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I see your point, especially after seeing how people live without it in parts of Asia. When you get truely lost, you turn into Encyclopedia Brown and suddenly remember that moss grows on the north side of trees, and can use the few visible stars in pegasus to orientate yourself, or think of ways to turn your backpack and shoelaces into a tent, or even use your GPS's backlight as a makeshift flashlight. Having technology doesn't mean you don't have to be resourceful.
Technology enables us to travel in the first place; to explore. I found that those without technology (and a bad sense of direction in the first place) were the most fearful of getting lost. While I admire your spirit on just givin'er without a safety net to push your limits, it gets REALLY tiring having a near death experience every day on your backpacking trip. Many people decide to stay in the proverbial safe harbor because they don't use the technolocial safety net of GPS. When you get off a 12 hour vomit inducing bus ride, you don't feel like getting lost after dark in a new town. If you don't have a GPS you'll probably spend the evening in the hostel's restaurant eating familiar comfort food, talking with other travelers of places you've been. With a GPS, you'll go out and have crazy experiences that'll make you appreciate the fact that you're getting the most out of every moment and place on your trip. You are braver with technology.
the GPS is weighty and it's extra cumbersome having to lug around a spare set of batteries.
Garmin eTrex Summit weighs a whopping 150 grams, has 22 hour battery life (mine lasted for nearly a few months by using it only a minute or two a day), and 2 AA batteries weighs 2 X 23 grams.
Where you're saying to yourself "if only these street signs were in English, then I could find myself on my map", you'll be happy to lug around all 200 grams of GPS!
Besides, when you're backpacking and seeing a new town every couple days, you'll find that they don't even sell maps, in almost all towns and villages in Laos for example, I doubt any local has ever seen a map of his own town.
Now, I'll admit, that I also had an indestructible old-fashioned compass and the invaluable lonely planet SE Asia guide book full of accurate line maps that got me by in most situations. But half the time you're off those maps completely, or wandering a trail in the forest. Furthermore, I also used my GPS to mark cheap internet cafes I passed that I wanted to stop by later.
Bring a GPS, especially if you're going to a country that doesn't speak your language. I used a Garmin Summit and it saved my ass a couple times on my trip to SE Asia. I even gave directions to my taxi driver when *he* got lost! A compass and map isn't really an option because maps of all the cool tiny little backwoods towns don't exist, and even if you can find one, all the street names are in a different language. In China in particular, locals have no idea on how to give directions. If they can't understand you, or simply don't know the address of your intended destination, they'll point you in a random direction. I even used it in conjunction with the lonely planet maps to find all the ruined temples in the "further afield" section of Angkor Wat. Some of them you couldn't see from even 10 meters away, and were hidden by bushes. It's a great safety net. When you get into a new town, simply mark your hotel (or the bus station or wherever you are) and go out wandering. While other "backpackers" are hanging out in the hostel with other "backpackers" you'll be out meeting friendly locals, and experiencing the real country and getting completely lost. Unless you enjoy sleeping in the streets of an unfamiliar city, just turn on your trusty best friend GPS, and the oracle will point you home! My advice, is just get out there, walk on the streets, have no fear. Often having a GPS was the deciding factor on whether to explore or go home. Seriously, at some points on my trip, I would rather be without my camera even that my GPS.
I wonder how accurate their average forecast was.
"...the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the butchered or the "slaughtered and dressed" weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged (the average was closer to the ox's true butchered weight than the estimates of most crowd members, and also closer than any of the separate estimates made by cattle experts)."
Or further, if you were to find weights that minimize their weighted average prediction error, in a training period, how much better would that prediction be?
I can pipe it further, as an RSS feed in its own right
You have be careful whenever your output can be used as another's input, that you don't wind up with an infinite loop.
That would explain why yahoo's pipes are clogged.
Just equip every satellite with a deflector dish. Have each satellite perturb the orbit of each piece of debris it comes across to intersect with the atmosphere.
For example a picture of a blank wall will have many pixels with the same colour and texture information.
Dr Baraniuk said that this is where the single-pixel camera really has an advantage. The perfect camera for those ultra mundane pictures!
