Well p2p is a distribution system not an advertising system. So I was rightly comparing it to a store.
As for advertising systems traditional media like TV and the radio still have some real power. But over the last few years as power has shifted from them to the internet the power is being taken out of the hands of big media. Point being you probably heard about Starcraft2 from friends who probably heard from either seal-hunter like vigilance or from a fan run game site. Neither of these are mainstream media neither of these are controlled by money. People advertise and gain awareness through: Blogs webcasts youtube vlogs indiesites fansites musicsitewithabandoftheweek spotlightsonnewssites WORD OF MOUTH... msn facebook reallife secondlife email. And if you think about it for a bit this is likely where you hear about most of your new stuff. And none of it is paid for.
That said the writer was targeting a supplier/distributor. Not an advertising mechanism.
I was thinking while unconscious possibly in a coma full of drugs to keep your blood from pooling or your brain turned to mush. While strapped in to a body fitting wall in a shape retaining suit. Maybe you could have your blood pumped back up for you as well. I did not think they'd be walking around being like "fuuuuckk my balls are saggy".
Anyways astronauts are some of the few people in the world that are already in very good condition. And they are already well trained for multiple Gs. I think the first few missions we'd do at around 5gs to make sure nobody's brains turns into mush.
But then your complaint boils down to: Advertising works. Or possibly... Popular things are popular.
You probably won't make it to the top no. But I can think of plenty of examples of Youtube flunkies doing pretty well. I don't know what you would prefer that would help out indies. Just divide the popularity of anything copy written by 10? Currently anyone can upload anything to TPB and try to get popularity.
On a side note I'm amazed I didn't get obliterated by the mods yet, I thought the last bit was a bit much. Maybe the mods will grant my birthday wish and push me up to +5troll.
Buy 2 laptops? It means if one dies you can still keep things moving if poorly. Run all of the drives externally through USB makes for easy plug and play (HDD speeds usually aren't needed to be TOO fast on server applications depending what it is needed for. This allows for cheap compartmentalized replaceable parts and very flexible. You could probably build a case for the whole thing to make it easier to carry around. It also has the advantage of having batteries already in case of power outages. Run a power cord to the whole box so your laptops don't explode during a lightning storm and allow for solar panels. Seems pretty easy. Also laptops use more efficient processing than server cpus anyways. If you design a nice case to store the bits you could make it sturdy enough to roll down a flight of stairs. You could even build the walls with hepa filters (in a rigid frame).
Damn T_T with all this talk I want to build one now and I have no idea wtf I'd use it for.
Agreed. But what most scientists and nerd forget is what another poster said. If 95% of the population will pay MUCH more for football than science you are fucked. Telepresence might get people interested again. The main thing holding back NASA at the moment isn't their shitty new shuttles. It is PR, they don't have a groundswell of support. If there was a movement like the one to get a man on the moon we would be having massive innovation coming from every orifice. But most of the world doesn't care. So we are stifled.
I think he might have a bit of a bias being a failing indie band person. Strawman aside...
"There is no accounting for bad taste." File sharing puts everything on equal footing based on POPULARITY. Think of torrents like a store... A store with 100million songs available. If not even 1 person is willing to seed your music the people have spoken, you SUCK. What does the top 100 have to do with anything? It is a reflection of the market, it drives it to some small degree but that is it. It makes everything almost equally available if there is some remote interest on the planet for it. Would you prefer a store with only 10,000songs? Where you are guaranteed to not be on the shelves.
Basically, suck it up. If you can't succeed in such an open environment on equal footing with any giant band (better than ones with RIAA fucking them over). Than it isn't the system. It is you.
At a constant deceleration of 10gs it would only take a month. This is survivable by humans probably in good conditions as provided by a spaceship. 5gs is definitely survivable for 2months. I take it you are using current ship speeds.
3 weeks after reaching the new star system. Hmm... guess I'll just off myself now. We need more in place. The ability to MOVE there would do it. We'd fork into a group of earth folk and space faring folk. With the earth so incredibly tiny the last few years it is hard for us as a society to give up being connected. But 500years ago people could do it I'm sure there would be enough people willing to do it now. Actually I think some people would be willing to zoom around the earth at light speed to go into the future a few hundred years even if they didn't get to leave the planet:p.
