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Wow! (styled WOW!) was an online service run by CompuServe.com in 1996 and early
1997. Started in March 1996, it was originally thought to be an improved version
of CompuServe's software, but it was later announced that it would be a
user-friendly stand-alone "family" online service and was widely advertised on
TV as such. Wow! was the first internet service to be offered with a monthly
"unlimited" rate ($17.95) and stood out because of its brightly colored,
seemingly hand-drawn pages.

The first release of this program was quite buggy, with many random shutdowns of
the service and loss of email messages. The service developed a small, but very
loyal fan base. However, this was not enough and the service was quickly shut
down

CompuServe "shut down" the service on January 31, 1997 by not allowing users to
sign back in once they signed off.

There is a strong group of "WOWIES" who have fought on for years after its
demise, to stay connected through chat groups (ironically on AOL), and a web
ring. This group believes they were "sold out" by Compuserve because the service
was being bought out by AOL, who began offering a $19.95 unlimited service as it
was shutting down WOW.

This was not to end Wow!'s troubles, several class-action law suits were filed,
claiming that WOW! was sold to stockholders with false and misleading
information.

The CompuServe model had always been to charge customers based on an hourly
usage fee. This model was no longer competitive due to the new unlimited
programs provided by AOL and sprouting local ISPs. In addition, CompuServe was
unable to offer customized usernames. Customers had lengthy numbers with a comma
(or period if it one was sending it to another non-Wow! Compuserve member) in
the middle as their e-mail address. Wow! was supposed to fix those issues and
make the company competitive with AOL.

The Wow! Information Service was supposed to commence with the release of
Microsoft Windows 95 SR2. This version of Windows would be the first to offer a
built-in Internet Explorer. Knowing that this new browser would be considered
anti-competitive, Microsoft allowed the major ISPs to include their own software
installations into the base Operating System. Compuserve realized that this was
a huge opportunity to get Wow! on to PC's around the country, but the software
was not close to being ready for distribution.

The company decided that the only way to be ready was to have a paid beta test.
IT Contracting firms were consulted and beta testers were brought to Wow!
Headquarters. Each beta tester would get six months of free WOW! service and be
paid $100/week, plus $10 per bug they found in the software. The beta tester
that found the most bugs would be awarded a "bug bounty" of $2000. In the end,
the beta testers were not impressed with the payouts, and very few bugs were
actually fixed.

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WOW (SUPERBUS ALBUM)

Wow is the third album from the French power pop group Superbus. It reached the
sixth place on French album charts. It was released on 16 October 2006.


TRACK LISTING

All tracks by Jennifer Ayache

"Le Rock à Billy" (Billy's Rock) - 2:01 "Ramdam" - 3:16 "Butterfly" - 3:52 "Over
You" - 2:43 "Lola" - 2:58 "Tiens Le Fil" (Hold the Wire) - 2:01 "Un Peu De
Douleur" (A Little Pain) - 2:47 "Let Me Hold You" - 3:15 "On Monday" - 4:21
"Travel the World" - 3:47 "Jenn Je T'aime" (Jenn I Love You) - 3:16 "Ça Mousse"
(It's Frothing) - 3:11 "Bad Boy Killer" (bonus track) - 2:44 "Breath "(bonus
track) - 3:45 "Heart of glass" (iTunes Bonus Track) "Travel the World" (at Mme
Krapabelle a frappe Bart Simpson concert) - 3:47


PERSONNEL

Jennifer Ayache, aka Jenn. – vocals Patrice Focone, aka Pat. – guitar, backing
vocals) Michel Giovannetti, aka Mitch. – guitar) François Even, aka Küntz. –
bass, backing vocals) Greg Jacks, (drums)
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WOW (MARILYN MANSON SONG)

"WOW" is the ninth track from Marilyn Manson's 2009 release The High End of Low.
Its title was revealed on April 7, 2009, in a blog which described both it and
another songs from the album, "Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon".


MUSIC DETAILS

A blog by Metal Hammer describes "WOW" as "a grinding, NIN-tinged sex anthem.
Genuinely filthy and intensely sexy, The Wow sees Manson riding a dirty Twiggy
Ramirez bassline in an almost spoken-word style. Quirky keyboards interject all
the way through the track while sexual female groans (occasionally spoken in
German) swarm behind the crunching industrial backing track. The Wow doesn't
have anything in the way of memorable hooks but it is the sort of track that
would sound amazing in a goth stripclub...if one existed."

