For every successful FOSS project there are hundreds of wannabes. Most are ignored, and rightfully so. Yours might be different... you do have more than just yourself involved.
But so often one hears the whine, "won't someone please join my little project" and there's just nothing there worth looking at. Could this be you?
Here's a good chance for me to be pendantic...
GPSs track altitude as "height above ellipsoid" (HAE). The ellipsoid being a mathematically perfect surface that is close to, but not the same as, mean sea level (MSL). MSL varies up and down with respect to HAE based on things like the density of the underlying rocks, the presence of mountains, and trenches.
Converting between the two requires consulting a database of points and interpolating. This makes the (MSL) altitude reported by most GPSs not so accurate - the most common grid is ten degrees by ten degrees, and there can be a lot of variation in ten degrees!
(Quite some time ago) I was in a group that had just started doing "object oriented" design. We weren't sure what we were doing and there were a lot of religious diaputes. So, we would be at these endless meetings and argue and argue about how to do something. Finally, a decision would be made.
Next day, or the day after, people would mis-remember what was decided (thinking their own personal axe had been ground) and the arguments would start all over. I was getting sick of listening to it all...
I took to documenting these meetings and decisions and mailing them out to everybody involved, so I could drive a stake through the heart of the issue at hand. Worked pretty well, too.
Hanging them upside down from highway overpasses, wearing an "I SPAMMED" banner, would serve as a deterrent.As you drove by you would look up and see what happens to spammers.
But to avoid getting the government involved in a sensitive death penalty issue like this, the work should be done by vigilantes.
> if it can be shown conclusively that cell phones figure into a large number of accidents
I don't know about *conclusively*, but... cell phone use has increased from next to nothing
to universal in the last ten years. Has there been a corresponding increase in automobile
accidents? If so, it's probably the cell phones. If not, why not?
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For every successful FOSS project there are
hundreds of wannabes. Most are ignored, and
rightfully so. Yours might be different... you
do have more than just yourself involved.
But so often one hears the whine, "won't someone
please join my little project" and there's just
nothing there worth looking at. Could this be you?
Here's a good chance for me to be pendantic... GPSs track altitude as "height above ellipsoid" (HAE). The ellipsoid being a mathematically perfect surface that is close to, but not the same as, mean sea level (MSL). MSL varies up and down with respect to HAE based on things like the density of the underlying rocks, the presence of mountains, and trenches. Converting between the two requires consulting a database of points and interpolating. This makes the (MSL) altitude reported by most GPSs not so accurate - the most common grid is ten degrees by ten degrees, and there can be a lot of variation in ten degrees!
(Quite some time ago) I was in a group that had just started doing "object
oriented" design. We weren't sure what we were doing and there were a lot of
religious diaputes. So, we would be at these endless meetings and argue and
argue about how to do something. Finally, a decision would be made.
Next day, or the day after, people would mis-remember what was decided
(thinking their own personal axe had been ground) and the arguments would start
all over. I was getting sick of listening to it all...
I took to documenting these meetings and decisions and mailing them out to
everybody involved, so I could drive a stake through the heart of the issue at
hand. Worked pretty well, too.
Not so much cover you ass as cover you ears...
Hanging them upside down from highway overpasses, wearing an "I SPAMMED" banner, would serve as a deterrent.As you drove by you would look up and see what happens to spammers.
But to avoid getting the government involved in a sensitive death penalty issue like this, the work should be done by vigilantes.
In junior high school, we had a slide rule team, and I was on it. We went to slide rule tournaments... competing on speed and accuracy.
Some sites, like NY times etc., "time out" after a week or so... you can view recent stories,
but older ones are unavailable (for free).
I have noticed that if you use User Agent Switcher to pose as the googlebot, you can see these
older stories anyway.
So... how unethical is it to masquerade as another agent?
> if it can be shown conclusively that cell phones figure into a large number of accidents I don't know about *conclusively*, but... cell phone use has increased from next to nothing to universal in the last ten years. Has there been a corresponding increase in automobile accidents? If so, it's probably the cell phones. If not, why not?