"NASA is currently making plans for World Wind 1.5. This version will be available for multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and the Macintosh."
The only reference in TFA about ask.com maps is "Its map and image search products, too, offer distinct advantages over the competition. Not much. However, see the maps tools and read a review of it. If these maps-topics is of your interest, see also http://slashgeo.org/:-)
"The move from 95,98,Me,2000,XP to Vista will not have much of a difference."
You fail to see why Vista *will* be everywhere: because it will be installed by default on a -very- large number of computer sold in the following years...
Well.. I downloaded TabFX quite a long time ago and you just made me realize some other extension has *way more* features. You made me switch to Tab Mix Plus:-)
That kind of extension really should be integrated in the vanilla Firefox. I know tabs will change in 2.0... we'll see then.
Firefox extension's website is bad. It shouldn't. (this will also improves over time I guess:-)
Well.. while the linked site does not answer (/. effect probably), here's my favorite extensions. I try to install only those really useful to my efficiency. Right now, it's really hard to find the best extensions from Firefox's site.
I invite you to slashgeo.org. Quite smaller than slashdot (and only 6 months old), but it reach thousands of geospatial professionals and has over 8000 daily hits right now. It has an active GPS section that will undoubtly interest you and of course, the usual Ask Slash section.
"As a side note, I already purchased Microsoft Pocket Streets 2006"
"1. Create huge heat-powered laser 2. Shoot the beam to outer space"
That sounds similar to reflecting solar radiation with mirrors (well... HUGE mirrors;-). You know what this solution goes against the logic of physics: with entropy and exergy laws of thermodynamics, life, such as trees, is transforming the sun's energy into complexity and life and thus flattens temperature, on the other hand, we're cutting trees all over the world...
Here's a copy of a story on slashgeo.org earlier this morning, there's a link to see "Google GeoAds".
Remember this story about location-aware AdSense? Google is still working on various ways to geolocate ads. All Points Blog shares their patent application for Wi-Fi location ad delivery and Google Local ads. Shimon Sandler explains the link between Google Base and those GeoAds and adds: "Wanna see it? Go to Google Local and type in the search box, booksellers nyc. You should see a little coffee cup in addition to the little red ballons. Click on the coffee cup, and an ad appears for Barnes & Noble with their logo, hyperlink, street location, and phone number."
I read TA and was slightly unsatisfied because no discussion takes place between the relation between 42 and "Life and the Universe", only to Riemann's Zeta function and its history.
This is a direct copy of this related story: Vector One discuss national mapping and the UK Ordnance Survey and link to a The Guardian article. The OpenGeoData blog has a podcast with Ed Parsons, CTO of the Ordnance Survey. While GIS User host an announcement by the OS about advanced spatial address data access. From the Guardian article: "Sir Tim Berners-Lee told an Oxford University audience last week getting "basic, raw data from Ordnance Survey" online would help build the "semantic web", which he defines as a web of data using standard formats so that relevant data can be found and processed by computers."
I was looking for the same thing as you, documentation about the features. You provided an interesting link, here's another one from the latest status meeting which includes the features, but a lot more:-)
This confirms Yahoo! want to be a serious provider of Location-awareness tools, such as Google and Microsoft are.
Spatially enabled Yahoo! tools now includes: - This Local News announcement - Yahoo! Maps, including APIs (more reading). - Flickr (/. story about the acquisition) maps (undoubtly a similar service will soon be provided by Yahoo!) - Probably other I forgot?
I doubt Yahoo! will join the Virtual Globes frenzy. With Google Earth, Windows Live, NASA WorldWind (and Punt), the competition is already fierce.
Well, thank you Derek. Your input was informed, while mine was just an half-informed statement about wise management... (and provided news about the Giove-B delay announcement)
Galileo just announced the launch delay of Giove-B for good reasons: Giove-A is considered a success and Giove-B will be more useful later this year (september launch instead of spring). I like to call this "preemtive management": plan the second satellite now in case we need it and delay it if we don't , instead of, oops - we would need another satellite since the first one has failed.
All that said, I hope such preemptive management could be used for NASA's projects. The circumstances are quite different (you know, the budget cuts...), but it's never bad to have a Plan B.
For the SPOT program, the French are trying harder than the US to recover their fees. What I mean is SPOT data is not cheap when compared to NASA data (Landsat, ALI, Hyperion, etc). Yes, I know, this is different types of data, but the US has been in the past more prone to sell data at a lower price than the French. My uneducated guess is that Israel too will want to sell the data in order to cover their costs. This is just different goals: make the data available cheap and hope the advantages of massive use of data will justify the investment. That's the problem with Canada's Radarsat-1 and Radarsat-2 (not yet launched, but commercial). While Canada's Radarsat-C (launch timeframe: 2012-2014) data will be available at a minimal fee for the canadian government agencies. That said, I just hope this VENUS satellite will have a data policy which will allow widespread use of the data it collects.
