No. Volatility is a measure of value increasing and people cashing out (wishing they didnt). As for your weak crypto argument, thats the same as saying "why don't people just photocopy money... then it will be worthless". ie.. security will always keep evolving... (as it does with fiat money... like security strips, special paper, colors, pictures etc to make it as difficult as possible) as it does everywhere because people are shitheels that want to steel stuff. That being said, your Social Security number is a fixed much shorter number than any of the crypto secrets available. That number is also very likely freely available today because of Equifaxs failure. So.... with that and some other public information anyone can engineer their way into your bank account. Did that make your money worthless somehow? (better convert it to crypto quick!) Or how about your credit card number... where all the numbers even start with the same set of digits. Surely those being massively compromised and all over the Internet means they are worthless too right? So.... just to be completely clear.... your current faith in an utterly broken, and owned financial system trumps one that hasn't been broken and is based on strong encryption how exactly again? Oh yeah, and on the "risks that gold doesn't"... you at no point made clear any actual value of gold other than "more stable"... so were Steam Engines up until they weren't. Sorry, but right now as far as I'm concerned my roll of copper 12/2 is far more valuable than your ring of shiny metal (see useless... well other than for collecting half your income for years).
What specifically does Gold bring to the table? Are you using it to conduct electricity? (Its not the best conductor btw) Or are you using it in your nail polish? (its great you think its pretty... until its not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) Perhaps you mean its ARTIFICIAL scarcity? (Great news, Bitcoin is limited and scarce by design) Or how about cash... what specifically does the cash provide you other than an assumed unit of value? (good napkin? Great way to perform "off the books" transactions....)
Apparently CNN doesn't like to cover news like Argentinians using Bitcoin to protect themselves from their own countries Fiat Tanking: https://cointelegraph.com/news...
Cryptocurrencies have value from at least 4 specific areas:
1) Distributed Work Trust – Transactions are validated through a system of Distributed “Miners” that create a linked chain of parent child relationships leveraging consensus and Entropy of scale to build in protections against Fraud and Forgery.
2) Transactional Integrity – Transactions are signed in such a way as to make them quickly verifiable both in internal integrity to each block, as well as each blocks’ place in the chain to create an immutable sequence and protect against Fraud and Forgery.
3) An Immutable Data Store – Referred to as a “Distributed Ledger,” values can be added to the signed and verified transaction chain becoming part of the distributed, and immutable record.
4) Distributed Logic Processing – Ethereum provides the benefit of executing functions in a Turing complete language across the distributed node and mining network. These functions (commonly referred to as contracts) are added to the chain (or Ledger) as Libraries which will exist so long as the chain does. For reference, “Contracts” are also available in Bitcoin though under a non-Turing complete implementation. Either way these are executable "contract" code libs built into the chain... does your dollar do that?
Why is gold even a competitor? Its like comparing Apples and Teslas.
Its frustrating seeing so many people falling for the lines of a bunch of crooks and fraudsters that are just trying to manipulate markets so they can continue to profit from ignorance.
Hadoop starts with a vastly distributable, and resilient file system (HDFS) which enables, as a base, technologies that include things like HBase (columnar stores), Impala (Parquet example), Titan (graphs), Spark (lord everything.. its the emacs of data frameworks), or the latest projects which completely change the paradigm of how you are looking at data at unbelievable speeds. (who the hell runs mapreduce and expects real time performance?... its a full disk scan across distributed stores... and fairly sane from that perspective)
If you don't have problems that relate to these paradigms... dont use it. Seriously. Just because its new doesnt mean it fits every situation. Its not mysql/mariadb/postgresql... if you think its even remotely close to that simple you should run for the hills. If you have a significantly large (not talking hundreds of megs or even a couple gigs... you need to be thinking in Billions of rows here) configuration management problem then its a great base to layer other projects on top of to solve your problem.
