We can thank those crazy Babylonians and their base-60 numbering system. A lot of early mathematics was done by Arabic scholars who inherited this nightmare, which is where we get the 360 degree nonsense. here is an interesting article about the origins of base 60.
It matters. If a bushel were the size of a stadium filled to the brim, thousands a year is a real whole huge amount. If a bushel were the size of the head of a pin, thousands a year is about what I personally throw out. Some people like to visualize amounts to help understand them, and knowing "oh, so 2 5-gallon jugs" is helpful.
The label might improve terms, make promises that they'll promote your next album, claim that you're about to go platinum if you stay with it, things like that. Nobody likes to throw away a chance to make millions, even if they've been screwed already.
I'm the same way. There are many authors I'll pay the "hardcover tax" for. I don't actually know how it works firsthand anymore, but it used to be whatever crap got played on the radio or MTV sold well. Whatever crap wound up on the bestseller list sold well. Didn't matter if it was some self-help book by a nobody, some bogus diet book, if it was on the list people bought it. If Milli Vanilli got played 25x/day people bought it.
It's a very strange market. Now that music, e-books, video, etc. has zero duplication cost and print-on-demand is viable there is effectively infinite supply. Price would tend to zero without government intervention. I don't know if supply and demand even make sense with intellectual property.
I have 100,000 songs on a $100 drive. It'll last 3 years average. That's 3/100th of a cent per song per year. All the other costs are sunk. You're going to have a datacenter anyway. You're going to have racks. Servers. Just a few hundred watts extra.
I'm not claiming it's free to sell millions of songs over the internet. I'm claiming if you're selling millions of songs it is insignificant extra cost to have a huge catalog.
But aside from that, people really do follow the herd. I do it too. You can't seriously believe that tens of millions of people made an educated decision to buy the latest 50 cent album. People are more likely to buy something if it is perceived to be popular. Sometimes it even makes sense.
Many people use Windows because it is popular. Heck, I do. It makes it easier for me to earn a living if I am comfortable programming Windows applications. I'm not really proud of that, but I at least made a conscious decision.
I'm sorry that I amaze you with my arrogance, but I really think most people would be happier if they thought through little things instead of going with the flow all the time.
I don't want everyone to be like me either. For one thing, it's not realistic. If everyone was a computer programmer where would all the toasters come from? I value people who have different preferences and outlooks, sometimes even learn something or see things in a new way. It does make me sad when they don't make a choice about it, just do what everyone else does without thinking about it.
I used to go along with my peer group in some ways back in high school. I'm much happier now, and even found that there are lots of people who share my tastes.
Well, California has suffered from booms before. 1849 for example. Back then it was very difficult, but still millions did it. People do tend to fall into herd mentality.
Things have already changed a bit, though. When I was a kid in the 70s there were just a couple of TV shows that people talked about. We have much more choice now. It is kind of neat to run into someone into Red vs Blue or Venture Bros. or some other thing that simply couldn't exist in the 70s. There is a lot of crap too, but that's how it's always been. I'm hoping more smallish things develop followings and can be profitable. So far it looks encouraging.
The tail will keep getting longer. Maybe someday it will be long enough that it will be quite big compared to the popular items. Imagine living in the year 3000, with over 1,000 years of movies and music to pick from. Surely there'd be many interesting items for anyone!
I have "Story of a Young Heart" on vinyl, bought it when AFOS was still somewhat popular. I was listening to a cassette I made of the album in my old truck (cassette only) just last weekend.
It's true you don't have to advertise. It doesn't cost anything really to have it available for download. Just sit back and rake in the.99 every few months or so.
I'd like to see the music industry change in a lot of ways, but one really cool thing would be for the top 40 to account for 10% instead of 99.9% of sales. I don't know if we're headed that way or not. People seem to be following the herd more and more, but at least technology might stack the deck a little.
I don't see how having 3 million songs could not change everything. Even a good record store will only have a few thousand different CDs. Naturally the most popular will match the top 40 or whatnot, but there are millions of extra choices that will sell every now and then. As it grows to 30 million, we can expect the long tail to kick in more and more.
Initiative 40 passed in 1998 statewide, approving medical marijuana. So apparently statewide initiatives can pass as well. There have been other states and cities with similar laws passed.
Regarding other drugs, I think lots of those problems are due to the criminalization, not inherent problems with the drugs themselves. A lot of people have strong opinions on the matter that aren't always well informed. I'd sure like to move towards a more permissive culture that punished antisocial behaviour. A potsmoker or crackhead who doesn't rob people or piss in the street is fine by me. Burningman has really high "hard" drug use, and close to no crime for example.
I guess I'd rather see crashing-while-cell-phoning be punished than driving-while-cell-phoning. Same thing with drugs. Some people can't handle staying out of trouble using alcohol, so they end up in jail. It should work the same way with anything.
It would be very useful for residential homes, even with current usage.
Instead of paying for cable, phone, and internet it could all be internet. 2.5 gigabit would feed several HDTVs with multiple receivers, several phone lines, and several fast computers easily. The main thing is what hugely increased bandwidth will lead to. There is something that will fill these pipes, if history is any gauge.
champagne is sparkling wine. Sparkling wine is not necessarily champagne. It is a transitive but not a symmetric property, if I remember set theory correctly.
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I didn't say it was good music. It's just as valid as Britney Spears or whoever is crapping out pop these days. Why not give it a listen?
The way I've heard it is "Running around dark rooms, eating pills, listening to electronic music." Nobody can say it isn't electronic music.
We can thank those crazy Babylonians and their base-60 numbering system. A lot of early mathematics was done by Arabic scholars who inherited this nightmare, which is where we get the 360 degree nonsense. here is an interesting article about the origins of base 60.
Clocks, days of the week, months, days in the year, compasses, and polar coordinates must really piss you off.
I know they bug me!
It matters. If a bushel were the size of a stadium filled to the brim, thousands a year is a real whole huge amount. If a bushel were the size of the head of a pin, thousands a year is about what I personally throw out. Some people like to visualize amounts to help understand them, and knowing "oh, so 2 5-gallon jugs" is helpful.
Keep watching. I know it hurts. Eventually, someone will kick the ball with their foot, I promise!
1 US bushel = 4.32860312 × 10-9 cubic furlongs
It was Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) Utah. Here's a sample article
I probably shouldn't be so hard on Orrin. Technically, he is a musician.
Maybe I need more coffee, but how does step #1 protect against bogus inflated numbers that enrich wholly owned subsidiaries?
The label might improve terms, make promises that they'll promote your next album, claim that you're about to go platinum if you stay with it, things like that. Nobody likes to throw away a chance to make millions, even if they've been screwed already.
I'm the same way. There are many authors I'll pay the "hardcover tax" for. I don't actually know how it works firsthand anymore, but it used to be whatever crap got played on the radio or MTV sold well. Whatever crap wound up on the bestseller list sold well. Didn't matter if it was some self-help book by a nobody, some bogus diet book, if it was on the list people bought it. If Milli Vanilli got played 25x/day people bought it.
It's a very strange market. Now that music, e-books, video, etc. has zero duplication cost and print-on-demand is viable there is effectively infinite supply. Price would tend to zero without government intervention. I don't know if supply and demand even make sense with intellectual property.
I have 100,000 songs on a $100 drive. It'll last 3 years average. That's 3/100th of a cent per song per year. All the other costs are sunk. You're going to have a datacenter anyway. You're going to have racks. Servers. Just a few hundred watts extra.
I'm not claiming it's free to sell millions of songs over the internet. I'm claiming if you're selling millions of songs it is insignificant extra cost to have a huge catalog.
Yeah, I'm pretty arrogant.
