1. Sky visibility can significantly degrade your accuracy via WAAS. Personally, working in a lot of areas with random overhead cover (trees) I prefer NDGPS to WAAS even if I have to download the corrections and post correct. In a test I ran in a suburban forested park NDGPS was able to meet the 1 Meter accuracy claims even with heavy overhead (40+ foot trees)in a comparison vs 6inch pixel aerial photography. WAAS consistantly got a ~2-5 meter error on the same locations.
2. NDGPS stations are already failing in our area. Of the Three stations that are barely within the range at which they are useful, none consistantly provide base station data via the internet, and 1 has failed completely. If the current funding level is approved ($0) I don't see any improvement in the near future. Thus my company has invested in our own DGPS base station to guartee 1 meter accuracy in the event of NDGPS unavailability, despite the downsides (maintenance, requires a survey accurate point to permenantly mount the basestation, basestation must run at least one hour before and after field collection of data to insure coverage).
3. In our current contract with a US government agency that specified 1 meter accuracy GPS, WAAS was not an acceptable correction option. So it was either rely on unreliable Government funded base stations, or buy our own. (BTW, I'm glad we did buy our own).
Why not get the best of both worlds? Form a seperate company and lease to yourself? That way you can get the tax write-off for the main company, and if your leasing company just finances the purchase, they can get tax write-offs too. Keeps the nasty depreciating items away from your primary (publicly traded) company, and insures that you can do as needed with the hardware without worrying about having to cough it up?
How do you think this would apply to Cell phone instant messaging logs? I've heard from some people that cell phones save even the drafts of SMS messages. Would intentionally searching someone's Cell Phone logs be wire tapping since the logger is already present by default?
Intergraph Patents all relate from their own custom unix architecture that they abandoned in the early 90s (suckered into windows/intel). Their first cases involved their claim that Intel was trying to strong arm them to get their IP... and I thought their claim was very valid. Unfortunately now they seem to have made a business unit that's sole purpose is to chase suspected patent violators. Some of their other products are quite useful (mapping and GIS) though, if overpriced and underhyped.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that very little matter was actually destroyed by a nuclear weapon, it just spreads it around more. (see parent post for reference).
Here's a thought for the future. What if the number of spammers (thorough email, push advertising, etc) trying to spam you gets so high that the only way to wade through it is to use filtering. Combine this with "intelligent agents" (sarcasm) sifting the data that's comming to your door, and you might never see a single deep discussion or controverial thought again.
Will spammers, not the government, cause us to censor our own experience of the interent (and all other news sources)?
I'm not about to make some great change in my life, but I picked up this book anyway because the description on the origininal slashdot article made me curious. And I will say I thought it was a good read, although many of the subjects of the book were already successful and considering the risk of throwing it all away, and almost every one of them was extraordinary (else they wouldn't have made an interesting story).
I'd say I probilby had the opposite reaction to what most people had to the book however. Before I read it I was a little ticked at my job (especially employers). While I was reading the book I've become a lot more satisfied. It's not that I do something great (I'm a mapping and information systems consultant for local governments), it just made me think about the world, and my place in it. I think I appreciate the day to day journey of life a lot more after some serious consideration.
Now if we could only get someone to explain relationships with the opposite sex in a manner that would make me more satisified with my current situation, I'm sure we'd have an all time best seller!;)
1. we had a departmental server with a Promise IDE RAID controller, RAID 5 and 4x60gb. For a max of 125 users it worked fairly well for small files, but if you started to push around 50-100mb files the difference with SCSI RAID was really noticeable. We did have a problem with just one of the disks in the array failing, and there still being data loss though. It happened 3 times. Now that server has been retired and we have a shiny new SCSI RAID.
2. A client bought 2 dell precision workstations with the promise IDE RAID controller, level 1 (striping). the perfomance gain over IDE was not that impressive (not really up to SCSI level). and both the original cards failed, but now they seem to work fine.
3. Another client bought a dell precision with the IDE RAID, level 0 (mirroring) (paranoid). of course there was no perfomance gain, but this system seems to be rock solid as a standalone workstation with critical data.
Do not recomend Dell to small business clients. We recomended our clients purchase the best support dell had to offer, however, dell would not send out a technician until someone sat down with them on the phone and pulled cards and cables. I asked our Dell rep (we do a lot of business with dell in our own offices) how much it would cost to get "I call, you come" service. THEY DO NOT OFFER IT. (home buyers get this kind of support but business clients are expected to have a technician on staff). Some of our clients have 5 employees and think that they are in the big time!
I now recomend IBM equipment to all my clients. They cost more, but if you tell them that you don't feel comfortable opening the case, they come out and do it for you! And now I don't have do Dell's job for them!
How many computers does your library have anyway? I live in a city of 1/4 of a million and the main branch of our library has 10 public computers. Put you money where you mouth is, or perhaps the government will just tax us so that they can offer that solution?
Looks like they finally caught on and are selling the solution (to a problem they created)! Now if they could only sell me some snake oil that would keep me from recieving their stupid disks in the mail! Perhaps we are looking at the future of marketing here, pay the corporations hush money or they will bug you to death.
