I wonder how this will affect music and distribution, for the future. Hope these actions turn around and bite them in the ass.
I personally have this dream of musicians grouping together not only for the aim of making music but also to distribute their own music for free.
The idea is very similar to the concept of getting free software and paying for the service. From what I hear, musicians don't really make that much money from selling their albums. Any real money is made thru performances. Sites hosting groups of musicians would distribute the MP3s for free, promotional samples if you will of what they will be performing live.
There wouldn't really be much loss since almost all the gains of cutting a CD goes to the Label. And since you're only making a few tracks, the cost of studio time wouldn't be to difficult to manage on your own.
There are a few sites I've stumbled across that sort of do this, but unfortunatley: a) they didn't really have the talent to back the idea. b) the site was small and really wasn't able to be a platform for promotion. c) the bands were caught up in the notion that producing a CD was what it was all about.
My perception of whats happening is that the music industry is financially suffocating both the artists and the fans. It would be nice to see the major artists that do own their own labels take a cue from the internet culture, adopt this stragety, and make it viable. Can it be done?
With less people they will have less of a sales force, less technical support, and do less research and development.
And services. They aren't going to keep the same amount of work over fewer people.
In the end, all of the things that make money.
No not really. What makes money is having people trade you their money for your service. If your service isn't able to support your people, find one that will. It would be nice if nobody lost their job in this transition, but its tough to do.
With cut rates being nearly a third of their staff, it indicates that they were doing more than just "going after a profit". Struggling to the surface (break even) sounds more like it. If you can't pay your debts its over.
Its cold comfort, but its sometimes better to cut off an infected arm than to outright die. The real tragedy is having a leader who doesn't have the balls or brains to make tough decisions now, wastes time and resources, and ends up putting more people in jeopardy.
Eades explained IBM's reasoning behind the compatibility announcement as twofold: "No. 1, by claiming compatibility on Linux, we maintain the position that Thinkpad is the leader in this industry, period."
"by claiming compatibility we maintain the position that thinkpad is the leader..." Just plain marketing sleaze. They know full well that their view of compatibility is opposed to the users view. There is nothing worse than deceiving your users/customers for short-term gain. I have to agree with the other posts that state that the marketing dept must follow the Engineers and not the other way around.
Right, using all nines as an EOF or process kill. However, using all nines would be 99/99/99 or 99/99/9999. But non-y2k compliant computers would handle the date as 09/09/99 and y2k compliant ones would use 09/09/1999.
Some people just need a thrill no matter how unprobable it is.
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I personally have this dream of musicians grouping together not only for the aim of making music but also to distribute their own music for free.
The idea is very similar to the concept of getting free software and paying for the service. From what I hear, musicians don't really make that much money from selling their albums. Any real money is made thru performances. Sites hosting groups of musicians would distribute the MP3s for free, promotional samples if you will of what they will be performing live.
There wouldn't really be much loss since almost all the gains of cutting a CD goes to the Label. And since you're only making a few tracks, the cost of studio time wouldn't be to difficult to manage on your own.
There are a few sites I've stumbled across that sort of do this, but unfortunatley:
a) they didn't really have the talent to back the idea.
b) the site was small and really wasn't able to be a platform for promotion.
c) the bands were caught up in the notion that producing a CD was what it was all about.
My perception of whats happening is that the music industry is financially suffocating both the artists and the fans. It would be nice to see the major artists that do own their own labels take a cue from the internet culture, adopt this stragety, and make it viable. Can it be done?
And services. They aren't going to keep the same amount of work over fewer people.
In the end, all of the things that make money.
No not really. What makes money is having people trade you their money for your service. If your service isn't able to support your people, find one that will. It would be nice if nobody lost their job in this transition, but its tough to do.
Its cold comfort, but its sometimes better to cut off an infected arm than to outright die. The real tragedy is having a leader who doesn't have the balls or brains to make tough decisions now, wastes time and resources, and ends up putting more people in jeopardy.
Yeah, I agree. It would have been preferable if they had gone an unquestionable course. But its out now and we'll have to go this way.
yes but you first develop the drivers and support then you make the claims.
"by claiming compatibility we maintain the position that thinkpad is the leader..."
Just plain marketing sleaze. They know full well that their view of compatibility is opposed to the users view. There is nothing worse than deceiving your users/customers for short-term gain. I have to agree with the other posts that state that the marketing dept must follow the Engineers and not the other way around.
Some people just need a thrill no matter how unprobable it is.
Its a shame thats all you could comprehend