Admittedly this is true with the bands I listed, but A) That doesn't change the fact that they make good albums, and B) there are plenty of modern (punk) bands with very good ideas, good music, and good live shows.
If we start to see smaller local shows get bigger and international tours get smaller, it isn't really a loss. Plenty of local bands are fantastic, and I live in bloody Utah.
I think this led directly to the demise of the blink tag
I thought the blink tag was dead, but it keeps coming back on bad web sites all over the place. I hadn't seen it for a few weeks, but today, I check out the new local deli's takeout menu for lunch and lo and behold, there it is, like an old friend who won't leave you alone with your new friends and kinda smells like scotch and vomit.
Please go away, blinky, and take your friend marquee with you.
I personally prefer albums over singles, but the musicians I listen to are very good at putting out a lot of music that doesn't suck. It may be fortunate that my music of choice is punk, and frankly, it's not hard to write good punk, but there are a lot of very talented musicians who crank out albums like crazy.
Bad Religion, NoFX, Pennywise, Pulley, Lagwagon, Rancid, Frenzal Rhomb, and hundreds more, all amazing musicians, all consistently putting out excellent albums, chock full of excellent music. None of it gets played on the radio, and I consider it a Good Thing.
It also helps that most of the bands I enjoy actively promote the sharing of their music. It's nice to see people with original ideas.
It occurs to me that this is a fantastic way to get people to switch- install the OSes side by side, make sure they no it's there, but don't pressure them into using it. When they get infected with spyware and decide they need a new computer, suggest that thy use ubuntu in the meantime.
At the very least, they get exposed to something different, and will be happy to be able to still use their computer when windows has died.
Every time I hear the word, I think of a really bad episode of Highlander where a stereotypical geek says "I didn't know we were playing for keeps in meatspace". I get irritated.
I have a bachelor's degree in illustration, I have played music all of my life. From high school through college, I was playing the local scene in several popular punk bands on guitar, bass in a ska band, and piano in a jazz combo. I'd like to think that I've enriched some people's lives far more than the latest creation from the labs of the record labels, and I have grossed a grand total of several thousand dollars in student loans, music lessons, and a vast collection of instruments.
Yes, I do it for myself first, but playing music alone is *nothing* compared with a packed crowd.
Do artists need to be making music full-time to contribute to an enlightened society? I now write code 10 hours a day, but I still find time to play with my current project a few times a week. When we play shows, it still packs the house, though we have no desire to tour, make records, or anything of the sort. As I said, Artists will continue to create, and they will continue to perform, even if they have to pay the club owner to do so (the won't, if they're any good).
As I said in my last post, and the grandparent before me, it doesn't matter much. The industry is changing, and there's nothing the record labels can do about it. It's actally making it easier for the artist to produce content without having to alter his vision to fit the market and keep the execs happy. Now they can produce that content with just a few hundred dollars worth of microphones and the software that came with their Macbooks. They don't need the label for distribution anymore- just throw it onto a few p2p networks. If they do the necessary work to advertise a show, people will look them up, download their content, and will know all the words to the songs when they see them live, leading to an overall better live performance, a better reputation, and more sold-out shows. If the artist is good enough to capture peoples' attention, they have more opportunity than ever to make a living off it.
Well said. In short, like it or not, legal or illegal, the entertainment industry's business model is already collapsing. If they don't adapt, they will not last. I don't feel bad for them- they had a pretty good run as one of the highest-grossing industries in the world for almost a century. Those that can adapt will be fine. The artists will keep making music, and the movies will probably continue in similar fashion. If they don't, it's not that big of a loss.
KDE 4 is getting very close to being released. It's native support for Windows... This is news to me. When is it coming out and how extensive is windows support? Where can I find more info? I've been begging my boss to let me install Kubuntu on my work computer for some time. If I could at least get KDE, it would be very very nice.
