Sorry I burned all my mod points yesterday. Then I could undo that -1 Troll that was laid on you.
Obviously someone who doesn't understand the meme has mod points today.
When I made that the parent post there were no comments on the story.
After I hit submit and went back to the story I saw that somebody had been quicker on the draw than me. So I figured I'd end up getting smacked with a redundant mod.
Just didn't think that the one that just beat me would end up +4 insightful.
"Ever wonder how Jimi Hendrix would cover Lady Gaga?"
Until it made the news yesterday that Lady Gaga is celibate. I was more concerned about how I would cover her.
Oh, they were talking about musical style? Never mind.
For the uninitiated. Cover is a term for mating in the world of animal breeders.
Often companies will pay the studio to display their product in a movie.
I believe studios actually have people that contact companies to pursue these tie-ins.
Doesn't have to be a "concept" album in order have a connected feeling through out.
A lot of thought goes into song order on even the lamest pop album.
Holy cow! After reading the controlled composition link you provided I am dumbfounded.
I can't see how that benefits anyone other than the label. And will only make it harder for me suppress my gag reflex next time I hear or read about a label exec talk about doing what's best for the artist.
It's not an either/or proposition. Being played on Spotify doesn't preclude it from being sold on iTunes. As has been mentioned many other times in this thread, programmable streaming content often leads to sales.
In the past labels didn't make any money by exposing their product through FM radio, but airplay lead to sales. Now even if they're only making $0.0002 per play while gaining exposure that is actually the better model. Not only because they're making money off of the exposure. But because the over the 'net play is targeted to someone that actively selected that type of music, and therefore more likely to generate a sale.
On the other hand. If reseller B's volume is three times reseller A's. Then your revenue goes up.
And more than likely the only way reseller B is going to get the deal that allows B's cut to the publisher to be (n/2)%. Would be to convince them that they can deliver enough volume to more than make up the smaller per song/album share.
It's not so much that I "understand" Limbaugh. It's that his talking is longer and louder that makes me froth at the mouth. At least it would if I listened to him.
While I have seen people supporting the idea of this device. I have yet to see anyone, including Jobs at the unveiling, claim that this is going to "sweep away real computers."
That is pure hyperbole on your part. It's actually the detractors complaining that this isn't enough like a full on laptop/desktop. And the defense is usually that it's an appliance not a computer.
I do see a place for the iPad's configuration: simple, limited, and cheap. It could make a nice ebook reader, emagazine, photo viewer, video screen, navigator, board game, writing pad, magic tablet of fun.
And amazingly enough that is just how they are marketing it.
Tablet PC's have been around for a very long time, hell, products from 2002 were more powerfull than the ipad with A LOT more features
And their interfaces were crap and nobody used them except in a few specialized areas.
I've seen them a lot in medical and logistic applications. Most of the time they run a single application to do a specific job. So all of those capabilities you're talking about are over kill. They might as well have been single function devices.
This was pretty much my first reaction as well. But on further reflection the prison systems claim of mimicking gang behavior has some merit.
First you have remember that a lot of these guys in prison, while not educated, are still quite savvy, and have a whole lot of time on their hands. There are many cases that show just how creative prisoners can be when it comes to escape plans, and making weapons with the materials on hand.
So I don't think it would take much for one of the more enterprising ones to use a game like this to cover the activities of organizing illicit behavior.
I'm sort of in between.
When writing for correspondence I prefer to type it on screen where it is easy to edit large chunks at a time. I need this because I often find that I say the same thing a couple of times worded differently, and need to pare it down.
But when doing creative writing, songs, poems, etc. I prefer to write in pencil. Even though I edit as much if not more. It's not in large blocks. Usually only single lines being moved around.
Slashdot Mirror
As in, "My opinion is absolutely right, and yours is absolutely wrong"
Sorry I burned all my mod points yesterday. Then I could undo that -1 Troll that was laid on you.
Obviously someone who doesn't understand the meme has mod points today.
