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[jangofett287]

Meanwhile, in Russia:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Meanwhile, in Russia:
Решил помыть машину - YouTube

Whoops. :lol:

 

[ISProgram]

I switched to imgur as soon as I found out that Imageshack was going to have people pay for it. I'm just lamenting the replacement of many pictures on forums by "Click and discover Imageshack."

Ugh. I remember when I was a lurker, and I would look at that, and cry. Especially when the comments implied that the picture was something good awesome.

How the is Imageshack still popular?!?

 

[Matias Saibene]

I switched to imgur as soon as I found out that Imageshack was going to have people pay for it. I'm just lamenting the replacement of many pictures on forums by "Click and discover Imageshack."

That image of "Click and discover Imageshack" is an absolute futility, or worse a mockery. Sometimes people upload good pictures, and were replaced by that garbage of "Click and discover Imageshack".

click, Click, CLICK and does not work.

 

[Pipcard]

Ugh. I remember when I was a lurker, and I would look at that, and cry. Especially when the comments implied that the picture was something good awesome.

How the is Imageshack still popular?!?

It isn't, it lost all popularity when all of that started happening.

 

[Artlav]

One of the simplest ways of generating hight voltage is to let the current build up in a large coil, then rapidly switch it off.
CRACK, goes the spark as the current dissipate.

I suppose the same would work with a popular resource.
Let the popularity build up, then suddenly make it pay-only.
Fluff, goes the money into your pocket as the popularity dissipate.

Difference is, here it's not as easy to start all over again as with the current...

 

[Matias Saibene]

Awesome.

 

[Andy44]

One of the simplest ways of generating hight voltage is to let the current build up in a large coil, then rapidly switch it off.
CRACK, goes the spark as the current dissipate.

I suppose the same would work with a popular resource.
Let the popularity build up, then suddenly make it pay-only.
Fluff, goes the money into your pocket as the popularity dissipate.

Difference is, here it's not as easy to start all over again as with the current...

That's been the pattern over and over. In the late 80s automatic bank teller machines were a novelty for most people. Once everyone got addicted to them, they started charging fees.

Also, people think free websites are great. Facebook costs nothing to use right? Well, at first, that was correct. Gotta get people hooked. Once you're all on it and addicted, time to start selling your data, which you've kindly provided to them, so they can target you with ads.

I'm guessing the FBI and NSA probably offered a fair amount for it, too.

Websites of any sort cost money, even if you aren't paying for it directly. TANSTAAFL

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In the future, advances in technology will make all forms of "physical" music obsolete. Probably within 20 years, we will have software that could emulate singing or rapping...that way, we edm producers will have complete independence from other artists and our creativity won't be inhibited by other people.

EDIT: You know what. You're right. 20 years from no nobody will play pianos or guitars. Just computers.

BTW: Most people who call electronic artists lazy and untalented generally have failed to secure a traditional musical career themselves.

Ditto. You win. I actually googled that and found out it's completely factual. Guess you got me.

 

[Pipcard]

time to start selling your data, which you've kindly provided to them, so they can target you with ads.

I'm guessing the FBI and NSA probably offered a fair amount for it, too.

I never really saw the huge issue with that. People will say it's a privacy issue, but I don't think an actual person is going through your data.

p.s. I don't use Facebook (or similar websites), but that's because I'm not interested in that kind of online social networking (I find the real life version to be mostly boring, too). I prefer forums. And reddit.

 

[fsci123]

EDIT: You know what. You're right. 20 years from no nobody will play pianos or guitars. Just computers.

Yeah I made a typo with that. I meant "made redundant" not "made obsolete".

Ditto. You win. I actually googled that and found out it's completely factual. Guess you got me.

It's not a hard fact. You won't find any statistics describing the correlation of failed musicians and fear of computer made music. I just brought that up from my own personal experience.

Even before I defected to the edm world I often got heckled by music professors because I considered music made by a daw to be as good as music played by real instruments.

 

[Linguofreak]

I never really saw the huge issue with that. People will say it's a privacy issue, but I don't think an actual person is going through your data.

The issue is not that someone is rooting through your data now. The issue is that they're more likely to be able to do so when it matters.

 

[jangofett287]

TBH, I'm not really concerned about Corporations having loads of data on me. Its a trade-off for them to provide me a service. Them providing some of that data to advertisers is how they pay the bills, and I accept that. That said it does inform what I do put up there. The thing I'm really concerned about is Governments having access to loads of data about me. And if I'm really honest, it's not my data I'm concerned about either. It's data about others. I fear for the day when governments can remove political dissent before it even starts.

 

[Izack]

TBH, I'm not really concerned about Corporations having loads of data on me. Its a trade-off for them to provide me a service. Them providing some of that data to advertisers is how they pay the bills, and I accept that. That said it does inform what I do put up there. The thing I'm really concerned about is Governments having access to loads of data about me. And if I'm really honest, it's not my data I'm concerned about either. It's data about others. I fear for the day when governments can remove political dissent before it even starts.

Even in that case, isn't it still a good idea to say NO to it now before it's too late?

(But perhaps this is a topic best suited for somewhere else.)

 

[Quick_Nick]

Five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

 

[Urwumpe]

I just brought that up from my own personal experience.

...

Even before I defected to the edm world I often got heckled by music professors because I considered music made by a daw to be as good as music played by real instruments.

So, you conclude, everybody else must be wrong about your musical skills?

First of all, in my function as worst guitarist in town, I can tell you: Any analogue instrument in the hands of a skilled musician round-house kicks any digital synthesizer into nirvana - even an analogue synthesizer, if you can afford one. The trick is not to provide perfect tones. The trick is to use the characteristics of the instruments to make music. A synthesizer can try to reproduce a dive bomb of an electric guitar, but it will never be better at it than the guitar student who just does his first attempts at producing such a sound. A skilled musician on the other hand can not just integrate such a dive bomb perfectly into the song, he can also produce the right kind of dive bomb with the right sound. And if he is really a master, he can do so with precision even on a very bad day.

Next, your professor is right. A DAW can only glue samples of existing audio pieces together, which must be provided by synthesizers or by recording analogue instruments. You compare apples with oranges there and professors notice such brain-dead talking of buzzwords. A DAW is no instrument. Its a recording, arrangement and composition tool.

Without instruments, a DAW would be just a way to produce nicer forms of noise.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

ISS Expedition 45 Crew

Future space station crew dons Jedi robes for Star Wars-inspired poster

 

[Linguofreak]

xkcd!!!

:rofl:

 

[perseus]

Moon Kisses for your love..

The displayed side of the Moon

 

[Izack]

Moon Kisses for your love..

The displayed side of the Moon

Am I alone in thinking that this is really creepy?

 

[C3PO]

Am I alone in thinking that this is really creepy?

Not as creepy as this.

One of the most romantic songs of the '80s and written about a stalker. :blink: