Posts by noizyboy
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a recent immigrant
he's lived in the US for 15 years or so?
Does that make people under 15 "recent humans"?
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when was the last time any of the All Blacks played two or three weeks in a row for their club side
Quite a few of them turn out for their clubs. Jerry Collins, for one, is well known for showing up for his club (Northern?). While still an All Black, Tana Umaga played for Petone regularly.
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cheers Russell. And big ups to Ryan for making it to the waterfront to record the dive into the harbour. Wet feet, and risking expensive sound gear - above and beyond the call of duty!
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It would be like expecting us to beat anyone decent without Bond, Vettori and Oram.
Ahem. Chappell-Hadlee series. Third match?
Admittedly, it wasn't a full-strength Aussie team as well, but still, Australian cricket supposedly has depth.
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I was about to correct Juha and Riddley, but llew bet me to it.
I will leave you with a link to an image of said toy, instead
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I find it funny that not one expert has mentioned or raised the thought that land masses are moving. Some areas are getting warmer and some are getting colder.
That is priceless. Wake me up when NZ drifts into the tropics, eh?
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indeed. cheers.
and is there an rss feed with the mp3 embedded as a downloadable file? the RSS feed on the radio page doesn't seem to have attached the mp3 file, so I can't download it automagically via my podcast grabber.
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where's the podcast/download then?
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Seriously. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, musicians had regular gigs in dancehalls, theatre, opera, and so on. If you wanted to hear a good musician, you had to pay for a ticket. And it was a viable career.
I think that might increasingly be the focus of the post-mp3 music revenue making paradigm. People still do enjoy going to live music, and with the right management and enough places to tour to, a band or artist can make a pretty penny by just doing enough live gigs. Sales from albums/singles just become a bonus.
Bands with genuine loyal live followings also seem to be more immune to piracy than other acts as well (eg. Fat Freddys), as the fans presumably feel they have more of a personal connection with the band they've seen in the live environment, and thus have more qualms about ripping them off by grabbing their music for free.
In this way, it's the bands and acts that put on a decent live show and generate an authentic following (as opposed to those with the biggest marketing to push their latest over-produced piece of puff-pop) that get the real rewards.
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People have *always* copied music.
Word.
And that whole stream-ripping business is just mental. If you're so enamoured with a song that you have to install some sort of software to scan metadata from streaming radio stations around the world, then you're probably after something so obscure that you'd probably already know the exact station that was going to play that sort of track anyway, and just hit the record button when it came on. Or hit Soulseek...
And if it's just a track from the Top 40 - well, just sit there with your audio outs from your FM receiver plugged into your soundcard and record it via the line in. Sheesh.
In fact, I look forward to RIANZ going after the radio stations. What sort of DRM are they putting into their freely-broadcast music?
And ... everything else Rich says. Ditto.