I kid ye not!
This year Google has a rival Santa tracking service to the time honored
Norad Service which incidentally has Windows Live Local as one of the
Partners.
I must admit I'm a bit old fashioned, I prefer looking at of my bedroom window.
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Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.
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<edit:> Ignore this.. Where's the DELETE button when I need it? >_>
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Ion Todirel
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no need! actually its pretty funnyPiroko wrote:<edit:> Ignore this.. Where's the DELETE button when I need it? >_>
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Angus
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I'll have to make sure I get the Google Earth one tommorrow.
The superior graphics, and implementation of Google Earth, a product I already have, sells it to me.
Angus Higgins -
Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.
I think if you have small kids something like this would actually be pretty cool, just keep the magic of Christmas going in this technologically advanced age. If this helps to preserve a little bit of innocence for just a little while longer then hey it may not be a bad thing.
On another note, Microsoft don't have anything yet that can compete with Google Earth for my mind, MapPoint is a different beast and has suffered as a product that hasn't really mad many innovations and therefore an impression in recent years. -
Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.
I used Google Earth to track Santa last year, (and I don't even have kids.) I'm not sure Santa's path which they plotted was accurate, it seemed entirely sub-optimal - jumping all over the place.
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Tensor
Im in yr house upgrading yr family
Give him a chance - he only got Santa-Nav this year!
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I did the first online "Norad Tracks Santa" in 1997. Back then we chose to host it on our company's own machines; the project was something on the side of my normal job and it was presented to me as something that "won't get more than a few thousand hits." It was running on a PII 266Mhz w/256Mb RAM, NT 4.0 Server, O'Reilly Website Pro and ColdFusion 3. By 8AM on the morning of the 24th, our T1 was saturated and the server was barely able to service any requests - the web server was constantly pegged at its 1000 request limit all day. We later found out that CNN had been announcing the URL every 20 minutes - www.stk.com/noradsanta I spent most of my Christmas Eve trying to figure out ways to offload the bandwidth to willing ISPs in the area.
The next year, 1998, we were a bit more prepared and partnered with IBM to do the hosting. At least I got to enjoy my Christmas eve dinner that time! :O
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