As a little consolation, where I live (Austin, TX), I believe the courts just ruled that the RIAA cannot file once with many victims. Instead, they must file individual ones for each target.
Just a note -- I didn't mean they were literally insane. What do you want? It's 2 am and I'm studying for my Japanese and real analysis finals for tomorrow.
I remember one where a bunch of girls were in a house and they competed to see who could cry the most in a month. The tears were collected in little test tubes. The girls were insane, and would hit themselves and such to make themselves cry. They would also get really upset if they dropped a tear on the ground. They'd even hold their eyes open for hours just to water them up.
It was really, really pathetic and scary. I don't know what they were competing for, but on Japanese TV shows it's never more than like a weeks vacation somewhere, or a small pittance.
I doubt that -- there can't be over a million bands out there. There are also many who are making a living off of it. Thus, the odds of getting discovered are significantly higher than the odds of winning Powerball or Texas Two-Step.
loading my 200 CD's onto it first before tapping the local public library's collection.... So, if my buying habits are reflected by very many folks, Apple is in no way holding back anything.
Well, most people do commit copyright infringement. You're doing the same by copying CDs from your local library. I posit that your habits are reflected by many folks!
Of course -- people have found all the music from the back catalog that they wanted to download. Current popular music sucks (with such pussy-rock bands as Nickelback). What are people being enticed to download if they already have purchased all they wanted from the history of music? This is the same thing that probably happened with DVDs -- people got DVD versions of all the movies from history that they wanted. Now DVD sales have slowed because people don't have as much of a choice of desired movies as they did.
Has any historical research been done as to the increase in resentment towards the music industry? I mean, there are obvious reasons why it exists now, but when did people start hating the industry? Was it when companies like ClearChannel started consolidating the broadcast industry and decreased the variety available on the radio?
Was it when regional music stations began dying?
I'd really like to see some research done as to the history of resentment towards the industry.
Did people think The Four Tops sold out when they began making records with Motown? What about with Arista?
When did these feelings actually start. If someone knows of research being done, please let me know. I think it'd be a great insight into the regression of music.
Well, I guess that means Xanga and MySpace better shut themselves down, because there are so many users on those sites who put song lyrics up on their pages. I've actually bought music after seeing some lyrics on those sites. I guess the MPA wants to lose purchases, huh?
Not updated in nine months? That's the same as never updated. You have to treat it as if the machine has never been online before.
All this is FUD -- I have two Windows XP laptops. Neither has ever been updated except to fix software bugs, and one has not been updated in over two years. It also runs 24/7 on a cable connection. It's been clean since the day I bought it.
*sigh* Ah, the good old days. I remember buying "Web Pages for Dummies" when I was in 5th grade (1995) and taught myself HTML while I was at my grandparents' ranch that my parents forced me to go to (my parents were going to deal with some cattle). I got on Geocities a few months later on the Area51 room (I don't remember my address, but I think my name was JediTech) to design the World's Greatest Star Wars Fan Page, but, as 11 year olds are apt to do, I failed.
It was a great learning experience that moved me from 10 PRINT "Craig is poopoo" 20 GOTO 10 (1st grade)
to the Python and Gentoo I know and love today. Thank you Geocities, for being the gateway to a Slashdot world!
OK, the copying of parent's comments for humorous plagiarism is getting real old, real fast. I feel like I'm friggin 4chan right now...I'm only about 20 comments into the discussion, and this joke has already showed up like 4-5 times:(
There's some guy in my government class that always brings his obviously-for-gaming laptop to class to take notes on. This thing has got to be over 12 pounds, and the fan gets so loud that I can't concentrate on the lecture. I want to shove that laptop up his urethra.
I'm a college student, and the feeling I've had about console vs PC gaming here is that casual gamers (frat boys, etc) are more apt to be playing on consoles (Halo is always a popular title), and the hardcore gamers are on the PC (for games like WoW and HL2).
Dunno about you, but Glide Effortless sounds less like a loss of virginity and more like an encounter between a below-average man a woman who typically sleeps with large men.
I wish Adium would be ported to other OSes. The way it groups consecutive messages from the same user and gives it a constant background color which is different from the other speakers' colors is nice. I also think as the words move to the top of the window, the background color of that text fades.
Concerning Jabber, I've always wondered what the difference between setting up a Jabber server and everyone using Jabber, and setting up an IRC server and everyone using IRC was.
If you ever decide to go back to Opera, you should know that it's now free (as in beer) and has no registration, and is not ad-supported anymore. And they're getting closer to releasing version 9, which apparently does quite well on the Acid2 Test.
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I always thought what really was going through her head was "OMGWTFBBQLOL I HAVE NO EYEBROWS!!11!onethree!!"
As a little consolation, where I live (Austin, TX), I believe the courts just ruled that the RIAA cannot file once with many victims. Instead, they must file individual ones for each target.
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Yep. Here it is. http://www.uwire.com/content/topnews120104002.htm
I'm glad my court system is growing some balls!
True; Harrison Ford was a carpenter before American Graffiti and Star Wars.
Just a note -- I didn't mean they were literally insane. What do you want? It's 2 am and I'm studying for my Japanese and real analysis finals for tomorrow.
