This is exactly what I'm talking about up above. Bit-track (new verb:) those indies on an indie-ONLY tracker so the signal to noise ratio won't drown them out. Who would ever find your film on TPB? No one, since they'd have to hit it by sheer chance. Who would find it on an indie-only site? Well, at least there you've got a fair chance to be seen.
BTW you might want to put the link in your sig so it gets seen more often. That's where I found my fave internet radio -- in someone's sig.
I couldn't get Last.fm to work here so I'm not sure how this is controlled there, but... seems to me that a simple weighting system would fix that issue. If you want to hear a track more or less, raise or lower its "personal score".
If the problem is being lost in the crowd -- move away from the crowd.
So instead of relying on a tracker like TPB that carries absolutely everything from everywhere, run a public tracker that handles ONLY indies.
--Filter out the big-name stuff. --Make it easy to FIND the new artists rather than having them lost behind the high-volume clutter from the label artists. --Make sure the filesharing world knows your tracker exists. Publicize it everywhere P2P is discussed. --Make sure everyone knows right up front that no one will be sued for downloading/sharing from your artists. --Let people post reviews and comments, just like TPB does. Word of mouth is important. --Offer links to concert tickets, CDs, T-shirts, whatever each indy label or artist has for sale, and do it from the review page so folks can find it again easily. --Offer inexpensive site subscriptions in exchange for whatever perks seem good, with some percentage being paid to the artists who participate.
And of course, sell ads just like TPB does. If you need to pay a percentage to the artists to attract them, do so. Likely the same artists who already allow royalty-free use for internet radio would be receptive to the concept.
An AC replies, ======= Is their torrent tracker used for copyrighted content, or are they just serving things like Linux distros, public domain works or their own materials which they have a right to distribute?
Let's imagine Google finds that in your Gmail box you're keeping a lot of pirated warez.
What's going to happen? =======
Let's imagine Google doesn't look. See no evil and all that. Now what?
For the criminals, the solution seems simple -- observe someone using a cell phone, target them, and use THEIR phone to make your ransom demands. Why bother with your own phone when your victim's phone is so handy and clearly works just fine?
Who cares? Hardly anything uses all our CPU or RAM anymore. So my interest is more in... can I stand the pace it runs at? Increasingly, with newer software... the answer is NO, and buying bleeding edge hardware just to break even on performance is a poor tradeoff.
Maybe DOS ruined me forever, but I still expect the computer to respond pretty much instantly.
[Side note: Yesterday I tried AbiWord for the first time. Why on earth does it take 2 minutes to load a simple 30k textfile?? I know this lowly P3 is ancient, but that's ridiculous.]
What about the sort of passive-aggressive behaviour that I've seen in so many cops -- even when they're NOT on the job? Where they sortof over-fill the space they're in, as if to force everyone else to give ground? Maybe it's trained, I dunno, but it certainly produces a perception of bullying.
Don't insult my Win98 box that way; it thinks crashes are a rare and odd event:)
But otherwise... right on. There are an awful lot more "ain't broke, no need to fix" systems out there in Real Userland than the lovers of latest-and-greatest care to know about.
I'm wondering if this will affect Seamonkey, which so far has had sense enough to retain the features that FF got rid of (or now makes you go find for yourself)??
I'd settle for "We didn't intentionally break anything, and it SHOULD run as well on your old OS as it ever did, but we can't guarantee it." Those of us who use an old OS (through preference or necessity) are used to that, but what grinds us is being told "Tough shit, it won't work at all any more."
Hadn't heard of this, but it would be VERY useful, and less cumbersome than a VM on an older box... there are still specialty apps in use that demand Win98 or Win2K, and are too expensive to casually replace.
It was pretty durn simple -- a chunk of road conduit -- heavy corrugated steel, about 1/4" thick, 3' diameter, 3' tall (standing on one end cylinder-style). It had a big dent at the bottom which served as an air vent. I'd throw in a few boxes worth of cardboard to get it going, then feeding it a bag or two of trash. I covered it with a chunk of grating to keep the flying cinders in.
That body you want to get rid of probably would have overwhelmed it. Might be better to use a steel mill.;)
I dunno... sounds like he got it backwards regardless. You're supposed to plunge the flaming-hot newly-forged sword into the torso, not the torso into the sword!!
Ha... I write SF. I also run a kennel. I think up my best stuff while shovelling shit. Must be an inverse relationship between amount of brain actually needed for a task, and how much winds up allotted to completely contrary tasks.
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This is exactly what I'm talking about up above. Bit-track (new verb :) those indies on an indie-ONLY tracker so the signal to noise ratio won't drown them out. Who would ever find your film on TPB? No one, since they'd have to hit it by sheer chance. Who would find it on an indie-only site? Well, at least there you've got a fair chance to be seen.
BTW you might want to put the link in your sig so it gets seen more often. That's where I found my fave internet radio -- in someone's sig.
I couldn't get Last.fm to work here so I'm not sure how this is controlled there, but... seems to me that a simple weighting system would fix that issue. If you want to hear a track more or less, raise or lower its "personal score".
If the problem is being lost in the crowd -- move away from the crowd.
