"Hell, even over a long enough period of time, plate tectonics will move the position of your ground station by more than a couple millimeters."
That's an interesting comment and something I asked the civil engineers about. A funny thing is if a plate does shift a bit, where ever the national geological survey markers remain are the official spots for them still. Go figure.
But, the residual was accurate to withen 3 decimal places of a 10th which is 1000th of a tenth. So OK, maybe it's a centieter.
I guess I worded that rather poorly. I was talking more on a highschool level. You know how they are always trying to show a real world example to keep interested. Also, it was a joke.
It was a GPS system made by Trimble. The 5800 model I believe. But yes, you are correct on how it is used. First we set up on a control spot we know the exact coordinates to. Our system we use to gather data then uses radio link to communicate with it and the satelites. We use something like 8 satelites, the more the better, as well like you guessed. So what happens is what you think also, with the known position, the position we get from the GPS is then error corrected to be precise. Depending on the kind of plot you're doing you have to hold the rod longer to get a really precise reading.
It was really beautiful to plot the points of this pipeline and then upload the data into a CAD program that would generate the pipe we just shot.
As for the person above who made a comment about not trusting one source, you're right. The main guy I was with had a map upside down when he took a quick reading and basically had everything messed up. Turns out we cut down a few of some guys trees. Needless to say he wasn't too happy. I thought it was hilarious.
3 meters? Are you kidding me? I did survey last summer and we used GPS. With a triangulated system we could be accurate to withen 1/100 of a 10th. That's apx. 1 mm! And trust me, we had to be sometimes. GPS is great stuff. Finally math books can spew out real world examples of geometry (mainly trig, subset of geometry anyways) that the students might use one day.
I hate hearing stories about how a new technology is killing an old industry. Well no shit, that's the purpose of them! How many people feared computers would destroy a billion different industries? Well, they did! And they created a trillion new ones. This is the point of technology. To destroy old ways of doing things by creating more effeciant, reliable and cost effective technolgies to replace them.
Unfourtunatly we have numerous companies that fear technolgy as well (auto, oil spring to mind) as it could potentially kill their business model. Certainly if any of the CEO's were as smart as they liked to believe, they would see they better adobt new technolgy before someone else does and crushes them with it.
That's the beauty of general technolgy I think; It allows new empires to crush old ones by being more effeciant, cost friendly and reliable.
I really believe in the end, new technology benefits people. Fearing it will, at best, delay your inevitable demise by a fraction.
Yeah I went to their site and saw that what people are searching for thing right away. My immediate and synical assumption is they are "interesting" threads that will result in advertisers links coming up more. I mean from a business standpoint that would be smart anyways. Or maybe it's just another stupid patent and they feel obliged to use it.
Remeber when they had the highest IPO ever! It skyrocketed from like $5.00 to $130 in one day! Holy shit it must have been exciting working there at first assuming they gave away stock like everyone else. Anyone know what's it at now days? My guess is about $3.50. Maybe $5.00 but it cannot be anymore than that.
Man, I totaly forgot that place existed. Does anyone actually use it?
I don't know about you and I don't care what you tell me but when I look up I see a bunch of stars and a really big one that my family named the Moon. When I look down I see a planet. In the daytime I see a Sun. My formal definition:
Stars are bright at night and Sun(s) are bright during the day.
IS to use Applescripts embedded in a Cocoa program. I forget the exact syntax but it's similar to using the system() in a C program. It's also easy to make your program scriptable by making available certain variables and then allowing your Cocoa program to read in an Applescript and execute it on the variable(s)the scripter wants to manipulate.
I remember years back writing a simple Cocoa program that would automate things, stop and start programs, etc using nothing but Applescripts inside the program.
These are things you can do with typical ANSI C in your program to, forking off process', killing process', etc but it's a lot easier to have a script that says something like: tell Application 'Finder' to quit PROGRAM
instead of checking if a program is running by asking the system, using a grep fork with a regex to see if it is running and then telling the system to quit it or start it if it isn't running, etc.
Hell, you could even make a variable PROGRAM and then have users simply enter the programs they want to start/stop and at what time and then have your program run via Applescript at the correct times to start/stop a program based on the string PROGRAM.
Personally I'd use cron, but hey, this is why we make nice little GUI programs for the other people.
