I should also mention that NAVTEQ used to be a separate company from Tele Atlas but in the middle of last year is when Tele Atlas bought them out so that is why both companies are listed for the copyright on the Google map images. That might help in understanding why it seemingly looks like Google purchased 2 different map sets but in reality it's 1 company and the map data got merged (although the merging could still be going on for all I know).
It is ludicrous to claim that Google invested that much in the original content, since everyone just gets it from US Geological Survey.
Why is it ludicrous to clame Google invested the money in their maps? They definitely bought the actual content since the copyrights for the map content creators are displayed on the actual maps.
So, go to the National Atlas and download and use to your heart's content. If that is not good enough, then go download all the data you can imagine.
Given,there is some data there and it is all free but for one thing, Google is also using satellite photos which can't be acquired freely if you are looking for a certain quality (terraserver.com has some but you can't zoom in as far as you can on google maps) and the second thing is that TeleAtlas provides data layers for their maps that aren't available on nationalatlas.gov and nationalatlas provides data that isn't available from TeleAtlas. So it is possible that although Google could have gotten free data from somewhere, it isn't necessarily the data they wanted. Besides, buying the map data from Tele Atlas is like buying Suse or RH instead of downloading everything yourself. This is because Tele Atlas packages the data up nicely and all I had to do (when I worked on a gov't project to create a GIS) was create an XML file that would render the maps the way I wanted them to be rendered and put the data into a database (which was more time consuming than difficult as 50 gigabytes of data takes a while (installing the ESRI software is separate).
As a side note, another big reason why Google may have gone with TeleAtlas instead of getting map data for free is that nationalatlas does not provide geocoding data which is what allows address lookups. The geocoding data I worked with represented approximately 20 gigs (out of a total of 50 gigs) of the data we got from Tele Atlas. A lot of work goes into keeping that up to date and that is of course included in the cost of buying their data.
1. The satellite/air imagery is probably not owned by Google - they must have licensed it from AirphotoUSA or whoever else is the supplier.
The map data Google uses is from NAVTEQ (Yahoo maps fame) and Tele Atlas. I recently was on a project that used Tele Atlas data and I can say that the maps are not cheap (but their tech support is very helpful and went out of their way to help us but that may have been due to the high priority of the gov't project we were working on). Approximately $100k was spent and we only had maps for North America. We also did not yet invest in any satellite images either which I'm sure costs a lot (maybe even more). Considering Google paid a lot of money for their map data they aren't going to let some ma and pop website use their data. By the way, DigitalGlobe supplies Google with the satellite photos and if you goto digitalglobe.com you will see they have some great products available.
It also neglects the fact that SSH is merely the program, that the encryption algorithm used is AES, which is most certainly a FIPS standard.
After having to build a system based on requirements for a certain dept. of the US gov't I have to say that the fact that an algorithm that an application uses is approved is not sufficient. From what I've experienced, and based on the requirements I had to meet, the whole application had to be certified and just because 3DES or AES or Diffie-Hellmann was used just didn't matter. There are few applications that actually have been certified but the list is available on NIST's website. By the way, IPSec isn't on the list yet as no company has ever acquired certification for it although I worked with HP early this year and told the tech support person that we couldn't use IPSec in our final design due to it not being certified and supposedly they are now actively pursuing IPSec certification for HP-UX.
That game was released a long time ago in Texas, Arizona, Florida, and California. Popularity is slowly spreading to the northern states. It's called life.
People like you are about as fringe and ill-informed as the people who deny that HIV exists or that HIV causes AIDS. Unfortunately, in this case, you endanger not only your own miserable life with your hostility towards science and reason, you endanger everybody's.
There is direct evidence for HIV as the actual HIV virus can be viewed and detected. Global warming evidence is left to interpretation and only some people decide to view the evidence in a way that might show global warming exists. They are also probably the same people who think there is evidence of evolution existing.
For those who don't know, PCI-E is the same as PCI-Express, which is not the same as PCI-X. PCI-E has a much higher bandwidth than PCI-X or AGP and can handle more than just video cards such has 100Gb ethernet.
Well a possible fix for that potential market is to price the batteries very high. Why do you think Microsoft charges so much for Office? Because they know that not many people will buy it every time for the few dinky features they add to it in every release so they charge a high price to mitigate low quantity of sales. At least with batteries there would be different forms for them (AA, AAA, etc.) and so a person would at least have to buy multiple batteries of different variety and companies could benefit from that just as they do now. Price them high (but still in reason) and the companies can compensate for their long life.
Most people can't get around with a scooter but they can do just fine switching to an LCD for everyday work. There is a big difference, in fact a bigger difference between a scooter/SUV than between a LCD/CRT. Maybe you should try comparing an SUV to a small pickup truck.
