Cool...or maybe not so cool if you believe Hawking and think we'll be used as food if we happen to bump into anyone else, or someone decides to build a highway.:)
You're right. I would have no problem handing money straight to Bergman/Bogart/Henried/whoever for a copy of Casablanca, but who gets the money now (even though I have two legal, VHS and DVD, copies)? All of the principle actors are dead. No one should keep getting money for their performances. Same for books and this crap revolving around the BBC show Sherlock. Everyone else that worked on the movie was paid a salary. Digitize the ultimate version of it, give it to the Museum Of The Moving Image for free distribution and STFU. I wish as much effort was expended on investigating the party in Benghazi as they expend worrying about this crap. If it's good people will buy it, once, if it's not people won't.
You would think, by now, they would already know to stay away, or go pick up some mines from the Navy and sink a few fishing boats. Maybe it's that 'no opposable thumb/no written history' thing to pass the info along to the next generation.
Oh great. That's called a lavatory. They'll all be sitting in there yapping while a line forms. Oh wait, you're not allowed to form a line anymore. Airline issued stadium pals?
I direct you to healthcare.gov.:)
In my experience there's a lot of it NOT going on.
I watch my users like a hawk and learn a lot. On top of just making the program do what the user wants watching them use your software generates a lot of 'I never thought they'd do that!' and 'Why didn't they tell me that was not working!' moments. It's infinetly helpful.
How about I'd like everyone to put away their precious CRAP and pay attention during takeoff and landing just in case, oh I don't know, we all need to get out in a hurry. This is silly. There are just a couple more important things going on at any given time during a flight than killing that last little piggy.
There's a lot of nasty crap that gets dredged up out of the ground with geothermal power production too depending on how you do it. It's far from "clean" energy. It's just different dirty stuff.
Year.DayOfYear like a version today would be 2008.198. If you need to know how much changed from one version to another (usually by looking at how the version, minor-version, minor-minor-version numbers change) just read the stinking release notes.
Bob
I was at a deep field camp at about 127W 82S a few years ago and we could get Internet for about 3-5 hours a day as the GOES satellite poked up above the horizon. We just has a 6' diameter, fixed position antenna.
When I was in high school (1970's) our computer programming/math teacher had a hard drive disk platter that might have been from one of the these machines. I seem to recall that it was larger than 24" in diameter, but maybe I was just smaller. Anyway, the disk had some silver powder on it -- magnetic I'd guess -- and you could actually see the individual bits. They were pretty thin, but the tracks looked to be about 1/8" wide/tall.
Your (U.S.) tax dollars bought one.
One of the things we are doing is installing 400 semi-permanent seismic recording stations in the western US over the next couple of years. Once they are all in we will "roll" them slowly eastward over a period of 8 years or so. Each station will be installed for 18-24 months. They are using one of these (an original model) to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the digitizers at the stations. I guess it is working out OK.
The project is the Transportable Array "branch" of USArray, which is a "part" of EarthScope.
If you are just going to be marking the location of a whole village then just about any handheld unit will do, like from the companies Garmin or Magellan. If you are going to do individual houses they would be cutting it close. If you need accurate, sub-meter range, measurements, then that is a whole 'nother universe, and you'd want something from the company Trimble.
If you want to make maps, like of "streets", in the villages on the GPS you are in for a bumpy ride. If you just want to plot data points on a map after you've collected the data then a handheld should do. I don't think Garmin or Magellan (or Trimble) have any good maps of Africa that you can load into their GPSs. Cities and stuff might be OK, but not much in the country.
Get the data -- worry about maps and plotting it later. You can do things like scan paper maps into products like OziExplorer on a PC and plot your recorded data points in just about any way you can imagine.
I've had several Garmin GPS receivers and they've never let me down. I've used them everywhere in places like
http://www.greschke.com/passcal/antarctica/ant25.h tm
As a bunch of others have stated, GPS will work everywhere.
Bob
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Cool...or maybe not so cool if you believe Hawking and think we'll be used as food if we happen to bump into anyone else, or someone decides to build a highway. :)
So which way is this shifting the Drake equation result? Up or down compared to what we thought the popularity of exoplanets were?
