Word: gps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morning before my 10-year college reunion, and I'm already totally stressed--not over the usual stuff (whether my outfit or my job is cool enough to dazzle old flames) but from trying to figure out why, despite fresh batteries and a brand-new adapter, my darned Earthmate GPS isn't talking to the DeLorme AAA Map 'n' Go software that came with it. I'd thought it would be fun and instructive if my friend Karyn and I drove to Dartmouth with no paper maps, only digital ones. I'd picked Map 'n' Go over the competition because...
...help the little yellow gizmo I've hooked up to my notebook computer get a fix on my latitude and longitude using signals from a network of global-positioning satellites. Since the signals can't travel through walls, I'm stuck outside. Finally, a message pops up onscreen: "No GPS receiver has been detected." Grrr...
ACTIVITIES GPS navigation, basic car mechanics, paintball with night-vision scopes...
...Ramsey is perhaps best known for his workthat contributed to the creation of a technologyknown as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Withvast military and lay applications, GPS allowspeople to pinpoint their geographic location witha small handheld device...
...Ramsey is perhaps best known for his work that contributed to the creation of a technology known as the Global Positioning System (GPS). With vast military and lay applications, GPS allows people to pinpoint their geographic location with a small handheld device...