Well, in response to the article, I think it makes sense in this case to buy...a Pocket PC:
1) The basics - my PPC uses (64 MB) SD and (512 MB) CF memory to hold a lot of 256 kbps MP3 files. I can take it jogging, in the NYC subway, and at work, and attach it to my belt with a nice hard plastic clamshell to protect my Dell Axim.
2) All the goodies - you mean you have FM radio and included speakers? I can have GPS, games, and develop MY OWN PROGRAMS for my music player. Oh, and voice recorder, notes ability, and Office sync. And this other thing called WiFi. Woohoo!
3) My display is more intuitive than yours! And I can view web pages on mine...
4) I can access and stream online (ad-free) radio stations using a free player with the little wiFi available...or pay for an FM-enabled CF upgrade.
5) Pick the right size, eh? And upgrade at a whim...using my mix of 32, 64, 256, and 512 MB CF and SD cards, I can fit a iPod shuffle's worth and then some...oh, and would you believe WMP on the PPC actually has this "shuffle" feature. STOP THE PRESSES!
6) Online store...whatever. I can use iTunes to "buy" songs if I wish or get them free through various promos (Paypal, Pepsi, etc.) and burn them from to a CD. Then, using Musicmatch, burn them to hi-quality MP3s and copy to my PPC. DRM...oh that! Oh, and I can play WMAs on my PPC...can you do that on your iPod?
And the funny thing is these PPCs when there's a Slickdeal, can be cheaper than the 20GB iPod and much more useful as an all-in-one device. Which is why I canceled my order for an iPod shuffle...twice, because I couldn't live with myself if I bought that rip-off. Anyway, with computers so ubiquitous today, how often do you really use the full 12+ hours of music on YOUR device without "plugging in"?
And what else is cool...I wear my Axim in a sexy silver clamshell and turn more heads than an iPod because it is...different. They ask, "You mean...that's a computer? Cool!" Otherwise, "Oh, another iPod - that's SO 2004!"
What my university did (which helped to some extent) was place a bandwidth cap on downloads/uploads from Napster and similar services. Still, some chose to download illegal content/movies/etc. at insanely slow speeds (or through other venues).
At some point, they shut down some internal networks that shared files pretty openly. Others continue to run so there isn't as much of a crackdown as at some places. They operate under the mode: "If you do illegal stuff and get busted, we're not going to protect you."
This sounds pretty fair to me, because the Internet speeds were really slowing down in general because of around 70% of bandwidth going toward file-sharing. With those caps in place, it's helped to increase on-campus speed.
There is a reason that deadlines are pushed back (repeatedly). MS is at this point such a behemoth and so ambitious in promises/updates, that I can pretty much guarantee something will suffer.
If CSS suffers on IE in favor of a more secure browser, that's 100% fine with me. If XMLHTTP is modified significantly, I will take serious issue, because I can see that as the future. And no, web devs are NOT being held back by IE's quirks, but rather few know how to code good UI on the web. Coding C/PERL is one thing...developing an intuitive UI is quite another.
I'm frankly more worried about MyLifeBits as far as privacy and Indigo for security. But, with feature creep undoubtedly underway, this may be an issue in 2010 or so...
Why use the Google Desktop search when the new Copernic Desktop Search v1.5 beta has so much more?
Comparisons:
1) Searching text files (.java,.php,.c,.h,.) is simple with Copernic Desktop Search (even v1.2) while it is a downloadable add-on in Google.
2) Music/Video/Images are both searchable and *viewable/watchable/hearable* from within CDS while it was just added in a limited capacity in GDS.
3) Thunderbird and Eudora both searchable in CDS and Thunderbird just added in GDS.
4) Smart indexing of *network drives* in CDS 1.5 beta is totally awesome. It is amazing to see what you have instant access to on your corporate network in terms of internally searchable code files and business docs.
5) CDS 1.5 beta searches iTunes, QuickTime and OGG information (artist, album, etc) while GDS is likely more limited.
6) CDS 1.5 has targeted search (search email first, or files first, etc.) while GDS has been known to choose it's own path.
7) The GDS killer IMHO - preview of every major filetype is within the actual CDS search...like DOC, XLS, PPT, HTM, Email, code files and also highlighting search terms in different colors showing their context.
