Are we sure...
...that the Navy SEAL team didn't forget to pick up the Post-It (stuck on the monitor) with Bin Lid's passphrase on?
Posts by Cunningly Linguistic
305 publicly visible posts • joined 23 May 2010
Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?
Star Wars: From dream sci-fi bride to perfect Blu-ray wife
Ohio cops taze naked marathoneer
The Sandy Bridge Hackintosh
Monday 2nd May 2011 22:48 GMT
I have a spare Dual core G5 PowerPC here...
...onto which I installed Debian 6 as an experiment to see what it would behave like as a small web and mail server. Other than a couple of apps which don't seem to like the PPC cpu (Xindy that's you I'm talking about) it runs fine. Certainly better than OS/X 10.5 did.
Legal goons threaten researcher for reporting security bug
Rackspace backtracks over toff-proof sign-up process
Nikon image authentication system cracked
Minotron: 2112 on iOS 4
High Court squashes Digital Economy Act challenge
Facebook forced to reinstate snogging men pic
Microsoft's Word fight opens in US Supreme Court
Menorcan politician flashes substantial chesticles
Dig deep! Radio asks taxpayers for blank cheque
Wednesday 6th April 2011 08:28 GMT 
DAB = Death of radio as we know it.
Once FM is switched off, and people won't pay the absurd amounts charged for DAB replacements the radio listening public's numbers severely decline.
The audience figures go down, the advertising spending goes down, the number of radio stations go down until eventually all that can be received is the BBC stations.
The BBC decides it's on a hiding to nothing and so withdraws funding from DAB stations' budgets.
Everyone goes over to DVB and/or PMPs.
Poor Whispering Bob retires and the decent music content on the airwaves dies the death.
Men at Work lose Down Under plagiarism appeal
Duke Nukem Forever DELAYED
Judge to music industry: 'Worth trillions? Forget it'
Thursday 24th March 2011 14:49 GMT
Begging to differ redux
Working, as I do, on the fringes of the music industry (admittedly in a niche-ish genre) I have to say that ease of access, ease of production does not a good recipe make. All it means is that more dross is promulgated and isn't filtered out by the usual 'studio system'.
I'm 51, I'm in the demographic which reputedly has more money to spend on music than any other, certainly more than the 20s and below, yet there is nothing specifically aimed at my age group. My preferred genre is blues and blues-rock and in my experience (approx 15 years working for a reasonably well known, but unnamed, band on the UK circuit) and in conversation with many artists the overwhelming feeling is that good music is out there in spite of the music industry, not because of it.
$deity help us from the guy with Garageband and an over-ambitious imagination. The 100s of out of work session musicians need a way for their cream to rise to the surface. Itunes is not that way. By and large my age group want something tangible for their hard-earned and a digital download does not cut it (except for maybe a taster).
As for HMV, don't get me started on those leeches!
Thursday 24th March 2011 11:10 GMT 
What's the point in...
...downloading music? There's bugger all decent new music being produced. Courtesy of the accountants in charge imagination has been replaced with a formula.
Get some decent music for adults out there, put it on physical media that looks nice on a shelf and I'll pay a reasonable amount, say £5 - £8 per CD.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
