Comments on: My First Brush with the Music Industry http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/05/27/my-first-brush-with-the-music-industry/ Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:44:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Gui http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/05/27/my-first-brush-with-the-music-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-2907 Gui Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:21:39 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1645#comment-2907 The record industry at large is probably the most narrow minded in the world. Which is kinda ironic, considering that music is a form of art. In the very same summer of 1996, I got my first computer. It was an IBM Aptiva, and thanks to its powerful (and large) speakers, it displaced our humble Panasonic boombox as the main music-playing device at home. And since it was a pretty looking machine and everyone in the house use it, why not place it in the living room? The record industry at large is probably the most narrow minded in the world. Which is kinda ironic, considering that music is a form of art.

In the very same summer of 1996, I got my first computer. It was an IBM Aptiva, and thanks to its powerful (and large) speakers, it displaced our humble Panasonic boombox as the main music-playing device at home.

And since it was a pretty looking machine and everyone in the house use it, why not place it in the living room?

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]]> By: chuck http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/05/27/my-first-brush-with-the-music-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1087 chuck Thu, 29 May 2008 21:28:54 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1645#comment-1087 “We don’t think there will be much interest in the world wide web outside of technical people. The pictures are tiny, you’re stuck with default fonts, and your customers have to go buy a modem. Too much tech hassle, too little payoff.” We don't think there will be much interest in CDs outside of audiophile types. The cover art is tiny, the cases break easily, and your customers have to go out and buy a CD player... “We don’t think there will be much interest in the world wide web outside of technical people. The pictures are tiny, you’re stuck with default fonts, and your customers have to go buy a modem. Too much tech hassle, too little payoff.”

We don’t think there will be much interest in CDs outside of audiophile types. The cover art is tiny, the cases break easily, and your customers have to go out and buy a CD player…

]]> By: Joey deVilla http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/05/27/my-first-brush-with-the-music-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1086 Joey deVilla Thu, 29 May 2008 18:43:20 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1645#comment-1086 <strong>@anders:</strong> Your obscure-90s-band-detection powers are impressive! Well done! @anders: Your obscure-90s-band-detection powers are impressive! Well done!

]]> By: anders http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/05/27/my-first-brush-with-the-music-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 anders Thu, 29 May 2008 18:04:10 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1645#comment-1085 The band pictured is Fluffy. So I'm guessing the label would be The Enclave, which is (was? are they still around?) a subsidiary of Virgin. The band pictured is Fluffy. So I’m guessing the label would be The Enclave, which is (was? are they still around?) a subsidiary of Virgin.

]]> By: Robert Virding http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/05/27/my-first-brush-with-the-music-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 Robert Virding Thu, 29 May 2008 11:09:21 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1645#comment-1084 Unfortunately they still don't get it. Unfortunately they still don’t get it.

]]> By: Dan http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/05/27/my-first-brush-with-the-music-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1083 Dan Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:32 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1645#comment-1083 It's painful how absolutely, fantastically wrong they have turned out to be. What can you expect from an industry that doesn't know how to sell its own product and then decides to sue its customers. It's annoying to realise that it is this kind of person who inflicts themselves upon others every day with their prejudice and their untamed ignorance and greed. Isn't it time for the geeks to inherit the earth right about now? It’s painful how absolutely, fantastically wrong they have turned out to be. What can you expect from an industry that doesn’t know how to sell its own product and then decides to sue its customers.

It’s annoying to realise that it is this kind of person who inflicts themselves upon others every day with their prejudice and their untamed ignorance and greed.

Isn’t it time for the geeks to inherit the earth right about now?

]]> By: George Watson http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/05/27/my-first-brush-with-the-music-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 George Watson Thu, 29 May 2008 00:37:17 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1645#comment-1082 Reminds me of an interview I had with a big special effects firm in LA in the early 1990's. They wanted to interview me because e I had a lot of experience programming gravity objects etc and they though it would be useful for cg for movies. But the thing that stuck in my mind was I said "you know I think one day int he future CGI will be so good that actors in movies will be made in CGI" He actually said " Well I don't think it will happen because can you imagine a star like Arnold Schwarzenegger agreeing to share the screen with an animation?" The very next year or so Arnold did exactly that in the first fully cgi character in a major movie - the liquid metal terminator in T2. And I could swear -although I didn't remember the companies name that i had interviewed with- that it was his company that did the animation. Reminds me of an interview I had with a big special effects firm in LA in the early 1990’s.

They wanted to interview me because e I had a lot of experience programming gravity objects etc and they though it would be useful for cg for movies.

But the thing that stuck in my mind was I said “you know I think one day int he future CGI will be so good that actors in movies will be made in CGI”

He actually said ” Well I don’t think it will happen because can you imagine a star like Arnold Schwarzenegger agreeing to share the screen with an animation?”

The very next year or so Arnold did exactly that in the first fully cgi character in a major movie – the liquid metal terminator in T2.

And I could swear -although I didn’t remember the companies name that i had interviewed with- that it was his company that did the animation.

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