I just started as a developer in a wholly-owned, independent subsidiary of large financial corporation in NYC. We are generally a MS-friendly company (whereas the parent is more interested in Java). However, there is a hesitancy to fully adopt C# or.NET here because it is seen (rightly) as a language at v1.0 whereas Java has a bit more history. I would say when.NET 2.0 comes around, both C# and the.NET Framework itself will be both more used than currently.
He's THE guy who understands the possibility of a web OS that runs entirely on Google servers and serves out content, files, etc. to users using XMLHTTP and maybe even XUL (that would be awesome for Firefox). I totally agree with this guy's comments too.
With the new added features, we can cut short the battery life of the phone itself so that it can play more MP3s! Oh, and can I have my MP3s as ringtones? That would be SOOOOOO cool!
This could cause serious problems. The problem with stalkers is that they are very adapt at lying and if they can mask their identity, even better for them. So, a psychopath could assume a false identity on true.com, meet some unsuspecting person (who assumes he's 100% legit with background check), let down her guard, and get seriously hurt. She would blame true.com and/or the person whose identity was used could get in serious trouble. We are dealing with the Internet, folks!
It is much like a SSL connection or email. Someone could be sniffing the connection, performing a man-in-the-middle attack, but most everyone assumes that email is secure because they type in a password or login to a "secure connection". The same can transfer over into a dating/match service where users and their loved ones (including parents/friends/siblings) have a false sense of security.
These are guaranteed not to be DOA. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Honey, I'm just going to plug this in while you're wearing them to make sure they work...
Interestingly, these will make the perfect duo for your ultra-g33k
A few notes on how the band started:
The group -- which bills itself as "the one and only High Energy Rock Band" -- formed in 1990 when a secretary at CERN complained that her physicist boyfriend spent his nights and weekends smashing protons in an underground collider. She confessed her woes to friend and computer scientist at the laboratory, Silvano de Gennaro, who wrote a song about her plight.
From that episode, "Collider" was born:
I gave you a golden ring to show you my love
You went to stick it in a printed circuit
To fix a voltage leak in your collector
You plug my feelings into your detector
You never spend your nights with me
You don't go out with other girls either
You prefer your collider
You only love your collider
Your collider.
Other songs:
"Surfing on the Web" (Surf me on the Web/ My page is all for you/ Call me on the Web/ I'll open my windows to you), "Strong Interaction" (You quark me up/ You quark me down/ You quark me top/ You quark me bottom), and "Computer Games" (Since you've gone away/ I've got a million games to play/ I've got your 80 megabytes full of computer games)
An interesting start to downloading of pictures on the web...
Combine the ubiquitous use of SSN as college ID (at least at my school) which the state of NJ recently made illegal (thankfully) with the fact that some resturants (Qdoba being one major one) actually have printed the entire credit card number on the physical receipt.
I would really like to know, though, if online website are encrypting data AS WELL AS using SSL. Maybe they could indicate this on the page or whatever...
Finally, I can see a use for the 20-60gb iPods - for portable video content. Too bad the current iPod and iPod mini won't be able to display that stuff. Maybe at that point, I could see buying an iPod Video (to borrow the no-nonsense Apple naming scheme)...after the price has dropped a little in 2nd generation. Furthermore, I'd rather hold off on the Mac Mini because it's not really ready as a set-top box yet.
However, Jobs seems to be building this market piece by piece and in a very good order, I might add. First music, then photos, then video. Life is random, but Apple's marketing is not;)
I'm waiting for the video because then I can have all three in one easy-to-use device...
when even the editor/original poster have not RTFA in its entirety. It clearly shows that if it comes to the attention of an ISP, then they must (by law) pass it on.
You know...I heard saw the Slashdot title on "Report Child Porn" in the RSS feed and I seriously was wondering why the editor was asking for links to child porn sites. A travesty indeed!
Since when has context been important, anyway?!?