But aside from that, people really do follow the herd. I do it too. You can't seriously believe that tens of millions of people made an educated decision to buy the latest 50 cent album. People are more likely to buy something if it is perceived to be popular. Sometimes it even makes sense.
Many people use Windows because it is popular. Heck, I do. It makes it easier for me to earn a living if I am comfortable programming Windows applications. I'm not really proud of that, but I at least made a conscious decision.
I'm sorry that I amaze you with my arrogance, but I really think most people would be happier if they thought through little things instead of going with the flow all the time.
I don't want everyone to be like me either. For one thing, it's not realistic. If everyone was a computer programmer where would all the toasters come from? I value people who have different preferences and outlooks, sometimes even learn something or see things in a new way. It does make me sad when they don't make a choice about it, just do what everyone else does without thinking about it.
I used to go along with my peer group in some ways back in high school. I'm much happier now, and even found that there are lots of people who share my tastes.
Well, California has suffered from booms before. 1849 for example. Back then it was very difficult, but still millions did it. People do tend to fall into herd mentality.
Things have already changed a bit, though. When I was a kid in the 70s there were just a couple of TV shows that people talked about. We have much more choice now. It is kind of neat to run into someone into Red vs Blue or Venture Bros. or some other thing that simply couldn't exist in the 70s. There is a lot of crap too, but that's how it's always been. I'm hoping more smallish things develop followings and can be profitable. So far it looks encouraging.
The tail will keep getting longer. Maybe someday it will be long enough that it will be quite big compared to the popular items. Imagine living in the year 3000, with over 1,000 years of movies and music to pick from. Surely there'd be many interesting items for anyone!
I have "Story of a Young Heart" on vinyl, bought it when AFOS was still somewhat popular. I was listening to a cassette I made of the album in my old truck (cassette only) just last weekend.
.99 every few months or so.
It's true you don't have to advertise. It doesn't cost anything really to have it available for download. Just sit back and rake in the
I'd like to see the music industry change in a lot of ways, but one really cool thing would be for the top 40 to account for 10% instead of 99.9% of sales. I don't know if we're headed that way or not. People seem to be following the herd more and more, but at least technology might stack the deck a little.
I don't see how having 3 million songs could not change everything. Even a good record store will only have a few thousand different CDs. Naturally the most popular will match the top 40 or whatnot, but there are millions of extra choices that will sell every now and then. As it grows to 30 million, we can expect the long tail to kick in more and more.
No, the tv & phone are on the same line. They don't run POTS and cable to each house in addition to internet.
Initiative 40 passed in 1998 statewide, approving medical marijuana. So apparently statewide initiatives can pass as well. There have been other states and cities with similar laws passed.
Regarding other drugs, I think lots of those problems are due to the criminalization, not inherent problems with the drugs themselves. A lot of people have strong opinions on the matter that aren't always well informed. I'd sure like to move towards a more permissive culture that punished antisocial behaviour. A potsmoker or crackhead who doesn't rob people or piss in the street is fine by me. Burningman has really high "hard" drug use, and close to no crime for example.
I guess I'd rather see crashing-while-cell-phoning be punished than driving-while-cell-phoning. Same thing with drugs. Some people can't handle staying out of trouble using alcohol, so they end up in jail. It should work the same way with anything.
I think you see what I'm saying.
You're saying no matter who you vote for the government wins.
In Denver the majority voted to decriminalize marijuana. So it can happen, right now, with certain drugs in certain places.
It would be very useful for residential homes, even with current usage.
Instead of paying for cable, phone, and internet it could all be internet. 2.5 gigabit would feed several HDTVs with multiple receivers, several phone lines, and several fast computers easily. The main thing is what hugely increased bandwidth will lead to. There is something that will fill these pipes, if history is any gauge.
champagne is sparkling wine.
Sparkling wine is not necessarily champagne.
It is a transitive but not a symmetric property, if I remember set theory correctly.
Yahoo maps and MS Live both have live traffic. Where I live this is what I use.