This is what Musicmatch MX does. If there's a song you like you can click on the cover art in the player which will open the browser at the album's page on their webshop.
I agree with you that we get less of a service than American subscribers, but I stay with EMusic because it is still a fantastically good deal.
And it's not just good economically, but also because they have such a great selection of jazz which my local record stores don't carry at all. EMusic gives me hard to get music at a great price, so I decided to live with their discrimination of foreign subscribers. It still annoys me, though.
I'm a historian so I'll tell you this: The translation of Arab books in medieval Spain was far more important to the spread of knowledge in Europe than what the crusaders brought back from the Islamic world.
Slightly OT, but this reminds me of a trip on the Metro in Oslo a couple of years ago. A group of elderly (70+ I'd say) people who had spent the day at the national archive sat next to me, and were talking about the documents they had read that day. One of them took an interest in what anotherone had transcribed and asked if he could give him a copy. The reply was, "do you have e-mail?". The first guy said no and that he wanted a paper copy, and was told "hell no, I'm not going to print it out and send it to you. Get yourself an internet connection. That's how all of us share things now." And all the others agreed, saying that "everybody" was keeping in touch that way now.
The probabilities were determined from historical demographic data.
That really makes me a bit curious about which data the have used. As far as I know, and I've worked on historical demographics for a couple of years, we don't have much data from outside of the Western world except for the last century, and even that is rather scetchy in many areas.
It also struck me that they claim birthrates don't increase after having fallen. Well, we don't have much experience with that, but in some countries such as Norway they are actually risisng again after having fallen for 150 years.
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This is what Musicmatch MX does.
If there's a song you like you can click on the cover art in the player which will open the browser at the album's page on their webshop.
I agree with you that we get less of a service than American subscribers, but I stay with EMusic because it is still a fantastically good deal. And it's not just good economically, but also because they have such a great selection of jazz which my local record stores don't carry at all. EMusic gives me hard to get music at a great price, so I decided to live with their discrimination of foreign subscribers. It still annoys me, though.
I'm a historian so I'll tell you this: The translation of Arab books in medieval Spain was far more important to the spread of knowledge in Europe than what the crusaders brought back from the Islamic world.
Why is it that political or foreign-relations stories get all the responses with Bush-bashing and America-bashing?
You're right, we should have that in all the stories!
Perhaps the geeks aren't the only ones interested these days, so mainstream media are trying to pay attention to "esoteric geek news"?
Slightly OT, but this reminds me of a trip on the Metro in Oslo a couple of years ago. A group of elderly (70+ I'd say) people who had spent the day at the national archive sat next to me, and were talking about the documents they had read that day. One of them took an interest in what anotherone had transcribed and asked if he could give him a copy. The reply was, "do you have e-mail?". The first guy said no and that he wanted a paper copy, and was told "hell no, I'm not going to print it out and send it to you. Get yourself an internet connection. That's how all of us share things now." And all the others agreed, saying that "everybody" was keeping in touch that way now.
The probabilities were determined from historical demographic data.
That really makes me a bit curious about which data the have used. As far as I know, and I've worked on historical demographics for a couple of years, we don't have much data from outside of the Western world except for the last century, and even that is rather scetchy in many areas.
It also struck me that they claim birthrates don't increase after having fallen. Well, we don't have much experience with that, but in some countries such as Norway they are actually risisng again after having fallen for 150 years.