I'd like to see the laws also fixed on how long it is before works pass into the public domain. The so called disney effect (the extending of copyright periods after authors death, being done just before disney stuff reaches public domain) really needs to be fixed.
Someone (and I can't remember his name) did a fantastic conference somewhere on copyright issues.
http://free-culture.org/index.html has some great info.
I'm not sure about other sites, but my own stats show that I get over 1000 hits from MSNbot a month, whilst only 400 from google. Surely msnsearch's database must be catching google if this is true for all sites?
I've been using Adsense on a fairly small website with about 150 unique views per day. I am not their prime customer. What gets me though is the fairly (and increasing) occurences when clicked ads (and not public service ads) earn me 0 cents, or even 1 cent. Another issue is also with google I am required to make $100 before I get each cheque, any system that kept paying me every $5 or so would definetly get me switching!
If you work it out on a captia basis...
IE:.. downloading going on per person... Australia appears to be so far out in front its not funny.
England has 10 times the people aussie does:|
Enter ads on buses reading your data and printing you out a voucher for a cafe it has deduced based on your ticket you will pass as you get off the bus.
Imagine walking in a cafe to recieve a personalised menu that removed some items because you are allergic to them
Yup just office.
and windows
and sql
and mouse sales
and keyboard sales
and server software
and handhelds
and hotmail
and msn search
and msn messenger
and xbox
and games
and...
You get the idea. I just know bill gates will look like the monopoly man when he gets old!
When we might actually say words like 'lol' out aloud.
Imagine a deal going down between two mining companies and the CEO of one company with a straight face, and deadly serious demeanour saying to the cameras:
"Despite many thinking we pwned them in the deal, we believe it came out leet for every1"
FROM:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=62 4&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_sc/great_dying
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WASHINGTON - An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
In an event known as the "Great Dying," some 250 million years ago, 90 percent of all marine life and nearly three-quarters of land-based plants and animals went extinct.
Scientists have long debated the cause of this calamity -- which occurred before the era of dinosaurs -- with possibilities including such disasters as meteor impacts.
Researchers led by Peter Ward of the University of Washington now think the answer is global warming caused by volcanic activity. Their findings are reported in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.
They studied the Karoo Basin of South Africa, using chemical, biological and other evidence to relate layers of sediment there to similar layers in China that previous research has tied to the marine extinction at the same period.
Studying a 1,000-foot thick section of exposed sediment, Ward's team found evidence of a gradual extinction over about 10 million years followed by a sharp increase in extinction rate that lasted another 5 million years.
Ward's team believes the extinctions were caused by global warming and oxygen deprivation over long periods of time.
Massive volcanic flows in what is now Siberia brought on the warming while, at the same time, geologic action caused global sea levels to drop, Ward explained in a telephone interview.
"Once you expose a huge amount of underwater sediment to the atmosphere, two very bad things happen -- a huge amount of carbon in the sediments is released and also methane. Once (methane) hits the atmosphere it's the most efficient greenhouse gas on the planet," he said.
That provided a one-two punch of warming and a decline in oxygen levels, he said.
"Some of us have been toying with the idea that dinosaurs evolved to be a low-oxygen adaptation," resulting from this era, Ward said. "We know birds can live at much lower oxygen concentrations than we do, and we and think there were similar lung adaptations in dinosaurs."
Currently the atmosphere consists of about 21 percent oxygen, but the addition of gases at that time could have lowered levels to 16 percent or less, Ward said.
"If you didn't live on the sea level you didn't live," he commented, reflecting the fact that oxygen concentrations decline with altitude. The result would have been to eliminate half the living space on the planet, said Ward.
The more recent mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs -- 65 million years ago -- has been linked to an impact by a large asteroid or comet that struck in an area off the coast of what is now Mexico and left a distinctive layer of dust worldwide.
Some researchers have argued that the Great Dying might also have resulted from such an impact, but Ward's team said it could find no evidence for such an event.
That doesn't mean there wasn't one, argues Luann Becker of the University of California at Santa Barbara, commenting that "the absence of evidence isn't evidence for absence."
Becker, who was not part of Ward's research team, said "they did a nice job of presenting the paleontological data and the stratigraphy, which seem to show some indication of an evolutionary change going on for a prolonged period of time." However, she added, she doesn't believe that addresses the subject of cause and effect.
"I think that this is an ongoing discussion," said Becker, who previously reported on a crater off the northwest coast of Australia that shows evidence of a large meteor impact at about the time of the early extinction.
Ward's research was funded by the NASA (news - web sites) Astrobiology Institute, the National Science Foundation (news - web sites) and the National Research Foundation of South Africa.
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On the Net:
Science: http://www.sciencemag.org
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I'd like to see the laws also fixed on how long it is before works pass into the public domain. The so called disney effect (the extending of copyright periods after authors death, being done just before disney stuff reaches public domain) really needs to be fixed. Someone (and I can't remember his name) did a fantastic conference somewhere on copyright issues. http://free-culture.org/index.html has some great info.
I'm not sure about other sites, but my own stats show that I get over 1000 hits from MSNbot a month, whilst only 400 from google. Surely msnsearch's database must be catching google if this is true for all sites?
