Affordable.... Not likely for everyday farmers. For things like government agricultural departments, working with remote sensing peoples (people like surveying departments or should that be geomatic?), yes, it is affordable, but for a $1000+ an image, with the photo being a couple of days out of date, this becomes somewhat out of touch for most farmers. Normal fixed wing planes also cost too much for everyday use, unless of course you base the government department in a town that is very marginal, and since most of the town relies on the department staying alive, which leads to both political parties spending up big time, then this isn't viable either. Of course, the images produce by these planes are a heck of a lot better quality, remember, only a couple of years ago did we get Things like the Adelaide University (Australia) project involving photos taken by remote controlled plane with cameras attached, make alot more sense.
Of course, another reason for the delay is because of the military checking of the photos to make sure they aren't of politically sensitive areas:P
Also remember AAPT, which have every single Victorian Government link (or did), as well as a few other major links including Connect.com iirc. Also, Optus has the Southern Cross Link + the AARNET (ATM connection between every uni in Oz).
I wrote to all of the pollies representing me in the federal Australian parliment, along with all of those in the ministerial positions related to it, around 10 in all, and I only got one response from it. This wasn't an automated response, but told me to write to a committee that was dealing with this issue, not who was on the committe, nor where to get this info, nothing.
I spent the better part of six months last year studying ways to improve the accuracy of systems such as this. Anything that tells you have a speed accuracy of.2 mph must either have cost you around $AU10,000 (which equates to around $US20,000), or it is bullshitting you. Handheld GPS units get at best 5 m accuracies, and without initialisation, maintaining satellite lock, and post computation, there is not many chances you'll go better.
To improve the situation you need to add firstly a unit connected to the speedometer (or more likely the wheel hubs to measure distance, and don't forget to factor in tyre pressures changing into the errors involved here), then we also need to add a gyrometer, best bet here is a fibre optic gyro, and based on this and the use of a Kalman filter, your best bet would be around 2m.
Then, factoring in loss of satellite lock, antenna orientation, signals bouncing off buildings, not maintaining 12 satellites (which you would be lucky to get full stop) as well as things such as urban tunnels, and the figure goes even lower.
The main thing though is that maintaing lock on twelve satellites would be extremely marginal at best (lots below 15 degrees above the horizon, which adds to distort signals).....
Sure, but the plane probably depends on GPS and if someone is aware of it presence, there is nothing stopping the observed from emitting a high power signal, at the same frequencies a used by GPS.
Can someone on the western side of the pacific please set up a mirror. More specifically, the south western section. mirror.aarnet.edu.au hasn't been updated in over a year (not quite but almost) and the other former mirror, ftp.tas.gov.au has been removed because it wasn't considered necessary for the Tasmanian government....
Anyone... I would, but I don't think a 56k link would solve any problems....
Here in Australia, there is an ongoing debate as to whether farmers should us genetically modified crops, including canola, or whether they should just use normal crops. This is a debate that has special significance to the farming community especially. The current view is that GM crops shouldn't be used and on of the main reasons for this is because the EU has banned the importation of GM crops, and therefore the farmers would be losing a potential market. When you consider the size of the European market, especially in financial terms, it makes a lot of sense to not use GM crops. If other markets including the US and Middle East follow this trend, then Monsato will hopefully have a patent that is useless.
Basically I wouldn't say a thing. Most lecturers keep the same assignment year after year after year (when you repeat subjects you find these things out). The lecturer will not generally be concerned unless you copy word for word straight out of the solutions. If you have a understanding of the problem, you should be able to rephrase the answer in your own terms. This is probably the best defence against cheating.
This statements just hits a hipocrisy something shocking. Unauthorised access to a computer, using the telephone system for illegal activities... If the police wanted to, then they could bring up some serious charges. What is defence going to be? It's just like someone giving you the master keys to a bank, and then robbing the bank. I hope someone goes after him with a big stick...
Yes you are correct. I had mental blank at the time. He is still the head of the vic division, and even if he wasn't, he still be making sure he put in his 2c (or should that be 2.2c incuding GST), into everything...
Didn't you watch A Current Affair... In actual fact, you can only get X rated materials in ACT and NT in Australia. You can get R rated stuff everywhere else though. Of course, you could else look in the local paper for someone to deliver you these X rated materials (the whole point of the ACA story).... aca.ninemsn.com.au (note it doesn't work in konqueror, bloody browser detects...)
We're generally not in the habit of making our voting choices on a single issue.
True in most cases.
We tend to consider a party's/candidate's entire policy platform when it comes to filling in a ballot.
Generally true. It also depends on how our parents voted, how we where brought up... How specific policies affect both us and the community around us. Before the last federal election, I was talking to someone about the GST, and he said that even though it would benefit him at all (large wage earner), he could see the benefits it would give to the rest of the community, so this change his vote from a traditional labor man (and union rep), to a liberal vote.
