That would be more ideal for certain, although one would have to track down marketing people at the gear company of choice, and try to make a deal. The gear company might decide not to risk their own reputation on some unknown quantity as well, but it's always worth a shot to make the attempt. Said musician might even get sponsored by the gear company, if they like what they hear.
A quick glance at your website (seems to?) show that you don't have any ad service? With the kind of traffic you're bringing in, I would assume that even a low key single ad box on the page somewhere would probably bring you in a bit of extra monthly cash.
I went to find out how much a single ad click is worth, but unfortunately failed to find out. I had heard a click was worth a few cents, so if 5% of your viewers clicked on an ad, you might make a few extra hundred a month, might cover your web costs, and get you more guitar strings etc.
I hope your model continues to work for you, I've been reading up on various ideas like this, one day when I get enough nerve I want to try something like this out. Cheers, Gord Wait
Interesting points. There's also some fascinating history research about the fall of the Arabic world, most likely due to a strong increase in fundamentalist religion - when Europe was in the "Dark Ages" the Arabic world was anything but, off inventing math, chemistry, dentistry, improving education, many scientific improvements to mankind. European royalty would send princes etc to school in the islamic world to get a proper education.
According to what I've read on this, though, the fundamentalists started gaining power and started shutting down education, explaining that everything happens "as Allah wishes" and turning away from reason. I read (during the height of the British school teacher being arrested for letting the class name a teddy bear "allah") that upon hearing the explanation for how oxygen combines with carbon in wood to make fire, one student claimed "Oh, it burns because Allah wishes it to".
This sounds exactly like what is happening in the southern US, with a strong surge away from science/education and towards religious fundamentalism. This is not far removed from Creationists trying to push a 5000 year old fable as a replacement for detailed scientific work in evolution.
I used to be baffled that creationists would settle for such a lame explanation of the start of history when any decent supreme being should stand up and take a bow for the beauty and complexity of quantum mechanics, which leads to chemistry, which leads to DNA, which leads to the amazing diversity of life on our planet.
I now realize it's about power. This is why the original bible was in latin, you had to go to the priest to decode and dispense the meaning of life/universe/everything. A well designed control system to keep the population stupid and afraid so they do what you want and hand over their money/lives/etc to the Roman Empire.
The evangelical movement has rediscovered this power and lust to control the people around them. What better way to get them in the door but to make them superstitious and afraid, dependent on the church for every idea/decision in life?
Bronze age fairy tales vs a mountain of verifiable facts that also are the basic foundation of genetic research.
What possible prediction can anyone make from Creationism?
Evolution predicts that since all living things on the planet share DNA, then medical research using animals should produce useful medical procedures for humans.
"eeeeeeeh! wrong answer. taking cuttings and striking them is no different to cloning, and it's been done by humans for 100's of years."
Semantics? By cloning I refer to the process of duplicating the exact DNA of one cell and inserting it into another organism, replacing the other's DNA.
You refer to grafting, which doesn't involve direct manipulation of DNA, but involves a sharp knife, and as far as I know only works on plants.
Similar end results, but not exactly the same.
""my very inexpert understanding of what cloning means"" "I think this makes a point all on it's own."
Resorting to personal insults to make your point? I've read quite a few articles on genetics/dna, but I do not work in the field and do not have any formal education in it. What are your credentials as an "expert" in genetics? You come across as having very strong opinions on the issue.
"nice going you even played the "Think of the children card". pity your confusing something known to be toxic with something that's known not to be...." Ok, I'll try again: good thing the government regulated lead out of gasoline/plumbing/electronics, and generally require truth in labeling/advertising. I certainly don't want to buy any of the low quality vegetable products coming out of China for now, until they stop packaging food in unacceptably unhealthy circumstances.
I'm making the point that in many cases government regulations are a good thing, especially to shift the balance of power of large corporations against individual citizens. Comparing food labeling to fascism is quite an extreme point of view, and unjustified.
In the case of specifically the cloning of animals for food (not vegetables) I wonder why both the US and Canadian governments are protecting the interests of corporations by not letting the citizens decide for themselves whether or not to eat cloned food, since they are supposed to represent the people's interest in all matters. Lobbyists and Kickbacks come to mind. This is what I'm opposed to.
