All of you music economic gurus out there seem to be ignoring the price that popular non-riaa bands charge for the albums, which is about $10-$12.
your merge records, goner records, sympathy..., touch and go, in the red, etc etc etc. all charge right in the range - which is a bit cheaper than the RIAA labels charge, but there is something about that number that the real mid tier players in the market with quality bands and less fat than the major labels seem to charge.
You'd think they'd charge less if that was the secret to making more money or if there was another sweet spot on the demand curve.
Of course if cops want to be dodgy there is very little that can be done - especially in the short term. That pretty much holds true for anybody in a position of trust. Now obviously we want to keep positions of trust to a minimum, but they certainly seem like a necessary evil.
I read your post as a bit condescending and that's why I replied with that fact about the #1 album. Everyone in the US knows who radiohead is, well beyond "creep." They might have been "the creep band" in 1996, and even though the Bends hit bigger initially in the UK, they have since won US Grammys awards, and otherwise received as much press and publicity as any other band could possible receive. Of course they are bigger in their home country, but they are about as far away from perceived as a one-hit-band as can be.
Yes I understand the concept as I've purchased every radiohead b-side every released. What bothers me is that there is no middle ground for fans of their "music" (as opposed to people who like to buy "stuff.")
Why not just release the other songs via download too? What is the point of holding back?
People might argue something like Radiohead are holding back because they want more serious fans to have access but the masses wont be able to handle it. I think almost all of Radiohead's b-sides have been quite good and that the masses are capable of sorting through it all. Anyway that's the only reasonable theory I can come up with.
If influential bands continue to imitate radiohead like they do their with radiohead's music, this is a small spanner in works for the iTunes model.
Thom once wrote:
vee shall make zem PAY for zer mistake. ha ha ha. they vill never get avay viz ziss. vee are verrry verrry precious about are little KID A yu know and also zee others and you mr job jobs are no exception ya?
unbundle zis KID A record anda vee vill unbundle yor face.
They are holding back disk 2 of the record for people willing to buy the ~80USD version. So it's not all happy happy fans we love you.
CD 2 MK 1 DOWN IS THE NEW UP GO SLOWLY MK 2 LAST FLOWERS UP ON THE LADDER BANGERS AND MASH 4 MINUTE WARNING
Also, the only reason radiohead are in a position to do this is the label they used to be on. And while I think this is the perfect direction for them, but I don't think it makes sense for labels to disappear. Good labels filter out the garbage to find and promote the good bands (please don't make me list a bunch of good labels.)
Finally, the label actually does benefit from this because they will sell more copies of back catalog records as new people who have been living under rocks or graduating middle school will "discover" the band.
Anyway it's a lot to cope with in one day for a sad Radiohead obsessive like myself.
Buying all of these music players for so much money and everything.
"Yeah I spent $399 on 3G Ipod in 2003, $250 on an ipod mini 2004, $300 on a 4G ipod in 2005! I also bought like 8 cds, and 25 songs on itunes over the same period!"
I'll never understand the obsession with using a portable device as a VOIP phone. Don't you have enough regular minutes? Is it really worth the hassle of switching back and forth between the two services? Don't you just have a cell phone that works fine?
...and I believe that scientific finance pretty much discredits stock picking. I use Dimensional http://www.dfaus.com/philosophy/ which is the best implementation of academic finance out there.
1. Use as "mobile phone" is preeminent design feature. That means good quality radio, battery life, low response latency, easily accessible dialing pad and easily searchable contact list to dial out from. Stability is a more important features when phone design is first, I believe. Even if other applications are going to crash, I don't want a dead phone as a result.
2. Over-the-air sync to email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. I think anyone would be crazy not to have support for exchange activesync in a smartphone if business users are being targeted at all. Maybe exchange activesync is defective by design so support for blackberry and or goodlink would be smart as well. Over the air sync to google calendar and gmail. Plugging in to sync this stuff is lame.
3. wide little plastic keyboard
4. EVDO or faster data speeds
5. Can fit in pocket fairly easily.
At this point I basically have my blackberry 8703e which I am very happy with. As far as wish list I'd like to add (and yes these wishes are only loosely based in the realm of reality)
6. 3-3.5" screen (touchscreen not necessarily essential)
7. GPS - which is independent of mobile carrier service coverage.
8. auto integration. (I've had bluetooth to dash / steering wheel integration and I've had true ipod integration in cars with different devices and it was so great)
9. at least 30gb of storage to start having enough space for movies.
10. ability to play back music and avc movies. audio through standard headphone jack.
11. supplemental battery support for converting device from "pockatable" to "luggable."
There really isn't an ideal form factor for all of this with what I can extrapolate to be current technological and engineering limitations.
