Searching the three line greenbar yellow page listings is ok, but Google's keyword coverage seems a bit spotty. "94303 chinese food" doesn't turn up local results, but "94303 chinese" does.
The free text geo-categorization seems to depend on finding full addresses in the web pages, not as sophisticated as Metacarta or Topix.net
Dalke's objection seems somewhat narrow. It would be simple to exclude software work which creates derivative works based on existing commercial software packages. Or, the patches could be required to be made publicly available, without compromising the copyright on the original work.
Google is a private startup. They might still go out of business, or be bought by someone. Even if they have a successful IPO, these could still happen later.
What happens to the archive when they're bought by someone else, or end up in bankruptcy court? Will it go the away of the online digital photo storing sites, vanishing one day without a trace, taking irreplaceable data -- data of immense academic historical interest -- with it?
Google should promise to donate the archive to the Library of Congress, do the transfer now, and make a social contract with the net community to turn over the reigns on this project if they're acquired or go out of business.
The group that's getting canned sounds like the folks who were part of USL, the AT&T spinoff meant to commercial Unix from Bell Labs. These are the guys who sued BSDI way back in 1991 to prevent cheap Unix from getting to the masses, back when a source license cost $250k. Really good engineers though and it's a shame they're being let go.
Star Trek should do a free format series like the Outer Limits or the
Twilight Zone. Each week could focus on a different ship or location
in the Federation universe. Cast could be totally fresh each episode,
or there could easily be recurring characters if they got popular
(including guest appearances by Trek actors from the other series).
This would free up the creativity of the writers and let them come
up with some actual science fiction, and get away from the gilligan's
island/soap opera nonsense rut they've fallen into. If each episode
took place on a different Federation starship bridge, it would also
give the viewers the opportunity to see more of Federation space and
move around without being stale or contrived.
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Searching the three line greenbar yellow page listings is ok, but Google's keyword coverage seems a bit spotty. "94303 chinese food" doesn't turn up local results, but "94303 chinese" does.
The free text geo-categorization seems to depend on finding full addresses in the web pages, not as sophisticated as Metacarta or Topix.net
Dalke's objection seems somewhat narrow. It would be simple to exclude software work which creates derivative works based on existing commercial software packages. Or, the patches could be required to be made publicly available, without compromising the copyright on the original work.
What happens to the archive when they're bought by someone else, or end up in bankruptcy court? Will it go the away of the online digital photo storing sites, vanishing one day without a trace, taking irreplaceable data -- data of immense academic historical interest -- with it?
Google should promise to donate the archive to the Library of Congress, do the transfer now, and make a social contract with the net community to turn over the reigns on this project if they're acquired or go out of business.
The group that's getting canned sounds like the folks who were part of USL, the AT&T spinoff meant to commercial Unix from Bell Labs. These are the guys who sued BSDI way back in 1991 to prevent cheap Unix from getting to the masses, back when a source license cost $250k. Really good engineers though and it's a shame they're being let go.
Actually, recycled underwear (powdered cellulose) is used to prevent clumping in prepackaged shredded cheese. Moral: grate your own.
This would free up the creativity of the writers and let them come up with some actual science fiction , and get away from the gilligan's island/soap opera nonsense rut they've fallen into. If each episode took place on a different Federation starship bridge, it would also give the viewers the opportunity to see more of Federation space and move around without being stale or contrived.