And they copied the most innovative part of Google maps - tile-based pre-built raster images to assemble dynamic maps. As someone who has developed GIS applications, I can tell you, while this may sound trivial, it is not. Google thought outside the box. The GIS community for years has used vector data to produce one raster image on-the-fly at runtime (like Mapquest). Instead, Google creates small tiled images at every zoom-level they offer and stores them on the server, and thus can produce a map at any location and any zoom-level, and offer it with "dragability". This is a completely new paradigm for interactive GIS apps. The old way does offer some advantages over the new way, but for web-based interactive GIS, the new way is pretty phenominal.
Ah, just like computer games have been doing for a decade (except the server part) - how every outside the box.
Arguably you are both full of shit. German move and TV make Rainer Werner Fassbinder, made a mini series called "Welt am Draht" (world on a wire) in 1973 - about a guy who works at a computer company, he realises that our world, and him, are actually inside a computer, and those who run that computer starts chasing him.
And that was based on the novel Simulacron-3 from the sixties, which arguably was inspired by a Philip K Dick novel from a few years earlier.
And Cameron settled with Harlan Elinson when he sued because he claimed Terminator was based on something he did.
Amazing so many lazy bum writers there are out there, trying to make a quick buck.
Gender, and especially gender identity, is in the mind
Only the identity.
And does it matter to this discourse if she does have a penis?
Of course, not only is she not a she then, but is also likely to have a more illogical emotional bias than the rest of us.
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"> No. They are both men,regardless of what he calls himself. Gender is not in the mind."
No. You are who you present.
Lol. So if you call yourself the president you are the president? Nonsense. You do not become a women by pretending to be one.
You may be biologically correct (Linda has a reasonably normal X & Y chromosome pair) and surely her evident secondary sex characterstics (her phenotype) are artificial,
Ie, I am right....but for the sake of tolerance, wisdom, and simply getting along with the six or so billion people on this planet, you must take someone's presentation as granted.
Nonsense. It has nothing to do with tolerance or getting along, you may be able to tolerate a guy pretending to be a woman (if he has a good sense of humor and a passing fashion sense), but that doesn't make him a women. Simple as that.
Just STFU and accept people for what they're doing, not what you think they "are."
Why dont you shut the fuck up and show some of that tolerance you don't have - hypocrite.
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Wrong. One of the Wachowski's is a woman, and her name is Linda.
No. They are both men,regardless of what he calls himself. Gender is not in the mind.
Some keywords for your Google searches: Gender Identity Disorder,
A mental disorder which is believed to be cureable.
Klinefelter's Syndrome,
A slight biological mutation which may make a man less of a hunk but does not make him a woman (except perhaps a blond since there is a risk he'll be less intelligent than a 'normal' man)
Intersexed
If taken to mean hermaphrodite that's a very rare (Leonard Sax, 2002 estimates the incidence of true intersexual conditions at approximately 0.018% of births) mutation.
If its the "gee i wish i was the other sex" we are back to the mental disorder.
Slashdot Mirror
The West is probably still playing catch-up.
But we'll get there in the end...
Except the Evil is subjective and Steal has a definite meaning.
Yet people keep using steal to mean things it doesn't.
I think the point is most people have crappy jobs they hate, and it doesn't take much to distract them.
So much for conspiracy theories.
Except you disproved nothing.
I hadn't thought that far - spooky :)
Hari Seldon would be proud :)
... to explain what konfabulator IS, in the story so people know at a glance instead of having to RTFA.
Seems copyright restricts creativity.
keyhole became "Google Earth"
and foolish moderators too - you'd think you were in iraq or something.
Google Earth is a windows only client.
At the moment.
But MSNVirtualEarth and Google Maps both work fine in Firefox on any platform.
Ah, slow web crap *g*
Naa, that was just an inferior product that was never popular.
Another interesting thing; google loaded in 5 seconds, after 3 minuttes the microsoft site gave up.
No. Capacity is not related to ability. Its still going to look like crap and abuse stylesheets on monday.
And they copied the most innovative part of Google maps - tile-based pre-built raster images to assemble dynamic maps. As someone who has developed GIS applications, I can tell you, while this may sound trivial, it is not. Google thought outside the box. The GIS community for years has used vector data to produce one raster image on-the-fly at runtime (like Mapquest). Instead, Google creates small tiled images at every zoom-level they offer and stores them on the server, and thus can produce a map at any location and any zoom-level, and offer it with "dragability". This is a completely new paradigm for interactive GIS apps. The old way does offer some advantages over the new way, but for web-based interactive GIS, the new way is pretty phenominal.
Ah, just like computer games have been doing for a decade (except the server part) - how every outside the box.
VirtualUSA ;)
Arguably you are both full of shit. German move and TV make Rainer Werner Fassbinder, made a mini series called "Welt am Draht" (world on a wire) in 1973 - about a guy who works at a computer company, he realises that our world, and him, are actually inside a computer, and those who run that computer starts chasing him.
And that was based on the novel Simulacron-3 from the sixties, which arguably was inspired by a Philip K Dick novel from a few years earlier.
And Cameron settled with Harlan Elinson when he sued because he claimed Terminator was based on something he did.
Amazing so many lazy bum writers there are out there, trying to make a quick buck.
If you have a mouse scroll wheel.
I am violating the rule "You argue with idiots, you become one" but...
I'm not.
You are the Al Qaeda lover since you don't believe in democracy and that people are allowed to have different opinions.
Gender, and especially gender identity, is in the mind
Only the identity.
And does it matter to this discourse if she does have a penis?
Of course, not only is she not a she then, but is also likely to have a more illogical emotional bias than the rest of us.
"> No. They are both men,regardless of what he calls himself. Gender is not in the mind."
...but for the sake of tolerance, wisdom, and simply getting along with the six or so billion people on this planet, you must take someone's presentation as granted.
No. You are who you present.
Lol. So if you call yourself the president you are the president? Nonsense. You do not become a women by pretending to be one.
You may be biologically correct (Linda has a reasonably normal X & Y chromosome pair) and surely her evident secondary sex characterstics (her phenotype) are artificial,
Ie, I am right.
Nonsense. It has nothing to do with tolerance or getting along, you may be able to tolerate a guy pretending to be a woman (if he has a good sense of humor and a passing fashion sense), but that doesn't make him a women. Simple as that.
Just STFU and accept people for what they're doing, not what you think they "are."
Why dont you shut the fuck up and show some of
that tolerance you don't have - hypocrite.
Wrong. One of the Wachowski's is a woman, and her name is Linda.
No. They are both men,regardless of what he calls himself. Gender is not in the mind.
Some keywords for your Google searches: Gender Identity Disorder,
A mental disorder which is believed to be cureable.
Klinefelter's Syndrome,
A slight biological mutation which may make a man less of a hunk but does not make him a woman (except perhaps a blond since there is a risk he'll be less intelligent than a 'normal' man)
Intersexed
If taken to mean hermaphrodite that's a very rare (Leonard Sax, 2002 estimates the incidence of true intersexual conditions at approximately 0.018% of births) mutation.
If its the "gee i wish i was the other sex" we are back to the mental disorder.
Rebecca
Who has a dick perhaps?
But what you're trying to do is to pass judgment on something you don't know about first-hand,
Haven't you, when you hear about people who blow up busses or buildings?
Just another brainddead action film from hollyweird, which will make enough money from license.