The original Hebrew text says "thou shalt not commit murder", the rephrasing to "not kill" was a common misinterpretation into English. If you want to define a (justified or unjustified) war as committing murder, then you have a different argument altogether. Just FYI.
Wrong. There is plenty of money to be made in entertainment by entertainers. However, they won't be able to do it in the same ways that they have in the past, ie selling recordings, etc. I think those that are more creative than others (not just in their art, but more specifically - in their business) will still be able to make quite a fantastic living, way more than any local news broadcaster could consider making.
Take Prince for example. He runs his own label, his own publisher, his own studio. He creates the music - an in some cases, plays all the music on a recording too. Instead of trying to get his new album pushed into records stores, he gives it away with a concert ticket. He gives it away with a copy of a newspaper. Did he make money from these give aways? Hell yes! The Mail paid him for each copy of the record they were giving with the paper. People paid insane prices for those concert tickets! He makes a great living!
The real test is to see if a new artist, someone who doesn't begin their career through the "old" system can do this and be just as successful. The more creative businessman/artist will win.
Actually, marketing costs are paid for out of the artist's share (typically about 15% of the gross), so really, we're just paying the record label's share (typically 85%) until the artist's puny 15% has paid for ALL the expenses related to the album. There is no "biggest cost" related to the price of a CD/album/whatever, though the labels like to say it's the cost of producing a CD...which still comes out of the artist's share.
Thunderbird doesn't natively have the ability to import vCards mailboxes (Come on Mozilla!), but Morecols allows you to import and expert vCards. It should be on everyone's list, although the developer doesn't list it on Mozilla's Add-ons site (get with it Kaosmos!).
The article does a horrible job of explaining the campaign. Here are http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/music_nm/ninei nchnails_dc;_ylt=AgIXkKsEUNycFRi_5MtSiIeVEhkFtwo http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/20 07/02/22/year-zero-project-way-cooler-than-lost/si tes that do a better job. This "new thing" everyone is talking about has less to do with the fact that he's giving music away on USB keys and more to do with the series of sites that are linked together and help promote the album. The first site's address to be "discovered" by fans was given in highlighted letters on a tour t-shirt. From there, further "codes" were solved and those lead to other sites, all related to NIN and the album. The keys/songs are just bonus material for fans at the concerts.
The sites, with the USB keys, with the tour, with the album is what they are buzzing about, not just the USB keys.
Not currently, but I've read rumors of record labels repurposing themselves as artist management instead so they can get a bigger piece of the artist's pie. Conversely, some smart management companies (Nettwerk) are starting up their own labels so they can control every part of the artist's career. In most cases, that's proving better/more profitable for the artist, but you know once the major labels starting becoming managers too, they'll find a way to stuff THEIR pockets and not the artists'.
Here's a blog from two people walking the Great Wall of China. They list some of the stuff they took with them, thought it might help with your decision.
Personally, I wouldn't take a laptop unless I plan on staying in a hotel room or have easy access to a safe to store it in. From what I've read, a modern cell phone would be more than enough to cover your tech needs.
They may not have changed the design of the iBook/Powerbook power supplies, but having just set up 20-30 new MacBooks, I noticed the cabling for the power supply is much thicker. I wonder if they added more insulation to them to prevent this sparking issue.
(3) Convince one or two BIG artists to sell directly themselves with Apple as the distributor. Offer them like 50% of the proceeds of sales, and sell through the iTunes Music Store exclusively, with possible physical distribution at Apple Stores.
Unfortunately, any "BIG" artist is also bound by the terms of a record deal, which woul prevent them from circumventing their label. If an artist like Toby Keith (who owns his own label now) wanted to go this route, he could, because he OWNS his label, and therefore, his music. Unfortunately, if say, Sheryl Crow, wanted to try this, Interscope Records would have a hissy fit and sue her the next day for breach of contract.
When an artist signs a record deal, its an exclusive personal services contract for that record label for seven years. Unless the label lets them out of the contract, the artist isn't allowed to record for any other label (like collaborating with an artist from another label) without permission from the artist's label. They also aren't allowed to record their own album and sell it independently, unless there are special terms in their contract for that.
So, going to the artists to get them to screw the labels isn't going to work unless they are released from their deals, which probably means they weren't selling anything anyway, and probably aren't going to attract much attention on your ideal iTunes label.
On Streaming Tank's site http://www.streamingtank.com/, they have 16,000 servers worldwide. According to them, they plan to have 64,000 by the end of 2006. I don't know what kind of servers or OS they are running, but apparently its plenty enough to a 60,000+ streams at once.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree, it's hard to convince those dead guys to do anything!
