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...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...
...vacationing tightwads like me, the Web is the ideal solution. Trip-planning sites can offer immediate information that software, print maps and even GPS devices lack. At weather.com for instance, you get a forecast for your projected route. (My favorite among these kinds of sites is Intellicast's Golfcast, which has among its many real-time forecasts weather maps that show "hazardous" conditions at golf courses.) At www.freetrip.com you can request a list of motels, restaurants, tourist traps and even military facilities en route. Note to inventors: what we really need is an affordable satellite link to the Web. That...