That link proposes a really lame patch - disable the whole @ mechanism - when the problem is with MS's implementation of it, especially when using URLs as parameter.
And you haven't commented on the IE CLSID hole that is the subject of this thread... is this topic just some more MS bashing, hmmm?
The technical problem is that the approach breaks Internet standards, particularly the standard that a non-existent domain causes a specific sort of error message which is used widely (eg to test for false email FROM addresses)
The other, more political problem is that Verisign was given the task of "guardian" of those domain registries, to administer them acording to ICANN rules as per the contract. Verisign is violating that trust by exploiting their position of control AND also violating the contract under which they got the contract (and get to make $$ from running it) in the first place. It's open defiance of the body (ICANN) that gave them the business.
So, yes this service idea has legs, but it must be done in such a way that it doesn't break their contract, follows the Internet standards, and is rolled out in a fair, competitive manner.
I could see alot of reasons why big ISPs or mail networks (eg AOL, HotMail, Yahoo) would consider offering such a facility as part of their service.
Imagine the marketing power of being able to say that all your clients' addresses can be authenticated... that any mail from your domain can be verified.
wealth does not equal jobs, and good jobs is what the world lacks.
There's alot of wealth, but at present the western system is optimised to cause wealth to drift up and get locked-up in the economic upper-crust.
There's tons of work that needs to be done! Examples - teaching arts and music, daycare, senior care, cleaning and renovating neighbourhoods, rehabilitation of ecological damage... but the powers refuse to see these as priorities or raise the minimum wage so that a person can actually make a living at one of these jobs.
The author first slams us for being clever and writing efficient stuff, then tells us the answer is to just run out and program more/ charge less. Oh, and let's run everything on scripting languages too. That'll help...
First, since you're just playing around and not developing commercial games, you can use just about anything, depending on the public exposure and your tolerance for licence issues. There is alot of legally-useable stuff out there anyway.
Your options are:
Free stuff all over the net. Downside is often the quality may be lower,and you don't have 100% confidence that they can legally distribute the sounds.
Low-cost CDs. There's always been a alot of LPs and CDs available to the public. Go to any large CD store. I've picked up some great BBC sound effect CDs, and even the effects from Star Trek. Note that most but not all are licenced for re-use.
Multimedia CD-ROMS - I always see multimedia and clip-art CDR's in the $9.99 bin. Many of these have some reasonable effects.
High-end CDs (see www.sound-ideas.com) this is what most pro's use (as well as foley). These suckers are expensive!! but the ultimate. This market is dying so they often sell the libraries at a lower price - see their Blue-Plate special. By the way, they have a $99 Flash effects CD geared to the Flash professional, which is good value if you use this sort of stuff frequently. Sound Ideas used to have a killer demo CD that was full of pro effects.
Recording your own. Takes time, but alot of fun. I use a portable MD recorder, then transfer to PC and edit the heck out of them.
It's the same situation as onboard video: onboard sound is now good enough for most basic PC uses. Reality check- if you're happy using two small beige plastic no-name PC speakers powered by a tiny wall-wart, you will not be disappointed by onboard sound.
However, for anything that involves doing alot of audio playback (jukebox, DJ/broadcast, audio/video editing, theatre FX, intense gaming) you will very likely appreciate the quality of a better audio card.
On my PC I run two soundcards - a SB Live Value into some beige speakers mainly for Windoze & game sounds, and a M-Audio 2496 into a mixer, power amp and JBL speakers for doing editing, music-making and album transcription.
If you're going the "old PCs" route for control, forget about distributing the audio. Too much work. Just run a network cable to every room (or go wireless) and use old PC's as clients/players of shared files stored on a central server.
This would work TODAY - you wouldn't have to do any customization of software or hardware.
AudioPCI cards are cheap but great sound for the bucks.
In my mind the only downfall is the noise from a PC unless you go to lengths to silence them, eg put into closets.
We all agree that robbing a bank is a serious crime (... I hope). If a bank is robbed, we blame the robber 100%.
So how would you feel if the bank kept all your money in a paper bag on a shelf behind the teller, where any 8 year-old standing on a chair could get at it? Would you still blame the robber 100% if your money was stolen? or would you at least partially blame the bank for not providing enough security?
Bank robbery is a crime, but we still expect the banks to have effective security and protection of our money. Servers and software must also provide reasonable protection against hacking.