"oh and cloning is has nothing to do with genetically modified crops, if anything it's EXACTLY the oppersite since it's purpose is to get the exact same gene's over and over. as usual you people are confused about what your opposed to."
As usual? You people? Which group of people are you referring to?
I know exactly what I'm opposed to in this issue. I still buy Canola oil even though it's extremely likely it's a GMO product, and as I said before I don't see a problem with eating (DNA copy) cloned animals from my understanding of the science. I just believe people have a choice, and I expect governments to force food producers to label their food.
Cloning has not been done for hundreds of years, perhaps 30 to 40 years (if that).
While I don't personally see a health threat from "cloned meat" with my very inexpert understanding of what cloning means, I do see a problem with a monoculture of cows. Mind you, if the entire North American herd gets wiped out by a single virus in 20 years, it takes care of the methane gas problem.
Good thing the fascist government is stepping in and regulating lead in children's toys. Do you really think a truly 100% open market would protect consumers from corporations who's board members and executive are required by law to chose profit over any other goal?
What gets me is the Canadian government allowing genetically modified food to be inserted in the market without labeling. If it's such a good product, why are they afraid to label it as GMO? The only rational reason to avoid labeling GMO is because some lobbyists and corporations are "encouraging" this action. I have no problem with people trying it out, but let me chose. When governments say "trust me, it's safe" I tend to think the opposite - the government told everyone Thalidomide was safe too.
Odd how people think humans have stopped evolving.
A huge evolution experiment is sadly taking place in Africa, with the Aids epidemic.
The flu pandemic of 1918 was a significant evolutionary event, estimated deaths of up to 40 million people worldwide. http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
The next big flu pandemic will also cause evolutionary change. Read "Collapse" by Jared Diamond for many examples of pandemics in recent history - including the 95% wipeout of North and South American natives who had never been previously exposed to the many diseases brought over from Europe and Asia.
If we end up with something like Aids or SARS that spreads from a simple sneeze, then we just might find that natural selection favours a society completely isolated from air travel.
The individual cases you mention in a rich western society are just a noise floor in the bigger picture.
Good point - but I can't help thinking - how hard would it have been for Microsoft to insert a "zone alarm" like control on protected files (effectively what they do in Vista now), so that when a misbehaving third party app tries to access a protected file, the user gets a "Application bla is asking to edit the registery, stop it, allow it once, or always allow it" kind of popup?
What they did get was a mysterious error, so the third party apps would just die without warning, driving users back to running everything as admin.
In fact, what would prevent someone from implementing this now under XP, so people could have better security without having to install Vista? Anyone out there good at intercepting file system calls? I want royalties when you make your millions from the "SecureXP" product line!!
Us unix/linux fanboys have been saying for years that the biggest hole in the many versions of windows was the lack of password protection of the operating system files (install as root, run as user - otherwise a simple batch file can be used as a virus..)
This simple idea has been around for at least 25 years, so there is no technical reason that Microsoft are so late to this party.
Comparing this gaping security hole (from DOS to WinXP) to minor linux kernel enhancements from 2.2 to 2.6 is not terribly relevant..
Sadly, I agree with the other poster that believes this issue will go mostly unnoticed by the media, and most politicians. The other parties are in such a mess that the Conservatives would easily win a majority if an election were called, and they know it. They're just waiting for a time to call the election that won't annoy the voters too much.
Also, it's hard to convince the average person that a DMCA law is a bad thing, cause it's pitched as "protecting starving artists, no one would disagree with that, right?" We could use some good clear examples to show how a DMCA law won't help artists, so that the protesters don't come across as people who want to legalize music piracy.
That's not even close to the real problem with the US DMCA. The DMCA is being used as a hammer for all sorts of attacks on free speech - if some corporation or group decides they don't like another's opinion, they can issue (and have been) a DMCA takedown notice, making some vague claim about copyrighted information, and the typical result is that the person is muzzled by their ISP, or web service provider without due process.
Also, doesn't the US DMCA make it illegal to remove the infamous Sony Root Kit trojan hack that Sony used as an extremely poorly designed DRM scheme? (The rootkit left people's machines wide open for other viruses and trojans to get in, once it secretly installed itself).
