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Happy Birthday, Google Earth
Google ^ | 6/12/2006 | John Hanke

Posted on 06/13/2006 8:19:04 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

Beginning today, you can download a brand new version, Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the love. Prefer Linux? Ditto. Yes, we're releasing simultaneously for PC, Mac (universal binary for full performance on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs) and for the first time ever, native support for popular Linux distributions.

(Excerpt) Read more at googleblog.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: google; googleearth; linux; mac; macintelosh; os10; powermac; ppc
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1 posted on 06/13/2006 8:19:07 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
"Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the love. Prefer Linux? Ditto", slaving away in Communist China? Oh,... well you're pretty much screwed
2 posted on 06/13/2006 8:29:14 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Are the picture's updated?

Last time I Google Earth-ed my address, I could see my house being built in 2000 and the car of my then next-door neighbor who I despised.


3 posted on 06/13/2006 8:32:58 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Google is evil and looks for ways to undermine Conservatives on the web.

Here's the better choice:

http://local.live.com/


4 posted on 06/13/2006 8:34:24 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

ROFL...........

Why don't you give it a try and let us know. :-)


5 posted on 06/13/2006 8:34:43 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Incorrigible

Yeah, I know. I've read alot about it on newsbusters. They don't link to "conservative rags" because of percieved hate speech or some other such nonsense. Google's run by a pair of big libs, what did you expect?

Thanks for the link, but I've sworn off of microsoft products.


6 posted on 06/13/2006 8:38:04 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Its also has inaccuracies. It shows my address four houses up the street from me.


7 posted on 06/13/2006 8:44:00 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on......)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

They've really added a lot of high res stuff but still managed to miss me by 10 or 15 miles. Oh well I'll keep watching.


8 posted on 06/13/2006 8:49:13 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Incorrigible

Google may indeed be evil...but the resolution on their aerial is much better. Also they have the street names correct by my house.


9 posted on 06/13/2006 9:03:27 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Gave it a try and the photo is still the same.


10 posted on 06/13/2006 9:05:39 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I've sworn off of microsoft products.

Microsoft is the lesser of the 2 evils!

11 posted on 06/13/2006 9:16:30 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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12 posted on 06/13/2006 10:08:49 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Incorrigible

But it's so freakin slow! magnification doens't update for like 30 seconds (on cable!) but by then you've clicked three times, thinking your click didn't register, then you get three screen refreshes in like a second. Only problem is, the second and third clicks are interpreted in the context as if the screen had refreshed so once again you're in the wrong place. WTF!


13 posted on 06/13/2006 10:23:19 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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To: Incorrigible
http://local.live.com/

You'd rather trust Microsoft?

14 posted on 06/13/2006 10:26:06 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Incorrigible

Works better in Destroyer. MS probably has some anti-Firefox code in there.


15 posted on 06/13/2006 10:27:22 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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To: Still Thinking; All
Works better in Destroyer. MS probably has some anti-Firefox code in there.

And for those of you who think this is a joke or paranoia, a few years ago Microsoft purposely screwed up the display of MSN for Opera. It wasn't a render glitch, as MS detected Opera and sent out bad CSS -- Opera set to ID itself as IE worked fine.

16 posted on 06/13/2006 11:28:25 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

I remember that fiasco, which was why I suspected that this time. I remember that if you opened the page and saved the HTML locally with IE, then opened the file with Opera, it was also fine.


17 posted on 06/13/2006 1:44:56 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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To: Still Thinking
You mean "no adjustment of my set is necessary"
18 posted on 06/13/2006 3:57:56 PM PDT by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Finally! Awesome post. My Mac and I are looking at all sorts of cool stuff.


19 posted on 06/13/2006 4:13:34 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
What are the advantages of downloading Google Earth over simply using Google Maps?

Sorry if it's a silly question, I'm really this clueless.


20 posted on 06/13/2006 6:31:42 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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