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GPS Slowly Changing How Things Are Done

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the seeing-in-a-new-light dept.

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.

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  1. No really! by I+Like+Swords!!! · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I'm working late tonight, don't wait up..."

    "Oh really? Then how come your cell phone is in Joe's Tavern with your secretary's pager bobbing over your coordinates?"

    "...*dialtone*..."

    ..err, I meant to say, cool!

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    1. Re:No really! by marko123 · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Merkin lingo?" I didn't know fake pubic hair could talk.
      Click here for definition

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  2. Could Help SCO by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Could Help SCO by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

      "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. "

      Give the inspectors more time!!

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  3. Re:Geocaching by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny
    Just as a word of warning for inexperienced geo cachers there are a few things you should not put in your cache or the results might not be quite what you intended (unless you like being visited by lots of military grade explosive)
    1. Weapons of mass destruction
    2. Plans for gas centrifuge machines
    3. Middle aged paunchy men answering to the name Saddam
    4. Middle aged bearded men answering to the name Osama
    5. Any music recordings for which you cannot prove ownership
    6. Modded X-Boxes
    7. MS Source code
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  4. Re:Why post anonymously then by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.....

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  5. Re:Boy, I Wish GPS Was Around During WW2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  6. Re:Love My GPS! by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

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