They could position themselves as P2P search engines and filters, picking through songs available on the various P2P networks, and rating music based on their evaluations and your preferences. Note that they're not offering up the tunes themselves. The tunes they're listing are out there somewhere on the Net; Google would find them, too, if you typed in the right filename. All the label's search site would do is present what they warrant to be quality music that you're likely to enjoy. This would, of course, be a subscription service -- say USD$7.95/month. What you'd be paying for is not the music, but the recommendations.
*Sigh* I miss audiogalaxy. In hindsight, I would have gladly paid for that service (and please do not mention its hopelessly broken child, Rhapsody).
1. The Beatles, 2. The Rolling Stones, 3. Jimi Hendrix, 4. Led Zeppelin, 5. Bob Dylan, 6. James Brown, 7. David Bowie, 8. Elvis Presley, 9. The Who, 10. The Police, 11. Stevie Wonder, 12. Ray Charles, 13. The Beach Boys, 14. Marvin Gaye, 15. Eric Clapton. Isn't there something wrong here?
I'll say there is something wrong. If great art is a form of worship, Clapton should have ranked much higher. After all, Clapton is God.
Except when they don't. Frankly, given a choice between diesel fumes and methanol fumes, I will take the diesel every time. Methanol is not a very friendly substance.
Oh good grief. I know it is just supposed to be some puerile joke, but you Harry+Hermonine people make me sick. Once and for all, Harry has never had a crush on Hermonine and Hermonine has never had a crush on Harry.
I swear. Y'all are almost as bad as the Harry+Malfroy people.
I respectfully disagree with your analogy. If you have ever used AutoCAD and Microstation in a production environment, you would understand what I am talking about. AutoCAD uses both the mouse and the keyboard extensively, whereas Microstation relies almost exclusively on the mouse. This is fine if you are using the same tool over and over, but if you want to rapidly change between tools, you will find you are spending a large part of your time whipping the mouse back and forth. Never mind the UI no-no of requiring two precision clicks on (potentially) opposite sides of the screen.
Blech. At least as late as Microstation 98, it was a button driven piece of trash. Our drafters needed two monitors. One for the drawing and one for the ocean of palettes required to do the drafting. Call me a luddite if you must, but a CLI/keyboard interface will always be faster for Drafting than a GUI/palette driven one. The tools need to change too fast to waste time zipping the mouse around the screen.
Find an older neighborhood. Most housing areas built before the 70's do not have home owner's associations and if they do they are not nearly as draconian as the typical "master planned community" you find out in the burbs.
Wow. Nice build. I have always been a bit leery of bike-based builds. You almost need two donor vehicles: one for the motor and one for all the running gear. Then there are differential questions and the whole no-reverse-gear thing.
The smaller the company, the more hats you wear. You could find yourself doing both Systems Engineering and Electrical Engineering (and half a dozen other things to boot).
What the hell is a library doing with that kind of hardware? I could see having big ram and processors if you are doing very heavy cataloging. But 160 gig hard drives? Most of the big files should be on servers. Fancy GPUs? What for? It's like some kind of Gates grant gone wrong.
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*Sigh* I miss audiogalaxy. In hindsight, I would have gladly paid for that service (and please do not mention its hopelessly broken child, Rhapsody).
I'll say there is something wrong. If great art is a form of worship, Clapton should have ranked much higher. After all, Clapton is God.
Except when they don't. Frankly, given a choice between diesel fumes and methanol fumes, I will take the diesel every time. Methanol is not a very friendly substance.
I swear. Y'all are almost as bad as the Harry+Malfroy people.
Hands don't count, dude.
Now you know the REAL reason ghosts don't eat.
No internet. No spoilers. No problem.
Hrmmmm... that is bad on so many different levels. I am sorry to have subjected y'all to it. (But not sorry enough to not hit [Submit])
I respectfully disagree with your analogy. If you have ever used AutoCAD and Microstation in a production environment, you would understand what I am talking about. AutoCAD uses both the mouse and the keyboard extensively, whereas Microstation relies almost exclusively on the mouse. This is fine if you are using the same tool over and over, but if you want to rapidly change between tools, you will find you are spending a large part of your time whipping the mouse back and forth. Never mind the UI no-no of requiring two precision clicks on (potentially) opposite sides of the screen.
Blech. At least as late as Microstation 98, it was a button driven piece of trash. Our drafters needed two monitors. One for the drawing and one for the ocean of palettes required to do the drafting. Call me a luddite if you must, but a CLI/keyboard interface will always be faster for Drafting than a GUI/palette driven one. The tools need to change too fast to waste time zipping the mouse around the screen.
Oh, I'm sorry. You thought you were the consumer? That's a good one.
I thought Office Space was the Ferris Bueller sequel...
One of the most prolific posters, too.
"The battery died and I forgot to pack a charger" This works particularly well if you play the cheapskate and only buy used phones off eBay.
Find an older neighborhood. Most housing areas built before the 70's do not have home owner's associations and if they do they are not nearly as draconian as the typical "master planned community" you find out in the burbs.
Which triggers a 90 minute digression into probability theory, game realism, developer intentions, DM style, and extreme rule-lawyering.
d24? Who even uses these things?
You must be new here...
Hey, I'll take mouth-to-ass over ass-to-mouth any day.
Wow. Nice build. I have always been a bit leery of bike-based builds. You almost need two donor vehicles: one for the motor and one for all the running gear. Then there are differential questions and the whole no-reverse-gear thing.
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This is where all the extra vowels in british come from.
The smaller the company, the more hats you wear. You could find yourself doing both Systems Engineering and Electrical Engineering (and half a dozen other things to boot).
No. But I do have an Uzi...
What the hell is a library doing with that kind of hardware? I could see having big ram and processors if you are doing very heavy cataloging. But 160 gig hard drives? Most of the big files should be on servers. Fancy GPUs? What for? It's like some kind of Gates grant gone wrong.