My nitpicks, without knowledge of (or concern about) who authored what:1. Use of the definite article ("the") before "NAVD88." While it would be app...

My excuse is that I posted my response while standing in line at a Panda Express in Stockton, CA, after watching two 15U baseball games, one of which ...

Assuming that the hole passes through the earth's center of mass, the acceleration will go to zero, and the flow will stop. I think.

Software> I have seen a lot of Navaran's stuff before, so I would not be quite so quick to doubt his statements.Perhaps I misunderstood his 3-4 hou...

Software> This can be done in 3-4 hours.Color me really, really skeptical.

Nicely done, but I think I'd rather blow my brains out than sink that kind of time into building a digital model. I know someone has to do it, and so...

Although I own one of the bipods you guys are talking about, I never use it. I find that a single brace stick (double if it's windy) is quicker, light...

I'm not understanding the difference between original and copy in this context. In my office, everything comes out of the same printers, and everythi...

I'd add perl to the mix. It's an amazingly powerful language, especially for the kind of text-parsing problems that are common in dealing with survey...

> it is about taking shots without looking at the datacollectorI think Dave's description of SMI accomplishes this: you don't have to look at the ...

> Trimble announced their own proprietary SBAS that seems pretty neat.Trimble is going to launch satellites?

I went through this a couple of weeks ago with the CA BLM site. When I called the number shown on the web page, I got a staffer who told me that I mu...

> Run it until it dies. Then update your radios. FCC is just another government agency that doesn't understand business.The FCC does, however, unde...

> See if you can't sell the equipment to overseas buyers where narrow banding is not a requirement.There's definitely a US market for this equipmen...

Thanks, Joe_Surveyor!!> I was at headquarters with Mark Fischer of Tripod Data Systems on the Monday before Thanksgiving.Mark was the TDS guy who s...