Consultants - If you can't be part of the solution, there's money to be made redefining the problem.
This may be totally off base, but do any of you Teleco people out there know how many users can get access on a single 3G cell? might this be significantly less people that are within that cell (and wanted access), not only within a city, but in the suburbs too?
I assume that you are talking about the wide carriage 1200c (now 1220) inkjets. I'd be curious which Windows OSs you were running because it took HP 2 years to write a decent NT driver and now its taking them 2 years to write a 2000 driver. As windows printers they always installed helper programs in the OS that were about impossible to remove, once you installed the driver the only way to remove it was to reinstall the OS (We tried registy removals, uninstallers, even HP tech support said reinstall). We had two 1200s because one was either on its way in for warenty work or on its way back from the shop at all times. Can't say I'd ever recomend them.
I think we are looking at an entirely new business model here and a new field that is rapidly growing! Move over dot coms here come the big players of the 21st century and the beauty of it is that you don't have to work to meet your goals all you have do is have an idea and get the patend first.
I wonder if this is not the single largest problem with a service economy, defining the value that you produce. Put another way, if this guy sold shares in his company, MercExchange, publicly would you buy them? And what would that say about you?
Would GPL software development end if all the big corportations decided not to respect it? Of course all the members of the open source community would fight them tooth and nail, but that is not the point.
The essence of the open source movement is that the motivation comes not from money, but from the recognition of achievement, and sometimes not even anything more than ones own personal recognition, not the recognition of others.
In its purest sense sharing your work in an opens source fashion is like giving money to the homeless person you see on the street, you and he are the only people who know about the transaction. However this hypothetical person uses the money (or software) is completely beyond your control. If they go out and do the wrong thing, buy booze, or sell it without giving away the source code. The faith to take that chance and give away something that is valuable to you without strings attached is the real force that powers open source. As long as people are willing to make that leap with their work, and with the work of others that they have improved upon open source will never die.
And the Microsofts of the world days are numbered. And they Know it.
Slashdot Mirror
Three items of note:
1. Sky visibility can significantly degrade your accuracy via WAAS. Personally, working in a lot of areas with random overhead cover (trees) I prefer NDGPS to WAAS even if I have to download the corrections and post correct. In a test I ran in a suburban forested park NDGPS was able to meet the 1 Meter accuracy claims even with heavy overhead (40+ foot trees)in a comparison vs 6inch pixel aerial photography. WAAS consistantly got a ~2-5 meter error on the same locations.
2. NDGPS stations are already failing in our area. Of the Three stations that are barely within the range at which they are useful, none consistantly provide base station data via the internet, and 1 has failed completely. If the current funding level is approved ($0) I don't see any improvement in the near future. Thus my company has invested in our own DGPS base station to guartee 1 meter accuracy in the event of NDGPS unavailability, despite the downsides (maintenance, requires a survey accurate point to permenantly mount the basestation, basestation must run at least one hour before and after field collection of data to insure coverage).
3. In our current contract with a US government agency that specified 1 meter accuracy GPS, WAAS was not an acceptable correction option. So it was either rely on unreliable Government funded base stations, or buy our own. (BTW, I'm glad we did buy our own).
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Why not get the best of both worlds? Form a seperate company and lease to yourself? That way you can get the tax write-off for the main company, and if your leasing company just finances the purchase, they can get tax write-offs too. Keeps the nasty depreciating items away from your primary (publicly traded) company, and insures that you can do as needed with the hardware without worrying about having to cough it up?
yeah, but can it do the robot?
http://www.theharrowgroup.com/
not daily by a long shot but an interesting listen none the less.
How do you think this would apply to Cell phone instant messaging logs? I've heard from some people that cell phones save even the drafts of SMS messages. Would intentionally searching someone's Cell Phone logs be wire tapping since the logger is already present by default?
Intergraph Patents all relate from their own custom unix architecture that they abandoned in the early 90s (suckered into windows/intel). Their first cases involved their claim that Intel was trying to strong arm them to get their IP... and I thought their claim was very valid. Unfortunately now they seem to have made a business unit that's sole purpose is to chase suspected patent violators. Some of their other products are quite useful (mapping and GIS) though, if overpriced and underhyped.
check out http://www.intergraph.com/ip/cases.aspfor more info on the cases
and
http://www.intergraph.com/ip/tech.asp for info on how a software company ended up with all these hardware patents in the first place.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that very little matter was actually destroyed by a nuclear weapon, it just spreads it around more. (see parent post for reference).
Tamper protected like this!2 4682,3527597,00.html
http://www.techtv.com/unscrewed/ihateyou/story/0,
Then you can be really sure no one will copy your preview copy!
Just spam those idiots with their cellphones to death before the movie starts. They will be so anoyed they will turn them off!
Here's a thought for the future. What if the number of spammers (thorough email, push advertising, etc) trying to spam you gets so high that the only way to wade through it is to use filtering. Combine this with "intelligent agents" (sarcasm) sifting the data that's comming to your door, and you might never see a single deep discussion or controverial thought again.
