Doing something nobody else is doing does not imply innovation. What you are describing is not innovation, but gimmicks. And gimmicks may work in selling an album, but it will only work once. And the worse kind of gimmicks are those that are a transparent attempt for publicity.
Innovation is doing something 'better' than everyone else, whether thats using new technology or service, or patching different existing technologies and services together in a unique fashion, or using technology originally created for one purpose in a conceptionally new way, etc.
A great example of this is in music may be the band Babyland, which uses an ol Mac Classic and a bandsaw as instruments (and a light-show to boot!). I am not saying this makes Babyland inheritely a better band, because in the end the music has to also be good (which opens up a whole discussion on aesthetics I dont want to get into).
The key to becoming more "successful" is exposure. This is the 1 thing a major label can do well because they have $ is promotion and exposure, but its not the only way. This band already has a successful following. Use that to your advantage. On your website request your fans to in turn make requests to radio stations (both on and off-line) to play your music. Create mailing lists and newsgroups to allow your fans to discuss your music. Tell your fans to request your songs on radio stations (both on and off-line). Let your fans know you appreciate them by giving them sneakpeaks on new songs by posting them to the web, or put music that is not available on sellable formats (e.g. CDs) like a live performance of a song.
And the bottom line - always remain interested in your music. The term sell-out gets tossed when it appears a musician no longer cares for their music, because they are more interested in money (or fame). The reason why Sonic Youth is respected is because they are always working on their music, not their exposure.
I agree. I have a wireles AP at home without any protection. I take my laptop with me to work and when I am home I make sure any data-sensative app I use incorporates SSL (and I use SSH to shell-accounts). I pay for unmetered high speed internet access. Do I care if my neighbor is using some of it? Not at all. Am I some bad ITS guy who doesnt know how to secure my WLAN? No, I just dont care. Never mistake apathy for ignorance:)
Um, not sure what is the mystery. Every Access Point allows the owner to see who is on the access point in realtime (association table) or historic (logs).
Any commercial-grade access point, like any other network device, also have SNMP capability to report the info if you want.
Logitech has something kind of similar to the pointing device in the article, just it's not a gyro based (optical though), it has a laser pointer, and it's based on Bluetooth rather than RF.
Not to be a total geek (isnt this the place tho), but Bluetooth is RF. TCP/IP over Bluetooth over radio freq.
Agreed... and they tried to over-clock it, doesnt overclocking a very heat-sensitive laptop just seem like a bad idea.
(warranty center) can I help you? (caller) My cpu melted. (warranty center) Excuse me? (caller) Yes, I seem to have melted my new 1.6ghz cpu in my Dell laptop (warranty center) Did you leave your laptop out in the sun? (caller) no, I just tried over-clocking my new-video card I replaced the original with, and it seems to have melted the CPU, which leaked over my SIMM, and my HD is acting kinda funny also. (warranty center) hold on, let me transfer you to our refurbished parts buyer.
Unfortunately I had to use my floppy today because Symantec ghost will only creat a network boot floppy, and my attempt to turn their floppy image and make a bootable ghost CD-Rom burn for whatever reason created a few frisbees, so I went back to the good 'ol floppy boot.
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There are companies that are working on creating secure methods of sharing WLAN infrastructure among multiple organizations and converging private and public use. I know because I work for one, Roving Planet, and our technology is what is currently being used in the MSP airport.
What the FCC will not take into account is the combined costs of WLAN infrastructure in a hot spot environment shared by the companies that are attempting to create effeciencies by using private applications or create new revenue sources with public-facing applications.
That is why I have always been an advocate of creating a 'converged' network (see my whitepaper on this subject). The technology currently exists to allow multiple groups of users with disparate application suites to use common wireless infrastructure, saving implementation and management costs.
The IEEE workgroups (802.11g, 802.1p, 802.1e) do not solve the complete picture because these workgroups tend to focus on a single enterprise/single owner/controlled user-group WLAN experience. The real issue is how you can create segmentations for access control and massage bandwidth provisions dynamically for the users of a shared WLAN to ensure mission critical applications recieve priority. There are private companies working on this issue, and if I can speak for myself, some have come up with great technological solutions. I agree the FCC needs to give WiFi time to develop in the marketplace (my gosh, 802.11 was only ratified in '97) I would hope the FCC would allow the market to organically address these issues and any new ones that occur on a currently unlicensed band.