It's law that every commercial road vehicle (eg. a $50,000 truck) must receive a quick visual inspection EVERY DAY before heading out.
Especially when they knew that there was the possibility of damaged tiles from the incidents at launch, why wasn't some sort of inspection performed?
I still find it hard to believe that some sort of visual inspection isn't part of the routine, and that inspection wasn't requested when they knew that damage from launch may have occurred.
Maybe X10 will give them some sort of deal on a pallet of wireless cameras.
Bugger../ stripped my tags. sorry. No time to re-do
Anyway the point was, have
(students) and for each (student), list their classes there by some unique ID, then have a separate XML file containing all the classes and their details.
To me your structure is wrong. When designing an XML layout you really have to think through all possible use-cases.
Assuming that there would be many attributes attached to students, and the classes for a given student are likely to change, I would go:
abcde
and other personal fixed stuff
bio101
and repeat the class tag for every
class the student is in
more students like above
You then have a separate XML file of classes
Warshawsky (or use an ID here and have a separate XML file of instructors)
_
_
_... and so on
You then "join" the different files in the transform to pull out specifics. It's very much like SQL joins from among normalized tables.
If the above seems very difficult, you probably need a good book. I found "The XML Bible" to be useful when I was learning this stuff.
XML definitely does not suck, XSL does somewhat
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Why XML Doesn't Suck
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... Like most of folks here, we've successfully used it in several situations, across different languages (Java, Perl, ASP) and different purposes(configuration, data transfer, web page generation, small online data storage, etc). It's da bomb.
XSL/XSLT on the other hand can be a pain to use in anything other than trivial transforms, in my unschooled opinion. The concept of recursive processing is great, but the math/logic syntax available is byzantine (eg "variable" is really a constant).
*sigh* I know this will get modded offtopic, but seriously... anyone agree with me, or do you actually like writing transform logic and processing in XSL? Please comment.
It's reasonable and inevitable that given the same skillset, the lower-rate worker is preferable. I've had the opportunity to work with engineers from India, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, and they're damn good usually, and they don't whine or throw out attitude like some north americans. I enjoy working with them
How I personally compete and keep my rate up is by: 1) skip the attitude. I love to code, and I try to show it. I jump when an opportunity presents itself. Stay current, be useful. 2) leverage your north american knowledge. I use my business contacts, my local experience, my knowledge of north-american culture and resources, customer expectations, business practices etc, to make myself more valuable to my north-american employers.
If you think that you're owed a high-paying job just because you were born here, welcome to the global economy.
This book sounds very useful and as an inexperienced admin I plan to pick it up... but I think it's important to stress that the software makers of the world (open source or otherwise) should have their installers default to the most secure possible configuration, THEN provide config tools to selectively open it up where necessary, warning what vulnerabilities may occur with the change.
I think it's better and safer that from a clean install an admin has to proceed to unlock things as needed, rather than learning (too late) what s/he should have closed.
You'd have to hire leading PhDs in every field to comb through all the data coming in.
No you wouldn't. We're not all PhD's are we, yet we can spot the turkeys. You just need to consult someone who's halfway knowledgable in a given field, who should be able to quickly find similarities or prior art if it exists. It would be a great part-time job for university undergrads.
Yes programmers get more prestige... so I became one. Employers provided the opportunity to learn Java, so I did. Nonetheless, although the "programmer" tag gets me in the door for jobs, the additional scripting stuff (Perl, Javascript) often adds real value.
But good code is good code. A good scripter is more valuable than a bad programmer.
What really gets me is how out of the vaunted realms of "programming" has come some godawful bastards like XSL syntax and struts logic tags. They are seriously fucked up.
IP blacklisting, intelligent content filters etc. are at best patches on an inadequate system which permits messages from unauthenticated senders.
I (naively) believe the only real solution would require that email senders can be easily authenticated and anonymous/spoofed/aliased messages simply ignored. Authenticated traffic could get prioritised handling at every stage over anonymous (eg 1st class mail vs 4th). In this climate, about everybody would reject anonymous email, and spammers using authenticated addresses could be located and dealt with.
Do you agree at all? How does the current email protocol, system, whatever have to change to to ultimately provide an effective foil to spammers?
Look, I can get upset as the next geek about such a poor policy, but realistically... what would one be doing on a giant flea-market like E-Bay that would be harmful if publicly known?
