Getting paid more than once for a single piece of work

Mr lowery is from a generation raised on the 20th century expectation that a musician that records a song should be able to make a living by selling that same recording over and over. This expectation was only really true in the height of the vinyl record age (when it was technically hard for consumers to make good copies at home), and only for a small number of musicians.

Before the advent of the recording industry, musicians expected to work (read as: perform live) on a regular basis if they wanted to get paid, and with the advent of Internet file sharing they are back to the status quo ante. - and a generation or two of them are winging because they can't expect to stay rich forever like the Rolling Stones got to.

The strategy of bringing up the poor benighted technicians who won't get paid if we don't pay full price for the CD or BluRay is bogus: these folks get paid per hour worked. By the time the recording is on the pirate bay they already have their check. o

One could argue that the "slump" in sales will cause the industry to make fewer records (and thus need fewer technicians) but I would argue that

1. The industry was already making fewer recordings, preferring to bank everything on a fe manufactured icons like Britany or whoever it is today, and

2. The fact that musicians can make good quality recordings at home on equipment that costs tens of thousands instead of hundreds of thousands means that these technicians are more at risk from inside the industry than from the consumers.

Tldr: the changes in the industry are natural by products of the same technological trend at created the industry in the first place. Superior man looks forward to the next trend instead of winging about he last one being over.

FSF vs SFLC

i find it quite telling that the FSF can't agree with it's own lawyers about what GPL v3 means!

Paris because, well, paris.

One wonders about...

What protocols they support? What interfaces they have?

Wtf indeed.

It'll be interesting to see whether OS suppliers allow these (presumablly WebDAV) vendors easy access to the Open/Save dialog boxes... Which is IMHO the real barrier to adoption by grandma.

I read somewhere that OS X.viii (the forth coming MILF release, now out in developer preview) has a "save to iCloud" feature prominently displayed in said dialogs. Will "save to SilverLight" be far behind?

Not just mobiles

Im not sure the problem is confined to mobile devices... Have you ever tried to adjust the AC in a Prius?

netflix has jenna?

funny, i've never seen her there in anything more hard core than that zombie stripper movie a couple years ago...

Mp3 and compression

Isnt a lot of the current dynamically compressed music driven by the fact that most people listen to everything in lnitwit rate mp3 (or some other lossy format) which achieves file size compression partially Through dynamic compression?

Because producers know this, they're pre-compressing the tracks so the can at least controll how the mp3 will sound

so... better experience is bad business?

to summarize your article: Apple is offering it's customers a better experience, and this is a bad thing ?

do you own MSFT or GOOG stock by any chance?

Small m?

Is "m" the accepted way to abbreviate "million"? I would have assumed "meter" or "milli"

Adobe's fault, not Teh Steve's.

Repeating things over and over does not make them true.

Steve's famous rant against Adobe came after waiting _years_ for them to deliver a working IOS version of flash. (for that matter, a working Mac OS or Linux port would be nice. Just saying.)

When they finally gave him one, it was as buggy and CPU hogging as the rest of their non-windows implementations. Also, the UI still thought it had a mouse attached.

Hands up, anyone who's used flash on a touchscreen and found it intuitive.

With 99.95 uptime...

They're now promising zero downtime for the next 9 years

Lion?

Didnt I read somewhere that all of this is coming in 10.7?

Ms $$$?

One wonders if this was a condition of their deal with microsoft.

"Aikido Hip Throw"

not so many hip throws in Aikido.

you're thinking of Judo.

Yes it does

>While the excellent SmrtGuard will let you access your lost BlackBerry to get it to dial you back

>so that you can hear conversations where you’ve left it, or make it ping loudly, or track the device

>by GPS, the Apple version does none of that because it doesn’t have the APIs.

Well, two out of three ain't bad. and it's the useful two.

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This article makes it sound as if there isn't already a strong Postgres community.

obviously, there is.

Ya, but is it better than clarkson's little ford?

Which only held three marines, but cost about 1/10th what this thing does...

"Hot"???

Being not really qualified to judge these things myself, I have to ask the author how he was able to determine the temperature of said birds.

Avatar

Finally got around to watching avatar yesterday.

What a trite piece of new age crap.

Anamation was good though.

"Ariel"????

The real destruction of the nation. will come when the poor Indonesian children learn that he's named after a FEMALE Disney character.

Paris. because she could do the little mermaid.