You can find the details of size comparasions here.
It seems that Wikipedia is quite large compared to the other commercial offerings. For example, the article says that Encyclopedia Britannica's 2002 edition proudly proclaim they have over 85,000 articles and the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, as having 51,000 article.
By the looks of it, there's still a lot of room to grow though.
Check them out they look like pretty cool guys. No wonder they're sitting out there for 4 months. I have just one question. What the hell is all that gear they have on? the phones and the like. They seeem like the perfect type to be doing this.
Now i better get going to start my own cool star wars club.. so i can wait in line forever! fun fun!
I believe this is possible, but why the heck should one go to all that trouble? For one, I attempted this for awhile in the past and had little luck with the alternative servers. Networks like OpenNap are underpopulated overall, often times slow and diffucult to connect to. Just stick to FastTrack or the Gnutella networks. Everything you could ever want is there. Besides - What was so great about Napster anyway?
The idea that any band still publishing vinyl probably doesn't care if you download their music is exactly where the problem lies. You are stealing their work. Simple as that,you never paid a single cent for it. Why should a band not get paid for their work? What difference does it have if they have millions in sales? They still deserve to get paid, simple as that. If anything, this is a post relating to the overall fear and negative attitudes towards the monopolistic society today.
I believe that a subscription based system such as this new Napster is completely representive for the state of music today anyway. People are not concerned with the overall work and feel of a record. They are only concerned with the 'hit songs' and as such, that's all the want to listen to. This makes the subscrption system perfect. Get the songs you want and artists get paid.
This is all well and good but does anyone have any information on how much this is going to end up costing the consumer? I know there have been numerous discussions about subscription and pay per song type models but is the decision finalized?
You may not have to pay directly for listening to a song on the radio but you are in a way because you are forced to listen to the wide barrage of ads and promotions, the revenues of which the stations then pay the royalties and such to the artists. With downloaded mp3's everyone loses because the artist gets nothing.
I kinda think of this napster service as a sort of personalized radio on demand feature. The songs you want without the BS.
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It seems that Wikipedia is quite large compared to the other commercial offerings. For example, the article says that Encyclopedia Britannica's 2002 edition proudly proclaim they have over 85,000 articles and the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, as having 51,000 article.
By the looks of it, there's still a lot of room to grow though.
To 'Do Not Ask On Startup' problem is on the list of known issues, on the release page
Hopefully they'll fix that problem quickly - it's sure any annoying bug.
I don't think you can even comment until you see the final product. I'm sure that the helicopter is just the beginning of the coolness.
Can't hurt to close the city down, better safe then sorry I say. I'm just happy that I don't live there.
Check them out they look like pretty cool guys. No wonder they're sitting out there for 4 months. I have just one question. What the hell is all that gear they have on? the phones and the like. They seeem like the perfect type to be doing this.
Now i better get going to start my own cool star wars club.. so i can wait in line forever! fun fun!
I believe this is possible, but why the heck should one go to all that trouble? For one, I attempted this for awhile in the past and had little luck with the alternative servers. Networks like OpenNap are underpopulated overall, often times slow and diffucult to connect to. Just stick to FastTrack or the Gnutella networks. Everything you could ever want is there. Besides - What was so great about Napster anyway?
The idea that any band still publishing vinyl probably doesn't care if you download their music is exactly where the problem lies. You are stealing their work. Simple as that,you never paid a single cent for it. Why should a band not get paid for their work? What difference does it have if they have millions in sales? They still deserve to get paid, simple as that. If anything, this is a post relating to the overall fear and negative attitudes towards the monopolistic society today.
I believe that a subscription based system such as this new Napster is completely representive for the state of music today anyway. People are not concerned with the overall work and feel of a record. They are only concerned with the 'hit songs' and as such, that's all the want to listen to. This makes the subscrption system perfect. Get the songs you want and artists get paid.
This is all well and good but does anyone have any information on how much this is going to end up costing the consumer? I know there have been numerous discussions about subscription and pay per song type models but is the decision finalized?
You may not have to pay directly for listening to a song on the radio but you are in a way because you are forced to listen to the wide barrage of ads and promotions, the revenues of which the stations then pay the royalties and such to the artists. With downloaded mp3's everyone loses because the artist gets nothing.
I kinda think of this napster service as a sort of personalized radio on demand feature. The songs you want without the BS.