I really don't wish to use this device to pull up a "ssh" because I really don't know what ssh is (well I have an idea, but I don't need it). Maybe I don't think this is all too far off and I think these are the features many people want.
First off, we're talking about the operating systems of today, not 1992. Now Vista appears to really suck at the moment so I'm going to cherry pick XP. I just haven't had too many problems with it - I've had linux machines crash and OS X crash too. It's probably not as good as the alternatives from a technical point of view, but the software available on windows for mainstream users is better on the whole - particularly cost no object again.
Now the grandparent posts talks about how the users 'never paid for windows.' If i'm to assume that this person is a software pirate then it seems like Microsoft has just cause for not having people steal from them. If the losses from piracy were small enough (ie a significant chunk of people weren't stealing,) companies wouldn't require good customers to go through those steps.
I've switched everybody in my extended family to OS X for their home machines. With macs I see a good compromise between mainstream use application support and security (for home users.) I love the idea of linux and tried a number of distributions but I just don't know who it is really for.
and if you find alternatives for those all of our Charles Schwab and Fidelity Institutional Platform software are windows only as well.
Nevermind that our trading back office who we outsource to (and who are the best in the business for what we actually do - nevermind the tools we use)is all internet explorer based.
Our accounting industry specific time and billing software from CCH
Also I have a retirement plan department who has specialized shrinkwrap profit sharing testing software, Form 5500 preparations and 1099 preparation software.
If the cost of software isn't a barrier, then what's the compelling reason for using linux for a mainstream user? Surely there is much more software available on windows, and if windows is implemented with some basic level of skill (likely equal or less than the amount of skill required for implementing linux) it can surely be adequately secure and stable enough for a mainstream users needs.
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All of you music economic gurus out there seem to be ignoring the price that popular non-riaa bands charge for the albums, which is about $10-$12.
..., touch and go, in the red, etc etc etc. all charge right in the range - which is a bit cheaper than the RIAA labels charge, but there is something about that number that the real mid tier players in the market with quality bands and less fat than the major labels seem to charge.
your merge records, goner records, sympathy
You'd think they'd charge less if that was the secret to making more money or if there was another sweet spot on the demand curve.
Of course if cops want to be dodgy there is very little that can be done - especially in the short term. That pretty much holds true for anybody in a position of trust. Now obviously we want to keep positions of trust to a minimum, but they certainly seem like a necessary evil.
I'm sure they have it "backed up," so is it worth even talking to the guy? Get lost and sell your stolen warez somewhere else.
I read your post as a bit condescending and that's why I replied with that fact about the #1 album. Everyone in the US knows who radiohead is, well beyond "creep." They might have been "the creep band" in 1996, and even though the Bends hit bigger initially in the UK, they have since won US Grammys awards, and otherwise received as much press and publicity as any other band could possible receive. Of course they are bigger in their home country, but they are about as far away from perceived as a one-hit-band as can be.
Kid A debuted at Number 1 in the USA. Also, they wouldn't be forced to work with the RIAA, and Thom has already released a non-riaa record.
Between that and the previous mentioned 6 records instead of 7, you are pretty ill informed to be "Insightful"
Of course you're going to like it.
not going to happen.
Yes I understand the concept as I've purchased every radiohead b-side every released. What bothers me is that there is no middle ground for fans of their "music" (as opposed to people who like to buy "stuff.")
Why not just release the other songs via download too? What is the point of holding back?
People might argue something like Radiohead are holding back because they want more serious fans to have access but the masses wont be able to handle it. I think almost all of Radiohead's b-sides have been quite good and that the masses are capable of sorting through it all. Anyway that's the only reasonable theory I can come up with.
JP
If influential bands continue to imitate radiohead like they do their with radiohead's music, this is a small spanner in works for the iTunes model.
Thom once wrote:
vee shall make zem PAY for zer mistake. ha ha ha. they vill never get avay viz ziss. vee are verrry verrry precious about are little KID A yu know and also zee others and you mr job jobs are no exception ya?
unbundle zis KID A record anda vee vill unbundle yor face.
H HA HA ha HA ha HA ha ha
(cough)
They are holding back disk 2 of the record for people willing to buy the ~80USD version. So it's not all happy happy fans we love you.
CD 2
MK 1
DOWN IS THE NEW UP
GO SLOWLY
MK 2
LAST FLOWERS
UP ON THE LADDER
BANGERS AND MASH
4 MINUTE WARNING
Also, the only reason radiohead are in a position to do this is the label they used to be on. And while I think this is the perfect direction for them, but I don't think it makes sense for labels to disappear. Good labels filter out the garbage to find and promote the good bands (please don't make me list a bunch of good labels.)
Finally, the label actually does benefit from this because they will sell more copies of back catalog records as new people who have been living under rocks or graduating middle school will "discover" the band.
