The most giving and innovative collection of people in the world? It's cliched to say, but holy crap every day it seems like something amazing is done by this company. Big ups.
While not opposed to P2P, indie musicians have the chance to put themselves out there without relying on virus/spyware/legally-scarry loaded p2p systems. You can get webhosting CHA_CHA_CHEAP (500 gigs transfer for $50 a month ain't hard to find..and 500 gigs is a SHITTON of mp3's) to distribute your songs on a website. The hot part is you have the chance to actually track how many hits you get and control what songs are available, not to mention create more traffic for your site giving you the chance to promote tours/shows/t-shirt sales all in the same swing. In fact, in a shameless plug....I'm *IN* a underground band that records and puts out our albums all DIY with full album distribution on our website.
In fact, within a couple of weeks we will have a music video on the site as well, with not only the ability to stream the video but actually download it in high quality to your hard drive. I don't get bands that don't offer these types of features. It's insane!
100 years ago you were 100 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event getting killed in a commercial airline crash, but it dosen't mean it happened.
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Fredericksburg isn't rural, but King George and much of the Northern Neck are. These are the places I was refering to.
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Its funny, I live in Fredericksburg Va and work for a computer shop that tried our damned hardest to offer excellent DSL service to a number of these rural areas. In many cases we found the technology is in the ground and users can in fact get DSL, but Verizon is not willing to "flip the switch" unless there is a huge demand in the particular area. We successfully offered DSL through Verizons lines on our bandwidth for over a year to these people without a problem. All of a sudden Verizon started undercutting us (ie selling to the USER cheaper than they would sell to us) in order to muscle us off their lines so they could take over the market in the area. On top of that any sort of tech support we would need from Verizon concerning their lines would get shrugged to the side and we would end up with understandably angry customers at us, although we had no way to solve the issues. We eventually pulled out of the market all together and went back to just repair/custom builds. The fucked up part is a lot of people that are still in smaller areas ended up getting their service disconnected when we pulled out and now Verizon is telling them that it is technically impossible to carry DSL to their homes even though they had it just a few weeks ago. I happen to be one of those customers, but luckily can get a cable modem...which by the way is half the price.
Moral of the story is a lot of rural places CAN get broadband, but the recourses that can carry it aren't fessing up to honest answers about it.
GEt some cha-cheap UPS's and go to walmart and stock up on car batteries. Aside from having to water them every so often its a cheap and reliable solution.
Am I the only one that was unaware there was any sort of scandal or cover up or anything fishy about his death? I thought it was a pretty straightforward murder. This is indeed curious information.
I totally agree with this. Not only does it increase their market share it creates free tech support to "real customers" by all the techies that pirated it. You know if you have pirated XP you are probably your moms best friends dogs "computer guy", and instead of calling M$ they call you.
Yea, but you probably don't have a system full of spyware/virii. Most users do, which cause these types of problems. This of course is not Microsofts fault 100%, but their insecure browser dosen't help.
Dude, I totally feel what you are saying. Gnome is beautiful, but freaking bloated. I fluxbox on my desktop, but on my girlfriends laptop she has Gnome because it's pretty. The laptop is a 2.6gig P4 with 768meg 0' ram. It runs "ok" when plugged in, but when its unplugged and puts itself into speedstep mode it becomes unusable. I think it would almost be awesome if Gnome/KDE developers created a lightweight version of their software, so people in this situation or people with just slow boxes could keep the functionality of the software at perhaps a hit on eye candy. Just a thought.
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Uhh...and they are providing a majority of the service for free? Thats awesome.
The most giving and innovative collection of people in the world? It's cliched to say, but holy crap every day it seems like something amazing is done by this company. Big ups.
Does that make it lighter or heavier than existing oxygen tanks?
About the same provided the tanks are empty, actually.
Oh hell naw.
Sounds an awful lot like Sealand. They provide offshore webhosting without "imperialist entanglements". Funny stuff.
because today is April 1 and this lame excuse for an April Fool's Day joke won't work unless you're gullible enough to do it.
/. last April.
