Seems that they are also interested in the "air car". India indeed seems like a perfect market for such an experiment. And if it happened to work on a grand scale it would certainly also help this technology to overcome the most obvious problems reported here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_motor
Just wanted to say that there's no music related software that I didn't get through p2p before buying it. In my opinion, "content filtering" = "diminished revenues" for a bunch of people, so this trend will not finish in happiness for either part of the tubes.
I swear I will never ever buy a Sony product again. No discs, no games, no console, no TV. Ok, I've bought more Yamaha, Sharp, Samsung, Bose, equipment but Sony are just trying to hard to have a place in my brain between the waffen ss and mike huckabee's son, so I'll gladly let them there and consider their products accordingly.
Lawsuit against my small anti-anti-corporate comment ? addressing a pet peeve of Slashdot (the OLPC) and a possible other (I hope not, really, as the doctor seems to be a real lunatic) was a little risky I admit. But you know what they say, living dangerously and all...
Well I wasn't trying to defend Intel, not even using their products. But it really seems that by the time this project finalized, industrials have proposed better commercial solutions. Of course there was the prospect of addressing it to children. But any government can still buy 1 million of cheaper and better computers for their children, so that's the problem I see for the OLPC. The idea is great, and I like TED videos too.
Just imagine -- a recording studio that will give you access to high quality recording and post-production tools, AND will handle your international distribution and publicity, completely side-stepping the labels.
You mean like great mics, a 01V, amps, a quiet place to record, ProTools/Cubase, like a Waves bundle ? then, you mean, like every band I know ? they'd sure be glad to pay big money for what they can already do. Because, audio quality wise, you can't tell the difference between their recordings and lots of what comes out of expensive studios. In fact, the quality is better than exopensive studios, because they have learned to not overproduce like most CDs are. Overproduced music I find it unbearable as a musician, it's tiring my brain too quickly. I really can't even listen to recently produced music: the ugly side effects of compression on each track including the master are unmissable. The loudness war is not a fun one and studios can't stop it: there's nothing the studio can do that your neighbor can't. So, they overdo. And boy it's ugly.
Actually, artists have a limited choice -- the big this is: wait until some breakthrough recording studio figures out that they no longer need to be beholden to the record labels for their livelihoods. THEN we'll see a revolution in music distribution.
Amiestreet, TheSixtyOne, Tunecore, Amazon Mp3. That's your revolution. It's the way by which I'll very probably earn my first music related income about this year. I suppose that the few dozen people who already showed support for some of my music on the other side of the internet tube are happy to discover music that would never have crossed the label barrier. Do I believe a recording studio to promote my music to more people and for less money than MySpace, Amiestreet, The Sixtyone, Tuncore, Amazon Mp3 ? how in hell would they do thatn invent a site that tramples all of the aforementioned so that they get some traffic ? no, since I don't imagine global audience music promoting websites popping like mad once the best coded and most practical of them have strengthened their postions; it's what is happening in this very day of January 2008 if you look at those websites page views for the last weeks.
Now almost anyone can release an album. That severely dilutes the market.
So far so good then?
I saw this happen in independent film. Low budget horror films virtually turned into a non profit industry because everyone with a video camera started making them and Blockbuster and other vendors starting accepting crappy ones because they could pick them up cheap.
Could it be: I saw this happen in film. Low budget films virtually turned into a non profit industry because everyone with a video camera started making them and Blockbuster and other vendors starting accepting crappy ones because they could pick them up cheap.
Or just that cheap horror films are made so because people don't really want to see them anyway. Cheap horror movies seem more like a cinematographic "meme" than a side effect of technology.
I used to be a fan of the genre but I don't even bother to rent them anymore because they're all bad.
Or that the greatest part of creativity period of the genre has passed. Like Peplums, Westerns, Buster Keaton and alt genre movies, etc. No music, movie, painting genres are forever, none of them. Cheap horror movies could rather be the tail of the genre than any cause in itself to its demise. And frankly, wasn't the great era of horror movies made from "Evil dead" and "Bad taste" ? or "The Exorcist" and "The Sixth sense". I don't sense here the kind of pattern that you are invoking.
