Now that sounds like an outfit that has their shit together. And I'd guess the original publishers, where they still exist, are happy to get some residual sales rather than nothing whatever, and at no distribution cost.
So you have permanent access to everything you've bought, so if you lose your download no worries? That's a very good policy.
Methinks I need to go make me an account (...done), yep. I'm not really that much of a gamer (I play DOOM, DOOM, and more DOOM, with no end in sight now that there's a *good* automatic level maker) but there are always a few oldies a person never tried because $40 wasn't feasible when it was new, but $5 or so is what-the-hell money. I still have a DOS/Win98 box and nothing newer than XP, so antiquity is hardly a disadvantage:)
(They do have a gawdawful slow script on the long listing page, tho... but geeze, some of everything. I know a lot of people who'll like this. Thanks!!)
Not bad!! Gives you a little disposable income anyway, and I like the thought of cycling it back through the community. Likely a lot of indie musicians would be very happy to do half that well. You might look into online radio if you haven't -- that's where I've found nearly all the new stuff I've come to like in the past few years.
Yeah, we'd all like to sell like NIN but truth is that sort of thing is an anomaly. However, if anyone wishes to donate similar funds, I won't turn them down either:)
Anyway, I'll give your stuff a listen later on... that's the nice thing about torrents, if I like it now I've got a permanent reminder, if I don't no loss and no hard feelings.
I picked up one of my.coms (that I actually use for regular stuff) after some squatter let it lapse, tho the.net is still squatted -- but apparently to no great success as like your example, it isn't even parked anywhere. I gather bulk domains can cost as little as a buck per year, but still, I'd think it hardly worthwhile to keep a stable of stuff that's not even worth a parking page, so it's not even advertising itself. I wonder if some such domains just get lost in the shuffle when a squatter has thousands of 'em, way too many to remember what they've got or even automate their management to best profit. (As you say, throwing good money after bad and all that.)
I picked up another after a company that had used it went out of business and let it lapse... I'd used the same business name years before they existed, tho it's not really doing anything useful at the moment.
I've got several 6-letter domains, but it never occurred to me to think in those terms -- more like "Is this a name I can use, or that represents *me*, or that I like simply for itself?" and the length is whatever it is.
I don't think that's what the AC meant. I took the comment to mean that classical composition turns these mathematical relationships into the passion we hear as music, and that classical includes far more study of those relationships, and of how they work, than does any popular music.
Some of the more-layered electronica approaches it, tho I think is built more by 'playing it by ear' than from being aware of how the mathematical relationships influence its impact on the listener (types of chords, etc.) My grok is that many of the great composers of yesteryear were VERY aware of these mathematics, and of how that affected the composition.
While most of the time I'd agree with you, I've heard it go both ways -- synth music filled with passion and the slight irregularities that express that passion, and real-performer that could have been a robot for all the life that was in it.
And some that swing both ways, depending: ordinarily, Vanessa Mae is technically perfect, but about as interesting as a metronome. But that album produced by Mike Batt is different -- you can tell that he challenged her and in one cut, even pissed her off -- her playing is ANGRY, and for that one cut, inspired. It's the only time I've heard her play with passion, or in any way distinguishable from a robot.
Also, orchestral music on CD bothers me (to the point that I can't listen to it), because the ambient sound and depth ("the sense that the music is surrounded by velvet") is lost. Some are very distinctive when heard in full, such as the ambience of the Chicago Symphony at home in Orchestra Hall.
Aside from the "You betcha" agree... thanks for the Good Old Games link... dang, I just missed a promo I'da bought, too. Oh well, I'm sure it'll come around again. Can't beat cheap AND easy.
I'm curious as to how many copies you've sold (I just looked at your site). Tho I'm sure the answer is "more than if no one had ever heard of me":)
Personally I like the model of "radio quality MP3 free, high quality for a very small price, CD for a bit more, fancy added shit for a lot more". Makes it easy to check out new stuff and upgrade to the degree that you wish, and it certainly seems to work well where it's been implemented. (Didn't that NIN album of a couple years back get something like $6M worth of sales from such a model?)
Okay, I can see spending the money for what chicken.coop is, because that one makes sense (good pun, appropriate content), but otherwise... this falls under More Money Than Brains.
But so do most of the alternative TLDs... or else under "What were they thinking??!"
So if you want to register flewthe.coop, feel free, cuz I ain't gonna do it;)
No, domains weren't automatically private, but they pushed the feature hard in their upsell crap. Originally because it was an extra charge, later I'd guess as a convenient form of "customer loyalty, like it or not". I don't know if it was ever the default for new registrations, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was for a while, and many people would simply not notice yet another tickbox among the clutter.
At any rate, what with their accumulation of bad policies, they've lost me for good; I spirited all my domains away to 1&1, who were already making me happy with good hosting. Life is much easier now, and feels less risky, too.:)
I use 1&1 (see my other posts above) for both domains and hosting, and am totally happy with them. I know folks using Dreamhost and Lunarpages, likewise happy. And yes, I am a *former* GoDaddy customer (over 10 years), mainly because I got sick of being assaulted by their upselling shit, but partly increasing unease over some of their business practices.
I suspect one reason I had no trouble when I transferred my domains away from GoDaddy was that the first thing I said to their phone guy was something like "I understand some people have had trouble getting their domains transferred to another registrar" (IOW, put 'em on notice that I knew enough to complain to ICANN if necessary) which got me an immediate "no way, no trouble" reply, and other than some foot-dragging on the authorization codes, it did go smoothly.
Actually, the parent post is correct; that was why I chose NOT to use their privacy service even after it became free -- because when I read the fine print, I learned that GoDaddy became the OWNER of the domain, and held it for me as a sort of proxy. But I would no longer OWN it.
Conversely, when I asked 1&1 (my current registrar) about "private" domains, I was flatly informed that I would still own it, they just hide my contact info (it still goes to me, but via an email proxy).
About a year ago I moved all my domains from GoDaddy, where they'd been since 1998, to 1&1, where I'd had web hosting since 2003 or so. GoDaddy was increasingly irritating (does their upselling never end??!); 1&1 was nice to start with and has done nothing but get better (got more for the same money as time went on, no marketing BS, and tech support always has Real Clues).
Having hosting and domains in the same place makes it real easy -- I use 1&1's control panel to point each domain at a subdirectory, and It Just Works. So far zero complaints from me.
Also, if a payment gets messed up (like from a dead credit card), they don't just nuke your account or freeze your domains; you get an inquiry from Billing, and a chance to fix it. They also make it easy to renew your expired domains, if you miss the date.
That's a mighty specific location:)...do you live around there? (I grew up in Great Falls.) I've been on just about every other road out that way, but somehow I've managed to avoid that stretch between Billings and Forsyth, so I'll have to take your word for it.
First time we crossed MT on Hwy 12, back about 1962ish, I forget if it was Circle or Jordan, but the highway was gravel through town. I guess it's been paved by now.:)
Crossing South Dakota is weird. It's flat as a board for miles and miles, then when you get to the Missouri there's this gouge like Paul Bunyan staggered along dragging his axe. Down, down, down, across the river, up, up, up, and then flat as a board again all the way to the end of the world. I was kinda surprised not to see any speedtraps there, considering North Dakota just past the MT border is the speedtrap capital of the universe. Maybe they're just better hidden in SD, or more likely fail cuz there's nowhere to hide.:)
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way, I can't wait to look in the mirror cause I get better looking each day To know me is to love me I must be a hell of a man. Oh Lord it's hard to be humble but I'm doing the best that I can.
SL Baur says, "But about the old series, the only criteria that women on the cast had to meet was to sleep with Roddenberry (he was married to Nurse Chapel. Uhura, Janice Rand, etc. were mistresses). How did the men get casted?"
