I used to work for the Government as a cartographer. One issue with commercial based maps are the copyright controls. in order to keep competitors from stealing their work they purposely add or subtract roads. They know where the mistakes are and use them for copyright reference. on the other hand this is whats causes allot of trouble with GPS routers. One fix is to add a flag to the line data that could flag this and fix tons or routing trouble GPS devices have been having. Examples can be used for tonnage limits, rural routes, narrow streets, and low bridges. But because most maps are created using satellite or air photography overlays, that info is left out.
The U.S. Census Bureau's, Geography Dept. is in charge of creating and sourcing U.S. GIS maps. Most map's are updated during the census period when there are enumerator staff on location to send new road information. Some info is updated yearly when cities, and counties may update annexed land.
Files are created to be compatible with ArcView software and are free to download. Free maps are old, and can be as old as the last Census. In March, 2008 the Census Bureau will make the 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles available to the public. File formats include: ARC/INFO EXPORT (.e00) format ArcView Shapefile (.shp) format ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) format. These are NOT photographic maps, they have the look and feel of your standard GPS maps. They can be found here: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2006se/tgr2006se.html
This info is compatible with ArcGIS, But with the Ascii file its possible to create a opensource editor. I was using government software created to run under linux.
Will you be adding any new low level content for the new people that are comming? or adjusting acess to battlefields so low level people are not shut out because the there are more level 60 players out there? I know its easier to keep the level 60 people playing because if they got thru the boring low level content then there easier to dup into playing shoddy assemblyline code you put out for them.
With GPS tracking Martha Stwewart would not have to complain about that nast ankle braclet she has on, just make her fall over dizzy any time she is out of her cage.
With the brilliance that come from making somthing illeagl just because of its potentil to cause harm would mean that any software can be illeagl. For instance, TCP, HTTP can be used to send pirated copies of software and child porn, should we now start arresting the IT people? Al Gore better watch out cause he claims to have invented all this. Its a bad day when it becomes a crime to make, build, or design anything that could be used for crime, but a good day for criminals. Criminals naturally dont follow rules, its only the law abiding that wll suffer.
In a Age where more money is spent on sports and less on academics its no wonder there is a brain drain in the US. I live in a town that worships college sports over anything else, ranking in the lower 45 states in quality education. Even now there is talk about city and state spending for another new arena, parks, and golf courses. Throwing a ball into a hoop will never cure cancer, allthough the income from sports can bring in new equipment, after the pay there coach 10X's what the nearest professor is getting.
I have allways thought they should seperate sports, make them a industry on there own, fill there own ranks with potential stars. In effect the private sport schools could make money on venues and fund there own students, and possibly drive down the cost of regular academic education.
In the end the States have to set its prioities where they belong, in allmost every state run university there is ongoing promotion of sports, while you barly see anything about there education. We have allmost fanatical parets push kids into sports and send the wrong message, there are more jobs out there then sporting contracts.
$200K for a ride in space, basically you shoot stright up and glide down, no weightless flight, about 1 minute of "space" and you heading back home. well it shouldent cost that much per person, there cashing in on the ride, but its just a longer laster Roller Coaster trip. well maby a little wightless free fall for a few seconds. I would rather wait till they have trips to the moon.
I never used a GPS system but working for the government I helped them to digitize sections of the US, in the amount of 6 million sections. The software we used was Archview, its a great peice of GIS software. Just look up some stuff on GIS (Geographic information systems)http://www.gis.com/ to get a start. Im sure that some GPS hardware would integrate well with GIS software on a laptop. at least marking stuff on Lat and lon scales, road layouts can be inserted by hand, and some sattlite maps could help.
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The concept of 3D photography is really old, to transpose a image into a 3D wiremesh image shouldnt have take this long to to work out. Take range finding equipment that uses 2 lenses to find the range, compare distances between pixels in left and right eye pictures and you can get a rought estimate of a countour of any giving shape. test this out your self you can see looking ahead of you that objects closer to you shift more distance then stuff further away. I'm no rocket scientist but it was a Idea I have been thinking about. Maby it was my stay at a holiday inn?
