I'm going to use this map for world-wide ~ma, unless someone has a better find.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Gus - Aug 18, 2004 7:06:19 pm PDT #8106 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
dcp - Aug 18, 2004 7:13:06 pm PDT #8107 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Soooo pretty. What was your source, Gus? I've seen that before, but I can't remember where.
The Nile shows up well. And the difference between North Korea and South Korea is striking.
Gus - Aug 18, 2004 7:25:15 pm PDT #8108 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I stole it from fluffybacon who stole it from somebody else, who also probably stole it. Who knows?
It may be the Ur-image that has existed for all time, its mysterious powers having lately caused the internet to coalesce out of the electron haze around us all, simply so that it might be.
Or maybe its a satellite image from the weather service. We may never know for sure.
dcp - Aug 18, 2004 7:35:57 pm PDT #8109 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Do you have a higher resolution version for zoom-ins?
dcp - Aug 18, 2004 7:38:38 pm PDT #8110 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I found it again here, with credits.
Gus - Aug 18, 2004 7:52:21 pm PDT #8111 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Thanks to your link, I now have the 16384w x 8192h (40MB!) version. I'll chop it up into screen-sized chunks for zooms. I've noticed that gecko/netscape browsers get really slow when the present map is zoomed, probably because they all use the same graphics engine, which doesn't do some of the operating-system dependant things that IE does.
Maria - Aug 18, 2004 8:22:28 pm PDT #8112 of 10000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Thanks, Gus! I just thought it was my work computer.
Wave hello to Italy for me, please? I'm homesick.
Gus - Aug 18, 2004 9:24:41 pm PDT #8113 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I just walked over to the window and waved at Italy. Four stories below on the street a man happened to notice and waved back. Perhaps he is Italian.
Now there is a competition in the Programmer Pit to see who can get the most passers-by to wave. The ladies are winning.
Not fair.
ita, if you would like for me to tackle one of the two projects you recently mentioned, shoot me an email. The closing code sounds more interesting than the php upgrade, although 4.1.x to 4.3.x is pretty painless. I'm not sure PHP5 has been gold long enough.
§ ita § - Aug 19, 2004 4:00:21 am PDT #8114 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gus, would it take you much effort to downgrade the map code to 4.1.2?
But the closing code is more important. That way I can stop working on the code that gives posters an electric shock when they trail tags.
Gus - Aug 19, 2004 5:08:52 am PDT #8115 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
ita, I think the main effort in downgrading the map code would be in configuring a box to test on, to see what blows up. Not too big a deal.
It would be a little bit of drag to do the closing code on 4.1 assumptions, then have to monkey with it again on a later PHP upgrade.
How about I replicate the org on a box running 4.3.4, then you could rope a few testers to see how it survives with the closing code changes? Many birds, one stone.