Funny thing, MS Streets has NONE of these problems...
Funny thing, you mean the MS Streets that costs $40 and isn't accessible from any computer except those on which it is installed? That's what I thought...
Concerning MSN MapPoint, MapQuest and Yahoo! Maps, they all get it wrong: PEOPLE HATE USING FORMS. Seriously. For every additional form input I have to fill out on a site, I hate using that site 10x more. Not only do all of the above have multiple forms you have to fill out depending on what you want to do (find an address, get directions, find a business), but each of the forms has multiple fields! People don't want to use that crap! I want to type "pizza in cleveland, oh" and see all the nearest pizza places. I want to type "cleveland, oh to rochester, ny" so I can see how to go visit my friend. Visual interface aside, this is the biggest reason I use Google Maps above everything else -- friendly input (and less input in general) is the future, not nitpicking over which name for a street is more popular. Google gets it right with a single line of input.
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Exactly!
I can't believe all the Slashdot responses criticizing the 'what if's -- obviously the company has already thought of all that, otherwise they'd be in the can by now!
Personally I think this market can only expand until it is one day the norm, where owning a car is merely an optional luxury or tool-for-a-specialized-trade. Most peoples' cars are sitting idle for 95% of their day -- and that's if they drive for an hour! What a waste of money.
In issue 10.12 of Wired Magazine there was a NASA Timeline sort of article -- it had a timeline of NASA's projected accomplishments and also what it had successfully achieved. Sending humans to Mars was on the agenda -- in fact, according to the projected timeline, we should have been ready to set up a base on Mars already!
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Exactly!
I can't believe all the Slashdot responses criticizing the 'what if's -- obviously the company has already thought of all that, otherwise they'd be in the can by now!
Personally I think this market can only expand until it is one day the norm, where owning a car is merely an optional luxury or tool-for-a-specialized-trade. Most peoples' cars are sitting idle for 95% of their day -- and that's if they drive for an hour! What a waste of money.
That's only if you have a laptop, as they have built-in Ethernet cards and many cannot be outfitted with a fiber adapter.
The media converter they give you is an 8-port switch, fiber or copper in (I believe), Ethernet out.
If you have a desktop, you just get a fiber gigabit card.
In issue 10.12 of Wired Magazine there was a NASA Timeline sort of article -- it had a timeline of NASA's projected accomplishments and also what it had successfully achieved. Sending humans to Mars was on the agenda -- in fact, according to the projected timeline, we should have been ready to set up a base on Mars already!