Also, I found a large number of problems to solve using timestamped individual data cells that CANNOT be done using traditional sql methodologies. Lexicographic configuration models, analytics (obv), massive backup history just to name a few. If the management and installation of the cluster are scary... well...not everything in CS is easy... especially when it gets to handling the worlds largest datasets.... so, this probably isn't really your problem... call the sysadmins and ask them (politely) to help. Believe it or not the main companies have wizards which can help get you going across clusters... and even manage them visually (not that I ever would... UI's are for people who can't type).
When people (or just this CEO) says it doesn't deliver on its promise. You are likely trying to solve a problem wholy inappropriately. I have personally used it to solve problems like making real time recommendations in under 200ms across several gigs of personal data daily (totalling easily into terabytes). (No you don't use mapreduce... think harder... but you DO use HDFS).
So what promise were you told?
Other than real time (as illustrated above), you can do archiving, ETL of course, and things like enabling SQL lookups, or RRDs... using a number of toolkits or spark. Seriously, this is one of the best things since sliced bread when it comes to processing and managing real big data problems. Check out the Lambda processing model when you get a chance... you might be impressed, or be utterly confused. Lambda (and not talking about programming Lambda, nor AWS Lambda) applies multiple apache technologies to solve historical with real time problems in a sane manner. Also managing massively distributed backups is much simpler with HDFS
Honestly, outside of Teradata implementations, there is no where in the world you can get this kind of data resiliency, efficiency, nor management. Granted it doesn't have the 20+ years of chops in HUGE datasets Teradata does, nor the support... but its open source and won't cost you much to try.
Long long story short. What the hell! I feel like programmers today are constantly... whining... about complexity. It seems like a trend to say "well I couldn't use it for my project so that means no one really does.. they are just trying to look cool." Which I would have to reply... you're an idiot. Yes its complex... if you understand storage / manipulation / migration / replication / indexing... you should be impressed to say the very very least. If you dont, please go read the changelog, Readme, and any note based install guides. or do some research on the commercial companies using this technology successfully.... instead of making of figures and claiming its gospel.
Any commercial solution will cost you... well... millions just to get started solving the problems Hadoop nailed out of the gate.
If Hadoop seems large and frightening just wait until y
So its clearly cool for armor, but it sounds like something that might be very useful for say a space station? Both for shielding against incoming projectiles (granted slow ones) and potentiall for its radiation protection... not sure what the spectrum is on that danger though...
How expensive is it... insulation properties? Seems like it could be used for a number of things from tornado proofing homes to gun barrels.
No idea what your trying to do... art, fast file system, error recovery, special new virus etc... but I'd start in one of two places.
If you are trying to write your own filesystem because everyone else is "doing it wrong" then check out Oracles "unbreakable" installation.... a bit dated and I don't know if they still do it this way, but the gist is you mount the drives with "rawfs" and they have their own file system stack that runs on top. Pretty effective way to trim down the layers of stuff before reads and writes and speed up raw access..... again, depends on your implementation if this would be useful to you.
If you actually want to write ones and zeros I'd check the source for fdisk and see what its doing.... might be a gem there since it clearly is aware of geometry and has some access to writing in places you normally wouldn't.
Good luck!
So if the batteries in the prius are 330V at 6.5 amps, it sounds like it could run my house pretty well...
So instead of recycling it, perhaps it should end up in my backyard shack plugged up to hydro/solar/wind power to charge it and get me off the grid?
200 bucks seems pretty incredibly cheap for a power supply of this magnitude. Or does it lose its juice too fast?
There are pretty good sociological studies of cultures with the highest birthrates, which correlate with the poverty level of the culture. Having many children in some cultures is a retirement system, since you are increasing your chance that one of them will be successful enough to take care of you when you can't anymore. So fixing the aging problem... in such a way that our bodies age at a much slower pace, would remove the need for that saftey system... and significantly reduce the population problem in the places where its of largest concern.
Of course, I'm not saying that fixing aging will fix all these problems, as there are still plenty of folks keeping food, shelter, and the necessities of life from others to make a profit. Plus humans will always do some really stupid things out of ignorance... but in general this looks like it will actually significantly help.