The problem with that thought is you assume that homosexuality is actually genetic. If it is genetic then why does everyone refer to homosexuality as "sexual preference"? Since some people go from straight to gay to straight that eliminates the possibility that homosexuality is genetic. Also, (I'm thinking out loud here) since homosexuality prevents reproduction from occurring naturally then for all those people who believe in evolution (which coincidentally are usually the same liberals who believe homosexuality is genetic) homosexuality will end up killing off the human species because it goes against what evolution is trying to do (which is to make the best living specimen possible). Homosexuality will cause the human species to die out as the genes for it continue to spread throughout the world. I have to wonder why other species haven't shown signs of homosexuality if evolution and genetic homosexuality are both true since the problem should crop up in other species (through evolution) just like it seemed to have cropped up in humans. What am I missing?
From http://www.narth.com/docs/animalmyth.html Human beings have sex one way, while animals have it another. Human sex is a question of preference where one chooses the most attractive person to have pleasure. This is not true with animals. For them, it is a question of mating and reproduction. There is no physical or psychological pleasure....The smell is decisive: when a female is in heat, she emits a scent, known as pheromone. This scent attracts the attention of the male, and makes him want to mate. This is sexual intercourse between animals. It is the law of nature.
Humans are making a habit of disobeying the laws of nature for their own gain but then going back to blaming nature when they aren't accepted for their choices.
People think just because we can kill people that we should. I don't care what your reason is, killing someone is against the law. Somehow we are able to make exceptions just because of our reasoning (too incapacitated, too burdensome, too sick) so I have to wonder when is our reasoning going to be so wacked out that we are going to get away with killing someone just because we got tired of paying for their life (a 13 year old who eats too much and a mother can't afford it). Humans want to make their control of another human life a grey area where they get to choose whether someone else should die or not and no human has that right. It doesn't matter that the baby will be different than the rest of us when it is born, it is ALIVE before it is born and making it not alive(i.e. killing it) by chemicals or physical harm is called murder. Plain and simple. Obviously testing for autism just so a parent has the right to destroy a life while the baby has no choice in the matter is a bad idea but most liberals will err on the side of convenience over morality in this matter.
Lack of qualified candidates could just mean lack of real world experience which could be separated from formal education. I say 'formal' since someone could technically be educated while on the job just by doing their job but I wouldn't consider that formal education.
By the way, Amazon.com has the book for $26.40 and B&N has it for $26.00 ($25.20 as a member) so unles you are a member of B&N it looks like Amazon is the way to go.
because I've seen enough books like that already. I bought a book a couple years ago that was about a new theory describing how light in the early moments of the universe had a higher speed than today. It was a good book and an interesting theory, that is, once I got to the actual theory. The first half of the book was just a rehash of Einstein's theories and I felt ripped off. I already had a lot of other books that talked about that so I hope this one doesn't rehash the same basic concepts that a lot of other similar books do. I enjoy reading about new theories so if this book is genuinely new then I'm all for getting a copy.
It's quite amazing, actually; they have evolved in a very short span of time to take down the larger prey that wolves and cougars once hunted, though some of this is attributed to cross-breeding with the red wolf population.
I hope TigerDirect loses. I've only ordered from them 3 times and every time they have managed to screw up the order in some way or another (one of the orders dealing with a rebate). I figured no company could screw something up again and kept ordering. I finally learned my lesson. I'd like to know how they even got the copyright (or patent, whatever it was) on the word Tiger. Maybe I should file something similar on the word 'window' and 'windows'.
I assume people who are bisexual don't have a choice either? I know a good many people who choose to be bisexual because it is convenient for whenever they can't get sex from one gender they go after the other or when they are really greedy and they have people from both genders available they get sex from both to make it more fun. I even know someone who decided not to be bi anymore and went strictly straight like she was supposed to be. So how are bisexuals any different from someone being gay? Both groups make their choices, they aren't born with them.
Why don't you wake up? Just because someone is religious doesn't mean they are a wacko, but yet everyone that I see like you who hate the religious members of society always want to call them wacko or psychotic or crazy. What's that say about you? Maybe you are the wacko? Just a thought. The religious right is perfectly okay until someone or some group tries to take their rights *away* from them which is what is happening. They are only fighting for what they already HAD; they are not fighting for something new. Remember that.
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I should also mention that NAVTEQ used to be a separate company from Tele Atlas but in the middle of last year is when Tele Atlas bought them out so that is why both companies are listed for the copyright on the Google map images. That might help in understanding why it seemingly looks like Google purchased 2 different map sets but in reality it's 1 company and the map data got merged (although the merging could still be going on for all I know).
It is ludicrous to claim that Google invested that much in the original content, since everyone just gets it from US Geological Survey.