It used to be that if you were going to shoot a film you needed half a mill to a mill so you had to maintain a certain quality or no one would touch it.
Most movies in this list haven't been made with nearly that much money: http://www.amazon.com/Best-of-Low-Budget-Cinema/lm/17HEU9NSRSU95
Now large numbers are made for 10K to 50K and a 100K to 500K are considered real budgets.
Like the bugdet of Monty Python's movies you mean, surely. Those movie sucks because they are so cheap. I'm exactly following you there.
It's going to get harder and harder to get recognized as the market floods. As a part time bedroom composer, I've had my first disinterested listeners thanks a recent Digg-like music site. As a musician, I therefore highly disagree with you, as people have used their social site points to bump my music which is the best thing to happen to my music since my last track and until the next:p
Lets says there are 10X as many bands that now can get their music out there. In five years it'll be 100X and in ten years it'll be a 1000X. There are tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of garage bands in this country alone. How many hours a day do you have to listen to music? Lets says there are 10X as many online shops that now can get their stuff out there. In five years it'll be 100X and in ten years it'll be a 1000X. There are tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of artisan's sites in this country alone. How many hours a day do you have to search for stuff?
See what I did ^^ ? frankly, that's the point of Internet, to organize a whole lot of stuff. No need to spend more time that you want, you'll find something for you quick enough (a proverb by here: "the perfect is the enemy of the good", read: you're not supposed to find the BEST stuff everytime, and because you do will not make or break the day of the person on the other side).
Yes some of the good ones will shine through but the irony is it probably just got radically harder to succeed. People may find it easier to hear your music but it's going to get harder to make a living at it and instruments and recording equipment cost money. I have lots of relatives or friends (including a band of about 15 persons) that have very good recording equipment (much better than anything that helped to produced great music 30 years ago) AND a dayjob. Go figure.
"You and I may think it's worth paying for that, but by and large Americans do not."
A type of media which implied cost do not filter out such content will be good then. Seems like a job for Internet.
No, you must take a more holistic view encompassing lots of variables... you should find all that matters to you about music, such as distribution, quality, lyrics, medium (CD, mp3, ogg, stream, etc),... then decide how important each parameter is for you, and use all parameters in your evaluation, not just one. I maintain however that some parameters are worthy of much more consideration than currently enjoy by most people.
More specifically, people nowadays would even buy or listen to music created by Hitler or bin Laden if it were good. But music is a kind of communication, and you should take into account who created each piece of music and why. You should prefer to listen to music created by ethical people who respect you (and this respect is shown with a licence such as Creative Commons). As a musician, I'm astonished by this relationship to music. To have proper examples, could you rate those albums with your method so I can consider which one(s) to enjoy:
Ojos de Brujo, Vengue
Ustad Mohammad Omar, Virtuoso from Afghanistan
Zhou Yu, Master of the chinese Erhu
Hamza el din, al oud
Van Morrison, Moondance
Tricky, Maxinquaye
Alton Ellis, Cry Tough
Suzuki and bcj, Membra Jesu Nostri buxwv 75
François samson, Debussy: Préludes, Images etc
You could give Stalker a try since you make reference of Fallout and Deux Ex as comparison points.
I'll probably buy Bioshock one day anyway, but thus far I've not been convinced that this game is as atmospheric or open ended as Stalker, and still only for what I've seen on youtube or such the gameplay seems a little limited compared to Stalker:
I'm pretty sure that Stalker has many more weapons (beside other personalization items as Artifacts) than Bioshock does: from attacking bandits in the wild with a MP5, to visiting dark underground corridors with a lamp and a shotgun hoping no mutants show, or attacking an old factory controlled by the army with a NATO assault gun, or dispatching Monolith sect troops in a forest with any of the sniper riffles (which are very different in feel and use, like one having a tracing subsonic bullet for example), the HL2-like gameplay makes wonders. For the few videos I've seen, the Bioshock gameplay seems slower, and to have a basic IA, and seems to be interesting mainly because scripted (oil and water, turrets, etc). Stalker looks more responsive and precise like good PC shooters have us used to, and the combat is very good and rewarding because it is mainly not scripted.
