"...Some of our data is classified..." I too work for a government contractor. Some of your thinking is flawed. Can you please explain to me why ANY of your -->classified-- data belongs in the cloud? Step away from the kook-aid.

Describing a blackberry as "Usable and Useful" in this day and age is a joke right? I unfortunately have been assigned a BB Bold where I work... It is the biggest pile of dog shit EVER. It falls far short of iPhones and Androids. The keyboard sucks as the alt and shift keys are reversed (who the FUCK thought of that? I want to kick that guy in the fucking balls)... So the reversed keys is a PITA by itself but you add the ancient plastic keyboard... fuck it makes typing anything beyond lower case text painfully frustrating.

I could write a book on how fucking dumb this curse upon me is, complete with detailed explanations for each point... I am getting too pissed off to keep going. That fucking pile of horse shit SUCKS.

 

You obviously dont understand what I am saying either. It amazes me to see so many people who dont know how to comprehend what the REAL subject is.

If a musician only knows how to do music... and has been trained to play music. How does he make money???(and dont give me that father story about choosing some other feild, some people can only do music) Tell me if you dont agree with me... explain to me how a musician can live if he dosnt get paid. Now that wasnt my point. My point AGAIN because you nor anyone else has been able to understand this is:

FACT: To release a PROFESSIONAL CD cost an extraordinary amount of money, this cannot be equated with school or equipment for the simple reason that most likely the musicians already have paid for that too. (For example, a good drum setup can cost over 5,000.00) So that would equate for YOUR school and training time and your computer... And just like Programmers spending different amounts of money on their equipment, musicians do too.

Lets say for instance AFTER you have purchased all the nessecary equipment and software and you already know how to program you decide to create and compile a program that YOU will distribute over the web. How much does that cost you(lets leave your pay time out...because studio musicians make over 100$ an hour so its a useless point to make that your time costs you.) How much does it cost you to release your own professional program to the web? From personal experience the cost is VERY small. Do not add in marketing as cost either because I am not including this as it will just lengthen the musician side as well.

Now lets turn this around shall we? I have been a musician for 17 years. This accounts for training in school and college and 10s of thousands of dollars in equipment. I have honed in my skills and am now a decent musician. I have created music I want to distribute on the web just like your program. OK.

In order to be taken seriously by the community, I MUST record in a studio. How much does a good CD cost to cut?(I am talking REAL pro quality, not your friend next door.) IT can and does cost THOUSANDS if not TENS of THousands of dollars. This is probably an astronomical amount more that it cost you to create a program in your spare time.

If you do computers for a living... Why dont you do it for free?

Because you will starve Period

How dare you or anyone else try to imply that musicans skills are useless or not important enough to pay for. Given that I cannot live off of it because most people think musicians should work for free. I now work in the computer industry and now can afford to give my music away for free because I would rather more people enjoy it.

Telling a working musician they should work for free is like telling YOU that YOU should work for free in whatever it is that you do.

If you think its not the same then you are a self centered jerk who dosnt deserve to ever listen to anything as wonderful as music!

Musicians have to work just as hard for a HELL of a lot less than you do and you have some nerve cheap skating out of paying them for their HARD earned work

SHAME ON YOU!