Disregarding for a moment, the fact that this will work for precisely as long as it takes for someone to work out how to remove the DRM, has anyone commented on how artists get compensated under this model?
It seems to me that the best that could be hoped for is some (small) percentage of the revenue subscription is divided up by the proportion of downloads per artist.
Because a subscription service will encourage more indiscriminate listening behaviour, this may have some strange consequences. On a positive note, it may spread the money paid to artists out more widely.
On the other hand, it may also mean that less popular releases are swamped by the monthly traffic in the latest manufactured pop album, and make even less than they do these days.
It would be interesting if a subscription service tracked what you actually kept/listened to, rather than downloaded, listened to once, and deleted. It might even encourage the production of less rubbish.
Of course, the main point, from the perspective of publishers, is that they get a guaranteed income stream regardless of the quality of the music they produce, which may just remove the last tiny bit of incentive they have to try and produce music that people actually want to listen to.
This is true for educational and social achievement, but raw IQ appears remarkably stable. See this Minnesota twin study for an example. I was honestly rather surprised when I started looking at studies like these by just how much of a role genetics plays in IQ.
In fact, quixotic implements a more complex datastructure than a DAWG, called a GADDAG which allows exceedingly fast word building, starting in the middle of the word. This means that if you also have a list of all the anchor squares -- those squares where playing a tile automatically makes a syntactically valid play -- you can generate all possible plays given a rack without ever generating an illegal play.
My 800MHz powerbook finds moves fast enough that it's feasible to do a couple of plys of a form of speculative minmax in order to evaluate the worth of particular board positions.
There's a reasonably strong body of literature that suggests that increasing your intake of omega 3 fatty acids (fish oil) and decreasing your intake of omega 6 fatty acids (margarines, oils, junk foods) can aid treatment of ADHD in at least some cases.
There are more papers available from PubMed, including one describing a sudy which showed no measurable improvement. Evidence in favour of the general health benefits of a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids is strong, however, so it seems (to me, at least) like a pretty simple and worthwhile thing to try.
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Disregarding for a moment, the fact that this will work for precisely as long as it takes for someone to work out how to remove the DRM, has anyone commented on how artists get compensated under this model?
It seems to me that the best that could be hoped for is some (small) percentage of the revenue subscription is divided up by the proportion of downloads per artist.
Because a subscription service will encourage more indiscriminate listening behaviour, this may have some strange consequences. On a positive note, it may spread the money paid to artists out more widely.
On the other hand, it may also mean that less popular releases are swamped by the monthly traffic in the latest manufactured pop album, and make even less than they do these days.
It would be interesting if a subscription service tracked what you actually kept/listened to, rather than downloaded, listened to once, and deleted. It might even encourage the production of less rubbish.
Of course, the main point, from the perspective of publishers, is that they get a guaranteed income stream regardless of the quality of the music they produce, which may just remove the last tiny bit of incentive they have to try and produce music that people actually want to listen to.
A second to remember.
This is true for educational and social achievement, but raw IQ appears remarkably stable. See this Minnesota twin study for an example. I was honestly rather surprised when I started looking at studies like these by just how much of a role genetics plays in IQ.
Is it just me, or does this getting disturbingly close to Focus?
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In fact, quixotic implements a more complex datastructure than a DAWG, called a GADDAG which allows exceedingly fast word building, starting in the middle of the word. This means that if you also have a list of all the anchor squares -- those squares where playing a tile automatically makes a syntactically valid play -- you can generate all possible plays given a rack without ever generating an illegal play.
My 800MHz powerbook finds moves fast enough that it's feasible to do a couple of plys of a form of speculative minmax in order to evaluate the worth of particular board positions.
DNA has a major groove and a minor groove. This doesn't.
There's a reasonably strong body of literature that suggests that increasing your intake of omega 3 fatty acids (fish oil) and decreasing your intake of omega 6 fatty acids (margarines, oils, junk foods) can aid treatment of ADHD in at least some cases.
Some references:
Deficiency in omega-3 fatty acids tied to ADHD in boys
Increased levels of ethane, a non-invasive marker of n-3 fatty acid oxidation, in breath of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
There are more papers available from PubMed, including one describing a sudy which showed no measurable improvement. Evidence in favour of the general health benefits of a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids is strong, however, so it seems (to me, at least) like a pretty simple and worthwhile thing to try.