There is a new product group being created called "Access Controllers" Article on 802.11 Planet Another company making a similar product for multiple organizations to exist on a common wireless infrastructure is Roving Planet.
These companies use central servers with satellite net appliances behind the access point to control user access and in some cases bandwidth provisioning for user groups. Roving Planet also has bandwidth provisioning for specific applicaitons.
SSID should never be used as a security mechanism for your wireless network. SSID's are truly designed to allow for roaming within your site, and for installations where there are multiple organizations attempting to utilize multiple access points (on varying channels).
802.1x allows a site owner to utilize RADIUS authentication on the access point level in combination with WEP (OTA security). This attempts to fix the original flaw with WEP, in that the 4 configurable keys were static set, therefore allowing anyone with enough time to determine at least 1 of the 4 static keys.
802.1x creates an authentication process at the access point, as well as dynamic key generation for WEP.
This, of course, helps a single enterprise network, but what about hotspots that want to include public and private applications. There is no way to do it, with the exception of a product by Roving Planet.
Nice dreamland you live in. Unfortunately it takes engineers at a nice salary to create decent code, not to mention managers, fixed costs like rent, etc.
Not that you cant still start a business in your garage, but you also have to market that business so you can actually reach customers which still requires serious capital, which means you need to include venture capital. Its a necessary evil, but dont forget the VCs need entrepreneurs just as much as the entrep's need the VCs.
Every time you mention wireless networks someone has to play the "its not secure" card. WEP is just 1 level of security. There is still SSH/SSL, PGP, IP Sec, VPN, etc that you can use to encrypt the content of the packet.
Authentication doesnt have to be clear text...
Accounts can be linked with MAC addresses, use a RADIUS server like a modem pool, etc.
Didnt anyone see on Slashdot the RSA announcement on Fast Packet Keying.
Does anyone read anything on 802.1x or Cisco's LEAP. Of course people are trying to make wireless networking more secure, and interesting projects are being created daily.
Doesnt anyone here remember when telnet was all clear text?:>
Boy - for a technical crowd you guys sure have little faith in technology.
I agree. I have always thought Linux made for a great personal computer, while FreeBSD was a very effective server. After being an end-user on Solaris, SunOS machines, FreeBSD was my first admin. Having admin'd on Solaris, Linux, and even WinNT/2K I still prefer FreeBSD and in fact run it on my personal web/email server.
Altho - I wouldn't mind if FreeBSD stays in obscurity to most. Popularity could result in more complex hack attempts, exploits, etc. So go ahead, give linux to the world and lets keep FreeBSD to ourselves;)
I was at UC Irvine and frequented irc.uci.edu (which my friend sysop'ed) back in 1996 when the university got sick of the attacks (not just on the server, but relevant routers even!). Now I am at CU Boulder and the same decision occurs. Perhaps I'm a bad luck charm for effnet;)
I wonder if irc is giving away to IM... Although I still like the chat room, community aspect of IRC. Perhaps AIM could go with a MIRC-like interface and support rooms?
I would think a small blimp, similar to those seen at hockey, basketball games, would work just as well and in fact be much cheaper. It can still hover, move side to side, etc, could transport video equipment, arms for picking up samples, etc. Isnt this like NASA, to create a billion dollar pen that writes upside down when you can just use a pencil?
I dont want want a cat5 jack on my guitar when I could have a bluetooth/802.11b/[insert favorite wireless transport here]. I wonder how much power the guitar needs to convert analog sound to MAGIC packets. Would be nice to run off a simple, light battery and still have nice digital audio. The guitar could continue to poll looking for network connection (speakers could become wireless access points:)
Having worked for a University's computing department for a number of years as a student, both general computing and for the business school - I can tell you it is very common for schools to gobble up the technology created by students and in turn look for business opportunities
OTOH, I definitely used "work-time" to work on outside projects (thanks telnet), so I guess it goes both ways.