What reprocessing? If reprocessing was so effective (references please) then why is the US's current nuclear waste disposal in such a disastrous mess? A few years back National Geographic did an article about the state of nuclear waste storage, and it was not good news at all.
The industry and government experts are talking about a 10,000 year program to store the nuclear crud already leaking all over US soil now.
If you have a better idea, you could get rich, they're talking about spending literally billions of dollars on this current problem, never mind any new waste brought on by a massive build up of new plants.
I just wish Slashdot would increase the dynamic range of the moderation level. The signal to noise level is still very low, with only 11 levels, this is a db level of only 20 db. I think it would be interesting if they pushed it up to 65534 mod levels (96 db), (then give out more mod points) so that the distance between really dumbass comments and brilliant ones would be quite high..
Also, they could track individual categories separately, so you could decide to read the funniest of the flamebait responses (for example) if you so desired..
I've been wishing a similar thing would be set up for Canadian politics, but what I see as useful are things like:
- what was politician Bob's vote on bill bla - what did politician Fred say publicly on issue bla
This way there would be a verifiable public record of the entire career of any given politician, verifiable by other public documents (newspaper archives etc) so we get no more weasling in or out of campaign promises.
I agree tho, the spin doctors will reduce the overall value significantly..
It's a copy, heck every time you press play on a CD walkman it copies the data from the CD into a memory buffer before sending a copy to the D to A converters, which make an analog copy with no DRM, then an amplifier makes a bigger copy and sends it to the speakers to make an acoustic copy.. Even air molecules make a copy of what the molecules right beside them are shaking to..
Sony's gonna be RICH!
Perhaps a flat license fee where you get a tatoo on each ear so the RIAA agents know not to hit you with billyclubs when someone turns on the radio nearby. (One license per ear, thats two copies!)
And they wonder why they aren't selling PS3's to the geek crowd...
It's likely that each country's own messed up laws and record industry deals that prevent them from offering this service outside the US.
In Canada, we can't watch TV shows from the official US web sites either, probably since local Canadian TV stations bought the exclusive rights to broadcast the show (and put local ads in to pay for it).
What did she lose? How much would a stock photo model make if the whole thing had been done legit? I'm guessing it's not a whole ton of cash, but it might be a reasonable amount for a teenager.
Now that the story has legs, far more people have probably seen the Virgin add via slashdot than the entire ad campaign audience in Australia..
I agree with the sentiment that this has nothing to do with the CC license, and I'm guessing someone at Virgin is about to get their ass(es) kicked..
Seriously? That is good news - I had assumed the two were integrated like.. IE in Windows XP..
I really did not want to get tangled up in Mono, so I have been avoiding Gnome (chosing KUbuntu over Ubuntu) to specifically avoid Mono.
Why no Mono? I don't need no stinkin middleware, I just want a clean gui on top of linux. I also don't want to rely on anything that Microsoft can decide to destroy with IP lawsuits one day..(yes, they would. Mono is a trap).
Why not stay with KDE? Gnome looks cleaner to me, and seems to have more critical mass, thus I assume better support than KDE etc.
So as long as I can install Gnome and uncheck the Mono box, I'd be happy. Is this going to change in the future? Do the mono proponents have enough clout to cause Mono to become an integral part of Gnome in the future?
The word peaceably does not describe this moron's demeanor. I agree with the sentiment that he wanted to end up on youtube, and that tasering was unwarranted.
If I'm in a situation where the police - who do have responsibility to keep the peace - tell me to stop, or else, I'd stop, unless I want the "else" to occur.
Slashdot Mirror
That would be more ideal for certain, although one would have to track down marketing people at the gear company of choice, and try to make a deal. The gear company might decide not to risk their own reputation on some unknown quantity as well,
but it's always worth a shot to make the attempt. Said musician might even get sponsored by the gear company, if they like what they hear.
Cheers,
Gord
A quick glance at your website (seems to?) show that you don't have any ad service?
With the kind of traffic you're bringing in, I would assume that even a low key single ad box on the page somewhere would probably bring you in a bit of extra monthly cash.
I went to find out how much a single ad click is worth, but unfortunately failed to find out.
