jeremyp

quote:Originally posted by el10t: Should I post a list of attendees so you can all see who else is coming before deciding yourselves whether to attend or not? El10t [Edited so as not to cause offence] It's just like trying to organise a wedding - coming up with a seating plan in which no two feuding family members are sitting at the same table. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger pub! [This message was edited by jeremyp on March 12, 2002 at 02:30 PM.]

Speaking as somebody who has a lot of contact with the ISP industry in a business sense, I love these pay/no pay arguments. The sides seem to divide into those people who have done this before and understand what goes into a web site of this quality and people who think that because everything on the Internet has been historically free you can therefore do something like this with a commodity PC running Linux and a DSL line. One of the UK members recently ran some statistics on the cache logs for all the UK caches. They can be viewed here: http://www.cookie.demon.co.uk/geocache/stats.html (oops the forum has munged the URL by putting an underscore in front of "cookie". You'll have to cut and paste the URL into the address line f your browser.) You will notice that the number of caches found is rising exponentially. This is probably the best indicator in these stats of activity on the UK section of the web site. Simplistically, if we take the stats at face value and the trend continues and is reflected on all sections of the site and the four servers in use now are running at capacity, Jeremy will be needing 80 servers this time next year to keep performance constant or maybe fewer much larger servers. They will need floor space - it's quite a number of 19 inch racks, power, sys admin time, backups, network switches, lots of bandwidth, development staff, firewalls and so on. So many Internet enterprises go down the tubes because they underestimate the cost of their infrastructure and forget to build a revenue stream into their business model, I'm relieved that Jeremy has grasped the nettle of finance now before the site gets swamped by its own success. To keep this post on topic, I am uncomfortable with the idea of MOCs, but it won't stop me from finding them. I am about to hide my first four caches and they wil be free ones because the important bit is other people *finding* them - the more the merrier. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

Can I just emphasise the point that the owners of the venue will put some tables aside for us if we let them know numbers a week in advance. Please send e-mail to el10t if you know you are coming so he can tell them the numbers. I think he has zero responses so far It could turn into me and him having lunch in Winchester to discuss our second cache project. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

Can I just emphasise the point that the owners of the venue will put some tables aside for us if we let them know numbers a week in advance. Please send e-mail to el10t if you know you are coming so he can tell them the numbers. I think he has zero responses so far It could turn into me and him having lunch in Winchester to discuss our second cache project. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by apersson850: A barometric altimeter is even worse, if you are in a pressurized cabin in an aircraft. Anders Aircraft have their own altimeters built in fortunately. I wouldn't want to be trusting my flight to a GPS altimeter. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

But you only have to read the forums to get all the details anyway. There's hefty correspondence on the Gaol/Goal spelling etc. quote:Originally posted by the tapir: Pretty lame to put the name and address of the pub on the event page ... and not even encrypted! Spoiler! I'm *hoping* to attend, nevertheless ... the tapir 1/0 the tapir ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

But you only have to read the forums to get all the details anyway. There's hefty correspondence on the Gaol/Goal spelling etc. quote:Originally posted by the tapir: Pretty lame to put the name and address of the pub on the event page ... and not even encrypted! Spoiler! I'm *hoping* to attend, nevertheless ... the tapir 1/0 the tapir ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by apersson850: To come back to the original question: The inability to select GPS altitude, instead of barometric, is just an attitude (from Garmin). I won't tell you how stubb orn they are about that, because the appropriate language is probably not legal. Anders I have an eTrex summit with a barometric altimeter in it which is nearly useless for my purposes except it was fun while I was skiing. However, the GPS system is not very good about measuring altitude for two reasons 1. triangulation is very difficult - all the GPS satellites are at the same height and the triangle between you on the ground and any two satellites is very long and thin in a vertical sense unless both happen to be almost overhead. 2. The GPS system can only measure your vertical distance from the WGS84 terrestrial reference frame which differs from 0 altitude by a few metres in a non uniform way because of variations in the Earth's gravitational field. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by Scotty: Loved this cache.... I think the weather made the day, I would probably not vote for it on a COLD, SNOWY, RAINY day. (Wink) Scotty When I did it, it was cold and snowy. Still a great cache though. ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

Apparently it's spelt Goal but pronounced Gaol. Some sign writer 200 years ago must have made a mistake :-) ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

Apparently it's spelt Goal but pronounced Gaol. Some sign writer 200 years ago must have made a mistake :-) ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

Rather thsn post a full thread on this since the moderators are discouraging discussion on the point because we would get nothing but flames in both directions, I thought we should have a vote on whether the Lovelocks should be banned. Nice and simple - a straight yes or no. ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

Caravans: spawn of the devil! If you want a holiday with home comforts, book a hotel. If you want to get away from home comforts, use a tent. ------- We're going to need a bigger trailer tent!

