If you are having a hard time finding a surveyor, just go to the closest construction sight and find a guy that looks like the sun has baked him into beef jerky and that has orange and pink ribbon hanging out of his truck.
If you are not really certain, just ask him where the closest pcc is and he will give you an hour long spiel about the advantages of pccs over spirals.
At this point you should realize that you would rather talk to a GIS professional than a Surveyor, if only to save your sanity. Trust me, I have been both and LS's can be a drag.
I agree that a large format scanner is the best way to capture the image, but taping it to a wall and taking a picture with a high resolution camera may do the trick (for cost purposes).
You will also want to do some research into the map projection that was used on the original, trying to rectify between different projections can look pretty weird
Where I live, major streets are aligned on mapping grid lines and intersections are great points to pick for rectifying, in other areas of the world, highways follow the same contour line paths has historic roads and can be used for landmarks.
I have always used ArcInfo products, but the systems can be pretty pricy. You might want to look up a local ArcInfo user group or regional GIS authority and see if they are interested in partnering with you.
It is very tempting to imagine that we can wage a war that is bloodless on our own side.
However the fact of the matter, at this point, is that there are still soldiers fighting street to street under a hail of sniper fire and rpgs. These troops certainly gain something from the new close air support, but they still have to kick down doors, peer around corners and walk through mined fields.
We must not allow ourselves to be wowed by new technology and forget about the plight of our soldiers. They are paying the full price for our actions and we must recognize their bravery and commitment
In 1981 my high school had one terminal to the district mini and one trs-80. The only use that I found for it was a source of tape and punch-outs to throw at school events.
In college (first year electrical engineering) I had no interaction with any computer system that was not running a game program.
It was not until years later (after dropping out of college) that I found a use for my old HP-12C. I was running an instrument on a survey crew and I got sick of waiting on crew chiefs to work the angles in their 41-CV's, so I wrote a proram for myself on the 12-C to calculate angles and short chords for setting pins on road construction.
That led to the past twenty years of computer programming (cogo to gis and finally database programming). I honestly wish that I had learned the joys of programming years earlier, but the educational system (as presented in highschool and college) did absolutely nothing to spark that fire.
I can't remember the name, but in Snowcrash there was a company that was privatized from the government made up of the NSA and the Library of Congress. Google demonstrates more of the fictional company's capabilities every day
Yaaaa... Well I am certain that you can find free/open alternatives for most parts fo the Oracle technology stack, but I believe that you would be hard pressed to find foss software that performs many of the functions of the Oracle applications suite, and that also includes a high degree of integration along with realitively consistant interfaces and apis.
I have been alternately irritated and pleased with all aspects of Oracle corp (tools, support, sales, apps), but the one thing that I know is that Microsoft hasn't got a chance in hell of creating a competitive application suite in the next decade, and they are the group most likely to accomplish it.
i.e. Chart1.DataManipulator.Statistics.InverseFDistribution(.05, 3, 4)
See, that was easy!
But seriously, I have supported a fair amount of statistical analysis in life sciences. Most programmers deal with processes that run against each one of a series of things. IMHO statistics is more like report queries where you perform groupings based on features to find favorable conditions or data falling outside of expected norms.
Could I use a solid statistician to keep me from making errors? Sure. Do I need to overbearing 'keeper of the keys' telling me I'm wrong without offering any real help? Hell no
Moller has faced some health issues in the past few years that slowed down development, the company was facing financial crises and they were shifting to selling their rotary engine as a power supply for hybrid vehicles...
At least that was what the scoop when I got curious last summer.
From what I se there is a new web site and (maybe) some movement on financing, anybody out there got the real story?
Well... when PIPBoy3000 says, "We're local admins of the application servers, and a couple of us have domain admin rights"
I take it as; A) the 'application servers' he speaks of are 'production'. In the most general sense people call their production servers 'application servers' because their applications run there. Personally, I take it as the application tier of a n-tier system with no mention of the webserver tier or database tier. But that's just how I have managed to convert 'lamer speak' to actual architecture over the years.
And B) the 'domain admin' rights would tend to describe the production environment, unless this fellow is in a really grandiose Forest environment with multiple domains. I doubt it considering their using shame as a change control methodology
So, my question to you, Hognoxious, is how could you NOT get that from what was posted?
I will agree with you that any machine that is used to run production applications, particularly those attached to the internet, need to follow a strict lock-down. The very first concern should be permissions, permissions, permissions with nobody loggin in as root (admin whatever), using sudo to promote to 'admin' and thorough logging of any escalation of privlidges.
