Re:Selling USENET Archive?
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Collecting tapes with the old articles took work which should be worth something. I don't know, but they possibly even had to pay for them.
And it's not like it costs nothing for a news server to receive articles.
As I see it, Dejanews is like any usenet news provider, only with a much longer expire period. (Unless they'd do things like edit articles to make words in them become hyperlinks and the like.) So yes, of course they can sell the database just like any other provider could.
Submarines as such had been predicted long before him, and I seem to recall Hunley was used operationally just a year after Verne published his first novel (which wasn't about submarines).
And unless I misremember, the first commercial fax service was disbanded in 1871 after six or seven years of operation (as it was uneconomical). Used pendulums to synchronise.
Well, actually it'd be vvv.domain.se which happens to be pronounced the same way as www.domain.se ("ve ve ve punkt domain punkt ess e"), because W is sort of treated as a "different looking" V when it occurs in proper names and such, for pronounciation and alphabetization purposes.
Those who run the.nu domain wants to let those who registers domains use the å ä and ö characters (which are letters in their own right in Swedish and not accented letters), because.nu is used by lots of Swedes.
The major operators in Sweden don't like it, as it's not an international standard, so I think it's too early to say it "works".
If this becomes a standard, to be logical, then nobody from Sweden should be allowed to register a domain with "w" in it, as we don't have that character as a separate letter in our alphabet (any more).
The corresponding Swedish project gathers everything they can, and not only Swedish sites but foreign sites which are about Sweden or by Swedes -- provided they can be found. (This is the same institution which keeps a copy of everything which is printed in more than 20 copies in Sweden.)
Throwing stuff away because "it's not interesting" is a bad strategy, as we've found out 100 years later.
Is there an Australian institution which keeps everything which is printed in Australia for posterity? If not, that might explain why the strategy is like it is.
It's not at all clear antimatter bombs could actually work as "bombs" rather
than the much more likely "giant fizzle
with lots of gamma rays". The problem
is getting enough matter in contact
with the antimatter in short enough
time, as radiation pressure from that
which does would force the rest
apart. The gamma rays would be
absorbed by the atmosphere over some
tens of meters, maybe leading to a
pretty violent thermal plume, but hardly
concentrated enough to be called an
"explosion".
Why carry a clock with you everywhere you go when there are clocks everywhere, and you are surrounded by people who wear them as fashion statements.
Seems to me there're lots of fun places you never go to. (Yes, sometimes it's very useful knowing what time it is even there, and no, you can't judge the approximate time in all of them by the sun.)
The problem is that you need a power source, transmitter and antenna to transmit the results back to Earth. They are going to have to be much heavier than a gram to get a high enough ERP and a reasonable data rate.
Yes, but if I remember about Forward's Starwisp correctly, it would be a microwave powered mesh (both propulsion and energy, 10W I think, to beam information back) about 1 km in diameter and massing about 20 gram. Even forgetting about the microwave or laser sail propulsion, it's not definitely out of the question to build a useful probe massing not very much. OK, several times one gram, but with conventional propulsion, I'm not sure one gram or a hundred makes a lot of difference compared to the rest of the structure needed.
>Let's look at the important stuff this does >not simulate: 6. Dust. Very, very fine dust. Bringing a spacesuit into the habitat without very extensive decontamination procedures could lead to dangerous levels of fine particles in the lungs, leading to silicosis (or whatever it should be called). Just getting a spacesuit to work in all that fine dust will be a challenge. It's not really about simulating anything in my opinion, it's about PR for Mars.
By the time they finish taking napshot of the net half the sites would have changed and btw what frequency is the best?
The Royal Swedish Library decided on every six months as a reasonable compromise between completeness and what was practical. (And they only archive Swedish sites and some sites related to Sweden.) Apart from gathering, they've also asked for copies of sites from before they started, so I know they have at least one as it looked in 1994. They're quite determined they won't filter anything, as they're still upset that someone around a hundred years ago decided to clean out "uninteresting" posters from the archives... (and nowadays they always get more underground storage space when it's needed and there's an offsite backup site for everything on paper produced today) http://kulturarw3.kb.se/
Renewal how and when? Why should I even have to do anything to gain copyright protection? I certainly wouldn't want to go through a registering process every time I moved a comma in a text or fixed a bug in a program or posted a photo on a website.
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Collecting tapes with the old articles took work which should be worth something. I don't know, but they possibly even had to pay for them.
And it's not like it costs nothing for a news server to receive articles.
As I see it, Dejanews is like any usenet news provider, only with a much longer expire period. (Unless they'd do things like edit articles to make words in them become hyperlinks and the like.) So yes, of course they can sell the database just like any other provider could.
Submarines as such had been predicted long before him, and I seem to recall Hunley was used operationally just a year after Verne published his first novel (which wasn't about submarines).
And unless I misremember, the first commercial fax service was disbanded in 1871 after six or seven years of operation (as it was uneconomical). Used pendulums to synchronise.
Note that we don't 5 billion years left of "the sun as we know it". Not even one.
Well, actually it'd be vvv.domain.se which happens to be pronounced the same way as www.domain.se ("ve ve ve punkt domain punkt ess e"), because W is sort of treated as a "different looking" V when it occurs in proper names and such, for pronounciation and alphabetization purposes.
Those who run the .nu domain wants to let those who registers domains use the å ä and ö characters (which are letters in their own right in Swedish and not accented letters), because .nu is used by lots of Swedes.
The major operators in Sweden don't like it, as it's not an international standard, so I think it's too early to say it "works".
If this becomes a standard, to be logical, then nobody from Sweden should be allowed to register a domain with "w" in it, as we don't have that character as a separate letter in our alphabet (any more).
The corresponding Swedish project gathers everything they can, and not only Swedish sites but foreign sites which are about Sweden or by Swedes -- provided they can be found. (This is the same institution which keeps a copy of everything which is printed in more than 20 copies in Sweden.)
Throwing stuff away because "it's not interesting" is a bad strategy, as we've found out 100 years later. Is there an Australian institution which keeps everything which is printed in Australia for posterity? If not, that might explain why the strategy is like it is.
It's not at all clear antimatter bombs could actually work as "bombs" rather than the much more likely "giant fizzle with lots of gamma rays". The problem is getting enough matter in contact with the antimatter in short enough time, as radiation pressure from that which does would force the rest apart. The gamma rays would be absorbed by the atmosphere over some tens of meters, maybe leading to a pretty violent thermal plume, but hardly concentrated enough to be called an "explosion".
>Let's look at the important stuff this does >not simulate: 6. Dust. Very, very fine dust. Bringing a spacesuit into the habitat without very extensive decontamination procedures could lead to dangerous levels of fine particles in the lungs, leading to silicosis (or whatever it should be called). Just getting a spacesuit to work in all that fine dust will be a challenge. It's not really about simulating anything in my opinion, it's about PR for Mars.
Renewal how and when? Why should I even have to do anything to gain copyright protection? I certainly wouldn't want to go through a registering process every time I moved a comma in a text or fixed a bug in a program or posted a photo on a website.
Yes, British Telecom is actually asking 17 big US operators for payment based on this patent, which is valid in the US only and until 2006.
I'm not a patent expert at all, but far from everyone seems to think this patent actually covers hyperlinking.