It's an unofficial release, but folks might be interested in Google Earth For OS X.
It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.
Buffy ,'Empty Places'
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NoiseDesign - Dec 13, 2005 11:50:32 am PST #5971 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 11:55:07 am PST #5972 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also, NASA has something similar.
I want a Google Solar System. Just type the planet or moon's name, and you fly there.
Or Google Galaxy, while I'm at it.
There actually is a program like this, but I didn't like the interface much. Then the PC that I installed the demo on died.
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2005 12:05:30 pm PST #5973 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Consuela - Dec 13, 2005 12:07:01 pm PST #5974 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I can't run Google Earth on my work computer; it keeps crashing. So sad.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 12:12:11 pm PST #5975 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There's Celestia:
Oh cool - I didn't know about that one.
Open source too, so if there's something about it that sucks I have an alternative to whining about it.
Jon B. - Dec 13, 2005 12:55:26 pm PST #5976 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Has anyone here ever unlocked their phone?
For Luddites like me who are cellphone-less, what does this mean?
evil jimi - Dec 13, 2005 1:13:51 pm PST #5977 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
This is a bit late but going back to Jon's request for help re the large file. There is another alternative; bittorrent. The BT client, Azureus has its own internal tracker, which is used in conjuction with a site such as dyndns.com. The "tracker" can be password protected so that, on the very remote chance, someone else finds the URI, they still can't access the page.
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2005 1:14:41 pm PST #5978 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
US cellphones are all software-tied to the vendor. I could get a Razr from T Mobile and not be able to use it with my Cingular SIM because of some subsidy code or crap they have in the software. So when I went to Kenya, I bought a local SIM, but couldn't use it in my phone.
Unlocked, with the software code, you can transfer just by moving your card from SIM-enabled phone to SIM-enabled phone. Your phone number moves with you, as well as any address book entries (in a stripped down format) that you saved to the card.
Typo Boy - Dec 13, 2005 2:05:49 pm PST #5979 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Interesting - the ultimate Video Conferencing system. At more than half a million per room, and $18,000 per month you would have to save one hell of a lot of plane travel to fixed locations in order to pay for it. But apparently some large corporations with travel between multiple company sites have found it worthwhile. I can't help but wonder if you could not get comparable results less expensively.
NoiseDesign - Dec 13, 2005 2:51:22 pm PST #5980 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
It's not the plane fare that's the killer cost wise though. It's the lost productivity from high paid folks who have to travel a lot. If someone is getting paid in the mid to high six figures and is travelling 3 days out of 5, then they are only getting maybe 50% productivity out of that person for the money.