Anyway it's a lot to cope with in one day for a sad Radiohead obsessive like myself.
It's called "back catalog" and Radiohead don't own any of it.
Buying all of these music players for so much money and everything.
"Yeah I spent $399 on 3G Ipod in 2003, $250 on an ipod mini 2004, $300 on a 4G ipod in 2005! I also bought like 8 cds, and 25 songs on itunes over the same period!"
I'll never understand the obsession with using a portable device as a VOIP phone. Don't you have enough regular minutes? Is it really worth the hassle of switching back and forth between the two services? Don't you just have a cell phone that works fine?
...and I believe that scientific finance pretty much discredits stock picking. I use Dimensional http://www.dfaus.com/philosophy/ which is the best implementation of academic finance out there.
Well done.
those of us that purchased Gateway shares
What kind of person buys individual company shares?
I tried to install vmware player by ticking "vmplayer" on ubuntu 7.04 and it didn't work.
In your bizarre, paranoid fantasy when does Apple stop making computers? Amongst a million other issues.
I think it's called a "false dichotomy"
JP
In any case I'd refrain from extrapolating the gender specific anecdotes to your user populations.
In order of importance to me:
1. Use as "mobile phone" is preeminent design feature. That means good quality radio, battery life, low response latency, easily accessible dialing pad and easily searchable contact list to dial out from. Stability is a more important features when phone design is first, I believe. Even if other applications are going to crash, I don't want a dead phone as a result.
2. Over-the-air sync to email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. I think anyone would be crazy not to have support for exchange activesync in a smartphone if business users are being targeted at all. Maybe exchange activesync is defective by design so support for blackberry and or goodlink would be smart as well. Over the air sync to google calendar and gmail. Plugging in to sync this stuff is lame.
3. wide little plastic keyboard
4. EVDO or faster data speeds
5. Can fit in pocket fairly easily.
At this point I basically have my blackberry 8703e which I am very happy with. As far as wish list I'd like to add (and yes these wishes are only loosely based in the realm of reality)
6. 3-3.5" screen (touchscreen not necessarily essential)
7. GPS - which is independent of mobile carrier service coverage.
8. auto integration. (I've had bluetooth to dash / steering wheel integration and I've had true ipod integration in cars with different devices and it was so great)
9. at least 30gb of storage to start having enough space for movies.
10. ability to play back music and avc movies. audio through standard headphone jack.
11. supplemental battery support for converting device from "pockatable" to "luggable."
There really isn't an ideal form factor for all of this with what I can extrapolate to be current technological and engineering limitations.
I really don't wish to use this device to pull up a "ssh" because I really don't know what ssh is (well I have an idea, but I don't need it). Maybe I don't think this is all too far off and I think these are the features many people want.
The more sophisticated software you are running is probably more appropriate on a technically superior system.
We really have more stability and better tools than we've ever had, so we are pretty happy.
I'll have to check out VMWare more - that may have some advantages for our line workers (bookkeepers) in particular.
JP
First off, we're talking about the operating systems of today, not 1992. Now Vista appears to really suck at the moment so I'm going to cherry pick XP. I just haven't had too many problems with it - I've had linux machines crash and OS X crash too. It's probably not as good as the alternatives from a technical point of view, but the software available on windows for mainstream users is better on the whole - particularly cost no object again.
Now the grandparent posts talks about how the users 'never paid for windows.' If i'm to assume that this person is a software pirate then it seems like Microsoft has just cause for not having people steal from them. If the losses from piracy were small enough (ie a significant chunk of people weren't stealing,) companies wouldn't require good customers to go through those steps.
I've switched everybody in my extended family to OS X for their home machines. With macs I see a good compromise between mainstream use application support and security (for home users.) I love the idea of linux and tried a number of distributions but I just don't know who it is really for.
Hit me with the alternatives for:
Lacerte Professional Tax
Creative Solutions write up
dimensional fund advisors returns
Wagner Math Finance Retirement Planing v. 3
and if you find alternatives for those all of our Charles Schwab and Fidelity Institutional Platform software are windows only as well.
Nevermind that our trading back office who we outsource to (and who are the best in the business for what we actually do - nevermind the tools we use)is all internet explorer based.
Our accounting industry specific time and billing software from CCH
Also I have a retirement plan department who has specialized shrinkwrap profit sharing testing software, Form 5500 preparations and 1099 preparation software.
this is off the top of my head in about 5 minutes
am I supposed to run all of this with WINE?
If the cost of software isn't a barrier, then what's the compelling reason for using linux for a mainstream user? Surely there is much more software available on windows, and if windows is implemented with some basic level of skill (likely equal or less than the amount of skill required for implementing linux) it can surely be adequately secure and stable enough for a mainstream users needs.
jP