I am one of those who is actually working on the EGNOS ground segment (something like the USA's WAAS). The current system test bed is designed to create a position-delta to feed with the GPS signal to make positioning more exact. Once all Galileo satellites are up, we do not rely on GPS data anymore, but we can fallback if it is possible. One thing to note, Galileo has indoor positioning. (Yes, Galileo will be a really independent system, comprising of many different parts, under civil guidance for civil uses.)
One the political side, from a developers point of view, we really want to get this thing up as fast as possible because everyone I know who is developing is really really fed up with the way the US government tries to control our scientific and especially space-research specific endeavours. Since we have developed a system that is clearly superior to anything the USA have (never mind the 20 years of operation of GPS, you could have progressed too...) we really really hate it, when we get told to stop to work on it by a foreign government. To make things clear, no we don't hate Americans. We hate the way the American government is treating us, and the more they want to sabotage our projects the better our projects will be.:-)
Actually my favorite game of 2003 was Tenebrae Quake ( http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net )
Tenebrae is a modification of the quake source that adds stencil shadows and per pixel lights, which makes the good old quake look a little bit like Doom3. This adds about 500% atmosphere and makes the game a whole new experience to play.
Oh yes. That'll show friends that dad is supercool. I got me own panzer. When I grow old i wanna have a real panzer too.
Truly a heroic deed for someone who wants his son grow up a soldier. It almost seems familiarization with war machinery in youth is common practice. He should go climbing, diving, biking with him instead of letting him control a weapon.
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I am one of those who is actually working on the EGNOS ground segment (something like the USA's WAAS). The current system test bed is designed to create a position-delta to feed with the GPS signal to make positioning more exact. Once all Galileo satellites are up, we do not rely on GPS data anymore, but we can fallback if it is possible. One thing to note, Galileo has indoor positioning.
:-)
(Yes, Galileo will be a really independent system, comprising of many different parts, under civil guidance for civil uses.)
One the political side, from a developers point of view, we really want to get this thing up as fast as possible because everyone I know who is developing is really really fed up with the way the US government tries to control our scientific and especially space-research specific endeavours. Since we have developed a system that is clearly superior to anything the USA have (never mind the 20 years of operation of GPS, you could have progressed too...) we really really hate it, when we get told to stop to work on it by a foreign government. To make things clear, no we don't hate Americans. We hate the way the American government is treating us, and the more they want to sabotage our projects the better our projects will be.
Actually my favorite game of 2003 was Tenebrae Quake ( http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net )
Tenebrae is a modification of the quake source that adds stencil shadows and per pixel lights, which makes the good old quake look a little bit like Doom3. This adds about 500% atmosphere and makes the game a whole new experience to play.
aye, didn't know there was such a difference in terms :) thanks for clarification :)
A friend of mine built his own arcade.
Go here for some instructions and photos: http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~akogler/mamelade/
Oh yes.
That'll show friends that dad is supercool.
I got me own panzer.
When I grow old i wanna have a real panzer too.
Truly a heroic deed for someone who wants his son grow up a soldier.
It almost seems familiarization with war machinery in youth is common practice.
He should go climbing, diving, biking with him instead of letting him control a weapon.
I wonder if those paging algorithms are used in windows ;-)