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Google Talk

This is where you can discuss your homework, family, just about anything, make strange sounds and otherwise discuss things which are really not related to the Lancer-series. Yes that means you can discuss other games.

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Eraser

Post Sun Aug 28, 2005 10:19 am

Google Talk

It seems that Google truly is a busy little bee... First they came with their toolbars, then Gmail (a free online 2+ GB e-mail account) in direct competition with Hotmail (Microsoft) among others and some more tools like Google Earth, Picasa, Hello etc. Now they are developing Google Talk, an Instant Messenger where it is again their goal to compete with giant Microsoft (MSN Messenger), Yahoo IM and ICQ etc.

You can download it over at www.google.com/talk. It's still in Beta btw and you need to login with your Gmail username and password, so if you don't have a Gmail account, you must register for that first.

I myself don't really see the need for this messenger as I don't have any complaints about MSN Messenger, especially in combination with the excellent Messenger Plus, so i'm not sure how this is going to work out for Google, but we'll just have to see huh...

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sw

Post Sun Aug 28, 2005 10:25 am

Got an invite, took a look at the download page and decided I'm not interested.

J Dawg

Post Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:32 pm

Looks interesting. I've downloaded it, but I'm waiting for enough friends to jump on the bandwagon before giving it a solid testing.

.Tawakalna

Post Sun Aug 28, 2005 1:59 pm

Google Earth is a wonderful idea but i'm not interested in any more messenger programmes, hell i avoid people like the plague as it is! why do I want more ways for people to bug me and send me rubbish?

Eh_Steve

Post Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:11 pm

Google is also planning other things, such as a parallel internet. Just read it on "/.".

Locutov

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:21 am

Google earth sucks, they can't even place my own home village in the correct spot.

.Tawakalna

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:34 am

no i told them to do that, i was trying to help you avoid your income tax. besdies i wanted it a few miles north and east.. in the water...

blackhole

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:28 am

Google talk is ok, but i don't reccomend it as your primary IM. Google Earth is marvalous. Its amazing how many satalite pictures they've gotten in there. And do you think thats EASY? I'm amazed at what they have acheived, I located my friend's house in australia, and i live in Washington

.Tawakalna

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:58 am

you can even see the Tawmobile outside Taw Towers and the wife's car round the back and the washing on the line (just about) - Tawakalnistan is in high-res.

howver it is the old Tawmobile not the new Tawmobile so the pics at least 6 months old.

Locutov

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:59 am

well, if you look up Anna Pauwlowna, you will notice it has been fixed into an empty space of farmland.

.Tawakalna

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:01 pm

hang on a minute, its there! i can see it quite clearly between the Lagedijk and the railway to den Helder port. what are you rattling about? and there is a big empty bit (or always was) in the SW corner by the Grasweg. looks fine to me.

Edited by - Tawakalna (Reloaded) on 8/29/2005 1:25:50 PM

blackhole

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:31 pm

Google is doing its best. There aren't high-res satilite photos for every inch of the world. What they have achieved is amazing in its own right.

Chips

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:54 pm

Will have to check out Google Earth - although online mapping sites (use them to find locations etc) showed sat pics "overlaying" the OS Map image when you "rolled" your mouse over it. I therefore assume others have access to the same images that Google are using?

blackhole

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:56 pm

Google is using public information. They don't own a satilite or anything of that sort. Google earth is just a massive collection of public knowledge neatly organized.

Chips

Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:04 pm

So really its just marketing, seeing as its already there before - just no-one bothered to look for it.

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