Why is it ludicrous to clame Google invested the money in their maps? They definitely bought the actual content since the copyrights for the map content creators are displayed on the actual maps.
So, go to the National Atlas and download and use to your heart's content. If that is not good enough, then go download all the data you can imagine.
Given,there is some data there and it is all free but for one thing, Google is also using satellite photos which can't be acquired freely if you are looking for a certain quality (terraserver.com has some but you can't zoom in as far as you can on google maps) and the second thing is that TeleAtlas provides data layers for their maps that aren't available on nationalatlas.gov and nationalatlas provides data that isn't available from TeleAtlas. So it is possible that although Google could have gotten free data from somewhere, it isn't necessarily the data they wanted. Besides, buying the map data from Tele Atlas is like buying Suse or RH instead of downloading everything yourself. This is because Tele Atlas packages the data up nicely and all I had to do (when I worked on a gov't project to create a GIS) was create an XML file that would render the maps the way I wanted them to be rendered and put the data into a database (which was more time consuming than difficult as 50 gigabytes of data takes a while (installing the ESRI software is separate).
As a side note, another big reason why Google may have gone with TeleAtlas instead of getting map data for free is that nationalatlas does not provide geocoding data which is what allows address lookups. The geocoding data I worked with represented approximately 20 gigs (out of a total of 50 gigs) of the data we got from Tele Atlas. A lot of work goes into keeping that up to date and that is of course included in the cost of buying their data.
1. The satellite/air imagery is probably not owned by Google - they must have licensed it from AirphotoUSA or whoever else is the supplier.
The map data Google uses is from NAVTEQ (Yahoo maps fame) and Tele Atlas. I recently was on a project that used Tele Atlas data and I can say that the maps are not cheap (but their tech support is very helpful and went out of their way to help us but that may have been due to the high priority of the gov't project we were working on). Approximately $100k was spent and we only had maps for North America. We also did not yet invest in any satellite images either which I'm sure costs a lot (maybe even more). Considering Google paid a lot of money for their map data they aren't going to let some ma and pop website use their data. By the way, DigitalGlobe supplies Google with the satellite photos and if you goto digitalglobe.com you will see they have some great products available.
It also neglects the fact that SSH is merely the program, that the encryption algorithm used is AES, which is most certainly a FIPS standard.
After having to build a system based on requirements for a certain dept. of the US gov't I have to say that the fact that an algorithm that an application uses is approved is not sufficient. From what I've experienced, and based on the requirements I had to meet, the whole application had to be certified and just because 3DES or AES or Diffie-Hellmann was used just didn't matter. There are few applications that actually have been certified but the list is available on NIST's website. By the way, IPSec isn't on the list yet as no company has ever acquired certification for it although I worked with HP early this year and told the tech support person that we couldn't use IPSec in our final design due to it not being certified and supposedly they are now actively pursuing IPSec certification for HP-UX.
That game was released a long time ago in Texas, Arizona, Florida, and California. Popularity is slowly spreading to the northern states. It's called life.
People like you are about as fringe and ill-informed as the people who deny that HIV exists or that HIV causes AIDS. Unfortunately, in this case, you endanger not only your own miserable life with your hostility towards science and reason, you endanger everybody's.
There is direct evidence for HIV as the actual HIV virus can be viewed and detected. Global warming evidence is left to interpretation and only some people decide to view the evidence in a way that might show global warming exists. They are also probably the same people who think there is evidence of evolution existing.
If you don't like our system of Innocent until PROVEN guilty, move to Iraq.
Actually thanks to Monsieur Bush, moving to Iraq now would put you into the same system of innocent until proven guilty.
You aren't distributing it but that is why they have the charge called "possession with intent to distribute".
For those who don't know, PCI-E is the same as PCI-Express, which is not the same as PCI-X. PCI-E has a much higher bandwidth than PCI-X or AGP and can handle more than just video cards such has 100Gb ethernet.
Well a possible fix for that potential market is to price the batteries very high. Why do you think Microsoft charges so much for Office? Because they know that not many people will buy it every time for the few dinky features they add to it in every release so they charge a high price to mitigate low quantity of sales. At least with batteries there would be different forms for them (AA, AAA, etc.) and so a person would at least have to buy multiple batteries of different variety and companies could benefit from that just as they do now. Price them high (but still in reason) and the companies can compensate for their long life.
Most people can't get around with a scooter but they can do just fine switching to an LCD for everyday work. There is a big difference, in fact a bigger difference between a scooter/SUV than between a LCD/CRT. Maybe you should try comparing an SUV to a small pickup truck.