I would contend that EBay is a "public" space, like a mall or open market, and normal public rules apply: don't do anything there that you don't want people to find out about.
Personally speaking, if someone is stupid enough to be satisfying their particular nasty kink on EBay, they deserve to be outed... as morons. .
I've had a good look inside some world-leading drama studios (eg CBC Canada). The following points were raised in the preamble:
"While the technology exists to cut a play together, I see several possible problems:
High-quality audio recording equipment is expensive, and homes are not ideal environments. Can source material of sufficiently good quality be generated without professional facilities? Since the actors could be widely separated, can they act in isolation in a sufficiently convincing manner that they can be cut together later, in the same way that film actors must pretend that the special effects exist during shooting?
Are there good (royalty-)free sound effect libraries available?
To the first point... high quality computer audio is dirt-cheap these days. A SB Live Value has better record/play fidelity than the majority of pro broadcast gear used in the 60' to 80's. 24-bit cards can be had for under $300. Decent mics are an order of magnitude less expensive than 10 years ago - eg a Chinese large diaphragm condenser for $99 (Nady, Marshall, APEX etc). Very effective multitrack software can be had for well under $100 (example www.ntrack.com). So the gear is THERE!
As far as a recording space...funnily enough, many radio drama studios pride themselves on how realistic a 'room' sound they can create. Amazing how much a living room can be made to sound like... a livingroom!. Ditto for other desired spaces. A quiet basement room in a quiet neighbourhood, late at night... is decently quiet. So ultra-dead $$$ rooms are NOT necessary!
The best sound effects for radio drama are custom-created and recorded, libraries might get used for hard-to-get stuff, or for less critical backgrounds. Again, a guy with a MD recorder (or a rented DAT) and a mic can gather just about any required effect.
The sellers of pro libraries have fallen on hard times. Pro Hollywood-grade libraries are selling at 50% or more off usual price. A good general 10-CD library can be had for under $300 on sale. Check out the Blue Plate Special at www.sound-ideas.com. And there's alot on $ 10 "multimedia" library CDs. And finally, tons of free stuff on the 'Net.
Regarding actor collaboration, yes you will still get the best results with the actors playing off each other in the same studio.
So, it would be easy and rewarding to do this over the Internet. Let's go!
The actor was in about all his scenes, and it's essentially his face you see in the movie. Mostly live sound, too. The actor wore a body suit with indexing marks which were later used as guides for the body animation.
So yes, the actor did perform on-camera, including face, and body movements, and deserves most of the credit for the Gollum performance. CGI just changed the body and reanimated some movements.
Definately the Academy has to accomodate this type of performance. Regardless, in this case the actor was superb, CGI or not.
The article title - "The Year The Music Dies" is sensasionalist and WRONG.
The recording industry has only existed for maybe 100 years. Prior to its inception, (which itself put more musicians out of work than P2P ever will), it was apparently still possible, over the last 10,000 years or so, to produce music, even without a video, a Billboard slot or MTV.
We're witnessing the beginning of the end of a brief 100-year glitch during which the production and distribution of music came to be dominated by the companies that manufacture and distribute physical media.
I look forward to a future where music isn't chosen and produced simply to permit the recording industry to make the most money possible from as few artists as possible.
Some of the big, dumb, overcapitalized corporations will look for certs first, but the majority of kick-ass, going-someplace, industry-leading midsize places go by what you can actually do, based on references and past work.
I haven't been unemployed or under-employed in over 10 years, and I've been able to land some decent positions with top-level companies. I'm starting a new contract next week. All this without a degree or a cert of any kind; I get these gigs because of referrals, industry contacts and a good track record of completed work.
Getting back to the original thread... is there something the author is not telling us about the 2 years unemployed? Why did he/she get off the track? Even through the dot-com crash, most of the talented folk have kept or found gigs.
Anyway, if someone sent out 800 resumes without a nibble, either the industry is trying to tell them something, or there's some terrible karma at work.
So is TPJ saying they can't scrape up a combination of internal money, investors and advertiser commitments to get an additional $36k ??
If they're serious about ressurecting TPJ, they should commit to a year of 5000 subscribers (paid or not), include the previous TPJ subscribers gratis, free subscriptions to as many qualified users as they can reach, and try to regain a loyal user-base again, before getting all whiney about not having enough paid subscribers.