I misread that last as "How did the men get castrated?"...which may not be far from the truth!;)
Also, any such program should be coupled with a hard requirement that speed limits NOT be lowered. I can just see the state saying "We can make a whole lot more money if we make it necessary for everyone to buy a pass, since we lowered the speed limit everywhere to 5mph!!"
Well, that exaggerates, but you get the idea. But I can see it being lowered 5-10mph in high-traffic areas solely to make more people buy the pass, much as redlight cameras led to yellow light timings being shortened to ensure that more people would get tickets.
I don't exactly follow films, but I never heard of it til today myself, right here and now. Nearly all of the other films mentioned in various comments, I'd at least heard of (tho I've seen very few of them).
This is why on average, fines for very similar petty crimes, like shoplifting or writing bad checks, amount to 3 times the original value. Enough to discourage most folks and to penalize those who get caught.
So the fine for ducking out of a movie ticket should be about 3 times the price of a ticket -- not several hundred to several thousand times the price of a ticket, as per the DMCA. Oh, but *theoretically* you made a whole bunch of OTHER people not buy tickets too -- well, make each one of them pay 3x the cost of a ticket. As it is, they're expecting to make EACH ONE pay 100x the price of a ticket, so they're multiple-dipping all the way down the chain of downloaders.
Use non-union grips, cameramen, etc. and your costs fall by about 75% right there, with no loss of quality. This is exactly why so much television production moved from Hollywood to Vancouver.
If filesharing is why films do badly, then what was Iron Man's problem? Probably the most seeds I've ever seen for *anything*, yet it did well enough at the box office that here comes a sequel already!!
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Now that sounds like an outfit that has their shit together. And I'd guess the original publishers, where they still exist, are happy to get some residual sales rather than nothing whatever, and at no distribution cost.
So you have permanent access to everything you've bought, so if you lose your download no worries? That's a very good policy.
Methinks I need to go make me an account (...done), yep. I'm not really that much of a gamer (I play DOOM, DOOM, and more DOOM, with no end in sight now that there's a *good* automatic level maker) but there are always a few oldies a person never tried because $40 wasn't feasible when it was new, but $5 or so is what-the-hell money. I still have a DOS/Win98 box and nothing newer than XP, so antiquity is hardly a disadvantage :)
(They do have a gawdawful slow script on the long listing page, tho... but geeze, some of everything. I know a lot of people who'll like this. Thanks!!)
Not bad!! Gives you a little disposable income anyway, and I like the thought of cycling it back through the community. Likely a lot of indie musicians would be very happy to do half that well. You might look into online radio if you haven't -- that's where I've found nearly all the new stuff I've come to like in the past few years.
Yeah, we'd all like to sell like NIN but truth is that sort of thing is an anomaly. However, if anyone wishes to donate similar funds, I won't turn them down either :)
Anyway, I'll give your stuff a listen later on... that's the nice thing about torrents, if I like it now I've got a permanent reminder, if I don't no loss and no hard feelings.
I picked up one of my .coms (that I actually use for regular stuff) after some squatter let it lapse, tho the .net is still squatted -- but apparently to no great success as like your example, it isn't even parked anywhere. I gather bulk domains can cost as little as a buck per year, but still, I'd think it hardly worthwhile to keep a stable of stuff that's not even worth a parking page, so it's not even advertising itself. I wonder if some such domains just get lost in the shuffle when a squatter has thousands of 'em, way too many to remember what they've got or even automate their management to best profit. (As you say, throwing good money after bad and all that.)
I picked up another after a company that had used it went out of business and let it lapse... I'd used the same business name years before they existed, tho it's not really doing anything useful at the moment.
I've got several 6-letter domains, but it never occurred to me to think in those terms -- more like "Is this a name I can use, or that represents *me*, or that I like simply for itself?" and the length is whatever it is.
I don't think that's what the AC meant. I took the comment to mean that classical composition turns these mathematical relationships into the passion we hear as music, and that classical includes far more study of those relationships, and of how they work, than does any popular music.
