wait this was a movie wasn't it?
--Aslan
There are good examples of indi musicians such as Over The Rhine who have successfully gotten rid of alot of the crap that gets pushed into the costs of marketing a CD and they're better off as a result.
Linkin Park? Cry me a river; they're better off in the long run financially - just because people are buying into a per track model doesn't mean that an album has to die. All that a disc is is a reflection of the current mindset of a band and where they are at a given moment; a snapshot, if you will. It's not an independent work that should stand by itself (rarely does that exist, anyway).
I feel like the best thing to come to the music industry in a while is now here and working...why shoot it in the foot?
--Aslan
--Aslan
One good way to piss away a standard is to be greedy and close fisted with it. In about 5 years, people will be asking 'What's a .zip file'?
--Aslan
To get the HELL away from the chiken vaccuum Just thought I'd share... --Aslan
MS doesn't realize that there are alternatives that can come and bite them if they get too restrictive.
--Aslan
I would think that to add a name to a dictonary is the highest possible market penetration that a company could achieve. When someone calls a product by your name (e.g. who doesn't call facial tissues 'Kleenex' or depending on your preference go into a restaurant and ask for a 'Coke' or a 'Pepsi' only to be told...we have the other...is that o.k.). My gut reaction is that the folk at google should be pleased when the world is associating 'Internet searching' to their product. --pete