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You can also actively reject the GoogleBot

To Google:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

threatens their ability to index and serve ads against the open web, which is really what they mean.

Such a beautiful plane. I got the chance to see the second to the last flight of the NASA SR-71 at Edwards AFB in I think 2001 or 2000. The airplane is other worldly, loud as hell and simply beautiful.

They did a full Mach 3 overhead pass (at 50k feet I think) and also a bunch of slow and high speed passes before it landed and it did a close up crowd taxi-by. The engines at idle have a unique noise, different than any other jet they had.

From the front its a higher pitch noise due to the fact that you're hearing the eddies off the compressor (the engine had no slow RPM fan like most military jets), and from the back like the worlds largest hair dryer.

At take off, it sent up a rooster tail of dust from the runway that went for a half mile.

Sad that they retired the bird. Kelly Johnson was a super hero engineer.

The RIAA has one of the biggest misnomer names in the lobbying business. They serve the interests of record labels and the plutocracy who maintains control and legislation of that control.

Not artists.

The sooner they cease to be an issue the better.

Reminds me of http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2008/08/23/the-frustration-of...

Basically: I wanted to buy a song. It wasn't available. I ended up pirating it and donating money directly to the lead singer of the band.

Or in other words: windowing strategies cause others to make up for the deficiencies of the market reach. If you don't offer a free or paid option, someone is just going to infill it.

Vevo is not a label. It is a JV that includes YouTube among labels.

It's worth noting that the AddressBook API dates back to mid 2008:

"The Address Book framework provides access to a centralized contacts database, called the Address Book database, that stores a user’s contacts."

It has been there since iOS 2.0

To be fair: Neil always had a great relationship with his record company since being with Reprise. He'd come in and hand deliver every record, staying for playback in our artists lounge.

A great guy, super fun and always a joy to hang out with. A true music fan and appreciative of those that worked on his records. His manager Eliot is a great guy too.

This isn't only difficult for consumers, but for producers as well.

For example: a few years ago I worked on a worldwide project for Metallica (www.missionmetallica.com). Get the laughter out of your system now........

Metallica is represented in the US by Warner Bros. Records and internationally by UMG. As such, while WBR was fronting the development and maintenance of the site, we had to enable Universal International marketing to sell it through all their international retail partners worldwide and ex-US.

That was over 30 different partners. So imagine trying to integrate into commerce systems for 30 partners, in dozens of languages and currencies.

In the end we resorted to the easiest API in the world: 16 digit alphanumeric codes and a huge HTML table to track everything for reporting.

It sucked.

International rights aren't just a stupid thing that is invented by content and media companies to make your life harder. They make everyone's lives harder. It's the collision of globalization and lack of one global government/economy. C'est la.

My gym time is diminished because a year and a half ago I moved a considerable distance from where I then worked, and still a bit further from where I now work.

However I typically run 6 miles a day during the week at around 9PM, which serves the same purpose.

What it really comes down to me is a few things:

1) It forces me away from the computer for about an hour a day. 2) It clears my head from the day, and prepares it for tomorrow. I find that also helps me sleep better as I'm not cycling through things in my mind. 3) It is good exercise. I've never been fat, but it keeps me fit and that in and of itself makes me feel better

I think mostly its just something that doesn't require me to be wired in and hyper vigilant while doing, which I feel managing/coding/reading/hacking does.

Were 100% of the components made in Korea? Doubtful.

I can't wait until I can buy an American made Android phone. Oh wait.

These arguments based on dichotomous binary are pointless. Nothing is as simple as "good" an "evil".

Nor is Apple to blame on their own for the China conditions. No more than Google is by benefiting from it.

It makes good headlines. That's it.

I used to be a label executive and you pretty much nailed it. And nailed why I left.

I worked with a group of really great people who strove for innovation. However the tendency is still to mine the past for as much as its worth until there is nothing left to mine.

Try this thought experiment: take the earnings from any of the labels and see how much is from catalog vs new signings, and how much was spent to market catalog vs new signings.

Basically wmg would be in a better place to just shut everything down except Rhino and Chappell and ride out their mechanical and publishing contracts to end.

I get that, but being inside, I can tell you that what labels would do often was at odds with their parent company, even in press and in public.

It's not spin, its fact. I participated.

The RIAA represents WMG, UMG and Sony Music. Each of those has a bunch labels. They themselves are not labels. For instance, WMG corporate has no A&R staff.

The business of music is different than the practice of it, and lumping it all into the "label" itself is disingenuous. The politics within those companies usually means the labels at the very edge (where marketing and A&R are) are often at odds with corporate/RIAA.

When I'm on better a better connection I'll post some examples.