Last as a point that just has to be made... nobody is looking at the improvement in life. Dying is bad m'kay. I look at my life, and as a 30 something I have half my career behind me and have barely started to get excited about some really interesting crossovers with my current work in other fields... I will very likely not have the time to go back and learn to the level I would like in all these fields though to bring about any significant change. One or two maybe... but thats it... our lives have so much potential, but they are so damned short.
Amazon has deceived users of its marketplace. They sell things from all sorts of vendors, and it would be fine if they were using this information as market research to decide what services to offer in the future. What they are doing is substantially different though. They are determining the market need and then forcing the sellers to use their new tool. Pulling my freedom after my expectation has been set is "ok" because they own the marketplace? I don't think so.
POD vendors work hard to help authors succeed. Typically the vendors bend over backwards to help the author get a quality piece of work out the door, some bundling editing services, or covers, or really rich high quality printing for photobooks or super large sizes for calendars, or marketing services etc... If Amazons service is as good or superior, wouldn't everyone just use it anyway?
The message this move sends is that they have no interest in helping creators succeed (even if they are profiting on all transactions), they are just interested in owning another piece of the business. So if you are an indie musician, or video maker, or widget maker... when are they going to remove any choice you have as well? All the new music indies coming into their own on myspace... all the filmmaker indies coming into their own on youtube... sorry folks, you have to use amazons duplicating services and may only have 5 tracks per cd. No you cannot pick your cover art. Better still... we have decided that to sell music on Amazon it has to use our new licensing management system, or you can just go somewhere else.
Too bad really, they have alot of cool technology to help sell stuff. This type of anti-competitive behavior, where they are clearly using their weight as "the market" to force the use of their in house service is all too familiar. Guess I'll have to check out some of the other marketplaces I never really paid attention to before. I'd also strongly recommend checking out some of the other vendors that are focusing on this road, and preferably ones that are CC friendly. I am tired of these giant companies making really poor decisions towards their customers freedoms when they get large... did someone feed them after midnight or something?
The thing that jumps out from the recent oracle news, and the M$ news is all the speculation. What are the odds
that this is just a new form of fud?
"Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" have been created by the bizarre claims that M$ will somehow taint GPL'd code... the opposite is very likely going to be the case.
Or the lawsuit ideas that will supposedly clean everyone out of business that isn't running a M$, or Cash-whole-acle version of Linux... Yeah... and software can't be free.
This is why RedHat would release indemnification, as you won't need it, and if anyone did they would be the first ones to take the suit. As there business depends on protecting these rights, and they have the resources to do it. Not to mention it would be a terrific legal precedant that would put in stone the ability for businesses to make money with Open Source. Which is good for everyone.
Watch for wolves to control their population and impact, not to run from them.
Your right. The lulu.tv subscription model will pay for as long as your video is in the co-op pool and generating traffic... if you do one a year, and its so-so then you'll make a little back for your subscription. If it is truly good stuff then it will get traffic in a good chunk in the beginning and then a nice stream (see long tail). So if the first is paying for the subscription, and maybe some more, then the rest.... I mean, you can not like the model if it doesn't fit your content, but that doesn't sound like the case.
Revver pays based on an advertising model. lulu.tv is a co-op, that is paying out 80% of what we take in.
Aside from that we dont ship your video onto peoples websites as it seems like a less effective (though we could be wrong) way for the creator to make a name for themselves (though they are free to embed it). Instead using the co-op we don't have to rely on that type of marketing and instead provide downloads, xml feeds of every variety, and try to encourage sharing to raise interest in the creator, instead of whatever company the ad is pimping. Chances are the ad based variety is a good model too, its just a different model with less advantages for the author to create fame for themselves.
Actually there is a host of programs: ffmpeg, mencoder and mplayer, vlc, flvtool2, just to name a few. Linux is an AMAZING video editing platform... but I have to say, the macs are damn fine looking laptops and run a great many open source apps with little trouble. Though hand-editing command line options for video is never easy or fun, there are even packages like ffmpeg-x which runs on both platforms. He actually knows his codecs and history pretty well.