Is your code repository and design docs here on/.? That's exactly my point. Unless you need constant connection, try just syncing up in the morning, then unplugging for the rest of the day. I too have an online code repository and online documentation, but it's often more interesting to wiki why is the sky blue, for example, than to read documentation.
While a constant connection at work is useful, it as also a tempting distraction, but it certainly not an addiction. However, try simply unplugging the ethernet cable and see how much real work you can get done. You might say, well, that won't work because you can easily plug the cable back in and you're addicted again. Try it, and you'll see that you'll keep working at the task at hand 9 times out of 10 whenever you feel the internet urge. This method requires you to actually think about whether another check of you email is actually a good use of your time.
I thought about that too. An RF channel isn't a perfect window in frequency. The further you put your information from the carrier frequency, the more distorted it becomes. This is mostly due to non-linear components. My guess is that the 3/4 of the bandwidth that they didn't use offers too much distortion or loss. Diminishing returns kicks in the further you get from the centre frequency. The marketing people would rather let the reader extrapolate the results. "Wow, if they used the whole bandwidth, they'd get 4 times the rate." I'm sure if they could use the whole bandwidth, they would have.
The article says, "White LEDs could provide a sustainable, low-cost alternative to lightbulbs, especially in developing countries." I think the people at the Light Up the World Foundation should be given some recognition for actually bringing LEDs to those developing countries. It's one thing to invite a technology, it's another to use it to improve the world.
I realize you're joking but my buddy has ranted to me on numerous occasions about how an uninformed article or comment suggesting that Stumbleupon contains spyware or sells your personal info damages the reputation of the project.
Stumbleupon doesn't send your personal info to marketers. Advertising can be purchased from Stumbleupon, and will only been shown to stumblers whose profile shows they are interested in the relevant topics.
Incidentally, a good friend of mine is the founder of SU, we took the same data mining class at the U of Calgary, he's an honent guy. StumbleUpon shows your [advertising] page directly to websurfers according to preferences and demographics, ensuring only receptive audiences view your ad. This targeting approach also gives you insightful feedback from potential customers regarding the quality of your site.
Personally, I can rarely be sure that the stumble is an ad or not. Stumbleupon finds catagorizes you like, but also finds users with similar interests and shows you pages they like.
Do you even need a telescope? By combining this technology with wearable computing you can star gaze with your "naked eye" and get text info and hubble image overlays at the stars your looking at.
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It was Why are Websites Still Forcing People to Use IE?.
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Technology enables us to travel in the first place; to explore. I found that those without technology (and a bad sense of direction in the first place) were the most fearful of getting lost. While I admire your spirit on just givin'er without a safety net to push your limits, it gets REALLY tiring having a near death experience every day on your backpacking trip. Many people decide to stay in the proverbial safe harbor because they don't use the technolocial safety net of GPS. When you get off a 12 hour vomit inducing bus ride, you don't feel like getting lost after dark in a new town. If you don't have a GPS you'll probably spend the evening in the hostel's restaurant eating familiar comfort food, talking with other travelers of places you've been. With a GPS, you'll go out and have crazy experiences that'll make you appreciate the fact that you're getting the most out of every moment and place on your trip. You are braver with technology.
Garmin eTrex Summit weighs a whopping 150 grams, has 22 hour battery life (mine lasted for nearly a few months by using it only a minute or two a day), and 2 AA batteries weighs 2 X 23 grams.
Where you're saying to yourself "if only these street signs were in English, then I could find myself on my map", you'll be happy to lug around all 200 grams of GPS!
Besides, when you're backpacking and seeing a new town every couple days, you'll find that they don't even sell maps, in almost all towns and villages in Laos for example, I doubt any local has ever seen a map of his own town. Now, I'll admit, that I also had an indestructible old-fashioned compass and the invaluable lonely planet SE Asia guide book full of accurate line maps that got me by in most situations. But half the time you're off those maps completely, or wandering a trail in the forest. Furthermore, I also used my GPS to mark cheap internet cafes I passed that I wanted to stop by later.
Bring a GPS, especially if you're going to a country that doesn't speak your language. I used a Garmin Summit and it saved my ass a couple times on my trip to SE Asia. I even gave directions to my taxi driver when *he* got lost! A compass and map isn't really an option because maps of all the cool tiny little backwoods towns don't exist, and even if you can find one, all the street names are in a different language. In China in particular, locals have no idea on how to give directions. If they can't understand you, or simply don't know the address of your intended destination, they'll point you in a random direction.
