Change:= Death (for some) Change:= Life (for others)
Make money? A living? Off mp3's????
1. Direct CD sales. Mp3's can and often do lead to requests for actual product. Record your own album at a home or local studio, sell your CD direct for $5 - $7 dollars. Sell cheap, and people will buy.
2. Vinyl. Press a single. The world-wide collector market for new vinyl is still huge.
3. Gigs, gigs and more gigs. Now you have one more thing to put on that poster before you slap it on the neighbor's dog: "Check out our mp3 at www.free_homepage_.com!" If your music sucks, of course, this will work against you...
3b. When soliciting gigs, you can simply give the club person a url, and they can check out a song without your sending them a thing. Print up band business cards with the url instead...
4. Merchandise. T-shirts and stickers for direct sale...
5. Yes, your Average Listener may stop buying music altogether, but with fewer 'middlemen' between an artist and his/her/their fan(s), and vastly lower production costs for the music itself (home/small studios are now FULLY CAPABLE of producing professional-quality output, for $3000 or less,) a smaller body of paying fans will nonetheless make a larger contribution to an aritst's well-being...
6. Some artists WILL suffer. C'est la vie. Is it any more wrong/tragic for THEM to suffer when the industry changes than it was for your Uncle Joe to suffer when the steel mill closed?
7. The next generation of artists will benefit, in an arena where a LOT of bands and musicians make a living, but only very few become horrendously wealthy.
8. (gotta go home now!)
What is it, I mean, really?
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It's a lot like Red Dwarf, except COMPLETELY different...
Every castle needs its Court Jester. Like it or not, "MEEPT" is our Jester.
He/she/it should be given an unchangeable status of +99999, provided the priviledge only be abused in ways that would be fairly and democratically irksome and/or distressing to ALL SlashDot readers accross the board. This would provide much needed comic relief in times of strife and quite possibly bring about an end to World Hunger and Y2K paranoia.
As I well know, sitting here quietly meditating on the many childish, uninformative and inflammatory postings I have penned in the past, leaving me devoid of honor in this time of great change...
Ah well. Fsck it. Now I'm trooly committed! (or should be, anyways...)
1. To gain Moderator status, one only needs to re-register as a new account, reguardless of past transgressions. (I haven't actually tested this, so I could be fullofit)
2. Moderators could nullify comments by giving them a ridiculously low threshold. How low can it go? It seems to me you only need a few levels in either direction. I'd like to know that at "x" level (-3?) I'm guaranteed to see anything and everything.
That's it! Exciting changes. Should evoke lot's of "exciting" responses!
I have noticed that I no longer need to hit "Reload" to see which of my messages have been deleted by the moderator;^D
Minor nit: After starting a new post, if I hit "Preview" then "Back" and then "Forward" I get a "Data not found" or some such error. Dealing with this change is not a problem though, (simple change of habit) and is probably an unavoidable side-effect of the html auto-update (however the heck that works).
Overall, the level of craft and thoughtfulness in this site amazes me. Well done!
At the console, that is, while gpm is running. Do you see a cursor on screen? If no, kill gpm and try re-running it with "gpm -t msdos". If you see a cursor now, then your mouse works okay, and you need to start looking at your X config file, and (like the other poster said) make sure you kill gpm before running X.
If you DON'T see a cursor when you move the mouse at the console, (while running "gpm -t msdos") then you need to check the mouse itself, cable, connections and whatnot, or try other mouse types ("gpm -t ps2").
If you can get your mouse to work at the console with gpm, then you should be able to get it to go with X.
His pal could have shared a cdrom drive on another machine via NFS and installed that way. I got SuSE 5.2 onto an old Compaq notebook that way without a hitch. I *did* have to invest in a pcmcia card (which I wanted anyways) and tweak a database (?) file (i forget the name) with a couple of details regarding the new card (AmbiCom). SuSE 5.3+ now covers this card BTW...
PLIP also works well if you don't have a pcmcia card.
Granted, tho', no new user could be expected to figure this stuff out on the fly.
I wish the writer had given greater details as to what went wrong with the laptop install. Was it mainly the pcmcia drivers? Does RH 5.2 include these?
Can't help feeling (as I'm sure others must) that "...if *I* was there, that sucker'd be up and running!"
If you have a sound-capable laptop with cd-rom (I realize, of course, that these don't grow on trees!) you could 'dock' it on top of the stereo without spoiling the decor, and get a y-cable...
If we allow the courts to exercise this kind of leverage over net content, even though it appears to be in 'everyone's favor', what will be regulated next? Porn? Mp3's? Objectionable language? Sexism? Racism? Improper server configuration? Bad spelling? (okay, I'm all for jailing people on the last one!) Each of these is a 'hot spot' on someone's hit-list, but in the end it spells out an attempt to reign in and 'civilize' the anarchy of the web.
You consider yourselves sophisticated users? And you can't deflect SPAM?
Shame on you!
Jail time for SPAM appeals to my childish sense of justice, but bodes ill in the long term for everyone.
Congratulations to the ACLU (and I'm a republican!) for standing up for what they think is right.
Slashdot Mirror
...Plays a little melody!
It's more Fun To Compute.
Will they allow camcorders?
No need. It's re-designing itself.
Change := Death (for some) := Life (for others)
Change
Make money? A living? Off mp3's????
1. Direct CD sales. Mp3's can and often do lead to requests for actual product. Record your own album at a home or local studio, sell your CD direct for $5 - $7 dollars. Sell cheap, and people will buy.
