Hey, I'm a WW Dev, I do mostly imaging stuff.
Hate to break it to you, but the reason their is no imagery for your area is because of _Your Government!_ The US Government has released most of the imagery (non-classified) that it has for the whole country, and thus, we have it in World Wind. I believe New Zealand has also done such a thing. We also have some imagery from South Africa. Sine we're not google, we cant pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase the imagery from Digital Globe and the other imaging companies, so we have to wait until it becomes public domain. If you'd like data for your country in World Wind, contact YOUR government, and get the deal going! Explain to them why it would be better for them to give us the data, instead of selling it to the citizens that paid for it.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but by the time you got through all that it wouldnt be news anymore. Of course a moderate ammount of fact-checking on the part of the reporters is in order.
The people that buy ATI/Nvidia/Matrox's high end cards (the Workstation ones at least, but I dont know of any consumer grade cards that are 1000$+) are usually CAD and DCC people (Digital Content Creation, IE, CGI video, rendering images, etc etc etc). Its usually BUSINESSES that buy these cards, thats why they can afford them at such a cost.
Strange, I was under the impression that none of those individuals that were planning on paying the russians to take them on a mission ever made it into space...
As for the GP... I dont see NASA doing anything BUT research, I dont know what he's reading about... While I'm sure a lot of their funds go into the shuttle program, I'm sure that it isnt a majority of their funds. Just look at AMES research center and JPL. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
"They exist to make money. They do this by charging people as much as they can for services and paying as little as possible for the resources to provide the services."
You say this like its an awful thing... Last time I checked, this is how almost all businesses worked... Keep your margin high and sell a lot of it. How is that so "evil"?
The thing to keep in mind about "non-lethal" weapons, is that they're not always a sure thing. For example, when they're testing these "non-lethal" weapons such as bean bag rounds and foam tipped bullets, the receiver is often wearing a bullet proof vest incase the bag/bullet strays from its intended desination. IE, Non-lethal weapons can be deadly.
HAH! Find me one politician that would have even a CHANCE of getting into office that isnt in the back pocket of the corporations!
Their is none! Dont you understand? Politicians have to CAMPAIGN and to campaign they need MONEY and to get money they need to KISS ASS.
How come when a project like this asks for donations they get tens of thousandths of dollars and hardware to boot, but when a project like NASA World Wind, that uses probably 100x the resources with at least 5x the user base asks for donations, we can barely make up a measly 300$ a month for the one community server.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Well, NASA's World Wind does about the same thing, with a bit less High res EU imagery, has a great userbase, awesome devs, is free, and open source. And a lot more extensible. Overall its the best program on the planet (Of course, I'm a dev, so I might be a bit biased:P)
While I feel sorry for you, you seem to be falling into the same mindset as your attacker was which allowed him to do such an act.
The person that attacked you at the young age of five years, was so emotionally disconnect and devoid that their diluted mind let them to sexually molest you without even thinking about it.
You, as a victim, have become so emotionally disconnected and devoid that you believe sexual predators should be put to death for their (albeit painful to deal with) actions. Do you honestly think your life would be any better if the person that molested you was dead, rather then finding help? If thats true I beleive you need more counseling than most, as your anger toward one person and directing it toward all persons with the same problem.
The point about keeping their penis in their pants is moot, because its not about that. Sexual predators dont feel that their is a problem that they NEED to keep their penis in their pants, they usually think its fine. Also, obviously if your having sex with children, or looking at their pictures online, the normal pornography or sex isnt having the same effect it used to, and thats why they went to look for something more... satisfying (as disgusting as that sounds).
Yes, someone that physically assaults someone else needs substantial prison time, but both those that physically assault someone and just browse around the web need counseling to determine where their mind got so disconnected from the sympathy of the situation that it allows them to commit such acts. Sexual Predators feel no sympathy.
So basically your saying here, that Child pornography is fine and dandy, as long as you are browsing it on a web browser that will save the images on your computer? If their was no mal-intent from the compuster user, the defence has to prove that, not that its a bad law he's being prosecuted under. If it was some malware that PUT the porn there, then they need to prove that in court, or at least bring it up. Making it so anyone that has stuff in their temporary cache is free to go is silly.
