I think it makes perfect sense to marketroids, MBA suits and other PHB types who seem to be the real target market. Sadly, I'm not one of them, so I cannot tell...
I was going to ask them if they were interested in C|@l!s tabs. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, so maybe I should write a script to tell them a few thousand times?
It's still interesting, though I'm speaking more or less from laymans terms. When I did my Bsc in psych, I wanted to look into the role of sleep and had a hypothesis about NO playing a role in synaptic plasticity during slow wave and (to a lesser extent) REM sleep (ie, sleep is necessary for long term memory formation and NO plays a major role in this). Instead I went into HCI. My mistake... Neurosciences benefit!;-)
But this paper seems to discuss how NO can selectively attune input (it selectively inhibits sensory responses - would it be a 'filter' for sensory information?). NO quite possibly plays other roles, but this paper seems to provide evidence to falsify my hypothesis.
btw - I totally agree about the state of science reporting. In most cases, it's hopeless.
Productivity is up by 300%, happiness is booming, and all worship the great leader!!! ALL HAIL OUR GLORIOUS LEADER!!!
In other news, Comrade Ogilvy (a total abstainer and a nonsmoker and dedicated 24 hours to the duty of the party) was recently martyred while being pursued by enemy jet planes. He was flying important dispatches across enemy-held territory (the Indian Ocean), and in a heroic fashion, chose to die rather than let the plans be captured.
Oh, btw, just in case a mod thinks this is a flame:;-) - that's a wink meaning that I'm joining in on the joke. Sheesh! The things you have to do to for post-modern irony!
I think the OP meant that any company with reasonably skilled coders could do the job without having to license the MS Office specs from MS at an exhorbitant price. For example, a charity might be able to commission a simple screen-reader for people with visual impairments - not paying the extra licensing fees would make this cheaper.
It might be a case that the bands don't know about Magnatune because they're still quite small. AFAIK, there's only one person who gets to go around and "try" new bands. If you know any local bands that are unsigned, maybe theyd be interested in trying this?
Ok then don't use it. Continue to buy CD's, use P2P or whatever.
The point of my post is that Magnatune has a business model that is friendly to both artist and consumer (ie, doesn't try to rip us off/install rootkits/change important systen files/treat us like criminal) and it works to the point where they have a modest but (for me) acceptable selection that is growing. So it doesn't meet your exacting requirements? But does any single label do that?
I'm saying that a wide-spread adoption of Magnatunes business model would benefit us and the artists more than the current situation and more than meets the requirements of the OP even if the selection doesn't. Fine, they don't make so much money or have the cash to sign bands and offer million-dollar marketing compaigns like EMI, but they are a new company and small but growing steadily all the time. I just hope this model is how things will be done in the future (which is unrealistic I know, but I can hope) for my sake. The alternative is nonsense like this scheme that EMI have drawn up.
Who knows? One day they might have thousands of metal bands for you while offering clean uncompressed downloads for a cheap price and no rip-off? Here's hoping.
Yes. Once you "buy" the download, you have 60 days in which to download it. You can download it as many times as you like in that time and in as many formats as you want. In theory, you could download all formats if you wanted almost 2 months after paying. Flac's and WAV's (uncompressed audio) are available which (as another poster mentioned) can be converted.
This was good for me because my laptop HD recently borked suddenly and I hadn't backed up my audio files. I had bought a few downloads about 1 month before, so I went to the site and downloaded them again for no cost or fuss.
Oh yeah, and the artist gets 50% of what you pay which means they benefit more than from a "normal" recording contract.
Sorry to bang on about it and okay, I know the selection isn't the best but it's not bad at all. You can try entire albums before you buy, download in whatever format (MP3, OGG, WAV, Flac, etc), albums costs $6.00 each (you can pay more if you want), it doesn't need any proprietary player, the downloads work with any MP3 player.
Oh and you can give 3 copies of your download to friends legally. And the help is way better than anything else out there for music.