In general if the political system is not ingrained in you (i.e., your have been brainwashed since you where a child, you have been brainwashed at uni into thinking socalism is the answer to the worlds problems, yeah right!), then it all comes down to a choice of the lesser of 2 evils. Much like in most societies that would consider themselves a democracy (can anyone say Bush v Gore).
You see, guns aren't actually necessary for most people....
Oh yes they are. Any day now the Indonesian and Japanese are going to come down through the Top End (assuming of course that aren't eaten by the crocodiles, snakes, spiders,... general nasties that us Aussies have in all of our backyards, fighting for room with the kangaroos, koalas and the BBQ with the shrimp on it), and the only way to stop these invaders is the good old shotgun...
Actually, there are those in rural Australia that do believe this to be true, and have secret caches of weapons in case this does occur. I kid you not. This is also the areas where One Nation does well in member support. yeah,...the nationals are sticking up for us enough... we need guns cause the army would save us, and the yanks won't save us.... Just as Bruce Ruskin (?) head of the Victorian RSL....
The harder the various Australian Governments push these absurd laws the futher behind the Australian IT industry is going to be.
And I suppose that next you will saying that australian society will fall down next, and become nothing but a heap of junk because of this. Funny thing is though, just to north of Australia, is a little country known as Singapore. Much tight laws (no porn allowed[1], or chewing gum (or is that one an urban myth..))...
Newsflash. The economic world doesn't revolve around IT. The only people who think that are the people that have the most to gain from it. The reason the "dot com" bubble burst is because of reasoning like this. IT is the solution to everyone's problem in the entire world. E-commerce will save everyone. Unless of course the people that run these companies have no idea on how to run a company, go bust, losing millions in investments. Yes, that would be a good reason why the economy would slow. With a population of 19 million people, I would say on a overall scale that Australia is actually doing quite well in the overall stakes in regards to IT. No we don't have a Microsoft, an Intel, a Red Hat, instead, we have companies that do the things they do well without all of the publicity (see http://it.fairfax.com.au/networking/20010220/A2331 5-2001Feb19.html) for an idea of what I am talking about.
[1] The no porn I am fairly certain of because it says so on the cards you fill in on the plane when you are coming in to land.
An addendum to my above comment.
[1] This was after ACA's porn video sting on Monday night where they showed guys selling X rated video stuff to 13 year old kids....
Why not move to the ACT or NT... According to that great bastion of truth, A Current Affair[1], the ACT and NT have extremely liberal laws in regards to X rated material. That is, they are the only Australian controlled state or territory where X rated material is being sold...
SOCOG (The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) recently (~6 months ago) got fined for not providing a web site the was suitable for the blind (I think). Someone complained about the SOCOG site (I think it was actually the main olympic site), was unfriendly to those who are blind. The government department gave SOCOG 1 or 2 months to fix the site. They didn't do this, so they got fined. SOCOG's excuse was that it would have taken them 6 months to bring it up to speed. The committee didn't buy it and then fined SOCOG a fair amount of money.
Is this fair? Dead right! It ain't to hard to put alt text into the images section (grep img | grep -v alt will find all those images with alt tags), as well as everything else. As they say, a stitch in time saves nine.
I now have a credit card, and have thought about using it over the internet a couple of times, but then decided against this ( and no, I wasn't because I had maxxed(?) it out, but that won't take to long).
My primary concern is with whether the link is secure (I have seen one site where they didn't have any security and wanted people to put in their credit card details). It is more to do with what happens once they have my credit card number. Who exactly am I dealing with here? Anyone with a little bit of money can get their own domain, can get a security certificate from Thwaites or some one similar, and can set up a secure server (and DNS and email servers for that matter) fairly cheaply. One Australian magazine even included on their
cover cd ezimerchant for setting up this up (http://www.pcauthority.com.au/cd.asp?TOCID=256). It isn't all that difficult for them to set up a nice looking professional site either. So how do I know they are ridgy didge? How do I know that are not a dog[1]? Put simply, I don't. This is one thing that has kept me away from e-commerce (apart from all of the other security concerns), even though I have been on the web for 5 years.
[1] For those of you who haven't been around that long, there was a saying that basically said that you never knew who you where talking to on the internet, it could even be a dog.
Not true. In the past few years there have been some really impressive advances in solid-state accelerometer technologies. With a few good accelerometers and a fast DSP you can achieve very accurate intertial navigationn.
