Cut Chains
...hundredths......hmmmm
never measured that close, not even when building a piano!
Cut Chains
Sorry, I sometimes was required to return results closer than 1:5000:-)
Don
Cut Chains
Ya I know prior.
Out in the hills of South Dakota, we didn't much worry about those measurements.
We didn't run up against any skyscrapers.
Loyal
I can charge them in my truck. As long as my gas holds out
Loyal
Gas will be the first to run out, will have coal for power plants long after we are riding horses for transportation again.
I'm talking about either the zombie apocalypse or alien invasion, give me a minute to focus on just one of the voices in my head and it will tell me which conspiracy theory we subscribe to this week.
OR when we get hit with the next storm and are out of power (and gas and ice and hot water etc) for a bit.
> .. isn't that like saying you hope that email goes away so the postal employees have something to do?
Yes. But if email was threatened you wouldn't expect the postal employees to be campaigning to prevent it, would you?
> > .. isn't that like saying you hope that email goes away so the postal employees have something to do?
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> Yes. But if email was threatened you wouldn't expect the postal employees to be campaigning to prevent it, would you?
No, because they would take a penny and give up a dollar. It's the typical short-term attitude that might be the demise of the American economy.
> Customers are not as nostalgic. They do not care if it is 'the honorable way of the survey samurai' or not; they want the msot cost effective methods possible. Short of cadastral work there are few laws compelling folks in the widening geospatial markets to have to use surveyors, especially if we simply cave in and revert to legacy, often costlier methods and tools.
> Regardless of whether DarkSquared or any of the others succeeed in killing the current state of GPS, there will be those who pick temselves up, dust themselves off, upgrade, update, move along in GNSS spectrum and constellations and take customers with them; and the future markets. Machine Control, Precision Ag, and GIS represent too big of a market to give up and come crawling back to surveyors.
> The FCC has also just handed the Chinese, Russians, and Euros the biggest global positioning marketing gift they could ever ask for. Folks will look to those resources as well.
> I love chain and transit too. Folks can work wonders with those. But we cannot keep looking back, or we will further 'extinctify' ourselves.
extinctify
cool, I learned a new word!
> No, because they would take a penny and give up a dollar. It's the typical short-term attitude that might be the demise of the American economy.
You might say that the tiny fraction of the economy represented by Surveyors standing in the way of a technological marvel like LightSquared is taking a penny while giving up a dollar.
> > No, because they would take a penny and give up a dollar. It's the typical short-term attitude that might be the demise of the American economy.
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> You might say that the tiny fraction of the economy represented by Surveyors standing in the way of a technological marvel like LightSquared is taking a penny while giving up a dollar.
True, if it were only surveyors using the technology. The fact is that we are only a tiny fraction of a fast growth GPS market. Lightsquared's "technological marvel" at this point is just an idea in someone's head. People may assume it would succeed, but it could bust. Then they say "uh oh, sorry" after turning the GPS industry upside down.
I think I'll just throw a 15W amorphous solar panel on the GTS-3b, and kiss the NiCd batteries good bye... If it's dark out, I don't need to be out working. 🙂
amorphous panels
you go right over to sun electric in miami and buy an 85 watt crystalline solar panel for $157. the amorphous panels only last 5+ years and the crystalline panels will last 20+ years. here's two working in a colder climate:
Internet radio broadcast held this morning at 11:00am concerning the LightSquared initiative.
Monday June 27 at 11 AM EDT on the
ACSM Radio Hour (www.americaswebradio.com) as they discuss the current status of the ongoing deliberations associated with the LightSquared/FCC/GPS Community.