Dallas is ok, Austin is great, houston and san antonio are mediocre at best. But that is a small part of texas. What about the abilienes, el pasos, etc? They drag the state down. I live in washington myself, and I bet if we let the east side of the state go, we'd be #1.
And if you buy 2 CDs a week, you need to find new artists man, you can't even fully appreciate a CD of *quality* music in half a week!
I sure can. I listen on headphones for almost 2 hours a day. That gives me 2 spins of a new disc per day. If I buy two discs in a week I'll probably hear them 5 or 6 times straight through in the first week alone. Of course I usually don't buy that many discs, but I can easily appreciate the music in that short time span.
Satelite TV is not available everywhere cable is. For satelite to work you need an unubstructed view of the southern sky. I've lived in quite a few places where that just wasn't possible.
The difference is our definition of murder. I don't believe that you can kill something that is not capable of living on it's own. Therefore, since the fetus is not capable of living outside the womb, I don't believe you can kill it. That means I don't think it's murder.
No, I'm afraid it isn't. It's easy to tell when a cow is infected in the final stages of the disease. But no one know for how long the cow had previously been infected and contagious.
That would be acceptable to me. I simply would choose not to buy/listen to that music. If MS's implementation of DRM required a $1 deduction everytime I listened to any song, then I'd be a bit upset. However, MS's DRM simply allows the content provider to be as lax or draconian as they want and leaves it up to me to decide what content I want to buy. In my case, I don't want any content with any DRM. But I still don't fault MS for their implementation. MS isn't forcing anyone to use super strict DRM.
You're right... but my understanding was that they would license it to other stores. That would sell more iPods. They could make FairPlay the DRM standard for stores, and the iPod would then be the only one to support it. Hence selling more iPods.
So, you're mad at the RIAA and not MS. MS is simply providing what their customers ask for. If Metallica doesn't want their latest album burnable to CD, it probably won't show up at the iTMS with fairplay. It will show up on a WMA based store. So basically you are saying MS is evil because they are willing to implement stricter DRM in order to try to provide you some content, and you are happy with apple because they simply don't provide you the content. It seems to me your anger is missplaced. DRM in itself is not evil. Blame the people requiring it.
I don't think the article meant to open the iTMS to other players. What they meant was to allow other stores to sell FairPlay DRM'd files. Apple could license the FairPlay wrapper for media files, and not the decoder for players. This would have the effect of making the iPod compatible with all music stores, thus increasing sales of the iPod.
But what if I really am opposed to the death penalty? I don't think I could condemn anyone to die, and if it was a capital case I believe the prosecution should know that.
A big part of the reason tha you need such a big increase to get ESPN is because ESPN charges huge fees. That's one of the reasons comcast wanted Disney so bad, it lowers their bottom line and allows them to force Dish and DirecTV to increase their prices.
I'll agree with everything you said, minus TSS repeats. Until TechTV gets a seperate west coast feed, the repeats are important. They did away with them for a while, and I simply stopped watching the channel.
Wrong. It was started by Ziff Davis. I actually had DirecTV and watched the launch. It was called ZDTV at the time. It was sold to Paul Allen and renamed TechTV
The explanation for the Disney bid can be summed up in one word, ESPN. ESPN is the most popular cable channel. It also charges the highest rates to the cable/sattalite companies. Imagine what comcast could do with that!
I understand your pain, but I don't agree with your conclusion of the outcome. Most people have cable. The cable companies are going to provide hi-def tuner boxes. They're going to give you services like comcast's in-demand. They're going to provide you with many TiVo like features. That's going to be good enough for 90% of the people.
I don't remember that. I remember paying $600 for my entry level DVD player (because it supported DTS damnit) and then procedding to rent every single DVD at the video store, and buy all the ones that weren't crappy. It really took until 98-99 before DVD became big. HDTV isn't comming as fast, but I bet it catches on quicker than CD did or probably even VCR's.
I have a feeling Wal-Mart is big enough that there is no distributer between them and the record labels. I can also imagine wal-mart saying, "you want $.40 a tack, we'll give you $.20. What? Not enough? Ok then, we're going to stop carrying all CD's by your label." The labels will do what ever it takes to keep wal-mart happy.
I know all that... i just believe I'm safer and I continue to share. First 95% of my music isn't on a RIAA label. Second I'm using the edonkey network which I don't believe they are heavily targetting. Third all my music are my own rips, so they actually have to download from me to prove what it is. And Finally, not once has anyone downloaded one of my FLAC rips.
Why doesn't their buying power help? They sell 25% of the CD's in the US. Can't they use this buying power to secure a better rate per track then apple?
The thing I've enver understood is why popular artists don't dump the RIAA. Once an artist has made it big, wouldn't they then have the capital to be able to put out the CDs themselves?
Quite a few of them do. Pearl Jam and Public Enemy are two that come right off the top of my head. But more of then not the label bribes them by giving them their own label. The in essence invite them into the club and allow them to rip off others in the same way they may have been ripped off. That how we end up with Shady Records (Eminem), Maverick Records (Madonna), Nothing Records (Nine Inch Nails), etc.
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Dallas is ok, Austin is great, houston and san antonio are mediocre at best. But that is a small part of texas. What about the abilienes, el pasos, etc? They drag the state down. I live in washington myself, and I bet if we let the east side of the state go, we'd be #1.
