I agree that YHF is good enough that it would have been a success either way. But I think that's why streaming the album helped Wilco. They don't get nearly enough radio play, at least where I'm from, but they had always been critically successful. Streaming the album IMO allowed people who would otherwise not get a chance to hear them, and not want to shell out $15 for an album of songs they'd never heard, to try before they bought.
In the article Tweedy says something to the effect that "not every download is a lost sale." I agree, but I'd also say that he and Wilco are in something of a specific situation, since they have a real solid body of work that needed exposure. It's hard to imagine that the same would have been the case if Wilco had already been making platinum records, though.
No, but I saw them at the Commodore in 2002. That was just an AMAZING show. It was shortly after Jay Bennett had left, and they were touring YHF. I just refused to believe that without Bennett they could possibly do the YHF material justice, but man was I wrong.
Choked I missed the Orpheum show, though... lousy being a student in another country:P
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I agree entirely. I am currently running an Athlon XP 1700+, and for just about everything I've tried to do on Linux (compiling kernels, programs, even Mozilla) it's plenty powerful. But in my summer work I worked on programs that performed large Gauss-Seidel relaxations, and they sometimes took a good long week to complete. I also worked on another program that used arbitrary precision libraries, and those were REALLY slow; a single run of the program would take weeks on P4-1.8GHz systems.
One o' thems super-duper desktops would have certainly been welcome then.
If I recall correctly, there was a really tiny note at the bottom of the roadmap or of the 1.4 release that said that it was not going to be possible anymore.
Speculation was they were hit really hard by the demise of Netscape (and thus the loss of umpteen Gecko developers). I think this more than anything put off Firebird being anointed the new Mozilla Browser.
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I agree that YHF is good enough that it would have been a success either way. But I think that's why streaming the album helped Wilco. They don't get nearly enough radio play, at least where I'm from, but they had always been critically successful. Streaming the album IMO allowed people who would otherwise not get a chance to hear them, and not want to shell out $15 for an album of songs they'd never heard, to try before they bought. In the article Tweedy says something to the effect that "not every download is a lost sale." I agree, but I'd also say that he and Wilco are in something of a specific situation, since they have a real solid body of work that needed exposure. It's hard to imagine that the same would have been the case if Wilco had already been making platinum records, though.
No, but I saw them at the Commodore in 2002. That was just an AMAZING show. It was shortly after Jay Bennett had left, and they were touring YHF. I just refused to believe that without Bennett they could possibly do the YHF material justice, but man was I wrong.
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Choked I missed the Orpheum show, though... lousy being a student in another country
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I agree entirely. I am currently running an Athlon XP 1700+, and for just about everything I've tried to do on Linux (compiling kernels, programs, even Mozilla) it's plenty powerful. But in my summer work I worked on programs that performed large Gauss-Seidel relaxations, and they sometimes took a good long week to complete. I also worked on another program that used arbitrary precision libraries, and those were REALLY slow; a single run of the program would take weeks on P4-1.8GHz systems.
One o' thems super-duper desktops would have certainly been welcome then.
If I recall correctly, there was a really tiny note at the bottom of the roadmap or of the 1.4 release that said that it was not going to be possible anymore. Speculation was they were hit really hard by the demise of Netscape (and thus the loss of umpteen Gecko developers). I think this more than anything put off Firebird being anointed the new Mozilla Browser.