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Google Earth As a Game Engine For Ship Simulation 84

Posted by Soulskill from the all-i-ask-is-a-tall-e-ship dept.
dinther writes "Yesterday the program Ships was released. Ships is significant because it is the first serious application that uses Google Earth as a game engine. In Ships, you take control of a selection of ships and drive them around the world (if you have that much time). Building games around Google Earth is now viable, thanks to its ever-increasing level of detail. From a technical standpoint, the Google Earth browser plugin has proven to be quite a capable platform to work with. Further tech details about the application are available as well."

Comment Re:Surprise. (Score 1) 1038

by tychof (#27208925) Attached to: US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy

I do find it interesting that many private schools have an annual tuition that's less than the average amount we are paying per student for public schools and manage to turn out higher test scores and better educated/adjusted students.

Private schools produce better students? I'm not so sure about that. Can you find someone who has refuted the study referenced by either of these articles? They may refer to the same study, I can't tell.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1670063,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/opinion/19wed2.html
I haven't done sufficient research to say for sure that private schools are not better, but I'm happy to send my children to public school when the time comes (my oldest is 2, so it's not all that far away).

Comment Re:No SERVICE from me! (Score 1) 252

by tychof (#26519785) Attached to: Tech-Related Volunteer Gigs
(Do not feed the trolls, do not feed the trolls... Damn.)

I pay taxes and will continue to pay them to pay for the bail outs, the handouts, the social programs that I'm not entitled to, the paychecks of people who make far more than I do and the new President's inauguration.

Don't equate taxes with sevice. You apparently don't like taxes. Great. It's a weak straw-man argument here. Bring it up when it's appropriate.

Mr. Obama wants my service even though I'm in college 1/2 time, work full time (paying taxes) and a community activist (various websites, church activities) and yet I'm still "called on" to SERVE by the government!

http://change.gov/americaserves/

Your personal invitation to serve wasn't sent in the mail because Vice President-Elect Biden intervened on your behalf after becoming aware of your extreme workload. Problem solved.

I am expected to put in 100 hours of community service, of which, any hours I contribute at my church or non-government affiliated group, will not count.

This is ridiculous. IF you want to fit 100 hours of community service into your schedule, you might get government money (or, as I suspect you like to call it, 'blood money'). I'm not seeing where hours contributed at a church or 'non-government affiliated group' is mentioned at the link you've provided. I suspect it's your paranoia leading you on.

Comment More banks in 1921 than now? (Score 1) 377

by tychof (#26218429) Attached to: Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash
How are you measuring the number of banks? I don't have numbers on the number of bankers (though I suspect that automation has cut down the banker/population ratio significantly), but according to two sources found easily via Google, there were 31,000 banks in the US 1921 and only about 7,200 now. http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/hist427/texts/1920seconomy.htm and http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=636977

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