I've been using Adsense on a fairly small website with about 150 unique views per day. I am not their prime customer. What gets me though is the fairly (and increasing) occurences when clicked ads (and not public service ads) earn me 0 cents, or even 1 cent. Another issue is also with google I am required to make $100 before I get each cheque, any system that kept paying me every $5 or so would definetly get me switching!
My area is currently blue in the satellite photo... with a combo box error shaped cloud passing over me.
Can Anyone say Shuttle PC?
Clowns I could deal with... A teddy bear Bill Gates beady eyes following me I could not...
Sounds like bias in bios
If you work it out on a captia basis... IE:.. downloading going on per person... Australia appears to be so far out in front its not funny. England has 10 times the people aussie does :|
FW News
Reuters
NYTimes
Daily Herald
Google News
And soon microsoft shall hold patents to errors, bugs, patches and security updates.
"Those willing to give up freedom for security deserve neither."
The praetorians registered a business name today
Enter ads on buses reading your data and printing you out a voucher for a cafe it has deduced based on your ticket you will pass as you get off the bus. Imagine walking in a cafe to recieve a personalised menu that removed some items because you are allergic to them
13... the unlucky number. They must be BAD security risks for a change ;)
BUT... Hondas sure as hell aren't built from parts off ebay, milktruck tanks and bits from junkyards!
Clippy the office paper clip... NOW IN 3D!
Yup just office. and windows and sql and mouse sales and keyboard sales and server software and handhelds and hotmail and msn search and msn messenger and xbox and games and... You get the idea. I just know bill gates will look like the monopoly man when he gets old!
Just when you thought you could escape clippy the office paperclip through open source...
Maybe its possible to travel faster then light then
When we might actually say words like 'lol' out aloud. Imagine a deal going down between two mining companies and the CEO of one company with a straight face, and deadly serious demeanour saying to the cameras: "Despite many thinking we pwned them in the deal, we believe it came out leet for every1"
FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=62 4&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_sc/great_dying
-----
WASHINGTON - An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
In an event known as the "Great Dying," some 250 million years ago, 90 percent of all marine life and nearly three-quarters of land-based plants and animals went extinct.
Scientists have long debated the cause of this calamity -- which occurred before the era of dinosaurs -- with possibilities including such disasters as meteor impacts.
Researchers led by Peter Ward of the University of Washington now think the answer is global warming caused by volcanic activity. Their findings are reported in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.
They studied the Karoo Basin of South Africa, using chemical, biological and other evidence to relate layers of sediment there to similar layers in China that previous research has tied to the marine extinction at the same period.
Studying a 1,000-foot thick section of exposed sediment, Ward's team found evidence of a gradual extinction over about 10 million years followed by a sharp increase in extinction rate that lasted another 5 million years.
Ward's team believes the extinctions were caused by global warming and oxygen deprivation over long periods of time.
Massive volcanic flows in what is now Siberia brought on the warming while, at the same time, geologic action caused global sea levels to drop, Ward explained in a telephone interview.
"Once you expose a huge amount of underwater sediment to the atmosphere, two very bad things happen -- a huge amount of carbon in the sediments is released and also methane. Once (methane) hits the atmosphere it's the most efficient greenhouse gas on the planet," he said.
That provided a one-two punch of warming and a decline in oxygen levels, he said.
"Some of us have been toying with the idea that dinosaurs evolved to be a low-oxygen adaptation," resulting from this era, Ward said. "We know birds can live at much lower oxygen concentrations than we do, and we and think there were similar lung adaptations in dinosaurs."
Currently the atmosphere consists of about 21 percent oxygen, but the addition of gases at that time could have lowered levels to 16 percent or less, Ward said.
"If you didn't live on the sea level you didn't live," he commented, reflecting the fact that oxygen concentrations decline with altitude. The result would have been to eliminate half the living space on the planet, said Ward.
The more recent mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs -- 65 million years ago -- has been linked to an impact by a large asteroid or comet that struck in an area off the coast of what is now Mexico and left a distinctive layer of dust worldwide.
Some researchers have argued that the Great Dying might also have resulted from such an impact, but Ward's team said it could find no evidence for such an event.
That doesn't mean there wasn't one, argues Luann Becker of the University of California at Santa Barbara, commenting that "the absence of evidence isn't evidence for absence."
Becker, who was not part of Ward's research team, said "they did a nice job of presenting the paleontological data and the stratigraphy, which seem to show some indication of an evolutionary change going on for a prolonged period of time." However, she added, she doesn't believe that addresses the subject of cause and effect.
"I think that this is an ongoing discussion," said Becker, who previously reported on a crater off the northwest coast of Australia that shows evidence of a large meteor impact at about the time of the early extinction.
Ward's research was funded by the NASA (news - web sites) Astrobiology Institute, the National Science Foundation (news - web sites) and the National Research Foundation of South Africa.
___
On the Net:
Science: http://www.sciencemag.org
Zee orange... it burns zee eyes!!!!
One day we WILL defeat the Goa'uld