Comment In other news... (Score 1) 426
IE6 users are greeted with a new "Get faster Gmail" message in the menu bar of the web interface. The link leads to a page that promotes Chrome and Firefox 3.
...the word "urging" was redefined.
Submission + - Smooth Open Street Maps for the iPhone
detrow writes: A number of projects are working on bringing a smooth Open Street Maps Viewer to the iPhone. Where smooth means, as smooth as the Google Maps application. Route-Me is one of them (New BSD License, complete Objective-C native code).
The GPS Mission blog reports that their application (GPS Mission) uses Route-Me and made it to the App Store, as the first application using that OSM component. The map looks real nice and behaves just like Google Maps with all the well known zooming and panning available.
What other iPhone applications exist that feel as smooth as Google Maps but use the Open Street Map?
The GPS Mission blog reports that their application (GPS Mission) uses Route-Me and made it to the App Store, as the first application using that OSM component. The map looks real nice and behaves just like Google Maps with all the well known zooming and panning available.
What other iPhone applications exist that feel as smooth as Google Maps but use the Open Street Map?
Comment I don't get it... 10% overrun limit? (Score 1) 61
From TFA:
The Federal Aviation Administration will issue a final decision on an environmental impact statement for the $200 million project and issue a license for the site.
...I understand this to mean that Spaceport America/Virgin submitted their application to the FAA based on a cost estimation of 200 mio $...
The third condition was that the project not exceed $225 million, a condition spaceport officials assure will be met.
So, does this mean as soon as they have 10% cost overrun their license is revoked?
I mean, surely no project ever has 10% cost overrun!
Either this means this is not a hard limit at all or there won't be a spaceport. Or the article is wrong. Or I didn't get it. Please someone explain.
(Also, please be sure to point out that 200-->225 is not a 10% overrun or your geek-license will be revoked.)
Comment Re:are we as safe as our data (Score 1) 197
one day we all shall be dead, and all our data will still be safe.
Which is true anyway. At least for a lot of our data, independently of if we put some of it in bunkers or not.