Interesting philosophical discussion
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The book was brought up in a recent Modern Philosophy class, this philosophy basically waves bye-bye to any notion of rationalism in favor of empiricism (or an element of skepticism). Interestingly, it jives well with the philosophy that sells the iPod Shuffle ("Life is Random...so choose an iPod Shuffle" in marketing lingo). And iPods in general - don't think about the fact that you will have to pay $10,000 to fill up that iPod with legal music on iTunes...just go with the gut reaction when you see it! Not that Napster is much better - rent a gazillion WMA files and lose them all after a year. Blink. Blink again...no sale for either (or for the Blink book either).
What do those numbers mean?
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I read on one site - in answer to the question "What's the big deal - is 2**69 really all that bad?"
That's 2**11 less operations. Let's say breaking this (2**69 ops) takes the NSA a week. If it had been 2**80, it would have taken 2048 weeks, or 39 years. If it would have taken the NSA (or whomever) a year to break SHA-1 before, it could be broken in 4 hours.
My guess would be it would still take a lot longer than a week - but would now be in the realm of possibility, whereas before it would have been in the lifetime(s) range. However, this is totally a wild-assed-guess, based on the assumption that it was expected to take 100+ years before this to crack.
While we're comparing apples (untweaked IE) and oranges (tweaked Firefox), we should exercise caution as far as speed goes. The same goes for MOOX and Firefox. From the article: yeah, Firefox 1.0 starts out cold going faster, loading tables, scripts, and especially history (and probably live bookmarks) are equal or better in MOOX.
Firefox v. IE - there are IE tweaks just like ones you find for Firefox. Once I compare my tweaked IE 6.0, it renders amazon.com faster but microsoft.com slower (how ironic;) than Firefox MOOX M3 that I have.
So you want the IE tweaks (for faster Internet Connections) so we begin to compare apples and apples?
First, I'd recommend downloading a free program to edit the registry, because it has a history of previous locations visited...very useful for me to remember the tweaks.
Then, goto
My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wind ows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
OK, add two new keys to have more simultaneous connections:
MaxConnectionsPerServer as DWORD with value of 32 in Hexadecimal
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server as DWORD with value of 32 in Hexadecimal
Ok...now move to eliminate searching of Scheduled Task on the local network when loading Explorer, goto location
My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Win dows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSp ace
and remove the {2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} key.
You may need to restart Windows (or maybe just IE) and you should notice a speedup.
The dictator that heads up that country is absolutely out of his mind. I'd say "diplomacy" and infiltration (+ possible coup attempt from within) sound more feasible. KJI will lob bombs on S. Korea, Japan, whoever just to intimidate if we ever attack.
Oh, and can we stop with the comparisons with Iraq already? Or maybe you can show how we can turn back the clock to Iraq as it was before? Don't forget to kill off the Iraqi governing council, reinstate Saddam as president, and rebuild his death camps and cover over the mass graves as an added favor...
"Look at all these other fringe "benefits": on-site doctor, on-site dentist, on-site car washes... the list goes on and on with one similarity: every "benefit" is on-site so you never leave work. (...)
Google definitely has a program that is on par with other companies in the industry; but since when does a company like Google settle for being on par? Microsoft's health care benefits shame Google's relatively meager offering. (...)
Lastly, Google demands employees that are 90th percentile material, so what's with the 50th percentile compensation? The packages would've been decent when the company was pre-IPO, but let's be honest here... a stock option with a strike price of $188 just doesn't have the same value as the ones of yesteryear."
Well, as I see it, he was definitely pretty knowledgeable as far as benefits go (comparing to Microsoft, his previous employer), but I'm not exactly sure how helpful it is to compare Google vs. Microsoft vs. Goldman Sachs in terms of pay and some of the benefits because there are standard of living differences depending on location, how interesting the work is, etc. etc. $40,000 is an awesome starting salary in some places in the Midwest for IT, but in NY/NJ area, if it's below $50,000 you move on...
It is just interesting how Google top dogs seem to be locking down on employee blogs that are at critical in any way. I don't think his blog was all that extremely negative.
One other note: seriously, don't you think that "onsite" everything screams "stay here longer and work" which is true for Google, and Morgan Stanley (where I've interviewed), and Microsoft, etc. etc. and you'd have to be rather clueless not to expect that? I even heard a Morgan Stanley employee mention publicly that they have a nap room (as well as a gym, free drinks, etc.). And in answer to number of hours a week usually, they said, "We're not a punch-in, punch-out type of place...".