Call me when shoutcast is available in my car.
Their are millions of people living in apartments that find it extremly difficult to acquire satelite.
And if you buy 2 CDs a week, you need to find new artists man, you can't even fully appreciate a CD of *quality* music in half a week!
I sure can. I listen on headphones for almost 2 hours a day. That gives me 2 spins of a new disc per day. If I buy two discs in a week I'll probably hear them 5 or 6 times straight through in the first week alone. Of course I usually don't buy that many discs, but I can easily appreciate the music in that short time span.
Satelite TV is not available everywhere cable is. For satelite to work you need an unubstructed view of the southern sky. I've lived in quite a few places where that just wasn't possible.
Are you sure there's nothing in deuternomey about gambling? It seems to ban everything else that's fun!
The difference is our definition of murder. I don't believe that you can kill something that is not capable of living on it's own. Therefore, since the fetus is not capable of living outside the womb, I don't believe you can kill it. That means I don't think it's murder.
No, I'm afraid it isn't. It's easy to tell when a cow is infected in the final stages of the disease. But no one know for how long the cow had previously been infected and contagious.
That would be acceptable to me. I simply would choose not to buy/listen to that music. If MS's implementation of DRM required a $1 deduction everytime I listened to any song, then I'd be a bit upset. However, MS's DRM simply allows the content provider to be as lax or draconian as they want and leaves it up to me to decide what content I want to buy. In my case, I don't want any content with any DRM. But I still don't fault MS for their implementation. MS isn't forcing anyone to use super strict DRM.
You're right... but my understanding was that they would license it to other stores. That would sell more iPods. They could make FairPlay the DRM standard for stores, and the iPod would then be the only one to support it. Hence selling more iPods.
So, you're mad at the RIAA and not MS. MS is simply providing what their customers ask for. If Metallica doesn't want their latest album burnable to CD, it probably won't show up at the iTMS with fairplay. It will show up on a WMA based store. So basically you are saying MS is evil because they are willing to implement stricter DRM in order to try to provide you some content, and you are happy with apple because they simply don't provide you the content. It seems to me your anger is missplaced. DRM in itself is not evil. Blame the people requiring it.
I don't think the article meant to open the iTMS to other players. What they meant was to allow other stores to sell FairPlay DRM'd files. Apple could license the FairPlay wrapper for media files, and not the decoder for players. This would have the effect of making the iPod compatible with all music stores, thus increasing sales of the iPod.
But what if I really am opposed to the death penalty? I don't think I could condemn anyone to die, and if it was a capital case I believe the prosecution should know that.
A big part of the reason tha you need such a big increase to get ESPN is because ESPN charges huge fees. That's one of the reasons comcast wanted Disney so bad, it lowers their bottom line and allows them to force Dish and DirecTV to increase their prices.
I'll agree with everything you said, minus TSS repeats. Until TechTV gets a seperate west coast feed, the repeats are important. They did away with them for a while, and I simply stopped watching the channel.
Wrong. It was started by Ziff Davis. I actually had DirecTV and watched the launch. It was called ZDTV at the time. It was sold to Paul Allen and renamed TechTV
The explanation for the Disney bid can be summed up in one word, ESPN. ESPN is the most popular cable channel. It also charges the highest rates to the cable/sattalite companies. Imagine what comcast could do with that!
I understand your pain, but I don't agree with your conclusion of the outcome. Most people have cable. The cable companies are going to provide hi-def tuner boxes. They're going to give you services like comcast's in-demand. They're going to provide you with many TiVo like features. That's going to be good enough for 90% of the people.
I don't remember that. I remember paying $600 for my entry level DVD player (because it supported DTS damnit) and then procedding to rent every single DVD at the video store, and buy all the ones that weren't crappy. It really took until 98-99 before DVD became big. HDTV isn't comming as fast, but I bet it catches on quicker than CD did or probably even VCR's.
I have a feeling Wal-Mart is big enough that there is no distributer between them and the record labels. I can also imagine wal-mart saying, "you want $.40 a tack, we'll give you $.20. What? Not enough? Ok then, we're going to stop carrying all CD's by your label." The labels will do what ever it takes to keep wal-mart happy.
You pay sales tax on service as well. Apple is most likely just putting the sales tax into the purchase price.
I may be missing something, but could you point out the differences between their DRM and apples? It looks pretty much the same to me.
I know all that... i just believe I'm safer and I continue to share. First 95% of my music isn't on a RIAA label. Second I'm using the edonkey network which I don't believe they are heavily targetting. Third all my music are my own rips, so they actually have to download from me to prove what it is. And Finally, not once has anyone downloaded one of my FLAC rips.
Why doesn't their buying power help? They sell 25% of the CD's in the US. Can't they use this buying power to secure a better rate per track then apple?
The thing I've enver understood is why popular artists don't dump the RIAA. Once an artist has made it big, wouldn't they then have the capital to be able to put out the CDs themselves?
Quite a few of them do. Pearl Jam and Public Enemy are two that come right off the top of my head. But more of then not the label bribes them by giving them their own label. The in essence invite them into the club and allow them to rip off others in the same way they may have been ripped off. That how we end up with Shady Records (Eminem), Maverick Records (Madonna), Nothing Records (Nine Inch Nails), etc.