Mike Masnick is pretty much an idiot. His standard operating procedure is to make an unsupported assertion, and then argue as if it's established fact. Then, a few weeks later, a post will say 'as we established a few weeks ago, X' as though he's providing some sort of conclusive evidence.
Everyone says this. In point of fact, I virtually never see it actually happen in the wild. The rare times it does happen appear mostly to be either lag in price adjustments or actual mistakes.
Of course it's still true. Publishers do a lot more than just 'get the book to the public'. I've read a metric shitload of the self-published books available on Amazon. Only a microscopic fraction we're truly good. Not a single one would have failed to benefit from a real professional editing process (which includes a great deal more than copyediting).
Yes yes, but the writer can hire the editor him/herself, etc. Sure, so instead of the author being paid an advance and having all of that stuff handled for them, they can instead invest thousands of their own dollars.
The interesting thing is that to get the news off the internet, someone has to do the actual reporting. 90 percent of the 'news' on the internet is reporting someone else's story. I guess ultimately we'll be down to one service that provides actual reporting and everyone else with subscribe to it to do their 'reporting'.
Well, all except the part where the initial investigating officer recommended charging him with manslaughter and was overruled by the chief. Yeah, all except that.
You don't get true flat response by trying to overpower phase distortion with eq. You get a hot mess. You get a flat response by designing a speaker cabinet properly and not pretending that speakers the size of a shoebox can do what speakers the size of a small refrigerator can do. See the previously referenced Klipschorn. You don't NEED active electronics for those.
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The private sector is awesome.
None of that makes NYC part of New England. Sorry.
Actually, as far as I know, there's very little choice in the suburbs. Most towns give one provider a monopoly.
And then remained essentially flat for the past thirty years.
Mike Masnick is pretty much an idiot. His standard operating procedure is to make an unsupported assertion, and then argue as if it's established fact. Then, a few weeks later, a post will say 'as we established a few weeks ago, X' as though he's providing some sort of conclusive evidence.
Red Storm Rising was as much Larry Bond as it was Tom Clancy.
The operative word there was 'more'.
What are these people? 10 years old?
Maybe if you truly work at it, you can make authors as extinct as dinosaurs.
Did you pull this figure out of your ass?
Actually, all of MacMillan now I believe. (Tor is part of MacMillan).
Everyone says this. In point of fact, I virtually never see it actually happen in the wild. The rare times it does happen appear mostly to be either lag in price adjustments or actual mistakes.
Of course it's still true. Publishers do a lot more than just 'get the book to the public'. I've read a metric shitload of the self-published books available on Amazon. Only a microscopic fraction we're truly good. Not a single one would have failed to benefit from a real professional editing process (which includes a great deal more than copyediting). Yes yes, but the writer can hire the editor him/herself, etc. Sure, so instead of the author being paid an advance and having all of that stuff handled for them, they can instead invest thousands of their own dollars.
That is, of course, not remotely Amazon's call to make.
Nothing like doubling down on teh stupid.
To follow up my own post, see Judith Miller.
Not terrifically conservative, no. But certainly not liberal.
It's not as though the Washington Post was anything other than a sad, broken shell of it's formerly great self.
The interesting thing is that to get the news off the internet, someone has to do the actual reporting. 90 percent of the 'news' on the internet is reporting someone else's story. I guess ultimately we'll be down to one service that provides actual reporting and everyone else with subscribe to it to do their 'reporting'.
Riiigggghhhtttt.
The spinning hipster douchenozzle ad is incredibly painful. I want to shoot each and everyone of them in the face.
Well, all except the part where the initial investigating officer recommended charging him with manslaughter and was overruled by the chief. Yeah, all except that.
I'm pretty sure a large segment of the population will be falling all over themselves to help Zimmerman out.
Zimmerman looked pretty healthy for someone who'd been 'nearly killed'.
You don't get true flat response by trying to overpower phase distortion with eq. You get a hot mess. You get a flat response by designing a speaker cabinet properly and not pretending that speakers the size of a shoebox can do what speakers the size of a small refrigerator can do. See the previously referenced Klipschorn. You don't NEED active electronics for those.