Before everyone gets bent out of shape (probably too late), this is just some prof that wrote some paper and submitted it to a journal. In no way is he suggesting that we should all do this.
U Waterloo has some strange people. They take math pretty seriously. I graduated from there a few years ago. I remember at my convocation lining up to enter the gymnasium, we all had a card with a number on it so we would line up in alphabetical order easier. One guy actually announced that his number was prime.
Napster never had a chance to become better. They were too busy fighting the RIAA to do anything about it. Of course new services are better, but they're just a bunch of me-too's.
It's kind of like when DOOM came out, and then about a year later, there was about 50 other games like DOOM that had newer and better features. All the game magazines were talking about these things as DOOM-killers, and way better than DOOM. Well, no shit. It was a year old.
Napster started a revolution, and some MBA's got together, and decided they could make a dollar, so they started up their own service. But, they did nothing original... they just improved on an old idea. You have to respect that.
I think the RIAA knows that they are selling more CDs because of Napster, but I also think they know they could make so much more. Because of previewing, record companies can no longer push some one-hit wonder on us and make us buy the CD only to see it's one good song plus 50 minutes of filler.
No more Jimmy Rays. What? Don't you remember him? I didn't think so, but I bet anyone who bought his CD because of that song "Are You Jimmy Ray?" feels likes an idiot now.
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Before everyone gets bent out of shape (probably too late), this is just some prof that wrote some paper and submitted it to a journal. In no way is he suggesting that we should all do this.
U Waterloo has some strange people. They take math pretty seriously. I graduated from there a few years ago. I remember at my convocation lining up to enter the gymnasium, we all had a card with a number on it so we would line up in alphabetical order easier. One guy actually announced that his number was prime.
Yes, they're that serious.
I don't have the Java Component installed, and I think it takes forever. You're telling me it could take longer!!!!
Napster never had a chance to become better. They were too busy fighting the RIAA to do anything about it. Of course new services are better, but they're just a bunch of me-too's.
It's kind of like when DOOM came out, and then about a year later, there was about 50 other games like DOOM that had newer and better features. All the game magazines were talking about these things as DOOM-killers, and way better than DOOM. Well, no shit. It was a year old.
Napster started a revolution, and some MBA's got together, and decided they could make a dollar, so they started up their own service. But, they did nothing original... they just improved on an old idea. You have to respect that.
MS said that they and their partners (Dell, Compaq, etc) will spend $1 billion. MS has never actually said how much they are putting down.
I think the RIAA knows that they are selling more CDs because of Napster, but I also think they know they could make so much more. Because of previewing, record companies can no longer push some one-hit wonder on us and make us buy the CD only to see it's one good song plus 50 minutes of filler.
No more Jimmy Rays. What? Don't you remember him? I didn't think so, but I bet anyone who bought his CD because of that song "Are You Jimmy Ray?" feels likes an idiot now.
Napster would have totally destroyed the 80's.
Ok, sure it does "Hello World".
But, can you make a "Nervous Text" applet?