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GPS Receiver Noise Can Be Used To Detect Snow Depth 51

cremeglace writes "Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder have found a use for GPS besides finding restaurants or the occasional road-that-doesn't-exist: it can be used to measure snow depth. The new technique, which takes advantage of distortions of the GPS signal after it reflects off the snowpack, may potentially improve weather forecasts by allowing meteorologists to track snowfall patterns. ScienceNOW has the story, which one geophysicist describes as 'a classical case of one person's noise becoming another person's signal.'"

Comment meaning of life and existential crisis (Score 1) 512

Unfortunately there exists a condition of being depressed about ones function within the universe and purpose for being. What is the meaning of relationships? Is everything self gratification? Absurdism may be the only practical approach, but not everyone is depressed about petty worldy or personal things.

Comment Re:device not banned (Score 5, Informative) 134

I confirm this story is bunk, and anyone who is carrying this story should be ashamed (I am looking at you Engadget and Slashdot).

Go and download "holiday_devphone-userdebug 1.1" image, paid apps will show up fine because it has the features of the Tmobile g33 firmware required to see paid apps. I shouldn't need to google that for you...

The thing is, the ADP1 does not come with support, the original ADP1 firmware does not update automatically. As a developer and ADP1 owner one should be able to keep up with the news and figure this stuff out for oneself.

Comment Re:what's that smell (Score 1) 708

Macports prepends 'g' or 'gnu' to the gnu system utilities, so it is 'guname' instead of 'uname'. That is fine, except any script which requires the GNU version won't work (if the OSX version is incompatible). Fink and OSX utilities don't stomp on each other because the PATH environment is set for shells (Fink installs in /sw), so which ever utility the shell sees first it will use. I have never had any instances of applications misbehaving because it uses the wrong utility (but my guess is few use command-line utilities). If you are using scripts specifically written for OSX/BSD you might have problems tho. xargs is an example of a utility which for some reason has fewer options in OSX - it would be nice if operating systems could stick to using GNU utilities, it would make cross-platform scripting so much easier.

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