One postscript on the GPS issue: don't get too used to relying on
your GPS unit. The satellites on which GPS depends are aging and
will need replacement very soon. No money has been appropriated for
any replacement satellites, and you can't send the space shuttle up
to fix them. So,
On Sep 10, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
One postscript on the GPS issue: don't get too used to relying on
your GPS unit. The satellites on which GPS depends are aging and
will need replacement very soon. No money has been appropriated for
any replacement satellites, and you
On Sep 10, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
I wonder what will be the predominant language of space exploration:
English, or Chinese?
Chinese, definitely. The American Century ended prematurely.
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mike wrote:
I've heard this all my life, but I've never met a guy who refused or didn't
like asking for directions.
We haven't met. I remember vividly the day, decades ago, when I swore I
would never again stop my car to ask directions.
That story is too long to tell here, but the usual
what happens at home stays at home.
Stewart
At 11:29 AM 9/5/2009, you wrote:
What else have you done when half schnockker'd, rev?
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From: mike [mailto:xha...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Guys and GPS
I used to make delivers in a
What else have you done when half schnockker'd, rev?
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From: mike [mailto:xha...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Guys and GPS
I used to make delivers in a van from the main PO here to a credit
processing center around 12-2am. I had
Used a nuvi 210 or 270 or something like that free with rental car in
Belgium ...when road had sharp curve, thing would tell me to turn left or
turn right leading to screeching brakes and almost rear-enders ...didn't
say street names ...crap! I have an off brand VideoSeven v7Nav-730 and
bought
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Art Clemonsartclem...@aol.com wrote:
That claim might have been true when Garmins, Tom Toms and the like were
a geek toy, but would you care to explain why most GPS units default to
a female voice?
You say, ...were a geek toy... Are you claiming that they
That claim might have been true when Garmins, Tom Toms and the like were
a geek toy, but would you care to explain why most GPS units default to
a female voice?
I don't know about yours, but my TomTom has Homer Simpson as the voice.
I bought that one, but TomToms have several standard
would you care to explain why most GPS units default to
a female voice?
Back in the day when I was working with the aerospace industry
developing a flybywire systems, we did research showing that the
testoserone laden jet jockeys, then pilots were exclusively male, would
take direction from
You say, ...were a geek toy... Are you claiming that they are no
longer geek toys? I say they most certainly are geek toys, which is
why it is mostly guys who are driving around with them as far as I can
see. Travel around a bit as a passenger so you can have time to look
around and
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Art Clemonsartclem...@aol.com wrote:
Too many people rely on them, even when it doesn't make sense to do so.
They no longer qualify as something only geeks want or have, instead,
they've become mainstream.
From my recent observations, there is still a very
On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:02 AM Sep 4, Art Clemons wrote:
Too many people rely on them, even when it doesn't make sense to do
so.
Someone (not me) came to work very tired last Monday morning. They
had made a long trip. Halfway back to home someone had fiddled with
the GPS and the infernal
Gizmophilia trumps Gelotophobia ...the result ...Androphobia!
...however, I'd prefer being beset by any of those than to be afflicted
by Arachibutyrophobia !!
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Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:27 PM
I use the GPS, but ignore its instructions.
Mason
On Sep 4, 2009, at 1:32 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Rev. Stewart
Marshallpopoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
I will be honest I use them usually on long trips so when I get off
the
interstate at an interchange
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Rev. Stewart
Marshallpopoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
I will be honest I use them usually on long trips so when I get off the
interstate at an interchange I am not familiar with it gets me back on
without getting lost. (It has been known to happen!)
Back
There are some days when I get to the office or to somewhere I was
going to travel that I simply cannot remember the trip! It is semi
automatic driving.
This scared me when I was a young driver. Did I check when I changed lanes, or
not? But then I read something in a James Bond: He switched
, September 04, 2009 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Guys and GPS
There are some days when I get to the office or to somewhere I was going
to travel that I simply cannot remember the trip!
It is semi automatic driving.
We are all guilty of it.
Cruel joke but at least he listened to the directions
(I have a theory about the ask-for-directions issue, by the way: Most of the
time, we don't think we're actually lost. Whatever we're looking for is just
over the next hill or around the next bend,
and, if not, our sense of direction will find it eventually. Women's
navigation does not
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Mason Millermil...@sitewelder.com wrote:
I use the GPS, but ignore its instructions.
Is this the same as how you handle your wife or girlfriend? Just
joking, of course.
Steve
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Back before GPS was available, were you one of those typical males
who would be reluctant to consult a map out of fear of revealing a
lack of complete knowledge
See, I've never observed that to be much of a problem. I don't remember meeting
any male who wouldn't consult a map in an unknown
Years uggo when I got my first Cincinnati Microwave Passport radar detector,
it was provided with a reprint of an article recounting a study done (not by
them if I remember) showing drivers with radar detectors had FEWER accidents
than others ...wonder if it's been studied with GPS devices?
I turn on the GPS but when the sexy girl tells me turn around I do so in
hope of catching a glimpse of her to see if she looks as good as she
sounds!! Does that make me drive more safely??
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From: phartz...@gmail.com [mailto:phartz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September
I used to make delivers in a van from the main PO here to a credit
processing center around 12-2am. I had nights when staying awake was very
hard and other nights when I was fine. A couple of times when I wasn't
tired I found myself 6 or 7 miles from the last turn off without having any
memory
I've heard this all my life, but I've never met a guy who refused or didn't
like asking for directions.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:32 AM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Rev. Stewart
Marshallpopoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
I will be honest I use
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, mikexha...@gmail.com wrote:
I've heard this all my life, but I've never met a guy who refused or didn't
like asking for directions.
Ask just about any woman.
Steve
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Ask just about any woman.
Heh. I'll take the map and the compass every time. I'm not in
any sort of a competition, and I do have a handheld GPS device,
although I rarely carry it on my bicycle.
I must say I've gotten a lot of unintelligible and just plain wrong
directions, some even bizarre,
The accuracy of the data is IMPORTANT.
On the way to BurningMan one year, my friend's GPS steered us over a
Nevada Mt. in the middle of the night, very accurately ... what wasn't
accurate was the it said it was a paved road.
It started out paved but ended up a logging road for most of the
My instincts a long way back were we were being steered wrong
but my friend who owned the GPS was adamant about following
the GPS...
Oh, it's accurate. It will tell you exactly where you are. Within 30
feet anywhere on the planet. The maps are of course the issue.
Eric S. Sande escribió:
..A friend of mine was on his way to Tierra del Fuego from Fairfax
County, VA. On a motorcycle with a GPS. He got lost in the
Atacama Desert, which isn't exactly good. He said later, I knew
exactly where I was, but I didn't know which way to go.
Hence the map and
FWIW, Google [and most other] maps have lots of errors. [Any photos of
your lost friend in Atacama or Tierra del Fuego?]
He made it to Tierra del Fuego, I'll say that.
http://www.twowheelsgood.net/americas/americas.html
I'll defer to him for the details.
He's the adventurer of our bunch, I
I therefore find it quite amusing to discover what appears to be the
fact that GPS devices in cars are almost exclusively used by guys. In
fact, these guys try as hard as they possibly can to make sure that
everyone knows they are using GPS units by mounting them as
conspicuously as
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