Ill call you dead, if you on a plane with a terrorist on board that the FBI is tapping, tell me how that is going to save your life? The only good that would come from tapping the terrorists is for better identification of the corpse. Look, the terrorist is onboard the plane, therefor the FBI faild. The Tap is a "save our ass" prop so they can catch the living bad guys while people mourn the loss of life, because the FBI could stop the guy from getting on the plane in the first place
Turning anything Off just after the attack only slows down ligitimate use of the system even for law inforcement and emergency workers. This same idea has been tried with cell phones. Why not shut down every car when one is used for a attack, think its too crazy? Tell me why then are you getting busted for a pair of nail clippers at the checkpiont?
This is all reactionary responses, FBI is a reactionary force, in all its history how many people did they catch BEFORE the crime was commited? How many changes would have to be made untill the FBI became Proactive? What needs to be dont is better assesment of what your trying to secure, and what the FBI is trying to do puts them one step behind the terrorist. If law of the land is Innocent untill proven guilty, then terrorist acts would have to happien before you can arrest. but are more like Innocent unless you look suspisicious approch.
Science FICTION is just that, you try and add only pure know science facts, what would we end up with? We have True Crime based on real life criminals and investigations, should we create True Science? would this be limited only to proven laws of science, leave out theoretical ideas?
My intrest is in the theoretical areas. "Snow Crash" by: Neal Stephenson that I just finished reading had ideas based on computer science, and even creatively placed foot notes to real life theories, and there authors.
I would assume that because your alive, any attempt to try would fail. If you see it that way then would you even attempt it? could be that the attempt would lead you to your own death?
There is allot of SF on this subject, but a habital inviroment does not have to be on the surface of a asteroid. allso the mined resources will be worth the effort
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http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10841&cs_id=1084101&p_id=5553&seq=1&format=1#largeimage This is a Ultra cheap table I recently bought, and I have no trouble with it. its a graphics tablet, large work area and programmable "areas" to open apps or menus. Works great in Photoshop and Zbrush.
I used to work for the Government as a cartographer. One issue with commercial based maps are the copyright controls. in order to keep competitors from stealing their work they purposely add or subtract roads. They know where the mistakes are and use them for copyright reference. on the other hand this is whats causes allot of trouble with GPS routers. One fix is to add a flag to the line data that could flag this and fix tons or routing trouble GPS devices have been having. Examples can be used for tonnage limits, rural routes, narrow streets, and low bridges. But because most maps are created using satellite or air photography overlays, that info is left out.
The U.S. Census Bureau's, Geography Dept. is in charge of creating and sourcing U.S. GIS maps. Most map's are updated during the census period when there are enumerator staff on location to send new road information. Some info is updated yearly when cities, and counties may update annexed land.
Files are created to be compatible with ArcView software and are free to download. Free maps are old, and can be as old as the last Census. In March, 2008 the Census Bureau will make the 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles available to the public. File formats include:
ARC/INFO EXPORT (.e00) format
ArcView Shapefile (.shp) format
ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) format.
These are NOT photographic maps, they have the look and feel of your standard GPS maps. They can be found here: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2006se/tgr2006se.html
This info is compatible with ArcGIS, But with the Ascii file its possible to create a opensource editor. I was using government software created to run under linux.
Will you be adding any new low level content for the new people that are comming? or adjusting acess to battlefields so low level people are not shut out because the there are more level 60 players out there? I know its easier to keep the level 60 people playing because if they got thru the boring low level content then there easier to dup into playing shoddy assemblyline code you put out for them.
With GPS tracking Martha Stwewart would not have to complain about that nast ankle braclet she has on, just make her fall over dizzy any time she is out of her cage.