From a developer standpoint, if somebody is calling me at midnite and asking me to log into a prod box and fix something.... Then there is a hell of a lot more wrong in the organization than a crashed application.
That said, attempting to enforce that level of security on a pc used by a developer is pretty much an exercise in futility. Either your developer will just 'give up' and let thmself fall behing in tool updates, or they will get 'wiley' and saturate your support staff with calls to perform 'desktop maintenance' until your organization gives in a allows local admin.
jpmorgan, you need to keep up on the news, good and bad
"Reporting on a White House and NASA meeting last Wednesday, sources say that the President has decided to give NASA an additional $US1 billion in 2011. The extra funding will serve to create a new heavy lift rocket, as well as to increase the fleet of satellites controlling Earth’s land, oceans and atmosphere. The objective is to have the heavy rocket ready for a 2018 launch" http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/12/obama-gives-nasa-bigger-budget-backs-new-rocket-cancels-ares-1/
Can't agree with tomhath either, looks like this administration is willing to invest in the future
Nope, gotta disagree with you there. The problem with any hydrocarbon is right there in the name, carbon. You burn that stuff and you got carbon dioxide, and the same global warming risk as oil or coal.
That 'hydrogen nonsense' does a straight transition from hydrogen and oxygen to water, no carbon dioxide or any other nasty by products like NOX.
Of course, the hydrogen has to come from somewhere and, imho will just be a 'portable' product of large nuclear and solar plants.
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If you are having a hard time finding a surveyor, just go to the closest construction sight and find a guy that looks like the sun has baked him into beef jerky and that has orange and pink ribbon hanging out of his truck.
If you are not really certain, just ask him where the closest pcc is and he will give you an hour long spiel about the advantages of pccs over spirals.
At this point you should realize that you would rather talk to a GIS professional than a Surveyor, if only to save your sanity. Trust me, I have been both and LS's can be a drag.
I agree that a large format scanner is the best way to capture the image, but taping it to a wall and taking a picture with a high resolution camera may do the trick (for cost purposes).
You will also want to do some research into the map projection that was used on the original, trying to rectify between different projections can look pretty weird
Where I live, major streets are aligned on mapping grid lines and intersections are great points to pick for rectifying, in other areas of the world, highways follow the same contour line paths has historic roads and can be used for landmarks.
I have always used ArcInfo products, but the systems can be pretty pricy. You might want to look up a local ArcInfo user group or regional GIS authority and see if they are interested in partnering with you.
It is very tempting to imagine that we can wage a war that is bloodless on our own side.
However the fact of the matter, at this point, is that there are still soldiers fighting street to street under a hail of sniper fire and rpgs. These troops certainly gain something from the new close air support, but they still have to kick down doors, peer around corners and walk through mined fields.
We must not allow ourselves to be wowed by new technology and forget about the plight of our soldiers. They are paying the full price for our actions and we must recognize their bravery and commitment
This sounds a lot like White Van speaker scams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam/
If that is the case, expect it to be made from cast-off electronic components with a failure rate not unlike a Yugo
The IOC has claimed the term 'CANADA' as their exclusive intellectual property
In 1981 my high school had one terminal to the district mini and one trs-80. The only use that I found for it was a source of tape and punch-outs to throw at school events.
In college (first year electrical engineering) I had no interaction with any computer system that was not running a game program.
It was not until years later (after dropping out of college) that I found a use for my old HP-12C. I was running an instrument on a survey crew and I got sick of waiting on crew chiefs to work the angles in their 41-CV's, so I wrote a proram for myself on the 12-C to calculate angles and short chords for setting pins on road construction.
That led to the past twenty years of computer programming (cogo to gis and finally database programming). I honestly wish that I had learned the joys of programming years earlier, but the educational system (as presented in highschool and college) did absolutely nothing to spark that fire.
Is that you?
I am certain that another group of 'experts' said the same thing in 1980
fleet of Burans, that should keep them busy for the next decade.
It might even give us a chance to roll out a new heavy launcher before the rest of the planet :(
US acquires Canada, lets Mexico manage the 'former' US states of the southwest
Sounds like India intends to continue to use coal fired power plants and will not recognize studies that put coal plants in a bad light.
Where have I heard that before?