Did you know gullible isn't in the dictionary? It's true. I saw it on
While not opposed to P2P, indie musicians have the chance to put themselves out there without relying on virus/spyware/legally-scarry loaded p2p systems. You can get webhosting CHA_CHA_CHEAP (500 gigs transfer for $50 a month ain't hard to find..and 500 gigs is a SHITTON of mp3's) to distribute your songs on a website. The hot part is you have the chance to actually track how many hits you get and control what songs are available, not to mention create more traffic for your site giving you the chance to promote tours/shows/t-shirt sales all in the same swing. In fact, in a shameless plug....I'm *IN* a underground band that records and puts out our albums all DIY with full album distribution on our website.
This is our new album
And this is our "main" website.
In fact, within a couple of weeks we will have a music video on the site as well, with not only the ability to stream the video but actually download it in high quality to your hard drive. I don't get bands that don't offer these types of features. It's insane!
Mirror of AVI videos.
Who said we aren't lawyers?
uhh...... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/0 2/1811240&tid=215&tid=14
If it is a proven scientific fact that old people drive like they are drunk, why are they allowd to drive?
Yea I agree, its way better than most of 1-19. I expected it much higher in the list.
Dude, what about time traveling planes?
100 years ago you were 100 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event getting killed in a commercial airline crash, but it dosen't mean it happened.
666 submissions? The name "the gimp" in general. What are these developers up to?
But I can I get a copy in French somewhere?
Fredericksburg isn't rural, but King George and much of the Northern Neck are. These are the places I was refering to.
Its funny, I live in Fredericksburg Va and work for a computer shop that tried our damned hardest to offer excellent DSL service to a number of these rural areas. In many cases we found the technology is in the ground and users can in fact get DSL, but Verizon is not willing to "flip the switch" unless there is a huge demand in the particular area. We successfully offered DSL through Verizons lines on our bandwidth for over a year to these people without a problem. All of a sudden Verizon started undercutting us (ie selling to the USER cheaper than they would sell to us) in order to muscle us off their lines so they could take over the market in the area. On top of that any sort of tech support we would need from Verizon concerning their lines would get shrugged to the side and we would end up with understandably angry customers at us, although we had no way to solve the issues. We eventually pulled out of the market all together and went back to just repair/custom builds. The fucked up part is a lot of people that are still in smaller areas ended up getting their service disconnected when we pulled out and now Verizon is telling them that it is technically impossible to carry DSL to their homes even though they had it just a few weeks ago. I happen to be one of those customers, but luckily can get a cable modem...which by the way is half the price.
Moral of the story is a lot of rural places CAN get broadband, but the recourses that can carry it aren't fessing up to honest answers about it.
GEt some cha-cheap UPS's and go to walmart and stock up on car batteries. Aside from having to water them every so often its a cheap and reliable solution.
Am I the only one that was unaware there was any sort of scandal or cover up or anything fishy about his death? I thought it was a pretty straightforward murder. This is indeed curious information.
Word on the street is after the holidays the prices of media will become reasonable. God I hope so. Cheap media is all I want for xmas.
I totally agree with this. Not only does it increase their market share it creates free tech support to "real customers" by all the techies that pirated it. You know if you have pirated XP you are probably your moms best friends dogs "computer guy", and instead of calling M$ they call you.
Yea, but you probably don't have a system full of spyware/virii. Most users do, which cause these types of problems. This of course is not Microsofts fault 100%, but their insecure browser dosen't help.
Dude, I totally feel what you are saying. Gnome is beautiful, but freaking bloated. I fluxbox on my desktop, but on my girlfriends laptop she has Gnome because it's pretty. The laptop is a 2.6gig P4 with 768meg 0' ram. It runs "ok" when plugged in, but when its unplugged and puts itself into speedstep mode it becomes unusable. I think it would almost be awesome if Gnome/KDE developers created a lightweight version of their software, so people in this situation or people with just slow boxes could keep the functionality of the software at perhaps a hit on eye candy. Just a thought.
Agreed, but then you have the chance of getting causing a bit of a scene in a otherwise seemless plan.