My game of the year is Stalker. Large game, unique atmosphere. Great gameplay, especially now that small bugs have been ironed out and that game balance has been slightly improved. Only thing I have a problem with: on my second run (both runs represent dozen of gameplay hours) I'm now too scared by moments. Had to rush through X18 with "Ojos de Brujos" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlv1ckMUkp4 ) at full volume.
When I bought HL2 I was a little deceived by the shortness of the game, by the fact that some levels felt too much like a corridor simulation with baddies and it was a little painful. And "oh, two explosive barrels conveniently down the bridge with baddies running on it" which felt wrong all the times.
So to have about the same gameplay as HL2 (though a little more interesting to me by some aspects: a few RPG elements, more interesting ballistics, generally better IA) in a world more akin to "Fallout" than to "Operation Wolf" was a blast.
When you see a Slashdot article where the energy form of the future, even more so in community size (should be another huge plus for a crowd of young technically minded Americans), and that it's just made fun of, you can't be surprised if they also buy the anti Iranian attitude of our governments.
"Here's a guy who just happens to be a KID of someone who created something fine."
You seem to imply that this rule is only to the benefit of the "kid". Maybe the parents more often than not simply prefer to see their kids responsible for their legacy. More so Christopher Tolkien who did a correct job of organizing and releasing some of his father's writings. So having some kind of respect for the artist may mean a little respect for the heirs too.
Maybe Iranians should have used yellow ribbons when the United States overthrew their elected government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat). It has been shown again and again than democracy is the weakest protection against strategic US interests. It's maybe no wonder if Iranians are maybe not that opposed to the core of their system and if Russians like Putin. You need bullies as leaders if you simply want to not be bullied by the US in the modern world.
If you are curious (learn languages) there's no reason at all to prefer translations. I learned most of my English in Asimov stories and Futurama episodes. But then, seen from an Imperial eye, I'm sure it seems much less important;)
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This Economist article http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10498664 paints an even bleaker future for the recording industry. So the last part of your post seems the most probable.
Maybe you'll feel a little better with this other Tata related news: http://www.theaircar.com/tata_agreement.html
Seems that they are also interested in the "air car". India indeed seems like a perfect market for such an experiment. And if it happened to work on a grand scale it would certainly also help this technology to overcome the most obvious problems reported here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_motor
Just wanted to say that there's no music related software that I didn't get through p2p before buying it. In my opinion, "content filtering" = "diminished revenues" for a bunch of people, so this trend will not finish in happiness for either part of the tubes.
I swear I will never ever buy a Sony product again. No discs, no games, no console, no TV. Ok, I've bought more Yamaha, Sharp, Samsung, Bose, equipment but Sony are just trying to hard to have a place in my brain between the waffen ss and mike huckabee's son, so I'll gladly let them there and consider their products accordingly.
Lawsuit against my small anti-anti-corporate comment ? addressing a pet peeve of Slashdot (the OLPC) and a possible other (I hope not, really, as the doctor seems to be a real lunatic) was a little risky I admit. But you know what they say, living dangerously and all...
Well I wasn't trying to defend Intel, not even using their products. But it really seems that by the time this project finalized, industrials have proposed better commercial solutions. Of course there was the prospect of addressing it to children. But any government can still buy 1 million of cheaper and better computers for their children, so that's the problem I see for the OLPC. The idea is great, and I like TED videos too.
The Economist is not remotely in the realm of political insanity of the doctor fans.
I was addressing some comments here which went no farther that "that's intel for you, those evil bastards".
This article http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10472304 displays a very different, and more convincing, view of the OLPC failure than the ronpaulesque anti-corporate attitude in the comments here.
You mean like great mics, a 01V, amps, a quiet place to record, ProTools/Cubase, like a Waves bundle ? then, you mean, like every band I know ? they'd sure be glad to pay big money for what they can already do. Because, audio quality wise, you can't tell the difference between their recordings and lots of what comes out of expensive studios. In fact, the quality is better than exopensive studios, because they have learned to not overproduce like most CDs are. Overproduced music I find it unbearable as a musician, it's tiring my brain too quickly. I really can't even listen to recently produced music: the ugly side effects of compression on each track including the master are unmissable. The loudness war is not a fun one and studios can't stop it: there's nothing the studio can do that your neighbor can't. So, they overdo. And boy it's ugly.
