Even if I have free content to offer, I still have to shell out some decent scrim to get it out to more than just a few folks.
Excellent point.
If only there were some way to spread the cost of distribution across multiple hosts.
Maybe there is be a way to mirror your original source file across hundreds, or even thousands, of other nodes, all of them available to redistribute your content on demand.
Perhaps the people who download and make of your content (your customers) would be willing to help you out. Maybe they will be willing to use their computers for storage and their bandwidth for distribution?
This way, the cost of your bandwidth is spread across so many people that it becomes a negligable amount for each individual. Also, since there are potentially thousands of available nodes for accessing the content, you have a high level of redundancy built right into the system.
I consider myself more of a business person and see the world in shades of grey. Sure that is great for earning an income, the problem though is that my shade of grey might change from a more white grey to a more black grey. And that switch is an erosion of power that I only realize when it is too late... At that point my black grey is a white grey for most people because they have "gotten" used to it.
There's a solution to this: Pull Your Head Out Of Your Ass.
It's bad business to ignore the long-term affects of your short-term "compromises"
technology, for once, did what it was DESIGNED to do and helped catch actual suspects. It would be very different if law enforcement tracked all the onstar vehicles to look for patterns of suspicious activity.
Google News, in just a couple days, has firmly established itself as the standard-bearer of news online. Two (The one you're reading and this one) of the last four slashdot articles have referenced Google News.
Two of the the recent/. articles (This one again, and this one) where at the top of the Google News SciTech section when they were posted to/.
Google News seems to find the good stories and push them to the top *really* fast. I see myself relying on them more and more.
If I wrote a novel and someone bowdlerized it and then published the result under my name, I'd be pretty peeved.
Thomas Jefferson did this to the Bible! But it is clearly labeled as being different from the original source. If God can tolerate a little after-market editing, I think we can, too.
In the 80s, before mainstream net, and definitely before mp3 and streaming radio, I and my friends would buy lots of CDs.
We all know at, at most, only half of the songs on each CD were worth listening to. What we did was make compilation tapes from various CDs.
You would not believe the care and consideration that went into the making of hese tapes. Each tape had a theme. Each tape was designed for a specific experience.
We would borrow each other's CDs to get the right songs -- and in the right order. The tapes ended up being quite personal in nature, so we usually didn't end up sharing the tapes -- unless the tape was made specifically for that other person (usually of the opposite sex).
But, everyone once in a while, usually while riding in a car, someone would ask, "Hey, that's a good tape! Can you make me a copy?"
I even had a mixer and two CD players so I didn't have to pause between tracks. I just time it right and the tape was one continous muscial experience.
What Clean Flicks is doing is not at all fundamentally different from what I did in junior and high schoool. They have my support.
The cargo bay doors were open and they were just off the ramp. They were outside, but the inside of the ship was exposed.
The ship has intake engines for when flying in an atmosphere. They don't need when flying in place. I imagine the FTL engines are a little too powerful for flying across the surface of a planet. But that's just me.
If there is a big secret that nobody knows wouldn't you want to find out immediately? How can you possibly resist opening the door? What kind of idiot finds a new door and doesn't open it?
They didn't have a Wizard there to cast a Detect Magic spell, and there was no Thief to check for traps. After enough PCs die a horrible screaming death at the hands a cackling DM, you learn to be more cautious of opening doors willy-nilly.
You must be a Dwarf. You guys always rush into things too quickly. The Cleric can only cast so many Heal Light Wounds, Man! Be more careful.
VLM - Virtual Linux Machine? UMK - User Mode Kernel? LUM - Linux User Mode? LVM - Linux Virtual Machine? PUL - Partitioned User Linux? LUK = Linux User Kernel? (pronounced Luck!)
Whatever. I do think an new acronym should be found for this.
Slashdot Mirror
Even if I have free content to offer, I still have to shell out some decent scrim to get it out to more than just a few folks.
Excellent point.
If only there were some way to spread the cost of distribution across multiple hosts.
Maybe there is be a way to mirror your original source file across hundreds, or even thousands, of other nodes, all of them available to redistribute your content on demand.
Perhaps the people who download and make of your content (your customers) would be willing to help you out. Maybe they will be willing to use their computers for storage and their bandwidth for distribution?
This way, the cost of your bandwidth is spread across so many people that it becomes a negligable amount for each individual. Also, since there are potentially thousands of available nodes for accessing the content, you have a high level of redundancy built right into the system.
If only there were something like this....
He was Optimus Prime! Cool!
Its not like they have removed the indexes completely from their databases. Only their .fr and .de sites.
.com and not using the nation specific googles?
What's to stop french or german citizens from going straight to
I consider myself more of a business person and see the world in shades of grey. Sure that is great for earning an income, the problem though is that my shade of grey might change from a more white grey to a more black grey. And that switch is an erosion of power that I only realize when it is too late... At that point my black grey is a white grey for most people because they have "gotten" used to it.
