While I agree with you, I'd like to take your point even further...
I would think it would be the exact opposite. In the last 25 years the cost of audio production equipment, cd presses (well equivelant to mainstream of yester-year) and printing presses (for inserts) have advanced dramatically and gone wait down in price. I think its about time artists begin recording their own music or grouping together for recordings then paying the labels a small cut for mass reproduction of their music...
Production, distribution, branding, booking, and even management for indie musical acts, enabled by new tech and education, is quickly reaching a critical mass. When the current crop of 19 year-old wanna-be rock stars reach ~30 things will be much different for the labels labels thanks to a simple cultural reason: the myth of the rock star has evolved and no longer includes the scene where the act gets "discovered" and signed by a label. To me the actions of the labels resembles AT&T long distance land line division before it got spun off to protect parent coporate profits: futile and desperate.
Talk to some rockin' college kids. In my experience, they see no need to pay for a professional studio as the production quality in a richie rich's basement is nearly on par. Dittio for graphic design, web development, ect. The difference between these efforts and those of the garage bands of 10 or 20 years ago is the finish of the final product: A+ prime. Often everything thing is really solid except the actual music.
Give it time.
D'accord?
many of us will continue to read his stuff regardless of future subject matter. his prose has captured us. how did he develop his style? this just of this question is repeated in several others, but none are as concise and precise.
being way better than the question i asked, this question could def use a higher mod score.
so there isn't a data file containing compleate fingerprints. great. you will just have to lift one off of the case or keys. esp with the added sense of security, other users in the office will be much more likely to let someone borrow the computer, and how much extra encryption do you the average user would use? none. with my skill set it would be much easier to make a fake finger from a lifted print than attemt to crack a password, and you can bet that most users will have the biometric reading take the place of a password.
SMAIS (Iceland's association of film right holders) says that traffic fell by 40%. Would you believe the RIAA if they said the same thing? Nope. Has any objective third party confirmed this?
do they just take videos of the existing content where they simply do weird things, or do they add additional content to the games?
from their faq www.redvsblue.com/faq_email.shtml:
Q: How do you make the videos?
A: This is by far the number one question asked in e-mail. We use a video capture suite by a fantastic company, Canopus. The card we use is a Canopus DV Rex M1. We also use a variety of software, including Adobe Premiere and a great (and cheap!)sound editing tool called Cool Edit 2000. As far as specific questions about certain shots, we reserve all behind-the-scenes info for our sponsors forum which offers a unique look at the magic behind RvB. We don't publish that kind of info on the public site, because we feel it detracts from the enjoyment of the story. We don't want viewers wondering how we got two different colored Marines in the Warthog -- we just want them to enjoy the movie.,
since they use shots you totally can't get from playing the game, maybe the Halo developer gave them a copy of the engine or source, or they opened it themselves. my guess is the former.
BTW, the more you watch it the more humor you get out of it. i can't explain why
1) Purchase a stack of women's magazines
2) Read articles in the magazine about the best place to go to meet a guy.
3) When the women readers follow that advice, be there.
my version:
1) Purchase a stack of women's magazines
2) Read articles in the magazine about the best place to go to meet a guy.
3) NEVER go to those places. The women who follow that kind of advice are as stupid and dull as men who seek knowledge from Maxim or FHM.
Develop a non-geek passion, something that you really enjoy. Like drawing, or volunteering for the Nature Conservancy, or music or yoga or anything so long as you love it. Devote huge amounts of free-time to your passion, and it will enrich your life, leaving you happy and well-rounded. Eventually you'll stumble across a woman who shares your passion, and you will just *click* like legos and live happily ever after.
In the meantime, develop honest & open & honestly platonic friendships with women. The friendship part of a love relationship is the most important, IMHO, and is often neglected.
with a stereo-mini to rca apapter any mp3 player can feed a home stereo, and there are a couple of different ways to easily feed a car stereo. soon enough we'll all have solid state memory devices holding our video and audio collections, and i also want my audio to be lossless, thank you very much.
those of us locked into the apple world have no problem using whatever software fits our needs, but iTunes is it for audio playback, and that limits our formatt choices. if apple should implode a few years down the line (i give it a 30% chance over 10 years) i'll have to convert my libary, but unless that happens i'll remain sitting pretty, iPod in hand, secure in the knowedge that the only part of the song i'm missing is from the inherent approximation of digital playback.
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how would you say that vanity fair compares to the atlantic monthly for deeper narrative articles regarding international relations?
many of us will continue to read his stuff regardless of future subject matter. his prose has captured us. how did he develop his style? this just of this question is repeated in several others, but none are as concise and precise. being way better than the question i asked, this question could def use a higher mod score.
You are the only science fiction author whose books I buy on sight, in hard cover, price-be-damned. That probably makes me a fan.
Whats books or authors do you consider invaluable to a person's accurate understanding of American history?
so there isn't a data file containing compleate fingerprints. great. you will just have to lift one off of the case or keys. esp with the added sense of security, other users in the office will be much more likely to let someone borrow the computer, and how much extra encryption do you the average user would use? none. with my skill set it would be much easier to make a fake finger from a lifted print than attemt to crack a password, and you can bet that most users will have the biometric reading take the place of a password.
SMAIS (Iceland's association of film right holders) says that traffic fell by 40%. Would you believe the RIAA if they said the same thing? Nope. Has any objective third party confirmed this?
1) Purchase a stack of women's magazines
2) Read articles in the magazine about the best place to go to meet a guy.
3) NEVER go to those places. The women who follow that kind of advice are as stupid and dull as men who seek knowledge from Maxim or FHM.
Develop a non-geek passion, something that you really enjoy. Like drawing, or volunteering for the Nature Conservancy, or music or yoga or anything so long as you love it. Devote huge amounts of free-time to your passion, and it will enrich your life, leaving you happy and well-rounded. Eventually you'll stumble across a woman who shares your passion, and you will just *click* like legos and live happily ever after. In the meantime, develop honest & open & honestly platonic friendships with women. The friendship part of a love relationship is the most important, IMHO, and is often neglected.
with a stereo-mini to rca apapter any mp3 player can feed a home stereo, and there are a couple of different ways to easily feed a car stereo. soon enough we'll all have solid state memory devices holding our video and audio collections, and i also want my audio to be lossless, thank you very much.
those of us locked into the apple world have no problem using whatever software fits our needs, but iTunes is it for audio playback, and that limits our formatt choices. if apple should implode a few years down the line (i give it a 30% chance over 10 years) i'll have to convert my libary, but unless that happens i'll remain sitting pretty, iPod in hand, secure in the knowedge that the only part of the song i'm missing is from the inherent approximation of digital playback.