Actually, artists have a limited choice -- the big this is: wait until some breakthrough recording studio figures out that they no longer need to be beholden to the record labels for their livelihoods. THEN we'll see a revolution in music distribution.
Amiestreet, TheSixtyOne, Tunecore, Amazon Mp3. That's your revolution. It's the way by which I'll very probably earn my first music related income about this year. I suppose that the few dozen people who already showed support for some of my music on the other side of the internet tube are happy to discover music that would never have crossed the label barrier. Do I believe a recording studio to promote my music to more people and for less money than MySpace, Amiestreet, The Sixtyone, Tuncore, Amazon Mp3 ? how in hell would they do thatn invent a site that tramples all of the aforementioned so that they get some traffic ? no, since I don't imagine global audience music promoting websites popping like mad once the best coded and most practical of them have strengthened their postions; it's what is happening in this very day of January 2008 if you look at those websites page views for the last weeks.
I wish one day Ars and Slashdot make such a news about Microsoft, just to see the comments. Then two days later tell it was an Apple news finally.
The good news is: people that support Vista and HDMPAAlywood movies are screwed again. Rejoice !
Hope you're not occidental, especially not American. Or I'll have to laugh at you.
So far so good then?
I saw this happen in independent film. Low budget horror films virtually turned into a non profit industry because everyone with a video camera started making them and Blockbuster and other vendors starting accepting crappy ones because they could pick them up cheap.
Could it be: I saw this happen in film. Low budget films virtually turned into a non profit industry because everyone with a video camera started making them and Blockbuster and other vendors starting accepting crappy ones because they could pick them up cheap.
Or just that cheap horror films are made so because people don't really want to see them anyway. Cheap horror movies seem more like a cinematographic "meme" than a side effect of technology.
I used to be a fan of the genre but I don't even bother to rent them anymore because they're all bad.
Or that the greatest part of creativity period of the genre has passed. Like Peplums, Westerns, Buster Keaton and alt genre movies, etc. No music, movie, painting genres are forever, none of them. Cheap horror movies could rather be the tail of the genre than any cause in itself to its demise. And frankly, wasn't the great era of horror movies made from "Evil dead" and "Bad taste" ? or "The Exorcist" and "The Sixth sense". I don't sense here the kind of pattern that you are invoking.
It used to be that if you were going to shoot a film you needed half a mill to a mill so you had to maintain a certain quality or no one would touch it.
Most movies in this list haven't been made with nearly that much money: http://www.amazon.com/Best-of-Low-Budget-Cinema/lm/17HEU9NSRSU95
Now large numbers are made for 10K to 50K and a 100K to 500K are considered real budgets.
Like the bugdet of Monty Python's movies you mean, surely. Those movie sucks because they are so cheap. I'm exactly following you there.
It's going to get harder and harder to get recognized as the market floods. As a part time bedroom composer, I've had my first disinterested listeners thanks a recent Digg-like music site. As a musician, I therefore highly disagree with you, as people have used their social site points to bump my music which is the best thing to happen to my music since my last track and until the next
Lets says there are 10X as many bands that now can get their music out there. In five years it'll be 100X and in ten years it'll be a 1000X. There are tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of garage bands in this country alone. How many hours a day do you have to listen to music? Lets says there are 10X as many online shops that now can get their stuff out there. In five years it'll be 100X and in ten years it'll be a 1000X. There are tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of artisan's sites in this country alone. How many hours a day do you have to search for stuff?
See what I did ^^ ? frankly, that's the point of Internet, to organize a whole lot of stuff. No need to spend more time that you want, you'll find something for you quick enough (a proverb by here: "the perfect is the enemy of the good", read: you're not supposed to find the BEST stuff everytime, and because you do will not make or break the day of the person on the other side).
