NASA, Microsoft offer new 3D Mars maps NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to present huge amounts of 3-D Mars mapping data, gleaned by space probes in orbit about the red planet, in a form usable by anyone with a net connection. The floor of a large impact crater in the Martian southern highlands, north of the giant Hellas impact basin. Credit: NASA/JPL/University …
Massive fail - the worldwidetelescope site uses silverlight 3. I don't even know if you can run that crap using moonlight, and I don't want to try. So, not usable by anyone - more like usable only by those still on ms platforms, or willing to put up with Icaza's parent trap toy.
This is more about promoting MS Windows and Silverlight than anything else. If you're not using MS Windows then forget it.
NASA should be ashamed of themselves that they agreed to tem up with such a self-promoting outfit - they have managed to (no doubt) spend oogles of cash and some considerable amount of time on something that is, by design, not accessible by many many people.
True for me at least. I don't want any software from a company that's attempting to blackmail anyone who uses my OS of choice in a commercial venture. Moonlight is a trojan horse to get more "Microsoft Patents" into Linux.
Microsoft develop software and it runs in a Microsoft environment, but not in Opera 10 on Slackware. I wonder if similar comments would have been seen if Google had developed it for Google Earth or Apple had made it an iPad app - yes, I guess they would <sigh>.
Now let me see if I can find where that spat out dummy went ...
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