Centuries ago, art and music served as a form of worship, reaching for the highest ideals and aspirations that Man could strive for. Bach wrote his Fugues. Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Shakespeare wrote his plays, Byron, Shelley, Keats wrote poetry, Handel wrote his choral works, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart composed their symphonies, the list goes on and on. Did any of these people, whose works have endured for centuries, ever earn millions of dollars? And did someone acting as their agent or producer earn many times more? Hell yes. Michaelangelo was such a big shot that the Pope himself- one of the most influencial people of the time, was willing to deal with his bullshit. Shakespeare, Mozart... These were not poor men. And yes, there were agents and producers in those times as well. What has this world come to? I just typed "Greatest artists of all time" into Google and what do I get? Michelangelo? Leonardo da Vinci? Rembrandt? No, though that is exactly what I was looking for. Get this: According to Google, it's 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 graduated with a degree in art (not that that made me an expert), and I would still argue that the beatles, the Stones, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Dylan and the who all belong in that list. Seriously. I'd probably list my top 10 artists of all time as follows:
Da Vinci, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Page, Monet, Picasso, Dali, Bob Marley, The Stones, Bonaparte, Jimi Hendrix.
That's off the top of my head. I'd probably change it up quite a bit (and make it a top 500 list) if I were doing this seriously. I honestly believe that the 60s were to music what the renaissance was to art. At any rate... I'm way off topic.:)
While I support pissing off the RIAA, I wouldn't give him money. Ultimately, he did break the law by copying music he didn't have a right to [as stupid as that is illegal...]. And so the flamewar begins...
I'm curious, how did you overcome the JavaScript security restriction against HTTP-fetching pages from more than one domain? Couple ways around it that I've found while working on a project recently. Open another window in the background, grab the content from that, close it. Better yet, do the same but with a hidden iframe. You do it that way and you don't even need to mess around with the XMLHttpRequest
"As their right is to be able to control who gets to use their creation, to only share it with people who have paid them for it if that's what they wish, then yes, your act means they are no longer in the control of their creation that the law grants them; therefore you have taken that right."...except as a previous poster noted, one public performance, and anybody can sing your song. Obviously the laws are granting the artists with something they can't provide. Perhaps the **AA should sue the government for fraud? That'd be fun.
Or we can change laws. That is allowed. Laws are created by people, who are by default stupid. It is entirely possible that laws are immoral.
Whether it is currently under copyright law or not is a moot point. The fact is, peaple are sharing media and there's nothing that can be done to stop it. I think we pirates have proven that over the last 10 years.
That said, if you think you are losing money from piracy, you need to rethink your business strategy. The entertainment industry is going to have to change very quick, and it's going to hurt a lot of companies, and make a lot of others filthy rich. if you're a musician, you should be happy to get the exposure that you can get from the internet. Use it to your advantage, don't fight it. There's plenty of ways to make money off fame.
...except I visited a completely different location to enquire about canceling. That was where I was informed that my salesperson was known to have a history of lying to the customer just to make the sale...
Of course there was nothing they/em could to about it.
I hadn't played with Javascript too much until a client's requirements required some pretty heavy AJAX use recently. Now the more I use it, the more I like it. And hate it. It has the potential to be by far the coolest language I've worked with, but the implementation ruins it for me. I know I'm just stating the obvious here, but if the damn browsers (IE, mostly) would support standards, javascript would be one of the best things to happen to web application programming.
I can vouch for this one. The hardest cancellation I've ever had to do was with Gold's Gym. I had just moved back home from another state and wasn't sure how long I'd be here, so I specifically asked the salesperson about cancellation, I was told that it'd just be a $100 cancellation fee (even that is too much, but seemed reasonable at the time for some reason.) 6 months later, I tried to cancel only to find out that I have to show proof that I am moving more than X miles from any Gold's location, etc... They kept charging dues over the 3 months it took to cancel. Then the 4th month rolled around and guess what? There was a glitch in their system and I was still billed for another month. Only after yelling && cussing out the phone for over 2 hours was I able to get a refund for that, and it took 6 weeks to arrive.
And this is exactly what a previous poster was talking about- not only will I never go back there- I will discourage everybody that I know is considering going there from signing up for their service. Crappy customer service, but they spend more on advertising than I do, so they'll probably win in the end. Fuck.
You have to kill all the minions first with the sugar compound first, then you are free to take on the boss cell. The red bosses are easy to take out, but the blue ones move a lot faster. Best bet is to get past it and get the axe.
Maybe it's just me, but I've found the CLI to be extremely useful and intuitive. Granted, I like it better on linux, and most of my CLI interaction takes place there, but OSX is familiar enough.
Likewise, maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but it's not too hard to tell what is going on behind the scenes. It feels to me a lot like KDE- a GUI with a powerful OS hiding (not too far) behind it.