It probably wasn't very important in the grand scheme of things,like most things. He has a good atitude about it but it must hurt in many ways. That's life I guess. Not everything was meant to be and this is one thing. I guess the speed of the winds on some moon of Saturn are not very important in the eyes of a greater power, if such a power exists. Else, someone's head has got to roll.
Please guys, it's over. It's dead. Star Trek had a great run but has simply lived past its time. Just let it be and move onto something new. I admire your passion for the brand but you guys are few and far between. Let it be and try and remember the good times that were. Live long and prosper, my brothers!
That's pretty much what I thought too. If being given this upon an interviw my first thought would be how this relates tomy job, reading specifications for clear detail, ie unambigious, and caught this as something that could be interperated in more than one way and ask to clarify that I am not indeed in the middle of somewhere.
When clarified I would then pursure to come up with some fantastic, amazing, impossible method of surviving in nowhere (somewhere?) until I could be rescued.
And as a side note, if I did come upon that set of circumstances and was not ever going to be rescued, I wouldn't think that would be such a bad life considering you can survive, etc. I htikn I would do alright as I've done "rough" things before, but I also believe some kind of nature and instinct would really kick in.
It would be a challange I guess, but I definitly would not try and build a raft home if I had to go 1000 or so miles. Hell, I would even try to start brewing my own beer and see if I could make a paper and use the volcano ash as a writing material. Beer is way more important though.
Calculus isn't really hard math though. I'm guessing this paper isn't suggesting girls won't be able to caclulate a gradiant vector over a defined region, etc..
Not to sound pretensious, but the people who should know about these things will know about these things (taking away class,race disparities, etc). It took me getting into college to really appreciate it. I decided to try something new and leanred more about Calculas and Physics and learned to really appreciate it. I'm not certain it is something that people should be tricked into learning because it is cool. It is hard and requires time, thought and effort. Lets stop trying to trick people and let them choose their own paths and discover what is meant for them.
It was all about number munchers. Soon after I had an Odysey 2 and my dad and I would put the little programs in. I knew from early on I loved making machines do my bidding.
You know, sure it would be nice to know that the people I care about etc, have access to whatever it is they want to have, after I die. But really, in the end, I really don't care. I'm dead. In fact it tickles me to know that after I die, I can still cause problems.
Yeah, there's a boatload of them which is why I'm not impressed. But, innovation is not the key to a profitable company. There are glaring example of this which are too obvious to list.
You know, maybe I was just immature and a pervert but I always got a kick out of the finger program. I mean, c'mon. Sure, it's one way to see if your girlfriend is too drunk, but to describe it as a tool to see if someone's available is just a little too obvious. Maybe a name like touch....ok, that doesn't work either....how about.... ahh, finger it must be.
I'm sure they want (or have) patent's on this. So I gues Hotline, Carracho, KDX and all the other programs like this don't count. I don't see why this will make much money as Hotline tried to go commercial and it flopped. I mean, you can't really sell pirating software to pirates, can you?
Not that this doesn't have legit uses, but I hope these dudes are better marketers than they are innovators.
Because I live in a binary world of likes and dislikes. Therefore, I can use any word to describe like and dislike, such as love and hate when really I mean think it's ok and don care for it much. I hope in the future I get a few more significant digits because this 1 digit mentality I have freaks people out.
the other day, my waitress asked me how my dinner was and I disliked it. But since I cannot communicate my slight dislike for it, I shouted at her and called her a food Nazi. My girlfriend then asked me if I liked her soup and started humping it.
As you can see, Slashdot is the perfect place for me.
I disagree. First of all, someone who hates computers and computer science can still be really good at it. They look at it as a job, and most people don't like their job. But this job pays much better than many others so since they have the brain power to do it, they learn it and go to work.
However, these people are the unlucky ones. If you do this because you like it, then you are the lucky one. You get to do what you love and get paid for it where they do it and hate it. They won't have the passion you have and most likely not move upward as fast as someone like you.
Just work hard and your effort and passion will show against these people when you get in sometime, and you will get in sometime. Don't worry about others. You can only control what you do and what you are. Don't complain about things you cannot control.
Someone who hates this has just as much right to it as those that like it. Those with passion will rise.
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"Hell, even over a long enough period of time, plate tectonics will move the position of your ground station by more than a couple millimeters."