I even used it in conjunction with the lonely planet maps to find all the ruined temples in the "further afield" section of Angkor Wat. Some of them you couldn't see from even 10 meters away, and were hidden by bushes.
It's a great safety net. When you get into a new town, simply mark your hotel (or the bus station or wherever you are) and go out wandering. While other "backpackers" are hanging out in the hostel with other "backpackers" you'll be out meeting friendly locals, and experiencing the real country and getting completely lost. Unless you enjoy sleeping in the streets of an unfamiliar city, just turn on your trusty best friend GPS, and the oracle will point you home! My advice, is just get out there, walk on the streets, have no fear. Often having a GPS was the deciding factor on whether to explore or go home.
Seriously, at some points on my trip, I would rather be without my camera even that my GPS.
I wonder how accurate their average forecast was.
"...the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the butchered or the "slaughtered and dressed" weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged (the average was closer to the ox's true butchered weight than the estimates of most crowd members, and also closer than any of the separate estimates made by cattle experts)."
Or further, if you were to find weights that minimize their weighted average prediction error, in a training period, how much better would that prediction be?
You have be careful whenever your output can be used as another's input, that you don't wind up with an infinite loop.
That would explain why yahoo's pipes are clogged.
Just equip every satellite with a deflector dish. Have each satellite perturb the orbit of each piece of debris it comes across to intersect with the atmosphere.
Dr Baraniuk said that this is where the single-pixel camera really has an advantage.
The perfect camera for those ultra mundane pictures!
pi does not equal 3.141592653589793. It has many more digits than that.
This sounds quite similar to StumbleUpon. Customized recommendations from collaborative filtering.
Is your code repository and design docs here on /.? That's exactly my point. Unless you need constant connection, try just syncing up in the morning, then unplugging for the rest of the day.
I too have an online code repository and online documentation, but it's often more interesting to wiki why is the sky blue, for example, than to read documentation.
While a constant connection at work is useful, it as also a tempting distraction, but it certainly not an addiction. However, try simply unplugging the ethernet cable and see how much real work you can get done.
You might say, well, that won't work because you can easily plug the cable back in and you're addicted again. Try it, and you'll see that you'll keep working at the task at hand 9 times out of 10 whenever you feel the internet urge.
This method requires you to actually think about whether another check of you email is actually a good use of your time.
I thought about that too. An RF channel isn't a perfect window in frequency. The further you put your information from the carrier frequency, the more distorted it becomes. This is mostly due to non-linear components. My guess is that the 3/4 of the bandwidth that they didn't use offers too much distortion or loss. Diminishing returns kicks in the further you get from the centre frequency. The marketing people would rather let the reader extrapolate the results. "Wow, if they used the whole bandwidth, they'd get 4 times the rate."
I'm sure if they could use the whole bandwidth, they would have.
The article says, "White LEDs could provide a sustainable, low-cost alternative to lightbulbs, especially in developing countries." I think the people at the Light Up the World Foundation should be given some recognition for actually bringing LEDs to those developing countries. It's one thing to invite a technology, it's another to use it to improve the world.
I realize you're joking but my buddy has ranted to me on numerous occasions about how an uninformed article or comment suggesting that Stumbleupon contains spyware or sells your personal info damages the reputation of the project.
Stumbleupon doesn't send your personal info to marketers. Advertising can be purchased from Stumbleupon, and will only been shown to stumblers whose profile shows they are interested in the relevant topics.
Incidentally, a good friend of mine is the founder of SU, we took the same data mining class at the U of Calgary, he's an honent guy. StumbleUpon shows your [advertising] page directly to websurfers according to preferences and demographics, ensuring only receptive audiences view your ad. This targeting approach also gives you insightful feedback from potential customers regarding the quality of your site.
Personally, I can rarely be sure that the stumble is an ad or not. Stumbleupon finds catagorizes you like, but also finds users with similar interests and shows you pages they like.
Do you even need a telescope? By combining this technology with wearable computing you can star gaze with your "naked eye" and get text info and hubble image overlays at the stars your looking at.