So instead of relying on a tracker like TPB that carries absolutely everything from everywhere, run a public tracker that handles ONLY indies.
--Filter out the big-name stuff.
--Make it easy to FIND the new artists rather than having them lost behind the high-volume clutter from the label artists.
--Make sure the filesharing world knows your tracker exists. Publicize it everywhere P2P is discussed.
--Make sure everyone knows right up front that no one will be sued for downloading/sharing from your artists.
--Let people post reviews and comments, just like TPB does. Word of mouth is important.
--Offer links to concert tickets, CDs, T-shirts, whatever each indy label or artist has for sale, and do it from the review page so folks can find it again easily.
--Offer inexpensive site subscriptions in exchange for whatever perks seem good, with some percentage being paid to the artists who participate.
And of course, sell ads just like TPB does. If you need to pay a percentage to the artists to attract them, do so. Likely the same artists who already allow royalty-free use for internet radio would be receptive to the concept.
An AC replies,
=======
Is their torrent tracker used for copyrighted content, or are they just serving things like Linux distros, public domain works or their own materials which they have a right to distribute?
Let's imagine Google finds that in your Gmail box you're keeping a lot of pirated warez.
What's going to happen?
=======
Let's imagine Google doesn't look. See no evil and all that. Now what?
Serious question: What if Google DID run a torrent tracker? Let's not get into the content it indexes, let's just assume they do so. Now what?
I can't help wondering if you're referring to the DATA, or to the LAW...
For the criminals, the solution seems simple -- observe someone using a cell phone, target them, and use THEIR phone to make your ransom demands. Why bother with your own phone when your victim's phone is so handy and clearly works just fine?
Who cares? Hardly anything uses all our CPU or RAM anymore. So my interest is more in ... can I stand the pace it runs at? Increasingly, with newer software... the answer is NO, and buying bleeding edge hardware just to break even on performance is a poor tradeoff.
Maybe DOS ruined me forever, but I still expect the computer to respond pretty much instantly.
[Side note: Yesterday I tried AbiWord for the first time. Why on earth does it take 2 minutes to load a simple 30k textfile?? I know this lowly P3 is ancient, but that's ridiculous.]
Including Jack Bauer??
What about the sort of passive-aggressive behaviour that I've seen in so many cops -- even when they're NOT on the job? Where they sortof over-fill the space they're in, as if to force everyone else to give ground? Maybe it's trained, I dunno, but it certainly produces a perception of bullying.
"Like the Byzantine Empire, with the ugly legacy of its name coming to mean incomprehensible, overly complex bureaucracy and treachery."
Like California?? :(
Not precisely, but a few of us put Win98 on a new computer for the same reason -- runs rings around everything else.
Don't insult my Win98 box that way; it thinks crashes are a rare and odd event :)
But otherwise... right on. There are an awful lot more "ain't broke, no need to fix" systems out there in Real Userland than the lovers of latest-and-greatest care to know about.
I'm wondering if this will affect Seamonkey, which so far has had sense enough to retain the features that FF got rid of (or now makes you go find for yourself)??
I'd settle for "We didn't intentionally break anything, and it SHOULD run as well on your old OS as it ever did, but we can't guarantee it." Those of us who use an old OS (through preference or necessity) are used to that, but what grinds us is being told "Tough shit, it won't work at all any more."
My first thought was "accessing your router's configuration screens", which CAN be absolutely necessary.
Hadn't heard of this, but it would be VERY useful, and less cumbersome than a VM on an older box... there are still specialty apps in use that demand Win98 or Win2K, and are too expensive to casually replace.
Or more like it'll just ensure that being seen talking on a cell phone is the BEST way to get targeted!!
So what happens if you buy and activate a prepaid cellphone in the US or Guatemala, then use it in Mexico??
Yeah, this will stop crime, all right.
Doorbell? I thought I was supposed to use this brass knocker!!
It was pretty durn simple -- a chunk of road conduit -- heavy corrugated steel, about 1/4" thick, 3' diameter, 3' tall (standing on one end cylinder-style). It had a big dent at the bottom which served as an air vent. I'd throw in a few boxes worth of cardboard to get it going, then feeding it a bag or two of trash. I covered it with a chunk of grating to keep the flying cinders in.
That body you want to get rid of probably would have overwhelmed it. Might be better to use a steel mill. ;)
I dunno... but my cans were empty, so not much water content there :) Good question, tho!
I dunno... sounds like he got it backwards regardless. You're supposed to plunge the flaming-hot newly-forged sword into the torso, not the torso into the sword!!
See, there's your mistake -- shoulda invited the rattlers in, and THEN taken out two drives... CRUNCH. Hey guys, lunch is ready -- snake pate!!
(I've killed about 45 Mojave greens on my place in the past 6 years. Anymore I don't get excited, I just get a shovel.)
Ha... I write SF. I also run a kennel. I think up my best stuff while shovelling shit. Must be an inverse relationship between amount of brain actually needed for a task, and how much winds up allotted to completely contrary tasks.
'Twas my thought too -- "So why'd you have to do it up there?" not "Why didn't you take it down first?"
Maybe I've just seen too many weird things that only misbehaved in the field..