Wow! Amazing stuff for being on the web. The fact that they support Firefox is awesome! This is basically true map-like quality!
The link-it feature is cool too, as is the fact that double-clicking CENTERS the map on the current location!
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Well, in response to the article, I think it makes sense in this case to buy...a Pocket PC:
1) The basics - my PPC uses (64 MB) SD and (512 MB) CF memory to hold a lot of 256 kbps MP3 files. I can take it jogging, in the NYC subway, and at work, and attach it to my belt with a nice hard plastic clamshell to protect my Dell Axim.
2) All the goodies - you mean you have FM radio and included speakers? I can have GPS, games, and develop MY OWN PROGRAMS for my music player. Oh, and voice recorder, notes ability, and Office sync. And this other thing called WiFi. Woohoo!
3) My display is more intuitive than yours! And I can view web pages on mine...
4) I can access and stream online (ad-free) radio stations using a free player with the little wiFi available...or pay for an FM-enabled CF upgrade.
5) Pick the right size, eh? And upgrade at a whim...using my mix of 32, 64, 256, and 512 MB CF and SD cards, I can fit a iPod shuffle's worth and then some...oh, and would you believe WMP on the PPC actually has this "shuffle" feature. STOP THE PRESSES!
6) Online store...whatever. I can use iTunes to "buy" songs if I wish or get them free through various promos (Paypal, Pepsi, etc.) and burn them from to a CD. Then, using Musicmatch, burn them to hi-quality MP3s and copy to my PPC. DRM...oh that! Oh, and I can play WMAs on my PPC...can you do that on your iPod?
And the funny thing is these PPCs when there's a Slickdeal, can be cheaper than the 20GB iPod and much more useful as an all-in-one device. Which is why I canceled my order for an iPod shuffle...twice, because I couldn't live with myself if I bought that rip-off. Anyway, with computers so ubiquitous today, how often do you really use the full 12+ hours of music on YOUR device without "plugging in"?
And what else is cool...I wear my Axim in a sexy silver clamshell and turn more heads than an iPod because it is...different. They ask, "You mean...that's a computer? Cool!" Otherwise, "Oh, another iPod - that's SO 2004!"
What my university did (which helped to some extent) was place a bandwidth cap on downloads/uploads from Napster and similar services. Still, some chose to download illegal content/movies/etc. at insanely slow speeds (or through other venues).
At some point, they shut down some internal networks that shared files pretty openly. Others continue to run so there isn't as much of a crackdown as at some places. They operate under the mode: "If you do illegal stuff and get busted, we're not going to protect you."
This sounds pretty fair to me, because the Internet speeds were really slowing down in general because of around 70% of bandwidth going toward file-sharing. With those caps in place, it's helped to increase on-campus speed.
There is a reason that deadlines are pushed back (repeatedly). MS is at this point such a behemoth and so ambitious in promises/updates, that I can pretty much guarantee something will suffer.
If CSS suffers on IE in favor of a more secure browser, that's 100% fine with me. If XMLHTTP is modified significantly, I will take serious issue, because I can see that as the future. And no, web devs are NOT being held back by IE's quirks, but rather few know how to code good UI on the web. Coding C/PERL is one thing...developing an intuitive UI is quite another.
I'm frankly more worried about MyLifeBits as far as privacy and Indigo for security. But, with feature creep undoubtedly underway, this may be an issue in 2010 or so...
Why use the Google Desktop search when the new Copernic Desktop Search v1.5 beta has so much more?
.php, .c, .h, .) is simple with Copernic Desktop Search (even v1.2) while it is a downloadable add-on in Google.
Comparisons:
1) Searching text files (.java,
2) Music/Video/Images are both searchable and *viewable/watchable/hearable* from within CDS while it was just added in a limited capacity in GDS.
3) Thunderbird and Eudora both searchable in CDS and Thunderbird just added in GDS.
4) Smart indexing of *network drives* in CDS 1.5 beta is totally awesome. It is amazing to see what you have instant access to on your corporate network in terms of internally searchable code files and business docs.