That's an interesting comment and something I asked the civil engineers about. A funny thing is if a plate does shift a bit, where ever the national geological survey markers remain are the official spots for them still. Go figure.
But, the residual was accurate to withen 3 decimal places of a 10th which is 1000th of a tenth. So OK, maybe it's a centieter.
I guess I worded that rather poorly. I was talking more on a highschool level. You know how they are always trying to show a real world example to keep interested. Also, it was a joke.
It was a GPS system made by Trimble. The 5800 model I believe. But yes, you are correct on how it is used. First we set up on a control spot we know the exact coordinates to. Our system we use to gather data then uses radio link to communicate with it and the satelites. We use something like 8 satelites, the more the better, as well like you guessed. So what happens is what you think also, with the known position, the position we get from the GPS is then error corrected to be precise. Depending on the kind of plot you're doing you have to hold the rod longer to get a really precise reading.
It was really beautiful to plot the points of this pipeline and then upload the data into a CAD program that would generate the pipe we just shot.
As for the person above who made a comment about not trusting one source, you're right. The main guy I was with had a map upside down when he took a quick reading and basically had everything messed up. Turns out we cut down a few of some guys trees. Needless to say he wasn't too happy. I thought it was hilarious.
3 meters? Are you kidding me? I did survey last summer and we used GPS. With a triangulated system we could be accurate to withen 1/100 of a 10th. That's apx. 1 mm! And trust me, we had to be sometimes. GPS is great stuff. Finally math books can spew out real world examples of geometry (mainly trig, subset of geometry anyways) that the students might use one day.
I hate hearing stories about how a new technology is killing an old industry. Well no shit, that's the purpose of them! How many people feared computers would destroy a billion different industries? Well, they did! And they created a trillion new ones. This is the point of technology. To destroy old ways of doing things by creating more effeciant, reliable and cost effective technolgies to replace them.
Unfourtunatly we have numerous companies that fear technolgy as well (auto, oil spring to mind) as it could potentially kill their business model. Certainly if any of the CEO's were as smart as they liked to believe, they would see they better adobt new technolgy before someone else does and crushes them with it.
That's the beauty of general technolgy I think; It allows new empires to crush old ones by being more effeciant, cost friendly and reliable.
I really believe in the end, new technology benefits people. Fearing it will, at best, delay your inevitable demise by a fraction.
It's called an evolution.
Don't you mean, NSEditField(). :P
Yeah I went to their site and saw that what people are searching for thing right away. My immediate and synical assumption is they are "interesting" threads that will result in advertisers links coming up more. I mean from a business standpoint that would be smart anyways. Or maybe it's just another stupid patent and they feel obliged to use it.
Remeber when they had the highest IPO ever! It skyrocketed from like $5.00 to $130 in one day! Holy shit it must have been exciting working there at first assuming they gave away stock like everyone else. Anyone know what's it at now days? My guess is about $3.50. Maybe $5.00 but it cannot be anymore than that.
Man, I totaly forgot that place existed. Does anyone actually use it?
I don't know about you and I don't care what you tell me but when I look up I see a bunch of stars and a really big one that my family named the Moon. When I look down I see a planet. In the daytime I see a Sun. My formal definition:
Stars are bright at night and Sun(s) are bright during the day.
IS to use Applescripts embedded in a Cocoa program. I forget the exact syntax but it's similar to using the system() in a C program. It's also easy to make your program scriptable by making available certain variables and then allowing your Cocoa program to read in an Applescript and execute it on the variable(s)the scripter wants to manipulate.
I remember years back writing a simple Cocoa program that would automate things, stop and start programs, etc using nothing but Applescripts inside the program.
These are things you can do with typical ANSI C in your program to, forking off process', killing process', etc but it's a lot easier to have a script that says something like:
tell Application 'Finder' to quit PROGRAM
instead of checking if a program is running by asking the system, using a grep fork with a regex to see if it is running and then telling the system to quit it or start it if it isn't running, etc.
Hell, you could even make a variable PROGRAM and then have users simply enter the programs they want to start/stop and at what time and then have your program run via Applescript at the correct times to start/stop a program based on the string PROGRAM.
Personally I'd use cron, but hey, this is why we make nice little GUI programs for the other people.
pwned.
"or a reasonable loss leader for getting people started on pay-as-you go mobile offerings."