Or at least have somebody stay with the guy until he leaves. I used to do HVAC maintanance, and one of the guys I worked with was a recovering junkie... Short version of the story- we did some work at a dentist's office, and they gave him free reign over the whole basement- pain killers, the Nitrous bottle, etc.
what's amazing is how many of my clients try to use that exact password. Usually when they do so, I pull out that quote and they decide to use a different one.
really.... not a bad idea. we should organize a massive DDOS on the MPAA website on a monthly basis.
of course, they'd quickly learn to compensate, but we could at least take their servers down once, I'm betting. At the very least, you take some money away from the lawyers and put it into their bandwidth.
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Admittedly this is true with the bands I listed, but A) That doesn't change the fact that they make good albums, and B) there are plenty of modern (punk) bands with very good ideas, good music, and good live shows.
If we start to see smaller local shows get bigger and international tours get smaller, it isn't really a loss. Plenty of local bands are fantastic, and I live in bloody Utah.
I thought the blink tag was dead, but it keeps coming back on bad web sites all over the place. I hadn't seen it for a few weeks, but today, I check out the new local deli's takeout menu for lunch and lo and behold, there it is, like an old friend who won't leave you alone with your new friends and kinda smells like scotch and vomit.
Please go away, blinky, and take your friend marquee with you.
I personally prefer albums over singles, but the musicians I listen to are very good at putting out a lot of music that doesn't suck. It may be fortunate that my music of choice is punk, and frankly, it's not hard to write good punk, but there are a lot of very talented musicians who crank out albums like crazy.
Bad Religion, NoFX, Pennywise, Pulley, Lagwagon, Rancid, Frenzal Rhomb, and hundreds more, all amazing musicians, all consistently putting out excellent albums, chock full of excellent music. None of it gets played on the radio, and I consider it a Good Thing.
It also helps that most of the bands I enjoy actively promote the sharing of their music. It's nice to see people with original ideas.
It occurs to me that this is a fantastic way to get people to switch- install the OSes side by side, make sure they no it's there, but don't pressure them into using it. When they get infected with spyware and decide they need a new computer, suggest that thy use ubuntu in the meantime.
At the very least, they get exposed to something different, and will be happy to be able to still use their computer when windows has died.
Every time I hear the word, I think of a really bad episode of Highlander where a stereotypical geek says "I didn't know we were playing for keeps in meatspace". I get irritated.
I have a bachelor's degree in illustration, I have played music all of my life. From high school through college, I was playing the local scene in several popular punk bands on guitar, bass in a ska band, and piano in a jazz combo. I'd like to think that I've enriched some people's lives far more than the latest creation from the labs of the record labels, and I have grossed a grand total of several thousand dollars in student loans, music lessons, and a vast collection of instruments.
Yes, I do it for myself first, but playing music alone is *nothing* compared with a packed crowd.
Do artists need to be making music full-time to contribute to an enlightened society? I now write code 10 hours a day, but I still find time to play with my current project a few times a week. When we play shows, it still packs the house, though we have no desire to tour, make records, or anything of the sort. As I said, Artists will continue to create, and they will continue to perform, even if they have to pay the club owner to do so (the won't, if they're any good).
As I said in my last post, and the grandparent before me, it doesn't matter much. The industry is changing, and there's nothing the record labels can do about it. It's actally making it easier for the artist to produce content without having to alter his vision to fit the market and keep the execs happy. Now they can produce that content with just a few hundred dollars worth of microphones and the software that came with their Macbooks. They don't need the label for distribution anymore- just throw it onto a few p2p networks. If they do the necessary work to advertise a show, people will look them up, download their content, and will know all the words to the songs when they see them live, leading to an overall better live performance, a better reputation, and more sold-out shows. If the artist is good enough to capture peoples' attention, they have more opportunity than ever to make a living off it.
Well said. In short, like it or not, legal or illegal, the entertainment industry's business model is already collapsing. If they don't adapt, they will not last. I don't feel bad for them- they had a pretty good run as one of the highest-grossing industries in the world for almost a century. Those that can adapt will be fine. The artists will keep making music, and the movies will probably continue in similar fashion. If they don't, it's not that big of a loss.
I use XP, and I had to reboot twice yesterday. If you'd like, I can keep track and give you daily updates.