They have to earn back some loyalty that they pissed away.
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Anti-MS mods are at it again - with good reason.
That link proposes a really lame patch - disable the whole @ mechanism - when the problem is with MS's implementation of it, especially when using URLs as parameter.
And you haven't commented on the IE CLSID hole that is the subject of this thread... is this topic just some more MS bashing, hmmm?
The concept has potential, sure...
The technical problem is that the approach breaks Internet standards, particularly the standard that a non-existent domain causes a specific sort of error message which is used widely (eg to test for false email FROM addresses)
The other, more political problem is that Verisign was given the task of "guardian" of those domain registries, to administer them acording to ICANN rules as per the contract. Verisign is violating that trust by exploiting their position of control AND also violating the contract under which they got the contract (and get to make $$ from running it) in the first place. It's open defiance of the body (ICANN) that gave them the business.
So, yes this service idea has legs, but it must be done in such a way that it doesn't break their contract, follows the Internet standards, and is rolled out in a fair, competitive manner.
Boycott them.
I could see alot of reasons why big ISPs or mail networks (eg AOL, HotMail, Yahoo) would consider offering such a facility as part of their service.
Imagine the marketing power of being able to say that all your clients' addresses can be authenticated... that any mail from your domain can be verified.
wealth does not equal jobs, and good jobs is what the world lacks.
There's alot of wealth, but at present the western system is optimised to cause wealth to drift up and get locked-up in the economic upper-crust.
There's tons of work that needs to be done! Examples - teaching arts and music, daycare, senior care, cleaning and renovating neighbourhoods, rehabilitation of ecological damage... but the powers refuse to see these as priorities or raise the minimum wage so that a person can actually make a living at one of these jobs.
The author first slams us for being clever and writing efficient stuff, then tells us the answer is to just run out and program more/ charge less. Oh, and let's run everything on scripting languages too. That'll help...
First, since you're just playing around and not developing commercial games, you can use just about anything, depending on the public exposure and your tolerance for licence issues. There is alot of legally-useable stuff out there anyway.
Your options are:
Free stuff all over the net. Downside is often the quality may be lower,and you don't have 100% confidence that they can legally distribute the sounds.
Low-cost CDs. There's always been a alot of LPs and CDs available to the public. Go to any large CD store. I've picked up some great BBC sound effect CDs, and even the effects from Star Trek. Note that most but not all are licenced for re-use.
Multimedia CD-ROMS - I always see multimedia and clip-art CDR's in the $9.99 bin. Many of these have some reasonable effects.
High-end CDs (see www.sound-ideas.com) this is what most pro's use (as well as foley). These suckers are expensive!! but the ultimate. This market is dying so they often sell the libraries at a lower price - see their Blue-Plate special.
By the way, they have a $99 Flash effects CD geared to the Flash professional, which is good value if you use this sort of stuff frequently. Sound Ideas used to have a killer demo CD that was full of pro effects.
Recording your own. Takes time, but alot of fun. I use a portable MD recorder, then transfer to PC and edit the heck out of them.
It's the same situation as onboard video: onboard sound is now good enough for most basic PC uses. Reality check- if you're happy using two small beige plastic no-name PC speakers powered by a tiny wall-wart, you will not be disappointed by onboard sound.
However, for anything that involves doing alot of audio playback (jukebox, DJ/broadcast, audio/video editing, theatre FX, intense gaming) you will very likely appreciate the quality of a better audio card.
On my PC I run two soundcards - a SB Live Value into some beige speakers mainly for Windoze & game sounds, and a M-Audio 2496 into a mixer, power amp and JBL speakers for doing editing, music-making and album transcription.
If you're going the "old PCs" route for control, forget about distributing the audio. Too much work. Just run a network cable to every room (or go wireless) and use old PC's as clients/players of shared files stored on a central server.
This would work TODAY - you wouldn't have to do any customization of software or hardware.
AudioPCI cards are cheap but great sound for the bucks.
In my mind the only downfall is the noise from a PC unless you go to lengths to silence them, eg put into closets.
We all agree that robbing a bank is a serious crime (... I hope). If a bank is robbed, we blame the robber 100%.
So how would you feel if the bank kept all your money in a paper bag on a shelf behind the teller, where any 8 year-old standing on a chair could get at it? Would you still blame the robber 100% if your money was stolen? or would you at least partially blame the bank for not providing enough security?
