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Why I did not bother installing Microsofts new anti-spy ware even when people I respect told me it worked well:
Yeah - I know, not that terrible if you know what you are doing. But most people take the recommendation their protective software makes. And, I bet this is not the worst thing Mickeysoft anti-spyware does over the next few years.
It won't run on Win98, so I'm SOL until I get to my work machine. It looks like an expanded version of the US satellite imagery they added to Google Maps. Although the picture of Coors field they show doesn't appear to be a satellite image. Interesting.
I've played with it a little -- the animation itself is fascinating. I can fly from Kingston to LA to Nairobi. And you can mark stuff. But I haven't played with it properly.
I've played with it a little -- the animation itself is fascinating. I can fly from Kingston to LA to Nairobi.
I was going to say that the Coors Field pic looked similar to the graphics in Flight Simulator.
And it's painfully slow on my 2.8 GHz machine, which may be a function of the display adapter.
Ah, it's working much better now. Very snappy, in fact. I guess it needs some time to stream all that data.
It's much nicer than Google Maps for areas that have the high-res imagery available, like at my office, [link] , because you can zoom in closer than Maps lets you. OTOH, if you want to look at an area that doesn't have the high-res imagery, like where I live, [link] , it's not as much fun. (The annoying part is that I only live a few miles from where I work.)
That is pretty much the coolest thing evar.
You can get pretty close in on Kingston Jamaica, but I realise I don't have much of an aerial sense of the city. I can find my home or office just by drilling down from county-wide maps, though.
Freeways help.
The terrain mapping is fun. The flat images just get wrapped around topography, and locally, that means that it looks like swimming pools are gonna just pour right out.
Just checked out the washington monument and the eiffel tower. Freakin' amazing!