Yeah, I guess it's natural for the tablet to come after the phone. Perhaps 2012 will be the year of the Linux 3d holographic projection augmented reality mobile device.
The maps may be re-issued, printed and distributed. That doesn't mean everyone gets them. I was active duty Marine Corps, and our map room was stocked with 10-20 year old maps; or, rather, they were new looking maps that were last updated 10-20 years before. I can't recall anyone throwing out an otherwise perfectly good map after only a year, particularly for a new map that was probably only slightly different.
That's interesting. I don't remember seeing rate of change in the declination diagram or elsewhere in the marginal information. Not that I knew what all was in there, but I did teach mapping for a few years in the Marine Corps (2000-2003). The maps we used were dated from about 1977 or so, and were updated while I was there (had to redo every test, quiz, prac ap, etc). When were the "Olden Days" for you?
I'm thinking specifically of orienteering, where the angle and distance is calculated off of a 1:50,000 scale map, and the angle is then converted to magnetic angle, and the distance converted to a pace count. A difference of even a degree can mean a big difference when you're pacing out a few thousand yards. Not every soldier and Marine has a handheld GPS, and this method of ground nav is still taught and used today. If a given map happens to be old and in a place on the globe where the difference is more severe, I can imagine being off by a good deal. Not the end of the world, but something most soldiers and Marines are probably nor aware of.
You would never conduct a military op these days without recent overhead imagery anyway. And new paper maps would have the new declination diagram in the marginal information, but digital maps don't have the accompanying marginal information. I can imagine someone looking at an old paper map for the declination diagram and plotting the coordinates on a digital map on Google Earth or ArcGIS or something.
On military tactical maps, there's a diagram for converting from grid North (straight up using MGRS maps) to magnetic north (where the needle points on a compass). It'll say add or subtract some number of degrees to convert from one to the other, and each map is different depending on where in the world it is depicting. Since many of these maps are several years old, I wonder what impact this will have on ground navigation?
People in poor areas aren't running all those appliances; they're running 4-watt light bulbs per TFS. Plus prices in the US aren't the same as around the world.
Don't underestimate the importance of having interior light after sundown. In many villages, it is impossible to do any reading or studying since there is no artificial light, and work must be done outside while the sun is up. We take for granted the ability to read a book after the sun goes down, but this ability is critical for poor people in developing nations to better themselves.
I worked at the post office briefly years ago, and my father has worked there for 30+ years. I remember there being a bin for letters to Santa, with addresses like "North Pole" written in crayon. It all went to trash. Canada has a special zip code it uses for Santa: HOH-OHO. I seem to remember reading that they all get answered, but I could be wrong.
I don't think so. US Postal regulations forbid anyone other than the recipient to open the letter, until delivery. Once a letter is delivered, they don't care what happens to it. After all, I throw out junk mail addressed to my wife. Is that also a crime?
There are more than enough resources left on earth to reach that goal
Really? You counted it all up yourself or what? Seems like we're running out of fresh water, fish stock, arable land, oil, etc while continuing to pollute what little clean air and water we have left, cut down our forests with reckless abandon, and strip-mine, build on, or turn into a dump the finite land we'll have left after global warming raises water levels. Our resources probably wouldn't be self-sustaining even if we cut our population by 90%, but I'd be happy to change my poor uninformed opinion if you could provide some data, or evidence, or something.
So by buying off-the-shelf equipment to keep costs down, they're really just trying to give money to corporations? Huh? Why wouldn't they procure a huge multi-million dollar contract from HTC or Motorola to build a custom hardened battlefield-ready device if that was the case?
They banned mass portable storage devices in SCIFs, ie where classified systems are held. Cell phones, 2-way pagers, tablets, laptops, etc have been banned there since forever. This won't change anything.
Google Goggles already does translations of pictures. Google Translate already turns voice English to voice Spanish. Word Lens sounds pretty cool, but it's really not that far ahead of other similar projects.
Bin Laden has something like 55 siblings. His family outcast him years before 9/11 and he hasn't been in contact since. There was no reason to hold his family, so the FBI let them go after duly investigating them. That had nothing to do with the current TSA regulations.
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Or in a bag. A 10" tablet is too big for my tankbag for my motorcycle for instance, but a 7" fits nicely.
There's 600,000 to 1,000,000 million words depending on who you ask.
Whom. Get it right.
Where does that leave the interweb? That's how I get on the blagosphere.
Yeah, I saw the pic and thought, "Of all the damn screenshots in all the world, why did they leak that one?"
Uh, what? This is based in Ubuntu Netbook Remix, with big buttons and multi-touch support. This is not the desktop edition.
