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#1 2005-12-09 8:41 pm
Google Earth, eh?
Anybody else download it? I don't see what's so fascinating about this app...
Here.
"Overall, the results are pretty clear: Mac users might not actually be smarter than PC users, but they certainly use better English and a larger vocabulary to express more complex thinking."
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#2 2005-12-09 9:16 pm
Re: Google Earth, eh?
A Mac version? Yay!
Its just fun, that's all.
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#3 2005-12-09 9:17 pm
Re: Google Earth, eh?
I'm confused - just where on that page is the download link?
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#4 2005-12-09 9:19 pm
Re: Google Earth, eh?
Oh, found it.
Could they make it more retarded?
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#5 2005-12-09 9:31 pm
Re: Google Earth, eh?
Probably. If anybody has a place to host it, go for it. I do, but I don't have enough bandwidth to leave it up here for very long
"Overall, the results are pretty clear: Mac users might not actually be smarter than PC users, but they certainly use better English and a larger vocabulary to express more complex thinking."
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#6 2005-12-09 10:06 pm
Re: Google Earth, eh?
I see nothing about Macs here:
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Get it
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#7 2005-12-09 10:29 pm
Re: Google Earth, eh?
It does fine until you turn up the quality settings, then it maxes out the CPU and crashes a lot. This must be an early beta...
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#8 2005-12-09 10:34 pm
- jb
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
It won't run for me.
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#9 2005-12-09 11:54 pm
- Macskeeball
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
10.4 only, and it's unofficial.
www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20124
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#10 2005-12-10 8:54 am
- wpholmes
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
I like how it zooms out and then back in when it moves. I feel like I'm flying
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#11 2005-12-10 9:27 am
- lord funk
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
I have waited a long time for this, and it is glorious.
MB38 wrote:
I don't see what's so fascinating about this app...
Maybe as an application it's nothing special, but you don't find flying around the globe with actual satellite pictures fascinating?
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#13 2005-12-10 10:16 am
- Zetetic Apparatchik
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
Personally, I'd find World Wind [NASA Earth] more interesting but less useful.
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#14 2005-12-10 10:00 pm
Re: Google Earth, eh?
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/.Public … _Earth.zip
new permalink ^
In my opinion, Google Earth is the most amazing technology of 2005 I've ever seen.
The hands-on ability to view EVERYTHING in such an amazing way is phenomenal. I'm completely smitten with the omnicience it gives me. I feel like God the Almighty.
All I want is for the cars to be moving, and to have a bazooka like GTA.
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#16 2005-12-11 7:01 am
- wpholmes
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
Runs just fine on my computer too.
G4 iBook 1.33 Ghz 512MB of RAM Mac OS 10.4.3
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#17 2005-12-11 7:25 am
Re: Google Earth, eh?
r300f28 wrote:
Runs just fine on my computer. Have had no problems yet.
G5 Dual 2.5GHz 4.5MB of RAM MAC OS 10.4.3
if it didn't I'd say you have issues. most of use don't have that much power. Theoretically I only have 1/4 of that power.
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#18 2005-12-11 11:02 am
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
Digital wrote:
r300f28 wrote:
Runs just fine on my computer. Have had no problems yet.
G5 Dual 2.5GHz 4.5MB of RAM Mac OS 10.4.3if it didn't I'd say you have issues. most of use don't have that much power. Theoretically I only have 1/4 of that power.
Nah, he said he only has 4.5 megabytes of RAM. 
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#19 2005-12-11 7:25 pm
- Switch
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
Runs great on my iMac G5 1.8Ghz w/ the barebones 512MB of RAM. I haven't tried to change anything yet though, since I've heard that breaks it.
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#20 2005-12-11 7:59 pm
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
I looked for WMDs in Iraq, but came up empty.
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#21 2005-12-11 8:15 pm
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
Yongbyon, Taechon and Tomsk-7 are all really hi-res...
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#22 2005-12-11 9:08 pm
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
The Cynic wrote:
I looked for WMDs in Iraq, but came up empty.
Wrong program. You wanted Google Invade.
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#24 2005-12-11 9:11 pm
Re: Google Earth, eh?
lord funk wrote:
The Cynic wrote:
I looked for WMDs in Iraq, but came up empty.
Wrong program. You wanted Google Invade.
The first post that made me chuckle on these forums in a while.
"Overall, the results are pretty clear: Mac users might not actually be smarter than PC users, but they certainly use better English and a larger vocabulary to express more complex thinking."
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#25 2005-12-11 9:19 pm
- hal9k
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
They won't even let me GMail using my lowly X.2.8/Safari 1.0.3.
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