Daft Punk did it over a year ago with their Daft Card. Every CD came with a credit card type bit thing with a unique serial. Punch the serial into the website and get content.
I suspect what's really happened here is somebody at Bon Jovi's label is very clever and figured out a way to get a big hard plug on Slashdot.
Here's the way TV works: -You identify an audience you think an advertiser wants. (ex, women 18-34) -You develop content that will (hopefully) appeal to that audience. -You sell access to that audience to the advertiser.
Take away the advertising and nobody gets out of bed in the morning.
Make the advertising more profitable and there is money to blow on the content. Make it less profitable and you'll be watching crap. Broadcast quality TV is still VERY expensive to make.
"No no", you say, "the greedy networks will just keep the money." I ask you, when has competition ever let that happen with any medium in the past?
Besides, nobody really cares that you watch more porn then PBS except you and your self inflicted guilt.
The quote mediating on the irony of shooting a signal that represents a picture of a television around New York is pretty amazing to me.
I remember the first time I streamed audio to a shoutcast rebroadcaster half way across the country and then received it back on a second computer. Thousands of miles and an arsenal of human technology just so I create a 3 second delay and lose some audio quality. It's been 70 years, the battle continues.
I'm a (part-time) indie promoter in Canada. I call campus stations and do my best to turn them into major label mouth pieces with free things and celebrity access.
99% of the people who can afford to play that game are big labels. Universal, EMI, Virgin, La Face, at least as big as Koch.
Clear Channel must really have their game together if the RIAA is willing to blow their own tool. I mean, what do they think, radio stations are going to *buy* CDs? The campus stations I work with don't have the money to keep the lights on, without free stuff they'd dry up.
And you can make a decent living as that indie promotor.:)
Sounds like the book game is about to become a fat new venue for using old tricks. Sending free copies with sales labels ready to go is just the tip of the iceburg. The music game publishes fake magazines and runs fake TV stations.
I'd pay big dollars for a device that would recognize people I'd met in the past and pull up their contact file. If it was standardized I'd happly attach my facal geometery to my vCard to make it easier.
If I want to go rob a bank, I'd be planning to wear a mask anyway.
Cops often say "Yeah, you saw that on Law and Order right?" when people start lecturing them on police powers. There aren't many 'long rides to the station' on Law and Order, reality is full of them, for better or for worse. Personally I'd be willing to bet Training Day is a more realistic (all be it hyperaccentuated) version of the job.
As for being available for $15k a week, I'll do it as an intern, I'd be an interesting gig and I'm already paid. Seriously, show runners of the world, cutting edge geekery available, gray@lowpass.net.
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I always saw CSI as successful for pretty much the same reasons as Law and Order. It requires a low emotional commitment but a high intellectual commitment. They're both about systems first and the people within them second. There is a demographic (a lot of them work with computers) that eats that up.
My only complaint would be the same as a bunch of other people here, they play is real fast and loose with the science. Often it has nothing to do with a plot point, it's just poorly researched.
I understand there are crazy time constraints on network television, they aren't made of time. I would suggest hiring a 'resident geek' to read scripts somewhere on the way out and suggest 'technical' fixes to move their science more into reality. I think it would really help the show, and it would give them access to a world of wierd science stuff they aren't getting now. And make it more crediable ta boot.
People who's heads are full of wierd science are a dime a dozen down at the local comic store (or here on slashdot), pick one up..
If your whole gig setup is a fullsized tower and a 15" monitor, you're lucky.
Think about how much gear your average performer has on stage. Amps, effects, mixers, it's endless. That's why the band/crew shows up at 3pm for a 9pm show, even at a small club. Much carrying has to be done before the soundcheck. You're usually lucky to find time for dinner before they open the doors..
I'd suggest getting the most solid midi-tower you can, a the smallest cheapest monitor you can live with and go.. The monitor is gonna get a beer dropped in it sooner or later anyway, so go for cheap not quality. Bring super solid cables and lots of extras. Have balanced XLR outputs ideally. Running RCAs to a PA requires special boxes which the club may not have.
>What do you do if your cable company blocks all
>inbound traffic, and only allows you to use 80,
>25, and 110 out? (Keep in mind that tunneling is
>not an option for the average user.) Do you go
>to the "competition?" And what do you do if the
>phone company puts the same filters in place?
Mystery boxes that do mystery thing to packets and nobody looks inside, Linux is perfect..