The original Hebrew text says "thou shalt not commit murder", the rephrasing to "not kill" was a common misinterpretation into English. If you want to define a (justified or unjustified) war as committing murder, then you have a different argument altogether. Just FYI.
Wrong. There is plenty of money to be made in entertainment by entertainers. However, they won't be able to do it in the same ways that they have in the past, ie selling recordings, etc. I think those that are more creative than others (not just in their art, but more specifically - in their business) will still be able to make quite a fantastic living, way more than any local news broadcaster could consider making.
Take Prince for example. He runs his own label, his own publisher, his own studio. He creates the music - an in some cases, plays all the music on a recording too. Instead of trying to get his new album pushed into records stores, he gives it away with a concert ticket. He gives it away with a copy of a newspaper. Did he make money from these give aways? Hell yes! The Mail paid him for each copy of the record they were giving with the paper. People paid insane prices for those concert tickets! He makes a great living!
The real test is to see if a new artist, someone who doesn't begin their career through the "old" system can do this and be just as successful. The more creative businessman/artist will win.
Actually, marketing costs are paid for out of the artist's share (typically about 15% of the gross), so really, we're just paying the record label's share (typically 85%) until the artist's puny 15% has paid for ALL the expenses related to the album. There is no "biggest cost" related to the price of a CD/album/whatever, though the labels like to say it's the cost of producing a CD...which still comes out of the artist's share.
Thunderbird doesn't natively have the ability to import vCards mailboxes (Come on Mozilla!), but Morecols allows you to import and expert vCards. It should be on everyone's list, although the developer doesn't list it on Mozilla's Add-ons site (get with it Kaosmos!).
The article does a horrible job of explaining the campaign. Here are http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/music_nm/ninei nchnails_dc;_ylt=AgIXkKsEUNycFRi_5MtSiIeVEhkFtwo http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/20 07/02/22/year-zero-project-way-cooler-than-lost/si tes that do a better job. This "new thing" everyone is talking about has less to do with the fact that he's giving music away on USB keys and more to do with the series of sites that are linked together and help promote the album. The first site's address to be "discovered" by fans was given in highlighted letters on a tour t-shirt. From there, further "codes" were solved and those lead to other sites, all related to NIN and the album. The keys/songs are just bonus material for fans at the concerts.
The sites, with the USB keys, with the tour, with the album is what they are buzzing about, not just the USB keys.
Not currently, but I've read rumors of record labels repurposing themselves as artist management instead so they can get a bigger piece of the artist's pie. Conversely, some smart management companies (Nettwerk) are starting up their own labels so they can control every part of the artist's career. In most cases, that's proving better/more profitable for the artist, but you know once the major labels starting becoming managers too, they'll find a way to stuff THEIR pockets and not the artists'.
http://www.uaeforever.com/
Here's a blog from two people walking the Great Wall of China. They list some of the stuff they took with them, thought it might help with your decision.
Walking the Wall
Personally, I wouldn't take a laptop unless I plan on staying in a hotel room or have easy access to a safe to store it in. From what I've read, a modern cell phone would be more than enough to cover your tech needs.
They may not have changed the design of the iBook/Powerbook power supplies, but having just set up 20-30 new MacBooks, I noticed the cabling for the power supply is much thicker. I wonder if they added more insulation to them to prevent this sparking issue.
(3) Convince one or two BIG artists to sell directly themselves with Apple as the distributor. Offer them like 50% of the proceeds of sales, and sell through the iTunes Music Store exclusively, with possible physical distribution at Apple Stores.
Unfortunately, any "BIG" artist is also bound by the terms of a record deal, which woul prevent them from circumventing their label. If an artist like Toby Keith (who owns his own label now) wanted to go this route, he could, because he OWNS his label, and therefore, his music. Unfortunately, if say, Sheryl Crow, wanted to try this, Interscope Records would have a hissy fit and sue her the next day for breach of contract.
When an artist signs a record deal, its an exclusive personal services contract for that record label for seven years. Unless the label lets them out of the contract, the artist isn't allowed to record for any other label (like collaborating with an artist from another label) without permission from the artist's label. They also aren't allowed to record their own album and sell it independently, unless there are special terms in their contract for that.
So, going to the artists to get them to screw the labels isn't going to work unless they are released from their deals, which probably means they weren't selling anything anyway, and probably aren't going to attract much attention on your ideal iTunes label.
Surely I'm not the only one who saw that headline and immediately had my internal radio station playing "Rocket Man", only as "Router Maaaaan..."
On Streaming Tank's site http://www.streamingtank.com/, they have 16,000 servers worldwide. According to them, they plan to have 64,000 by the end of 2006. I don't know what kind of servers or OS they are running, but apparently its plenty enough to a 60,000+ streams at once.
Nomda + LANDA = BTA http://www.bta.org/