Despite the grand amount of clout mainstream media has, there ARE competitors. In fact, you just mentioned a whole bunch in your post? Does that not strike you as a little odd?
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All that will happen is 24,000 or so people will be freed up to do something else in our economy.
Yup, like suck up unemployment and Social Security money. It's not exactly all that easy to find a tech job once you're over 40.
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Well, as long as all the engineers who understand it aren't the ones working for the new company.
Actually, I hear a lot of talk about him on techno and house mailing lists. I personally most of these labels except for the most general ones are a load of tripe anyway. (and i thought microsound was something different but oh well)
For a live show, he will take samples of himself breaking stuff and do all sorts of things with the noises. Lately he has taken to ripping up bits of corporate branding (soda cans, mcdonald's fries, etc.)
Anyway, my question still holds -- any geek-written report on this, or do we only have the mainstream press to trust as to whether this
actually works, and for which CDs?
why don't you try it yourself?
And what the heck is this "geek-written" vs. "mainstream" business? Did Mahir Cagri not show that everything on the Internet is mainstream?
Well, it wouldn't get unmanageable. The wait to add more content or to ask permission to change your current content would just become longer and longer and longer until the whole thing stagnates.
Which isn't a horrible problem, since nobody is forced to put kiddie content in.kids.us, and nobody is forced to surf only there. Taxpayers are forced to pay for it, of course.
Actually, the only time I caught the cleaning guys on my machine at work, they were looking at stock exchanges. I logged in remotely and popped xeyes up all over the place. That was fun:)
Um, if the ice cap on the north pole melts, we DON'T get any extra green land. If both ice caps melt a little, the sea level starts going up without ANY exposed land. We also lose New York City, the Netherlands, most of New England, and we get a lot more beaches.
I enjoyed the surprise of finding quality indie bands on Napster. For once they were at the same level as "pop" music, and this is what is really freaking out the RIAA.
What do you mean "for once"? Underground music has been at and above the level of corporate rock for at LEAST 20 years. Think of what everyone listens to from the 1970's. Think they're innovative? Try again. There was underground music back then too. You think Aphex Twin is hot? All his stuff has its roots back in the 60's, in music written by people almost nobody has heard of. You like Orbital? Three high school kids from Detroit started that stuff in the 1980's.
That an indie band with no label could become popular just by sounding better than Britney (shouldn't be too hard, really).
That will never happen unless people stop paying attention to marketing and equating popularity to quality. Unfortunately that's a lesson we all learn to early and too many never forget. (and not just from advertising!)
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I can't wait for a purchase order. I'll get to ask "To which side does sir's company dress?"
This will cost $500-$1000 a month.
That's quite a bit for 1.5Mbps.
Heck, oligarchy describes nearly every large political system ever.
Despite the grand amount of clout mainstream media has, there ARE competitors. In fact, you just mentioned a whole bunch in your post? Does that not strike you as a little odd?
Yup, like suck up unemployment and Social Security money. It's not exactly all that easy to find a tech job once you're over 40.
Well, as long as all the engineers who understand it aren't the ones working for the new company.
Check out the archives of the alt.ascii-art newsgroup. Lots of ASCII and ANSI stuff there.
There are still independent labels out there.
For example, Underground Resistance is owned by no one. They distribute through Submerge, who is also owned by no one.
They're pretty good at the anti-corporate propaganda thing too.
I suggest Ishkur's site for a similar primer. Just make sure your sense of humor is activated :)
Actually, I hear a lot of talk about him on techno and house mailing lists. I personally most of these labels except for the most general ones are a load of tripe anyway. (and i thought microsound was something different but oh well)
The Indian flavored music you're talking is often called "Bhangra" or "Asian Underground". It's mostly coming from the UK.
There is always more than one "fad" going through what you call "electronica" and I call TECHNO.
You can easily choose to ignore the ones you don't like, unless you get all your music news from Slashdot.
Reminds of Matthew Herbert does.
For a live show, he will take samples of himself breaking stuff and do all sorts of things with the noises. Lately he has taken to ripping up bits of corporate branding (soda cans, mcdonald's fries, etc.)
Yes, but Pilsner Urquell is disgusting, so what's the point?
The CDDB uses the TOC and a checksum of the data. After going through lossy compression and back, things will have changed.
Wrong. That's the point. Nice ad hominem attack, by the way.
How is this an emergency situation? Please, PLEEEEEEASE tell me you're not serious?
Who is to say that a cruise missile could never do that?
Yeah, but they sold planes to lots of people. Syria uses a bunch of Russian equipment. Maybe not MiGs, but SAMs and the Su planes.
actually works, and for which CDs?
why don't you try it yourself?
And what the heck is this "geek-written" vs. "mainstream" business? Did Mahir Cagri not show that everything on the Internet is mainstream?
Well, it wouldn't get unmanageable. The wait to add more content or to ask permission to change your current content would just become longer and longer and longer until the whole thing stagnates.
.kids.us, and nobody is forced to surf only there. Taxpayers are forced to pay for it, of course.
Which isn't a horrible problem, since nobody is forced to put kiddie content in
I stepped out to use the bathroom and I forgot to lock my workstation. I don't forget anymore.
Actually, the only time I caught the cleaning guys on my machine at work, they were looking at stock exchanges. I logged in remotely and popped xeyes up all over the place. That was fun :)
Um, if the ice cap on the north pole melts, we DON'T get any extra green land. If both ice caps melt a little, the sea level starts going up without ANY exposed land. We also lose New York City, the Netherlands, most of New England, and we get a lot more beaches.
What do you mean "for once"? Underground music has been at and above the level of corporate rock for at LEAST 20 years. Think of what everyone listens to from the 1970's. Think they're innovative? Try again. There was underground music back then too. You think Aphex Twin is hot? All his stuff has its roots back in the 60's, in music written by people almost nobody has heard of. You like Orbital? Three high school kids from Detroit started that stuff in the 1980's. That an indie band with no label could become popular just by sounding better than Britney (shouldn't be too hard, really).
That will never happen unless people stop paying attention to marketing and equating popularity to quality. Unfortunately that's a lesson we all learn to early and too many never forget. (and not just from advertising!)
Well, it's not just Aphex Twin that pulls circuitbending to make glitchy techno. I mean, there's a glitchy hip hop SCENE.