What is Global Positioning System (GPS)? - Definition from Whatis.com The GPS (Global Positioning System) is a "constellation" of 24 well-spaced satellites that orbit the Earth and make it possible for people with ground receivers to pinpoint their geographic location. The location accuracy is anywhere from 100 to 10 meters for most equipment. Accuracy can be pinpointed to within one (1) meter with special military-approved equipment. GPS equipment is widely used in science and has now become sufficiently low-cost so that almost anyone can own a GPS receiver. The GPS is owned and operated by the U.S. 21 GPS satellites and three spare satellites are in orbit at 10,600 miles above the Earth. The GPS is being used in science to provide data that has never been available before in the quantity and degree of accuracy that the GPS makes possible. GPS receivers are becoming consumer products. Contributor(s): Moshe Peleg This was last updated in May 2007 Email Alerts By submitting you agree to receive email from TechTarget and its partners. More News and Tutorials
Starting a Business: Advice from the Tre If you’re like thousands of other designers, programmers and other creative professionals out there, at one point in time you’ve considered starting your own business. Unlike most, you’ve gone against common sense and decided to open shop for yourself. And not just freelance full-time, mind you, but file for the company name, get some stationery, and wade through the legal mumbo-jumbo. Maybe even get a real office with a water cooler. This article offers real-world advice from the trenches of a small start-up, and is applicable to designers, web developers, copywriters, usability experts and all manner of service providers. Write a Business Plan#section1 The most important thing you can do to prepare for starting and operating your own business. Beyond the mental exercises, a good business plan will give you a much better chance of getting a small business loan from a bank than walking in and saying, “I like Photoshop and maybe a can do some websites or something. Funding#section3 Good:
A Shiny New Me • HTML5 Native Video Streaming With WebRTC HTML5 Native Video Streaming With WebRTC I did a tounge-in-cheek video response to Web Bos this week who sumbitted this epic video for FluentConf showcasing his all around HTML5 video awesomeness. In this video he streams directly to his browser and applies effects on the fly from the console. If this doesn’t impress you, you may be heavily medicated. Uh - yeah. Now I saw this and had 2 thoughts… 1. 2. In the name of education and also to increase my own chances of getting picked up for FluentConf, I made an HTML5 video video of my own. My video wasn’t nearly as good, but I really enjoyed working with the new methods for capturing native video with nothing but a browser. WebRTC First lets do a little primer on WebRTC. Apparently, WebRTC has been around for a while and according to the WebRTC site is: "Already integrated with best-of-breed voice and video engines that have been deployed on millions of end points over the last 8+ years.". -
Eight Questions To Ask Before You Start A Business Are you thinking of starting a web business? Starting a PPC Management agency? Setting up your own site and selling things, or building a web publishing empire? Before you start, ask yourself the following eight questions. 1 . Define what service the business provides. Try to focus. McDonalds could, no doubt, provide up-market meals, but they focus on selling quick, cheap food. That is what they do. 2. Who are your customers? Create a mental image of your typical customer. 3. What is your unique selling proposition? If your customers can buy the same services for less elsewhere, or more easily, they will. There is a tendency to model yourself on others. This is not to say doing something wildly new or different is any guarantee of success. 4. This point is so important, it really should be number one. Businesses may have great ideas. Then the bank manager calls. The overdraft has hit its limit and you can’t meet payroll this week. There is no fooling cashflow. 5. 6. 7. Set company goals. 8.
RootSmart Android Malware May Be Able To Sneak By Google’s New Bouncer (Update) Remember that Bouncer Google put in the Android Market to act as a goalie for all potential malware attacks? It would seem that Google’s Bouncer doesn’t catch everything as Professor Xuxian Jiang, the same guy who discovered dozens of other Android malware attacks, has found yet another exploit called RootSmart. RootSmart works very similarly to a proof-of-concept app built by Jon Oberheide, by “dynamically fetching the GingerBreak root exploit from a remote server and then executing it to escalate its privilege.” This basically means that a malicious RootSmart app installs itself on the device with virtually no malicious code whatsoever, and the code is then fed to the app/device from remote servers. Since Bouncer works by scanning for known bits of malicious code, it makes RootSmart a very difficult bit of malware to find. However, RootSmart has not been found within the official Android Market thus far.
