On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:14:23PM -0700, Powell Hargrave wrote:
> >On 2006-04-29 20:21, Bob W wrote:
> >> Sure. In that case, North America is tiny compared with Europe. As long as
> >> you forget everything except Maryland.
> >
> >Check the globe or an area-true map to compare north america vs. africa...
> >- Martin
>
> I find a globe works well. Mine is stuck on cold war boundaries though.
These guys have an interesting product:
http://www.GlobalImagination.com/
Mind you, at prices ranging from the cost of a car to the cost of a house
they're not exactly a casual purchase item. But if you want a globe that
can update political boundaries when they change, this is the device for you.
I'm currently working with them on a joint product proposal for Boeing's
Customer Demo center - a high-end (48") version, with software (from me)
that displays the position of every scheduled commercial flight, colour-
coded by type of aircraft. I'm trying to finagle a freebie unit out of
the deal - I think it would look really cool in my living room.
This job is showing the occasional fringe benefit, nowadays. As I type
I'm on the East coast, having been dragged out here for all-day meetings
yesterday. While I'm here my notebook (which got a hard disk upgrade
the last time I met my boss face-to-face) also got a memory upgrade to 1GB.
Not only that - because they knew I really didn't enjoy taking three days
out (two for travel, one for the meeting) I'm going home with a 10" DVD
player to make the return flight more palatable. It can display JPEGs,
too, so I'll be using it as a portable photo display device. Of course
it's only TV resolution on the TFT display, so I'll only get the quality
of a web page, but it's still better than many portable units. And the
price was certainly right :-)