I had heard a click was worth a few cents, so if 5% of your viewers clicked on an ad, you might make a few extra hundred a month,
might cover your web costs, and get you more guitar strings etc.
I hope your model continues to work for you,
I've been reading up on various ideas like this, one day when I get enough nerve I want to try something like this out.
Cheers,
Gord Wait
Interesting points.
There's also some fascinating history research about the fall of the Arabic world, most likely due to a strong increase in fundamentalist religion - when Europe was in the "Dark Ages" the Arabic world was anything but, off inventing math, chemistry, dentistry, improving education, many scientific improvements to mankind. European royalty would send princes etc to school in the islamic world to get a proper education.
According to what I've read on this, though, the fundamentalists started gaining power and started shutting down education,
explaining that everything happens "as Allah wishes" and turning away from reason. I read (during the height of the British school teacher being arrested for letting the class name a teddy bear "allah") that upon hearing the explanation for how oxygen combines with carbon in wood to make fire, one student claimed "Oh, it burns because Allah wishes it to".
This sounds exactly like what is happening in the southern US, with a strong surge away from science/education and towards religious fundamentalism. This is not far removed from Creationists trying to push a 5000 year old fable as a replacement for detailed scientific work in evolution.
I used to be baffled that creationists would settle for such a lame explanation of the start of history when any decent supreme being should stand up and take a bow for the beauty and complexity of quantum mechanics, which leads to chemistry, which leads to DNA, which leads to the amazing diversity of life on our planet.
I now realize it's about power. This is why the original bible was in latin, you had to go to the priest to decode and dispense the meaning of life/universe/everything. A well designed control system to keep the population stupid and afraid so they do what you want and hand over their money/lives/etc to the Roman Empire.
The evangelical movement has rediscovered this power and lust to control the people around them. What better way to get them in the door but to make them superstitious and afraid, dependent on the church for every idea/decision in life?
Doh! Ranting again. Sorry!
Bronze age fairy tales vs a mountain of verifiable facts that also are the basic foundation of genetic research.
What possible prediction can anyone make from Creationism?
Evolution predicts that since all living things on the planet share DNA, then medical research using animals should produce useful medical procedures for humans.
When you cut someone open, it's not full of clay.
"eeeeeeeh! wrong answer. taking cuttings and striking them is no different to cloning, and it's been done by humans for 100's of years."
Semantics? By cloning I refer to the process of duplicating the exact DNA of one cell and inserting it into another organism, replacing the other's DNA.
You refer to grafting, which doesn't involve direct manipulation of DNA, but involves a sharp knife, and as far as I know only works on plants.
Similar end results, but not exactly the same.
""my very inexpert understanding of what cloning means""
"I think this makes a point all on it's own."
Resorting to personal insults to make your point? I've read quite a few articles on genetics/dna, but I do not work in the field and do not have any formal education in it. What are your credentials as an "expert" in genetics? You come across as having very strong opinions on the issue.
"nice going you even played the "Think of the children card". pity your confusing something known to be toxic with something that's known not to be...."
Ok, I'll try again: good thing the government regulated lead out of gasoline/plumbing/electronics, and generally require truth in labeling/advertising.
I certainly don't want to buy any of the low quality vegetable products coming out of China for now, until they stop packaging food in unacceptably unhealthy circumstances.
I'm making the point that in many cases government regulations are a good thing, especially to shift the balance of power of large corporations against individual citizens. Comparing food labeling to fascism is quite an extreme point of view, and unjustified.
In the case of specifically the cloning of animals for food (not vegetables) I wonder why both the US and Canadian governments are protecting the interests of corporations by not letting the citizens decide for themselves whether or not to eat cloned food, since they are supposed to represent the people's interest in all matters. Lobbyists and Kickbacks come to mind. This is what I'm opposed to.
"oh and cloning is has nothing to do with genetically modified crops, if anything it's EXACTLY the oppersite since it's purpose is to get the exact same gene's over and over. as usual you people are confused about what your opposed to."
As usual? You people? Which group of people are you referring to?
I know exactly what I'm opposed to in this issue. I still buy Canola oil even though it's extremely likely it's a GMO product,
and as I said before I don't see a problem with eating (DNA copy) cloned animals from my understanding of the science.