There's a solution to this: Pull Your Head Out Of Your Ass.
It's bad business to ignore the long-term affects of your short-term "compromises"
put another way, what can RIAA do to prevent non-RIAA music from becoming more and more popular?
Is there a directory or reposistory of explicitly non-RIAA music somewhere?
I submitted this on the 4th -- two weeks ago.
* 2002-10-04 10:34:46 Consumer Robot Vaccums Floor (articles,news) (rejected)
Rejected when I submitted it, now it's on the home page.
I know. Offtopic, -1. But still, you have to wonder.
This is how I'd deal with the problem: Listen
1) wmv format files? *groan*
1a) Thanks, mplayer!
2) instructions: "view it with the Windows Media Player that's found on almost all PC's" *groan*
3) I got no sound with the video.
Wish I could have went to Lulu though.
Having the DMCA interpreted with a lenient bent is like having the constitution amended to allow "just a little" slavery.
You mean like the 16th Amendment?
If you are planning on offering the RIAA's music, what do you really have to do to play their music legally?
Step 1: Remove Pants
Step 2: Bend Over
In case you didn't know, the site also streams the movie soundtrack around the clock. Nice. Click Here to listen.
technology, for once, did what it was DESIGNED to do and helped catch actual suspects. It would be very different if law enforcement tracked all the onstar vehicles to look for patterns of suspicious activity.
All in good time, comrade. All in good time.
Power corrupts.
Funny. Whenever an interesting news story pops up on the top of Google News SciTech page, you can expect it to be posted on /. an hour or two later.
Can this be automated -- to avoid the crush of duplicate submissions the editors must now be getting?
Google News, in just a couple days, has firmly established itself as the standard-bearer of news online. Two (The one you're reading and this one) of the last four slashdot articles have referenced Google News.
/. articles (This one again, and this one) where at the top of the Google News SciTech section when they were posted to /.
Two of the the recent
Google News seems to find the good stories and push them to the top *really* fast. I see myself relying on them more and more.
If I wrote a novel and someone bowdlerized it and then published the result under my name, I'd be pretty peeved.
Thomas Jefferson did this to the Bible! But it is clearly labeled as being different from the original source. If God can tolerate a little after-market editing, I think we can, too.
In the 80s, before mainstream net, and definitely before mp3 and streaming radio, I and my friends would buy lots of CDs.
We all know at, at most, only half of the songs on each CD were worth listening to. What we did was make compilation tapes from various CDs.
You would not believe the care and consideration that went into the making of hese tapes. Each tape had a theme. Each tape was designed for a specific experience.
We would borrow each other's CDs to get the right songs -- and in the right order. The tapes ended up being quite personal in nature, so we usually didn't end up sharing the tapes -- unless the tape was made specifically for that other person (usually of the opposite sex).
But, everyone once in a while, usually while riding in a car, someone would ask, "Hey, that's a good tape! Can you make me a copy?"
I even had a mixer and two CD players so I didn't have to pause between tracks. I just time it right and the tape was one continous muscial experience.
What Clean Flicks is doing is not at all fundamentally different from what I did in junior and high schoool. They have my support.
The cargo bay doors were open and they were just off the ramp. They were outside, but the inside of the ship was exposed.
The ship has intake engines for when flying in an atmosphere. They don't need when flying in place. I imagine the FTL engines are a little too powerful for flying across the surface of a planet. But that's just me.
If you were an AC asking this question I would have bet money you were someone I worked with.
I feel for ya, man. I really do.
I have a Linux Fish on my car. Does that count?
I feel for the teachers who have to grade 100 papers and mark down for spelling cool with a k, but I would stand behind any teacher who did so.
I would fire any teacher who didn't. That would be incompetence on the part of the teacher. It's their job to teach and correct mistakes.
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If there is a big secret that nobody knows wouldn't you want to find out immediately? How can you possibly resist opening the door? What kind of idiot finds a new door and doesn't open it?
They didn't have a Wizard there to cast a Detect Magic spell, and there was no Thief to check for traps. After enough PCs die a horrible screaming death at the hands a cackling DM, you learn to be more cautious of opening doors willy-nilly.
You must be a Dwarf. You guys always rush into things too quickly. The Cleric can only cast so many Heal Light Wounds, Man! Be more careful.
Perl 6 Quick Reference Guide
How do you convey "holding pinky finger to chin with one eyebrow raised, like Dr. Evil"? What's that emoticon?
VLM - Virtual Linux Machine?
UMK - User Mode Kernel?
LUM - Linux User Mode?
LVM - Linux Virtual Machine?
PUL - Partitioned User Linux?
LUK = Linux User Kernel? (pronounced Luck!)
Whatever. I do think an new acronym should be found for this.