On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > Minh Nguyen wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:49 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I believe these services are at least partially relevant to this list, >>> particularly the Wolfram announcement. If they have been mentioned >>> recently here, my apologies. >> >> Here's a recent article from Groklaw on differences in "terms of use" >> between Google and Wolfram|Alpha: >> >> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090518204959409 >> >> > > From http://www.wolframalpha.com/termsofuse.html#waystouse > > "The Wolfram|Alpha service may be used only by a human being using a > conventional web browser to manually enter queries one at a time. > Because Wolfram|Alpha is doing computation, not just lookup, each query > may require significant CPU time on multiple parallel servers. Any > attempt to use a robot, script, or organized group of humans to > repeatedly access Wolfram|Alpha could place an unacceptable load on the > system, and is strictly forbidden." > > So much for a Sage interface to Alpha...
And here's a hilarious critique for your reading pleasure :-) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/19/dziuba_wolfram/ > Jason -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
