I don't think for a minute that it's destroying music or the personal feel of it. It's giving people a chance to find their OWN idea of good music instead of being spoon fed packaged stars through the label-to-media system. The UK has definately had a noticable change of taste in the last 5 years and I have to think the internet has had a significant part in this. People have been able to hear things they normally wouldn't. Artists have found platforms that were impossible to stand on before. If anything, I'd say the amount of music people listen to and the time they spent with it is much higher than before because it's so accessable and easy (iPod etc). As far as I know, concerts are also still selling out and a night out to see a band/artist is still as popular as ever. The numbers are spread to more areas than before. Music hasn't been hurt, it's the old dinosaurs with the loud voices and their model of how things should be that has been hurt. Music's evolved, come with us - you might like it!:P
I live in London and though 9/11 was horrific on a much larger scale, seeing chaos around my own home makes me understand the frightening effect terror attacks have on not just the direct victims but the entire city. These are bus and train that I see and use every day and while I'm statistically quite safe - the thought of myself, friends or family being injured or killed next time will sit for the time to come and effect our lives in small but significant ways. The fact is, we knew we were going to be attacked but there's little to nothing we could do to prevent it. It's impossible to search every single person moving around the city. Even when we bring terrorist to justice, there are new ones waiting in queue to take their place. I don't see how terrorism can ever be stopped because it only takes a couple of evil bastards to commit mass murder.
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I don't think for a minute that it's destroying music or the personal feel of it. It's giving people a chance to find their OWN idea of good music instead of being spoon fed packaged stars through the label-to-media system. The UK has definately had a noticable change of taste in the last 5 years and I have to think the internet has had a significant part in this. People have been able to hear things they normally wouldn't. Artists have found platforms that were impossible to stand on before. If anything, I'd say the amount of music people listen to and the time they spent with it is much higher than before because it's so accessable and easy (iPod etc). As far as I know, concerts are also still selling out and a night out to see a band/artist is still as popular as ever. The numbers are spread to more areas than before. Music hasn't been hurt, it's the old dinosaurs with the loud voices and their model of how things should be that has been hurt. Music's evolved, come with us - you might like it! :P
XLink Kai have already tunneled it before it's even been launched. http://www.360insider.net/articles/11-20-2005/play -some-xbox-360-multiplayer-without-xbox-live/
I live in London and though 9/11 was horrific on a much larger scale, seeing chaos around my own home makes me understand the frightening effect terror attacks have on not just the direct victims but the entire city. These are bus and train that I see and use every day and while I'm statistically quite safe - the thought of myself, friends or family being injured or killed next time will sit for the time to come and effect our lives in small but significant ways. The fact is, we knew we were going to be attacked but there's little to nothing we could do to prevent it. It's impossible to search every single person moving around the city. Even when we bring terrorist to justice, there are new ones waiting in queue to take their place. I don't see how terrorism can ever be stopped because it only takes a couple of evil bastards to commit mass murder.
Look out your window and count the nerds jumping from their windows. We've got 3 here so f.. no, 4 now!
The foolers - become the foolees.
That's the MS way - "How can we force/decieve people into using this?".
Really, this is more an exploit of user ignorance than anything.
Mozilla jumped the gun when they went for the newspaper ad. Forehead spam is the future, you fools!