I view linux like a really cool tool, not a competive product. I don't worry about MS taking over the world, I got my copy of the linux source, I'll be good.. Worse comes to worse I'll add what I need myself..
I figure computers ain't actually all that hard. Unix administration takes about the same brainpower as auto maintaince, just a somewhat differient set of talents.
I would suggest the following.
1. Get a 486 something and setup a NAT router/server for your home network.
2. Add pop3,imap,apache and any other interesting daemons, basically make your own little ISP on that 486.
3. Bullshit your way into your first job, when you don't know something, read the FAQs..
Half the time I swear, being a computer expert is just a zen and knowing how to use google really well..
Getting involved with an IRC group is another way. Learning sysadmin skills well stealing software is a highly popular method.
If you have something to hide, the problem is not with people fiding out, it is with the reason you desire to hide it.
Privacy solves nothing, it just allows people to ignore problems.
Besides, technology will eventually make all of this moot. Dust sized video camera stuck to everything, only way to avoid that is a really trustworthy police state, and that sounds just *so* much better..
Distraction by Bruce Sterling gets is close to what I suspect is the near future..
Any DRM system is only as strong as the authority behind it, I'd argue that in the modern world no authority can be strong enough to maintain a global DRM, so any authority that tries will be underminded. Try to enforce a DRM, your whole system will fail.
So we're left with the alternative, various DRMs enforced by various people in various places, but ultiamtly people just do whatever they can get away with. And its orbiting data vaults, strong crypto, spread spectrum, sterographied hell for anyone who tries to stop them.
The question I want to know is, what would happen if we threw the whole idea of 'copyright' out the window? You can copy anything you want, and sell it.
Existing publishing industries would definitly be screwed by lean mean bootleggers in 10 seconds, but after that, what would really change? People would still enjoy music, perhaps they'd simply try and really connect with preformers rather then forming a fake relationship with them though their publishers.. Live music might return to emmance as the primary way people get their rythm fix. Donno..
One way or another, ultimatly no copyrights is the future.. What else is possible? A transgalactic mind reading RIAA? Space is big, we'll be living there, how are you going to deal with that?
Maybe this time will be looked back on as the 'age of intellectual property'.. It's only been an issue since sheet music, handy digital technology may make it a non-issue soon.. It'd form a nice little era..
- I violate copyrights on occasion.
and the killer
- I enjoy a certain tolerated by not legal plant.
That's the complete list of things I have to hide from 'the man'. If the man wants to put everyone on camera 24/7 outside their homes, that's cool with me. It might stop me jay walking and it would definitly reduce my chance of getting mugged or having my car broken into almost to zero.
The problem (as I see it) isn't the cameras. A camera just makes you take responsiblity for the things you do. It's the possibility of uneven access to the footage that could make for big brother. If the man has camera and I don't, there is the possibility that the man will be jay walking and I won't; and that I would have a problem with.
The future is going to be full of video cameras, get used to it. The only way to prevent that is with an even worse police state to stop me from sticking pinhead sized bugs on all my friends.
Personally, I look forward to it. No fear from violence, no more secrets, no lies, all people gotta take credit for the shit they do. Sweet.
Why ask? You know the answers.. Compatiblity with the only OS in the demographic, stable drivers (ever tried Massiah? Driver nightmares thanks to OpenGL)..
Boo hoo, the world doesn't make sense.. Cope and move on..
> It is not easy to generate that much heat safely.
SAFELY! This whole enterprise screams to be done in an open field with a bucket of water for safety equipment.. No wonder if took him two years; safety nuts.. They live forever, but at what cost?
Since when has the Internet been public? Every bit(and byte) is paid for..
The gripe here seems to be that you just can't get enough bandwidth in on the big I Internet. Build your own small I internet and add a router.. That's what everyone else does if I'm not mistaken..
I don't work for them for benefit in any way from you using them, but they are the *best* web host..
Service simply can't be touched, full open source love available.
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Daft Punk did it over a year ago with their Daft Card. Every CD came with a credit card type bit thing with a unique serial. Punch the serial into the website and get content.
I suspect what's really happened here is somebody at Bon Jovi's label is very clever and figured out a way to get a big hard plug on Slashdot.
Here's the way TV works:
-You identify an audience you think an advertiser wants. (ex, women 18-34)
-You develop content that will (hopefully) appeal to that audience.
-You sell access to that audience to the advertiser.
Take away the advertising and nobody gets out of bed in the morning.
