Well this sort of tactic has been working for Microsoft for a while - make their machines more accessible during the learning and perfecting stages of the education/training process then you have a market share that is likely to support you product well into professional life.
Come to think of it where's the free Machintosh to encourage my business to support and help market their product?
This is EXACTLY the card you need when trying to prove to a bunch of your friends that you definately have spent the most money on a computer that can't quite outperform their slightly cheaper PC's...
The real question is how can I waste even more money now that I've water cooled my 4 multicore intel's and my video card, ive got a freon injector over my 48channel sound card and my LCD monitor requires three projector screen stands just to hold it in place...
Wait there's some external storage drives shaped like lego and a USB hub that looks like a smurf villiage - that it - BRILLIANT!
Actually this is a good point - there are a number of ISP's that have taken steps to minimize or block BT traffic to conserve their bandwith...
Maybe this will change that.
Its possible that if you take a Wiki approach and misuse the media wiki engine you could get the effect you wanted through easy to use O.S. packages...
I've taken this approach for clients looking at managing online publications however I understand it's definately not "one size fits all".
My number one biggest problem with this idea is that there are companies that will be profiting from the network resources that torrent users basically donate - the same as any "pay to play" content over distributed systems where the end users give back into the network.
Why should Time Warner (for instance) be able to charge their clients to use MY bandwith?
Though I'm stating the obvious this is related to the one biggest problem for I.T. today and in the next 20 years - the end users and their tendancy to click things they shouldn't, circumvent measures to stop them doing things they shouldn't and not paying attention to dialog boxes correctly...
But if every end user all of a sudden stopped instaling worms, viruses and spyware I think a good 10% or more I.T. support workers would be out of a job - I can see a possible conflict of interest there!
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Well this sort of tactic has been working for Microsoft for a while - make their machines more accessible during the learning and perfecting stages of the education/training process then you have a market share that is likely to support you product well into professional life.
Come to think of it where's the free Machintosh to encourage my business to support and help market their product?
This is EXACTLY the card you need when trying to prove to a bunch of your friends that you definately have spent the most money on a computer that can't quite outperform their slightly cheaper PC's...
The real question is how can I waste even more money now that I've water cooled my 4 multicore intel's and my video card, ive got a freon injector over my 48channel sound card and my LCD monitor requires three projector screen stands just to hold it in place...
Wait there's some external storage drives shaped like lego and a USB hub that looks like a smurf villiage - that it - BRILLIANT!
Actually this is a good point - there are a number of ISP's that have taken steps to minimize or block BT traffic to conserve their bandwith...
Maybe this will change that.
Its possible that if you take a Wiki approach and misuse the media wiki engine you could get the effect you wanted through easy to use O.S. packages...
I've taken this approach for clients looking at managing online publications however I understand it's definately not "one size fits all".
My number one biggest problem with this idea is that there are companies that will be profiting from the network resources that torrent users basically donate - the same as any "pay to play" content over distributed systems where the end users give back into the network. Why should Time Warner (for instance) be able to charge their clients to use MY bandwith?
Though I'm stating the obvious this is related to the one biggest problem for I.T. today and in the next 20 years - the end users and their tendancy to click things they shouldn't, circumvent measures to stop them doing things they shouldn't and not paying attention to dialog boxes correctly... But if every end user all of a sudden stopped instaling worms, viruses and spyware I think a good 10% or more I.T. support workers would be out of a job - I can see a possible conflict of interest there!