The only added-value this comment will provide is a (shameless) link to slashgeo.org. It is an ad-free community-driven slashcode-based website for geospatial technologies, including Remote Sensing. If you're reading this article, well, you probably have a serious interest in satellites, remote sensing, GIS and stuff alike, thus you could also be interested in slashgeo itself!
Interesting article (since I'm a potential buyer:-), however, they didn't included the new Mac Mini CoreDuo for most of their benchmarks, only the new Mac Mini CoreSolo. I don't understand why, but that's clearly a limitation of the review.
Maybe there's no step 3 in regards to instant messaging. With Jabber being open and being used more and more (Google Talk is a Jabber account), with tools such as Gaim (heck, even with iChat you can connect to all IM protocols), I fail to see how any corp could be making money out of instant messaging protocols...
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IF you go to this WindWindCentral page, you'll learn that Google Earth's open source competitor is readying Linux and Mac versions of NASA World Wind. You can learn a lot about WW here and a lot about GE here.
"NASA is currently making plans for World Wind 1.5. This version will be available for multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and the Macintosh."
The only reference in TFA about ask.com maps is "Its map and image search products, too, offer distinct advantages over the competition. Not much. However, see the maps tools and read a review of it. If these maps-topics is of your interest, see also http://slashgeo.org/ :-)
"The move from 95,98,Me,2000,XP to Vista will not have much of a difference."
You fail to see why Vista *will* be everywhere: because it will be installed by default on a -very- large number of computer sold in the following years...
Well.. I downloaded TabFX quite a long time ago and you just made me realize some other extension has *way more* features. You made me switch to Tab Mix Plus :-)
:-)
That kind of extension really should be integrated in the vanilla Firefox. I know tabs will change in 2.0... we'll see then.
Firefox extension's website is bad. It shouldn't. (this will also improves over time I guess
Well.. while the linked site does not answer (/. effect probably), here's my favorite extensions. I try to install only those really useful to my efficiency. Right now, it's really hard to find the best extensions from Firefox's site.
p ?id=10&application=firefox
p ?id=1486&application=firefox
p ?id=220&application=firefox
p ?id=920&application=firefox
t / ;-)
Adblock
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
Needless to say, the most important extension to me. But even better with this one: Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.3 https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/
TabFX
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
while we wait for Firefox 2.0
FlashGot
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
but I never really used it on a regular basis
Page Update Checker
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
That one should be in the built-in features. Very useful.
And not to forget (not listed on Firefox's website): Bug me not:
http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/02/07/bugmeno
Very useful for the soul-sucking registration-required articles on slashdot
Cheers.
I invite you to slashgeo.org. Quite smaller than slashdot (and only 6 months old), but it reach thousands of geospatial professionals and has over 8000 daily hits right now. It has an active GPS section that will undoubtly interest you and of course, the usual Ask Slash section.
"As a side note, I already purchased Microsoft Pocket Streets 2006"
Stories in other sections, such as web mapping, might also interest you since it includes stories such as Open Source Alternatives to Consumer Map Programs. A part of the story: "Open source tends to be lacking in consumer map programs ala Microsoft Streets and Trips and Delorme's Street Atlas. There are several efforts to repair that situation. GMap, Roadster, and RoadNav are three examples. [...]"
"1. Create huge heat-powered laser
;-). You know what this solution goes against the logic of physics: with entropy and exergy laws of thermodynamics, life, such as trees, is transforming the sun's energy into complexity and life and thus flattens temperature, on the other hand, we're cutting trees all over the world...
2. Shoot the beam to outer space"
That sounds similar to reflecting solar radiation with mirrors (well... HUGE mirrors
The article discusses NASA WorldWind but several interesting links are missing. Amongst them: Punt, a WW fork. Heck, you can also see Microsoft Virtual Earth data in NASA WorldWind itself. Even Mars 3D in WW. (I stop here, if this interests you, read slashgeo.org ;-))
I don't know if Stellarium counts as "software for space exploration", but it's worthed. Celestia too.
I took a look at TFA. Is it me or they don't discuss this new important feature: Ask.com Maps & Directions.
Here's a copy of a story on slashgeo.org earlier this morning, there's a link to see "Google GeoAds".