17 things I wish I’d known when starting my first business (Flickr photo via JMRosenfeld) Growing up I was surrounded by entrepreneurs. All of my uncles on my mom’s side of the family ran successful businesses, and I learned that working for yourself was a great way to improve your lifestyle. No surprise then that I now own a few businesses of my own. But I made lots of mistakes getting started, mistakes I could’ve avoided if I’d known a few things. Here are seventeen mistakes that you should avoid: Sell Something Legal Selling something legal may sound obvious to anyone in business, but trust me, when it comes to wanting to make money you will likely consider a lot of ideas… some legal, some illegal and some in between. While still in high school I sold CDs and black boxes. You don’t want to make a lot of money and then lose it all because you are on the wrong side of the law. Sell Something People Can Afford Neil Patel I once took a job selling high-end vacuums. But these were $1,600 vacuums and most people couldn’t afford them. Make Payments Easy
Thousands Of Webcams Made Publicly Accessible By Software Bug 26 models of Trendnet webcams have been identified as vulnerable to a bug that lets anyone tap into the video stream with just an IP address. The flaw was noted a month ago and the company has been working to alert people and patch the devices. Unfortunately, the company has no way of contacting non-registered webcam owners, and so the devices may remain accessible if the users never suspect anything. It’s a bit scary, but certainly not unprecedented. The security flaw was posted by Console Cowboys on January 10th; the susceptible devices were easily found, as they identify themselves in such a way that their IP can simply be scraped for. Screenshots were taken and video recorded, naturally, and while some of the people on message boards, Reddit, 4chan, and other communities may have thought it creepy and inappropriate, many more must have considered it the opportunity of a creepy lifetime. And the worst part is that many of these devices will never be updated.
Terminator-Style Contact Lens Closer to Reality Cyborgs of the future beware: Humans are working on computerized contact lenses with display technology. "Some day maybe we'll have full-fledged streaming in your contact lenses," said Babak Amir Parviz, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington who co-authored a paper describing the computerized new contact lens in the latest issue of the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. SCIENCE CHANNEL VIDEO: Robots Become Human Parviz along with an international team of engineers has constructed a contact lens embedded with a tiny LED that can light up when a wireless signal is sent to it. Parviz collaborated on the device with UW ophthalmologist Tueng Shen and researchers from Aalto University in Finland led by optoelectronics professor Markku Sopanen. "If we can make very small devices of various sorts, if we have the ability to put them into different materials, what can I do with this contact lens that I stare at every morning?" VIDEO: Cyborgs
Independent Engineer Verifications of WITTS Technologies We have over 500 independent engineers’ verifications at this time. Here are the top 9 independent engineer verifications on video. ENJOY! Independent Engineers Verifications – Reijo Valtonen Verifying Some Surprising Results Using The Battery Quickener Reijo Valtonen reveals results he witnessed when testing the WITTS Battery Quickener, his own battery, and his own test equipment yielding efficiencies well over 120%! Another Independent Verification of WITTS Technologies – Riscalla Stephen 2013 Not only did it run for approximately 15 min, but it charged up 2 very large capacitors during this time to the full 927 volts and it lit up two 40W light bulbs the entire time. Independent Engineers Verifications – Awesome Mileage Booster “AWESOME MILEAGE BOOSTER” This mileage booster device is available from the WITTS website as a gift/perk for all who donate to the fundraiser. Independent Engineers Verifications. Independent Engineers Verifications. Hands on engineer Olin Geiser.
Practical Guide to Free-Energy Devices - eBook Download This is Version 25.5 of a large eBook of some 2,600 pages, with a file size of about 40 Mb. which may take some minutes to download. The eBook has more than 400 Bookmarks so that you can access any topic easily. The most recent updates are listed here. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader program Version 7 or later to display this document. Alternatively, you can use this free download service: FileFactory An attempted translation (without the Appendix) into French is ici (26 Mb), in Spanish is aquí (41 Mb), in Italian is qui (23 Mb) and in German is hier (20 Mb). The English-language web site is here.
The Wheel: What Is The Foxconn Debate Really About? Thirty spokes meet at a nave; Because of the hole we may use the wheel. Clay is moulded into a vessel; Because of the hollow we may use the cup. Walls are built around a hearth; Because of the doors we may use the house. Thus tools come from what exists, But use from what does not. - Tao De Ching There’s a carousel in a small Cape Cod town that we visited this summer and the kids rode it a few times. Reading the recent back and forth between Stephen Fry – an Apple apologist – and Mike Daisey – an Apple user/abuser – I’m reminded of that carousel. The problem is the endless circle of blame and apology. Such moral outrage is common among the opponents of globalization — of the transfer of technology and capital from high-wage to low-wage countries and the resulting growth of labor-intensive Third World exports. We keep going over the same ground here. To be clear, I’m with the crowd that says that Apple is, at best, ignorant of Foxconn’s problems and at worst ignoring them.
DISCERN Artificial Neural Network - How to Build a Schizophrenic Computer Schizophrenia is one of the most infamous and mysterious mental disorders. Attempting to get to the root of the problem, scientists recently came up with an extraordinary solution: They built a schizophrenic computer. In a study published in the online version of Biological Psychiatry in March, researchers altered an artificial neural network capable of learning language and stories, to the point where it started "acting" schizophrenic. People who suffer from schizophrenia often have difficulty thinking logically or discerning what is real or not real in their lives. To make a schizophrenic computer, they began with an artificial neural network called DISCERN that Miikkulainen has been working on intermittently since the 1990s. Hoffman and his colleagues then started to tell simple stories to the computer. In DISCERN, the process begins in a module called the sentence parser, which examines each sentence one word at a time.