On May 13, 5:49 pm, j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does a company shut down NOAA? >
This day and age they go out and try to "buy" legislation. Slashdot ran a few stories in 2005 on this after then Sen. Santorum introduced a bill to essentially have the NWS XML feed shut down. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/21/2058212 He was really cheap; about 4 grants http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/ind_detail/MYERS%7CJOEL+N+DR%7CSTATE+COLLEGE%7CPA%7C16801%7CACCU+WEATHER/ The bill went nowhere though. To Landmark's credit (Mother company of the Weather Channel)... They used to open their wallets when a guy (or gal) in their company came up with an idea they liked and let him or her do it; no questions asked. A friend of mine back in Norfolk started Landmark's online video distribution that way. I am not sure if Landmark still have that culture, since the old generation got out and retired, with Landmark being broken into pieces (Virginian pilot, Weather Channel etc.) now. It's not unthinkable they let some guy or gal go out and run with it and build their Weather app on Android and cover pay check. It just sucks they'll monopolize it the old fashioned way. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