Some of the more-layered electronica approaches it, tho I think is built more by 'playing it by ear' than from being aware of how the mathematical relationships influence its impact on the listener (types of chords, etc.) My grok is that many of the great composers of yesteryear were VERY aware of these mathematics, and of how that affected the composition.
While most of the time I'd agree with you, I've heard it go both ways -- synth music filled with passion and the slight irregularities that express that passion, and real-performer that could have been a robot for all the life that was in it.
And some that swing both ways, depending: ordinarily, Vanessa Mae is technically perfect, but about as interesting as a metronome. But that album produced by Mike Batt is different -- you can tell that he challenged her and in one cut, even pissed her off -- her playing is ANGRY, and for that one cut, inspired. It's the only time I've heard her play with passion, or in any way distinguishable from a robot.
Also, orchestral music on CD bothers me (to the point that I can't listen to it), because the ambient sound and depth ("the sense that the music is surrounded by velvet") is lost. Some are very distinctive when heard in full, such as the ambience of the Chicago Symphony at home in Orchestra Hall.
Aside from the "You betcha" agree... thanks for the Good Old Games link... dang, I just missed a promo I'da bought, too. Oh well, I'm sure it'll come around again. Can't beat cheap AND easy.
I'm curious as to how many copies you've sold (I just looked at your site). Tho I'm sure the answer is "more than if no one had ever heard of me" :)
Personally I like the model of "radio quality MP3 free, high quality for a very small price, CD for a bit more, fancy added shit for a lot more". Makes it easy to check out new stuff and upgrade to the degree that you wish, and it certainly seems to work well where it's been implemented. (Didn't that NIN album of a couple years back get something like $6M worth of sales from such a model?)
*cough*gasp*choke*
Okay, I can see spending the money for what chicken.coop is, because that one makes sense (good pun, appropriate content), but otherwise... this falls under More Money Than Brains.
But so do most of the alternative TLDs... or else under "What were they thinking??!"
So if you want to register flewthe.coop, feel free, cuz I ain't gonna do it ;)
No, domains weren't automatically private, but they pushed the feature hard in their upsell crap. Originally because it was an extra charge, later I'd guess as a convenient form of "customer loyalty, like it or not". I don't know if it was ever the default for new registrations, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was for a while, and many people would simply not notice yet another tickbox among the clutter.
At any rate, what with their accumulation of bad policies, they've lost me for good; I spirited all my domains away to 1&1, who were already making me happy with good hosting. Life is much easier now, and feels less risky, too. :)
I use 1&1 (see my other posts above) for both domains and hosting, and am totally happy with them. I know folks using Dreamhost and Lunarpages, likewise happy. And yes, I am a *former* GoDaddy customer (over 10 years), mainly because I got sick of being assaulted by their upselling shit, but partly increasing unease over some of their business practices.
I suspect one reason I had no trouble when I transferred my domains away from GoDaddy was that the first thing I said to their phone guy was something like "I understand some people have had trouble getting their domains transferred to another registrar" (IOW, put 'em on notice that I knew enough to complain to ICANN if necessary) which got me an immediate "no way, no trouble" reply, and other than some foot-dragging on the authorization codes, it did go smoothly.
Right, but I'm wondering if there's some exit strategy here beyond the obvious. Thoughts?
Actually, the parent post is correct; that was why I chose NOT to use their privacy service even after it became free -- because when I read the fine print, I learned that GoDaddy became the OWNER of the domain, and held it for me as a sort of proxy. But I would no longer OWN it.
Conversely, when I asked 1&1 (my current registrar) about "private" domains, I was flatly informed that I would still own it, they just hide my contact info (it still goes to me, but via an email proxy).
Amazingly, chicken.coop is actually a website about a chicken-processing co-op.