Caravans: spawn of the devil! If you want a holiday with home comforts, book a hotel. If you want to get away from home comforts, use a tent. ------- We're going to need a bigger trailer tent!

Accortding to the instruction I got when I subscribed to Paypal, that money eventually gets refunded quote:Originally posted by Moss Trooper: Hello marra.. Fraid yer gona hafta either set up a pay pal account.. which will cost ya $1.95 or there's abouts.. Oooooooooor.. nip into local bank an get a international money order.. an last place I tried was Barclays.. wa sonly bank that still done em.. Moss de Boss... Sorta ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by el10t: Hi Chris and Maria I can't get your spreadsheet working on my Cassiopeia - I think it might be too involved for POcket PC version of Excel El10t I'll write you a Windows version of my conversion program. ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

You can only third the motion actually - it's already been seconded. I fourth it. I think the purpose of this thread has been achieved too. It's pretty obvious that nobody thinks that caches should be removed except in certain exceptional circumstances. quote:Originally posted by mdshamilton: I second the above motion....no caches should be removed without the owner's consent - and the website being updated. I'm a newbie, but it would seem to me that placing caches is a matter of first there gets the location. My 2 year old & I are looking forward to searching for some of the caches near us (we live in Teddington, Middlesex) - especially if there are stuffed toys in any of them. He absolutely adored a stuffed dragon we found in out first cache and now often asks to look for "treasure". On a practical basis, it would be easier to find them on the England map on this website if they were a bit more spread out. A request please? Can this entire thread be left to die now - it's beginning to sour a really fun and harmless sport? I think Mr Lovelock has got the message to tone down the advertising. Please give him the benefit of the doubt - I also have a website (but no business) that I regularly refer people to for news and photos of my family's exploits and my enthusiasm for scuba diving etc. Thanks! Mark [This message was edited by mdshamilton on March 08, 2002 at 05:42 AM.] ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by Di & David: I was really chuffed when my SP3 stated I had reached 500mph on the M40. As I stated in a recent post, you won't get done by the speed cameras at that speed :-) ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what this post achieves. Robin has conceded on all points except the density of caches. Regurgitating the past history of all this just perpetuates the bad feeling and stops us from moving forward. If Robin is lying, it will be pretty obvious fairly soon and then we can start complaining again, but for now can we try to stop tearing each other apart. quote:Originally posted by f-stop: _(I've met one cacher who has found 89 caches and planted 92)._ Did the cacher include his/her business web address on those 92 cache pages, and refuse to communicate with people unless contacted by telephone/email ? Stop trying to play the wounded soldier Robin, concerns were aired way back when you started planting caches for England, but rather than taking heed of those concerns, you just carried on regardless. And,as you don't come across as being stupid, one can only assume that you don't care how your activities are perceived. I am not stupid either and not fooled by your comments of wanting to get people away from their T.V, your motives are purely self promotional,as admitted by you on one of your "find" logs. The fact that you are looking at the density of caches in USA is just another example of you trying to justify the quantity of caches that you have planted. You're incapable of playing this game in the right spirit, which is probably the reason why someone decided to trash some of your caches. Whilst I don't condone the trashing, I have no sympathy..you've brought it on yourself! ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

My name - boringly - is the concatenation of my first name and the first letter of my surname. It was my log-in name on the computer science VAX at York University from 1984 to 1987. I've generally used it as my "handle" ever since. If you come across a jeremyp in a computer related context, there is always a possibility it is me e.g. my login on slashdot.org and the domains jeremyp.net and jeremyp.co.uk are both mine. ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

My name - boringly - is the concatenation of my first name and the first letter of my surname. It was my log-in name on the computer science VAX at York University from 1984 to 1987. I've generally used it as my "handle" ever since. If you come across a jeremyp in a computer related context, there is always a possibility it is me e.g. my login on slashdot.org and the domains jeremyp.net and jeremyp.co.uk are both mine. ------- We're going to need a bigger boat!

I'll go with the majority opinion, I just want this civil war :-) to end. I don't do archived caches anyway, they're usually archived for good reason so it makes no difference to me if they're archived or rwally deleted. If they reappear as live caches, I'll just do them and then I'll have an opinion on them. We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by Lazy Leopard: Well, you did until Jeremy had to turn the new style back off because it had broken so many browsers. If you were using IE under Windows you were probably Ok. If you weren't, you got weirdness like black text on a black background, and fonts three feet high, and... InfoPop are working on fixing it, apparently... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk I assumed it was bandwidth (wrongly obviously). Anyway IE on Mac OSX worked OK too but it's nice to see people taking notice of the fact that not everybody has or wants M$ software. We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by jeremyp: How do people get their piccys to appear? We're going to need a bigger boat! OK I've sussed it :-) We're going to need a bigger boat!

How do people get their piccys to appear? We're going to need a bigger boat!