I just believe people have a choice, and I expect governments to force food producers to label their food.
That's all.
Cloning has not been done for hundreds of years, perhaps 30 to 40 years (if that).
While I don't personally see a health threat from "cloned meat" with my very inexpert understanding of what cloning means,
I do see a problem with a monoculture of cows. Mind you, if the entire North American herd gets wiped out by a single virus in 20 years,
it takes care of the methane gas problem.
Good thing the fascist government is stepping in and regulating lead in children's toys.
Do you really think a truly 100% open market would protect consumers from corporations who's board members and executive are required by law to chose profit over any other goal?
What gets me is the Canadian government allowing genetically modified food to be inserted in the market without labeling.
If it's such a good product, why are they afraid to label it as GMO?
The only rational reason to avoid labeling GMO is because some lobbyists and corporations are "encouraging" this action.
I have no problem with people trying it out, but let me chose.
When governments say "trust me, it's safe" I tend to think the opposite - the government told everyone Thalidomide was safe too.
What is interesting is that he's coming up with some very creative ideas, and giving them away for free.
This will likely spur an avalanche of Wii hacks, and could easily cause wiimote sales to go thru the roof..
I'm totally enjoying the adventure Johnny!
Odd how people think humans have stopped evolving.
A huge evolution experiment is sadly taking place in Africa, with the Aids epidemic.
The flu pandemic of 1918 was a significant evolutionary event, estimated deaths of up to 40 million people worldwide. http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
The next big flu pandemic will also cause evolutionary change. Read "Collapse" by Jared Diamond for many examples of pandemics in recent history - including the 95% wipeout of North and South American natives who had never been previously exposed to the many diseases brought over from Europe and Asia.
If we end up with something like Aids or SARS that spreads from a simple sneeze, then we just might find that natural selection favours a society completely isolated from air travel.
The individual cases you mention in a rich western society are just a noise floor in the bigger picture.
Exactly, the signature from a nuke is far more powerful, and sends a troublesome kind of message...
Good point - but I can't help thinking - how hard would it have been for Microsoft to insert a "zone alarm" like control on protected files (effectively what they do in Vista now), so that when a misbehaving third party app tries to access a protected file, the user gets a "Application bla is asking to edit the registery, stop it, allow it once, or always allow it" kind of popup?
What they did get was a mysterious error, so the third party apps would just die without warning, driving users back to running everything as admin.
In fact, what would prevent someone from implementing this now under XP, so people could have better security without having to install Vista?
Anyone out there good at intercepting file system calls? I want royalties when you make your millions from the "SecureXP" product line!!
Us unix/linux fanboys have been saying for years that the biggest hole in the many versions of windows was the lack of password protection of the operating system files (install as root, run as user - otherwise a simple batch file can be used as a virus..)
This simple idea has been around for at least 25 years, so there is no technical reason that Microsoft are so late to this party.
Comparing this gaping security hole (from DOS to WinXP) to minor linux kernel enhancements from 2.2 to 2.6 is not terribly relevant..
Sadly, I agree with the other poster that believes this issue will go mostly unnoticed by the media, and most politicians.
The other parties are in such a mess that the Conservatives would easily win a majority if an election were called,
and they know it. They're just waiting for a time to call the election that won't annoy the voters too much.
Also, it's hard to convince the average person that a DMCA law is a bad thing, cause it's pitched as "protecting starving artists, no one would disagree with that, right?" We could use some good clear examples to show how a DMCA law won't help artists, so that the protesters don't come across as people who want to legalize music piracy.
That's not even close to the real problem with the US DMCA. The DMCA is being used as a hammer for all sorts of attacks on free speech - if some corporation or group decides they don't like another's opinion, they can issue (and have been) a DMCA takedown notice, making some vague claim about copyrighted information, and the typical result is that the person is muzzled by their ISP, or web service provider without due process.
Also, doesn't the US DMCA make it illegal to remove the infamous Sony Root Kit trojan hack that Sony used as an extremely poorly designed DRM scheme?
(The rootkit left people's machines wide open for other viruses and trojans to get in, once it secretly installed itself).
What reprocessing? If reprocessing was so effective (references please) then why is the US's current nuclear waste disposal in such a disastrous mess?
