Boomers did much of the heavy lifting INVENTING the damn things.
What's a cache? I thought it was summinck to do with web browsers but you're talking Saxon.
I find it kinda funny that the older GPS was either vector or raster. The raster sales people had an impossible job selling photocopies of charts on an expensive monitor.Uh... I'm a Boomer, and you know what? I was using GPSs and writing GPS mapping software before your lot was born. Thpthpthpthpthpt!
Where's my fuckin' cane?
Seriously, when I started, the only civilian GPS was literally a black box with an antenna connection and a data-out port, and when you finally were able to acquire enough satellites to get a consistent posit, you might have been accurate to about 100 yards or so. And it was your job to do something with the data spew!
My problem, relative to you Gen Zedders, is knowing what's in the sausage. The GPS-ish map data you see on your smartphone has a lot of crap in it. Now that has improved immensely since Google got serious about mapping, but the base dataset (TIGER) was rife with errors. The old joke about "Turn right in 200 feet" - which dumped you into a river or lake - was sort of true.
When we travel, we mostly use paper map books. There's just no way to get the big picture in route planning relying on the data's interpretations of what are and what aren't major or minor thoroughfares, especially on that microscopic screen. We've been routed down some pretty iffy dirt (and mud!) roads under the misimpression that the "GPS" could have been right.
Buzz Aldrin checked way points to the moon using a sextant and the Pole Star.
He might have gone to the great celestial beacon in the sky. I got the sense he didn't want to make a fuss.
A cache in geocaching can be something as small as a pill bottle, I've seen some as big as a tupperwear bowl with lid. The Cache will contain a log for the person who finds it to sign, and quite often trinkets, the geocacher will take one and leave one of their own. Some trinkets will be tracked, they have a registered number and the person who takes it will post on the internet "Took XYZ from Georgetown CO #16 cache" then later when visiting grandma in Bismark ND you go Geocaching and leave that trinket in a Bismark cache and post "Left XYZ in Bismark #7 cache" the "owner" of that trinket gets notified and can follow their trinket anywhere.
Hey - flirting with @stickygirl and @onehitwanda is my job, do I have to get the Guild involved?A cache in geocaching can be something as small as a pill bottle, I've seen some as big as a tupperwear bowl with lid. The Cache will contain a log for the person who finds it to sign, and quite often trinkets, the geocacher will take one and leave one of their own. Some trinkets will be tracked, they have a registered number and the person who takes it will post on the internet "Took XYZ from Georgetown CO #16 cache" then later when visiting grandma in Bismark ND you go Geocaching and leave that trinket in a Bismark cache and post "Left XYZ in Bismark #7 cache" the "owner" of that trinket gets notified and can follow their trinket anywhere.
I'll do both you and wanda, how's that?
Close. She's trying to be a chinchilla.
Look where you are and who we are...
better than cocktants at any rate
OK, I know and agree. But, let’s buck the trend.
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I’ve been known to howl a bit. Maybe baying is the next step. Can you help with that
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http://telegramchannels.me/storage/stickers/themuse/big_themuse_37.pngI’ve been known to howl a bit. Maybe baying is the next step. Can you help with that
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That didn’t load for me. But I open it in a new window and like what I see
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