Over what time frame. Inertial navigation, even with the best fibre optic gyros, are still a long way from accurate in the long term. Dead reckoning works on the basis that the inertial navigation is good in the short to medium term, but in the long term, gyroscopic drift tends to blur the results (the error caused by the drift increases over time). Over the short term, GPS is woefully inaccurate, but once it has been running for a long enough period, this tends to reduce. The whole point of dead reckoning is to combine the two together so as to reduce to the overall errors in the position in both the short and long terms, giving better total accuracies. This of course depends on the Kalman Filter model (this is the standard practice), and how many terms is has within it. Even still, the first minute or two without of a measurement sequence will still have large errors within this. BTW, Kalman Filters also help reduce the errors in the long term due to it's updating process.
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Things like the Adelaide University (Australia) project involving photos taken by remote controlled plane with cameras attached, make alot more sense.
Of course, another reason for the delay is because of the military checking of the photos to make sure they aren't of politically sensitive areas :P
Also remember AAPT, which have every single Victorian Government link (or did), as well as a few other major links including Connect.com iirc. Also, Optus has the Southern Cross Link + the AARNET (ATM connection between every uni in Oz).
I wrote to all of the pollies representing me in the federal Australian parliment, along with all of those in the ministerial positions related to it, around 10 in all, and I only got one response from it. This wasn't an automated response, but told me to write to a committee that was dealing with this issue, not who was on the committe, nor where to get this info, nothing.
I was not happy...
ROTFLMAO...
.2 mph must either have cost you around $AU10,000 (which equates to around $US20,000), or it is bullshitting you. Handheld GPS units get at best 5 m accuracies, and without initialisation, maintaining satellite lock, and post computation, there is not many chances you'll go better.
I spent the better part of six months last year studying ways to improve the accuracy of systems such as this. Anything that tells you have a speed accuracy of
To improve the situation you need to add firstly a unit connected to the speedometer (or more likely the wheel hubs to measure distance, and don't forget to factor in tyre pressures changing into the errors involved here), then we also need to add a gyrometer, best bet here is a fibre optic gyro, and based on this and the use of a Kalman filter, your best bet would be around 2m. Then, factoring in loss of satellite lock, antenna orientation, signals bouncing off buildings, not maintaining 12 satellites (which you would be lucky to get full stop) as well as things such as urban tunnels, and the figure goes even lower. The main thing though is that maintaing lock on twelve satellites would be extremely marginal at best (lots below 15 degrees above the horizon, which adds to distort signals).....
Except for the fact that GPS has antispoofing....
I have seen companies save thousand, nay millions of dollars through the use of GIS. Saturn, a telco in New Zealand is one example.
Can someone on the western side of the pacific please set up a mirror. More specifically, the south western section. mirror.aarnet.edu.au hasn't been updated in over a year (not quite but almost) and the other former mirror, ftp.tas.gov.au has been removed because it wasn't considered necessary for the Tasmanian government....
Anyone... I would, but I don't think a 56k link would solve any problems....
loose another IT dude that can bring the country another couple of hundred grand a year You wish....
Yes, it is correct actually. The mandatory sentencing debate would have been the same if it had WA, Vic, Qld, or and other state in Australia.
Here in Australia, there is an ongoing debate as to whether farmers should us genetically modified crops, including canola, or whether they should just use normal crops. This is a debate that has special significance to the farming community especially. The current view is that GM crops shouldn't be used and on of the main reasons for this is because the EU has banned the importation of GM crops, and therefore the farmers would be losing a potential market. When you consider the size of the European market, especially in financial terms, it makes a lot of sense to not use GM crops. If other markets including the US and Middle East follow this trend, then Monsato will hopefully have a patent that is useless.
Basically I wouldn't say a thing. Most lecturers keep the same assignment year after year after year (when you repeat subjects you find these things out). The lecturer will not generally be concerned unless you copy word for word straight out of the solutions. If you have a understanding of the problem, you should be able to rephrase the answer in your own terms. This is probably the best defence against cheating.
Isn't it a bit ironic that people would want to pay to be able to freely trade copyrighted music.... or is it just me.
This statements just hits a hipocrisy something shocking. Unauthorised access to a computer, using the telephone system for illegal activities... If the police wanted to, then they could bring up some serious charges. What is defence going to be? It's just like someone giving you the master keys to a bank, and then robbing the bank. I hope someone goes after him with a big stick...
Yes you are correct. I had mental blank at the time. He is still the head of the vic division, and even if he wasn't, he still be making sure he put in his 2c (or should that be 2.2c incuding GST), into everything...
...but this time with X rated material.
Didn't you watch A Current Affair... In actual fact, you can only get X rated materials in ACT and NT in Australia. You can get R rated stuff everywhere else though. Of course, you could else look in the local paper for someone to deliver you these X rated materials (the whole point of the ACA story).... aca.ninemsn.com.au (note it doesn't work in konqueror, bloody browser detects...)
We're generally not in the habit of making our voting choices on a single issue.
True in most cases.