I can think of one other .coop worth having, but can't see why I'd want to spend the $8. :)
About a year ago I moved all my domains from GoDaddy, where they'd been since 1998, to 1&1, where I'd had web hosting since 2003 or so. GoDaddy was increasingly irritating (does their upselling never end??!); 1&1 was nice to start with and has done nothing but get better (got more for the same money as time went on, no marketing BS, and tech support always has Real Clues).
Having hosting and domains in the same place makes it real easy -- I use 1&1's control panel to point each domain at a subdirectory, and It Just Works. So far zero complaints from me.
Also, if a payment gets messed up (like from a dead credit card), they don't just nuke your account or freeze your domains; you get an inquiry from Billing, and a chance to fix it. They also make it easy to renew your expired domains, if you miss the date.
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That's a mighty specific location :) ...do you live around there? (I grew up in Great Falls.) I've been on just about every other road out that way, but somehow I've managed to avoid that stretch between Billings and Forsyth, so I'll have to take your word for it.
First time we crossed MT on Hwy 12, back about 1962ish, I forget if it was Circle or Jordan, but the highway was gravel through town. I guess it's been paved by now. :)
Crossing South Dakota is weird. It's flat as a board for miles and miles, then when you get to the Missouri there's this gouge like Paul Bunyan staggered along dragging his axe. Down, down, down, across the river, up, up, up, and then flat as a board again all the way to the end of the world. I was kinda surprised not to see any speedtraps there, considering North Dakota just past the MT border is the speedtrap capital of the universe. Maybe they're just better hidden in SD, or more likely fail cuz there's nowhere to hide. :)
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
when you're perfect in every way,
I can't wait to look in the mirror
cause I get better looking each day
To know me is to love me
I must be a hell of a man.
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
but I'm doing the best that I can.
-- Mac Davis
SL Baur says, "But about the old series, the only criteria that women on the cast had to meet was to sleep with Roddenberry (he was married to Nurse Chapel. Uhura, Janice Rand, etc. were mistresses). How did the men get casted?"
I misread that last as "How did the men get castrated?" ...which may not be far from the truth! ;)
Might be a short trip, considering even the Interstates in Montana seldom travel in a straight line for more than a couple miles at a stretch. ;)
"I drive Hwy 93. Pray for me."
-- MT Highway Patrol bumper sticker
Also, any such program should be coupled with a hard requirement that speed limits NOT be lowered. I can just see the state saying "We can make a whole lot more money if we make it necessary for everyone to buy a pass, since we lowered the speed limit everywhere to 5mph!!"
Well, that exaggerates, but you get the idea. But I can see it being lowered 5-10mph in high-traffic areas solely to make more people buy the pass, much as redlight cameras led to yellow light timings being shortened to ensure that more people would get tickets.
Beyond that, I totally agree with you.
[brandishing boxful of punch cards and Fortran manuals]
That's easy: "Hey kids, mow my lawn and I'll give you a quarter!!"
Which was actually how I interpreted your first remark... a shorthand for "I don't know it today, but I'll know it by tomorrow".
I don't exactly follow films, but I never heard of it til today myself, right here and now. Nearly all of the other films mentioned in various comments, I'd at least heard of (tho I've seen very few of them).
This is why on average, fines for very similar petty crimes, like shoplifting or writing bad checks, amount to 3 times the original value. Enough to discourage most folks and to penalize those who get caught.
So the fine for ducking out of a movie ticket should be about 3 times the price of a ticket -- not several hundred to several thousand times the price of a ticket, as per the DMCA. Oh, but *theoretically* you made a whole bunch of OTHER people not buy tickets too -- well, make each one of them pay 3x the cost of a ticket. As it is, they're expecting to make EACH ONE pay 100x the price of a ticket, so they're multiple-dipping all the way down the chain of downloaders.
Use non-union grips, cameramen, etc. and your costs fall by about 75% right there, with no loss of quality. This is exactly why so much television production moved from Hollywood to Vancouver.
If filesharing is why films do badly, then what was Iron Man's problem? Probably the most seeds I've ever seen for *anything*, yet it did well enough at the box office that here comes a sequel already!!