Too bad Google is just catching up to what MS has been doing with Live Maps for months now. Instead of 'My Maps' MS calls them collections. On top of that while Google maps can ingest and display GeoRSS it can't publish GeoRSS while Live Maps can. Google will only publish in KML. If you create a collection in Live Maps I can view it in Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Live Maps or even ope source projects like OpenLayers. If I create a 'map' in Google the only place you can view it is in Google maps. That plain sucks. Google should know better.
To continue your Hurricane analogy imagine if people in Florida keys were told in next 6 - 9 months you will be hit by a Cat. 4 hurricane. However you will not get any further warnings. You may look out your window one day and you'll see your nieghbours house flying down the street. This simply isn't useful information. Until they can narrow the earthquake prediction results down to a few days (maybe a week) this sort of information serves no practical purpose othe than to scare people. That said I'm sure it is very useful scientifically, but that's about it.
You're not the target consumer for this product. You are right a 'livingroom' PC is far more flexible and product like this would be redundant if you have one. This however is aimed at people like my parents / in-laws. They thought it was tremendous that they could burn a CD-RW with pictures from their digital camera and then show them on the TV with their existing DVD player.
I still think Apple should move into this field. a DVD player with Rendevous that integrated with the ILife Apps and still worked with Windows would be great. Just plug it in and it would auto detect the network and your done.
I do believe that just about anywhere on the Canadian praires last week was well into the low -20's or high -30's. I know in Calgary we were down to -29 one night. Not typical, but it certainly wasn't a record low or anything.
First off we already have an ID card. Its called a Social Security (or Social Insurance for us Canuck's). Larry is simply suggesting we add a picture and some sort of biometric id. The big problem I see with this system is the dependance on biometics. Biometic ID's are flawed because your can't revoke your key. Someone steals your credit card number, you get a new one. Someone breaks into the 'Master' Oracle DB and steals your digital thumb print. What are your going to do? Grow a new thumb???
b) As demand for gas increases its true we could just drill more wells, but all the easy stuff is gone. It gets more expensive and more difficult to extract hydrocarbon resources from the ground and therefore prices remain high.
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Too bad Google is just catching up to what MS has been doing with Live Maps for months now. Instead of 'My Maps' MS calls them collections. On top of that while Google maps can ingest and display GeoRSS it can't publish GeoRSS while Live Maps can. Google will only publish in KML. If you create a collection in Live Maps I can view it in Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Live Maps or even ope source projects like OpenLayers. If I create a 'map' in Google the only place you can view it is in Google maps. That plain sucks. Google should know better.
To continue your Hurricane analogy imagine if people in Florida keys were told in next 6 - 9 months you will be hit by a Cat. 4 hurricane. However you will not get any further warnings. You may look out your window one day and you'll see your nieghbours house flying down the street. This simply isn't useful information. Until they can narrow the earthquake prediction results down to a few days (maybe a week) this sort of information serves no practical purpose othe than to scare people. That said I'm sure it is very useful scientifically, but that's about it.
You're not the target consumer for this product. You are right a 'livingroom' PC is far more flexible and product like this would be redundant if you have one. This however is aimed at people like my parents / in-laws. They thought it was tremendous that they could burn a CD-RW with pictures from their digital camera and then show them on the TV with their existing DVD player.
I still think Apple should move into this field. a DVD player with Rendevous that integrated with the ILife Apps and still worked with Windows would be great. Just plug it in and it would auto detect the network and your done.
I do believe that just about anywhere on the Canadian praires last week was well into the low -20's or high -30's. I know in Calgary we were down to -29 one night. Not typical, but it certainly wasn't a record low or anything.
First off we already have an ID card. Its called a Social Security (or Social Insurance for us Canuck's). Larry is simply suggesting we add a picture and some sort of biometric id. The big problem I see with this system is the dependance on biometics. Biometic ID's are flawed because your can't revoke your key. Someone steals your credit card number, you get a new one. Someone breaks into the 'Master' Oracle DB and steals your digital thumb print. What are your going to do? Grow a new thumb???
Unfortunatly this is just wrong.
a) Estimates for reserves of oil and gas are usually severly flawed and horribly inaccurate.
i)Is USGS 2000 Assessment Reliable?
ii)Reserve Growth: Technological Progress, or Bad Reporting and Bad Arithmetic?
b) As demand for gas increases its true we could just drill more wells, but all the easy stuff is gone. It gets more expensive and more difficult to extract hydrocarbon resources from the ground and therefore prices remain high.
i)What goes up must come down: when will it peak?