I just picked up Wipeout Excel for $6.99 - and the game still rocks. I agree, nothing like using yesterday's technology for some cheap thrills. In every target/kmart/etc there is usually the cheap PS1 section with games $19 and below, with well known titles (e.g. Tony Hawk 3, Cool Boarder 3, Driver 2, Twisted Metal 3). If you like variety - this is definitely the best way to go.
All you need is two, one set for the external IP address and the other set as internal, then run NAT and DHCP on the internal network. Put the internal over to a hub or wireles access point for multiple internal connections. You can still config NAT or IPFW to access internal boxes from outside. With a DSL or Cable Modem provider, you only use 1 IP addy, plus you have firewalled your network. Linux works well but I prefer FreeBSD.
This not entirely correct. There is not a direct coorelation with 802.11b power consumption and range. Its not like a lever, where you can lower the power consumption for less range and vice versa. I am not advocating that Bluetooth is the end-all for hand-held devices, but I do believe that solving the 802.11b power consumption problem is a much more daunting task than the other posts on this topic have suggested.
Lets ask ourselves why schools have been picked on with the MP3 debate? Schools provide students with incredibly higher speeds than the 56.6 modems the average user has at home.
Is going after schools sustainable to the music industry? Not a chance. With DSL and cable modems increasing in popularity, access to high speed Internet will become mainstream.
rant on: The music industry continues to use defensive tactics in the face of a changing economy. Their fear of losing monopoly rents disgusts me. Who says CD/record sales need to be the money maker for the industry? Record labels serve to promote artists with the expecation on a actualized returns. Do the returns need to be in the shape of record sales? What about concert revenue, t-shirts, posters, and perhaps a direction not even thought of yet.
Going after mp3.com in the end is fruitless, because then you have napster, and then you have gnutella, and if not gnutella there will be something else. The music industry needs to realize they will lose the monopoly rents they have and need to turn their attention to focus on new ways to add value to their customers and their artists in a different economic model. rant off
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Unfortunately, this is worst than facism. Its corporate imperialism - worse because as corporations become more global, local and national governments can no longer keep corporations accountable for their actions.
Check out _When Corp. Rule the World_ by former HBS prof. David Korten. He gives a hauntingly insightful description of what this lack of accountability already allows.
Not too sound too "doomesday"-ish myself, but doesn't receiving our information/news from limited sources sound a bit too close to Newspeak:>
Of course, there is a remedy. Support and sponsor alternatives, or think of them your own. I truly think there is a large correlation between the unimaginable size corporations have become and the quickly growing amount of entrepreneurs in the country.
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Doing something nobody else is doing does not imply innovation. What you are describing is not innovation, but gimmicks. And gimmicks may work in selling an album, but it will only work once. And the worse kind of gimmicks are those that are a transparent attempt for publicity.
Innovation is doing something 'better' than everyone else, whether thats using new technology or service, or patching different existing technologies and services together in a unique fashion, or using technology originally created for one purpose in a conceptionally new way, etc.
A great example of this is in music may be the band Babyland, which uses an ol Mac Classic and a bandsaw as instruments (and a light-show to boot!). I am not saying this makes Babyland inheritely a better band, because in the end the music has to also be good (which opens up a whole discussion on aesthetics I dont want to get into).
The key to becoming more "successful" is exposure. This is the 1 thing a major label can do well because they have $ is promotion and exposure, but its not the only way. This band already has a successful following. Use that to your advantage. On your website request your fans to in turn make requests to radio stations (both on and off-line) to play your music. Create mailing lists and newsgroups to allow your fans to discuss your music. Tell your fans to request your songs on radio stations (both on and off-line). Let your fans know you appreciate them by giving them sneakpeaks on new songs by posting them to the web, or put music that is not available on sellable formats (e.g. CDs) like a live performance of a song.
And the bottom line - always remain interested in your music. The term sell-out gets tossed when it appears a musician no longer cares for their music, because they are more interested in money (or fame). The reason why Sonic Youth is respected is because they are always working on their music, not their exposure.
