> You do know that advertising is what pays for TV programming, broadcasting, etc., in the USofA, don't you?
nope. consumers pay for broadcasting in the usa with the extra cost of their consumer goods due to the spend on advertising. The adverts don't come for free, and the companies advertising the goods pass that cost on to the consumer.
You've got to complete the sequence: Consumer pays for goods; Manufacturer pays for advertising so that consumer knows goods exist; Network pays for programming with money made by selling advertising space.
IF FMCG companies weren't spending the money on adverstising, your goods would be cheaper, and your TV viewing would be uninterrupted by ads.
It would be uninterrupted by programming, too, because no one would be paying for shows to be produced.
When it comes to energy savings (shipping weight, heat generation, current draw) LCDs are much better. Long term? We don't know yet.
I find it hard to imagine that LCDs match color quality well enough to a CRT, heck, on all the LCDs I've looked at, the colors change at least a little based on viewpoint. I don't see how this is acceptable to Apple's base of graphic designers.
Believe it or not, Apple's 'base' is not graphic designers. Apple is still by far the preferred platform for graphic designers, but said designers don't make up even a large percentage of Apple users.
Those designers aren't buying Apple monitors as their primary composition monitor anyway.
Most Apple users just wanted a computer that worked. They got one.
It appears to hold quite a bit of promise in bolstering Apple's currently almost obsolescent product line
Other than a slight lack of processing horsepower, what exactly is "obsolescent" about Apple's product line? Everything they sell (well, except the iPod) can run the latest version of OSX, widely praised as the most advanced OS in the world. Even Apple's 5 year old machines can run OSX. They only have one machine left that even bothers with a CRT, and that's only for economy's sake.
I'm sorry, but I don't see anything even approaching obsolete in Apple's product line.
Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple in 1997. It was definitely not 25% of Apple shares and I don't think they even had enough to vote on anything.
They were non-voting shares, and MS has since disposed of them.
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If anyone can find a dead-tree merchant who's taking pre-orders for (or acknowledges the existence of) books by Wil Wheaton, post it here? Please?
Hah! That is a troll, right? Or sarcasm? Recording engineers will tell you that the art of placing mics, and knowing which mics to pick in the first place is the most important thing they do to get a particular sound on tape (or disk).
Many might concede that their knowlege of what processing to use (preamps, EQ, reverb, delay, even knowing how loud to record something to get tape distortion) is equally important. And almost all good engineers will tell you that *the* most important thing they do is work with the artist to capture their best performances -- even if that means knowing to roll tape when the artist thinks that no tape is rolling.
No, you are confusing recording engineers with Producers. Recording engineers work closely with the equipment, not the talent. The producer is the one with his fat finger on the talkback. Yes, sometimes the roles combine, but not always.
And finally, my mention of Alan Parsons and DSotM was partially flippant, and partially a reminder that for at least 20 years, people considered that album a landmark in recording techniques.
Floyd had been developing many of those techniques long before Dark Side, Alan Parsons just happened to be in the right place at the right time when the music and the technology came together.
I own my share of half-speed-mastered vinyl, so I understand. However, I'm not anal enough to be unable to enjoy the music however I find it.
I haven't tried the service. Can you download full CD-quality files or are all the downloads MP3's?
128kb/s AAC files. Better than MP3, but not as good as AIFF.
MP3's are good for many things, but many audiophiles will want CD-quality (or better). Granted, that's probably less than 10% of the population, so Apple's business plan may prove to be quite sound. (Pun unintended.) I hope so.
Audiofiles will buy the CDs to play in their $2000 CD players with their directional AC cables, etc.
I think people who care are really less than 0.1% of the population. Certainly not more than 1% can actually hear the difference anyway.
About your sig: Alan Parsons got paid scale for his engineering work on "Dark Side of the Moon." So? All the engineer does is place mics, thread machines, and push buttons. I think what he learned about record production during those sessions was much more valuable than any amount of cash would have been.
I'm 37 years old and the record labels have been bending me over for music for decades so right or wrong I just plain didn't give a fuck what they thought.
