To: Maurice Winn who wrote (24659 ) 3/22/1999 5:21:00 PM From: Maurice Winn Respond to of 152472
*MP3 and what day it is*audiogalaxy.com Q! will also need to include in 'son of pdQ' MP3 file download software so people can get their favourite music from the Web and listen using EarCell[TM], for hifi stereophonic sound. Earcells [TM] being those little 'in the ear canal' hearing-aid type cellphones with a CDMA link to the control box which goes in your pocket. This will be MUCH bigger deal that the Walkman which had moving parts, tapes and flat batteries. 'MP3' is the second biggest search term on the Web after 'Sex'. This is VERY big time. //@754 on 22 March 1999, Q! reached $90.25, a new world record.// Actually, that was @754 on 23 March, because Biel and the Nasdaq quotes are based on prehistoric times. Now we just need metricated days, months and reset the calendar to zero so that we can avoid the millennium noise. 1999 seems a good year for ground zero internet time. If we do it this year, it will befuddle people for 2000 years as to whether the millennium is actually at the beginning of 1000 or the beginning of 1001 or the beginning of 1002 since Webtime started a year before the millennium in the old time. It will also save bandwidth in school so children can play more instead of listening to absurd nonsense such as thirty days hath September, April, June and November and figuring out how many months there are. The USA will struggle with it though because they can't even leave the absurd avoirdupois [loosely translated as, "We have some peas"] system of weights and measures. The USA still drives so many miles in an hour though they have no concept of how many metres there are in a mile or how many litres of gasoline they'll use. No wonder USA children do badly in school - their bandwidth is taken up with too much crazy stuff like that. We used to be tortured with: "If one pound of apples costs two pounds six and ninepence an ounce, how much would a hundredweight cost in guineas and how many bushells would that be?" The teacher would leave the room for a snooze while we tried to figure it out. Then the United Nations brought in the declaration of human rights, and while China has metricated, the USA still is torturing children. No wonder there are still occasional riots in Los Angeles and other cities. Children will be able to listen in class to HolySnappers.MP3 by the Beastie Boys without disturbing the teacher who can continue trying to learn the imperial system of weights and measures while watching the clock. Mquarkce @973