Da Vinci, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Page, Monet, Picasso, Dali, Bob Marley, The Stones, Bonaparte, Jimi Hendrix.
That's off the top of my head. I'd probably change it up quite a bit (and make it a top 500 list) if I were doing this seriously. I honestly believe that the 60s were to music what the renaissance was to art. At any rate... I'm way off topic.
...and when the calculations are finished, we should get 42.
And somebody at the park should have a question for you.
"As their right is to be able to control who gets to use their creation, to only share it with people who have paid them for it if that's what they wish, then yes, your act means they are no longer in the control of their creation that the law grants them; therefore you have taken that right." ...except as a previous poster noted, one public performance, and anybody can sing your song. Obviously the laws are granting the artists with something they can't provide. Perhaps the **AA should sue the government for fraud? That'd be fun.
Or we can change laws. That is allowed. Laws are created by people, who are by default stupid. It is entirely possible that laws are immoral.
Whether it is currently under copyright law or not is a moot point. The fact is, peaple are sharing media and there's nothing that can be done to stop it. I think we pirates have proven that over the last 10 years.
That said, if you think you are losing money from piracy, you need to rethink your business strategy. The entertainment industry is going to have to change very quick, and it's going to hurt a lot of companies, and make a lot of others filthy rich. if you're a musician, you should be happy to get the exposure that you can get from the internet. Use it to your advantage, don't fight it. There's plenty of ways to make money off fame.
...except I visited a completely different location to enquire about canceling. That was where I was informed that my salesperson was known to have a history of lying to the customer just to make the sale...
Of course there was nothing they/em could to about it.
I hadn't played with Javascript too much until a client's requirements required some pretty heavy AJAX use recently. Now the more I use it, the more I like it. And hate it. It has the potential to be by far the coolest language I've worked with, but the implementation ruins it for me. I know I'm just stating the obvious here, but if the damn browsers (IE, mostly) would support standards, javascript would be one of the best things to happen to web application programming.
I can vouch for this one. The hardest cancellation I've ever had to do was with Gold's Gym.
I had just moved back home from another state and wasn't sure how long I'd be here, so I specifically asked the salesperson about cancellation, I was told that it'd just be a $100 cancellation fee (even that is too much, but seemed reasonable at the time for some reason.) 6 months later, I tried to cancel only to find out that I have to show proof that I am moving more than X miles from any Gold's location, etc... They kept charging dues over the 3 months it took to cancel.
Then the 4th month rolled around and guess what? There was a glitch in their system and I was still billed for another month. Only after yelling && cussing out the phone for over 2 hours was I able to get a refund for that, and it took 6 weeks to arrive.
And this is exactly what a previous poster was talking about- not only will I never go back there- I will discourage everybody that I know is considering going there from signing up for their service. Crappy customer service, but they spend more on advertising than I do, so they'll probably win in the end. Fuck.
You have to kill all the minions first with the sugar compound first, then you are free to take on the boss cell. The red bosses are easy to take out, but the blue ones move a lot faster. Best bet is to get past it and get the axe.
Maybe it's just me, but I've found the CLI to be extremely useful and intuitive. Granted, I like it better on linux, and most of my CLI interaction takes place there, but OSX is familiar enough.
Likewise, maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but it's not too hard to tell what is going on behind the scenes. It feels to me a lot like KDE- a GUI with a powerful OS hiding (not too far) behind it.
my dad is half-jokingly convinced that unix itself came from the alien spacecraft.
Think about it.. the timeline is about right, not to mention the other technology that suddenly came out of government agencies at the time.
Or at least have somebody stay with the guy until he leaves. I used to do HVAC maintanance, and one of the guys I worked with was a recovering junkie... Short version of the story- we did some work at a dentist's office, and they gave him free reign over the whole basement- pain killers, the Nitrous bottle, etc.
what's amazing is how many of my clients try to use that exact password. Usually when they do so, I pull out that quote and they decide to use a different one.
really.... not a bad idea. we should organize a massive DDOS on the MPAA website on a monthly basis.
of course, they'd quickly learn to compensate, but we could at least take their servers down once, I'm betting. At the very least, you take some money away from the lawyers and put it into their bandwidth.
I just finished my Fedora torrent and will be reformatting all my hard drives this weekend.