And yes, I do use it. In fact, it's the only place I get music these days because I'm tired of being treated like a potential criminal ("pirate") and paying for the privilege.
Thats ok - they invite us foreign buttholes to play in a real world sporting tournament too. Problem is that we usually get our asses kicked good by teams from countries with GDP's lower than most of our companies' tax bills.
Sorry guys - football (sorry, "soccer") really is the number 1 sport in the world even if it's a minority thing back home. Denying it just makes us look like stereotypical American jerks. I get the feeling that they can get by just fine without us.
"my juice is flowin' like a man with a mission / my words are blowing your minds into a submission /
you can't copy my style 'cuz you ain't an original / DRM on my record 'cuz my lyrics aren't replaceable - BYATCH!!"
Think spammers. With the name of one of them, an address, a telephone number and even maps of his location appeared, and the subject of discussion found themselves deluged with junk mail and the like. Sackfuls. Every day.
I cannot remember the guys name and maybe what happened was illegal and maybe even unethical, but I could see the point. It was too long ago to search for...
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I think it's an ordinal scale, not interval.
I think it makes perfect sense to marketroids, MBA suits and other PHB types who seem to be the real target market. Sadly, I'm not one of them, so I cannot tell...
I was going to ask them if they were interested in C|@l!s tabs. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, so maybe I should write a script to tell them a few thousand times?
Trouble? I doubt it. If he's a 20 year old boy, I imagine he'll be *very* popular with the other inmates.
Especially the big buy named Bubba ("You're *my* little puppy now boy!")
Try Leffe - one of the best beers in the world (and I've tried a few!)
Absolutely correct
All we need is something like "monkey-powered donuts" in TFA and we're away!
Marge: Homer! Are you releasing nonsense as serious academic work again?
Homer's Brain: Deny it! She'll never know the truth!
Homer: Uhh, yes I am honey!
Homer's brain: Okay Homer, i'm outta here. Don't call me, I'll call you.
Homer: What was the last bit again? Brain? Brain? Are you there brain? Woo-hoo! U! S! A!
The diners.
Mmmmm! Freshly broiled mac user. Arghghghghghghggh
It's still interesting, though I'm speaking more or less from laymans terms. When I did my Bsc in psych, I wanted to look into the role of sleep and had a hypothesis about NO playing a role in synaptic plasticity during slow wave and (to a lesser extent) REM sleep (ie, sleep is necessary for long term memory formation and NO plays a major role in this). Instead I went into HCI. My mistake... Neurosciences benefit! ;-)
But this paper seems to discuss how NO can selectively attune input (it selectively inhibits sensory responses - would it be a 'filter' for sensory information?). NO quite possibly plays other roles, but this paper seems to provide evidence to falsify my hypothesis.
btw - I totally agree about the state of science reporting. In most cases, it's hopeless.
Really? I thought it was pseudo that was the shell for running sudo-code?
Oh dear, I need my dried frog pills. Quick!!!
We can give you the results now.
Productivity is up by 300%, happiness is booming, and all worship the great leader!!! ALL HAIL OUR GLORIOUS LEADER!!!
In other news, Comrade Ogilvy (a total abstainer and a nonsmoker and dedicated 24 hours to the duty of the party) was recently martyred while being pursued by enemy jet planes. He was flying important dispatches across enemy-held territory (the Indian Ocean), and in a heroic fashion, chose to die rather than let the plans be captured.
Brought to you from the Ministry of Information.
After all, you never find Americans playing people from other nations...
Like Mel Gibson playing a Scot... (Braveheart)
Or Robert Mitchum playing an Irishman... (Ryans Daughter)
Or Tom Cruise playing an Irishman... (Far and Away)
Or Al Pacino playing an Englishman... (Richard III)
Sorry to be a pedant, but having loved and worked over there, I know it's important to them.
Huh, you grammer looser...
