2024 Annual Trimble Dimensions User Conference . I'll be in Dr. Dru's NSRS and Trimble's RTN session as well as Peter Flint's (Alaska DNR) presentation on ACORN (Alaska Continuously Real-Time Network).
Have fun. I have been getting the itch to go back it has been many years since I attended one of those events. I was planning on going this year but unfortunately it falls exactly within the dates my son is getting married so maybe next year.
I will be there. I have been to all going back to the first several ones over in coastal California before they moved it to Las Vegas. I sometimes present a workshop or two, but not this year.
I've never been to one and I'm not sure what it is actually. To a newbie it mostly looks like a huge sales pitch for Trimble gear. Is it worth going to one if you're not a Trimble user?
@BStrand hey of course it has its branding and marketing pitch but it is a huge training opt. They basically have many classes of different subjects put on all day every day. A nice time and I have never had a bad class. The actual experts in many of the different product Lines say TBC or Trimble access etc. then within those subjects as people want to teach. Before Trimble dimensions Trimble use to go around at a small scale and the engineers that developed the old gps units were on hand to ask direct questions from which helped stomp out myths and such.
My liver is still recovering from 2010 when I went as editor of Professional Surveyor - the Trimble marketing team back in the day could put away the booze.
LOL. Well all that oxygen the casinos pump in you don’t get sleepy and all the bells and clinking of the machine keeps you in a nice cadence for drinking. You have most definitely been there. I am not a gambler I like my money way too much to throw it away. But one of my co-workers around 2005 I believe was on the machine control side and did sales. He liked black jack. So he had me set beside him one night to keep him company. Ha gives me 100$ in chips and said whatever I lose no worries whatever I win I can keep. I walked away with $1000 and gave him half. Plus his money back after a couple hours. Next day he said come sit with me. I say I am not spending my money. He said look at what you won. I said that was your money. So he spots me a 100 to lose. Again I get lucky. This time I gave him all but the hundred. One he had lost 5k. He got his 5k back that night on the agreement I didn’t have to sit with him anymore lol.
I'm no gambler either - lost way too much cash back in school for that
One trick I know is to halve your spendable cash.
Stick one half aside and DONT touch it.
Now you can relax, go out and have a good time with the other half.
And when its all over, you will only have lost half of what you can afford.