They've been forcing you to buy music all this time?
If you could 'take' a crate worth of stuff from Home Depot, yet both a) home depot was not at all deprived of the crate, and b) they had no idea you now have the same stuff from that crate that they still have.. would you take it?
No, I wouldn't. Even if HD were "not at all deprived of the crate" they would still have lost the time and energy (real and human) involved in procuring it and presenting it for sale.
Basically put, if 'replicators' from startrek (sorry to those that dont watch the show) existed here and now and were real, would you concider being able to turn the air in the unit now into any type of atoms in any arragement at all (to create matter of the type you need) to be theft?
Questions for you:
Have I paid for the energy being converted into matter?
What if the matter I created was a newly-conceived widget that allowed me to cloak my ship, and you were the creator of ideas behind that widget? Wouldn't you want to be compensated for the R&D time you spent in the conception and testing of the widget?
Ironically intelectual property was suppost to work the same way when the laws on it were made, before companys paid off congress to change them.
An artist that say makes music for example.
That artist is NOT suppost to get paid for each COPY made.
That artist gets paid for their time, knowledge, and experence, and get paid ONCE for that one time job.
Why shouldn't the artist get paid for each copy made and sold? If the artist creates a work that is exceptionally enjoyable, then why shouldn't the artist gain more highly for it?
And this is how it mostly works now. The artist creates a song, and sells it to the RIAA once.
The RIAA is who is suppost to be allowed to make these copys and sell them to us.
The artist has already been paid for their work and is 100% out of the loop at this point.
No, that's not really how it works now. The RIAA is a distribution channel, working on behalf of the artist. The artist never "sells it to the RIAA".
Farmer grows 100 ears of corn, he can sell 100 ears of corn.
Artist makes one song, they can sell ONE SONG, not one million copys of the same song!
Coder writes one excellent game, they can only sell one copy of it? Doesn't sound fair to me.
Coding and songwriting are much more closely related than many people think: Both require years of study to become proficient; Both evolve in ever-changing environments (new hardware/new musical styles) yet both are grounded in past knowledge; Both are dependent upon the general public for acceptance.
I'm guessing that part of the problem is that musicians make it look easy. They even call it 'playing', for heaven's sake. Yet it takes years of hard work, years of study, and quite a bit of luck to ever make a real living at it. Musicians have it bad enough without their work being trivialized by people who would rather give excuses about how 'music should be free' instead of paying the piper.
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This is a great idea that would be embraced by the public... until someone asked:
Why would i pay to download music on one service, that i can download for free on another?
You're absolutely right!
Why, just the other day I was thinking about how Home Depot leaves those crates of stuff out front and how I should just drive by after midnight and take what I wanted. Why pay, right? Then there was this time driving through a school zone. I went 40MPH, just because I felt like it.
I hope my neighbor doesn't mind me parking on his lawn, because, well, Why Not? Right?
I hope that Apple sees the chance to pull in some extra revenue, and ports this to PC. I doubt anyone would switch to a Mac just because of iTunes, but it'd give them an extra stream of cash if they let PC users share in the goodness.
They are already working on it. The Windows version should be out by the end of the year.
The race for the coolest case is getting pretty tight. But my next case will beat all of them. Get this: A case made of living human flesh, with neon lights to add zip.
Now... do any of you have a spare child you can lend me? A 2 year old should be just the right size.
Michael Jackson is building a Beowolf cluster? Who'da thunk it?
As Moore's law begins to slow, and the difference between a 2 gHz Duron and a 4 gHz Duron become imperceptible to most normal people ( a few socially challenged gamers and overclockers aside), people will no longer flock to domestic manufacturers known for high performance boxes like IBM, Dell and Gateway, but will instead look for a box that will last them 3 years, and go with thier domestic decorating scheme.
It's not too late for American PC manufactuers to stop focusing on CPU's and hard drives and start making PC's that can occupy a place of honor in the house, next to the flatscreen TV. Not everyone wants their house to look like an ISP.
