Being in a band myself and having released some EP's and a full album, we always tell people to go ahead and make as many copies of the music as they want, and distribute the songs however they want.
We do this because we're a bar band. We're not with a major label. We have no distribution besides selling our recordings by hand at our gigs and maybe garnishing a wee bit of counter space at a local Mom&Pop coffee shop or two (not to mention, of course, giving them away as presents and sharing online via P2P). We do this because we figure the more our music gets out there, the more of chance that somebody from a label will hear us and like us and we'll finally be able to just do what we really love for a living - making music.
Now, let's assume that our dreams come true. We makes lots of cash solely by making music. Well, we've all agreed that as soon as our first contract expires, we would only sign another one that allows people to distribute our music freely. Why? Simply put, we've already started making a living at what we love, and we know that people will continue to buy our CD's, whether or not they can get our music for free! This is a proven fact!!!
Sure, we might not end up being as filthy rich as other music stars, but who cares? Greed sucks. Allowing the most amount of people as possible on this planet to enjoy what we, too, enjoy more than almost anything else (sound familiar to any of you Linux programmers?) - now THAT would be AWESOME!
...that of course, Intel just keeps ramping up processor speeds in order to improve performance. They don't seem to know any other way to do it.
When AMD shrunk the pipeline and started waking people up to the fact that there's other ways to skin a processor than just upping the clock, that was bloody revolutionary. But yet, not only did Intel not abandon the narrow-minded "higher clock=faster" mentality with Prescott, they have actually fed it by making it so that they HAVE to make higher clock speeds in order for Prescott to perform at peak optimization and efficiency! Sheesh.
Trust me, I'm of course not saying that higher clock speeds aren't better - just that AMD has proven in the past that there's other things that can be done besides that, and it's just a matter of time before they come up with something else to beat Intel down with, IMHO.
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We do this because we're a bar band. We're not with a major label. We have no distribution besides selling our recordings by hand at our gigs and maybe garnishing a wee bit of counter space at a local Mom&Pop coffee shop or two (not to mention, of course, giving them away as presents and sharing online via P2P). We do this because we figure the more our music gets out there, the more of chance that somebody from a label will hear us and like us and we'll finally be able to just do what we really love for a living - making music.
Now, let's assume that our dreams come true. We makes lots of cash solely by making music. Well, we've all agreed that as soon as our first contract expires, we would only sign another one that allows people to distribute our music freely. Why? Simply put, we've already started making a living at what we love, and we know that people will continue to buy our CD's, whether or not they can get our music for free! This is a proven fact!!!
Sure, we might not end up being as filthy rich as other music stars, but who cares? Greed sucks. Allowing the most amount of people as possible on this planet to enjoy what we, too, enjoy more than almost anything else (sound familiar to any of you Linux programmers?) - now THAT would be AWESOME!
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When AMD shrunk the pipeline and started waking people up to the fact that there's other ways to skin a processor than just upping the clock, that was bloody revolutionary. But yet, not only did Intel not abandon the narrow-minded "higher clock=faster" mentality with Prescott, they have actually fed it by making it so that they HAVE to make higher clock speeds in order for Prescott to perform at peak optimization and efficiency! Sheesh.
Trust me, I'm of course not saying that higher clock speeds aren't better - just that AMD has proven in the past that there's other things that can be done besides that, and it's just a matter of time before they come up with something else to beat Intel down with, IMHO.
---A witty .sig proves nothing.
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In my last post here
fewer syllables
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Is it just me, or is the dept. this post is from a Haiku, also? fewer syllables would not communicate as magnificently So what do I win? ;)