Yes some of the good ones will shine through but the irony is it probably just got radically harder to succeed. People may find it easier to hear your music but it's going to get harder to make a living at it and instruments and recording equipment cost money. I have lots of relatives or friends (including a band of about 15 persons) that have very good recording equipment (much better than anything that helped to produced great music 30 years ago) AND a dayjob. Go figure.
"You and I may think it's worth paying for that, but by and large Americans do not." A type of media which implied cost do not filter out such content will be good then. Seems like a job for Internet.
Fair enough, anyway I'm looking forward to the day I'll get Bioshock because there are surely good gaming moments in it.
Ojos de Brujo, Vengue
Ustad Mohammad Omar, Virtuoso from Afghanistan
Zhou Yu, Master of the chinese Erhu
Hamza el din, al oud
Van Morrison, Moondance
Tricky, Maxinquaye
Alton Ellis, Cry Tough
Suzuki and bcj, Membra Jesu Nostri buxwv 75
François samson, Debussy: Préludes, Images etc
You could give Stalker a try since you make reference of Fallout and Deux Ex as comparison points.
I'll probably buy Bioshock one day anyway, but thus far I've not been convinced that this game is as atmospheric or open ended as Stalker, and still only for what I've seen on youtube or such the gameplay seems a little limited compared to Stalker:
I'm pretty sure that Stalker has many more weapons (beside other personalization items as Artifacts) than Bioshock does: from attacking bandits in the wild with a MP5, to visiting dark underground corridors with a lamp and a shotgun hoping no mutants show, or attacking an old factory controlled by the army with a NATO assault gun, or dispatching Monolith sect troops in a forest with any of the sniper riffles (which are very different in feel and use, like one having a tracing subsonic bullet for example), the HL2-like gameplay makes wonders. For the few videos I've seen, the Bioshock gameplay seems slower, and to have a basic IA, and seems to be interesting mainly because scripted (oil and water, turrets, etc). Stalker looks more responsive and precise like good PC shooters have us used to, and the combat is very good and rewarding because it is mainly not scripted.
My game of the year is Stalker. Large game, unique atmosphere. Great gameplay, especially now that small bugs have been ironed out and that game balance has been slightly improved. Only thing I have a problem with: on my second run (both runs represent dozen of gameplay hours) I'm now too scared by moments. Had to rush through X18 with "Ojos de Brujos" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlv1ckMUkp4 ) at full volume.
When I bought HL2 I was a little deceived by the shortness of the game, by the fact that some levels felt too much like a corridor simulation with baddies and it was a little painful. And "oh, two explosive barrels conveniently down the bridge with baddies running on it" which felt wrong all the times.
So to have about the same gameplay as HL2 (though a little more interesting to me by some aspects: a few RPG elements, more interesting ballistics, generally better IA) in a world more akin to "Fallout" than to "Operation Wolf" was a blast.
When you see a Slashdot article where the energy form of the future, even more so in community size (should be another huge plus for a crowd of young technically minded Americans), and that it's just made fun of, you can't be surprised if they also buy the anti Iranian attitude of our governments.
"Here's a guy who just happens to be a KID of someone who created something fine." You seem to imply that this rule is only to the benefit of the "kid". Maybe the parents more often than not simply prefer to see their kids responsible for their legacy. More so Christopher Tolkien who did a correct job of organizing and releasing some of his father's writings. So having some kind of respect for the artist may mean a little respect for the heirs too.
Maybe Iranians should have used yellow ribbons when the United States overthrew their elected government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat). It has been shown again and again than democracy is the weakest protection against strategic US interests. It's maybe no wonder if Iranians are maybe not that opposed to the core of their system and if Russians like Putin. You need bullies as leaders if you simply want to not be bullied by the US in the modern world.
University of Me researcher has uncovered widespread misinformation in Internet tubes. Oh noes.
If you are curious (learn languages) there's no reason at all to prefer translations. I learned most of my English in Asimov stories and Futurama episodes. But then, seen from an Imperial eye, I'm sure it seems much less important ;)
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"And "fairness" has very little to do in politics. Laws are typically broken by the powers."
do you mean that Chechnya, Beslan, political murders to the point of terrorizing every independent journalist, are Business as usual ?
Also Russia is 121th at the transparency index it seems remarkably low:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781359.html