10.04 also gets a lot of updates, almost daily, even though the list of packages I have installed on the wife's unr laptop is pretty small. Is ubuntu's qa really going down the drain?
Since 10.04.1 was released 3 weeks ago, updates are nearly exclusively security updates mandated by upstreams. And I, personally, appreciated that they fixed a lot of bugs up to 10.04.1. What else should they do, not fix bugs, so that other ACs can scream LTSes suck because what's broken stays broken?
Good points. Personally, I am mostly interested in the effects the economic and technical development has on the opportunities for musicians (or artists in general) to produce art under bearable living conditions, and on its effects on the variety of music that is able to reach or develop an audience.
I think that it is very obvious that the replacement of the sheet music industry by the recording industry lead to an increase in these opportunities, also and especially for the fringes. And while I do see the opportunities opened up by file sharing and the digitization of production, I believe that the jury is still out on whether it will ultimately enrich or deprive.
Musicians making money from performing music to live audiences. You know, the way they did for thousands of years (figuratively speaking).
Its only in the last 200 years or so that we have had the idea that musicians should make money for a recording of their performance. Perhaps that was the real mistaken concept, and filesharing/easily created copies of musical recordings are merely bringing things back to normal.
It was also an artistically very liberating concept. It allowed musicians to create music that is not meant to be reproduced in front of and by live audiences., or which cannot be. It freed music of some of its functional restraints. In this way, it increased the range of the arts and contributed to an extension of our view of the world and the way we experience it. Much of the "serious" music of the 20th century belongs into this category, but also large parts of contemporary electronica.
At the same time, and intertwined with the former, it created economic independence for hitherto unknown numbers of musicians, exploitation by large and small labels as well as ridiculous excesses of accumulation by a few notwithstanding.
You may be right that this concept has reached the end of its economic feasibility, and you certainly are right that it will have to be replaced at least partially with something else. But just as well you would be wrong to pretend that nothing of value would be lost.
Protected they may be, but not copyrighted. Trade secrets, most likely (after all they don't print the instructions for the actual creation of the cookie onto the packaging).
I read an interview once with Shai Agassi about his Better Place project, and that's exactly what he plans to do, basically a ring tone shop for car sounds. IIRC he already has the rights to the trademark "drivesounds" or something similar. The interview was in a print mag though, and while there are lots of Shai Agassi interviews online, I can't find one where the sounds are mentioned.
In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta's network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of a major ecological catastrophe caused by oil that has poured from a leak triggered by the explosion that wrecked BP's Deepwater Horizon rig last month.
I don't see the big contradiction. In realpolitik one may have no other choice but to enforce certain policies at a given time, but it the policies are opposed to one's own traditional tendencies, it will always be half-hearted at some level. The Chinese may well feel that they *are* cracking down even if WTO (or whoever) does not think it's enough.
That's a good point (even if it doesn't affect me so much for a number of reasons). While in my case and and apparently in yours the availability of more music leads to increased interest and therefore increased spending on music, I doubt that better samples will happen for a while because the labels are so afraid, not only the majors and not only for bad reasons. The indies (or what's left of them) *have* been hit pretty badly and some of it may be due to illegal downloads, or at least is attributed to it. We're in a transitional period and its difficult for many reasons.
Some of the music I buy automatically, e.g., new releases by artists I've been following some time. Often I read an interview with/story about an artist (usually in the one music mag I read and which I find myself often in agreement with, Spex from Berlin), or an album review, which I find interesting - I often buy these "blind" because I know that it will usually take repeated listening until I can form an opinion about it, and a quick scan won't help. And it also often happens that I go see a concert of a band I know and like the support band, which will usually net them a CD and t-shirt sale at the merch stand. Sometimes I listen to an album I already own and my love for it is somehow rekindled, or I "get" it for the first time, which can quickly lead to simply buying the complete works of the artist in one go. And finally sometimes I decide I want to know a bit about a type of music I had ignored previously, which also often makes a whole CD stack appear at once. I think the above cases lead to most of my CD purchases.
I should admit that I lied about my downloading habits for the sake of argument (and maybe a bit of trolling). Actually I don't really P2P download any significant amount of music anymore, and I never did much. I'm old-fashioned and somehow need tangible CDs or vinyl; stuff I only have on mp3s rarely gets listened to. I also have no need to carry a huge library with me at all times, because I tend to listen to a few albums on heavy rotation for a while, then switch to the next batch. And with the Amazon mp3 store, Myspace, and band sites, I usually have enough options to get an overview of what's going on in the areas I'm currently interested in. I do share CDs with friends though, but we do that in the way tape-trading (which according to the industry at the time should have killed the music biz in the 70ies) worked: CDs are offered based on personal recommendation ("you really need to listen to this") or requested because one isn't quite sure about them but wants to know anyway. I also don't offer on P2P but going into the whys would be a whole new discussion.