Remember this story about location-aware AdSense? Google is still working on various ways to geolocate ads. All Points Blog shares their patent application for Wi-Fi location ad delivery and Google Local ads. Shimon Sandler explains the link between Google Base and those GeoAds and adds: "Wanna see it? Go to Google Local and type in the search box, booksellers nyc. You should see a little coffee cup in addition to the little red ballons. Click on the coffee cup, and an ad appears for Barnes & Noble with their logo, hyperlink, street location, and phone number."
I read TA and was slightly unsatisfied because no discussion takes place between the relation between 42 and "Life and the Universe", only to Riemann's Zeta function and its history.
Add http://whynot.net/ to the lot.
This is a direct copy of this related story:
Vector One discuss national mapping and the UK Ordnance Survey and link to a The Guardian article. The OpenGeoData blog has a podcast with Ed Parsons, CTO of the Ordnance Survey. While GIS User host an announcement by the OS about advanced spatial address data access. From the Guardian article: "Sir Tim Berners-Lee told an Oxford University audience last week getting "basic, raw data from Ordnance Survey" online would help build the "semantic web", which he defines as a web of data using standard formats so that relevant data can be found and processed by computers."
Go to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
:-)
You'll find out they haven't forgot Sunbird. It seems Lightning is 'Sunbird within Thunderbird'. Correct me if I misunderstood
"For example news.google.com gives news of all types, maps.google.com gives maps to the whole country."
You could add Jabber (Google Talk) mapping to the bunch, which is closer to social networking, such as this joga.com is, than Google Local.
I was looking for the same thing as you, documentation about the features. You provided an interesting link, here's another one from the latest status meeting which includes the features, but a lot more :-)
This confirms Yahoo! want to be a serious provider of Location-awareness tools, such as Google and Microsoft are.
Spatially enabled Yahoo! tools now includes:
- This Local News announcement
- Yahoo! Maps, including APIs (more reading).
- Flickr (/. story about the acquisition) maps (undoubtly a similar service will soon be provided by Yahoo!)
- Probably other I forgot?
I doubt Yahoo! will join the Virtual Globes frenzy. With Google Earth, Windows Live, NASA WorldWind (and Punt), the competition is already fierce.
Well, thank you Derek. Your input was informed, while mine was just an half-informed statement about wise management... (and provided news about the Giove-B delay announcement)
Galileo just announced the launch delay of Giove-B for good reasons: Giove-A is considered a success and Giove-B will be more useful later this year (september launch instead of spring). I like to call this "preemtive management": plan the second satellite now in case we need it and delay it if we don't , instead of, oops - we would need another satellite since the first one has failed.
All that said, I hope such preemptive management could be used for NASA's projects. The circumstances are quite different (you know, the budget cuts...), but it's never bad to have a Plan B.
This is good news especially when in light to the alarmist view of future NASA satellite projects.
For the SPOT program, the French are trying harder than the US to recover their fees. What I mean is SPOT data is not cheap when compared to NASA data (Landsat, ALI, Hyperion, etc). Yes, I know, this is different types of data, but the US has been in the past more prone to sell data at a lower price than the French. My uneducated guess is that Israel too will want to sell the data in order to cover their costs. This is just different goals: make the data available cheap and hope the advantages of massive use of data will justify the investment. That's the problem with Canada's Radarsat-1 and Radarsat-2 (not yet launched, but commercial). While Canada's Radarsat-C (launch timeframe: 2012-2014) data will be available at a minimal fee for the canadian government agencies. That said, I just hope this VENUS satellite will have a data policy which will allow widespread use of the data it collects.
Must be a dull day for the editors @ /. Go home and have a beer fellas tis the weekend
;-)
No no, you got it all wrong, haven't you heard? CNN Money says Slashdot is the future of media
The only added-value this comment will provide is a (shameless) link to slashgeo.org. It is an ad-free community-driven slashcode-based website for geospatial technologies, including Remote Sensing. If you're reading this article, well, you probably have a serious interest in satellites, remote sensing, GIS and stuff alike, thus you could also be interested in slashgeo itself!
Cheers -
Interesting article (since I'm a potential buyer :-), however, they didn't included the new Mac Mini CoreDuo for most of their benchmarks, only the new Mac Mini CoreSolo. I don't understand why, but that's clearly a limitation of the review.
Maybe there's no step 3 in regards to instant messaging. With Jabber being open and being used more and more (Google Talk is a Jabber account), with tools such as Gaim (heck, even with iChat you can connect to all IM protocols), I fail to see how any corp could be making money out of instant messaging protocols...
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