Anyway, my elongated $.02
I agree. I have a wireles AP at home without any protection. I take my laptop with me to work and when I am home I make sure any data-sensative app I use incorporates SSL (and I use SSH to shell-accounts). I pay for unmetered high speed internet access. Do I care if my neighbor is using some of it? Not at all. Am I some bad ITS guy who doesnt know how to secure my WLAN? No, I just dont care. Never mistake apathy for ignorance :)
Um, not sure what is the mystery. Every Access Point allows the owner to see who is on the access point in realtime (association table) or historic (logs).
Any commercial-grade access point, like any other network device, also have SNMP capability to report the info if you want.
Logitech has something kind of similar to the pointing device in the article, just it's not a gyro based (optical though), it has a laser pointer, and it's based on Bluetooth rather than RF.
Not to be a total geek (isnt this the place tho), but Bluetooth is RF. TCP/IP over Bluetooth over radio freq.
Agreed... and they tried to over-clock it, doesnt overclocking a very heat-sensitive laptop just seem like a bad idea.
(warranty center) can I help you?
(caller) My cpu melted.
(warranty center) Excuse me?
(caller) Yes, I seem to have melted my new 1.6ghz cpu in my Dell laptop
(warranty center) Did you leave your laptop out in the sun?
(caller) no, I just tried over-clocking my new-video card I replaced the original with, and it seems to have melted the CPU, which leaked over my SIMM, and my HD is acting kinda funny also.
(warranty center) hold on, let me transfer you to our refurbished parts buyer.
Unfortunately I had to use my floppy today because Symantec ghost will only creat a network boot floppy, and my attempt to turn their floppy image and make a bootable ghost CD-Rom burn for whatever reason created a few frisbees, so I went back to the good 'ol floppy boot.
There are companies that are working on creating secure methods of sharing WLAN infrastructure among multiple organizations and converging private and public use. I know because I work for one, Roving Planet, and our technology is what is currently being used in the MSP airport.
What the FCC will not take into account is the combined costs of WLAN infrastructure in a hot spot environment shared by the companies that are attempting to create effeciencies by using private applications or create new revenue sources with public-facing applications.
That is why I have always been an advocate of creating a 'converged' network (see my whitepaper on this subject). The technology currently exists to allow multiple groups of users with disparate application suites to use common wireless infrastructure, saving implementation and management costs.
The IEEE workgroups (802.11g, 802.1p, 802.1e) do not solve the complete picture because these workgroups tend to focus on a single enterprise/single owner/controlled user-group WLAN experience. The real issue is how you can create segmentations for access control and massage bandwidth provisions dynamically for the users of a shared WLAN to ensure mission critical applications recieve priority. There are private companies working on this issue, and if I can speak for myself, some have come up with great technological solutions. I agree the FCC needs to give WiFi time to develop in the marketplace (my gosh, 802.11 was only ratified in '97) I would hope the FCC would allow the market to organically address these issues and any new ones that occur on a currently unlicensed band.
Seth
CTO Roving Planet
These companies use central servers with satellite net appliances behind the access point to control user access and in some cases bandwidth provisioning for user groups. Roving Planet also has bandwidth provisioning for specific applicaitons.
802.1x allows a site owner to utilize RADIUS authentication on the access point level in combination with WEP (OTA security). This attempts to fix the original flaw with WEP, in that the 4 configurable keys were static set, therefore allowing anyone with enough time to determine at least 1 of the 4 static keys.
802.1x creates an authentication process at the access point, as well as dynamic key generation for WEP.
This, of course, helps a single enterprise network, but what about hotspots that want to include public and private applications. There is no way to do it, with the exception of a product by Roving Planet.
Who cares about 56K.. He said they were "college students" so I would assume they have at least 10mb ethernet to their dorms, right?
Not that you cant still start a business in your garage, but you also have to market that business so you can actually reach customers which still requires serious capital, which means you need to include venture capital. Its a necessary evil, but dont forget the VCs need entrepreneurs just as much as the entrep's need the VCs.
