Hummm Shouldn't it be made even simpler to add POIs than RTFM? Think about it? Things like phone number and website should be far more automated when editing than that. After all people are adding this for free when they feel like it. It is not exactly a fun hobby.
Ideally one big motor is the way to go. But their are reasons for using more than one. The Falcon 9 has an engine out capability so having on of the motors fail is not game over. Also they did it for production reasons. They use the same motor with some minnor modifications for both the first and second stage which saves money. You have one production line for both motors and one stock of most of the parts for the motors. The Falcon 9 is interesting because it is not the most "efficient' design but the most cost effective. They could replace the steel tanks with LiAl allow and save a good amount of weight, replace the second stage with a LH/LOX burning second stage, or even replace the first stage with a liquid CH4 first stage with a large single motor. The Flacon is built more like a DC-3 than say the Hughes H-1.
That isn't really fair and some of the the issues it brings up are real. Frankly the adding POIs I find a bit confusing. Some people will outline the building and or parking lot while others do not. I have added some POIs myself but I found it a bit limited. I found no way to add a phone number to a POI or a website which seems a bit silly. IMHO I think OSM should create a FourSquare type app for check ins and work hard to encourage local businesses to add themselves as POIs. In fact a local business POI could be a source of revenue for OSM as well as data. The other issue is that OSM uses the Wikipedia style of Open vs the Linux style of Open. While anybody can can take the Linux source and fork it if you want to add code to Linux you have to get your changes approved. On OSM just about anyone has commit privileges Nothing stops me from creating a fake account and trashing the data with bad info. Sure it will get fixed but it will take time. Finally paying people to work on a project can produce a more complete data set. Some things are really hard and have a limited market. For those areas FOSS just doesn't work all that well. A good example is 3d Cad. None of the 3D programs really compete with SolidWorks, ProE, and Autodesk's products. The same is true right now for mapping. Go to Enterprise Or on open street map and on Google maps. Which has more street names? Which has more POIs? I really like OSM and think that more people should support it but TomToms comments are true. You will get a better, more complete map from them than OSM for not much money. Now if we could get local states, towns, and other entities to start adding data to OSM than that could change but with just people like me adding POIs from memory when we feel like it... Well not likely. And just for the record Google maps can also have bad data in them. Thing is that they have more data to start with.
I did a film researcher is making the claim that it is "propaganda". I promise you that no where in that manual is the word propaganda is used. That film researcher doesn't know that the word means. Not only that but odds are he is allowing an anti military bias to color his statement leading to that error. To imply that this is propaganda is to further compound the error.
Propaganda? So are we trying to convince people that we should fight space aliens that attack from under water?
Recruitment != Propaganda.
Even things like the Thunderbirds and Blue Angles are for recruitment and public relations. Things like fleet day, airshows, and even cooperating with model airplane makers fit that category.
Yep the lack of SATA is a real PITA. I have found only two ARM boards that support SATA but they only have one port. Give me two SATA ports and you now have a low power NAS or and or VOIP box.
I can see you point but sometimes you use editors on files besides source code. I have had to import data from massive for the day text files that had issues. This was back in the DOS days so my choices where to write a program in Pascal to fix it or write a macro in Sprint. If I was doing it once I would write a macro in Sprint. If I was going to do it on a regular basis I would do it in Pascal. Now today I often just write a program in Perl or Python to deal with it but If I was an Emacs wiz I might use Emacs.
I used microemacs back on the Amiga but the learning curve on it is just so high. Add in that IDEs now do so much more than just editing text and the benefit to time ratio for emacs just isn't their for me. Too bad because I would really like to use it or or vi but their are must not enough hours in the day.
Don't you think that is a bit of an over statement? I mean it isn't like like when Germany moved into the Sudetenland! You have to pick your line and harmless GPS jamming is not the same thing as killing people like when NK torpedoed a SK ship.
If there was recoverable gas or oil in Vermont then Vermont wouldn't have passed the law. Vermont has no shale gas so this is a do nothing law that has zero impact. If Vermont wanted to actually do something they could just outlaw the sale of Shale gas in state and not allow any new natural gas stoves, hot water heaters, heaters, or power plants.... Of course that would mean that Vermont would have to build more coal, nuclear, or oil fired power plants and the people of Vermont would have to pay more for energy. Dumb law, dump story, dump supporters getting excited over nothing... Kind of like if Florida banned mountain top removal coal mining. A whole lot of silly posturing.
