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GPS Slowly Changing How Things Are Done
Hemos forwarded me a link to a story at Fast Company about how GPS is changing the way people do business. Several good examples are used, from farmers in Alabama to anti-theft devices. Some notes on GPS' military origins as well. Also worth noting is how GPS, like computers, wasn't adopted overnight, but rather over time as applications were found.
"I'm working late tonight, don't wait up..."
..err, I meant to say, cool!
"Oh really? Then how come your cell phone is in Joe's Tavern with your secretary's pager bobbing over your coordinates?"
"...*dialtone*..."
.unsigged
Maybe SCO can use GPS to locate *nix code in Linux. So far they sure don't seem to have found much of it otherwise.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
With the GPS we just punch in the address of the next house and off we go.
People like you are killing the taxicab industry.
It wouldn't help because there are still Bathe party loyalists using GPS jammers they bought from, uuh, Trinidad and Tobago. Yeah, that's the ticket. I knew you smart guys would understand.
-Rummy
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
which is a great boon to indoor GPS
Fantastic !! I will always be able to locate the TV remote no matter where it hides on me. Now wheres that fscking GPS receiver.....
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I hate to sound pessimistic but since when is something this glaringly obvious considered "worth noting"?
Or maybe, given the topic, my pessimistic little note should be restated to ask how accurate would your GPS unit have to be to measure the size of the rock you'd have to be living under to not know that GPS wasn't adopted overnight?
Goodness. I'm starting to sound as biter as those people who post about the newsworthiness of new articles.
SPAM much?
Now we're modding spam up?! My faith in intelligent moderators is now validated.
Look, if it hadn't been for France bailing your asses out 250 years ago, you'd have continued to have your "country" run by some unelected idiot called George whose only qualification to the job was that his father did it.
Hmmm.... let's look at today
unelected? check
idiot? check
called George? check
his father did it? check
Looks like we need France's help once again. LIBERATE US, FRANCE!
"The turn-by-turn routing has been a huge help. "
My step mom has that feature built in too. My dad says the command recognition's a little off, tho.
"Derp de derp."
Sounds to me you should invest in a garage door.
After I read the parent post, but before I read yours, I was thinking along very similar lines. However, I was thinking of setting it up so that your computer would simply wait passively for a phone call on the line. Then if it gets a call, it hooks you up to the GPS reciever and you can track it. This avoids the problem of continuous outgoing messages (and associated charges). Of course I haven't actually built the system. So I'm just curious, what made you decide to do it the way you did it?
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
Unless you took a flight there and used your GPS.