'nuf said
I can't remember the name, but in Snowcrash there was a company that was privatized from the government made up of the NSA and the Library of Congress. Google demonstrates more of the fictional company's capabilities every day
Yaaaa... Well I am certain that you can find free/open alternatives for most parts fo the Oracle technology stack, but I believe that you would be hard pressed to find foss software that performs many of the functions of the Oracle applications suite, and that also includes a high degree of integration along with realitively consistant interfaces and apis.
I have been alternately irritated and pleased with all aspects of Oracle corp (tools, support, sales, apps), but the one thing that I know is that Microsoft hasn't got a chance in hell of creating a competitive application suite in the next decade, and they are the group most likely to accomplish it.
Hopefully Oracle will NOT hire the Sun server sales reps.
They demanded that Sun push high end servers (with their high sales commissions) instead of x86-64 solutions and, IMHO, effectively killed the company
i.e. Chart1.DataManipulator.Statistics.InverseFDistribution(.05, 3, 4)
See, that was easy!
But seriously, I have supported a fair amount of statistical analysis in life sciences. Most programmers deal with processes that run against each one of a series of things. IMHO statistics is more like report queries where you perform groupings based on features to find favorable conditions or data falling outside of expected norms.
Could I use a solid statistician to keep me from making errors? Sure. Do I need to overbearing 'keeper of the keys' telling me I'm wrong without offering any real help? Hell no
Moller has faced some health issues in the past few years that slowed down development, the company was facing financial crises and they were shifting to selling their rotary engine as a power supply for hybrid vehicles...
At least that was what the scoop when I got curious last summer.
From what I se there is a new web site and (maybe) some movement on financing, anybody out there got the real story?
Well... when PIPBoy3000 says, "We're local admins of the application servers, and a couple of us have domain admin rights"
I take it as; A) the 'application servers' he speaks of are 'production'. In the most general sense people call their production servers 'application servers' because their applications run there. Personally, I take it as the application tier of a n-tier system with no mention of the webserver tier or database tier. But that's just how I have managed to convert 'lamer speak' to actual architecture over the years.
And B) the 'domain admin' rights would tend to describe the production environment, unless this fellow is in a really grandiose Forest environment with multiple domains. I doubt it considering their using shame as a change control methodology
So, my question to you, Hognoxious, is how could you NOT get that from what was posted?
I will agree with you that any machine that is used to run production applications, particularly those attached to the internet, need to follow a strict lock-down. The very first concern should be permissions, permissions, permissions with nobody loggin in as root (admin whatever), using sudo to promote to 'admin' and thorough logging of any escalation of privlidges.
From a developer standpoint, if somebody is calling me at midnite and asking me to log into a prod box and fix something.... Then there is a hell of a lot more wrong in the organization than a crashed application.
That said, attempting to enforce that level of security on a pc used by a developer is pretty much an exercise in futility. Either your developer will just 'give up' and let thmself fall behing in tool updates, or they will get 'wiley' and saturate your support staff with calls to perform 'desktop maintenance' until your organization gives in a allows local admin.
Developers administering PROD boxes?
Apparently you do NOT go through any SOX or HIPPA audits
It is a huge pain in the ass to do development without local admin rights.
HOWEVER, it is a huge cluster fuck to implement in PROD because your permission levels all have to be reconfigured to fit any rational security model.
I have found that denying developers local admin in the TEST environment is a good way to shake out any implementation nightmares
Make sure that they buy you at least 5 shirts per person, so that you don't have to do laundry every night and end up with faded out pink shirts.
Assuming you live that long, since most redshirts die in the first five minutes
Seriously, this reads more like the 'Mikey likes it!' life cereal commercial than research.
This must explain why google has such a slim market share
jpmorgan, you need to keep up on the news, good and bad
"Reporting on a White House and NASA meeting last Wednesday, sources say that the President has decided to give NASA an additional $US1 billion in 2011. The extra funding will serve to create a new heavy lift rocket, as well as to increase the fleet of satellites controlling Earth’s land, oceans and atmosphere.
The objective is to have the heavy rocket ready for a 2018 launch"
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/12/obama-gives-nasa-bigger-budget-backs-new-rocket-cancels-ares-1/
Can't agree with tomhath either, looks like this administration is willing to invest in the future
Nope, gotta disagree with you there. The problem with any hydrocarbon is right there in the name, carbon. You burn that stuff and you got carbon dioxide, and the same global warming risk as oil or coal. That 'hydrogen nonsense' does a straight transition from hydrogen and oxygen to water, no carbon dioxide or any other nasty by products like NOX. Of course, the hydrogen has to come from somewhere and, imho will just be a 'portable' product of large nuclear and solar plants.