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Old 06-25-2002, 07:57 PM
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Default The most amazing software ever created!!!!!

I was reading in my Maximum Pc magazine I got yesterday about this program called Earth Viewer, that allows you to view any place on earth and is rendered with OpenGl graphics. So I thought, "cool!" I went to the site, registered, and downloaded the small 4 megabyte something file. Installed, then ran it and I am AMAZED!! You can see any place in the whole freaking world!! It has beautiful graphics depending on your video card (which mine is a GeForce3). You can look up an address, by street name, zip code, and the regular and it will find it anyway! Got friends on AIM/MSN/ICQ and wanna know where they live? Get their address and you can see their house!

http://www.earthviewer.com is the address, and here is a screenshot of what my summer vacation Colorado Springs looks like:



oh, and how is it done exactly without causing extreme lag on your internet connection? Obviously a small 4 meg file can't pack all those images. It's done by a satelite image transfering incredibly fast through the software and internet connection, so even 256kps connection should be ok. The most important thing though is to make sure your video card is decent, or else the image won't look as good like the one above.
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Old 06-25-2002, 08:37 PM
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I don't know about you, but I think $599 (USD) a year is a little high for personal use.
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Old 06-25-2002, 09:35 PM
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You're right, but as long as you have many email address on your domain, you can keep using those trial versions
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Old 06-26-2002, 05:52 AM
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Amazing, but how does it make my life better?
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Old 06-26-2002, 05:52 AM
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Amazing, but how does it make my life better?
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Old 06-26-2002, 09:38 AM
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ohhhhhhhh theres a doubl post by firefly.......
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Old 06-26-2002, 09:38 AM
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ohhhhhhhh theres a doubl post by firefly.......
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Old 06-26-2002, 03:02 PM
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Haha, nice one pattox.

That does look kinda cool, but I don't know many people who would use it enough to spend that much.
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Old 06-26-2002, 04:17 PM
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hmmm so whos ganna intergrate this into vBulletin?
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Old 06-26-2002, 05:59 PM
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Cool, but how close can you get before It looks blury? Looks cool though!
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