Yeah, I guess it's natural for the tablet to come after the phone. Perhaps 2012 will be the year of the Linux 3d holographic projection augmented reality mobile device.
I think it was KAOS, from Get Smart, not Chaos. Slashdot would be nothing if not filled with pedantic types like me.
The maps may be re-issued, printed and distributed. That doesn't mean everyone gets them. I was active duty Marine Corps, and our map room was stocked with 10-20 year old maps; or, rather, they were new looking maps that were last updated 10-20 years before. I can't recall anyone throwing out an otherwise perfectly good map after only a year, particularly for a new map that was probably only slightly different.
That's interesting. I don't remember seeing rate of change in the declination diagram or elsewhere in the marginal information. Not that I knew what all was in there, but I did teach mapping for a few years in the Marine Corps (2000-2003). The maps we used were dated from about 1977 or so, and were updated while I was there (had to redo every test, quiz, prac ap, etc). When were the "Olden Days" for you?
I'm thinking specifically of orienteering, where the angle and distance is calculated off of a 1:50,000 scale map, and the angle is then converted to magnetic angle, and the distance converted to a pace count. A difference of even a degree can mean a big difference when you're pacing out a few thousand yards. Not every soldier and Marine has a handheld GPS, and this method of ground nav is still taught and used today. If a given map happens to be old and in a place on the globe where the difference is more severe, I can imagine being off by a good deal. Not the end of the world, but something most soldiers and Marines are probably nor aware of.
You would never conduct a military op these days without recent overhead imagery anyway. And new paper maps would have the new declination diagram in the marginal information, but digital maps don't have the accompanying marginal information. I can imagine someone looking at an old paper map for the declination diagram and plotting the coordinates on a digital map on Google Earth or ArcGIS or something.
On military tactical maps, there's a diagram for converting from grid North (straight up using MGRS maps) to magnetic north (where the needle points on a compass). It'll say add or subtract some number of degrees to convert from one to the other, and each map is different depending on where in the world it is depicting. Since many of these maps are several years old, I wonder what impact this will have on ground navigation?
Most of these places are actually using something more advanced than a simple LCD tablet; a wireless platform that never needs charging!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/9/
People in poor areas aren't running all those appliances; they're running 4-watt light bulbs per TFS. Plus prices in the US aren't the same as around the world.
Don't underestimate the importance of having interior light after sundown. In many villages, it is impossible to do any reading or studying since there is no artificial light, and work must be done outside while the sun is up. We take for granted the ability to read a book after the sun goes down, but this ability is critical for poor people in developing nations to better themselves.
I worked at the post office briefly years ago, and my father has worked there for 30+ years. I remember there being a bin for letters to Santa, with addresses like "North Pole" written in crayon. It all went to trash. Canada has a special zip code it uses for Santa: HOH-OHO. I seem to remember reading that they all get answered, but I could be wrong.
I don't think so. US Postal regulations forbid anyone other than the recipient to open the letter, until delivery. Once a letter is delivered, they don't care what happens to it. After all, I throw out junk mail addressed to my wife. Is that also a crime?
There are more than enough resources left on earth to reach that goal
Really? You counted it all up yourself or what? Seems like we're running out of fresh water, fish stock, arable land, oil, etc while continuing to pollute what little clean air and water we have left, cut down our forests with reckless abandon, and strip-mine, build on, or turn into a dump the finite land we'll have left after global warming raises water levels. Our resources probably wouldn't be self-sustaining even if we cut our population by 90%, but I'd be happy to change my poor uninformed opinion if you could provide some data, or evidence, or something.
I think there being air around you would be a requirement for "staying aloft." Staying in orbit isn't that hard.
So by buying off-the-shelf equipment to keep costs down, they're really just trying to give money to corporations? Huh? Why wouldn't they procure a huge multi-million dollar contract from HTC or Motorola to build a custom hardened battlefield-ready device if that was the case?
They banned mass portable storage devices in SCIFs, ie where classified systems are held. Cell phones, 2-way pagers, tablets, laptops, etc have been banned there since forever. This won't change anything.
Google Goggles already does translations of pictures. Google Translate already turns voice English to voice Spanish. Word Lens sounds pretty cool, but it's really not that far ahead of other similar projects.
Ah, didn't know that. That's even worse.
Pipes is pretty cool. One of those things they bought up and sort of forgot about. Not earth shattering or worth 44billion, but pretty cool.
pipes.yahoo.com
Bin Laden has something like 55 siblings. His family outcast him years before 9/11 and he hasn't been in contact since. There was no reason to hold his family, so the FBI let them go after duly investigating them. That had nothing to do with the current TSA regulations.