Of course, what you fail to note is that the reason the people on said websites are using a free model for their music is that they quite literally can't give it away.
Radiohead on the other hand are arguably the biggest band in the world with millions of (worryingly) obsessed fans.
Morale-boosting what nows? you've got it all wrong mate, they're simply there to bring in american and japanese tourists. they bring in more stupid tourists every year than a disneyland.
i was just thinking the same thing... actually... maybe that drunk guy that stands outside Café Bounjourno shouting sectarian slogans is actually some kind of genius social/political commentator gone horribly wrong.
possibly what Russell Crowe in a Beautiful Mind would be like if he was drunk and Scottish.
or maybe they just mixed up the results with the teen pregnancy chart?
IT isn't really a profession. we don't have an official governing body. we don't have any real responsibility to a governing body (outside our actual governments, of course). anyone can just say "i'm an IT professional", and they are.
until we have a proper governing body (most like the BCS here in Britain or the AMS [?] in Hamerica) we'll continue to have these problems. IT professionals need to have the fear of having their "professional status" revoked before they'll start considering their manner.
Also there's the additional problem that your average IT Professional is usually just a geek that went pro. and geeks are largely awful people with massive chips on their shoulders. myself included.
The charts would be a lot more interesting if they had them compared to market share. then you've got to consider that people are more likely to target the biggest market share. i mean, how many virus writers are targeting FDOS?
is this not just a case of "if you look hard enough for something, you'll find it"?
i'm sure, if they fancied it, they could find a suitable amount of republican supporters who also had similar problems and the article could be twisted that way.
don't get me wrong, i'm all in favour of a bit of republican bashing, but i think it's best if we stick to the provable and not resort to Fox News style "some say...".
Perhaps it's also down to the fact that it's really rather a good song? my friend, an avid giles peterson/zane lowe fan sent me this song (oops! who said that?) a while back and i thought it was great. if i paid even the slightest bit of attention to the singles chart then i'd probably own a copy (in digital format) right now.
i think it's relevant as it's another example of the music industry only just catching up with the demand of the public. i'm glad they've decided to treat music downloads slightly more seriously and hopefully this will allow slightly more mature musical tastes to become more prevelant in the media in general. the singles chart has long been a joke to anyone other than 13 year old girls, it's time for change.
legal downloads of music/film/tv is the way in which music will be sold in the future. the thought of having to go all the way to a shop where there's only an x% chance of finding the album/song you're looking for will seem laughable in a decade's time... at least, it will be should the music industry not drad its feet as it always does... so perhaps we'll still be exactly here.
the biggest impedement to the music industry is the music industry.
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Of course, what you fail to note is that the reason the people on said websites are using a free model for their music is that they quite literally can't give it away.
Radiohead on the other hand are arguably the biggest band in the world with millions of (worryingly) obsessed fans.
Morale-boosting what nows? you've got it all wrong mate, they're simply there to bring in american and japanese tourists. they bring in more stupid tourists every year than a disneyland.
ahh, the mandatory thinly veiled "i liked it before it was famous." post.
i was just thinking the same thing... actually... maybe that drunk guy that stands outside Café Bounjourno shouting sectarian slogans is actually some kind of genius social/political commentator gone horribly wrong.
possibly what Russell Crowe in a Beautiful Mind would be like if he was drunk and Scottish.
or maybe they just mixed up the results with the teen pregnancy chart?
IT isn't really a profession. we don't have an official governing body. we don't have any real responsibility to a governing body (outside our actual governments, of course). anyone can just say "i'm an IT professional", and they are.
until we have a proper governing body (most like the BCS here in Britain or the AMS [?] in Hamerica) we'll continue to have these problems. IT professionals need to have the fear of having their "professional status" revoked before they'll start considering their manner.
Also there's the additional problem that your average IT Professional is usually just a geek that went pro. and geeks are largely awful people with massive chips on their shoulders. myself included.
The charts would be a lot more interesting if they had them compared to market share. then you've got to consider that people are more likely to target the biggest market share. i mean, how many virus writers are targeting FDOS?
is this not just a case of "if you look hard enough for something, you'll find it"? i'm sure, if they fancied it, they could find a suitable amount of republican supporters who also had similar problems and the article could be twisted that way. don't get me wrong, i'm all in favour of a bit of republican bashing, but i think it's best if we stick to the provable and not resort to Fox News style "some say...".
Solely?
Perhaps it's also down to the fact that it's really rather a good song? my friend, an avid giles peterson/zane lowe fan sent me this song (oops! who said that?) a while back and i thought it was great. if i paid even the slightest bit of attention to the singles chart then i'd probably own a copy (in digital format) right now.
i think it's relevant as it's another example of the music industry only just catching up with the demand of the public. i'm glad they've decided to treat music downloads slightly more seriously and hopefully this will allow slightly more mature musical tastes to become more prevelant in the media in general. the singles chart has long been a joke to anyone other than 13 year old girls, it's time for change.
legal downloads of music/film/tv is the way in which music will be sold in the future. the thought of having to go all the way to a shop where there's only an x% chance of finding the album/song you're looking for will seem laughable in a decade's time... at least, it will be should the music industry not drad its feet as it always does... so perhaps we'll still be exactly here.
the biggest impedement to the music industry is the music industry.