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by b1daly 10y ago
I don't where people get this notion that the music business is somehow "greedy" when the profits and margins are small. The record companies are not mere "middle-men" between artist and fans. They actually fund the
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by b1daly 10y ago
A learning phenoma that I find fascinating is learning things that seem impossible. I experienced most in music, learning rhythmic independence. Most instruments require this skill, but where I really noticed it is trying to play and sing s
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by b1daly 11y ago
This is just stupid. Aside from the fact that the cost of access to music is at an historical low, there are vastly more important issues that I would love to see the the AGs investigate. The scandalous treatment of African Americans is a b
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by b1daly 12y ago
Articles like this, which I come across enough to have mental category for them, are hard to take seriously. It seems to me that of the great problems facing the world that that this is not one of them. As opposed to vague hypothetical tro
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by b1daly 12y ago
I've been a reader of the Dish for 15 years. I've always been astounded at both the quality and quantity of writing Andrew produces. I wouldn't be surprised if wrote more than any other blogger (among those who are actually r
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by b1daly 12y ago
Aside from the fact that someone has to lead the arrangement (it can be done by consensus or pre set as well) that a conductor was needed simply because of this distance between the players. 40ft gives a delay of about 40ms, which is a lot
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by b1daly 12y ago
I think the author has an important point to make, which could be helpful for those struggling with addiction and find that the model of the disease and total abstinence suggested by 12 step groups doesn't fit in some. Anecdotally it s
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by b1daly 12y ago
I'm very skeptical of such hand wavey story telling about macro economic subjects, whether the source is a credentialed academic or an anonymous internet raver. It does seem incredible that the author doesn't give more weight to t
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by b1daly 12y ago
Hey, since no one else is bringing up the "citation please" criticism of the post, I will. Sorry, but it's just a dumb thesis, asserted in utter confidence. The evidence to support it would be something along the lines of an
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by b1daly 12y ago
Well the sound quality of the streaming service is pretty bad, especially for tracks that aren't professionally produced. I don't think people realize how much effect this has on the listeners.
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by b1daly 12y ago
Markets for artistic works are unique in that the creators are often (usually) not primarily motivated by money. Everyone else in the business is, more or less (meaning many authors write as an avocation, while very few people would conside
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by b1daly 12y ago
Eh, I'm amazed at the ignorance of the obvious by authors like this. This is chickenlittleism on full throttle. The tone is vaguely ellegaic, harkening back to that time when freedom and democracy was the law of the land. Let's se
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by b1daly 12y ago
Do you get that without a distribution channel there is no hope of an artist getting paid. Running a distribution channel business is really hard, only the true fanatic would consider doing the grunt work for love and glory.
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by b1daly 12y ago
The most popular dongle used for audio software is called iLok and it creates a terrible user experience. The developers know this, but say that without it they can't survive. The software is still cracked, but there are problems using
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by b1daly 12y ago
In the music business, most indie releases are a total loss financially. This is true in the main stream music industry too, but the difference is they have some big hits which hopefully generate enough revenue to make a profit. I find the
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by b1daly 12y ago
I'm probably commenting more on my experience, which does not extend to actual hits. But I am called on to emulate the sound. It has been a struggle to get the bass right, often I find if I mix to have perceptually a lot of bass on, le
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by b1daly 12y ago
I don't think the deliberate making of Android incompatible with Java had much bearing in this case. Oracle might not have liked it, but it wasn't part of their claims, I don't think. It was discussed as part of the context f
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by b1daly 12y ago
Well, doesn't it seem like the circuit court has answered this question in the affirmative?
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by b1daly 12y ago
Right, but the problem for Google is that Judge Alsop ruled as a matter of Law that API is not copyrightable. So that mooted the defense for Google's actions under fair use. This seems like a major ruling. Now Google is going to have t
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by b1daly 12y ago
I don't think it ruled that just being original was enough to make an API copyrightable. It was more whether at the time the work was created, was there some element of reality (for example an existing standard) that dictated that a pa
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by b1daly 12y ago
What people aren't getting in this thread is that modern pop and hip hop is engineered to be played on systems with a lot of bass (sub woofers). Ironically this forces the engineer to limit the amount of bass in the mix, so there some
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by b1daly 13y ago
The main problem with a major change to the GUI like Windows 8 is that it destroys a vast investment people have made in learning how to use a PC. A lot of user interface is comprised of arbitrary choices. It might be the case that a new wa
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by b1daly 13y ago
Astonishing portrait of Assange, who is far stranger than I could have guessed.
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by b1daly 13y ago
Not to be obvious, but have you tried medication? Like a lot of things YMMV but it can help a lot, and also make those other approaches more effective. Hang in there...
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by b1daly 13y ago
Actually I think the compulsory license does not apply if it is a derivative work, you would need permission from the publisher.
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by b1daly 13y ago
I'm actually dumbfounded that this happened to this student if it as she described. I went to an Ivy years ago and I and many other students took medical leave. There was no need to reapply or jump through hoops, you just had to tell t
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by b1daly 13y ago
Do you think there is a value to the somewhat ubiquitous use of paypal in the consumer online space in that many customers have paypal accounts? In the sense that it is a bit more frictionless? I can see how a B2B market might be different.
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by b1daly 13y ago
Why does this truism get endlessly repeated? Is this news to anybody that if you don't make something that people will pay for, your business won't make money? In any case, it's so simple minded that I think it's wrong.
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by b1daly 13y ago
I've sometimes wondered if the presence of psychopaths in powerful organizations leads to sociopathic behavior on the organizations part, even though most members are "normal." I'm thinking of situations like the outland
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by b1daly 13y ago
I don't see the advantage of chording based input, it actually requires more effort to press two or three keys at once. I guess I'm thinking of the use of modifier keys. Anecdotally speaking, it increases tension as well because o

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