I have to imagine that would go something like the tourettes guy, then... yes.
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plus how much pr0n do you need? we don't do it at lulu.tv and the experience is actually moderated (see. differences between us and youtube) so that only the good stuff comes to the surface, else your relegated to the belly of the beast.
It might be. But what cut will you actually get? We aren't ruling out advertising, or several other channels, but if lulu.tv did it there would be a split with the creator just like everything else we do. We are very interested in finding the best way to get cash back to creators, and not corrupting their fame with the lack of recognition you get with an ad stuffed on a website. As far as people downloading movies... go ahead. There are rss2, atom, ipod feeds etc... and getting the video known will increase the chance you'll be interested in the creators next works. So come back and check them out... we don't bite... at least not if you have a mildly css capable browser;-D
Getting that cash in the hands of those that created the videos is the distinction of lulu.tv. Lulu is dedicated to helping creators share, collaborate, sell, and now co-op their IP, helping indy creators get known, grow, and get paid.
Bob Young was responsible for helping bring Red Hat from an apartment built OS to a multi-national corporation, I call that co-founder. Interesting bit of trivia though.
Sorry, just couldn't let slashdot miss out on Bob news to the traditional media. And yeah, lulu.tv is an extension of lulu.com. We have been working for a couple years to make sure creators can share/use/sell their IP in whichever way they wish. This is another way:)
It is a video sharing service with a seeded co-op actually. One of the reasons we liked the co-op idea is that it fits open source and creative commons so very well.
Actually viewers dont pay for the content. The creators get paid based on their share of the participation in the site, and lulu.tv funds the pool out of pocket 5k each month to start it off.
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No. Volatility is a measure of value increasing and people cashing out (wishing they didnt). As for your weak crypto argument, thats the same as saying "why don't people just photocopy money... then it will be worthless". ie.. security will always keep evolving... (as it does with fiat money... like security strips, special paper, colors, pictures etc to make it as difficult as possible) as it does everywhere because people are shitheels that want to steel stuff. That being said, your Social Security number is a fixed much shorter number than any of the crypto secrets available. That number is also very likely freely available today because of Equifaxs failure. So.... with that and some other public information anyone can engineer their way into your bank account. Did that make your money worthless somehow? (better convert it to crypto quick!) Or how about your credit card number... where all the numbers even start with the same set of digits. Surely those being massively compromised and all over the Internet means they are worthless too right? So.... just to be completely clear.... your current faith in an utterly broken, and owned financial system trumps one that hasn't been broken and is based on strong encryption how exactly again? Oh yeah, and on the "risks that gold doesn't"... you at no point made clear any actual value of gold other than "more stable"... so were Steam Engines up until they weren't. Sorry, but right now as far as I'm concerned my roll of copper 12/2 is far more valuable than your ring of shiny metal (see useless... well other than for collecting half your income for years).
What specifically does Gold bring to the table? Are you using it to conduct electricity? (Its not the best conductor btw) Or are you using it in your nail polish? (its great you think its pretty... until its not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) Perhaps you mean its ARTIFICIAL scarcity? (Great news, Bitcoin is limited and scarce by design) Or how about cash... what specifically does the cash provide you other than an assumed unit of value? (good napkin? Great way to perform "off the books" transactions....)
Apparently CNN doesn't like to cover news like Argentinians using Bitcoin to protect themselves from their own countries Fiat Tanking:
https://cointelegraph.com/news...
Or Zimbabwes Fiat tanking:
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.co...
Cryptocurrencies have value from at least 4 specific areas:
1) Distributed Work Trust – Transactions are validated through a system of Distributed “Miners” that create a linked chain of parent child relationships leveraging consensus and Entropy of scale to build in protections against Fraud and Forgery.
2) Transactional Integrity – Transactions are signed in such a way as to make them quickly verifiable both in internal integrity to each block, as well as each blocks’ place in the chain to create an immutable sequence and protect against Fraud and Forgery.