Oh, btw, just in case a mod thinks this is a flame: ;-) - that's a wink meaning that I'm joining in on the joke. Sheesh! The things you have to do to for post-modern irony!
I think the OP meant that any company with reasonably skilled coders could do the job without having to license the MS Office specs from MS at an exhorbitant price. For example, a charity might be able to commission a simple screen-reader for people with visual impairments - not paying the extra licensing fees would make this cheaper.
It might be a case that the bands don't know about Magnatune because they're still quite small. AFAIK, there's only one person who gets to go around and "try" new bands. If you know any local bands that are unsigned, maybe theyd be interested in trying this?
Ok then don't use it. Continue to buy CD's, use P2P or whatever.
The point of my post is that Magnatune has a business model that is friendly to both artist and consumer (ie, doesn't try to rip us off/install rootkits/change important systen files/treat us like criminal) and it works to the point where they have a modest but (for me) acceptable selection that is growing. So it doesn't meet your exacting requirements? But does any single label do that?
I'm saying that a wide-spread adoption of Magnatunes business model would benefit us and the artists more than the current situation and more than meets the requirements of the OP even if the selection doesn't. Fine, they don't make so much money or have the cash to sign bands and offer million-dollar marketing compaigns like EMI, but they are a new company and small but growing steadily all the time. I just hope this model is how things will be done in the future (which is unrealistic I know, but I can hope) for my sake. The alternative is nonsense like this scheme that EMI have drawn up.
Who knows? One day they might have thousands of metal bands for you while offering clean uncompressed downloads for a cheap price and no rip-off? Here's hoping.
Yes. Once you "buy" the download, you have 60 days in which to download it. You can download it as many times as you like in that time and in as many formats as you want. In theory, you could download all formats if you wanted almost 2 months after paying. Flac's and WAV's (uncompressed audio) are available which (as another poster mentioned) can be converted.
This was good for me because my laptop HD recently borked suddenly and I hadn't backed up my audio files. I had bought a few downloads about 1 month before, so I went to the site and downloaded them again for no cost or fuss.
Oh yeah, and the artist gets 50% of what you pay which means they benefit more than from a "normal" recording contract.
Like Magnatune? ;)
Sorry to bang on about it and okay, I know the selection isn't the best but it's not bad at all. You can try entire albums before you buy, download in whatever format (MP3, OGG, WAV, Flac, etc), albums costs $6.00 each (you can pay more if you want), it doesn't need any proprietary player, the downloads work with any MP3 player.
Oh and you can give 3 copies of your download to friends legally. And the help is way better than anything else out there for music.
And yes, I do use it. In fact, it's the only place I get music these days because I'm tired of being treated like a potential criminal ("pirate") and paying for the privilege.
Thats ok - they invite us foreign buttholes to play in a real world sporting tournament too. Problem is that we usually get our asses kicked good by teams from countries with GDP's lower than most of our companies' tax bills.
Sorry guys - football (sorry, "soccer") really is the number 1 sport in the world even if it's a minority thing back home. Denying it just makes us look like stereotypical American jerks. I get the feeling that they can get by just fine without us.
"my juice is flowin' like a man with a mission / my words are blowing your minds into a submission / you can't copy my style 'cuz you ain't an original / DRM on my record 'cuz my lyrics aren't replaceable - BYATCH!!"
Almost there...
"WARNING: May not play on your CD player because it is not a CD" might be even better.
Haven't people done this on SlashDot before?
Think spammers. With the name of one of them, an address, a telephone number and even maps of his location appeared, and the subject of discussion found themselves deluged with junk mail and the like. Sackfuls. Every day.
I cannot remember the guys name and maybe what happened was illegal and maybe even unethical, but I could see the point. It was too long ago to search for...
Ha! Just imagine what an algorithm would say when it fills its nappy: "Core dump - segfault at location @r$e."
I saw a TV programme about this! There's nothing but crap on the telly these days.