It doesn't. Vermont has as far as anyone can tell no shale natural gas reserves. This law is as usless as it would be for for Iowa to ban the destruction of coral reefs in state or Florida to ban moose hunting.
I think you are under estimating the value of QNX. Frankly reliability for Blackberry users is a big deal. Having a phone that doesn't just reboot or that you have to reboot would be great. The fact that it is a real-time OS could be even more important. With a RTOS it should be possible to keep the performance snappy not matter what. If a task gets too slow or locked up you should have no problem with switching back to the home screen and killing it. The fact that they could make a UI that never bogs down could be a really big deal.
They do. It is called an Inertial navigation system. The problem with an INS is that they drift over time so you must update it. To update it you can use GPS, Loran when it was available, or celestial. If you are near enough to land you can also use a fix from radar. Out of all these methods GPS is the most accurate. INS has been in use for a very long time.
1. That is incorrect. In Korea the US did have issues with air superiority until we deployed the F-86 and even then it was touch and go. 2. Since then we have had air superiority because we have spent the most to develop it and keep it but even over vietnam we only had a roughly 1:1 kill ratio.
Guess what? The same thing has been said about just about every aircraft ever developed. The F-4 was big and expensive and people said we would be better off just buying more F8Us. The F-15 was big and expensive and didn't see combat for a decade after it's first flight. And so on and so on. The F-15 is late 1960s tech. It is older than most of you on this board. It is now getting threatened by SU-32s and Su-37s.
Yes they are saying it about Windows Phone 8 Which is going to be based one Windows 8 RT. You just don't pay enough attention. And yea they said the same thing about Windows 6 and 6.5 When the iPhone first started to clean WMs clock.
I would go with a rooted nook because it has Bluetooth which the Fire lacks. It also has a faster CPU than the PI. The real benefit of a rooted Nook would be Google Nav. If you have an android phone that you can use as a hotspot you can use this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comptonsoft.tgps_lite To share your GPS with the Nook or any other rooted android tablet. You could also work this in just for fun http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10227 And for real fun you could combine this. http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11028 With this http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11058 and this http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10530 To make a GPS updated IMU that would mimic a GPS but keep your location for short periods of time if you drop GPS lock. And Yes I have been toying with the idea of mounting a Nook color or some other 7" tablet on my motorcycle handle bars using a RAM mount or on a tank bag for navigation.
"Sparkfun has these BlueSMIRF BT modules [sparkfun.com] which can be connected to one of the uarts of the Pi." It is $65! A bluetooth USB dongle that works with linux is much cheaper.
1. The Lumia 900 is not a CDMA LTE device. Which in the US kind of shoots it in the foot. Verizon which is number one in the US is CDMA as is Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T are GSM CDMA carriers. 2. There are three players right now. Don't forget RIM. While not doing great these days they have more marketshare than WP7. 3. The Lumia 900 may not run WP8 which is really going to suck for those people that bought the "first real Windows Phone 7 phone". 4. Windows 8 is the real OS that will make Microsoft competitive in the market.... Except that is what they said about WM6 WM6.5 and WP7 so I would not hold my breath.
While not as cheap might I suggest this. http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10585 Plus maybe a Nook Color rooted or any number of the Android tablets on the market? You would have lots of IO, A touch screen and so on. Assuming that your phone is Android or maybe symbian you can use the GPS and wifi in your phone for the tablet so you have 3g and nav. Just an idea.
I live in the US and guess what? Everything you said about the EU is also true here. Yes the Pi strikes me as a modern C64 but even cheaper. What is needed IMHO is more hardware add ons for it. Motor controls and such. A Pi + Wifi Dongle + Webcam + old RC car == Wifi controlled rover or robot. Or you could use Bluetooth + an old nokia phone for control if you really wanted too. As a desktop it is going to be limited in performance but still usable.
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Hummm Shouldn't it be made even simpler to add POIs than RTFM? Think about it? Things like phone number and website should be far more automated when editing than that. After all people are adding this for free when they feel like it. It is not exactly a fun hobby.
Ideally one big motor is the way to go. But their are reasons for using more than one. The Falcon 9 has an engine out capability so having on of the motors fail is not game over. Also they did it for production reasons. They use the same motor with some minnor modifications for both the first and second stage which saves money. You have one production line for both motors and one stock of most of the parts for the motors.
