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Howdy, folks!<br><br>I found this on the Freefall forum, thought you guys might enjoy it. It requires Flash and some patience . . .<br><br><a href='http://www.flashearth.com/' target='_blank'>Neave Lab's <b>Flash Earth</b></a><br><br>Here's my neighborhood:<br><br><a href='http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.80405 ... &r=0&src=0' target='_blank'>http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.80405 ... 0&src=0</a>
"The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance,
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
- Sidney Harris
"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/03/ozy-and-millie-819/
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
- Sidney Harris
"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/03/ozy-and-millie-819/
...oh my god. those people completely stole google earth's map, made it 2D, and put it on the web. notice how indiana is made of gray from far away?<br><br>[EDIT:] oh... nevermind. *goes off to find his house and look at it from MSN's map because google's is rather sucky*<br><br>^__^ wow I can't even figure out which one is my house most of greensboro is so blurry <a href='http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=36.08060 ... &r=0&src=2' target='_blank'>somewhere around here...</a>
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DCS should've ended the comic a year or two ago.
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Richard K Niner
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It crashes my browser <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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I haven't had any problem on Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6, Netscape 7.2, or Internet Explorer 6 running on Win2000 Pro . . .<br><br>I have noticed that this is a finicky program in many ways, though. I didn't realize how finicky until I started letting other people know about this site.<br><br>Sorry if it's causing headaches . . .
"The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance,
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
- Sidney Harris
"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/03/ozy-and-millie-819/
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
- Sidney Harris
"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/03/ozy-and-millie-819/
I'm guessing it's an OS issue, then. IIRC, Mr. Niner runs some version of Linux, so it's not likely to work on any browser there.<br><br>Of course, I could be madly jumping to conclusions. Which wouldn't be the first time. <!--emo&:flee:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/flee.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='flee.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Richard K Niner
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If you want to get technical, here's the list of bugs on my setup:<ul><li>When the flash is started, the applet takes up only a small part of the window</li><li>However, resizing the window reveals that it <i>thinks</i> it takes up the whole thing</li><li>If I click on the flashing arrow on the left side of the screen, mozilla-launcher segfaults</li></ul>I managed to get it to work somewhat better in Konqueror, where, unfortunately, I can't adjust the height of the applet. But I found it to be extremely slow and somewhat limited in its functionality. Personally, I prefer using Google Maps.
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I'm sure that Mr. Neave would be very interested in knowing about these issues, since this looks like an experiment, rather than a finished product.<br><br>There's a link for questions and comments:<br><br><a href='http://www.neave.com/blog/2005_08/flash_earth.php' target='_blank'>Flash Earth Blog</a><br><br>And, yes, Google Maps does function much more quickly and much more like a finished product than this applet.
"The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance,
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
- Sidney Harris
"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/03/ozy-and-millie-819/
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
- Sidney Harris
"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/03/ozy-and-millie-819/
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