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Google Earth 4.3 Offers a Number of New Features
GoogleWatch writes "Google's all excited for Earth day, and just in time there's a new version of Google Earth available. 4.3 offers up revamped navigation controls, 3-D photo-realistic buildings in major cities, and time-lapse views of sunsets and sunrises. Also new in Google Earth 4.3 is access to the street view movies found in Google Maps. Just click any of the camera icons and the familiar street view window will pop up. The sunrise and sunset movies are also quite impressive. Fly to a location you'd like to see and click the "sun" button in the toolbar. That will bring up a small timeline graphic and you can either hit play or drag the timeline slider to watch the day unfold."
I understand, from recent news events, that Google Earth will also allow for a new 'driveway' view for some up-close-and-personal looks at everybody's favorite geriatric nude sunbathers. Can't wait!
Damn google hippies with their fancy schmancy cameras all over my front lawn....
Off!!! GET OFF !!!!
Can't you see the signs that say {NO GOOGLE HIPPIES} {NO DOGS} {NO SALESMEN}
WHy I otta....
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.
They need to set up "wasd" controls for movement.
I'd love to strafe jump around town!
I like Google Earth, too, but there are some serious problems. Processes seem to be terminated arbitrarily, and far too soon. Interprocess communication is too difficult. I can't seem to execute a JOIN successfully. Forking new processes is fun, but time consuming and expensive. Most independent agents are severely lacking in intelligence. System management is byzantine and security is non-existent, I mean, anyone can kill a process with almost no effort!
I can't wait for Google Heaven, though. If it's anything close to what's advertised, it should make up for all the crap we have to go through with Google Earth.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Cities are cool. Underwater would be cooler. With special underwater lighting. And little spiffy killer fishies at the bottom on the Marianas trench. Or a way to see coral before we succeed in killing all of it off.
Where's the underwater google truck-a-subtomic?
Or near-earth orbit, so we can see the junk?
I'm against toggles....maybe we should form a committee to determine what sort of switch to use
An interesting idea... But kinda risky don't you think?
I think we should form an action group to hold a vote on if we should make a committe to vote on what sort of switch to use.
Quit complaining, it's still in beta.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Because Maradona used his hands to stick those two goals back in 1990 World Cup.
No, we didn't forget.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I hear that Google Earth will be allowing users to control the spy satellites directly in version 4.4.
Imagine getting a live feed of when your boss leaves his house, and then tracking him all the way to work. I'll never be late again!
He scored one with the hand, but the second goal he slalom every english player in field... We didn't forget neither :-)
I see this turning into a real boontoggle.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
Ya know as long as we're listing them...
There's also Martinique, Dominica, Libya and others.
Thought Quebec was ignored but on closer inspection there's just nothing there.
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isn't that also known as microsoft?
Sadly, Google Hell has been shelved till someone can figure out a way to implement it without breaking the "Don't be evil" rule.
Break it up, guys. Let's leave the fighting in the stadiums and surrounding bars, all right?
The toggles! They do nothing!
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