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In my experience, doing some sensor systems with cheap sensors and expensive sensors, the difference is that cheap ones can be fast or accurate, while good ones can be both.
Using cheap sensors can allow you to validate your hypothesis. This can in turn help you justify the additional expense of calibrated and more precise sensors to accurately describe the relationship observed.
(You can also use spares of the cheap sensor equipment to play games and blow off steam while the experiment is running; Mario Kart anyone?
Has it been that long? Can someone help me install Trumpet Winsock so I can get my Windows 3.11 system in the internet using PPP?
PPP is not reliable, try using SLIP.
The FSF's explanation is 'you can sell GPL, so it can be commerical!'
It depends on what your definition of 'is' is...
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin