Google Keyhole

[Charlie Williams]

I downloaded and played with the demo a while back. I believe it was not too long after they were purchased by Google. Definitely not vaporware, and pretty darn neat, to boot. BTW, the web site[^] comes up fine for me. Charlie if(!curlies){ return; }

[Tom Archer]

The site is now coming up but the application is timing out connecting to the server for registration. Evidently, I'm not the only one that saw the 60 Minutes spot on Google and wanted to see this :) Oh well. I'll wait a day or two and try it again. Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant

[Jerry Hammond]

Back in Novenmber one of our DotNetGroup[^] members gave a demonstrations of this nifty application/service. Impressive to say the least. Jerry He said this was like painstakingly assembling the first layer of a house of cards, then boasting that the next 15,000 layers were a mere formality.--The Code Book, pp. 331 Toasty0.com The Recipe Project

[Tom Archer]

I finally got it to work. It is amazon - although they got my address wrong :) They have my house on another part of the street as for some reason the numbering on our street got messed up and the houses are not numbered correctly Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant

[Roger Wright]

Tom Archer wrote: Is it vaporware? Nope. I tried it out a couple of years ago, and it's fantastic! Just not worth the cost... Keyhole, btw, is the codeword for a series of top-secret satellites placed in orbit by the USAF - the KH-xx series. I can't be sure if it's the same source since I've been out of the loop for so many years, but it looks to me as if the USAF has licensed at least a part of the technology for public use. Good for them - it's a great move, and might help to fund some of our more advanced projects. "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City

[Christian Graus]

Yes, I'm in basically the same boat, except that I'm not as cool as you, so no-one seems to offer me work !!! Actually, my image processing articles here in CP remain my main source of work. On RAC, I basically state in my bid that I don't live in the third world, and so it's up to the buyer to decide if they think I'm worth it or not. We've got several jobs from people burned by cheap, worthless coders on RAC and have gone for us above lower bids because they want to see the job done. Even then, the rate was nothing I could live on. I had assumed that people cancelling jobs were just finding solutions elsewhere. One other thing that I've noticed is we seem to be getting a fair bit of work from companies in the USA and Canada that are essentially finding local contracts, getting cheap RAC coders to do the work, and making a profit by being the middle man. I'd never do that, I'd certainly not flow money into India or Russia, or any other country that seems set to cost me my livelihood. I don't get how these people keep a straight face while telling me that they want something ready to show the client. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

[Paul Watson]

It costs only $29.95 now for personal use. regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project South-East Asia Disaster: How you can help Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "

[Allen Anderson]

I've purchased a significant amount of web work from both elance and RAC. I've had good and bad experiences though. The bigger and more complicated the project the worse the results have been. So I generally only put up small well defined pieces for bidding. It would be hard to be a programmer from a developed country and get work that paid anything there though.

[Christian Graus]

Allen Anderson wrote: The bigger and more complicated the project the worse the results have been. Yes, I suspect that most people bidding on RAC don't really look much past the money. I've certainly done some work fixing larger projects where the people who won the first round of bids ( to write the thing ) should never be allowed never a keyboard. Really excrable stuff. We're yet to win a larger project on RAC, we're hanging in there in the hope that all this essentially free work we're doing will pay off in some $5000+ contracts, although we have to be picky, some of those are of incredible scope, and as hard to make money off as the smaller jobs, but on a larger scale. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

[markstu]

Seems like it would be useful, if you need that kind of thing for personal use. It's actually kind of amazing.