I have had some bad experiences with internal maps and some good ones. (I have a Garmin 76S) Remember that the purpose of the base maps is to sell you the more detailed ones later.
While in well-travelled areas in eastern Canada/NE USA the accuracy was reasonable and if it was paved it usually appeared, and I never had any problems navigating On the other hand...
The South American part sucks goatse.cx
Rivers 20km away from their actual location (we're talking tributaries of the fuckin' Amazon here not some muddy little trickle!!) Cities of 80,000 people not on map, Interstate highways missing, Entire states missing (Tocantins) but pissant ranches owned by some dope dealer in the correct location. Whassup with dat?
Prolly the old use fake info so they can sue for copyright violations trick...
Another reason for still using DOS (or boot to command): The serial drivers in Windows are horribly broken and have been since win 3.1
I need to transfer data from our field instruments (geophysical) on a regular basis, and in order not to corrupt the file in the raw dump I need to boot to a command prompt to run the programs. A command prompt in a window, or even a native Windows-based program will often corrupt the data by occasionaly missing a few bytes here and there. Our newer instruments use an error-checking protocol to avoid this problem, but the older instruments aren't quite that smart.
It's a pain because the processing software needs a PIII or Athlon class machine to run, but the instrumentation still needs legacy compatibility. Ie: Win98 (can boot to command)and serial ports (My experiences with USB-Serial converters all were failures).
A couple of other cool points about the LAPC-1 (PC-card ver of MT-32): A/ Velocity sensitive: Slap bass that worked! B/the drum kit rocked! You could sustain the open hi-hat and stop it with the closed and get a nice satisfying slap. Even keyboard my keyboard at the time (a Yamaha SY-22) didn't have that kinda class.
Unfortunately the MIDI that comes with 99% of computers these days sucks The Giver.
If all events occur in a continua of time, what about certain quantum events which are supposed to be instantaneous: eg electron drops an energy level and emits a photon. If time is continuous, must there exist a point where the electron is at a non-quantum energy state and the photon is half emitted?
Hero emerges from portal and returns to earth, all seems calm and peaceful until he notices the bunny shishkebab and the city burning off in the distance...
Reminds me of something that I did a few years back in Bolivia. I was working at a remote area near the Brasilian border, and our flight out was cancelled due to inclement weather. Me and a colleague had this great idea to go to the nearby garimpeiro shantytown and booze it up. A couple cases of beer, a few bottles of cachaça, and a couple bags of coca leaves later, 6 am arrived and I was quite drunk, but wide awake. Must admit was great while it lasted. Coca, like caffeine is also diuretic, so when I came back down to earth I had a hangover that lasted over 2 days... Worst case of the drys ever, couldn't even summon enough saliva to eat.
Brings back memories of the time I took a hex editor to Silly Little Mail Reader and turned it into Hacked Up Mail Reader HUMR
All the internal ansi art was changed, I made pirate ships and the like using the high-ascii pipes n' stuff. Took a lot of edit/run/look at screen/re-edit to get it just right, without breaking the executable, but I had a lot of time on my hands in those days.
Oops! try that again. I was mentioning using a filter based on "a href= tags, but the/. page accepted the HTML as valid. (What I get for not previewing) Who sends emails with external web references rather than a link, other than spammers? Also stops the 1 bit tag gif business, but its necessary to d/l the message to run the filter, rather than just scanning the header, and users of Lookout Depress aren't able to filter based on html tags so they're out of luck.
Hopefully the new treatments\preventatives will also avoid some of the nasty side effects of the quinine-derived versions, like mefloquine and chloroquine. Psychosis & liver failure, no thanks. I'm working in a region with frequent cases of malaria, and have stopped taking the pills for this reason, the long-term side effects of the medicines can be as bad as the disease itself. On the other hand no pills means doing a blood test every time flu-like symptoms appear is extremely prudent, though even on the antimalarials it's a good idea due to the many resistant strains.
>>Scientists weren't designed to survive outside of a lab. =]
Hrmff! Obviously someone who hasn't done any REAL (ie. non-theoretical) science. As part of my work I have: Slept in a snowbank (ambient temp -30C)
Scaled ice covered rock faces with 30 kilos of equipment
Faced bears and wolves unarmed. Mind you most predators only attack if you act like prey, and the wolves were mostly interested in having fun, like 50 kilo puppies with big teeth...
