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It's a database and logic problem in the accounting code. The completely missing album royalties are because there is not a unique identifier in the domain table for that album. So no income. The rest of the problems are because of hardcoded logic in the different accounting systems.
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"Why did 29 plays of a track on the late, lamented MusicMatch earn a total of 63 cents when 1,016 plays of the exact same track on MySpace earned only 23 cents?)"
Because the code that controls the input from the music sellers is totally assed up. The logic for each income stream is differently hardcoded as it comes in and it sucks.
I read the entire article and it sounds like they're ripping you off, but it is also likely that they have bad IT guys running the show or shows. Hard to prove it.
12/02/09
It's a shame because their hardware is top notch. The other day, I bought a Sammy F400 B&O edition as a backup phone. Brilliant sound output, but I can't for the love of god; figure out how their menu system worked.
...and It's a dumbphone.
Sufficed to say, I sold it within a day.
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Is Phil an assclown too?
12/02/09
Windows Mobile is shit. I worked with it for 3 years. Over at XDA chefs do all they can to make it better but at the end of the day, it's shit.
Most of the disguises that phone makers use to cover this shit known as WM with turn out just as bad.
I seriously don't understand how people still stick to WM. Freaking symbian functions/looks better, crashes/freezes less.
12/02/09
I suppose Anssi Vanjoki could still be correct, if, say, 5-10 years from now the iPhone is as esoteric as Macintosh computers in 1997. I love the iPhone now, but will it be relevant in 5 years time (the future iPhone, not this current one, which will be junk in a landfill or melted for scrap by then)?
12/02/09
Whenever I see Cops where they make drunk people recite the alphabet backwards, it scares me. I don't think I could do that sober without having to think a lot.
With respect to the review, for some reason I couldn't stop laughing as I was reading it. The tone of your writing just seems like you are genuinely frustrated and it's quite funny. The first two lines summarized how the review was going to go and everything after that was just a bonus.
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I agree I'm probably not going to hold of any phone purchase because of it but they could surprise us.
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The people who are the easiest to reach, and thus the easiest to curse out, aren't the people at whom your rage should be directed. And the people who really make the crappy decisions which create your frustration, you'll never ever be able to reach.
Accountability is a hard thing to find.
12/02/09
First off- you have NO friends in the industry. The only people that watch out for you are most likely already a part of your tour entourage. Everything from not getting paid to not getting paid. Yes, that's generally the main thing. And I'll tell you, 5 years after that, they're still trying to recoup $10k, which is the booking agent's fee.
Second tour I was much wiser- (age 20 the first time, age 24 the next ) and learned to just be an asshole, because you'll get stepped on if you don't. And therein lies the problem. Much like your average New Yorker, everyone is afraid of being walked on, so everyone is a dick to everyone else.
Either way, fun times- just don't associate with the industry.
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Or, and I'm thinking of a little issue that was brought up by Peter Jackson to New Line about Lord of the Rings, that they are deliberatly obtuse because small errors/skims of little fish are happening with the big fish and those errors/skims are BIG.