3) An Immutable Data Store – Referred to as a “Distributed Ledger,” values can be added to the signed and verified transaction chain becoming part of the distributed, and immutable record.
4) Distributed Logic Processing – Ethereum provides the benefit of executing functions in a Turing complete language across the distributed node and mining network. These functions (commonly referred to as contracts) are added to the chain (or Ledger) as Libraries which will exist so long as the chain does. For reference, “Contracts” are also available in Bitcoin though under a non-Turing complete implementation. Either way these are executable "contract" code libs built into the chain... does your dollar do that?
Why is gold even a competitor? Its like comparing Apples and Teslas.
Its frustrating seeing so many people falling for the lines of a bunch of crooks and fraudsters that are just trying to manipulate markets so they can continue to profit from ignorance.
Some more resources for those that are having a hard time Googling Bitcoin Value and want to learn more:
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin...
http://www.google.com/
Hadoop starts with a vastly distributable, and resilient file system (HDFS) which enables, as a base, technologies that include things like HBase (columnar stores), Impala (Parquet example), Titan (graphs), Spark (lord everything.. its the emacs of data frameworks), or the latest projects which completely change the paradigm of how you are looking at data at unbelievable speeds. (who the hell runs mapreduce and expects real time performance?... its a full disk scan across distributed stores... and fairly sane from that perspective)
... whining... about complexity. It seems like a trend to say "well I couldn't use it for my project so that means no one really does.. they are just trying to look cool." Which I would have to reply... you're an idiot. Yes its complex... if you understand storage / manipulation / migration / replication / indexing... you should be impressed to say the very very least. If you dont, please go read the changelog, Readme, and any note based install guides. or do some research on the commercial companies using this technology successfully.... instead of making of figures and claiming its gospel.
... well... millions just to get started solving the problems Hadoop nailed out of the gate.
If you don't have problems that relate to these paradigms... dont use it. Seriously. Just because its new doesnt mean it fits every situation. Its not mysql/mariadb/postgresql... if you think its even remotely close to that simple you should run for the hills. If you have a significantly large (not talking hundreds of megs or even a couple gigs... you need to be thinking in Billions of rows here) configuration management problem then its a great base to layer other projects on top of to solve your problem.
Also, I found a large number of problems to solve using timestamped individual data cells that CANNOT be done using traditional sql methodologies. Lexicographic configuration models, analytics (obv), massive backup history just to name a few. If the management and installation of the cluster are scary... well...not everything in CS is easy... especially when it gets to handling the worlds largest datasets.... so, this probably isn't really your problem... call the sysadmins and ask them (politely) to help. Believe it or not the main companies have wizards which can help get you going across clusters... and even manage them visually (not that I ever would... UI's are for people who can't type).
When people (or just this CEO) says it doesn't deliver on its promise. You are likely trying to solve a problem wholy inappropriately. I have personally used it to solve problems like making real time recommendations in under 200ms across several gigs of personal data daily (totalling easily into terabytes). (No you don't use mapreduce... think harder... but you DO use HDFS).
So what promise were you told?
Other than real time (as illustrated above), you can do archiving, ETL of course, and things like enabling SQL lookups, or RRDs... using a number of toolkits or spark. Seriously, this is one of the best things since sliced bread when it comes to processing and managing real big data problems. Check out the Lambda processing model when you get a chance... you might be impressed, or be utterly confused. Lambda (and not talking about programming Lambda, nor AWS Lambda) applies multiple apache technologies to solve historical with real time problems in a sane manner. Also managing massively distributed backups is much simpler with HDFS
Honestly, outside of Teradata implementations, there is no where in the world you can get this kind of data resiliency, efficiency, nor management. Granted it doesn't have the 20+ years of chops in HUGE datasets Teradata does, nor the support... but its open source and won't cost you much to try.
