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quote:Originally posted by Sissy-n-CR: My condelences. We recently lost one of our cats, too. She seemed to go peacfully of natural causes, which made it a bit easier. ApK

quote:Originally posted by eagleflyby: I just recently got the extendet version of the Fellowship on DVD and have to say that it is worth to buy a DVD plaier and the 4 DVD set just to watch that extendet version. Heck, it's worth it just to see that special feature on how they made the hobbits look so small. ApK

We've slowed down a bit for the season, but did a few recently. We'll likely be even slower come spring, or at least restriced to 1/1's...we have a baby due. ApK

quote:Originally posted by mha&dna:Things that make you go "hmmmmm" Surely you meant "Things that make you go "hddmm.mmm" ApK

quote:Originally posted by iweb:Welch, what page would "entering a coord" be on? I just read through the book twice and still don't see it. It wasn't easy to find, if you don't know the terminology: The instructions in the manual are on page 47 under the heading "Creating New Waypoint Manually" Stick with the instructions you got here... ApK

quote:Originally posted by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy:To be fair, most of what Ad-Aware reports as "found" is actually cookies for various ad providers. Unless you're ultra-sensitive about your privacy, those usually aren't too harmful. It's the stuff that's not cookies that you need to worry about. Yes, but to be doubly fair, unless you really LIKE targeted ads and tracking by folks like DoublClick, it's still nice of Ad-Aware to let you know who's watching you, and letting it remove everything it finds is the easiest and surest way to use it. ron50eli, When you run ad-Aware (which is free, by the way) look carefuly at the list of things it says it's found...if you tend to download a lot of stuff from the net, or click "OK" a lot when you get install security warnings, you may be suprized to find how much of what you you've agreed to install is ad-ware and spy-ware. ApK

quote:Originally posted by aero:I just wondered if anybody else out there was a pilot I've got about 8 hours in 152's but until I get over this motion sickness, I can't go any further...slow flight just kills me. ApK

quote:Can someone out there tell me a better way to download cache pages to my PDA? Well, I'm certainly going to try the AvantGo method described above. If you don't have AvantGo, I recommend you try it...it's free and it's a great way to get some timely news and other reading material on your PDA each time you sync...works best if you have a Broadband Internet connection, though. ApK

quote:Originally posted by GoldKey: Go to Avant Go and create a custom channel of the page you want. I set mine to the results page for a search of the caches nearest to my zip code. I set it to go one set of links deep, so I automatically get all the pages This sounds like the perfect method for me. Is all the cache info easily readable, or might we try to persuade the admins to create a formatted Avantgo channel (in their copious free time, of course.) ApK

quote:Originally posted by peter:No, the Rino's are allowed to send coordinate data over the FRS channels (but not GMRS) based on a special exemption obtained by Garmin from the FCC. Rats. If I'm close enough for FRS, who needs gps info. ;-) quote:..., but others are equiping the handsets with GPS capability. These use the same GPS satellite signals as our eTrex/Meridians/etc Interesting...do you know who's doing what? As in, what phones/systems actually use Navstar vs. the other technologies you mention? Seems that pretty soon, we can just carry a cell phone that will let us download the cache info from the web and navigate right to it.... ApK

quote:Originally posted by Kara and Hugo:I could be wrong on this, but I remember reading that my Samsung (with Sprint service) can only tell where I am as long as I'm in PCS area. Interesting. Can your phone display it's location? Like Lat/Lon or similar? quote:The new "GPS" leashes that you can put on your kids also only work in PCS areas, also from what I read. Good idea, and a kid-leash qualifies as a location-based services. There are kid-leash type things available that do use the Navstar GPS, and also use the cellular system to report the location to you. I'm thinking of Digital Angel. ApK

quote:Originally posted by leatherman:Another question. What was it that made the FCC ban GPS coordinates on the GMRS freqs? Sending the coords or sending data? It would have to be because it's data, not voice. Nothing prhibits you from 'saying' your coords over the air. GMRS is a voice-only service with specific permissions in the RULES for stuff like squelch tones and morse code. By the way, does this mean that the Rino is now illegal? quote:If it was the coords why are the cells allowed to? Different services have different rules...that's why there are different services. And even if it was less clear cut than that, don't get me started on the government 'creatively interpreting' the law to do whatever they want.