Don't you mean "Pay-go". Mwahahahahaha!!
It probably wasn't very important in the grand scheme of things,like most things. He has a good atitude about it but it must hurt in many ways. That's life I guess. Not everything was meant to be and this is one thing. I guess the speed of the winds on some moon of Saturn are not very important in the eyes of a greater power, if such a power exists. Else, someone's head has got to roll.
Please guys, it's over. It's dead. Star Trek had a great run but has simply lived past its time. Just let it be and move onto something new. I admire your passion for the brand but you guys are few and far between. Let it be and try and remember the good times that were. Live long and prosper, my brothers!
That's pretty much what I thought too. If being given this upon an interviw my first thought would be how this relates tomy job, reading specifications for clear detail, ie unambigious, and caught this as something that could be interperated in more than one way and ask to clarify that I am not indeed in the middle of somewhere.
When clarified I would then pursure to come up with some fantastic, amazing, impossible method of surviving in nowhere (somewhere?) until I could be rescued.
And as a side note, if I did come upon that set of circumstances and was not ever going to be rescued, I wouldn't think that would be such a bad life considering you can survive, etc. I htikn I would do alright as I've done "rough" things before, but I also believe some kind of nature and instinct would really kick in.
It would be a challange I guess, but I definitly would not try and build a raft home if I had to go 1000 or so miles. Hell, I would even try to start brewing my own beer and see if I could make a paper and use the volcano ash as a writing material. Beer is way more important though.
Calculus isn't really hard math though. I'm guessing this paper isn't suggesting girls won't be able to caclulate a gradiant vector over a defined region, etc..
Not to sound pretensious, but the people who should know about these things will know about these things (taking away class,race disparities, etc). It took me getting into college to really appreciate it. I decided to try something new and leanred more about Calculas and Physics and learned to really appreciate it. I'm not certain it is something that people should be tricked into learning because it is cool. It is hard and requires time, thought and effort. Lets stop trying to trick people and let them choose their own paths and discover what is meant for them.
It was all about number munchers. Soon after I had an Odysey 2 and my dad and I would put the little programs in. I knew from early on I loved making machines do my bidding.
You know, sure it would be nice to know that the people I care about etc, have access to whatever it is they want to have, after I die. But really, in the end, I really don't care. I'm dead. In fact it tickles me to know that after I die, I can still cause problems.
Yeah, there's a boatload of them which is why I'm not impressed. But, innovation is not the key to a profitable company. There are glaring example of this which are too obvious to list.
You know, maybe I was just immature and a pervert but I always got a kick out of the finger program. I mean, c'mon. Sure, it's one way to see if your girlfriend is too drunk, but to describe it as a tool to see if someone's available is just a little too obvious. Maybe a name like touch....ok, that doesn't work either....how about.... ahh, finger it must be.
I'm sure they want (or have) patent's on this. So I gues Hotline, Carracho, KDX and all the other programs like this don't count. I don't see why this will make much money as Hotline tried to go commercial and it flopped. I mean, you can't really sell pirating software to pirates, can you?
Not that this doesn't have legit uses, but I hope these dudes are better marketers than they are innovators.
Because I live in a binary world of likes and dislikes. Therefore, I can use any word to describe like and dislike, such as love and hate when really I mean think it's ok and don care for it much. I hope in the future I get a few more significant digits because this 1 digit mentality I have freaks people out.
the other day, my waitress asked me how my dinner was and I disliked it. But since I cannot communicate my slight dislike for it, I shouted at her and called her a food Nazi. My girlfriend then asked me if I liked her soup and started humping it.
As you can see, Slashdot is the perfect place for me.
SHUT UP!
I disagree. First of all, someone who hates computers and computer science can still be really good at it. They look at it as a job, and most people don't like their job. But this job pays much better than many others so since they have the brain power to do it, they learn it and go to work.
However, these people are the unlucky ones. If you do this because you like it, then you are the lucky one. You get to do what you love and get paid for it where they do it and hate it. They won't have the passion you have and most likely not move upward as fast as someone like you.
Just work hard and your effort and passion will show against these people when you get in sometime, and you will get in sometime. Don't worry about others. You can only control what you do and what you are. Don't complain about things you cannot control.
Someone who hates this has just as much right to it as those that like it. Those with passion will rise.
.. More guns and more Jesus.