If they do announce this, I will go to the iTunes store and buy $50 worth of EMI music this evening. The only way other companies will follow suit is if Apple is telling them that EMI is selling more songs after DRM is removed.
Seriously. Pen and paper are your friend. But since brain games are all the rage these days, 16 digit Wii Friend Codes offer a great opportunitiy for everyone to master the The Major System for memorizing numbers:
It has a learning curve up front, but once you get it down, you can mop up the floor with 16 digit numbers.
High level summary: Map numbers to consonants. Insert vowels and the letters h, q, w, x, and y freely to make the consonants into words. For long numbers, make multiple words, preferably that have some relevance to the person or thing the number is associated with.
0 - s, z, soft-c - remember as 'z is first letter of zero' 1 - d, t, th - remember as letters with 1 downstroke 2 - n - remember as having 2 downstrokes 3 - m - has three downstrokes 4 - r - imagine a 4 and an R glued together back-to-back 5 - L - imagine the 5 propped up against a book end (L) 6 - j, sh, soft-ch, dg, soft-g - g is 6 rotated 180 degrees. 7 - k, hard-ch, hard-c, hard-g, ng - imagine K as two 7s rotated and glued together 8 - f, v - imagine the bottom loop of the 8 as an eFfluent pipe discharging waste (letter image of F in alphabet system) 9 - p, b - b as 9 rotated 180 degrees.
Example (banged on number pad to get this number): 4276930814557292
4 27 6 9 3 0 8 1 4 55 7 2 9 2 rank job maze, father will con ben
If your string of words is hard to remember, the link mentions ways to memorize that as well.
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If they do announce this, I will go to the iTunes store and buy $50 worth of EMI music this evening. The only way other companies will follow suit is if Apple is telling them that EMI is selling more songs after DRM is removed.
Seriously. Pen and paper are your friend. But since brain games are all the rage these days, 16 digit Wii Friend Codes offer a great opportunitiy for everyone to master the The Major System for memorizing numbers:
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It has a learning curve up front, but once you get it down, you can mop up the floor with 16 digit numbers.
High level summary:
Map numbers to consonants. Insert vowels and the letters h, q, w, x, and y freely to make the consonants into words. For long numbers, make multiple words, preferably that have some relevance to the person or thing the number is associated with.
0 - s, z, soft-c - remember as 'z is first letter of zero'
1 - d, t, th - remember as letters with 1 downstroke
2 - n - remember as having 2 downstrokes
3 - m - has three downstrokes
4 - r - imagine a 4 and an R glued together back-to-back
5 - L - imagine the 5 propped up against a book end (L)
6 - j, sh, soft-ch, dg, soft-g - g is 6 rotated 180 degrees.
7 - k, hard-ch, hard-c, hard-g, ng - imagine K as two 7s
rotated and glued together
8 - f, v - imagine the bottom loop of the 8 as an eFfluent
pipe discharging waste (letter image of F in
alphabet system)
9 - p, b - b as 9 rotated 180 degrees.
Example (banged on number pad to get this number):
4276930814557292
4 27 6 9 3 0 8 1 4 55 7 2 9 2
rank job maze, father will con ben
If your string of words is hard to remember, the link mentions ways to memorize that as well.