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Pony up $10 buddy.

My Cafe Press store

So it's like only so free as long as it serves a purpose which is about denying choice to users. Yeah, thats free. Now, collect your "Little Red Penguin" book, and the long march goes that-a-way....

While they're at it, they should buy themselves a Little Red Penguin T-Shirt

The T-Shirt

There is another issue. Games must sell well in stores if those stores are going to keep them on the shelves. This means that in addition to shelf space, a game company needs massive advertising all over their target countries. This is a huge additional cost, and requires different and equally dedicated staff.

Steam can change this. Since the distribution cost (mostly bandwidth as opposed to physical production and shipping) scales with the number of sales, Valve can afford to act as a distributor for games that might only sell a hundred copies. Good examples of this happening in the retail industry are www.cafepress.com and www.lulu.com. This means that a small game company can write a simple game, advertise a little, contract with Valve to distribute it, and maybe sell enough to break even. This lets small game companies develop. And that's how Steam can change the gaming industry.

Sorry, already been done. See
http://www.cafepress.com/bettybowers/346082

No, that's these guys.

Isn't this similar to what CafePress does? CafePress does self-publication too or lots of stuff. CDs, books, T-Shirts, etc. Is there something I'm missing?

-- Taj

This is quite old, Slashdot is covering this _now_?

Incidentally, they also support independent publishers, and some well known guys have published through these guys.

I think of them as the equivalent of Cafepress for Books, Music and CDs (ofcourse, they do other things, too).

Not bad, atleast it's a beginning attempt at offsetting the centralistic corporate culture in these areas.

http://www.cafepress.com/kerrylost

Here you go:
CowboyNeal for President

And if you are too cheap to buy the shirt, you can just make your own with my PNG:
http://dodgeit.com/temp/cn.png

Feel free to do whatever you like with my "design"

Have you tried wearing a "Han Shot First" t-shirt?

This is off-topic: I've followed your link to iUniverse (quite frankly I thought that it was a link to some book by David Brin, posted as a joke). I'm starting to write a book which I am going to self-publish using one of those print-on-demand services. It's a lot of time but I want to be up to date with different options. So far I was considering mostly Lulu or CafePress. Lately I've found also Zazzle which seems nice for printing artwork but there are no books yet. Generally instead of looking for those services myself I just save links to those which I find others using. Could you please tell me why would you personally suggest iUniverse instead of Lulu or CafePress, for both the cheapest options possible as well as standard books with ISBN and everything? Have you used them yourself? Thanks.

Thats why they have to enact these laws.

Just like the days of cassettte

You know its right!

BTW, my favorite shirt (which I have) I got from an obscure shop says:

#> grep brains you
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the votes will all be hacked so it doesnt matter if someone votes. Get your hack the vote swag

but they do have a store. I want my liftport lunchbox! (http://www.cafepress.com/liftport.13005720)

Last Christmas my G/F got me a Slashdot T-Shirt from Thinkgeek. (Yes I am a /.er with a GF) I wear it proudly (except on dupe days) and often times people ask me what the T-Shirt means and I get to share the wonderfulness that is Slashdot.

Today I donated to FireFox, actually I got one of the new T-Shirts and some stickers to put on my car but that counts right? It felt great. Sure it was a bit much for a T-Shirt, but I know that the profit is going to something I actually care about and I can only imagine how happy I will feel wearing that shirt around town, speaking the word of mozilla to all who ask about my shirt.

Next on my list to donate to is the EFF, and I think I get a nifty bumper sticker for that too.

I really want to donate to wikipedia, I use it all the time. I find myself getting bored, then researching something random on wikipedia, and an hour later I've got 50 tabs open in FireFox and I'm super happy. I just thought I would point out to everyone that Wikipedia has T-Shirts available at cafepress.com/wikipedia.

Ok, enjoy the rest of your day.

My favorite blog list has been expanding, lately. I regularly read InstaPundit and The Right Coast, among others. I've recently begun reading Powerline and Michelle Malkin. My favorite "political" blogs, though, are actually economics blogs. I can't let a day go by without checking Marginal Revolution and The Volokh Conspiracy, which are two of the most interesting blogs I've read since I started reading Slashdot.

In addition to all of that, I read a wide variety of news sites every day, listen to news radio and watch news in the morning. That's all so I can do a better job in the writing on my own blog, where I cover politics, amateur radio, life, and anything I think is cool. Check out Lockjaw's Lair and don't forget to buy the T-Shirt.

Tubes rock dude!

This is Nasa... they can't use a tiny camera in there? They have to tape a mirror on the end of a stick and peek around?

First reaction: Over-engineered solution. Why use a multi-thousand dollar miniaturized camera when a $2 mirror on a stick can accomplish the same task?

Second reaction: Who am I to talk about over-engineering? After all, I spend my weekends geocaching, which is best summed up by this quote:

"I use multi-billion dollar military satellites to find tupperware hidden in the woods...What do YOU do?"

Ah, USA today, how I love you for your technical prowness...