quote:Originally posted by mr.magoo:...PDA... keknj and I both have Palm devices, but haven't tried them for Geocaching yet...I certainly will as soon as I get a chance to play with finding the most convienient of the several ways to get cache info into it. ApK

Does anyone have any knowledge about the new 'location-enabled' cell phones that are available, which will theoretically support such features as Enhanced-911 and relevant nearby traffic reports, etc? Several phones from Motorola and Samsug and others on display at the local shop say "Includes GPS chip for e-911 and location-based services." Just going on a gut feeling based on form factor, cost and other issues, I'm betting they don't mean satallite-based NAVSTAR GPS that we all know and love (it's hard to remember sometimes that 'gps' is really a generic term), but rather some other positioning technology entirely...maybe triangulation of cell sites? Thanks, ApK

quote:Originally posted by Sissy-n-CR:For the users of units that only take 6 digits make a check box that will truncate the 8 digits to 6 when they down load information. Basically the first rollover would be GC10000 and truncated for 6 digits series units it'd simply be c10000. Truncating digits would result in duplicate names. I wonder that the impact would be if you merely dropped the GC on request? Then the users of those GPSrs would only loose the ability to sortall geocaches together (assuming that a typical user waypoint like "15OAK would sort in the middle of a numeric list?) But, of course, if you were going to offer optional different waypoints in the firstplace, you could change them to a whole different scheme, rather than just truncating.

quote:Originally posted by GRANDMASTER CACHE: Like I said, how many people explain what "markwelling" is to a newbie even as they claim their victim of repetition? Or should a person review each and every online forum to research the "secret lingo" as well? No, I agree with you on that. I didn't even realize there was an issue at hand here about explaining obscure terms. Actually, I only got the meaning of 'markwelling' confirmed to me today when I asked about it, and I've been here a long while. I also don't know what 'troll' means on these forums, although I believe I've pretty muched deduced meaning from context...and I've asked outright. ApK

quote:Originally posted by Trudy & The Beast:[see: http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=3000917383&m=7500923145&r=1870903145#1870903145 Now I have Markwelled my own post.... Look what you guys have done! But that's this thread! The only reference to capitalization I can find is my own! Is it up to Markwell to decide, since it's named for him, or the coiner of the term, or is there some language rule that governs it? ApK

quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: quote: don't agree with you there ... I think most caches are plundered with malice and deliberate intent. I disagree. I've come across so many poorly placed caches that I've convinced that the bulk of them are stolen by people who stumble upon them. I don't think these two ideas are mutually exclusive. Whether the kind of punk Dirt Runner described plunders a cache that he looked up on-line or one that presented itself in the field as a target of opportunity, it's still done with malice and intent. After all, the point of the info letter we put in caches is to inform people who stumble on the cache in the field WITHOUT malice and intent to steal. ApK

quote:Originally posted by GRANDMASTER CACHE:Hopefully I can use this to illustrate my point: If the established members are sitting around telling the same jokes "over and over again" to each _other_, I can understand your analogy - it would make sense that you are intrigued. But if it's a new member, it's new news. Ya know? As for an analogy, Seinfeld tells the "same jokes over and over" but in different cities (read, different audiences). Good point. Note, though, that a stand up comic, like a teacher or other public speaker, is a professional, and his job demands he repeat himself over and over. We're a bunch of folks with a common interest hanging around chatting for fun. You'd have a right to EXPECT Sienfeld to repeat himself to you when you go to his show, should not EXPECT a bunch of strangers to happily repeat themselves to you, when you say you want to join the community, but don't have the courtesy to do the forum equivelent of 'listening to the conversation' for a few minutes before jumping in. Perhaps the 'Getting Started' forum is a special case, where you should not participate if you're not willing to be a teacher. quote:Do you think forums should be so impersonable that people should first engage in your suggested "research" before asking a question? No, and that's why I said I thought that my "2.b" option in my previous post is an acceptable situation. I just feel that doing a bit of research first is commendable and would reflect well on a newbie. quote: I'm glad my first post (a question about a laptop cable) was answered politely by someone. I've been "politely" answering the same questions for years on marine forums. I enjoy the hobby, and enjoy giving back. Sure. But you wouldn't have been put off if your answer was in the form of a polite markwell, as opposed to a rude markewell, as I illustrated in a previous post, would you? ApK