The Falcon 9 is interesting because it is not the most "efficient' design but the most cost effective. They could replace the steel tanks with LiAl allow and save a good amount of weight, replace the second stage with a LH/LOX burning second stage, or even replace the first stage with a liquid CH4 first stage with a large single motor.
The Flacon is built more like a DC-3 than say the Hughes H-1.
That isn't really fair and some of the the issues it brings up are real.
Frankly the adding POIs I find a bit confusing. Some people will outline the building and or parking lot while others do not. I have added some POIs myself but I found it a bit limited. I found no way to add a phone number to a POI or a website which seems a bit silly. IMHO I think OSM should create a FourSquare type app for check ins and work hard to encourage local businesses to add themselves as POIs. In fact a local business POI could be a source of revenue for OSM as well as data.
The other issue is that OSM uses the Wikipedia style of Open vs the Linux style of Open. While anybody can can take the Linux source and fork it if you want to add code to Linux you have to get your changes approved. On OSM just about anyone has commit privileges Nothing stops me from creating a fake account and trashing the data with bad info. Sure it will get fixed but it will take time.
Finally paying people to work on a project can produce a more complete data set. Some things are really hard and have a limited market. For those areas FOSS just doesn't work all that well. A good example is 3d Cad. None of the 3D programs really compete with SolidWorks, ProE, and Autodesk's products. The same is true right now for mapping.
Go to Enterprise Or on open street map and on Google maps. Which has more street names? Which has more POIs?
I really like OSM and think that more people should support it but TomToms comments are true. You will get a better, more complete map from them than OSM for not much money.
Now if we could get local states, towns, and other entities to start adding data to OSM than that could change but with just people like me adding POIs from memory when we feel like it... Well not likely.
And just for the record Google maps can also have bad data in them. Thing is that they have more data to start with.
I did a film researcher is making the claim that it is "propaganda". I promise you that no where in that manual is the word propaganda is used. That film researcher doesn't know that the word means. Not only that but odds are he is allowing an anti military bias to color his statement leading to that error. To imply that this is propaganda is to further compound the error.
An Arm board with two SATA ports running OpenFiler would be a "proper NAS".
One of the strengths of FOSS is the ability to create systems using off the shelf hardware and FOSS software.
USB is not going to fast enough or reliable enough for anything but a home NAS.
You can get as I said two ARM boards that I know of with SATA ports. http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/03/01/new-low-cost-cortex-a8-board-from-freescale/ and http://www.hawkboard.org/
Both lack GigaE and more than one SATA port.
Now this is an option http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/arm-sbc.php.
Propaganda?
So are we trying to convince people that we should fight space aliens that attack from under water?
Recruitment != Propaganda.
Even things like the Thunderbirds and Blue Angles are for recruitment and public relations. Things like fleet day, airshows, and even cooperating with model airplane makers fit that category.
Yep the lack of SATA is a real PITA. I have found only two ARM boards that support SATA but they only have one port.
Give me two SATA ports and you now have a low power NAS or and or VOIP box.
I can see you point but sometimes you use editors on files besides source code. I have had to import data from massive for the day text files that had issues. This was back in the DOS days so my choices where to write a program in Pascal to fix it or write a macro in Sprint. If I was doing it once I would write a macro in Sprint. If I was going to do it on a regular basis I would do it in Pascal.
Now today I often just write a program in Perl or Python to deal with it but If I was an Emacs wiz I might use Emacs.
I used microemacs back on the Amiga but the learning curve on it is just so high. Add in that IDEs now do so much more than just editing text and the benefit to time ratio for emacs just isn't their for me.
Too bad because I would really like to use it or or vi but their are must not enough hours in the day.
Don't you think that is a bit of an over statement? I mean it isn't like like when Germany moved into the Sudetenland! You have to pick your line and harmless GPS jamming is not the same thing as killing people like when NK torpedoed a SK ship.
If there was recoverable gas or oil in Vermont then Vermont wouldn't have passed the law. Vermont has no shale gas so this is a do nothing law that has zero impact. If Vermont wanted to actually do something they could just outlaw the sale of Shale gas in state and not allow any new natural gas stoves, hot water heaters, heaters, or power plants....
Of course that would mean that Vermont would have to build more coal, nuclear, or oil fired power plants and the people of Vermont would have to pay more for energy.