Together, the charged atoms captured on the capsule's disks of gold, sapphire, diamond and silicone are no bigger than a few grains of salt

Atomic element or polymer, it's probably close enough. But Spaceflightnow say's it's the element Silicon. And they've got a cool picture of the spacecraft.

I really like the back!

[W]e're not talking about a person that looked like your stereotypical 'hacker'; AKMA is an ordained priest.

It's not that strange that he was *asked* not to use the service outside the library, they probably wan't to keep better track of who's using it (even just for statistics).

Encrypting wouldn't help much as they would have to give out the key anyway it being a public access point and I suspect possible solutions would be complicated in technical and financial terms.

I don't think that being a minister means he can do whatever he pleases as it'll always be for the "good". Actually ministers can be very dangerous persons with far worst effects than many (h|cr)ackers.

As for being an officially ordained minister, well anyone can be such a creature, just pop over to http://www.cafepress.com/subgen.8403744 and fork out $30 to the Church of the SubGenius! :)

It's Obviousman! DUH!

It's Obviousman! DUH!

Sorry about that. Here's a WORKING link.

Then maybe you'd like to buy one...

$9, and all of the proceeds go to Cafe Press.

I've been saying this for a while now and I'm telling all my friends... $500k isn't enough for a manned space flight. I love Burt's SpaceShipOne design, but this is a race that the underdog MUST win! The economy of space-travel needs to know that more than government contractors (Burt built up his knowledge and technology through gov't funding) can participate in the spaceflight market!

da Vinci has a donations button (http://www.davinciproject.com/beta/index.html) and they've got some great merchendise on cafepress.com (http://www.cafepress.com/davinciproject/)! I've done my part (bought the Blast-Off-Thong and the Rocket-Mug three weeks ago... Astronaut-Training-Jersey today)

Da Vinci needs resources. They need margin. They need contingency funding. They need pizza. Slashdot and the geek-revolution as a whole can contribute in a big way to making barn-storming space travel a reality. NASA/Boeing/Lockheed/and now Rutan have given us the Rolls-Royce... we need someone to give us the Model-T. I'm sure even a small donation or merch purchase would be put to good use by Da Vinci. Go for it!

You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works.

http://cafepress.com/

Knock yourself out.

(by the way, I'm lying in bed with major back pain, now it's even more painful after that laugh...)

Is PABD cheaper than CafePress's Self Publish Books? If so, they should probably stop making you register for a membership before allowing you to see what the prices are. Like most people, I'm not going to sign up for a membership just to see if the cost is inline with what I want.

You are describing a communist ideal here.

History has proven that the communist utopia doesn't work in the real world. The big problem with the idea was ... well.. that humans can't work together that way.

Never forget that we're all mammals.

it takes a lot of money to get a book published (editing, printing, distribution, advertising, and the monetary risk of the fact that all those things happen up front.)

Not to the extent anymore. CafePress Self Publish handles printing and online distribution, and you can scale advertising up gradually: a K5 ad here, a Google ad there, etc.

Although [copyright] isn't like real property in every respect, it shares many common features: the right to sell it, the limitation on who may use it, the ability to sue if ownership is violated.

Copyright also resembles real property (as opposed to personal property) in other ways: there exists a limited number of "land" (due to the finite length of a work and the similarity doctrine), and it doesn't expire (due to the Eldred decision).

That being said, I do know that the [H] lawyers have copies of the original petition and only erodes Infinium's current claims in court.

While I'm at it, there is the small beginnings of an organized protest against IL at E3. Where is Phantom?? is encouraging people to wear this T-Shirt at the convention as a way of supporting free speech. You have to see the back to really understand.

Actually, that would be a neat little business - putting artwork on computer cases. Maybe Cafe Press could add it to their product line.

If you ever get interested in printing books on demand, CafePress now offers that service.

One option for indy game developers are "self" publishing through sites such as cafepress.com.
On cafe press you can publish your game, your merchandise and more. Cafepress.com isn't the only one out there either. They accept all the usual, credit cards, checks, moneyorder. Best of all, the developer doesn't have to worry about deploying an eCommerce solution, and you can do quite a bit in the way of customizing your "store".
I say down with the publishers, software, print and music. For music you have sites like ampcast.com where you can put a selection of mp3s up for download and from the same page, your new found fans can order a hard copy of your CD. Add the url of your ampcast.com page (or your band's site w/link) to your mp3's header info and put them on P2P yourself. Anywho, that's OT.

Note, I don't work for cafepress.com, but my employer does use them for our swag as well as our creative pocket genius' character'sswag
.
I'd like to see more opensource and independent developers use sites like this and say f*** you to the publishers.
You can always hire somebody else to do your promotion/advertisement.

<flamebait>Publishers are obsolete.</flamebait>

One option for indy game developers are "self" publishing through sites such as cafepress.com.
On cafe press you can publish your game, your merchandise and more. Cafepress.com isn't the only one out there either. They accept all the usual, credit cards, checks, moneyorder. Best of all, the developer doesn't have to worry about deploying an eCommerce solution, and you can do quite a bit in the way of customizing your "store".
I say down with the publishers, software, print and music. For music you have sites like ampcast.com where you can put a selection of mp3s up for download and from the same page, your new found fans can order a hard copy of your CD. Add the url of your ampcast.com page (or your band's site w/link) to your mp3's header info and put them on P2P yourself. Anywho, that's OT.

