Controversial Google library project grows
#1
Posted 21 January 2007 - 01:05 PM
However, it seems to me that greed and price gouging exists at the University level which makes those who attack "Big Oil" for price gouging look like they have tunnel vision.
How many 20 year old students do you know who have student loans well in excess of 100K?
And if you wanna ba a Physician... FORGETTABOUTIT!
So while I respect copyrights and understand that there must be recompense to authors, this movement spells great things for the future of education.
"Generic textbooks" could make $4 generic drugs look expensive. LOL!
Additionally, can you imagine the increased speed in research if you could "Google search" textbooks?
I love this.
Article:
"The more than one million written works at the University of Texas library in Austin will be converted to digital format and added to Google Books Library Project, according to the Internet search powerhouse.
Opposition to the project, particularly by French and US editors, resulted in a group of book publishers forming the Open Content Alliance (OCA) in October of 2005.
The OCA is a non-profit organization which joins together an array of universities, foundations, and data processors to create a "common pot" of digitized books available online for download or printing.
The OCA got the support of Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo, which was to tailor a search engine for the alliance and finance converting 18,000 books to digital format.
Microsoft promised to contribute 150,000 digitized books to the OCA collection. The OCA hoped to recruit the National Library of France, where 90,000 books have already been scanned.
Microsoft launched an online library in December in a move that pits the world's biggest software company against Google's book project."
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#2
Posted 21 January 2007 - 01:17 PM
It's a grand plan, but can Google pull it off? Yes they can."
Google is evil.
Edited by selecto, 21 January 2007 - 01:27 PM.
#3
Posted 21 January 2007 - 02:37 PM
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#4
Posted 21 January 2007 - 02:46 PM
"Google will become our phone company, our cable company, our stereo system and our digital video recorder. Soon we won't be able to live without Google, which will have marginalized the ISPs and assumed most of the market capitalization of all the service providers it has undermined -- about $1 trillion in all -- which places today's $500 Google share price about eight times too low.
It's a grand plan, but can Google pull it off? Yes they can."
Google is evil.
Hmm whatever happened to Yahoo being the original Google? Everyone was going to use Yahoo to clean their toilets, mow their lawn, etc.
Dang feels like 2000 all over again.
#5
Posted 21 January 2007 - 05:11 PM
Hmm whatever happened to Yahoo being the original Google? Everyone was going to use Yahoo to clean their toilets, mow their lawn, etc.
Dang feels like 2000 all over again.
This whole internet thing is very dynamic and in a constant state of flux.
Lot's of opportunity.
I saw a quiz today about the Morse Code. ... _ _ _ ...
WOW how the world has changed!
If it wasn't for the movie Titanic, I don't think many would even know about Morse Code.
They didn't even have an internet cafe on the Titanic.
Edited by Rogerdodger, 21 January 2007 - 05:12 PM.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#6
Posted 21 January 2007 - 09:27 PM
Edited by calmcookie, 21 January 2007 - 09:28 PM.