I don't mean to be pedantic about it, but the ecosystem around music is much more complex than "sue them all"

Not trying to be offensive, but seeing the RIAA thrown around as this big boogeyman is annoying, and also seeing it stand in for labels, artists even more so.

One of the biggest foes for MegaUpload was porn, who have much more money but less lobbying clout than the RIAA.

It is naive to think it was only the RIAA or associated lobbying groups going after them.

This article is from 12 years ago. A lot of the math doesn't apply anymore.

Labels will rarely front that much money for recording costs unless justified by past success. The days of million dollar videos are over (in just the last 5 years), and the 360 deal racket is the last great hope of recorded music labels.

The biggest problem with recorded music isn't the label, its the corporate parent. Labels are trying to make good on the promise of 360 by staffing for 360. They can't do so because of resource constraints and resource consolidation at the very top.

Also, blaming labels is one easy thing for artists to do. They should also blame themselves and their managers and lawyers for signing crappy deals to begin with.

I've been at many contract signings (in fact, one artist did the photo-op in my office because of the computer screens), and I never saw a gun held to a hand as they signed what I think everyone knows was an inevitable small disaster, and the small potential for success.

As for Ms. Love: the last 12 years she's been bailed out a lot by people that played in the system she abhors. I personally like Courtney. I've met her many times, and we share common friends, but a 12 year old article does little to comment on today's climate, and in situ it wasn't even that great either.

I'd much rather see what Troy Carter, Scooter Braun, Ken Hertz, Peter Mensch, etc, or producers like Dr. Luke would write about recorded music as a business today. It'd be a lot more interesting.

A few other points:

The RIAA should not be a metonym for recorded music.

Labels are rarely to blame for the problems they are blamed for, their corporate parents usually are.

Artists have the power as a creator which is much stronger than a representative body in 2012. Use it.

So sad. All this effort because they spent years ignoring technology and trying to do innovation via outsourcing and customer dis-servicing business development.

I know first hand :)

This makes me sad for some reason. The turbine engine in an F-16 or F-4 is a beautiful piece of machinery. Design and functionality merged entirely really.

And they just blow them up. Although they likely use high-hour engines (as I know a lot of jet engine cores get sold to use as power generators), it still makes me sad. Like retiring an old iPhone.

Los Angeles, CA

LiveNation Labs (division of LiveNation Entertainment).

WHO: We are a brand new division of LiveNation focused on disrupting and reinventing their consumer products from within. We don't even have desks yet, just one huge room. Think of us as a startup funded by a Fortune 500 company.

DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for an engineer to work in various capacities on our product team. Work can and will include application development, systems operations, application design, support and engineering solutions to difficult problems when they arise. This position will work across all layers of the application stack: from sites to servers. While expertise in all areas isn't required, an eagerness to learn within each is a must.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Develop and improve new and existing application products and features

Code using primarily Javascript, Ruby, Java, Objective-C and Python

Write well-tested, maintainable code

Collaborate with systems and front-end engineers to support new products

REQUIREMENTS:

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative environment

Ability to quickly become productive in existing systems

Great debugging and reasoning skills

Attention to detail

PLUSES:

Experience with A/B testing

Ruby on Rails experience

Demonstrated contributions to open-source software

Holistic application experience (ie, made your own web app or mobile app)

A love for everything and anything music and live event related.

Yes. :)

The site has become unbearably slow, so lately: frustration.

Every time I think that I read too much I take a break and miss something that I know I would have liked, needed or benefitted from.

And then I end up in the other place where I have tabs of articles and kindle's of books, instapaper and reading list full.

Right now, since I'm in "startup" mode I'm both producing (code, writing, on-boarding docs) and consuming and I'm completely overwhelmed. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

I often joke (with myself since I'm sad that way) that everyone must at some point make a productivity web-app. It's nice that Joe has made one that fixes a few things that annoy me about most.

Most are targeted at engineers first (Pivotal), at visually oriented organizers (Trello) or adapted for the specific team that wrote it's methods (like Thoughtbot's).

Luckily I'm at the "tool choice" stage of a new venture so I won't give my team whiplash by trying this one out. If it integrates with Campfire it'd be perfect.

I have absolutely no need for this and yet I want it anyhow. It's nice because it makes something ordinary precious through anachronism and size. If it had an API I could see using this as a fun tool for people visiting an office. Another note: I love thermal paper.

They have and the tracks pop back up*

*According to the leaked emails.

They have legal agreements (deals) and equity incentive for the labels.

It's really nice to see online community evolving out of threaded discussion boards. The paradigm from Invision et al seems so stale lately.

That being said, I wish all these great new tools and systems had a white label option.

A NeXTStation was my first entry to the Internet in 1994 at UCI. God that was a great machine.

That and Irix were my first forays into the net and Unix incidentally.