We tend to consider a party's/candidate's entire policy platform when it comes to filling in a ballot. Generally true. It also depends on how our parents voted, how we where brought up... How specific policies affect both us and the community around us. Before the last federal election, I was talking to someone about the GST, and he said that even though it would benefit him at all (large wage earner), he could see the benefits it would give to the rest of the community, so this change his vote from a traditional labor man (and union rep), to a liberal vote.
In general if the political system is not ingrained in you (i.e., your have been brainwashed since you where a child, you have been brainwashed at uni into thinking socalism is the answer to the worlds problems, yeah right!), then it all comes down to a choice of the lesser of 2 evils. Much like in most societies that would consider themselves a democracy (can anyone say Bush v Gore).
You see, guns aren't actually necessary for most people.... Oh yes they are. Any day now the Indonesian and Japanese are going to come down through the Top End (assuming of course that aren't eaten by the crocodiles, snakes, spiders,... general nasties that us Aussies have in all of our backyards, fighting for room with the kangaroos, koalas and the BBQ with the shrimp on it), and the only way to stop these invaders is the good old shotgun... Actually, there are those in rural Australia that do believe this to be true, and have secret caches of weapons in case this does occur. I kid you not. This is also the areas where One Nation does well in member support. yeah,...the nationals are sticking up for us enough... we need guns cause the army would save us, and the yanks won't save us.... Just as Bruce Ruskin (?) head of the Victorian RSL....
And what is to stop them know, ala Kerr and Gough...
Our politicians don't make overt displays of religious ferver. Three words. Reverend Fred Nile
The harder the various Australian Governments push these absurd laws the futher behind the Australian IT industry is going to be. And I suppose that next you will saying that australian society will fall down next, and become nothing but a heap of junk because of this. Funny thing is though, just to north of Australia, is a little country known as Singapore. Much tight laws (no porn allowed[1], or chewing gum (or is that one an urban myth..))... Newsflash. The economic world doesn't revolve around IT. The only people who think that are the people that have the most to gain from it. The reason the "dot com" bubble burst is because of reasoning like this. IT is the solution to everyone's problem in the entire world. E-commerce will save everyone. Unless of course the people that run these companies have no idea on how to run a company, go bust, losing millions in investments. Yes, that would be a good reason why the economy would slow. With a population of 19 million people, I would say on a overall scale that Australia is actually doing quite well in the overall stakes in regards to IT. No we don't have a Microsoft, an Intel, a Red Hat, instead, we have companies that do the things they do well without all of the publicity (see http://it.fairfax.com.au/networking/20010220/A2331 5-2001Feb19.html) for an idea of what I am talking about.
[1] The no porn I am fairly certain of because it says so on the cards you fill in on the plane when you are coming in to land.
An addendum to my above comment. [1] This was after ACA's porn video sting on Monday night where they showed guys selling X rated video stuff to 13 year old kids....
Why not move to the ACT or NT... According to that great bastion of truth, A Current Affair[1], the ACT and NT have extremely liberal laws in regards to X rated material. That is, they are the only Australian controlled state or territory where X rated material is being sold...
Is this fair? Dead right! It ain't to hard to put alt text into the images section (grep img | grep -v alt will find all those images with alt tags), as well as everything else. As they say, a stitch in time saves nine.
My primary concern is with whether the link is secure (I have seen one site where they didn't have any security and wanted people to put in their credit card details). It is more to do with what happens once they have my credit card number. Who exactly am I dealing with here? Anyone with a little bit of money can get their own domain, can get a security certificate from Thwaites or some one similar, and can set up a secure server (and DNS and email servers for that matter) fairly cheaply. One Australian magazine even included on their cover cd ezimerchant for setting up this up (http://www.pcauthority.com.au/cd.asp?TOCID=256). It isn't all that difficult for them to set up a nice looking professional site either. So how do I know they are ridgy didge? How do I know that are not a dog[1]? Put simply, I don't. This is one thing that has kept me away from e-commerce (apart from all of the other security concerns), even though I have been on the web for 5 years. [1] For those of you who haven't been around that long, there was a saying that basically said that you never knew who you where talking to on the internet, it could even be a dog.
Over what time frame. Inertial navigation, even with the best fibre optic gyros, are still a long way from accurate in the long term. Dead reckoning works on the basis that the inertial navigation is good in the short to medium term, but in the long term, gyroscopic drift tends to blur the results (the error caused by the drift increases over time). Over the short term, GPS is woefully inaccurate, but once it has been running for a long enough period, this tends to reduce. The whole point of dead reckoning is to combine the two together so as to reduce to the overall errors in the position in both the short and long terms, giving better total accuracies. This of course depends on the Kalman Filter model (this is the standard practice), and how many terms is has within it. Even still, the first minute or two without of a measurement sequence will still have large errors within this. BTW, Kalman Filters also help reduce the errors in the long term due to it's updating process.