I remember one where a bunch of girls were in a house and they competed to see who could cry the most in a month. The tears were collected in little test tubes. The girls were insane, and would hit themselves and such to make themselves cry. They would also get really upset if they dropped a tear on the ground. They'd even hold their eyes open for hours just to water them up.
It was really, really pathetic and scary. I don't know what they were competing for, but on Japanese TV shows it's never more than like a weeks vacation somewhere, or a small pittance.
you'd be better off buying lottery tickets
I doubt that -- there can't be over a million bands out there. There are also many who are making a living off of it. Thus, the odds of getting discovered are significantly higher than the odds of winning Powerball or Texas Two-Step.
loading my 200 CD's onto it first before tapping the local public library's collection. ...
So, if my buying habits are reflected by very many folks, Apple is in no way holding back anything.
Well, most people do commit copyright infringement. You're doing the same by copying CDs from your local library. I posit that your habits are reflected by many folks!
Of course -- people have found all the music from the back catalog that they wanted to download. Current popular music sucks (with such pussy-rock bands as Nickelback). What are people being enticed to download if they already have purchased all they wanted from the history of music? This is the same thing that probably happened with DVDs -- people got DVD versions of all the movies from history that they wanted. Now DVD sales have slowed because people don't have as much of a choice of desired movies as they did.
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Don't believe me that Nickelback sucks?
http://www.nintendorks.com/brandon/archives/00047
Look for "How you remind me of someday.mp3".
Sounds like you've convicted him already; I thought it was "innocent until proven guilty."
Has any historical research been done as to the increase in resentment towards the music industry? I mean, there are obvious reasons why it exists now, but when did people start hating the industry? Was it when companies like ClearChannel started consolidating the broadcast industry and decreased the variety available on the radio?
Was it when regional music stations began dying?
I'd really like to see some research done as to the history of resentment towards the industry.
Did people think The Four Tops sold out when they began making records with Motown? What about with Arista?
When did these feelings actually start. If someone knows of research being done, please let me know. I think it'd be a great insight into the regression of music.
Well, I guess that means Xanga and MySpace better shut themselves down, because there are so many users on those sites who put song lyrics up on their pages. I've actually bought music after seeing some lyrics on those sites. I guess the MPA wants to lose purchases, huh?
Err, one laptop and one desktop. The desktop is the one that is on 24/7.
Not updated in nine months? That's the same as never updated. You have to treat it as if the machine has never been online before.
All this is FUD -- I have two Windows XP laptops. Neither has ever been updated except to fix software bugs, and one has not been updated in over two years. It also runs 24/7 on a cable connection. It's been clean since the day I bought it.
Way to include the URL in your post.
*sigh* Ah, the good old days. I remember buying "Web Pages for Dummies" when I was in 5th grade (1995) and taught myself HTML while I was at my grandparents' ranch that my parents forced me to go to (my parents were going to deal with some cattle). I got on Geocities a few months later on the Area51 room (I don't remember my address, but I think my name was JediTech) to design the World's Greatest Star Wars Fan Page, but, as 11 year olds are apt to do, I failed.
It was a great learning experience that moved me from
10 PRINT "Craig is poopoo"
20 GOTO 10
(1st grade)
to the Python and Gentoo I know and love today. Thank you Geocities, for being the gateway to a Slashdot world!
Since when does hunting deer entail a "capacity for violence" against humans? That's bullshit, and the author ought to know it; he's probably a vegan.
OK, the copying of parent's comments for humorous plagiarism is getting real old, real fast. I feel like I'm friggin 4chan right now...I'm only about 20 comments into the discussion, and this joke has already showed up like 4-5 times :(
though my laptop is pretty heavy
There's some guy in my government class that always brings his obviously-for-gaming laptop to class to take notes on. This thing has got to be over 12 pounds, and the fan gets so loud that I can't concentrate on the lecture. I want to shove that laptop up his urethra.
I'm a college student, and the feeling I've had about console vs PC gaming here is that casual gamers (frat boys, etc) are more apt to be playing on consoles (Halo is always a popular title), and the hardcore gamers are on the PC (for games like WoW and HL2).
usr: email50@mailinator.com
pwd: vapidcity
Me says this is a piece of schizophrenic software that doesn't really know where it wants to be
That is not schizophrenia, that is Dissociative Identity Disorder. Note the second definition where it says This condition should not be mistaken for schizophrenia..
Dunno about you, but Glide Effortless sounds less like a loss of virginity and more like an encounter between a below-average man a woman who typically sleeps with large men.
I wish Adium would be ported to other OSes. The way it groups consecutive messages from the same user and gives it a constant background color which is different from the other speakers' colors is nice. I also think as the words move to the top of the window, the background color of that text fades.
It looks quite nice, as usual for OS X.
Concerning Jabber, I've always wondered what the difference between setting up a Jabber server and everyone using Jabber, and setting up an IRC server and everyone using IRC was.
If you ever decide to go back to Opera, you should know that it's now free (as in beer) and has no registration, and is not ad-supported anymore. And they're getting closer to releasing version 9, which apparently does quite well on the Acid2 Test.