Sorry, my punctuation was confusing at best. I meant Mac is the easiest to hack. And patched windows/linux are the hardest to hack.
I never said linux was hard to use or patch... and really you can put upgrades in to your boot script for less typing. Don't get me wrong, linux is secure. But only non-idiots comfortably use linux. If you forced those non-idiots to use windows they would be secure anyways... they wouldn't do anything stupid to get infected.
I think stealing blood, sperm and hair from someone without them noticing would be WAY easier than manufacturing them from what you get in a database. Reliance on any of these thing is probably a bad idea. BUT. Since reality is not a movie I think 99% of the time it would be a good thing. Think about a crime like rape. The girl says it was a tall white guy and that is it. With DNA on hand you have a good chance of getting the guy. Just check the database. If she identifies him from a lineup AND you use the lead to gather more information then it was really helpful. Planting evidence probably happens in only a VERYVERY tiny number of cases.
Wait you actually worked in a research lab. I'm pretty sure here on/. that makes you biased. Since if you worked in a climate research lab you are pro-climate change. All them researchers are pro climate change so clearly your opinion is worthless.
What if this happens: hairy - temperatures rise high enough to boil the oceans off and dry our the earth a while - a few hundred years
The earth in past has done so. I mean it is perfectly natural so who cares? We'll adapt I'm sure. I'm not saying I think that is likely to happen anytime soon. But saying it like wellll we'll have some longer summers w/e. It won't change your air conditioning bill. It could end up making it unsafe to be outdoor more than a few seconds at a time. Just because we have a comfort range doesn't mean the planet has to stick to it.
It doesn't matter a huge amount what OS you install. You just need people to be educated. It doesn't matter how secure you are. If someone sends a e-mail saying "Click here to see topless..." Wait scratch that, hmmm Dalai Lama... "Click here to become one with the universe.exe" then you are screwed. Don't waste your time teaching people Linux or some other OS (feel free to switch for other reasons). Instead teach them self-restraint and discipline.... Which you think they would have. That and get a couple semi-decent admins to keep your servers updated/clean.
Macs are the easiest PATCHED windows and mainstream linux are hard. Look at all the hacking competitions, Macs go down then much later linux and windows...
The reason windows is so filled with holes is because windows is the Joe 6 pack OS. If you took any secure linux user and made him use a windows machine he'd never get a virus or hacked. Period, no arguing that. He'd probably also have less technical problems. The only reason there are so many technical problems in windows is because all of the stupid computer users have it...
That is JUST the radiator... so windows and radiators ~36 hits per mission. Which is insanely high. These things are impacting at kilometers/second. I don't know why I thought it was 300 earlier.... I think this explains my Linear Algebra exam though:(
Well now. Being told to murder and commit 'crimes against humanity' is one thing. Helping your country save peoples lives by mailing some harmless information is another. What ethical standard are we supposed to hold companies to? They were as fooled as most of the country about the clear and present danger the terrorists presented. If the US government isn't going to punish ITSELF for entering a war and killing hundreds of thousands of innocents on false pretenses. Then do you think the people below them following orders and simply emailing info to support the government in this battle should be crushed? Not to mention the fact that it doesn't serve much of a purpose destroying all the telephone companies. Already in economic crisis, I don't think obliterating an entire industry is a great idea.
Those numbers are frigging huge compared to what I thought. 300 measurable hits per mission is crazy. And it will only get worse. I don't think sails are the solution. We need a way to clean it up. (While i liked PlanetES I don't think doing it by hand is very viable)
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... msn facebook reallife secondlife email.
Well p2p is a distribution system not an advertising system. So I was rightly comparing it to a store.
