Attention citizens of Slashdot: these guys are the real deal. American Science & Surplus publish a monthly printed catalog that's chock full of truly bizarre gadgets, from motors to magnets to industrial canisters to god knows what. The beauty of the catalog is that the wry descriptive commentary recognizes how bizarre and useless most of the stuff is, unapologetically. Any self-respecting geek unfamiliar with these guys needs to hie over there pronto.
Although GSP was a nice implementation of an early Java Server Pages spec (0.92, I think), the current JSP language is significantly different. Since JSP 1.0 & 1.1 are widely supported by open source systems, including Apache's jakarta-tomcat and Caucho's Resin (which both completely rock), GSP seems like a poor choice for any new development.
Another problem is that GSP was written to the Servlet 2.0 spec, and fails to run under 2.1/2.2 compliant servlet runners. If you have to run JSPs within a servlet 2.0 environment (like apache jserv), look at gnujsp, which is largely JSP 1.0 compatible.
Don't believe everything you read. Take the last Pink Floyd tour (a very media-visible event). They "lost money" on the tour if you look at ticket prices. They more than made up on merchandise sales. Then they released a live album which was nearly ALL profit. Fugazi has been doing shows exclusively under $10 their entire career. They exist on t-shirt sales.
Although you're profoundly mistaken, you've brought up an excellent example. Fugazi have never sold t-shirts in their 12-year history. The reason they are so successful with $5 and $6 ticket prices is that they are self-managed, and run their own record label. (Not nearly as difficult to be profitable when you get all the profit from a $10 CD.) I understand they've sold over a million records, too. Even with their label Dischord's subsidizing many, many unprofitable bands, and a policy of only playing benefit shows in their hometown, they seem to do quite well.
Granted, as the finest rock-and-roll band in America they're a special case, and relentless touring doesn't work for every band, but their example is certainly instructive.
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Another problem is that GSP was written to the Servlet 2.0 spec, and fails to run under 2.1/2.2 compliant servlet runners. If you have to run JSPs within a servlet 2.0 environment (like apache jserv), look at gnujsp, which is largely JSP 1.0 compatible.
Don't believe everything you read. Take the last Pink Floyd tour (a very media-visible event). They "lost money" on the tour if you look at ticket prices. They more than made up on merchandise sales. Then they released a live album which was nearly ALL profit. Fugazi has been doing shows exclusively under $10 their entire career. They exist on t-shirt sales.
Although you're profoundly mistaken, you've brought up an excellent example. Fugazi have never sold t-shirts in their 12-year history. The reason they are so successful with $5 and $6 ticket prices is that they are self-managed, and run their own record label. (Not nearly as difficult to be profitable when you get all the profit from a $10 CD.) I understand they've sold over a million records, too. Even with their label Dischord's subsidizing many, many unprofitable bands, and a policy of only playing benefit shows in their hometown, they seem to do quite well.
Granted, as the finest rock-and-roll band in America they're a special case, and relentless touring doesn't work for every band, but their example is certainly instructive.