A few years back National Geographic did an article about the state of nuclear waste storage, and it was not good news at all.
The industry and government experts are talking about a 10,000 year program to store the nuclear crud already leaking all over US soil now.
If you have a better idea, you could get rich, they're talking about spending literally billions of dollars on this current problem, never mind any new waste brought on by a massive build up of new plants.
References:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0711_020711_yuccaspikes.html
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0207/feature1/index.html?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com
Naw, mate, we already have a slashdot that goes to 11 :)
I want one that goes to 65534!
Cheers,
Gord Wait
96 db I got from the theoretical range of one channel of ordinary CD audio (20 log (2 ^ 16)).
:)
I myself stay nice and comfortable designing in the digital realm and avoid those nasty analog issues
I just wish Slashdot would increase the dynamic range of the moderation level. The signal to noise level is still very low, with only 11 levels,
this is a db level of only 20 db. I think it would be interesting if they pushed it up to 65534 mod levels (96 db), (then give out more mod points) so that the distance between really dumbass comments and brilliant ones would be quite high..
Also, they could track individual categories separately, so you could decide to read the funniest of the flamebait responses (for example) if you so desired..
I know - I know, off topic rant,
but for some reason I see red when marketspeak types use that word.
Hint Try googling digitalization:
Did you mean: digitization
I've been wishing a similar thing would be set up for Canadian politics,
but what I see as useful are things like:
- what was politician Bob's vote on bill bla
- what did politician Fred say publicly on issue bla
This way there would be a verifiable public record of the entire career of any given politician, verifiable by other public documents (newspaper archives etc)
so we get no more weasling in or out of campaign promises.
I agree tho, the spin doctors will reduce the overall value significantly..
It's a copy, heck every time you press play on a CD walkman it copies the data from the CD into a memory buffer before sending a copy to the D to A converters, which make an analog copy with no DRM, then an amplifier makes a bigger copy and sends it to the speakers to make an acoustic copy..
Even air molecules make a copy of what the molecules right beside them are shaking to..
Sony's gonna be RICH!
Perhaps a flat license fee where you get a tatoo on each ear so the RIAA agents know not to hit you with billyclubs when someone turns on the radio nearby. (One license per ear, thats two copies!)
And they wonder why they aren't selling PS3's to the geek crowd...
More likely not their fault,
It's likely that each country's own messed up laws and record industry deals that prevent them from offering this service outside the US.
In Canada, we can't watch TV shows from the official US web sites either, probably since local Canadian TV stations bought the exclusive rights to broadcast the show
(and put local ads in to pay for it).
What did she lose? How much would a stock photo model make if the whole thing had been done legit?
I'm guessing it's not a whole ton of cash, but it might be a reasonable amount for a teenager.
Now that the story has legs, far more people have probably seen the Virgin add via slashdot than the entire ad campaign audience in Australia..
I agree with the sentiment that this has nothing to do with the CC license,
and I'm guessing someone at Virgin is about to get their ass(es) kicked..
Sorry, I did mean Mono in general integrated into Gnome.
Sounds like from the responses that I'm relatively safe from Mono.
Seriously? That is good news - I had assumed the two were integrated like.. IE in Windows XP..
I really did not want to get tangled up in Mono, so I have been avoiding Gnome (chosing KUbuntu over Ubuntu) to specifically avoid Mono.
Why no Mono? I don't need no stinkin middleware, I just want a clean gui on top of linux.
I also don't want to rely on anything that Microsoft can decide to destroy with IP lawsuits one day..(yes, they would. Mono is a trap).
Why not stay with KDE? Gnome looks cleaner to me, and seems to have more critical mass, thus I assume better support than KDE etc.
So as long as I can install Gnome and uncheck the Mono box, I'd be happy. Is this going to change in the future? Do the mono proponents have enough clout to
cause Mono to become an integral part of Gnome in the future?
The word peaceably does not describe this moron's demeanor.
I agree with the sentiment that he wanted to end up on youtube, and that tasering was unwarranted.
If I'm in a situation where the police - who do have responsibility to keep the peace - tell me to stop, or else,
I'd stop, unless I want the "else" to occur.