Will this include any attempt at local search? This seems the weakest area in search right now to me. From what I can tell the information gets online from the old paper directories getting scanned and put in databases, but in a very imperfect way (okay, I briefly worked on this once). It's a hard problem to take all the blocks of text and pull out the relevent fields in a way that works across all the different formats of directory listings and ads as they appeared in paper yellowpages, etc. Always seemed to me the wrong way to go about it. Instead a wikipedia type setup with the proprieters of the businesses perhaps given special weight on confirming the accuracy of their own information, but also with freedom from corporate control on information such as reviews, etc. Perhaps with the current scanned in information as a starting point (but are their copyright problems with this info?) Maybe this has already been done somewhere but hasn't gotten critical mass?
The abstract of the paper linked to below says it is a combination of erosion, sea level rise, and subsidence, with erosion being the dominant factor. Aside from these causes or plate tectonics which you mention, land can rise or fall from a spring back after glaciers retreat. This was true where I grew up (Nova Scotia, Canada). It used to be covered by glaciers and sunk under the weight but with their retreat is springing back to rise at a certain rate. Somewhere south of there, on the U.S. east coast, I think where I live now (Boston, MA) or a little south of that, was just past the edge of the glaciers, which caused it to be lifted slightly from the bending of the crust downwards north of here. So now this land is sinking as the crust springs back to it's normal shape. I'm not sure what the rates involved are and whether they are dominated by sea level rise rates, though.
Thanks to some drunken post-hockey game USENET posting a couple years back, I was really hoping they'd come up with something a lot worse. Hate to retire the email address, but I guess it's either that or live with those posts forever. (Oh, and of course the worst of what I wrote was replied back to me by someone else so I can't unpost it)
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Will this include any attempt at local search? This seems the weakest area in search right now to me. From what I can tell the information gets online from the old paper directories getting scanned and put in databases, but in a very imperfect way (okay, I briefly worked on this once). It's a hard problem to take all the blocks of text and pull out the relevent fields in a way that works across all the different formats of directory listings and ads as they appeared in paper yellowpages, etc. Always seemed to me the wrong way to go about it. Instead a wikipedia type setup with the proprieters of the businesses perhaps given special weight on confirming the accuracy of their own information, but also with freedom from corporate control on information such as reviews, etc. Perhaps with the current scanned in information as a starting point (but are their copyright problems with this info?) Maybe this has already been done somewhere but hasn't gotten critical mass?
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u80t675421l380 48/
I wonder if security is well served by Marvell only giving documentation to those developers who are willing to sign an NDA? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=116 007094304009&w=2
Thanks to some drunken post-hockey game USENET posting a couple years back, I was really hoping they'd come up with something a lot worse. Hate to retire the email address, but I guess it's either that or live with those posts forever. (Oh, and of course the worst of what I wrote was replied back to me by someone else so I can't unpost it)
That combined with gnotime fits all my needs.
Ouch, deep vein thrombosis anyone? Hope they have intermissions.