Sounds like a good plan to get the RIAA lots of money if it even works. So lets say it does work and people on p2p have to pay to play, whos getting paid? ISPs and the RIAA, lawyers, agents and a list of IT/white colar comapnies along the way, all with their hand out, all getting a cut.
You can bet the artist sees little to nothing of that dough. It still blows my mind why more artists havent followed the likes of Prince, Tori Amos, etc. Make your own website, sell your music exclusively there. Yeah, your music gets on to p2p that way, but at least the artist makes 100% profit, and you dont have to drive your ass to the mall to buy the album, so that should increase sales ( assuming *everyone* has internet access ). Distribution is basically limitless / very cheap, which was the silver bullet for the RIAA since the begining, now the RIAA doesnt hold all the cards on this one, so why sign a deal to get your CDs on to semi-trucks and into best buy/tower music stores?
People like Sting and Dr. Dre make 5 cents on the dollar. I would have no problem actually paying for my music if i knew the arist was actually making a decent cut like 35-40% - like I'd like to see 50cent actually make 50 cents on the dollar. The game as is stinks and ill do anything i can to help shift the power back to the artists who make the stuff we all fuss over in the first place. =)
Some of the most irrational human behavior can be seen here! Like how some people would spend a decent chunk of time calling someone a dumbass on a slashdot post. heh. When im on my death bed, i wouldnt want hours/days/weeks of slashdot name calling/thread posting to flash before my eyes.
security is a main reason for partitioning as stated previously (noexec, etc)
Also, if youve ever had a run away logfile,
youre gonna wish that the logs were on their own partition. Putting everything on one partition would grind your os to a halt if you ran out of space,
if its partitioned, then all you have to do is delete some logs to get logging back, while all along nothing stopped and everything still is running. Using partitions is a basic unix necessity for production servers, if you have a desktop, maybe you can get away with one partition.
Yes, this is the classic IT situation. Your skills are highly needed but looked at like some 5 year old can do this.... But it seems the nature of IT breeds a certain personaliyt type, IT draws in the modest, soft-spoken,( low-self-esteem? even ) bookworm ( or someone who likes to read a lot of docs/code ) . This is a major downfall for the IT industry, if more people who joined IT grew some ballz and just started acting like they deserve respect for what they do, then more people would treat IT with respect. (respect/love/anything, you gotta give it to get it/what goes around, comes around) I used to be IT, now im a developer, and i gotta say, its much nicer over here. I used to get people from all over the office building who didnt work for my comapny asking me to "help me install M$ Office" and when they would ask, they acted as if it was my responsibility to go help some dumb arse install a windows prog. Its so insulting, but nothing that a good double-edged sarcastic reality check can't fix. I would usually tell them: "Oh, I dont work for free" to which they would typically reply with a smug laugh and say "Well how much do you charge ?" to which i reply "Its just not worth my time, call the phone numb eron the box, they can help you." Its ok to be a smart ass toward people who insult your trade ( as long as it isnt the person signing your checks ) - What do you think a lawyer or janitor would say if you asked them to help you this instant for free? IT needs to get used to start saying these 2 words "billable hours" - This will demand respect and let those pesky, self-centered,'me' generation, porn-downloading, pc leeches know that just becasue the IT industry is still un-regulated, you are not.
CNN published this story, they own WB records, who are one of the big 6 RIAA players. So of course they want to instill fear of downloading and using kazaa. The story is probably BS. On a side note, ever notice how any artist who complains about priated music ( insert Lars here ), is someone you really wouldnt want to listen to anyways? dont flatter yourself too much guys, the power of kazaa lies in the ability to get unreleased, rare, live and otherwise forgotten tracks that you could never buy in a SPECs or Virgin Mega store anyways. Rock on.
I used to work for these 2 guys that paid Cohen to put their banners on sex.com. The reason this domain is so sought after is becasue it rakes in somthing like a 200,000$ a day just on referal sign-up traffic. You had to pay Cohen 10k-20k A DAY just to have your pr0n banner on the front of sex.com's site. So with no overhead, just one html page that needs to be served, its a genius business model. I actually got to meet Cohen, and he is not someone you wanna mess with. Right when he walked in our office you could tell, he was ready to beat the crap outta anyone who looked at him wrong. This was back in 1999, Unfortunately, the original owner will probably not see a dime from Cohen.