He has no car and he's attending this school on a scholarship. How about if you pay the money? You seem to think it's not a big deal. Having money in the future doesn't mean that he has it now. I'll probably make $1million sometime in the next 15 years, but that doesn't mean I can pay you that same amount of money now. If you don't want to give him any money to help him fight this bullshit, then just shut up and let other people do it who are better than you.
If he's got the brains and talent to get a scholarship to RPI, then he'll hit that $1million mark much sooner than 15 years.
Read the article again. He's done "fighting the bullshit." He's accepted their terms. It is unfortunate that he had to, but it's done now. Offering to 'serve his time' for him won't help anyone at this point.
The point I tried to make earlier was that the people we are mad at (RIAA) don't care where the money comes from, so there's no 'protest value' here, and there is no 'cause' to donate to.
Why? He probably has a car that costs more than that. He's going to an outrageously expensive school. He'll probably see a 6-figure income the instant he gets out. Is he really poor enough to need our assistance?
RIAA doesn't care who pays his fine. They get the money and publicity either way. If you wanna "fuck" them, give $12,000 to the EFF or ACLU or something like that.
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Would you rather have cat^H^H^HTV detector vans running around?
Those designers aren't buying Apple monitors as their primary composition monitor anyway.
Most Apple users just wanted a computer that worked. They got one.
I'm sorry, but I don't see anything even approaching obsolete in Apple's product line.
More likely that most of their fans agreed with the sentiment, as I do.
Now, what were we talking about again?There ya go.
He's best known to Star Trek film fans as 'Wesley, the boy on the cutting room floor.'
What have you been doing in the meantime, living?
I own my share of half-speed-mastered vinyl, so I understand. However, I'm not anal enough to be unable to enjoy the music however I find it.
I think people who care are really less than 0.1% of the population. Certainly not more than 1% can actually hear the difference anyway.
About your sig: Alan Parsons got paid scale for his engineering work on "Dark Side of the Moon." So? All the engineer does is place mics, thread machines, and push buttons. I think what he learned about record production during those sessions was much more valuable than any amount of cash would have been.
I'd have bought a radio by now.
- Have I paid for the energy being converted into matter?
- What if the matter I created was a newly-conceived widget that allowed me to cloak my ship, and you were the creator of ideas behind that widget? Wouldn't you want to be compensated for the R&D time you spent in the conception and testing of the widget?
Why shouldn't the artist get paid for each copy made and sold? If the artist creates a work that is exceptionally enjoyable, then why shouldn't the artist gain more highly for it? No, that's not really how it works now. The RIAA is a distribution channel, working on behalf of the artist. The artist never "sells it to the RIAA". Coder writes one excellent game, they can only sell one copy of it? Doesn't sound fair to me.Coding and songwriting are much more closely related than many people think: Both require years of study to become proficient; Both evolve in ever-changing environments (new hardware/new musical styles) yet both are grounded in past knowledge; Both are dependent upon the general public for acceptance.
I'm guessing that part of the problem is that musicians make it look easy. They even call it 'playing', for heaven's sake. Yet it takes years of hard work, years of study, and quite a bit of luck to ever make a real living at it. Musicians have it bad enough without their work being trivialized by people who would rather give excuses about how 'music should be free' instead of paying the piper.
Why, just the other day I was thinking about how Home Depot leaves those crates of stuff out front and how I should just drive by after midnight and take what I wanted. Why pay, right? Then there was this time driving through a school zone. I went 40MPH, just because I felt like it.
I hope my neighbor doesn't mind me parking on his lawn, because, well, Why Not? Right?
Read the article again. He's done "fighting the bullshit." He's accepted their terms. It is unfortunate that he had to, but it's done now. Offering to 'serve his time' for him won't help anyone at this point.
The point I tried to make earlier was that the people we are mad at (RIAA) don't care where the money comes from, so there's no 'protest value' here, and there is no 'cause' to donate to.
RIAA doesn't care who pays his fine. They get the money and publicity either way. If you wanna "fuck" them, give $12,000 to the EFF or ACLU or something like that.