Long long story short. What the hell! I feel like programmers today are constantly
Any commercial solution will cost you
If Hadoop seems large and frightening just wait until y
So its clearly cool for armor, but it sounds like something that might be very useful for say a space station? Both for shielding against incoming projectiles (granted slow ones) and potentiall for its radiation protection... not sure what the spectrum is on that danger though... How expensive is it... insulation properties? Seems like it could be used for a number of things from tornado proofing homes to gun barrels.
No idea what your trying to do... art, fast file system, error recovery, special new virus etc... but I'd start in one of two places. If you are trying to write your own filesystem because everyone else is "doing it wrong" then check out Oracles "unbreakable" installation.... a bit dated and I don't know if they still do it this way, but the gist is you mount the drives with "rawfs" and they have their own file system stack that runs on top. Pretty effective way to trim down the layers of stuff before reads and writes and speed up raw access. .... again, depends on your implementation if this would be useful to you.
If you actually want to write ones and zeros I'd check the source for fdisk and see what its doing.... might be a gem there since it clearly is aware of geometry and has some access to writing in places you normally wouldn't.
Good luck!
So if the batteries in the prius are 330V at 6.5 amps, it sounds like it could run my house pretty well... So instead of recycling it, perhaps it should end up in my backyard shack plugged up to hydro/solar/wind power to charge it and get me off the grid? 200 bucks seems pretty incredibly cheap for a power supply of this magnitude. Or does it lose its juice too fast?
There are pretty good sociological studies of cultures with the highest birthrates, which correlate with the poverty level of the culture. Having many children in some cultures is a retirement system, since you are increasing your chance that one of them will be successful enough to take care of you when you can't anymore. So fixing the aging problem... in such a way that our bodies age at a much slower pace, would remove the need for that saftey system... and significantly reduce the population problem in the places where its of largest concern.
Of course, I'm not saying that fixing aging will fix all these problems, as there are still plenty of folks keeping food, shelter, and the necessities of life from others to make a profit. Plus humans will always do some really stupid things out of ignorance... but in general this looks like it will actually significantly help.
Last as a point that just has to be made... nobody is looking at the improvement in life. Dying is bad m'kay. I look at my life, and as a 30 something I have half my career behind me and have barely started to get excited about some really interesting crossovers with my current work in other fields... I will very likely not have the time to go back and learn to the level I would like in all these fields though to bring about any significant change. One or two maybe... but thats it... our lives have so much potential, but they are so damned short.
Amazon has deceived users of its marketplace. They sell things from all sorts of vendors, and it would be fine if they were using this information as market research to decide what services to offer in the future. What they are doing is substantially different though. They are determining the market need and then forcing the sellers to use their new tool. Pulling my freedom after my expectation has been set is "ok" because they own the marketplace? I don't think so.
POD vendors work hard to help authors succeed. Typically the vendors bend over backwards to help the author get a quality piece of work out the door, some bundling editing services, or covers, or really rich high quality printing for photobooks or super large sizes for calendars, or marketing services etc... If Amazons service is as good or superior, wouldn't everyone just use it anyway?
The message this move sends is that they have no interest in helping creators succeed (even if they are profiting on all transactions), they are just interested in owning another piece of the business. So if you are an indie musician, or video maker, or widget maker... when are they going to remove any choice you have as well? All the new music indies coming into their own on myspace... all the filmmaker indies coming into their own on youtube... sorry folks, you have to use amazons duplicating services and may only have 5 tracks per cd. No you cannot pick your cover art. Better still... we have decided that to sell music on Amazon it has to use our new licensing management system, or you can just go somewhere else.
Too bad really, they have alot of cool technology to help sell stuff. This type of anti-competitive behavior, where they are clearly using their weight as "the market" to force the use of their in house service is all too familiar. Guess I'll have to check out some of the other marketplaces I never really paid attention to before. I'd also strongly recommend checking out some of the other vendors that are focusing on this road, and preferably ones that are CC friendly. I am tired of these giant companies making really poor decisions towards their customers freedoms when they get large... did someone feed them after midnight or something?
The thing that jumps out from the recent oracle news, and the M$ news is all the speculation. What are the odds
that this is just a new form of fud?
"Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" have been created by the bizarre claims that M$ will
somehow taint GPL'd code... the opposite is very likely going to be the case.
Or the lawsuit ideas that will supposedly clean everyone out of business that isn't running a M$, or
Cash-whole-acle version of Linux... Yeah... and software can't be free.
This is why RedHat would release indemnification, as you won't need it, and if anyone
did they would be the first ones to take the suit. As there business depends on protecting
these rights, and they have the resources to do it. Not to mention it would be a terrific legal
precedant that would put in stone the ability for businesses to make money with Open Source.
Which is good for everyone.
Watch for wolves to control their population and impact, not to run from them.
Your right. The lulu.tv subscription model will pay for as long as your video is in the co-op pool and generating traffic... if you do one a year, and its so-so then you'll make a little back for your subscription. If it is truly good stuff then it will get traffic in a good chunk in the beginning and then a nice stream (see long tail). So if the first is paying for the subscription, and maybe some more, then the rest.... I mean, you can not like the model if it doesn't fit your content, but that doesn't sound like the case.
Talk about a freudian slip eh? I just knew I liked the slogan, but it took the slashdot readers to explain why:)
Revver pays based on an advertising model. lulu.tv is a co-op, that is paying out 80% of what we take in. Aside from that we dont ship your video onto peoples websites as it seems like a less effective (though we could be wrong) way for the creator to make a name for themselves (though they are free to embed it). Instead using the co-op we don't have to rely on that type of marketing and instead provide downloads, xml feeds of every variety, and try to encourage sharing to raise interest in the creator, instead of whatever company the ad is pimping. Chances are the ad based variety is a good model too, its just a different model with less advantages for the author to create fame for themselves.
Exactly the point of the site.
Actually there is a host of programs: ffmpeg, mencoder and mplayer, vlc, flvtool2, just to name a few. Linux is an AMAZING video editing platform... but I have to say, the macs are damn fine looking laptops and run a great many open source apps with little trouble. Though hand-editing command line options for video is never easy or fun, there are even packages like ffmpeg-x which runs on both platforms. He actually knows his codecs and history pretty well.
I have to imagine that would go something like the tourettes guy, then... yes.
plus how much pr0n do you need? we don't do it at lulu.tv and the experience is actually moderated (see. differences between us and youtube) so that only the good stuff comes to the surface, else your relegated to the belly of the beast.
It might be. But what cut will you actually get? We aren't ruling out advertising, or several other channels, but if lulu.tv did it there would be a split with the creator just like everything else we do. We are very interested in finding the best way to get cash back to creators, and not corrupting their fame with the lack of recognition you get with an ad stuffed on a website. As far as people downloading movies... go ahead. There are rss2, atom, ipod feeds etc... and getting the video known will increase the chance you'll be interested in the creators next works. So come back and check them out... we don't bite... at least not if you have a mildly css capable browser;-D
Getting that cash in the hands of those that created the videos is the distinction of lulu.tv. Lulu is dedicated to helping creators share, collaborate, sell, and now co-op their IP, helping indy creators get known, grow, and get paid.
I tried to get the term for a member in the co-op to be "pro-creator" but it died in congress:)
Which is why lulu.tv doesn't make them... Did I blow your mind?
Bob Young was responsible for helping bring Red Hat from an apartment built OS to a multi-national corporation, I call that co-founder. Interesting bit of trivia though.
Sorry, just couldn't let slashdot miss out on Bob news to the traditional media. And yeah, lulu.tv is an extension of lulu.com. We have been working for a couple years to make sure creators can share/use/sell their IP in whichever way they wish. This is another way:)
It is a video sharing service with a seeded co-op actually. One of the reasons we liked the co-op idea is that it fits open source and creative commons so very well.
Actually viewers dont pay for the content. The creators get paid based on their share of the participation in the site, and lulu.tv funds the pool out of pocket 5k each month to start it off.
Ha, check out the stats on how many people have actually been paid. Lulu.tv is much more ambitious as to paying people.