"Google's #1 use is still search. You can hear people on prime-time TV shows talking about "googling" things but I haven't heard a reference to google maps, gmail, or anything else yet."
Actually, Google Maps is getting plenty of screen time on news shows- any story where the satellite photos show usefull or at least pretty details displays the Google logo for all to see.
They could do it now with the images on file from US, ESA, and Soviet spacecraft but for the zoom-way-in effect we all love we'll have to wait for the Mars Reconnaissance Observer to build up some data.
Details here: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/
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If the IT department is really bringing in 3/4 of an airline's revenue, either IT or the airline are going to be spun off.
You'd think the common criminals would have found out about "only three PINs" when they shoulder-surfed.
It's a proven business plan.
Actually CGI is cheaper than even poor acting, casting, and writing. Unless there's some point in doing it well.
"Google's #1 use is still search. You can hear people on prime-time TV shows talking about "googling" things but I haven't heard a reference to google maps, gmail, or anything else yet."
Actually, Google Maps is getting plenty of screen time on news shows- any story where the satellite photos show usefull or at least pretty details displays the Google logo for all to see.
Bill Anders (Apollo 8) was born in Hong Kong in 1933.
They could do it now with the images on file from US, ESA, and Soviet spacecraft but for the zoom-way-in effect we all love we'll have to wait for the Mars Reconnaissance Observer to build up some data. Details here: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/