quote:Originally posted by Garminator: Don't take me wrong...I appreciate when I looking for info on a certain topic and get refered to another thread. I just don't like to be rudely (sp?) told to use the "search" function. You are correct, it's all in the presentation! I don't blame you, and I won't say I haven't done it, but I am getting better lately at going back minutes later when the frustration has passed, and editing my reply to be less rude. And sometimes I even manage to resist editing it down to a passive-aggressive "Oh, never mind!" ApK

quote:Originally posted by sbell111:I see, but if you had done a search, you likely would have found the referenced info. I'm not sure if you're making a serious attack on my specific posting or not, but in case you are: 1. I'm particpating in an active thread (which, by the way, umc was kind enough to markwell me to from the 'complaint department') and posting my opinions on the topic at hand, I'm not asking a question, and I certainly am not posting blindly...I've read the thread. So I have to assume that either I'm misunderstanding you or you're missunderstand the topic. quote:This brings up a good point. If you are rude, why do you expect anything but a rude response? There's a couple interesting point to made here, involving the 'golden rule' and 'eye for an eye' and two wrongs don't make a right' etc. But the short answer is "I don't" and I don't think I was rude in the post you responded to. Do you? If so, why? ApK p.s. re: your avatar...are you an O-5?

quote:Originally posted by sbell111:I disagree with most of your post for various reasons, but I'm too rude, selfish and lazy to go through them all at this time. I've made my case on this subject in a previous thread. Will someone please markwell it? Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. Ah, yes, you've illustrated a fourth responders option that I didn't consider: 1.d) post a snide comment with no useful information at all. ApK

quote:Originally posted by sbell111:Of course, if a person doesn't wish to be troubled by answering a newbies question, someone else will do it. No one is asking anyone to be the answer machine. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. I see two distinct issues: 1. Whether as a responder, it's better to a)markwell, or answer again. c) not respond at all. As you say, this is everyones choice to make, and I think a,b and to a lesser degree, c, all have merit. 2. Whether as a poster of a question, it's better to a) Read and search first, then post, post first with the expectation that you may be politely markwelled to your answer by someone who was kind enough to save you the effort of searching and hand you the results on silver platter in the form of a hyperlink, or c) post first and expect someone to type a complete personal response even if the topic has been done to death with nothing new to add. I think that 'a' demonstrates self-reliance, intellegence, and consideration for others, 'b' is clearly understandable and acceptable, and 'c' is rude, selfish and lazy. ApK

quote:Originally posted by Garminator: If time is taken to answer AND provide a link for more info, I believe it's constructive. I'm concernd a bit by the implied sense of entitlement in the suggestion "Everyone else should spend more time on me" vs. "I should spend more time using the resouces laid before me so as not to make everyone else waste their time." This is a forum with archives and FAQs and search systems, rather than a real-time chat for a reason. If someone chooses not to use those resources, I think couresty dictates that they have no right to expect anything more than a reference to their answer. The only meaningful difference on the part of the responder would be whether they respond more in the style of: "Good question! Here's a link to good answer, and by the way, you might want to try the search page--there's probably a lot more about that here that would interest you!" or like "Duh! Here: read this link and next time do a search first!" ApK

quote:Originally posted by umc:Some Jack@$$ started a whole thread on it Oh...THAT guy...you can't stand him either, eh? Thanks...I'll move my markwelling opinions over there! ApK