2. Vinyl. Press a single. The world-wide collector market for new vinyl is still huge.
3. Gigs, gigs and more gigs. Now you have one more thing to put on that poster before you slap it on the neighbor's dog: "Check out our mp3 at www.free_homepage_.com!" If your music sucks, of course, this will work against you...
3b. When soliciting gigs, you can simply give the club person a url, and they can check out a song without your sending them a thing. Print up band business cards with the url instead...
4. Merchandise. T-shirts and stickers for direct sale...
5. Yes, your Average Listener may stop buying music altogether, but with fewer 'middlemen' between an artist and his/her/their fan(s), and vastly lower production costs for the music itself (home/small studios are now FULLY CAPABLE of producing professional-quality output, for $3000 or less,) a smaller body of paying fans will nonetheless make a larger contribution to an aritst's well-being...
6. Some artists WILL suffer. C'est la vie. Is it any more wrong/tragic for THEM to suffer when the industry changes than it was for your Uncle Joe to suffer when the steel mill closed?
7. The next generation of artists will benefit, in an arena where a LOT of bands and musicians make a living, but only very few become horrendously wealthy.
8. (gotta go home now!)
It's a lot like Red Dwarf, except COMPLETELY different...
Every castle needs its Court Jester. Like it or not, "MEEPT" is our Jester.
He/she/it should be given an unchangeable status of +99999, provided the priviledge only be abused in ways that would be fairly and democratically irksome and/or distressing to ALL SlashDot readers accross the board. This would provide much needed comic relief in times of strife and quite possibly bring about an end to World Hunger and Y2K paranoia.
Humbly,
Skip Kent
As I well know, sitting here quietly meditating on the many childish, uninformative and inflammatory postings I have penned in the past, leaving me devoid of honor in this time of great change...
Ah well. Fsck it. Now I'm trooly committed!
(or should be, anyways...)
Ronin Forever!
>:^)
1. To gain Moderator status, one only needs to re-register as a new account, reguardless of past transgressions. (I haven't actually tested this, so I could be fullofit)
2. Moderators could nullify comments by giving them a ridiculously low threshold. How low can it go? It seems to me you only need a few levels in either direction. I'd like to know that at "x" level (-3?) I'm guaranteed to see anything and everything.
That's it! Exciting changes. Should evoke lot's of "exciting" responses!
Yeah! They rock!
Just a hunch. They talk about visiting the store and all that. 16 chars.
pword must "cock" or "crap" or "fist" or something...
; )
...Kernel Hacking in the Tub!
>:^D
I have noticed that I no longer need to hit "Reload" to see which of my messages have been deleted by the moderator ;^D
Minor nit: After starting a new post, if I hit "Preview" then "Back" and then "Forward" I get a "Data not found" or some such error. Dealing with this change is not a problem though, (simple change of habit) and is probably an unavoidable side-effect of the html auto-update (however the heck that works).
Overall, the level of craft and thoughtfulness in this site amazes me. Well done!
I'm inspired!
I've got Blender loaded, but have been TOTALLY intimidated by the interface. I might just have to pay off my credit card and order me that book!
At the console, that is, while gpm is running. Do you see a cursor on screen? If no, kill gpm and try re-running it with "gpm -t msdos". If you see a cursor now, then your mouse works okay, and you need to start looking at your X config file, and (like the other poster said) make sure you kill gpm before running X.
If you DON'T see a cursor when you move the mouse at the console, (while running "gpm -t msdos") then you need to check the mouse itself, cable, connections and whatnot, or try other mouse types ("gpm -t ps2").
If you can get your mouse to work at the console with gpm, then you should be able to get it to go with X.
Good luck!
God has many deep and meaningful messages for you which will explain everything, but you have to see him personally.
Bon voyage!
See the PLIP howto, or try the SuSE boot disk, which will pretty much take you by the hand.
His pal could have shared a cdrom drive on another machine via NFS and installed that way. I got SuSE 5.2 onto an old Compaq notebook that way without a hitch. I *did* have to invest in a pcmcia card (which I wanted anyways) and tweak a database (?) file (i forget the name) with a couple of details regarding the new card (AmbiCom). SuSE 5.3+ now covers this card BTW...
PLIP also works well if you don't have a pcmcia card.
Granted, tho', no new user could be expected to figure this stuff out on the fly.
I wish the writer had given greater details as to what went wrong with the laptop install. Was it mainly the pcmcia drivers? Does RH 5.2 include these?
Can't help feeling (as I'm sure others must) that "...if *I* was there, that sucker'd be up and running!"
If you have a sound-capable laptop with cd-rom (I realize, of course, that these don't grow on trees!) you could 'dock' it on top of the stereo without spoiling the decor, and get a y-cable...
There were some very interesting comments here yesterday, but now they're all gone. I looked as far down as threshold -15, but no change.
Oh well. I'll say it again.
Eat My Shorts.
;)
No, wait. Sorry 'bout that. I totally don't.
Restricting access to YOUR server is YOUR responsibility.
You hook up your computer to the 'information highway' by choice. You repel unwanted guests by turning them away at the door.
If we allow the courts to exercise this kind of leverage over net content, even though it appears to be in 'everyone's favor', what will be regulated next? Porn? Mp3's? Objectionable language? Sexism? Racism? Improper server configuration? Bad spelling? (okay, I'm all for jailing people on the last one!) Each of these is a 'hot spot' on someone's hit-list, but in the end it spells out an attempt to reign in and 'civilize' the anarchy of the web.
You consider yourselves sophisticated users? And you can't deflect SPAM?
Shame on you!
Jail time for SPAM appeals to my childish sense of justice, but bodes ill in the long term for everyone.
Congratulations to the ACLU (and I'm a republican!) for standing up for what they think is right.
Navel Gazer