5) CDS 1.5 beta searches iTunes, QuickTime and OGG information (artist, album, etc) while GDS is likely more limited.
6) CDS 1.5 has targeted search (search email first, or files first, etc.) while GDS has been known to choose it's own path.
7) The GDS killer IMHO - preview of every major filetype is within the actual CDS search...like DOC, XLS, PPT, HTM, Email, code files and also highlighting search terms in different colors showing their context.
Prove me wrong after you download it and try it (for free of course).
I just started as a developer in a wholly-owned, independent subsidiary of large financial corporation in NYC. We are generally a MS-friendly company (whereas the parent is more interested in Java). However, there is a hesitancy to fully adopt C# or .NET here because it is seen (rightly) as a language at v1.0 whereas Java has a bit more history. I would say when .NET 2.0 comes around, both C# and the .NET Framework itself will be both more used than currently.
He's THE guy who understands the possibility of a web OS that runs entirely on Google servers and serves out content, files, etc. to users using XMLHTTP and maybe even XUL (that would be awesome for Firefox). I totally agree with this guy's comments too.
With the new added features, we can cut short the battery life of the phone itself so that it can play more MP3s! Oh, and can I have my MP3s as ringtones? That would be SOOOOOO cool!
to Paris Hilton? It would be even more secure than her current Sidekick...oh wait, nevermind.
They will opt to use a long horn in this case because this will qualify the British crown for Longhorn OS betas and free trial versions to Longhorn.
As mentioned previously, shop somewhere else than BN.com. Try fetchbook.info, which is a search engine for new and used books from 110 bookstores.
What I gleaned was that it's sold used at half.com for under $25 shipped and new at Overstock.com for less than $30 shipped.
This could cause serious problems. The problem with stalkers is that they are very adapt at lying and if they can mask their identity, even better for them. So, a psychopath could assume a false identity on true.com, meet some unsuspecting person (who assumes he's 100% legit with background check), let down her guard, and get seriously hurt. She would blame true.com and/or the person whose identity was used could get in serious trouble. We are dealing with the Internet, folks!
It is much like a SSL connection or email. Someone could be sniffing the connection, performing a man-in-the-middle attack, but most everyone assumes that email is secure because they type in a password or login to a "secure connection". The same can transfer over into a dating/match service where users and their loved ones (including parents/friends/siblings) have a false sense of security.
Intel Earings on ebay - $19.99
These are guaranteed not to be DOA. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Honey, I'm just going to plug this in while you're wearing them to make sure they work...
Interestingly, these will make the perfect duo for your ultra-g33k
A few notes on how the band started:
The group -- which bills itself as "the one and only High Energy Rock Band" -- formed in 1990 when a secretary at CERN complained that her physicist boyfriend spent his nights and weekends smashing protons in an underground collider. She confessed her woes to friend and computer scientist at the laboratory, Silvano de Gennaro, who wrote a song about her plight.
From that episode, "Collider" was born:
I gave you a golden ring to show you my love
You went to stick it in a printed circuit
To fix a voltage leak in your collector
You plug my feelings into your detector
You never spend your nights with me
You don't go out with other girls either
You prefer your collider
You only love your collider
Your collider.
Other songs:
"Surfing on the Web" (Surf me on the Web/ My page is all for you/ Call me on the Web/ I'll open my windows to you), "Strong Interaction" (You quark me up/ You quark me down/ You quark me top/ You quark me bottom), and "Computer Games" (Since you've gone away/ I've got a million games to play/ I've got your 80 megabytes full of computer games)
An interesting start to downloading of pictures on the web...
Combine the ubiquitous use of SSN as college ID (at least at my school) which the state of NJ recently made illegal (thankfully) with the fact that some resturants (Qdoba being one major one) actually have printed the entire credit card number on the physical receipt. I would really like to know, though, if online website are encrypting data AS WELL AS using SSL. Maybe they could indicate this on the page or whatever...
Dvorak, it seems, drunk not a little Wine before he wrote his splendid article. It's really too bad that Microsoft is taking him for granted...
