Comment Re:Make it an option, PLEASE!!! (Score 2) 729
carefully controlled studies
Citation needed. I remember when we discovered for all their bleating about tablet UIs, they had clearly literally never tested GNOME on an actual tablet
carefully controlled studies
Citation needed. I remember when we discovered for all their bleating about tablet UIs, they had clearly literally never tested GNOME on an actual tablet
All XFCE has to do is not fuck up.
Dear XFCE, Please: just DON'T FUCK IT UP. Thanks.
Christ, at this stage the revived CDE is more appealing than GNOME. Zippy as hell on modern hardware, too ('cos it doesn't do anything).
As long as XFCE continues to behave sanely, we'll be fine.
http://manboobz.com/ has everything you could want.
The pie (the total of paid-for music) is shrinking too, though - because people are giving away free pies because they can.
And like any folk scene, Christian rock fans hate their bands for getting successful just as much as any metalhead or indie kid. "Oh, they're getting a bit worldly." No, you're a hipster.
Well, actually, they are. Fan fiction directly competes with what was the midlist of books. Fan fiction is laughed at for the hideous shit, but lots of it is passable quality if you like the characters, and it turns out the precious commodity is reader time and attention. So it plays out just like with music, except you need even less equipment. It's also totally a folk culture - the writers are the readers.
Audacity - simple, clunky, terrible interface Audacity - is basically the multitrack recorder we would have FUCKING KILLED FOR in the 1980s. And 1990s.
Trouble is their weapon was Rebecca Black. FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIIIIIDAAAAAAYYYYYYY
I can quite believe it, but do you have a cite on that 8 million that I can use? Thanks
I used to be a music journalist, so "Old man yells at cloud" describes my life pretty accurately.
Yep. Note also how fan fiction actually competes with what was the midlist of books. Fan fiction is laughed at for the hideous shit, but lots of it is passable quality if you like the characters, and it turns out the precious commodity is reader time and attention. So it plays out just like with music, except you need even less equipment. It's also totally a folk culture - the writers are the readers.
This already happens. Deadmau5 has confessed he basically shows up, presses "play" and dances a lot. (no cite readily to hand, sorry)
I blame neoliberalism. Day jobs are fucking horrible these days too.
What you're missing is that the mainstream has never been about seeking out aesthetic quality. The driving force has always been to market things they know how to market. Weird shit can spend its time in the indie leagues, and we can pick it up later.
Oh, so there you are!