As for advertising systems traditional media like TV and the radio still have some real power. But over the last few years as power has shifted from them to the internet the power is being taken out of the hands of big media. Point being you probably heard about Starcraft2 from friends who probably heard from either seal-hunter like vigilance or from a fan run game site. Neither of these are mainstream media neither of these are controlled by money. People advertise and gain awareness through: Blogs webcasts youtube vlogs indiesites fansites musicsitewithabandoftheweek spotlightsonnewssites WORD OF MOUTH
And if you think about it for a bit this is likely where you hear about most of your new stuff. And none of it is paid for.
That said the writer was targeting a supplier/distributor. Not an advertising mechanism.
I was thinking while unconscious possibly in a coma full of drugs to keep your blood from pooling or your brain turned to mush. While strapped in to a body fitting wall in a shape retaining suit. Maybe you could have your blood pumped back up for you as well. I did not think they'd be walking around being like "fuuuuckk my balls are saggy".
Anyways astronauts are some of the few people in the world that are already in very good condition. And they are already well trained for multiple Gs. I think the first few missions we'd do at around 5gs to make sure nobody's brains turns into mush.
But then your complaint boils down to: Advertising works. Or possibly... Popular things are popular.
You probably won't make it to the top no. But I can think of plenty of examples of Youtube flunkies doing pretty well. I don't know what you would prefer that would help out indies. Just divide the popularity of anything copy written by 10? Currently anyone can upload anything to TPB and try to get popularity.
On a side note I'm amazed I didn't get obliterated by the mods yet, I thought the last bit was a bit much. Maybe the mods will grant my birthday wish and push me up to +5troll.
Buy 2 laptops? It means if one dies you can still keep things moving if poorly. Run all of the drives externally through USB makes for easy plug and play (HDD speeds usually aren't needed to be TOO fast on server applications depending what it is needed for. This allows for cheap compartmentalized replaceable parts and very flexible. You could probably build a case for the whole thing to make it easier to carry around. It also has the advantage of having batteries already in case of power outages. Run a power cord to the whole box so your laptops don't explode during a lightning storm and allow for solar panels. Seems pretty easy. Also laptops use more efficient processing than server cpus anyways. If you design a nice case to store the bits you could make it sturdy enough to roll down a flight of stairs. You could even build the walls with hepa filters (in a rigid frame).
Damn T_T with all this talk I want to build one now and I have no idea wtf I'd use it for.
Agreed. But what most scientists and nerd forget is what another poster said. If 95% of the population will pay MUCH more for football than science you are fucked. Telepresence might get people interested again. The main thing holding back NASA at the moment isn't their shitty new shuttles. It is PR, they don't have a groundswell of support. If there was a movement like the one to get a man on the moon we would be having massive innovation coming from every orifice. But most of the world doesn't care. So we are stifled.
I think he might have a bit of a bias being a failing indie band person. Strawman aside...
"There is no accounting for bad taste."
File sharing puts everything on equal footing based on POPULARITY. Think of torrents like a store... A store with 100million songs available. If not even 1 person is willing to seed your music the people have spoken, you SUCK. What does the top 100 have to do with anything? It is a reflection of the market, it drives it to some small degree but that is it. It makes everything almost equally available if there is some remote interest on the planet for it. Would you prefer a store with only 10,000songs? Where you are guaranteed to not be on the shelves.
Basically, suck it up. If you can't succeed in such an open environment on equal footing with any giant band (better than ones with RIAA fucking them over). Than it isn't the system. It is you.
You Suck.
At a constant deceleration of 10gs it would only take a month. This is survivable by humans probably in good conditions as provided by a spaceship. 5gs is definitely survivable for 2months. I take it you are using current ship speeds.
3 weeks after reaching the new star system. Hmm... guess I'll just off myself now. We need more in place. The ability to MOVE there would do it. We'd fork into a group of earth folk and space faring folk. With the earth so incredibly tiny the last few years it is hard for us as a society to give up being connected. But 500years ago people could do it I'm sure there would be enough people willing to do it now. Actually I think some people would be willing to zoom around the earth at light speed to go into the future a few hundred years even if they didn't get to leave the planet :p.
We don't have a word for what he's describing. Technically the best word is telepresence but verryyyy laggy telepresence.
Sarcasm on the internet :(
You'd be impressed how tech savvy people become when there are things in between him and naked celebrities.