Ah yes, I noticed the 20 years thing after I read the article:)
"Charging people with possession for the mere act of seeing something is positively Orwellian."
Uhh, Yeah, that would be orwellian, but thats not what is happening here... I still think this person needs counseling rather than prison time (or more than), but he wasnt just clicking around and happened upon some kiddie porn. He went _looking_ for it. He looked at it for _4 hours_. This isnt something where he was just clicking around the net and stumbled upon some bad stuff, he went out and GOT some bad stuff, this time, he just forgot to clear his cache.
If you have a copy of windows XP try using UBCD (It uses BartPE). It can boot a copy of windows XP straight from CD (And UBCD comes pre-setup with all the essential tools, ad-aware, ETC)...
Its great for spyware removal!
Obviously 4 hours _isnt_ an accident, so your point is moot. I didnt read the article (this is slashdot!) but if all he's getting is 20 hours of prison time, thats a joke. This person needs intensive therapy (10-15 hours per week). Sexual predators have a mental illness that disconnects them with the emotionality of sex and focuses them intensly on the sexuality. I'm tired of seeing sex offenders (so called "perverts") being stuck in prison and then released back into society. These people do not need prison time, they arent criminals (except by law), they are persons with _mental disabilities_! And as such they need counseling to assist them in seeing why they're wrong instead of just sending them to prison.
The funny thing is they _USED_ to filter "linux" on their search engine. I remember when Linux would return like 500 results while windows would return several million.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
I just wanted to let people know that the latest CVS of NASA World wind has a plugin engine that allows people to do the same thing (Their is even a plugin already made to do it!)
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Hey, I'm a WW Dev, I do mostly imaging stuff.
Hate to break it to you, but the reason their is no imagery for your area is because of _Your Government!_ The US Government has released most of the imagery (non-classified) that it has for the whole country, and thus, we have it in World Wind. I believe New Zealand has also done such a thing. We also have some imagery from South Africa. Sine we're not google, we cant pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase the imagery from Digital Globe and the other imaging companies, so we have to wait until it becomes public domain. If you'd like data for your country in World Wind, contact YOUR government, and get the deal going! Explain to them why it would be better for them to give us the data, instead of selling it to the citizens that paid for it.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but by the time you got through all that it wouldnt be news anymore. Of course a moderate ammount of fact-checking on the part of the reporters is in order.
The people that buy ATI/Nvidia/Matrox's high end cards (the Workstation ones at least, but I dont know of any consumer grade cards that are 1000$+) are usually CAD and DCC people (Digital Content Creation, IE, CGI video, rendering images, etc etc etc). Its usually BUSINESSES that buy these cards, thats why they can afford them at such a cost.
C'mon now, this is slashdot, we _all_ know you dont have a girlfriend. Really...
Strange, I was under the impression that none of those individuals that were planning on paying the russians to take them on a mission ever made it into space... As for the GP... I dont see NASA doing anything BUT research, I dont know what he's reading about... While I'm sure a lot of their funds go into the shuttle program, I'm sure that it isnt a majority of their funds. Just look at AMES research center and JPL. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
"They exist to make money. They do this by charging people as much as they can for services and paying as little as possible for the resources to provide the services." You say this like its an awful thing... Last time I checked, this is how almost all businesses worked... Keep your margin high and sell a lot of it. How is that so "evil"?
The thing to keep in mind about "non-lethal" weapons, is that they're not always a sure thing. For example, when they're testing these "non-lethal" weapons such as bean bag rounds and foam tipped bullets, the receiver is often wearing a bullet proof vest incase the bag/bullet strays from its intended desination. IE, Non-lethal weapons can be deadly.
Lets see some proof for those rediculous statements...
He was never a viable presidential candidate though. He had no chance at winning the election, only taking votes from the other candidates.
HAH! Find me one politician that would have even a CHANCE of getting into office that isnt in the back pocket of the corporations! Their is none! Dont you understand? Politicians have to CAMPAIGN and to campaign they need MONEY and to get money they need to KISS ASS.