But anyway, I wouldn't see anything wrong with it if I downloaded instead of scanning on Amazon. The enraged replies I received didn't convince me that I did something bad when last week I downloaded a bunch of mp3s because I was not sure whether to go to a concert - my 4th in the week - and ended up buying a ticket as well as a t-shirt and a CD at the merch.
Indeed. I decided to get a TV after all, and figured that the HDTV via IP package of the largest German ISP would be a good companion. This comes with a so-called online video rental shop which they currently advertise heavily, and I'd be fully willing to pay reasonable money for its supposed conveniences. Well, guess what, it sucks:
Rental prices are higher than in the brick & mortar store at the corner.
Just a few thousand titles, less than the brick & mortar.
All movies are dubbed in German, no other languages available, not even the original one. DVDs have offered this for how long now?
No obvious way to watch on laptop in bed, and impossible with Linux anyway.
User interface is clunky, slow, and annoying. All of this you can do better with IMDB and Piratebay.
Who says? How many of the sued saw it in the theater and just wanted a copy on their HD? How many were, will be, or would have been paying customers of other movies of the same creators or studio?
I, for one, spend a lot of money on CDs. And yes, sometimes I'll also illegally (depending on jurisdiction) download stuff, because there is an upper limit to what I can afford to spend, and there is much more fantastic music around. Nobody gets hurt by this, because I would not have spent any more money anyway, The only effect of not downloading would be that I wouldn't have listened to this music. And I've often bought CDs after a download if I liked the stuff. So yes, it would be wise to consider me a customer or potential customer even if I haven't paid for a particular mp3. Suing me would be a damn stupid business move.
You ignore the fact that I have limited time and other stuff to do in my life than researching corn-syrup studies. So for many, many things, it will have to be a gut decision.
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10.04 also gets a lot of updates, almost daily, even though the list of packages I have installed on the wife's unr laptop is pretty small. Is ubuntu's qa really going down the drain?
Since 10.04.1 was released 3 weeks ago, updates are nearly exclusively security updates mandated by upstreams. And I, personally, appreciated that they fixed a lot of bugs up to 10.04.1. What else should they do, not fix bugs, so that other ACs can scream LTSes suck because what's broken stays broken?
Because grandma will find it really important to deactivate KMS!!!
Good points. Personally, I am mostly interested in the effects the economic and technical development has on the opportunities for musicians (or artists in general) to produce art under bearable living conditions, and on its effects on the variety of music that is able to reach or develop an audience.
I think that it is very obvious that the replacement of the sheet music industry by the recording industry lead to an increase in these opportunities, also and especially for the fringes. And while I do see the opportunities opened up by file sharing and the digitization of production, I believe that the jury is still out on whether it will ultimately enrich or deprive.
Musicians making money from performing music to live audiences. You know, the way they did for thousands of years (figuratively speaking).
Its only in the last 200 years or so that we have had the idea that musicians should make money for a recording of their performance. Perhaps that was the real mistaken concept, and filesharing/easily created copies of musical recordings are merely bringing things back to normal.
It was also an artistically very liberating concept. It allowed musicians to create music that is not meant to be reproduced in front of and by live audiences., or which cannot be. It freed music of some of its functional restraints. In this way, it increased the range of the arts and contributed to an extension of our view of the world and the way we experience it. Much of the "serious" music of the 20th century belongs into this category, but also large parts of contemporary electronica.
At the same time, and intertwined with the former, it created economic independence for hitherto unknown numbers of musicians, exploitation by large and small labels as well as ridiculous excesses of accumulation by a few notwithstanding.
You may be right that this concept has reached the end of its economic feasibility, and you certainly are right that it will have to be replaced at least partially with something else. But just as well you would be wrong to pretend that nothing of value would be lost.
You were the 10th or so poster in a row who bashed a statement that the OP of this thread never made. Tough luck.
Reading comprehension fail. Nobody said that you can't go above 3 GHz for the CPU, but that if you do, if a chip needs data from another and there's a distance of five centimeters or more between both chips the data will not arrive in the same clock cycle
Protected they may be, but not copyrighted. Trade secrets, most likely (after all they don't print the instructions for the actual creation of the cookie onto the packaging).
I read an interview once with Shai Agassi about his Better Place project, and that's exactly what he plans to do, basically a ring tone shop for car sounds. IIRC he already has the rights to the trademark "drivesounds" or something similar. The interview was in a print mag though, and while there are lots of Shai Agassi interviews online, I can't find one where the sounds are mentioned.
nVidia's drivers don't use KMS, and are very well featured. Why would a closed driver need KMS?
