"What, you couldn't even take the time to type out 4 additional characters for me?"
Lots of style guides would recommend that you spell out the word "four" rather than using the numeral. That was true even before TXT-speak, but I'd think that it's even more important with all the idiots who think "for" is spelled "4" and "too" or "to" (but never "two") are spelled "2."
Also, it's "curved to fit." What it fits, well... I think the last time I saw that phrase used to sell something, it was a feminine hygeine commercial.
Back in the days of the Atari, anyone could make a cartridge for that system.
I recall reading somewhere - perhaps in Steven Levy's Hackers - that it was a Big Deal when the first unofficial Atari VCS cartridge was released, because there was a lot of stuff that had to be reverse-engineered to make it happen, and Atari wasn't interested in helping with that. Yes, anyone could make a cartridge for that system, but Atari sure didn't want them to. I don't believe the situation was any different with the NES or SNES. If anything, it was easier to get Nintendo to license you the technology to do it their way than it was to get Atari to even consider licensing a game they hadn't written themselves.
Well, I'm a reasonably competent driver, and I had a '93 Saturn SL1 that would accelerate under demonic influence. The difference, though, is that it was easy to correct when it happened, so it never accelerated out of control for more than half a second or so.
In my case, it was an RFI problem with the cruise control. If I left the cruise on but canceled (i.e. hit the brake or the clutch but didn't turn off the switch) it would occasionally just spontaneously resume whatever speed it had last been set for. Since I only used the cruise on the freeway, that was usually quite a bit faster than I was going when the demons pushed the "resume" button.
The other featuer I've always wanted is to do profile slices of my rides to see climbing and descending rates, especially during races.
I was bored and it looked like an interesting project, so I added a couple of new fields to the GPSBabel xSV stylesheet code to allow direct creation of altitude-vs-distance plots like this one.
The code to do this should be available from CVS shortly, if it isn't already. Look in the 'reference' subdirectory for a style specification that will output files suitable for use in Gnuplot. Look at the end of the 'testo' script for a sample command line.
Oh, I forgot to mention, look at gpstrans for transferring data between your Vista and Linux. Works fine, and you don't have to use gpsbabel to get the data in a usable format.
Depending on what your definition of "a usable format" is, and keeping in mind that GPSBabel has some built-in customization for whatever your favorite xSV file format may be, why not just do
gpsbabel -i garmin -f/dev/tty00 -o [your-favorite-file-format] -F [filename]
and do everything in one step?
Not that this has anything to do with GPSTk, which is designed to solve an entirely different class of problems.
You misunderstand. My comment was intended to convey the notion that while Indiana does allow one to self-insure, it's really not practical for most people and is thus not really an alternative to insurance with a traditional insurance carrier. It's not just about signing a paper and being done with it.
Actually, if you read further, the $40,000 is just the deposit. If the time comes that you actually do need to pay up, that comes out of your own pocket. Then, you tell the state about it and they decide whether $40,000 is really enough or whether a bigger deposit will be required. The only time money comes out of that deposit is when you fail to pay up. At that point, you have 3 days to pay up or you'll be shopping for a traditional insurance carrier anyway.
For the record, I do carry insurance. With Progressive, even. If this program becomes available in my area, I'll probably even look into signing up (depending on the terms; if the Check Engine light comes on, I want to be allowed to unplug the insurance company's doodad and plug in my code reader.)
You need to supply proof in the form of a deposit of $40,000 for the first car and $20,000 for each additional car. See 140 IAC 1-7-3 (PDF format) for the gory details.
Most of us can't afford to tie up $40,000 cash just to avoid getting screwed by an insurance company.
If you have signed a contract that makes it impossible for you to satisfy the GPL's conditions (such as not restricting redistribution), you cannot distribute the software at all.
Wow, I was NOT aware of that section. I feel stupid. However, this doesn't change my standing on the subject or, I think, effect it in any way. In fact, in my view it reinforces Sveasoft's position and makes the people that are distributing the pre-release version in violation of the GPL.
However, contracts being what they are, Sveasoft also "signed" that contract, and thus they are also not allowed to distribute the software, including binaries. (IANAL, etc.)
The Las Vegas hotels hate this convention with a passion. Because the entire thing is populated by people that are so smart that they know the odds inside and out.
Y'know, they used to say the same thing about Comdex, but just knowing the odds doesn't seem to keep people from playing the odds. I've been to Vegas a few times, once for Comdex, and the casinos didn't seem appreciably less busy during Comdex than the other times. I suspect they were doing just fine, despite the number of otherwise intelligent people around.
Since the Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun, which is itself revolving around the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which is itself moving relative to other objects in the neighborhood, time travel as depicted in the Back To The Future movies is necessarily also space travel. It can't be that hard to tweak the math a bit to make you materialize somewhere else on the planet, or even on some other planet.
(Someone once wrote a very short science fiction story based on that concept, that went something like this: "Doctor Soandso looked into the cameras and announced loudly: 'Behold! The world's first time machine! I shall now transport myself six months into the future!' He barely had time to smile at his success before he froze solid in the depths of interstellar space." Obviously, the original author did a better job of it.)