Note, I don't work for cafepress.com, but my employer does use them for our swag as well as our creative pocket genius' character'sswag
.
I'd like to see more opensource and independent developers use sites like this and say f*** you to the publishers.
You can always hire somebody else to do your promotion/advertisement.

<flamebait>Publishers are obsolete.</flamebait>

One option for indy game developers are "self" publishing through sites such as cafepress.com.
On cafe press you can publish your game, your merchandise and more. Cafepress.com isn't the only one out there either. They accept all the usual, credit cards, checks, moneyorder. Best of all, the developer doesn't have to worry about deploying an eCommerce solution, and you can do quite a bit in the way of customizing your "store".
I say down with the publishers, software, print and music. For music you have sites like ampcast.com where you can put a selection of mp3s up for download and from the same page, your new found fans can order a hard copy of your CD. Add the url of your ampcast.com page (or your band's site w/link) to your mp3's header info and put them on P2P yourself. Anywho, that's OT.

Note, I don't work for cafepress.com, but my employer does use them for our swag as well as our creative pocket genius' character'sswag
.
I'd like to see more opensource and independent developers use sites like this and say f*** you to the publishers.
You can always hire somebody else to do your promotion/advertisement.

<flamebait>Publishers are obsolete.</flamebait>

"I was thinking of T-shirts with this design on them so that photographs of you (think driver's license, passport) can't be photocopied."

Put it on cafe press, and post a link here... Somebody with a digital camera, a recent copy of photoshop, and a marker pen should be able to find out the right size...

I wonder how good the size tolerance needs to be? Exactly 1mm when scanned, we think?

In fact, a digital camera might not have the detection facility, it might need to be something that can be scanned...

"The unique traditions of visual storytelling, humor and personality animation on which the Walt Disney Studio had thrived, gave way to politically correct sloganeering, stale one-liners and film seminar formulas to which audiences have refused to respond.

Mr. Eisner's rejection of Walt Disney's heritage has been a colossal failure. Yet this is a man who has been paid over $700 million in compensation since 1996, while the Feature Animation department has been decimated by pink slips.

Now, skilled craftsmen go unemployed while the executive ranks swell. A unique American art form, the Disney cartoon feature, hangs precariously in the balance - - reduced to the production of cheap direct-to-video franchise extensions made by committee.

Without Roy, who will protect the 70-year Disney legacy from becoming no more than a hollow brand?"

Cafepress.com offers to create a music CD (or data CD) for ya, similar to the way MP3.com did, 'cept you can do more customizing of the cover and disc. You can't download full songs, but you can stream samples of tracks.

Here's mine

Anybody find anything else out there to replace MP3.com, yet?

...but CafePress has a publishing service.

What would Bill Gates look like crossed with Rich Uncle Pennybags (aka the Monopoly Guy)? Remember, the Monopoly tagline is "Own it all"

See what I am talking about over here, on a T-shirt . (and don't pay attention to that link to "poundingsand.com", it used to be my URL, but was hijacked. :(

In other news someone republished the Orange Book here

The idea sounds really bizarre (and I honestly don't like the sound of it), but say a non-commercial site that runs through bandwidth faster than water really does count on every penny these banner ads generate, regardless of whether it can cover all of a server's costs alone (and their $18 t-shirts and $15 mousepads from CafePress aren't helping them out very much). Could sites like this simply deny surfers access if they detect that their ads have not been downloaded (via CGI or PHP scripts)?

I submitted this as a story, but who knows if it'll get accepted? So I'm posting it here.

I'm just as sick of this RIAA nonsense as the rest of you. Here's what I'm doing about it. I had this idea for a t-shirt, and I decided it would be coolest to just put it up on Cafepress and donate the profits to the EFF. So that's what I did.

The shirt is based on the real pirate Bartholomew Roberts' -- aka Black Bart -- flag (one of them), which originally had the letters ABH (a Barbadian's head) and AMH (a Martinican's head) on it. He didn't like those places much, since he was wanted for piracy there, much more aggressively than anywhere else.

I should make it clear that I'm not affiliated with the EFF in any way. I'll just be donating ALL the profits ($5 per item, except for the stickers and mousepad, which generate $2.50 profit) to the EFF as I get checks from Cafepress (in $50 increments, is what they say). No, there's no accountability -- you'll simply have to trust me. I'm just a geek trying to do something good.

In the case of someone getting sued that I feel really got screwed (like Brianna LaHara), I'll be donating the money directly to their paypal recovery fund (assuming they have one) instead of the EFF. As soon as my Cafepress account shows some sales, I'll post the progress on my website, with full disclosure (# of sales, total profits, where they went).

Feel free to post your opinion if you think I'm being too naive -- I'll get screwed by taxes for not filling out some form or something -- but I trust you'll do that anyway ;)

That would look great on a T-shirt , don'tcha think?