Hiked alone in the Amazon rain forest.
Not all scientists are wimps, some of us actually get out once and a while. When something breaks in bush camp, you fix it yourself, with what you have on hand. If you fsck up bad, you might die, so you learn to adapt.
Here in Pará, I prefer my guarana the old fashioned way: The locals mix powdered guarana, guarana syrup, peanuts, brazil nuts, and a few other herbal wonders with shaved ice, run in a blender till the consistency of a milk shake. For a allnighter of nheke-nheke with the g/f (who thinks it makes her horny, but Brazilian girls are perpetually horny), or an intense gaming session, or both, it can't be beat! Of course here in Brazil there's always the commercial sodas like Guarana Antarctica or Kuat, but they are cloyingly sweet for the most part, and lack the collateral effect of the traditional stuff.
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Secrecy in the mining industry is a matter of convenience. In the Red Lake district, mining has been going on for many years, nearly all the ground in the immediate area is under patented claims, in this case revealing the information poses little threat. Where I am currently working (Brasil) there is a lot of virgin territory, and making your data public increases the chance of a competitor snapping up the adjacent claims, not to mention attracting hordes of garimpeiros. A company is also willing to release data if they think it will sell shares, juniors are fond of doing this. A project I was involved in, the client posted the geophysical results from the surveys on their website as soon as they got their hands on the data... Mining companies can be selective about the data released as well, one well known promoter would do a hole parallel to the vein: "look at the fabulous intersections!! 100 meters of 5 grams per tonne" while not mentioning the vein was only a half meter wide and had no significant strike length. Then there was Bre-X...
One of the coolest uses of LED's I saw was in the tunnel from Honshu to Hokkaido. The walls had LED panels that synched to the speed of the train and would display animated ads and such as the train sped by in the dark. Took a lot of panels I must say.
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I have had some bad experiences with internal maps and some good ones. (I have a Garmin 76S) Remember that the purpose of the base maps is to sell you the more detailed ones later.
While in well-travelled areas in eastern Canada/NE USA the accuracy was reasonable and if it was paved it usually appeared, and I never had any problems navigating
On the other hand...
The South American part sucks goatse.cx
Rivers 20km away from their actual location (we're talking tributaries of the fuckin' Amazon here not some muddy little trickle!!) Cities of 80,000 people not on map, Interstate highways missing, Entire states missing (Tocantins) but pissant ranches owned by some dope dealer in the correct location. Whassup with dat?
Prolly the old use fake info so they can sue for copyright violations trick...
> Canadians a deer hunter
I'm sorry, but Canadians wear toques eh!
But then again the white hat would just blend in with the snow.
Another reason for still using DOS (or boot to command): The serial drivers in Windows are horribly broken and have been since win 3.1
I need to transfer data from our field instruments (geophysical) on a regular basis, and in order not to corrupt the file in the raw dump I need to boot to a command prompt to run the programs. A command prompt in a window, or even a native Windows-based program will often corrupt the data by occasionaly missing a few bytes here and there. Our newer instruments use an error-checking protocol to avoid this problem, but the older instruments aren't quite that smart.
It's a pain because the processing software needs a PIII or Athlon class machine to run, but the instrumentation still needs legacy compatibility. Ie: Win98 (can boot to command)and serial ports (My experiences with USB-Serial converters all were failures).
A couple of other cool points about the LAPC-1 (PC-card ver of MT-32):
A/ Velocity sensitive: Slap bass that worked!
B/the drum kit rocked! You could sustain the open hi-hat and stop it with the closed and get a nice satisfying slap. Even keyboard my keyboard at the time (a Yamaha SY-22) didn't have that kinda class.
Unfortunately the MIDI that comes with 99% of computers these days sucks The Giver.
And in 517 years we can finally build the engine of the new Yamato, before the earth gets blown up!
Pity the early adopters, the video drivers are gonna be buggy until Xbox v2.3 or so...
Who can be the first to crack my secret code? ;)
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If all events occur in a continua of time, what about certain quantum events which are supposed to be instantaneous:
eg electron drops an energy level and emits a photon. If time is continuous, must there exist a point where the electron is at a non-quantum energy state and the photon is half emitted?
My brain hurts.
Problem with Doom Movie:
:)
We all know the ending already.