Or for Earth: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ Open source, but not currently ported to linux.
Shutdown the WIFI AP during the test ;)
How come when a project like this asks for donations they get tens of thousandths of dollars and hardware to boot, but when a project like NASA World Wind, that uses probably 100x the resources with at least 5x the user base asks for donations, we can barely make up a measly 300$ a month for the one community server. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Hehe, I was about to post the exact same thing, The volvo probably has a 50% larger tank than the prius, thus it costs 50% more to fill up.
Their are, but theirs currently a shortage of devs, so dont expect one any time soon :P
Well, NASA's World Wind does about the same thing, with a bit less High res EU imagery, has a great userbase, awesome devs, is free, and open source. And a lot more extensible. Overall its the best program on the planet (Of course, I'm a dev, so I might be a bit biased :P)
While I feel sorry for you, you seem to be falling into the same mindset as your attacker was which allowed him to do such an act.
The person that attacked you at the young age of five years, was so emotionally disconnect and devoid that their diluted mind let them to sexually molest you without even thinking about it.
You, as a victim, have become so emotionally disconnected and devoid that you believe sexual predators should be put to death for their (albeit painful to deal with) actions. Do you honestly think your life would be any better if the person that molested you was dead, rather then finding help? If thats true I beleive you need more counseling than most, as your anger toward one person and directing it toward all persons with the same problem.
The point about keeping their penis in their pants is moot, because its not about that. Sexual predators dont feel that their is a problem that they NEED to keep their penis in their pants, they usually think its fine. Also, obviously if your having sex with children, or looking at their pictures online, the normal pornography or sex isnt having the same effect it used to, and thats why they went to look for something more... satisfying (as disgusting as that sounds).
Yes, someone that physically assaults someone else needs substantial prison time, but both those that physically assault someone and just browse around the web need counseling to determine where their mind got so disconnected from the sympathy of the situation that it allows them to commit such acts. Sexual Predators feel no sympathy.
So basically your saying here, that Child pornography is fine and dandy, as long as you are browsing it on a web browser that will save the images on your computer? If their was no mal-intent from the compuster user, the defence has to prove that, not that its a bad law he's being prosecuted under. If it was some malware that PUT the porn there, then they need to prove that in court, or at least bring it up. Making it so anyone that has stuff in their temporary cache is free to go is silly.
Ah yes, I noticed the 20 years thing after I read the article :)
"Charging people with possession for the mere act of seeing something is positively Orwellian."
Uhh, Yeah, that would be orwellian, but thats not what is happening here... I still think this person needs counseling rather than prison time (or more than), but he wasnt just clicking around and happened upon some kiddie porn. He went _looking_ for it. He looked at it for _4 hours_. This isnt something where he was just clicking around the net and stumbled upon some bad stuff, he went out and GOT some bad stuff, this time, he just forgot to clear his cache.
Ah yes, forgot to specify, entirely agree with you here.
If you have a copy of windows XP try using UBCD (It uses BartPE). It can boot a copy of windows XP straight from CD (And UBCD comes pre-setup with all the essential tools, ad-aware, ETC)... Its great for spyware removal!
Obviously 4 hours _isnt_ an accident, so your point is moot. I didnt read the article (this is slashdot!) but if all he's getting is 20 hours of prison time, thats a joke. This person needs intensive therapy (10-15 hours per week). Sexual predators have a mental illness that disconnects them with the emotionality of sex and focuses them intensly on the sexuality. I'm tired of seeing sex offenders (so called "perverts") being stuck in prison and then released back into society. These people do not need prison time, they arent criminals (except by law), they are persons with _mental disabilities_! And as such they need counseling to assist them in seeing why they're wrong instead of just sending them to prison.
The funny thing is they _USED_ to filter "linux" on their search engine. I remember when Linux would return like 500 results while windows would return several million.
Well I'm assuming it would be because in the first one they were talking about the MSN site, and this one they're talking about Blogs hosted by MSN.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ I just wanted to let people know that the latest CVS of NASA World wind has a plugin engine that allows people to do the same thing (Their is even a plugin already made to do it!)