The problem with that thought is you assume that homosexuality is actually genetic. If it is genetic then why does everyone refer to homosexuality as "sexual preference"? Since some people go from straight to gay to straight that eliminates the possibility that homosexuality is genetic. Also, (I'm thinking out loud here) since homosexuality prevents reproduction from occurring naturally then for all those people who believe in evolution (which coincidentally are usually the same liberals who believe homosexuality is genetic) homosexuality will end up killing off the human species because it goes against what evolution is trying to do (which is to make the best living specimen possible). Homosexuality will cause the human species to die out as the genes for it continue to spread throughout the world. I have to wonder why other species haven't shown signs of homosexuality if evolution and genetic homosexuality are both true since the problem should crop up in other species (through evolution) just like it seemed to have cropped up in humans. What am I missing?
From http://www.narth.com/docs/animalmyth.html Human beings have sex one way, while animals have it another. Human sex is a question of preference where one chooses the most attractive person to have pleasure. This is not true with animals. For them, it is a question of mating and reproduction. There is no physical or psychological pleasure....The smell is decisive: when a female is in heat, she emits a scent, known as pheromone. This scent attracts the attention of the male, and makes him want to mate. This is sexual intercourse between animals. It is the law of nature.
Humans are making a habit of disobeying the laws of nature for their own gain but then going back to blaming nature when they aren't accepted for their choices.
People think just because we can kill people that we should. I don't care what your reason is, killing someone is against the law. Somehow we are able to make exceptions just because of our reasoning (too incapacitated, too burdensome, too sick) so I have to wonder when is our reasoning going to be so wacked out that we are going to get away with killing someone just because we got tired of paying for their life (a 13 year old who eats too much and a mother can't afford it). Humans want to make their control of another human life a grey area where they get to choose whether someone else should die or not and no human has that right. It doesn't matter that the baby will be different than the rest of us when it is born, it is ALIVE before it is born and making it not alive(i.e. killing it) by chemicals or physical harm is called murder. Plain and simple. Obviously testing for autism just so a parent has the right to destroy a life while the baby has no choice in the matter is a bad idea but most liberals will err on the side of convenience over morality in this matter.
I just got LASIK surgery in March and I can see fine now. $900 per eye The surgery doesn't matter, it's the doctor that does it that counts.
Lack of qualified candidates could just mean lack of real world experience which could be separated from formal education. I say 'formal' since someone could technically be educated while on the job just by doing their job but I wouldn't consider that formal education.
By the way, Amazon.com has the book for $26.40 and B&N has it for $26.00 ($25.20 as a member) so unles you are a member of B&N it looks like Amazon is the way to go.
because I've seen enough books like that already. I bought a book a couple years ago that was about a new theory describing how light in the early moments of the universe had a higher speed than today. It was a good book and an interesting theory, that is, once I got to the actual theory. The first half of the book was just a rehash of Einstein's theories and I felt ripped off. I already had a lot of other books that talked about that so I hope this one doesn't rehash the same basic concepts that a lot of other similar books do. I enjoy reading about new theories so if this book is genuinely new then I'm all for getting a copy.
WinWTF was version 3.0, then we got WFW in 3.11.
For some more about Bram read the article in Wired a few months ago. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorren t.html?pg=1&topic=bittorrent&topic_set=/
He gave my family an assload of venison steaks and moose sausage.
How much is an assload again? Oh, and um, you can keep the moose "sausage".
It's quite amazing, actually; they have evolved in a very short span of time to take down the larger prey that wolves and cougars once hunted, though some of this is attributed to cross-breeding with the red wolf population.
Evolved? whatever.
There is an article in the new Wired issue about Samsung becoming the new Sony and becoming the leader in LCD manufacturing. Very interesting.
I hope TigerDirect loses. I've only ordered from them 3 times and every time they have managed to screw up the order in some way or another (one of the orders dealing with a rebate). I figured no company could screw something up again and kept ordering. I finally learned my lesson. I'd like to know how they even got the copyright (or patent, whatever it was) on the word Tiger. Maybe I should file something similar on the word 'window' and 'windows'.
I assume people who are bisexual don't have a choice either? I know a good many people who choose to be bisexual because it is convenient for whenever they can't get sex from one gender they go after the other or when they are really greedy and they have people from both genders available they get sex from both to make it more fun. I even know someone who decided not to be bi anymore and went strictly straight like she was supposed to be. So how are bisexuals any different from someone being gay? Both groups make their choices, they aren't born with them.
Why don't you wake up? Just because someone is religious doesn't mean they are a wacko, but yet everyone that I see like you who hate the religious members of society always want to call them wacko or psychotic or crazy. What's that say about you? Maybe you are the wacko? Just a thought. The religious right is perfectly okay until someone or some group tries to take their rights *away* from them which is what is happening. They are only fighting for what they already HAD; they are not fighting for something new. Remember that.