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Sounds like a good plan to get the RIAA lots of money if it even works. So lets say it does work and people on p2p have to pay to play, whos getting paid? ISPs and the RIAA, lawyers, agents and a list of IT/white colar comapnies along the way, all with their hand out, all getting a cut. You can bet the artist sees little to nothing of that dough. It still blows my mind why more artists havent followed the likes of Prince, Tori Amos, etc. Make your own website, sell your music exclusively there. Yeah, your music gets on to p2p that way, but at least the artist makes 100% profit, and you dont have to drive your ass to the mall to buy the album, so that should increase sales ( assuming *everyone* has internet access ). Distribution is basically limitless / very cheap, which was the silver bullet for the RIAA since the begining, now the RIAA doesnt hold all the cards on this one, so why sign a deal to get your CDs on to semi-trucks and into best buy/tower music stores? People like Sting and Dr. Dre make 5 cents on the dollar. I would have no problem actually paying for my music if i knew the arist was actually making a decent cut like 35-40% - like I'd like to see 50cent actually make 50 cents on the dollar. The game as is stinks and ill do anything i can to help shift the power back to the artists who make the stuff we all fuss over in the first place. =)
Some of the most irrational human behavior can be seen here! Like how some people would spend a decent chunk of time calling someone a dumbass on a slashdot post. heh. When im on my death bed, i wouldnt want hours/days/weeks of slashdot name calling/thread posting to flash before my eyes.
security is a main reason for partitioning as stated previously (noexec, etc) Also, if youve ever had a run away logfile, youre gonna wish that the logs were on their own partition. Putting everything on one partition would grind your os to a halt if you ran out of space, if its partitioned, then all you have to do is delete some logs to get logging back, while all along nothing stopped and everything still is running. Using partitions is a basic unix necessity for production servers, if you have a desktop, maybe you can get away with one partition.
Yes, this is the classic IT situation. Your skills are highly needed but looked at like some 5 year old can do this.... But it seems the nature of IT breeds a certain personaliyt type, IT draws in the modest, soft-spoken,( low-self-esteem? even ) bookworm ( or someone who likes to read a lot of docs/code ) . This is a major downfall for the IT industry, if more people who joined IT grew some ballz and just started acting like they deserve respect for what they do, then more people would treat IT with respect. (respect/love/anything, you gotta give it to get it/what goes around, comes around) I used to be IT, now im a developer, and i gotta say, its much nicer over here. I used to get people from all over the office building who didnt work for my comapny asking me to "help me install M$ Office" and when they would ask, they acted as if it was my responsibility to go help some dumb arse install a windows prog. Its so insulting, but nothing that a good
double-edged sarcastic reality check can't fix.
I would usually tell them: "Oh, I dont work for free" to which they would typically reply with a smug laugh and say "Well how much do you charge ?" to which i reply "Its just not worth my time, call the phone numb eron the box, they can help you." Its ok to be a smart ass toward people who insult your trade ( as long as it isnt the person signing your checks ) - What do you think a lawyer or janitor would say if you asked them to help you this instant for free? IT needs to get used to start saying these 2 words "billable hours" - This will demand respect and let those pesky, self-centered,'me' generation, porn-downloading, pc leeches know that just becasue the IT industry is still un-regulated, you are not.
CNN published this story, they own WB records, who are one of the big 6 RIAA players. So of course they want to instill fear of downloading and using kazaa. The story is probably BS. On a side note, ever notice how any artist who complains about priated music ( insert Lars here ), is someone you really wouldnt want to listen to anyways? dont flatter yourself too much guys, the power of kazaa lies in the ability to get unreleased, rare, live and otherwise forgotten tracks that you could never buy in a SPECs or Virgin Mega store anyways. Rock on.
I used to work for these 2 guys that paid Cohen to put their banners on sex.com. The reason this domain is so sought after is becasue it rakes in somthing like a 200,000$ a day just on referal sign-up traffic. You had to pay Cohen 10k-20k A DAY just to have your pr0n banner on the front of sex.com's site. So with no overhead, just one html page that needs to be served, its a genius business model. I actually got to meet Cohen, and he is not someone you wanna mess with. Right when he walked in our office you could tell, he was ready to beat the crap outta anyone who looked at him wrong. This was back in 1999, Unfortunately, the original owner will probably not see a dime from Cohen.