Compare the boot speed and prettiness of Nvidia and Intel cards with, e.g., Ubuntu 10.04, and you will know.
Everybody knows that the only healthy thing you can do is to sit at a desk with a computer for 50 years!!
Took me like 5 seonds on Google to find this.
You're right, making people work before they get paid is exactly like slavery.
Exactly. The "making people work" part is what leads to slavery.
Like Nigeria. From that article,
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Many articles I find on Google for the obvious search terms contradict that they are denying it exists entirely.
Not as deeply submerged, and just in strong rock.
I don't see the big contradiction. In realpolitik one may have no other choice but to enforce certain policies at a given time, but it the policies are opposed to one's own traditional tendencies, it will always be half-hearted at some level. The Chinese may well feel that they *are* cracking down even if WTO (or whoever) does not think it's enough.
That's a good point (even if it doesn't affect me so much for a number of reasons). While in my case and and apparently in yours the availability of more music leads to increased interest and therefore increased spending on music, I doubt that better samples will happen for a while because the labels are so afraid, not only the majors and not only for bad reasons. The indies (or what's left of them) *have* been hit pretty badly and some of it may be due to illegal downloads, or at least is attributed to it. We're in a transitional period and its difficult for many reasons.
Some of the music I buy automatically, e.g., new releases by artists I've been following some time. Often I read an interview with/story about an artist (usually in the one music mag I read and which I find myself often in agreement with, Spex from Berlin), or an album review, which I find interesting - I often buy these "blind" because I know that it will usually take repeated listening until I can form an opinion about it, and a quick scan won't help. And it also often happens that I go see a concert of a band I know and like the support band, which will usually net them a CD and t-shirt sale at the merch stand. Sometimes I listen to an album I already own and my love for it is somehow rekindled, or I "get" it for the first time, which can quickly lead to simply buying the complete works of the artist in one go. And finally sometimes I decide I want to know a bit about a type of music I had ignored previously, which also often makes a whole CD stack appear at once.
I think the above cases lead to most of my CD purchases.
I should admit that I lied about my downloading habits for the sake of argument (and maybe a bit of trolling). Actually I don't really P2P download any significant amount of music anymore, and I never did much.
I'm old-fashioned and somehow need tangible CDs or vinyl; stuff I only have on mp3s rarely gets listened to. I also have no need to carry a huge library with me at all times, because I tend to listen to a few albums on heavy rotation for a while, then switch to the next batch. And with the Amazon mp3 store, Myspace, and band sites, I usually have enough options to get an overview of what's going on in the areas I'm currently interested in. I do share CDs with friends though, but we do that in the way tape-trading (which according to the industry at the time should have killed the music biz in the 70ies) worked: CDs are offered based on personal recommendation ("you really need to listen to this") or requested because one isn't quite sure about them but wants to know anyway. I also don't offer on P2P but going into the whys would be a whole new discussion.
But anyway, I wouldn't see anything wrong with it if I downloaded instead of scanning on Amazon. The enraged replies I received didn't convince me that I did something bad when last week I downloaded a bunch of mp3s because I was not sure whether to go to a concert - my 4th in the week - and ended up buying a ticket as well as a t-shirt and a CD at the merch.
Marginal costs of copy. Idiot.
Funny.
Indeed. I decided to get a TV after all, and figured that the HDTV via IP package of the largest German ISP would be a good companion. This comes with a so-called online video rental shop which they currently advertise heavily, and I'd be fully willing to pay reasonable money for its supposed conveniences. Well, guess what, it sucks:
Who says? How many of the sued saw it in the theater and just wanted a copy on their HD? How many were, will be, or would have been paying customers of other movies of the same creators or studio?
I, for one, spend a lot of money on CDs. And yes, sometimes I'll also illegally (depending on jurisdiction) download stuff, because there is an upper limit to what I can afford to spend, and there is much more fantastic music around. Nobody gets hurt by this, because I would not have spent any more money anyway, The only effect of not downloading would be that I wouldn't have listened to this music. And I've often bought CDs after a download if I liked the stuff. So yes, it would be wise to consider me a customer or potential customer even if I haven't paid for a particular mp3. Suing me would be a damn stupid business move.
Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated and much more interesting than a mod point.
I appreciate what you say, but the cumulative effect is disastrous (also see the sibling reply to yours).
You ignore the fact that I have limited time and other stuff to do in my life than researching corn-syrup studies. So for many, many things, it will have to be a gut decision.