Make the advertising more profitable and there is money to blow on the content. Make it less profitable and you'll be watching crap. Broadcast quality TV is still VERY expensive to make.
"No no", you say, "the greedy networks will just keep the money." I ask you, when has competition ever let that happen with any medium in the past?
Besides, nobody really cares that you watch more porn then PBS except you and your self inflicted guilt.
I'm sold, do they have any color other then Deer Green?
The quote mediating on the irony of shooting a signal that represents a picture of a television around New York is pretty amazing to me.
I remember the first time I streamed audio to a shoutcast rebroadcaster half way across the country and then received it back on a second computer. Thousands of miles and an arsenal of human technology just so I create a 3 second delay and lose some audio quality. It's been 70 years, the battle continues.
I'm a (part-time) indie promoter in Canada. I call campus stations and do my best to turn them into major label mouth pieces with free things and celebrity access.
99% of the people who can afford to play that game are big labels. Universal, EMI, Virgin, La Face, at least as big as Koch.
Clear Channel must really have their game together if the RIAA is willing to blow their own tool. I mean, what do they think, radio stations are going to *buy* CDs? The campus stations I work with don't have the money to keep the lights on, without free stuff they'd dry up.
And you can make a decent living as that indie promotor. :)
Sounds like the book game is about to become a fat new venue for using old tricks. Sending free copies with sales labels ready to go is just the tip of the iceburg. The music game publishes fake magazines and runs fake TV stations.
Man I'm glad I can safely say nobodies life will ever hang on my ability to code.
it's about being lousy with faces.
I'd pay big dollars for a device that would recognize people I'd met in the past and pull up their contact file. If it was standardized I'd happly attach my facal geometery to my vCard to make it easier.
If I want to go rob a bank, I'd be planning to wear a mask anyway.
Cops often say "Yeah, you saw that on Law and Order right?" when people start lecturing them on police powers. There aren't many 'long rides to the station' on Law and Order, reality is full of them, for better or for worse. Personally I'd be willing to bet Training Day is a more realistic (all be it hyperaccentuated) version of the job.
As for being available for $15k a week, I'll do it as an intern, I'd be an interesting gig and I'm already paid. Seriously, show runners of the world, cutting edge geekery available, gray@lowpass.net.
I always saw CSI as successful for pretty much the same reasons as Law and Order. It requires a low emotional commitment but a high intellectual commitment. They're both about systems first and the people within them second. There is a demographic (a lot of them work with computers) that eats that up.
My only complaint would be the same as a bunch of other people here, they play is real fast and loose with the science. Often it has nothing to do with a plot point, it's just poorly researched.
I understand there are crazy time constraints on network television, they aren't made of time. I would suggest hiring a 'resident geek' to read scripts somewhere on the way out and suggest 'technical' fixes to move their science more into reality. I think it would really help the show, and it would give them access to a world of wierd science stuff they aren't getting now. And make it more crediable ta boot.
People who's heads are full of wierd science are a dime a dozen down at the local comic store (or here on slashdot), pick one up..
If your whole gig setup is a fullsized tower and a 15" monitor, you're lucky.
Think about how much gear your average performer has on stage. Amps, effects, mixers, it's endless. That's why the band/crew shows up at 3pm for a 9pm show, even at a small club. Much carrying has to be done before the soundcheck. You're usually lucky to find time for dinner before they open the doors..
I'd suggest getting the most solid midi-tower you can, a the smallest cheapest monitor you can live with and go.. The monitor is gonna get a beer dropped in it sooner or later anyway, so go for cheap not quality. Bring super solid cables and lots of extras. Have balanced XLR outputs ideally. Running RCAs to a PA requires special boxes which the club may not have.
>What do you do if your cable company blocks all
>inbound traffic, and only allows you to use 80,
>25, and 110 out? (Keep in mind that tunneling is
>not an option for the average user.) Do you go
>to the "competition?" And what do you do if the
>phone company puts the same filters in place?
Start my own ISP and clean up..
Selling Linux as a tool is a totally good idea.
Mystery boxes that do mystery thing to packets and nobody looks inside, Linux is perfect..
I view linux like a really cool tool, not a competive product. I don't worry about MS taking over the world, I got my copy of the linux source, I'll be good.. Worse comes to worse I'll add what I need myself..
Slashdotters pacifists? You're ptobably new..
Not that I'm in any way against a war-less world, how can you abolish something without force?
But irragardless, this was posted cause tech nerds think technology is neat, no matter where it is..
