There are no ads in the program. The UI is pretty packed and unless they put text ads over the image or have "geoads" on the map, there's not much room for advertisement.
The band would still be together because they would suddenly be making money off of their music without the music cartels slurping the gold off the top of the jar.
The artists will make the CDs (probably allow you to download them from their website for $.99 (like Rick Lee Jones does)). The music wil come from where it has ALWAYS come from: the MUSICIANS.
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All of your ideas are great ones and can be acomplished with Google Maps right now, plus a little work.
1) Your elevation idea is very good. Elevation data can be found from the USGS website and others. Plot it on the map with different colored "pins" representing the different heights and you've got yourself a topo map.
3) Downloading the route to GPS also sounds like something that could be done quite easily, as the route data from a driving directions request is returned as pairs of latitude and longitude decimals (in XML, too). Parse the latitude and longitude data into waypoints for your GPS unit and voila, you have yourself handheld driving directions!
How do you guys operate when you are doing tech support jobs for family, friends, or strangers? How much do you charge? Do you have written-down procedures for removing spyware, installing an OS, etc.? How do you advertise? What materials do you use? Do you back people's data up for them?
A) They NEED to go out of business so better replacements are put in to action. B) The big chains of theaters need to refuse to show movies until they can strike a better deal with the studios.
My cable company is already delivering some (10+) pretty dang good quality HD movie feeds to me, all at the same time. I realize that them broadcasting it is a little less intensive than a unicast, but why not put a Tivo at the house that has the capability to constantly record on all 10 HD channels and store the movies there until you don't watch them.
'round these parts, they "conformed" to that ADA law by installing hearing-impaired facilities in one or two theaters (in a 18-theater mega-super-plus-plex). Want to know which movies are playing in hearing-impaired theaters? Call them. They'll tell you.
As more and more people buy DVDs, get HDTV sets at home, get broadband, they will expect their movies to be instant and on demand. There's some Magic Sauce(tm) that's missing to make Pay-Per-View movies be a better option.
I'm willing to bet that if movie studios released pay-per-view versions of the movies simulatenously with their theater releases (and advertised it), we would see a big boom in that market.
There's thousands of people who would be more than happy to receive the movies when they come out silently bittorrented to their household's media server.
You: "Ahh *strrrretch*, thank you for the coffee Microsoft HousePC(tm) 2006!"
House: "You're welcome! Would you like me to read the latest RSS feeds for you? No? You could go sit in the living room and buy Star Wars Episode 7, it just finished downloading!"
I would complain if that tag prevented me from wearing that clothing item wherever I wanted and however I wanted it.
If the tag prevented me from wearing my underwear on my head, for example, I would be extremely unhappy.
We don't need a government to do the watching and tracking and profile-building, Amazon (as an example of a "major internet company") is already doing that. Wouldn't it just be cheaper for the DoJ to buy a terrorist's profile from Amazon then to force everyone to comply with logging?
Ya know, I've been running Windows XP for several years now and have yet to come in to an attack by spyware or malware. I just don't touch websites that look bad and I use Firefox. Is it really all that hard to teach people?!
How do you think Google is going to do their OS? They can't rely on Firefox always being there... unless they built an OS out of it (in DHTML w/ JavaScript and AJAX)...
I would bet pretty soundly that Google did this because the guy clearly said you could get "posters" out of the stitchings. That pretty clearly goes above and beyond personal use.
All of the other GMap mods have been clearly for personal use and don't suggest to their users that they could make money off of Google's data.
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There are no ads in the program. The UI is pretty packed and unless they put text ads over the image or have "geoads" on the map, there's not much room for advertisement.
FYI:
RTFA = Read The F***ing Article.
No "the" needed in front of "TFA".
The band would still be together because they would suddenly be making money off of their music without the music cartels slurping the gold off the top of the jar.
The artists will make the CDs (probably allow you to download them from their website for $.99 (like Rick Lee Jones does)). The music wil come from where it has ALWAYS come from: the MUSICIANS.
