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The Digital Audio Workstaton and the End of Time(dnamusiclabs.com)
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I was refering to the concept of "total dominion" over our computing devices, and trying to illustrate that this a hopeless goal. Yes, you could generate your own power, live in total isolation off the grid, attempt to make everything in yo
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Thanks for the link, it does give more context for where Stallman is coming from. It's a poignant story. It's a tricky question about personal ethics and judgement. Is it possible for someone to have personal ethics that don't implicitly in
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I'm not being literal! Their are flavors of personal ethics. You can be a non-conformist and have ideals about behavior that don't extend to other people. Really that's the core of my annoyance with his point of view. It's just annoyance. R
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Why the down vote? it's a simple observation. A negative opinion on a piece of writing doesn't make someone a troll. In addition, many people, such as myself, are not familiar with Richard Stallman's work. So the discussion is not repetitiv
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But this idea of having dominion over any computational object (or really any object) is a fantasy. Are you going generate your own electricity riding your generator bike (powered by veggies from your garden) as you code? That's where I thi
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He's a total conformist! It's just that the ideals he wishes everyone would conform to are solely his own.
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I've only read a few writings by Richard Stallman. It seems plain to me that he is an egomaniac with some kind of rigid obsessional thinking patterns. People like this are very annoying, and ironically undermine their own case if they inten
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by b1daly 15y ago
Why does the Google promo video make me feel icky? I already feel like my attachment to my iPhone is not healthy, I literally feel lost when I don't have it nearby. I might be too old to get excited about stuff like this. I suppose if it he
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I'm a music producer, and this is a constant problem for me that after many years still boggles my mind. The root of the problem is that producing a modern style recording of music is resource expensive. Far more than anybody would like it
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One reason I don't think gets mentioned enough for software sucking: developers don't really use the product enough to optimize it (they don't have time). Especially for complex applications. If there isn't an effective feedback loop from u
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Copyright is generally interpreted that you can only copyright the part of a work that is original. So if you are granted a copyright for a work that includes unoriginal materials (which is virtually all works) you don't get a copyright on
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I feel I am feeding a very energetic troll by even commenting again but there is something nagging at me. The points around the pricing of digital goods are mainly related to the particular nature of them: high fixed costs of production and
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Whatever the legitimacy of the OP arguments he sounds like a real creep! I get that he's trying to make a hard nosed, here's how it is in the real world. But he comes off a variation of an abuser who believes his victim leaves him no choice
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People are making comments here about how unions diminish competiveness. What about incompetent CEOs who make big decisions that wreck a company and still get paid millions. Why is it always the lowest paid workers who are expected to take
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I am a music producer and audio engineer, which these days means I labor at the computer. I have come to the conclusion that the GUI as we know it is a really bad interface at which to labor. One of the fundamental problems is that it break
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They are slapping down recording costs, and they definitely less than in the nineties. However the marketing costs remain very high. I'm a full time music producer and have my own studio. That cut some of my out of pocket costs but the true
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Courtney Love my have done some math but it adds up to an empty argument. She conveniently leaves out the fact that most records, major and otherwise, sell virtually nothing and leave the label holding the bag on costs. So they structure th
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Given that most people need a job to pay the bills, it seems that "I need the money" has to be one of the most truthful answers in a job interview (or "I want more money"). That's why it's a job and not just a fun thing to do. A lot of tale
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Holy cow what an ill-informed article. Many on this thread have illuminated it's weaknesses, here's my two cents. To single out design from any other process involved in creating value makes zero sense. In fact in many products design, incl
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Ok, my attempt to make my point is heavy handed vis a vis intellectual property as a whole. My main frustration on this subject is that many tech and entreprenrial people, like those who hang out here, have an inconsistent perspective on in
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The lack of critical thinking about music copyright never ceases to boggle my mind. In this discussion Spotify is the intermediary. The labels and the artists do the heavy lifting here. Do you guys believe in the concept of intellectual pr
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On the topic of visual design and UX, these are two (not quite orthogonal) different domains. The area in which they meet, design that helps UX and UX that doesn't look off putting, is usually missed. IMO, software used by professionals can
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While this is a fascinating thought experiment are there really so many people who think there will be mass adoption of driverless cars in the near to mid term? The technical, political, socialogical, and psychological barriers to the OP vi
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15khz is actually is very high frequency, most adults can barely hear it. The audio from phones is probably much more band limited than that. But that's the least of the challenges. People listen to and enjoy highly band limited music all t
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I'm shocked that Grooveshark has made it this long. Especially when you compare it to the legal cases successfully prosecuted against individuals for file sharing which were clearly not commercial. A part of this that I don't hear people d