You're right. I would have no problem handing money straight to Bergman/Bogart/Henried/whoever for a copy of Casablanca, but who gets the money now (even though I have two legal, VHS and DVD, copies)? All of the principle actors are dead. No one should keep getting money for their performances. Same for books and this crap revolving around the BBC show Sherlock. Everyone else that worked on the movie was paid a salary. Digitize the ultimate version of it, give it to the Museum Of The Moving Image for free distribution and STFU. I wish as much effort was expended on investigating the party in Benghazi as they expend worrying about this crap. If it's good people will buy it, once, if it's not people won't.
You would think, by now, they would already know to stay away, or go pick up some mines from the Navy and sink a few fishing boats. Maybe it's that 'no opposable thumb/no written history' thing to pass the info along to the next generation.
Oh great. That's called a lavatory. They'll all be sitting in there yapping while a line forms. Oh wait, you're not allowed to form a line anymore. Airline issued stadium pals?
I was thinking what if they had launched the day before the CME? Surely their stuff must be able to handle it. They must be just taking their time.
They did know CMEs occur, right? Maybe they are just being cautious the first flight?
If GM products are so "safe" (as some feel) why do they need to be safety tested? Just curious.
Seem to be showing up everywhere these days.
I direct you to healthcare.gov. :)
In my experience there's a lot of it NOT going on.
I watch my users like a hawk and learn a lot. On top of just making the program do what the user wants watching them use your software generates a lot of 'I never thought they'd do that!' and 'Why didn't they tell me that was not working!' moments. It's infinetly helpful.
How about I'd like everyone to put away their precious CRAP and pay attention during takeoff and landing just in case, oh I don't know, we all need to get out in a hurry. This is silly. There are just a couple more important things going on at any given time during a flight than killing that last little piggy.
And as soon as a provider gets their system updated it will be out of date. Think this is another 'follow the money' idea?
There's a lot of nasty crap that gets dredged up out of the ground with geothermal power production too depending on how you do it. It's far from "clean" energy. It's just different dirty stuff.
...and the Chinese are busy watching 13-year olds win gold metals. Bob
Year.DayOfYear like a version today would be 2008.198. If you need to know how much changed from one version to another (usually by looking at how the version, minor-version, minor-minor-version numbers change) just read the stinking release notes. Bob
I was at a deep field camp at about 127W 82S a few years ago and we could get Internet for about 3-5 hours a day as the GOES satellite poked up above the horizon. We just has a 6' diameter, fixed position antenna.
When I was in high school (1970's) our computer programming/math teacher had a hard drive disk platter that might have been from one of the these machines. I seem to recall that it was larger than 24" in diameter, but maybe I was just smaller. Anyway, the disk had some silver powder on it -- magnetic I'd guess -- and you could actually see the individual bits. They were pretty thin, but the tracks looked to be about 1/8" wide/tall.
Your (U.S.) tax dollars bought one. One of the things we are doing is installing 400 semi-permanent seismic recording stations in the western US over the next couple of years. Once they are all in we will "roll" them slowly eastward over a period of 8 years or so. Each station will be installed for 18-24 months. They are using one of these (an original model) to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the digitizers at the stations. I guess it is working out OK. The project is the Transportable Array "branch" of USArray, which is a "part" of EarthScope.
If you are just going to be marking the location of a whole village then just about any handheld unit will do, like from the companies Garmin or Magellan. If you are going to do individual houses they would be cutting it close. If you need accurate, sub-meter range, measurements, then that is a whole 'nother universe, and you'd want something from the company Trimble. If you want to make maps, like of "streets", in the villages on the GPS you are in for a bumpy ride. If you just want to plot data points on a map after you've collected the data then a handheld should do. I don't think Garmin or Magellan (or Trimble) have any good maps of Africa that you can load into their GPSs. Cities and stuff might be OK, but not much in the country. Get the data -- worry about maps and plotting it later. You can do things like scan paper maps into products like OziExplorer on a PC and plot your recorded data points in just about any way you can imagine. I've had several Garmin GPS receivers and they've never let me down. I've used them everywhere in places like http://www.greschke.com/passcal/antarctica/ant25.h tm
As a bunch of others have stated, GPS will work everywhere.
Bob
Who the heck even has enough room to open up their laptop without risking the display getting crushed when the seat ahead of you leans back?
Also, how many flights have you been on where they couldn't even keep the VCRs running?