Will spammers, not the government, cause us to censor our own experience of the interent (and all other news sources)?
I'm not about to make some great change in my life, but I picked up this book anyway because the description on the origininal slashdot article made me curious. And I will say I thought it was a good read, although many of the subjects of the book were already successful and considering the risk of throwing it all away, and almost every one of them was extraordinary (else they wouldn't have made an interesting story).
;)
I'd say I probilby had the opposite reaction to what most people had to the book however. Before I read it I was a little ticked at my job (especially employers). While I was reading the book I've become a lot more satisfied. It's not that I do something great (I'm a mapping and information systems consultant for local governments), it just made me think about the world, and my place in it. I think I appreciate the day to day journey of life a lot more after some serious consideration.
Now if we could only get someone to explain relationships with the opposite sex in a manner that would make me more satisified with my current situation, I'm sure we'd have an all time best seller!
Watch those raid numbers! I'll have to remember not to post to /. before coffee!
1. we had a departmental server with a Promise IDE RAID controller, RAID 5 and 4x60gb. For a max of 125 users it worked fairly well for small files, but if you started to push around 50-100mb files the difference with SCSI RAID was really noticeable. We did have a problem with just one of the disks in the array failing, and there still being data loss though. It happened 3 times. Now that server has been retired and we have a shiny new SCSI RAID.
2. A client bought 2 dell precision workstations with the promise IDE RAID controller, level 1 (striping). the perfomance gain over IDE was not that impressive (not really up to SCSI level). and both the original cards failed, but now they seem to work fine.
3. Another client bought a dell precision with the IDE RAID, level 0 (mirroring) (paranoid). of course there was no perfomance gain, but this system seems to be rock solid as a standalone workstation with critical data.
Do not recomend Dell to small business clients. We recomended our clients purchase the best support dell had to offer, however, dell would not send out a technician until someone sat down with them on the phone and pulled cards and cables. I asked our Dell rep (we do a lot of business with dell in our own offices) how much it would cost to get "I call, you come" service. THEY DO NOT OFFER IT. (home buyers get this kind of support but business clients are expected to have a technician on staff). Some of our clients have 5 employees and think that they are in the big time!
I now recomend IBM equipment to all my clients. They cost more, but if you tell them that you don't feel comfortable opening the case, they come out and do it for you! And now I don't have do Dell's job for them!
This site has about as many popunders as a Tripod site. Scary Huh. Too bad I'm stuck using windows at work
PLLLEEEAASE let this question make it to the final list!!!
How many computers does your library have anyway? I live in a city of 1/4 of a million and the main branch of our library has 10 public computers. Put you money where you mouth is, or perhaps the government will just tax us so that they can offer that solution?
Looks like they finally caught on and are selling the solution (to a problem they created)! Now if they could only sell me some snake oil that would keep me from recieving their stupid disks in the mail! Perhaps we are looking at the future of marketing here, pay the corporations hush money or they will bug you to death.
Consultants - If you can't be part of the solution, there's money to be made redefining the problem.
This may be totally off base, but do any of you Teleco people out there know how many users can get access on a single 3G cell? might this be significantly less people that are within that cell (and wanted access), not only within a city, but in the suburbs too?
Just try out this link:
http://www.fast-rewind.com/heathers.htm
Remember: NT/2000/XP with messaging service on only.
You should see it before the java popup, and it should say something about comming at their site from outside their menu.
I assume that you are talking about the wide carriage 1200c (now 1220) inkjets. I'd be curious which Windows OSs you were running because it took HP 2 years to write a decent NT driver and now its taking them 2 years to write a 2000 driver. As windows printers they always installed helper programs in the OS that were about impossible to remove, once you installed the driver the only way to remove it was to reinstall the OS (We tried registy removals, uninstallers, even HP tech support said reinstall). We had two 1200s because one was either on its way in for warenty work or on its way back from the shop at all times. Can't say I'd ever recomend them.
I think we are looking at an entirely new business model here and a new field that is rapidly growing! Move over dot coms here come the big players of the 21st century and the beauty of it is that you don't have to work to meet your goals all you have do is have an idea and get the patend first.
I wonder if this is not the single largest problem with a service economy, defining the value that you produce. Put another way, if this guy sold shares in his company, MercExchange, publicly would you buy them? And what would that say about you?
Would GPL software development end if all the big corportations decided not to respect it? Of course all the members of the open source community would fight them tooth and nail, but that is not the point.
The essence of the open source movement is that the motivation comes not from money, but from the recognition of achievement, and sometimes not even anything more than ones own personal recognition, not the recognition of others.
In its purest sense sharing your work in an opens source fashion is like giving money to the homeless person you see on the street, you and he are the only people who know about the transaction. However this hypothetical person uses the money (or software) is completely beyond your control. If they go out and do the wrong thing, buy booze, or sell it without giving away the source code. The faith to take that chance and give away something that is valuable to you without strings attached is the real force that powers open source. As long as people are willing to make that leap with their work, and with the work of others that they have improved upon open source will never die.
And the Microsofts of the world days are numbered. And they Know it.