* Their music will *never* be played on mainstream radio ("payola", though in more subtle forms, is very much alive today)
* Their videos will never be played on Music Channels like mTV
* Their CDs will never be sold in major music stores
If more artists goes indy, especially as more artists starting out, that has been exposed the the whole 'intarweb' thing, radio & TV's will be left with old stuff on old record contracts that old people without internet experience can listen to and buy in "legacy shops".
or sold on major online retailers.
* As a result of the aforementioned, they will never be able to to gain much exposure, and thus never be able to sell many concert tickets, which is the biggest revenue stream for most musicians.
No, the entire thing will be decentralized and leave the middle men out. Everything, including online broadcasting will be happening online between artists and maybe their webmaster (who also announces the tourdates) and the internet savvy public doing it.
The need for record companies, cigar-wielding managers, FM radios and TV's will disappear. (ofcourse to great panic in the established industry, wich is why all this DRM/RIAA stuff is happening)
I am gonna replace an NT4 workstation with an XP one, at work next week. And that is mostly because we just need a faster computer to run Photoshop, accounting, crm and stuff. If we could use NT4 with the new machine, we would probably do it.
I practice lucid dreaming, i'm still conscious and able to experience beeing a "Viking" if i want to. Lucid Dreaming does not seem to interfer with regular sleep processes. I'll keep my bed tidy for the forseeable future thank you very much.
You *do* know that there is an asteroid on it's way here with an 1/10000 chance of impact and that 'poking it with a stick' might be enough to save us? (that is one to ten thousand, not your favourite lottery odds)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A former NASA astronaut will call on the U.S. Congress to evaluate an asteroid with a small chance of hitting Earth in 2036 and suggest lawmakers consider a space mission to monitor the object, SPACE.com has learned.http://www.space.com/news/050519_asteroid_mission. html
It will be in the best financial interest of everyone involved to stay dedicated to The Cause of The Mission, because if they get greedy now, it can be for the very time.
They count confirmed passengers (from the ticket order database, same one they use to call up missing/late passengers after normal boarding has occured) against the boarding passes, i suppose.
I still have to use a Pentium 2 @ 400mhz with NT4 to do graphics publications at work. (using photoshop, illustrator, distiller, corel draw etc) I also do tech support. There is still plenty of win98 around in corporate offices too. Yes, i have a cyanide pill between my teeth and an automated job search going on just in case i snap.
problem is, most irc channels these days are full of kids that demand attention and instant help, as well as ops and regulars with overgrown egos and a distaste for even helping people who came to the channel after much research on their questions.
this combination renders channels with a bad atmosphere and they end up wih a lot of idlers, and well aquinted regulars helping only each other. i find myself reading official documentation and using web forums. efnet as a programming institution is dead.
i used to hang in #winprog (huhuhuUHUHUHuhuhUHU) as well as other programming channels on efnet. even if #winprog got on/. now, its been dead along with most other once-helpful chat channels for a time.
Since Microsoft is known as the industry standard among most people, techies with non-techies, "the industry" would be enough. (sad but true.)
Still, an increasing lot of non-tech people know about Java and some of it's applications. (Net-banks, cellphone/online games, etc). I find that encouraging.
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* Their music will *never* be played on mainstream radio ("payola", though in more subtle forms, is very much alive today)
* Their videos will never be played on Music Channels like mTV
* Their CDs will never be sold in major music stores
If more artists goes indy, especially as more artists starting out, that has been exposed the the whole 'intarweb' thing, radio & TV's will be left with old stuff on old record contracts that old people without internet experience can listen to and buy in "legacy shops".
or sold on major online retailers.
* As a result of the aforementioned, they will never be able to to gain much exposure, and thus never be able to sell many concert tickets, which is the biggest revenue stream for most musicians.
No, the entire thing will be decentralized and leave the middle men out. Everything, including online broadcasting will be happening online between artists and maybe their webmaster (who also announces the tourdates) and the internet savvy public doing it.
The need for record companies, cigar-wielding managers, FM radios and TV's will disappear. (ofcourse to great panic in the established industry, wich is why all this DRM/RIAA stuff is happening)
I am gonna replace an NT4 workstation with an XP one, at work next week. And that is mostly because we just need a faster computer to run Photoshop, accounting, crm and stuff. If we could use NT4 with the new machine, we would probably do it.
What is this "Vista" you speak of ?
I practice lucid dreaming, i'm still conscious and able to experience beeing a "Viking" if i want to. Lucid Dreaming does not seem to interfer with regular sleep processes. I'll keep my bed tidy for the forseeable future thank you very much.
You *do* know that there is an asteroid on it's way here with an 1/10000 chance of impact and that 'poking it with a stick' might be enough to save us? (that is one to ten thousand, not your favourite lottery odds)
. html
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A former NASA astronaut will call on the U.S. Congress to evaluate an asteroid with a small chance of hitting Earth in 2036 and suggest lawmakers consider a space mission to monitor the object, SPACE.com has learned. http://www.space.com/news/050519_asteroid_mission
It will be in the best financial interest of everyone involved to stay dedicated to The Cause of The Mission, because if they get greedy now, it can be for the very time.
They count confirmed passengers (from the ticket order database, same one they use to call up missing/late passengers after normal boarding has occured) against the boarding passes, i suppose.
Not all flights are full so it won't always become a dispute. But they count the passengers against the boarding passes, i suppose.
I still have to use a Pentium 2 @ 400mhz with NT4 to do graphics publications at work. (using photoshop, illustrator, distiller, corel draw etc) I also do tech support. There is still plenty of win98 around in corporate offices too. Yes, i have a cyanide pill between my teeth and an automated job search going on just in case i snap.
This story has been on Ars for a week or so. I assume everyone here reads ars, inq and el reg as well as /. No need to 'crosspost'.
"saying it's definitely going to mutate is an overstatement."
This probably isn't the mutation we are fearing the most, but it's quite eerie anyway:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10020499/
problem is, most irc channels these days are full of kids that demand attention and instant help, as well as ops and regulars with overgrown egos and a distaste for even helping people who came to the channel after much research on their questions.
this combination renders channels with a bad atmosphere and they end up wih a lot of idlers, and well aquinted regulars helping only each other. i find myself reading official documentation and using web forums. efnet as a programming institution is dead.
i used to hang in #winprog (huhuhuUHUHUHuhuhUHU) as well as other programming channels on efnet. even if #winprog got on /. now, its been dead along with most other once-helpful chat channels for a time .
Since Microsoft is known as the industry standard among most people, techies with non-techies, "the industry" would be enough. (sad but true.)
Still, an increasing lot of non-tech people know about Java and some of it's applications. (Net-banks, cellphone/online games, etc). I find that encouraging.