According to a piece on All Things Considered yesterday, the RIAA's attempts to vilify "pirates" are apparently discouraging potential customers from buying online, even from legitimate stores like iTMS and Wal-Mart.
The last time you bought a six-pack of Bud Light at the Piggly Wiggly, Anheuser servers most likely recorded...
what you paid,
Okay, this part is reasonable
when that beer was brewed,
I can see that they might be able to guess at this with a fair degree of certainty, but how do they know I didn't somehow get a 6-pack that's been sitting at the back of the shelf for weeks? Sure, it's got a "born on" date printed on it, but that's not part of the UPC, so how are they getting it?
whether you purchased it warm or chilled,
Again, same thing: it's the same UPC; how would it know, other than in aggregate (i.e. the distributor writing down how many 6-packs are in the cooler when he gets there.) And even if it knows in aggregate, how does it know that the guy at the liquor store didn't move a bunch of warm Buds back into the cooler when the distributor's rep wasn't there?
and whether you could have gotten a better deal down the street.
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Also, it's "curved to fit." What it fits, well... I think the last time I saw that phrase used to sell something, it was a feminine hygeine commercial.
Actually only a few customers actually wanted to leave. The others were required by their terms of service to say "Me too!!! LOL"
Well, I'm a reasonably competent driver, and I had a '93 Saturn SL1 that would accelerate under demonic influence. The difference, though, is that it was easy to correct when it happened, so it never accelerated out of control for more than half a second or so.
In my case, it was an RFI problem with the cruise control. If I left the cruise on but canceled (i.e. hit the brake or the clutch but didn't turn off the switch) it would occasionally just spontaneously resume whatever speed it had last been set for. Since I only used the cruise on the freeway, that was usually quite a bit faster than I was going when the demons pushed the "resume" button.
But, again, not at all the same.
You google for "digits of e" and select the second result.
That would be 80 miles north of the border between North Dakota and Minnesota, no?
So you told them you live 80 miles north of a 200-mile-long north-south line, and you think they're confused?
I'm guessing you must live somewhere near Regina, but it's not entirely clear from your description.
The code to do this should be available from CVS shortly, if it isn't already. Look in the 'reference' subdirectory for a style specification that will output files suitable for use in Gnuplot. Look at the end of the 'testo' script for a sample command line.
Not that this has anything to do with GPSTk, which is designed to solve an entirely different class of problems.
You misunderstand. My comment was intended to convey the notion that while Indiana does allow one to self-insure, it's really not practical for most people and is thus not really an alternative to insurance with a traditional insurance carrier. It's not just about signing a paper and being done with it.
Actually, if you read further, the $40,000 is just the deposit. If the time comes that you actually do need to pay up, that comes out of your own pocket. Then, you tell the state about it and they decide whether $40,000 is really enough or whether a bigger deposit will be required. The only time money comes out of that deposit is when you fail to pay up. At that point, you have 3 days to pay up or you'll be shopping for a traditional insurance carrier anyway.
For the record, I do carry insurance. With Progressive, even. If this program becomes available in my area, I'll probably even look into signing up (depending on the terms; if the Check Engine light comes on, I want to be allowed to unplug the insurance company's doodad and plug in my code reader.)
Most of us can't afford to tie up $40,000 cash just to avoid getting screwed by an insurance company.
Which one that is is left as an exercise for the reader.
According to the blurb on their website, the van does more than just take pictures. It also builds a 3D model as it goes.
Since the Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun, which is itself revolving around the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which is itself moving relative to other objects in the neighborhood, time travel as depicted in the Back To The Future movies is necessarily also space travel. It can't be that hard to tweak the math a bit to make you materialize somewhere else on the planet, or even on some other planet.
(Someone once wrote a very short science fiction story based on that concept, that went something like this: "Doctor Soandso looked into the cameras and announced loudly: 'Behold! The world's first time machine! I shall now transport myself six months into the future!' He barely had time to smile at his success before he froze solid in the depths of interstellar space." Obviously, the original author did a better job of it.)
According to a piece on All Things Considered yesterday, the RIAA's attempts to vilify "pirates" are apparently discouraging potential customers from buying online, even from legitimate stores like iTMS and Wal-Mart.
Can you link to the audiobook version? I'd find it myself, but I'm so busy.
what you paid,
Okay, this part is reasonable
when that beer was brewed,
I can see that they might be able to guess at this with a fair degree of certainty, but how do they know I didn't somehow get a 6-pack that's been sitting at the back of the shelf for weeks? Sure, it's got a "born on" date printed on it, but that's not part of the UPC, so how are they getting it?
whether you purchased it warm or chilled,
Again, same thing: it's the same UPC; how would it know, other than in aggregate (i.e. the distributor writing down how many 6-packs are in the cooler when he gets there.) And even if it knows in aggregate, how does it know that the guy at the liquor store didn't move a bunch of warm Buds back into the cooler when the distributor's rep wasn't there?
and whether you could have gotten a better deal down the street.Okay, this one's obvious, too.
Obviously the worm was written by someone connected with the Debian organization.
Way off topic, but... I still have my ZX81, and a Forth ROM for it would be just too cool. Is there an image of this ROM somewhere on the 'net?