Authentication doesnt have to be clear text...
Accounts can be linked with MAC addresses, use a RADIUS server like a modem pool, etc.
Didnt anyone see on Slashdot the RSA announcement on Fast Packet Keying.
Does anyone read anything on 802.1x or Cisco's LEAP. Of course people are trying to make wireless networking more secure, and interesting projects are being created daily.
Doesnt anyone here remember when telnet was all clear text? :>
Boy - for a technical crowd you guys sure have little faith in technology.
Im still working on my pringles can also. Im trying to setup a free wireless zone in Boulder, CO. Anyone have a pipe cutter I can borrow ;)
Altho - I wouldn't mind if FreeBSD stays in obscurity to most. Popularity could result in more complex hack attempts, exploits, etc. So go ahead, give linux to the world and lets keep FreeBSD to ourselves ;)
I wonder if irc is giving away to IM... Although I still like the chat room, community aspect of IRC. Perhaps AIM could go with a MIRC-like interface and support rooms?
I would think a small blimp, similar to those seen at hockey, basketball games, would work just as well and in fact be much cheaper. It can still hover, move side to side, etc, could transport video equipment, arms for picking up samples, etc. Isnt this like NASA, to create a billion dollar pen that writes upside down when you can just use a pencil?
I dont want want a cat5 jack on my guitar when I could have a bluetooth/802.11b/[insert favorite wireless transport here]. I wonder how much power the guitar needs to convert analog sound to MAGIC packets. Would be nice to run off a simple, light battery and still have nice digital audio. The guitar could continue to poll looking for network connection (speakers could become wireless access points :)
Having worked for a University's computing department for a number of years as a student, both general computing and for the business school - I can tell you it is very common for schools to gobble up the technology created by students and in turn look for business opportunities
OTOH, I definitely used "work-time" to work on outside projects (thanks telnet), so I guess it goes both ways.
Buy the 'greatest hits' online - from Sony
OTOH... that PS2-Madden football commercial shows some sweet graphics.
All you need is two, one set for the external IP address and the other set as internal, then run NAT and DHCP on the internal network. Put the internal over to a hub or wireles access point for multiple internal connections. You can still config NAT or IPFW to access internal boxes from outside. With a DSL or Cable Modem provider, you only use 1 IP addy, plus you have firewalled your network. Linux works well but I prefer FreeBSD.
This not entirely correct. There is not a direct coorelation with 802.11b power consumption and range. Its not like a lever, where you can lower the power consumption for less range and vice versa. I am not advocating that Bluetooth is the end-all for hand-held devices, but I do believe that solving the 802.11b power consumption problem is a much more daunting task than the other posts on this topic have suggested.
Is going after schools sustainable to the music industry? Not a chance. With DSL and cable modems increasing in popularity, access to high speed Internet will become mainstream.
rant on:
The music industry continues to use defensive tactics in the face of a changing economy. Their fear of losing monopoly rents disgusts me. Who says CD/record sales need to be the money maker for the industry? Record labels serve to promote artists with the expecation on a actualized returns. Do the returns need to be in the shape of record sales? What about concert revenue, t-shirts, posters, and perhaps a direction not even thought of yet.
Going after mp3.com in the end is fruitless, because then you have napster, and then you have gnutella, and if not gnutella there will be something else. The music industry needs to realize they will lose the monopoly rents they have and need to turn their attention to focus on new ways to add value to their customers and their artists in a different economic model.
rant off
Unfortunately, this is worst than facism. Its corporate imperialism - worse because as corporations become more global, local and national governments can no longer keep corporations accountable for their actions.
Check out _When Corp. Rule the World_ by former HBS prof. David Korten. He gives a hauntingly insightful description of what this lack of accountability already allows.
Not too sound too "doomesday"-ish myself, but doesn't receiving our information/news from limited sources sound a bit too close to Newspeak :>
Of course, there is a remedy. Support and sponsor alternatives, or think of them your own. I truly think there is a large correlation between the unimaginable size corporations have become and the quickly growing amount of entrepreneurs in the country.
Seth