Someone tag this !porn because I was seriously confused for a minute.
"Since when have service packs been expected too add hundreds of new features and not just fix bugs?"
I'm going to guess MMOs did it. There is always new content in patches.
Sorry, my punctuation was confusing at best. I meant Mac is the easiest to hack. And patched windows/linux are the hardest to hack.
I never said linux was hard to use or patch... and really you can put upgrades in to your boot script for less typing. Don't get me wrong, linux is secure. But only non-idiots comfortably use linux. If you forced those non-idiots to use windows they would be secure anyways... they wouldn't do anything stupid to get infected.
Sorry, my punctuation was confusing at best. I meant Mac is the easiest to hack. And patched windows/linux are the hardest to hack.
Like the millions of dollars the US gave the internet companies?
I think stealing blood, sperm and hair from someone without them noticing would be WAY easier than manufacturing them from what you get in a database.
Reliance on any of these thing is probably a bad idea. BUT. Since reality is not a movie I think 99% of the time it would be a good thing. Think about a crime like rape. The girl says it was a tall white guy and that is it. With DNA on hand you have a good chance of getting the guy. Just check the database. If she identifies him from a lineup AND you use the lead to gather more information then it was really helpful. Planting evidence probably happens in only a VERYVERY tiny number of cases.
Wait you actually worked in a research lab. I'm pretty sure here on /. that makes you biased. Since if you worked in a climate research lab you are pro-climate change. All them researchers are pro climate change so clearly your opinion is worthless.
"Sure things might get hairy for a while"
What if this happens:
hairy - temperatures rise high enough to boil the oceans off and dry our the earth
a while - a few hundred years
The earth in past has done so. I mean it is perfectly natural so who cares? We'll adapt I'm sure. I'm not saying I think that is likely to happen anytime soon. But saying it like wellll we'll have some longer summers w/e. It won't change your air conditioning bill. It could end up making it unsafe to be outdoor more than a few seconds at a time. Just because we have a comfort range doesn't mean the planet has to stick to it.
It doesn't matter a huge amount what OS you install. You just need people to be educated. It doesn't matter how secure you are. If someone sends a e-mail saying "Click here to see topless..." Wait scratch that, hmmm Dalai Lama... "Click here to become one with the universe.exe" then you are screwed. Don't waste your time teaching people Linux or some other OS (feel free to switch for other reasons). Instead teach them self-restraint and discipline.... Which you think they would have. That and get a couple semi-decent admins to keep your servers updated/clean.
Macs are the easiest PATCHED windows and mainstream linux are hard. Look at all the hacking competitions, Macs go down then much later linux and windows...
The reason windows is so filled with holes is because windows is the Joe 6 pack OS. If you took any secure linux user and made him use a windows machine he'd never get a virus or hacked. Period, no arguing that. He'd probably also have less technical problems. The only reason there are so many technical problems in windows is because all of the stupid computer users have it...
That is JUST the radiator... so windows and radiators ~36 hits per mission. Which is insanely high. These things are impacting at kilometers/second. I don't know why I thought it was 300 earlier.... I think this explains my Linear Algebra exam though :(
Well now. Being told to murder and commit 'crimes against humanity' is one thing. Helping your country save peoples lives by mailing some harmless information is another. What ethical standard are we supposed to hold companies to? They were as fooled as most of the country about the clear and present danger the terrorists presented.
If the US government isn't going to punish ITSELF for entering a war and killing hundreds of thousands of innocents on false pretenses. Then do you think the people below them following orders and simply emailing info to support the government in this battle should be crushed? Not to mention the fact that it doesn't serve much of a purpose destroying all the telephone companies. Already in economic crisis, I don't think obliterating an entire industry is a great idea.
Those numbers are frigging huge compared to what I thought. 300 measurable hits per mission is crazy. And it will only get worse. I don't think sails are the solution. We need a way to clean it up. (While i liked PlanetES I don't think doing it by hand is very viable)
Here you go!
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4836368/SONY_BMG_Music_Entertainment_v._Tenenbaum.4836368.TPB.torrent