Reviewing for Thrash Hits, Hugh Platt stated that "for every killer track
there's one like 'WOW', a gutful of sickly electro honky-tonk with Manson at his
lyrically most self-absorbed." John Robb of The Quietus deems that the song "is
very Iggy [Pop]; Iggy when he swerved and went industrial on The Idiot." In an
interview with BBC Radio's 6 Music, Manson acknowledged this influence, and also
exclaimed the song has literary references to the 1868 Fyodor Dostoevsky novel
The Idiot (which the aforementioned Iggy Pop record lifts its name from).

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FREE


MEDIA

Free: The Future of a Radical Price, 2009 book by Chris Anderson Free (film), a
2001 dramedy Free! (anime), a 2013 anime television series Free (Desperate
Housewives), a television episode


ARTS AND PHILOSOPHY

Freedom (disambiguation) Free, to emancipate, to obtain political rights
(usually for a disenfranchised group) Free, a pseudonym for the activist and
writer Abbie Hoffman Free content, content without significant legal usability
restrictions Free will, control exercised by rational agents over their actions
and decisions


COMPUTING

Free (programming), a function that releases dynamically allocated memory for
reuse Freefont, an open font project Free format, a file format which can be
used without restrictions Free software, software usable and distributable with
few restrictions and no payment Freeware, a broader class of software available
at no cost Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment, a video game genre as implemented
in the game Shenmue


MATHEMATICS

Free object
* Free abelian group
* Free algebra
* Free group
* Free module
* Free semigroup
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FREE: THE FUTURE OF A RADICAL PRICE

Free: The Future of a Radical Price is the second book written by Chris
Anderson, Editor in chief of Wired magazine. The book was published on July 7,
2009 by Hyperion. He is also the author of The Long Tail, published in 2006.


OVERVIEW

Free follows a thread from the previous work. It examines the rise of pricing
models which give products and services to customers for free, often as a
strategy for attracting users and up-selling some of them to a premium level.
That class of model has become widely referred to as "freemium" and has become
very popular for a variety of digital products and services.


RELEASE

Free was released in the United States on July 7, 2009, though the night before,
on his blog, Chris Anderson posted a browser readable version of the book and
the unabridged audiobook version. Anderson generated controversy for
plagiarizing content from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Free. Anderson
responded to the claim on his The Long Tail blog, stating that there were
disagreements between him and the publisher over accurate citation of Wikipedia
due to the changing nature of its content, leading him to integrate footnotes
into the text. Also on his blog, he took full responsibility for the mistakes
and noted that the digital editions of Free were corrected. The notes and
sources were later provided as a download on his blog.

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FREE (MARCUS MILLER ALBUM)

Free is an album by jazz bassist Marcus Miller, released in 2007.

The album's title track is a cover of the 1977 Deniece Williams song. UK soul
singer Corinne Bailey Rae provided lead vocals. "Higher Ground" is a song
originally recorded by Stevie Wonder, and "What Is Hip" was originally performed
by Tower of Power. "Jean Pierre" was originally performed by Miles Davis (On "We
Want Miles", 1982). Blues singer Keb' Mo' performs lead vocals and co-wrote with
Marcus Miller the track entitled "Milky Way".

The album's US version has not only a new title, Marcus, but the tracks have
been remixed/recut. Four additional tracks have been added to the album as well.


TRACK LISTING

All tracks produced by Marcus Miller and David Isaac.

"Blast" "Funk Joint" "Free" "Strum" "Milky Way" "Pluck (Interlude)" "When I Fall
In Love" "Jean Pierre" "Higher Ground" "What Is Hip?"


EXTERNAL LINKS

Marcus Miller – Free at AllMusic
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365-DAY CALENDAR

A 365-day calendar consists of exactly 365 days per year (no leap days), and is
primarily used in computer models and as an assumption in every-day
calculations. For example, a calculation of a daily rate may use an annual total
divided by exactly 365.

Interest rates in some banks are calculated using a 365-day calendar.


OTHER 365-DAY CALENDARS

Some Mesoamerican calendars used a 365-day year with no leap year, resulting in
a gradual shift of the seasons relative to the calendar. This includes the Maya
Haab' and the Aztec Xiuhpohualli calendars.

Some versions of the Zoroastrian calendar also use a fixed length of 365 days
with no rule for leap days, despite potential leap year rules being acknowledged
by the 9th century at the latest. In particular, of the versions still in use
today the Qadimi version does not have any form of leap rule; the Shahanshahi
version had one leap month added in the 12th century but no leap years since,
while the Fasli version (introduced in the 20th century) adds one day every four
years.

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