Hero emerges from portal and returns to earth, all seems calm and peaceful until he notices the bunny shishkebab and the city burning off in the distance...
Ah well, makes the sequel easy
Reminds me of something that I did a few years back in Bolivia. I was working at a remote area near the Brasilian border, and our flight out was cancelled due to inclement weather. Me and a colleague had this great idea to go to the nearby garimpeiro shantytown and booze it up. A couple cases of beer, a few bottles of cachaça, and a couple bags of coca leaves later, 6 am arrived and I was quite drunk, but wide awake. Must admit was great while it lasted. Coca, like caffeine is also diuretic, so when I came back down to earth I had a hangover that lasted over 2 days... Worst case of the drys ever, couldn't even summon enough saliva to eat.
Brings back memories of the time I took a hex editor to Silly Little Mail Reader and turned it into Hacked Up Mail Reader HUMR All the internal ansi art was changed, I made pirate ships and the like using the high-ascii pipes n' stuff. Took a lot of edit/run/look at screen/re-edit to get it just right, without breaking the executable, but I had a lot of time on my hands in those days.
Oops! try that again. I was mentioning using a filter based on "a href= tags, but the /. page accepted the HTML as valid. (What I get for not previewing) Who sends emails with external web references rather than a link, other than spammers? Also stops the 1 bit tag gif business, but its necessary to d/l the message to run the filter, rather than just scanning the header, and users of Lookout Depress aren't able to filter based on html tags so they're out of luck.
Spam filter that works great is to filter based on , so it doesn't save bandwidth either.
And after signs them, they're gonna be Ziggy Stardust's backup band...
Hopefully the new treatments\preventatives will also avoid some of the nasty side effects of the quinine-derived versions, like mefloquine and chloroquine. Psychosis & liver failure, no thanks. I'm working in a region with frequent cases of malaria, and have stopped taking the pills for this reason, the long-term side effects of the medicines can be as bad as the disease itself. On the other hand no pills means doing a blood test every time flu-like symptoms appear is extremely prudent, though even on the antimalarials it's a good idea due to the many resistant strains.
>>Scientists weren't designed to survive outside of a lab. =]
Hrmff! Obviously someone who hasn't done any REAL (ie. non-theoretical) science. As part of my work I have:
Slept in a snowbank (ambient temp -30C)
Scaled ice covered rock faces with 30 kilos of equipment
Faced bears and wolves unarmed. Mind you most predators only attack if you act like prey, and the wolves were mostly interested in having fun, like 50 kilo puppies with big teeth...
Hiked alone in the Amazon rain forest.
Not all scientists are wimps, some of us actually get out once and a while. When something breaks in bush camp, you fix it yourself, with what you have on hand. If you fsck up bad, you might die, so you learn to adapt.
Here in Pará, I prefer my guarana the old fashioned way: The locals mix powdered guarana, guarana syrup, peanuts, brazil nuts, and a few other herbal wonders with shaved ice, run in a blender till the consistency of a milk shake. For a allnighter of nheke-nheke with the g/f (who thinks it makes her horny, but Brazilian girls are perpetually horny), or an intense gaming session, or both, it can't be beat! Of course here in Brazil there's always the commercial sodas like Guarana Antarctica or Kuat, but they are cloyingly sweet for the most part, and lack the collateral effect of the traditional stuff.
Secrecy in the mining industry is a matter of convenience. In the Red Lake district, mining has been going on for many years, nearly all the ground in the immediate area is under patented claims, in this case revealing the information poses little threat. Where I am currently working (Brasil) there is a lot of virgin territory, and making your data public increases the chance of a competitor snapping up the adjacent claims, not to mention attracting hordes of garimpeiros. A company is also willing to release data if they think it will sell shares, juniors are fond of doing this. A project I was involved in, the client posted the geophysical results from the surveys on their website as soon as they got their hands on the data... Mining companies can be selective about the data released as well, one well known promoter would do a hole parallel to the vein:
"look at the fabulous intersections!! 100 meters of 5 grams per tonne" while not mentioning the vein was only a half meter wide and had no significant strike length. Then there was Bre-X...
One of the coolest uses of LED's I saw was in the tunnel from Honshu to Hokkaido. The walls had LED panels that synched to the speed of the train and would display animated ads and such as the train sped by in the dark. Took a lot of panels I must say.