I had an engineering team do a survey of a site and explain to me how the handheld GPS units they used to record the perimeter with would be accurate as they "zero'ed" them by taking a reading at a known location before they started. They actual put that in a report.
A lot of people are under the impression that all GPS units are just as accurate. If that was the case, Trimble would be out of business.
Inexpensive GPS receivers will not resolve to as high an accuracy as the high end gear, even if they are in the same location. They won't have the computational ability, they will round more of the calculations, and the radios will not be as sensitive.
One has to be stationary.
You are confusing inherently inaccurate devices with Differential GPS systems. In Differential GPS, the base station is located at a precisely known position and it constantly calculates the accuracy of the GPS measurement and broadcasts a correction signal. The location of the roving station is calculated relative to the base station using the correction signal as both know the measured location and the amount by which it is likely to be inaccurate.
This technique is used to establish highly accurate relative measurements, such as mapping a construction site. In these cases, absolute accuracy is irrelevant, the project can be feet away from where it is measured to be and no-one will care, but each building, pipe, duct will be placed to sub-centimeter accuracy relative to a known point on the site.
The correction can be applied in real time or in post-processing.
>they're both probably going to be equally inaccurate and in the same direction
No, they will be randomly inaccurate. However, if you have lost your beloved pet, 60 ft is close enough to tell you where it is.
Sure, because oil will just keep coming...right?
The ability to generate energy from wind depends on the ability to deliver it to the end user. The utilities have the lock on that. Unless they are forced to allow wind producers to sell to the grid, there is no market. If you don't have regulations allowing that, the utilities will be the only ones interested in generating from wind, and they already have all the capacity the need. Coal is cheap, why change?
This isn't just a business issue, it's a survival issue. We cannot continue to use fossil fuels to maintain our lifestyle for much longer. Utilities make money for their shareholders, they don't make decisions for the good of the human race.
The Europeans get this, they have Electricity Feed laws that make it cost effective to generate and sell electricity to the grid using wind. In a lot of cases the wind turbines belong to a cooperative that invests in the turbine(s) to make money and to make a difference. This only works with legislation.
It's not taxpayer money that will make the difference, it's making the consumer pay a little extra for energy in the interest of making renewable energy sources a viable solution. Pay now or pay later.
There is only one US company making Megawatt class wind turbines. Almost all the high quality Megawatt class units in the world come from Europe, where there has been an emphasis on research and progress on sustainable energy. The US has voluntarily stepped out of the field since the progress made in the 1980's. Deregulation of the utilities and the lack of Government incentives has killed this industry, not foreign competition. You cannot have the technological lead in alternate energy without government support.
Choosing your reviews is not illegal, nor should it be, movies do it all the time. But what if there never was a positive review, if they were all negative, so they made them up to make the product seem popular although everyone hated it? That must be illegal. Making up reviews then posting them to what you claim is a user feedback forum has got to be false advertising, fraudulent and unethical. It's the corporate equivalent of having a shill in the audience.
I have never understood how a country can expect to charge visitors for their marketing. Wouldn't you expect the people who benefit, i.e., the hospitality industry, the taxi drivers, the amusement parks, to pay the costs of marketing. Why the tourists? How does raising the cost to the customer increase the amount of business? As if the ignorant stupid immigration requirements weren't enough to keep visitors away, now they want to make it financially less desirable? Stupid.
Clearly neither the bank or the judge understand anything about the internet. The bank is completely clueless, has clueless idiot employees, and should be ordered to completely disconnect from the internet for the safety of their clients.
The judge has no clue how email works, knows nothing of POP, Spam, and should be banned form ruling on IT related cases ever again.
A stupid precedent that will be overturned.
Completely agree - if I get information and attachments from anyone I am not expecting to hear from, I delete it, and if it claims to be from a bank I do not have an account with, I delete it without reading it. I am almost certain that is what happened here. It is impossible to claim you emailed someone and should have received a reply, if you want that to work, get rid of spam.
The entire email system is fundamentally broken, does not work and cannot be relied on at all. As long as two parties agree to exchange an email, it is probably fine, but to expect to send am email to anyone who does not know you and to expect a response is naive.
Google should have used their financial might to halt this, they had reason and precedent on their side and more money than the bank.
I love getting Junk Mail, the physical kind, how else would I light my pizza oven? No, really...
http://pizzaontherocks.blogspot.com/2009/09/wednesday-sept-92009.html
A few years ago, Royal Caribbean cruise line was found by the US coastguard to have fitted bilge bypass valves on their ships, allowing them to dump oily bilge water at sea with being detected, or so they thought. They were fined heavily for this. They didn't just do it as an afterthought or by accident, they intentionally refitted the ship to be able to do it, meaning the corporation actively intended to pollute the waters they were making their living from. Maybe the scale is different, but the intent is the same.
Who was that person?
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.