Bank robbery is a crime, but we still expect the banks to have effective security and protection of our money. Servers and software must also provide reasonable protection against hacking.
well, better keep reading
It's law that every commercial road vehicle (eg. a $50,000 truck) must receive a quick visual inspection EVERY DAY before heading out.
Especially when they knew that there was the possibility of damaged tiles from the incidents at launch, why wasn't some sort of inspection performed?
I still find it hard to believe that some sort of visual inspection isn't part of the routine, and that inspection wasn't requested when they knew that damage from launch may have occurred.
Maybe X10 will give them some sort of deal on a pallet of wireless cameras.
Bugger. ./ stripped my tags. sorry. No time to re-do
Anyway the point was, have
(students)
and for each (student), list their classes there by some unique ID, then have a separate XML file containing all the classes and their details.
To me your structure is wrong. When designing an XML layout you really have to think through all possible use-cases.
... and so on
Assuming that there would be many attributes attached to students, and the classes for a given student are likely to change, I would go:
abcde
and other personal fixed stuff
bio101
and repeat the class tag for every
class the student is in
more students like above
You then have a separate XML file of classes
Warshawsky (or use an ID here and have a separate XML file of instructors)
_
_
_
You then "join" the different files in the transform to pull out specifics. It's very much like SQL joins from among normalized tables.
If the above seems very difficult, you probably need a good book. I found "The XML Bible" to be useful when I was learning this stuff.
... Like most of folks here, we've successfully used it in several situations, across different languages (Java, Perl, ASP) and different purposes(configuration, data transfer, web page generation, small online data storage, etc). It's da bomb.
XSL/XSLT on the other hand can be a pain to use in anything other than trivial transforms, in my unschooled opinion. The concept of recursive processing is great, but the math/logic syntax available is byzantine (eg "variable" is really a constant).
*sigh* I know this will get modded offtopic, but seriously... anyone agree with me, or do you actually like writing transform logic and processing in XSL? Please comment.
Over 40 years and still waiting. I'm riding globalization, not being run over by it. Clients in Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Italy, and even Vermont.
Lead, follow, or get outta the way.
It's reasonable and inevitable that given the same skillset, the lower-rate worker is preferable. I've had the opportunity to work with engineers from India, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, and they're damn good usually, and they don't whine or throw out attitude like some north americans. I enjoy working with them
How I personally compete and keep my rate up is by:
1) skip the attitude. I love to code, and I try to show it. I jump when an opportunity presents itself. Stay current, be useful.
2) leverage your north american knowledge. I use my business contacts, my local experience, my knowledge of north-american culture and resources, customer expectations, business practices etc, to make myself more valuable to my north-american employers.
If you think that you're owed a high-paying job just because you were born here, welcome to the global economy.
This book sounds very useful and as an inexperienced admin I plan to pick it up... but I think it's important to stress that the software makers of the world (open source or otherwise) should have their installers default to the most secure possible configuration, THEN provide config tools to selectively open it up where necessary, warning what vulnerabilities may occur with the change.
I think it's better and safer that from a clean install an admin has to proceed to unlock things as needed, rather than learning (too late) what s/he should have closed.
You'd have to hire leading PhDs in every field to comb through all the data coming in.
No you wouldn't. We're not all PhD's are we, yet we can spot the turkeys. You just need to consult someone who's halfway knowledgable in a given field, who should be able to quickly find similarities or prior art if it exists. It would be a great part-time job for university undergrads.
Yes programmers get more prestige... so I became one. Employers provided the opportunity to learn Java, so I did. Nonetheless, although the "programmer" tag gets me in the door for jobs, the additional scripting stuff (Perl, Javascript) often adds real value.
But good code is good code. A good scripter is more valuable than a bad programmer.
What really gets me is how out of the vaunted realms of "programming" has come some godawful bastards like XSL syntax and struts logic tags. They are seriously fucked up.
IP blacklisting, intelligent content filters etc. are at best patches on an inadequate system which permits messages from unauthenticated senders.
I (naively) believe the only real solution would require that email senders can be easily authenticated and anonymous/spoofed/aliased messages simply ignored. Authenticated traffic could get prioritised handling at every stage over anonymous (eg 1st class mail vs 4th). In this climate, about everybody would reject anonymous email, and spammers using authenticated addresses could be located and dealt with.