I figure computers ain't actually all that hard. Unix administration takes about the same brainpower as auto maintaince, just a somewhat differient set of talents.
I would suggest the following.
1. Get a 486 something and setup a NAT router/server for your home network.
2. Add pop3,imap,apache and any other interesting daemons, basically make your own little ISP on that 486.
3. Bullshit your way into your first job, when you don't know something, read the FAQs..
Half the time I swear, being a computer expert is just a zen and knowing how to use google really well..
Getting involved with an IRC group is another way. Learning sysadmin skills well stealing software is a highly popular method.
I don't understand the motivations..
If you have something to hide, the problem is not with people fiding out, it is with the reason you desire to hide it.
Privacy solves nothing, it just allows people to ignore problems.
Besides, technology will eventually make all of this moot. Dust sized video camera stuck to everything, only way to avoid that is a really trustworthy police state, and that sounds just *so* much better..
Distraction by Bruce Sterling gets is close to what I suspect is the near future..
Any DRM system is only as strong as the authority behind it, I'd argue that in the modern world no authority can be strong enough to maintain a global DRM, so any authority that tries will be underminded. Try to enforce a DRM, your whole system will fail.
So we're left with the alternative, various DRMs enforced by various people in various places, but ultiamtly people just do whatever they can get away with. And its orbiting data vaults, strong crypto, spread spectrum, sterographied hell for anyone who tries to stop them.
The question I want to know is, what would happen if we threw the whole idea of 'copyright' out the window? You can copy anything you want, and sell it.
Existing publishing industries would definitly be screwed by lean mean bootleggers in 10 seconds, but after that, what would really change? People would still enjoy music, perhaps they'd simply try and really connect with preformers rather then forming a fake relationship with them though their publishers.. Live music might return to emmance as the primary way people get their rythm fix. Donno..
One way or another, ultimatly no copyrights is the future.. What else is possible? A transgalactic mind reading RIAA? Space is big, we'll be living there, how are you going to deal with that?
Maybe this time will be looked back on as the 'age of intellectual property'.. It's only been an issue since sheet music, handy digital technology may make it a non-issue soon.. It'd form a nice little era..
Okay, I'm not the best citizen.
- I drive faster then is legal sometimes.
- I sometimes cross streets against the light
- I violate copyrights on occasion.
and the killer
- I enjoy a certain tolerated by not legal plant.
That's the complete list of things I have to hide from 'the man'. If the man wants to put everyone on camera 24/7 outside their homes, that's cool with me. It might stop me jay walking and it would definitly reduce my chance of getting mugged or having my car broken into almost to zero.
The problem (as I see it) isn't the cameras. A camera just makes you take responsiblity for the things you do. It's the possibility of uneven access to the footage that could make for big brother. If the man has camera and I don't, there is the possibility that the man will be jay walking and I won't; and that I would have a problem with.
The future is going to be full of video cameras, get used to it. The only way to prevent that is with an even worse police state to stop me from sticking pinhead sized bugs on all my friends.
Personally, I look forward to it. No fear from violence, no more secrets, no lies, all people gotta take credit for the shit they do. Sweet.
Why ask? You know the answers.. Compatiblity with the only OS in the demographic, stable drivers (ever tried Massiah? Driver nightmares thanks to OpenGL)..
Boo hoo, the world doesn't make sense.. Cope and move on..
> It is not easy to generate that much heat safely.
SAFELY! This whole enterprise screams to be done in an open field with a bucket of water for safety equipment.. No wonder if took him two years; safety nuts.. They live forever, but at what cost?
Why doesn't one of you clever boffins just invent me a network protocol with a strong anonymity system.
Packets have to know where they've going, do they absolutly have to know where they are from?
Give me a network full of sourceless traffic and let them try and regulate that.. If that doesn't work, put uplinkable routers in orbit..
Since when has the Internet been public? Every bit(and byte) is paid for..
The gripe here seems to be that you just can't get enough bandwidth in on the big I Internet. Build your own small I internet and add a router.. That's what everyone else does if I'm not mistaken..
Get a big box into orbit and host the evilest copyright violatingest server ever.. Yum.
I've found it's not as simple as that..
You're paying for service as well as straight setup time.. You can beat Pair on price, but you can't beat them on service..
I'll admit, they may not be ideal for porn hosting.. They rock the party for my needs..
I HIGHLY recommend pair.com's hosting.
I don't work for them for benefit in any way from you using them, but they are the *best* web host..
Service simply can't be touched, full open source love available.