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Google Releases Earth to Beta
Cros13 writes "Google has released a beta of it's Google Earth software to subscribers of the existing Keyhole service. New features include 3D models of buildings in selected cities, input from your gps receiver and a better search system. I have posted screenshots here and here." This product is in competition with Microsoft's Virtual Earth, as we reported earlier.
looks a little boring
i know all the words in that title, but i just can't parse that sentence.
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So I've been living on the alpha version this entire time?
Why am I on Slashdot? I'm bored. Why am I bored? I'm on Slashdot.
Zonk, if you don't word your headlines more carefully, you're just begging people to make silly posts like this one: Earth is still in beta? After 3 billion years?
Since when does Earth belongs to Google ?
Moreover I'm worrying about Earth reaching release.
Everyone knows that vogons will destroy earth before it happens, so don't let that happen !
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Ah, that's better. My dosage of Google news. Now I can start my day!
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Um...
Why does it look like Indiana isn't mapped?
There are lots of worse states out there...
As a Google user that is beyond you're planet, I take offense to the fact that Google *only* included EARTH in there initial release!
Wake me when they release one with a Total Perspective Vortex. I've got a fairycake craving.
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For the last 4.5bn years we have struggled with an alpha version of the Earth.
We can all remember Earth 0.1 , which was flat.
Earth 0.2 was spherical but still lodged in the center of the universe.
Earth 0.3 has served us well for over 200 years, but is still buggy as hell. The tectonics engine constantly crashes, causing massive earthquakes.
I have good hopes for the beta of Earth, but for the final release I, and many users like me would like a bigger planet.
Planning terrorist operations, didn't you read the /. article about the government passing a law to make it easier to get your records from your ISP? They want to know who downloaded Google Earth, duh!
They're going to launch a bunch of satellites that will take maps every so often.. probably with the same frequency that GoogleBot crawls the web. ;)
Now *that* would be pretty cool. Hey, Google is here in Mountain View.. and Moffett Field & Lockheed are right down the street, they could get some stuff goin' on with NASA...
Real time satellite imaging! Imagine being able to zoom in on a baseball game that's in progress. Suh-weeeeet!
Actually, I bet that the "topless beaches in France" would become an immensely popular search...
The question is when are they going to add a GPS link to this?
Just imagine how cool it would be to tell it what model and color of car you have and get a real time display of your car driving on the road:)
Okay this would best be used by your passenger/navigator.
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We didn't need Google to tell us that
Looking at this picture gave me some idears... So, how about putting all this data in a new game?
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I used to live with an English major who did her darndest to help out my grammar skills and the like. "Its" and "It's" would always throw me. I'm pretty sure that you drop the apostrophe for possession, "Its Ryan's bike," and leave it there for the contraction "it is" (ie "It's Ryan's bike"). As you can see from my examples, however, it still confuses the hell out of me. So, since I figure half the time you need the apostrophe and half the time you don't, I make sure to throw the apostrophe in there about every other "It's." That way, overall, there is a roughly correct corrolation between the two.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
I'd love to see a particular "it's" warning in the message-posting process. As in, when you submit your article or post containing that particular contraction, the system asks you if you know the difference between "it's" and "its" and if you're sure you used the right one. This particular user error is seen way, way too often around here and drags us all down.
Google has released a beta of it's Google Earth software[...]
//Is this really one of the most difficult aspects of the written English language?
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Given a choice between free speech and free beer, most people will take the beer.
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I suggest you take a quick look at two products: beer and condoms.
Dude, the guy just got excited over school district boundaries and ATM locations. Please don't encourage him to reproduce.
I have good hopes for the beta of Earth, but for the final release I, and many users like me would like a bigger planet.
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I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
That's happened before; it took an incredible amount of time to do though (something like 40 days, I think).