Do you agree at all? How does the current email protocol, system, whatever have to change to to ultimately provide an effective foil to spammers?
Look, I can get upset as the next geek about such a poor policy, but realistically... what would one be doing on a giant flea-market like E-Bay that would be harmful if publicly known?
... as morons.
I would contend that EBay is a "public" space, like a mall or open market, and normal public rules apply: don't do anything there that you don't want people to find out about.
Personally speaking, if someone is stupid enough to be satisfying their particular nasty kink on EBay, they deserve to be outed
.
"While the technology exists to cut a play together, I see several possible problems:
Since the actors could be widely separated, can they act in isolation in a sufficiently convincing manner that they can be cut together later, in the same way that film actors must pretend that the special effects exist during shooting?
To the first point... high quality computer audio is dirt-cheap these days. A SB Live Value has better record/play fidelity than the majority of pro broadcast gear used in the 60' to 80's. 24-bit cards can be had for under $300. Decent mics are an order of magnitude less expensive than 10 years ago - eg a Chinese large diaphragm condenser for $99 (Nady, Marshall, APEX etc). Very effective multitrack software can be had for well under $100 (example www.ntrack.com). So the gear is THERE!
As far as a recording space...funnily enough, many radio drama studios pride themselves on how realistic a 'room' sound they can create. Amazing how much a living room can be made to sound like
The best sound effects for radio drama are custom-created and recorded, libraries might get used for hard-to-get stuff, or for less critical backgrounds. Again, a guy with a MD recorder (or a rented DAT) and a mic can gather just about any required effect.
The sellers of pro libraries have fallen on hard times. Pro Hollywood-grade libraries are selling at 50% or more off usual price. A good general 10-CD library can be had for under $300 on sale. Check out the Blue Plate Special at www.sound-ideas.com. And there's alot on $ 10 "multimedia" library CDs. And finally, tons of free stuff on the 'Net.
Regarding actor collaboration, yes you will still get the best results with the actors playing off each other in the same studio.
So, it would be easy and rewarding to do this over the Internet. Let's go!
You're wrong. Read up on how they did Gollum.
The actor was in about all his scenes, and it's essentially his face you see in the movie. Mostly live sound, too. The actor wore a body suit with indexing marks which were later used as guides for the body animation.
So yes, the actor did perform on-camera, including face, and body movements, and deserves most of the credit for the Gollum performance. CGI just changed the body and reanimated some movements.
Definately the Academy has to accomodate this type of performance. Regardless, in this case the actor was superb, CGI or not.
The article title - "The Year The Music Dies" is sensasionalist and WRONG.
The recording industry has only existed for maybe 100 years. Prior to its inception, (which itself put more musicians out of work than P2P ever will), it was apparently still possible, over the last 10,000 years or so, to produce music, even without a video, a Billboard slot or MTV.
We're witnessing the beginning of the end of a brief 100-year glitch during which the production and distribution of music came to be dominated by the companies that manufacture and distribute physical media.
I look forward to a future where music isn't chosen and produced simply to permit the recording industry to make the most money possible from as few artists as possible.
You're kind of in orbit, too.
Some of the big, dumb, overcapitalized corporations will look for certs first, but the majority of kick-ass, going-someplace, industry-leading midsize places go by what you can actually do, based on references and past work.
I haven't been unemployed or under-employed in over 10 years, and I've been able to land some decent positions with top-level companies. I'm starting a new contract next week. All this without a degree or a cert of any kind; I get these gigs because of referrals, industry contacts and a good track record of completed work.
Getting back to the original thread... is there something the author is not telling us about the 2 years unemployed? Why did he/she get off the track? Even through the dot-com crash, most of the talented folk have kept or found gigs.
Anyway, if someone sent out 800 resumes without a nibble, either the industry is trying to tell them something, or there's some terrible karma at work.
3,000 readers * $12.00 subscription = $36,000.
So is TPJ saying they can't scrape up a combination of internal money, investors and advertiser commitments to get an additional $36k ??
If they're serious about ressurecting TPJ, they should commit to a year of 5000 subscribers (paid or not), include the previous TPJ subscribers gratis, free subscriptions to as many qualified users as they can reach, and try to regain a loyal user-base again, before getting all whiney about not having enough paid subscribers.
They have to earn back some loyalty that they pissed away.