Could be licensing restrictions. Google has a lot of control over the data when it is accessed via the GE application, but no as much via the gmaps web site. It's possible that the owner of the data isn't willing to license it for use via gmaps, but is ok with the GE application itself.
When a program, out of the box, behaves in a different (and unexpected) way from virtually every other map program out there - it's broken. It doesn't matter that you can change it. I don't object to options - I object to ill designed UI's.
What other 3d map program have you used besides GE?
To put it simply - bullshit. When I click and drag in GE, it stops when I release the mouse. When I click and drag in WW it continues to drift.
GE does keep spinning, it just has its inertia set much lighter than WW does. And you can change that in the options if you don't like it.
Wrong. GE does not render each and every layer - let alone load them. WW does.
GE doesn't use the same level/row/column scheme as WW does, but I don't notice much difference in tile loading time between WW and GE. It seems to use something that renders progressively, so you don't have to wait for the entire tile to download before drawing. Regardless, you can count on downloading those same images again when your cache fills up in GE.
The reason for the upcoming Java version was that the funding for the.NET version dried up, and another govt. organization (another internal NASA group? DoD? they won't say...) provided a big pile of money for the development of a Java version. Apparently Sun is involved too.
It has WMS and some simple WFS support. There have been a few plugins made using proj.4, and the imagery you see in WW was reporjected and processed into tile using FWTools. We welcome contributions from those willing to work on expanding such things.:)
When you grab a point on the globe - you start the globe spinning, rather than as in GE grabbing a 'handle' to position the map.
Wrong. Clicking on a point will move to that location, but dragging works just like it does in GE. Incidentally, you can turn off the clicking behavior and the planet inertia/momentum in the View menu.
When you zoom in - WW loads each and every layer of zoom between the one you start with and where you end up.
Which is also exactly what GE does. Google can just afford faster servers. It's much more responsive after those coarser layers are downloaded, and (unlike GE) if you set your disk cache size large enough then those tiles will be there forever.
I don't know about cool new features, but it opens up the field of developers quite a bit. Switching to.NET 2.0 means it compiles in the free Visual Studio Express now, and between VSexpress and C#, development (on the WW core, or just on plugins) is idiotproof that someone with little or no coding experience (me) could poke around and figure out enough about how stuff worked to be able to contribute.
Supposedly the only thing that in WW won't compile in Mono is the DirectX stuff. There has been talk of an OpenGL port for ages; no one has ever actually started though.
Because defacing a bridge isn't a very good analogy for defacing a website. A better one would be vandalizing a storefront so the owner can't do business for a few days.
The population level oscillates around this level with a logarithmic function, looking somewhat similar to a sine wave, and as time goes to infinity, the oscillations become smaller and closer to the carrying capacity.
Just out of curiosity, what type of logarithmic function looks similiar to a sine function?
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Engineering Workstation (EWS) labs are phasing out remote access methods that use clear-text passwords starting this fall (telnet, ftp, rsh, remsh, rexec, and rlogin, also insecure POP and IMAP eventually).
More info on the changeover and the clients they are recommending can be found here.
Look at it this way: If you buy a cable modem, it costs you approximately $200 (with taxes) on the spot, and saves you $3 a month for as long as you have the connection. In roughly five and a half years (66 2/3 months), it will pay for itself. Do you see yourself staying with AT&T Broadband service for five and a half years? If not, then rent, it will save you money. If yes, then buy, it will save you money.
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If you have The Matrix on DVD, there are some really good short documentaries about how they filmed those scenes. They show what the footage looks like before they fill in the "gaps" between the individual camera shots. There is also one about how they trained for and choreographed the kung-fu scenes.
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Could be licensing restrictions. Google has a lot of control over the data when it is accessed via the GE application, but no as much via the gmaps web site. It's possible that the owner of the data isn't willing to license it for use via gmaps, but is ok with the GE application itself.
When a program, out of the box, behaves in a different (and unexpected) way from virtually every other map program out there - it's broken. It doesn't matter that you can change it. I don't object to options - I object to ill designed UI's.
What other 3d map program have you used besides GE?
To put it simply - bullshit. When I click and drag in GE, it stops when I release the mouse. When I click and drag in WW it continues to drift.
GE does keep spinning, it just has its inertia set much lighter than WW does. And you can change that in the options if you don't like it.
Wrong. GE does not render each and every layer - let alone load them. WW does.
GE doesn't use the same level/row/column scheme as WW does, but I don't notice much difference in tile loading time between WW and GE. It seems to use something that renders progressively, so you don't have to wait for the entire tile to download before drawing. Regardless, you can count on downloading those same images again when your cache fills up in GE.
The reason for the upcoming Java version was that the funding for the .NET version dried up, and another govt. organization (another internal NASA group? DoD? they won't say...) provided a big pile of money for the development of a Java version. Apparently Sun is involved too.
It has WMS and some simple WFS support. There have been a few plugins made using proj.4, and the imagery you see in WW was reporjected and processed into tile using FWTools. We welcome contributions from those willing to work on expanding such things. :)
When you grab a point on the globe - you start the globe spinning, rather than as in GE grabbing a 'handle' to position the map.
Wrong. Clicking on a point will move to that location, but dragging works just like it does in GE. Incidentally, you can turn off the clicking behavior and the planet inertia/momentum in the View menu.
When you zoom in - WW loads each and every layer of zoom between the one you start with and where you end up.
Which is also exactly what GE does. Google can just afford faster servers. It's much more responsive after those coarser layers are downloaded, and (unlike GE) if you set your disk cache size large enough then those tiles will be there forever.
I don't know about cool new features, but it opens up the field of developers quite a bit. Switching to .NET 2.0 means it compiles in the free Visual Studio Express now, and between VSexpress and C#, development (on the WW core, or just on plugins) is idiotproof that someone with little or no coding experience (me) could poke around and figure out enough about how stuff worked to be able to contribute.
Supposedly the only thing that in WW won't compile in Mono is the DirectX stuff. There has been talk of an OpenGL port for ages; no one has ever actually started though.
Because defacing a bridge isn't a very good analogy for defacing a website. A better one would be vandalizing a storefront so the owner can't do business for a few days.
The population level oscillates around this level with a logarithmic function, looking somewhat similar to a sine wave, and as time goes to infinity, the oscillations become smaller and closer to the carrying capacity.
Just out of curiosity, what type of logarithmic function looks similiar to a sine function?
So, who on the slashdot editorial staff could read danish to verify the details of the article?
More info on the changeover and the clients they are recommending can be found here.
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It would have much strength, yet it would fracture easily. Its called "Modulus of elasticity";
No, it's called fracture toughness. Modulus of elasticity is a measure of how stiff the material is.
They have her listed as #1 under the "sports" catagory. I don't think most of those people were looking for any sports information.
Did anyone else have an obnoxious Compaq ad drift across their browser window while reading the WSJ story?
Maybe just bitched out by a talking boogie bass.
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If you have The Matrix on DVD, there are some really good short documentaries about how they filmed those scenes. They show what the footage looks like before they fill in the "gaps" between the individual camera shots. There is also one about how they trained for and choreographed the kung-fu scenes.
I'm surprised that they are allowed to use "Java" in the name of it. Wouldn't that be some kind of trademart infringement?