The list can be found here:6
http://www.top500.org/lists/plists.php?Y=2005&M=0
*THIS* time they'll stop piracy! This is their chance and they have to take it or wait until the next P2P app comes 'round.
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Everyone will like it because its logo will have the word "Beta" in a cute little font down in the corner.
It's the cool thing to do now, doncha know??
All of your ideas are great ones and can be acomplished with Google Maps right now, plus a little work.
r owse_frm/thread/a6ff645e0cc619c7/78d99f027d95aa1b# 78d99f027d95aa1bthis thread at google groups about drawing custom trails.
1) Your elevation idea is very good. Elevation data can be found from the USGS website and others. Plot it on the map with different colored "pins" representing the different heights and you've got yourself a topo map.
2) Downloading GPS tracks has also already been done. I can't find the URL right now, but someone has done it. Check out http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google-Maps/b
3) Downloading the route to GPS also sounds like something that could be done quite easily, as the route data from a driving directions request is returned as pairs of latitude and longitude decimals (in XML, too). Parse the latitude and longitude data into waypoints for your GPS unit and voila, you have yourself handheld driving directions!
How do you guys operate when you are doing tech support jobs for family, friends, or strangers? How much do you charge? Do you have written-down procedures for removing spyware, installing an OS, etc.? How do you advertise? What materials do you use? Do you back people's data up for them?
Just a thought related to this article.
If that's their business model, then either:
A) They NEED to go out of business so better replacements are put in to action.
B) The big chains of theaters need to refuse to show movies until they can strike a better deal with the studios.
Add a hundred bucks and you can do laser. Much better for longer-run Black and White copies. :)
My cable company is already delivering some (10+) pretty dang good quality HD movie feeds to me, all at the same time. I realize that them broadcasting it is a little less intensive than a unicast, but why not put a Tivo at the house that has the capability to constantly record on all 10 HD channels and store the movies there until you don't watch them.
Or something.
Also a good question to ask:
How many VW Beetles is that?
'round these parts, they "conformed" to that ADA law by installing hearing-impaired facilities in one or two theaters (in a 18-theater mega-super-plus-plex). Want to know which movies are playing in hearing-impaired theaters? Call them. They'll tell you.
(That's what their ad says.)
20-30 *years*!? How about 2-3 years!
As more and more people buy DVDs, get HDTV sets at home, get broadband, they will expect their movies to be instant and on demand. There's some Magic Sauce(tm) that's missing to make Pay-Per-View movies be a better option.
I'm willing to bet that if movie studios released pay-per-view versions of the movies simulatenously with their theater releases (and advertised it), we would see a big boom in that market.
There's thousands of people who would be more than happy to receive the movies when they come out silently bittorrented to their household's media server. You: "Ahh *strrrretch*, thank you for the coffee Microsoft HousePC(tm) 2006!" House: "You're welcome! Would you like me to read the latest RSS feeds for you? No? You could go sit in the living room and buy Star Wars Episode 7, it just finished downloading!"
Home Theater: You don't have to spend $9.50 on a ticket to watch 20 minutes of TV ads and commercials.
I would complain if that tag prevented me from wearing that clothing item wherever I wanted and however I wanted it. If the tag prevented me from wearing my underwear on my head, for example, I would be extremely unhappy.
We don't need a government to do the watching and tracking and profile-building, Amazon (as an example of a "major internet company") is already doing that. Wouldn't it just be cheaper for the DoJ to buy a terrorist's profile from Amazon then to force everyone to comply with logging?
Ya know, I've been running Windows XP for several years now and have yet to come in to an attack by spyware or malware. I just don't touch websites that look bad and I use Firefox. Is it really all that hard to teach people?!
How do you think Google is going to do their OS? They can't rely on Firefox always being there... unless they built an OS out of it (in DHTML w/ JavaScript and AJAX) ...
That's what the Apple Stores are for.
I would bet pretty soundly that Google did this because the guy clearly said you could get "posters" out of the stitchings. That pretty clearly goes above and beyond personal use. All of the other GMap mods have been clearly for personal use and don't suggest to their users that they could make money off of Google's data.