Google Earth

I've been playing around with this all day. I guess it wont be long before we see Microsoft Earth. LOL!!!

What in the heck is that? Do I need one of those invitations for that too?. God damn google and it's way of doing it's stuff. "Get gmail, it's free, up to 1 GB of storage space, smtp and pop server", then you click in the link and it says: "Thanks for your interest in Gmail, but we're sorry we can't offer you an account right now".

or

"Get Google Earth, it's Free!!!", you then happily click on the link: "Thanks for your interest in Google Earth, but we're sorry we can't offer you a download right now. As you know, Google Earth is in beta, and we're still building out our ability to take on new users."

Even though I use google and gmail intensively, I seriously start to dislike them... and who needs 1GB of space anyway?. It's a waste of space, really. They could offer so welcomed web hosting for that. My hotmail account now goes up to 250 MB (which is very good, thank you very much) and does not cost anything either _and_ I can create an account anytime without those lame invitations.

Hope MS with their new search engine will put some order back in the house and Xbox 360 kicks some serious butt too ^_^.

well if you are frustraited with google mail, then check out yahoo mail, it is now up to 1G too, no pop though without paying for it.

ok bigger beaf with this one:

http://earth.google.com/downloads.html


that right there is enough for me NOT to use it or even care about it.

Thanks Lleb_KCir for the hint!. And just like you, I am also not interested anymore either on Google Earth. Isn't everything google does supposed to be Web based?. What let down coming from somebody who actually uses Linux and competes with MS, releasing something Windows only... :\

You probably haven't heared anything about GmailFS:
http://richard.jones.name/google-hac...ilesystem.html

At least http://maps.google.com is free. Even has satellite.

Google must be doing something right..

Current Stocks:
GOOG = 294.15 up 1.43 as of now.
MSFT = 24.84 down 0.25 as of now.

Who says it has to be web based? Are they not allowed to do anything else? Who cares if they only released it so far for Windows only.. half their crap is still beta and they're using real people to test it for them, so unlike Microsoft who claims their crap is stable but truly isn't half the time, I give google a little bit of credit before opening their doors to their, may I remind everyone, "free" products to the world to only find out it sucks without fully testing it.

What's people's deals complaining about services they don't have to pay for, it doesn't have to be there for free in the first place, so I don't see any need to ever complain in such cases..

just as I speak I find out Microsoft is releasing MSN Virtual Earth.

http://www.terraserver.com/ is much better.

Yes, yes, yes, the screen shots look very interesting, but does it run under WINE?

I highly disagree with everything you've just said. Isn't the hole point of releasing a free beta version to actually receive complains (by complain, I mean feedback). Think if we all should stop complaining about features which Linux has (or lack) just because it's free... how crap would Linux be? Even though I find annoying when newbies complain about their ATI cards in Linux or how to install programs, that is also an important feedback with real issues that needs to be fixed and they all are right, from a certain point of view.

There's a difference betweeen constructive critiscism, ("When I do this, I get this error") and just complaining ("It sucks!")

The former is always welcome, but the latter should be kept for the stuff you've paid for.

Which doesn't mean much if you think about it. You can;t determine a compa nies worth [based off of stock prices alone. Its alot easier to get MSFT stocks then google stocks because of the volume that they are traded at. Also look at the market Cap's for both companies. 268B vs. 87B Granted google has only been going up and MSFT has been having trouble but then people are still in the buy mode for google. Don't forget about the Dot-com bubble that burst back in '01. Sorry but I like doing stocks and trades thats how my college education is being funded.