With the brilliance that come from making somthing illeagl just because of its potentil to cause harm would mean that any software can be illeagl. For instance, TCP, HTTP can be used to send pirated copies of software and child porn, should we now start arresting the IT people? Al Gore better watch out cause he claims to have invented all this. Its a bad day when it becomes a crime to make, build, or design anything that could be used for crime, but a good day for criminals. Criminals naturally dont follow rules, its only the law abiding that wll suffer.
In a Age where more money is spent on sports and less on academics its no wonder there is a brain drain in the US. I live in a town that worships college sports over anything else, ranking in the lower 45 states in quality education. Even now there is talk about city and state spending for another new arena, parks, and golf courses. Throwing a ball into a hoop will never cure cancer, allthough the income from sports can bring in new equipment, after the pay there coach 10X's what the nearest professor is getting. I have allways thought they should seperate sports, make them a industry on there own, fill there own ranks with potential stars. In effect the private sport schools could make money on venues and fund there own students, and possibly drive down the cost of regular academic education. In the end the States have to set its prioities where they belong, in allmost every state run university there is ongoing promotion of sports, while you barly see anything about there education. We have allmost fanatical parets push kids into sports and send the wrong message, there are more jobs out there then sporting contracts.
$200K for a ride in space, basically you shoot stright up and glide down, no weightless flight, about 1 minute of "space" and you heading back home. well it shouldent cost that much per person, there cashing in on the ride, but its just a longer laster Roller Coaster trip. well maby a little wightless free fall for a few seconds. I would rather wait till they have trips to the moon.
I never used a GPS system but working for the government I helped them to digitize sections of the US, in the amount of 6 million sections. The software we used was Archview, its a great peice of GIS software. Just look up some stuff on GIS (Geographic information systems)http://www.gis.com/ to get a start. Im sure that some GPS hardware would integrate well with GIS software on a laptop. at least marking stuff on Lat and lon scales, road layouts can be inserted by hand, and some sattlite maps could help.
The concept of 3D photography is really old, to transpose a image into a 3D wiremesh image shouldnt have take this long to to work out. Take range finding equipment that uses 2 lenses to find the range, compare distances between pixels in left and right eye pictures and you can get a rought estimate of a countour of any giving shape. test this out your self you can see looking ahead of you that objects closer to you shift more distance then stuff further away. I'm no rocket scientist but it was a Idea I have been thinking about. Maby it was my stay at a holiday inn?
Ill call you dead, if you on a plane with a terrorist on board that the FBI is tapping, tell me how that is going to save your life? The only good that would come from tapping the terrorists is for better identification of the corpse. Look, the terrorist is onboard the plane, therefor the FBI faild. The Tap is a "save our ass" prop so they can catch the living bad guys while people mourn the loss of life, because the FBI could stop the guy from getting on the plane in the first place
Turning anything Off just after the attack only slows down ligitimate use of the system even for law inforcement and emergency workers. This same idea has been tried with cell phones. Why not shut down every car when one is used for a attack, think its too crazy? Tell me why then are you getting busted for a pair of nail clippers at the checkpiont?
This is all reactionary responses, FBI is a reactionary force, in all its history how many people did they catch BEFORE the crime was commited? How many changes would have to be made untill the FBI became Proactive? What needs to be dont is better assesment of what your trying to secure, and what the FBI is trying to do puts them one step behind the terrorist. If law of the land is Innocent untill proven guilty, then terrorist acts would have to happien before you can arrest. but are more like Innocent unless you look suspisicious approch.
Science FICTION is just that, you try and add only pure know science facts, what would we end up with? We have True Crime based on real life criminals and investigations, should we create True Science? would this be limited only to proven laws of science, leave out theoretical ideas? My intrest is in the theoretical areas. "Snow Crash" by: Neal Stephenson that I just finished reading had ideas based on computer science, and even creatively placed foot notes to real life theories, and there authors.
I would assume that because your alive, any attempt to try would fail. If you see it that way then would you even attempt it? could be that the attempt would lead you to your own death?
There is allot of SF on this subject, but a habital inviroment does not have to be on the surface of a asteroid. allso the mined resources will be worth the effort