Really? Software is more a form of creative expression that designing a unique and elegant physical mechanism to perform a task?
Writing code that manipulates bits in a black box is no more creative than designing a set of cogs and wheels inside a metal box.
--Mahatma Gandhi
By your logic, every one else on here who says that the pratice is evil is also forcing thier value on others.
"Please make the next legal U-turn."
When I made that the parent post there were no comments on the story.
After I hit submit and went back to the story I saw that somebody had been quicker on the draw than me. So I figured I'd end up getting smacked with a redundant mod.
Just didn't think that the one that just beat me would end up +4 insightful.
Al Capone was "Scarface" long before Al Pacino.
New Mexico? Civilized? Really? Have you ever driven through that state?
Beginning this year they have re-introduced limited adjustability of the front wing in F1.
http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2009/0/617.html
Well I had until your post.
Excuse me while I go rinse my brain with bleach, and start my mental conditioning over.
Until it made the news yesterday that Lady Gaga is celibate. I was more concerned about how I would cover her.
Oh, they were talking about musical style? Never mind.
For the uninitiated. Cover is a term for mating in the world of animal breeders.
Often companies will pay the studio to display their product in a movie.
I believe studios actually have people that contact companies to pursue these tie-ins.
Doesn't have to be a "concept" album in order have a connected feeling through out.
A lot of thought goes into song order on even the lamest pop album.
Holy cow! After reading the controlled composition link you provided I am dumbfounded.
I can't see how that benefits anyone other than the label. And will only make it harder for me suppress my gag reflex next time I hear or read about a label exec talk about doing what's best for the artist.
It's not an either/or proposition. Being played on Spotify doesn't preclude it from being sold on iTunes. As has been mentioned many other times in this thread, programmable streaming content often leads to sales.
In the past labels didn't make any money by exposing their product through FM radio, but airplay lead to sales. Now even if they're only making $0.0002 per play while gaining exposure that is actually the better model. Not only because they're making money off of the exposure. But because the over the 'net play is targeted to someone that actively selected that type of music, and therefore more likely to generate a sale.
On the other hand. If reseller B's volume is three times reseller A's. Then your revenue goes up.
And more than likely the only way reseller B is going to get the deal that allows B's cut to the publisher to be (n/2)%. Would be to convince them that they can deliver enough volume to more than make up the smaller per song/album share.
It's not so much that I "understand" Limbaugh.
It's that his talking is longer and louder that makes me froth at the mouth. At least it would if I listened to him.
While I have seen people supporting the idea of this device. I have yet to see anyone, including Jobs at the unveiling, claim that this is going to "sweep away real computers."
That is pure hyperbole on your part. It's actually the detractors complaining that this isn't enough like a full on laptop/desktop. And the defense is usually that it's an appliance not a computer.
And amazingly enough that is just how they are marketing it.
And their interfaces were crap and nobody used them except in a few specialized areas.
I've seen them a lot in medical and logistic applications. Most of the time they run a single application to do a specific job. So all of those capabilities you're talking about are over kill. They might as well have been single function devices.
Bill, is that you? I mean really you. Not the clone made from your tongue.
When did they move West Virginia to Australia?
This was pretty much my first reaction as well. But on further reflection the prison systems claim of mimicking gang behavior has some merit.
First you have remember that a lot of these guys in prison, while not educated, are still quite savvy, and have a whole lot of time on their hands. There are many cases that show just how creative prisoners can be when it comes to escape plans, and making weapons with the materials on hand.
So I don't think it would take much for one of the more enterprising ones to use a game like this to cover the activities of organizing illicit behavior.
I'm sort of in between.
When writing for correspondence I prefer to type it on screen where it is easy to edit large chunks at a time. I need this because I often find that I say the same thing a couple of times worded differently, and need to pare it down.
But when doing creative writing, songs, poems, etc. I prefer to write in pencil. Even though I edit as much if not more. It's not in large blocks. Usually only single lines being moved around.