Dumb law, dump story, dump supporters getting excited over nothing... Kind of like if Florida banned mountain top removal coal mining. A whole lot of silly posturing.
It doesn't. Vermont has as far as anyone can tell no shale natural gas reserves. This law is as usless as it would be for for Iowa to ban the destruction of coral reefs in state or Florida to ban moose hunting.
I think you are under estimating the value of QNX. Frankly reliability for Blackberry users is a big deal. Having a phone that doesn't just reboot or that you have to reboot would be great. The fact that it is a real-time OS could be even more important. With a RTOS it should be possible to keep the performance snappy not matter what. If a task gets too slow or locked up you should have no problem with switching back to the home screen and killing it. The fact that they could make a UI that never bogs down could be a really big deal.
But it could case a bigger one. WAR = death, destruction, cost, and suffering.
They do. It is called an Inertial navigation system. The problem with an INS is that they drift over time so you must update it. To update it you can use GPS, Loran when it was available, or celestial. If you are near enough to land you can also use a fix from radar. Out of all these methods GPS is the most accurate.
INS has been in use for a very long time.
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Ricin?
You mean like Organic Salt? http://www.organicauthority.com/mojo-foods/organic-salt-may-save-your-life.html
Hurry we need to get to work on Chimps and Fins so when the Galactics show up we will already be patrons.
1. That is incorrect. In Korea the US did have issues with air superiority until we deployed the F-86 and even then it was touch and go.
2. Since then we have had air superiority because we have spent the most to develop it and keep it but even over vietnam we only had a roughly 1:1 kill ratio.
Guess what? The same thing has been said about just about every aircraft ever developed. The F-4 was big and expensive and people said we would be better off just buying more F8Us. The F-15 was big and expensive and didn't see combat for a decade after it's first flight.
And so on and so on.
The F-15 is late 1960s tech. It is older than most of you on this board. It is now getting threatened by SU-32s and Su-37s.
Yes they are saying it about Windows Phone 8 Which is going to be based one Windows 8 RT. You just don't pay enough attention. And yea they said the same thing about Windows 6 and 6.5 When the iPhone first started to clean WMs clock.
I would go with a rooted nook because it has Bluetooth which the Fire lacks. It also has a faster CPU than the PI. The real benefit of a rooted Nook would be Google Nav.
If you have an android phone that you can use as a hotspot you can use this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comptonsoft.tgps_lite
To share your GPS with the Nook or any other rooted android tablet.
You could also work this in just for fun http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10227
And for real fun you could combine this.
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11028
With this http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11058
and this http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10530
To make a GPS updated IMU that would mimic a GPS but keep your location for short periods of time if you drop GPS lock.
And Yes I have been toying with the idea of mounting a Nook color or some other 7" tablet on my motorcycle handle bars using a RAM mount or on a tank bag for navigation.
"Sparkfun has these BlueSMIRF BT modules [sparkfun.com] which can be connected to one of the uarts of the Pi."
It is $65!
A bluetooth USB dongle that works with linux is much cheaper.
1. The Lumia 900 is not a CDMA LTE device. Which in the US kind of shoots it in the foot. Verizon which is number one in the US is CDMA as is Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T are GSM CDMA carriers.
2. There are three players right now. Don't forget RIM. While not doing great these days they have more marketshare than WP7.
3. The Lumia 900 may not run WP8 which is really going to suck for those people that bought the "first real Windows Phone 7 phone".
4. Windows 8 is the real OS that will make Microsoft competitive in the market.... Except that is what they said about WM6 WM6.5 and WP7 so I would not hold my breath.
While not as cheap might I suggest this.
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10585
Plus maybe a Nook Color rooted or any number of the Android tablets on the market?
You would have lots of IO, A touch screen and so on. Assuming that your phone is Android or maybe symbian you can use the GPS and wifi in your phone for the tablet so you have 3g and nav.
Just an idea.
I live in the US and guess what? Everything you said about the EU is also true here.
Yes the Pi strikes me as a modern C64 but even cheaper. What is needed IMHO is more hardware add ons for it. Motor controls and such.
A Pi + Wifi Dongle + Webcam + old RC car == Wifi controlled rover or robot. Or you could use Bluetooth + an old nokia phone for control if you really wanted too.
As a desktop it is going to be limited in performance but still usable.