Finally, I can see a use for the 20-60gb iPods - for portable video content. Too bad the current iPod and iPod mini won't be able to display that stuff. Maybe at that point, I could see buying an iPod Video (to borrow the no-nonsense Apple naming scheme)...after the price has dropped a little in 2nd generation. Furthermore, I'd rather hold off on the Mac Mini because it's not really ready as a set-top box yet.
;)
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However, Jobs seems to be building this market piece by piece and in a very good order, I might add. First music, then photos, then video. Life is random, but Apple's marketing is not
I'm waiting for the video because then I can have all three in one easy-to-use device
Well, it's good to know that at www.definitely.com, the real page, the following is listed:
Definitely.com
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when even the editor/original poster have not RTFA in its entirety. It clearly shows that if it comes to the attention of an ISP, then they must (by law) pass it on.
You know...I heard saw the Slashdot title on "Report Child Porn" in the RSS feed and I seriously was wondering why the editor was asking for links to child porn sites. A travesty indeed!
Since when has context been important, anyway?!?
The book was brought up in a recent Modern Philosophy class, this philosophy basically waves bye-bye to any notion of rationalism in favor of empiricism (or an element of skepticism). Interestingly, it jives well with the philosophy that sells the iPod Shuffle ("Life is Random...so choose an iPod Shuffle" in marketing lingo). And iPods in general - don't think about the fact that you will have to pay $10,000 to fill up that iPod with legal music on iTunes...just go with the gut reaction when you see it! Not that Napster is much better - rent a gazillion WMA files and lose them all after a year. Blink. Blink again...no sale for either (or for the Blink book either).
I read on one site - in answer to the question "What's the big deal - is 2**69 really all that bad?"
That's 2**11 less operations. Let's say breaking this (2**69 ops) takes the NSA a week. If it had been 2**80, it would have taken 2048 weeks, or 39 years. If it would have taken the NSA (or whomever) a year to break SHA-1 before, it could be broken in 4 hours.
My guess would be it would still take a lot longer than a week - but would now be in the realm of possibility, whereas before it would have been in the lifetime(s) range. However, this is totally a wild-assed-guess, based on the assumption that it was expected to take 100+ years before this to crack.
Wasn't it the pothead (Bill Gates, 1983) calling the kettle (Stallman, 2025) black?
Gotta love that GNU/Linux (cough, Linus) side-swipe. Poor bitter man...that Stallman.
Firefox v. IE - there are IE tweaks just like ones you find for Firefox. Once I compare my tweaked IE 6.0, it renders amazon.com faster but microsoft.com slower (how ironic
So you want the IE tweaks (for faster Internet Connections) so we begin to compare apples and apples?
First, I'd recommend downloading a free program to edit the registry, because it has a history of previous locations visited...very useful for me to remember the tweaks.
Then, goto OK, add two new keys to have more simultaneous connections: Ok...now move to eliminate searching of Scheduled Task on the local network when loading Explorer, goto location and remove the {2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} key.
You may need to restart Windows (or maybe just IE) and you should notice a speedup.
The dictator that heads up that country is absolutely out of his mind. I'd say "diplomacy" and infiltration (+ possible coup attempt from within) sound more feasible. KJI will lob bombs on S. Korea, Japan, whoever just to intimidate if we ever attack.
Oh, and can we stop with the comparisons with Iraq already? Or maybe you can show how we can turn back the clock to Iraq as it was before? Don't forget to kill off the Iraqi governing council, reinstate Saddam as president, and rebuild his death camps and cover over the mass graves as an added favor...
It is just interesting how Google top dogs seem to be locking down on employee blogs that are at critical in any way. I don't think his blog was all that extremely negative.
One other note: seriously, don't you think that "onsite" everything screams "stay here longer and work" which is true for Google, and Morgan Stanley (where I've interviewed), and Microsoft, etc. etc. and you'd have to be rather clueless not to expect that? I even heard a Morgan Stanley employee mention publicly that they have a nap room (as well as a gym, free drinks, etc.). And in answer to number of hours a week usually, they said, "We're not a punch-in, punch-out type of place...".
Wow! Amazing stuff for being on the web. The fact that they support Firefox is awesome! This is basically true map-like quality! The link-it feature is cool too, as is the fact that double-clicking CENTERS the map on the current location!