GPS System Could Begin to Fail Within a Year

So if small bits of audio from press conferences are sound bytes, what are
twitters?

Why not load a lot of them into a Shuttle and chuck them out a few at a
time.. not being serious but the image in my mind amuses me.

Brian

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"David Taylor" wrote in message
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On 2009-05-27, CD wrote:

the U.S. Air Force said during a Twitter news conference.

There's a phrase I never expected to see.

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No I don't get it either, which is when I gave up.

Brian

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"Ivan" wrote in message
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So why not publish an extract. I found your link went to google which wnt
to other links that went to....
I gave up.


That's odd Brian, I clicked on the url and it took me straight PC world
page, so I can't understand what the problem was. Wherever possible I try
and resist the temptation of posting acres of text, however as a rule I do
include a few lines of the article to give people an idea of what it's
about, although in this particular case I thought that the subject line
'GPS System Could Begin to Fail Within a Year' was sufficient on its own.

On 2009-05-27, Brian Gaff wrote:
So if small bits of audio from press conferences are sound bytes, what are
twitters?

Small bits of text from twits, perhaps?

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"David Taylor" wrote in message
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On 2009-05-27, CD wrote:

the U.S. Air Force said during a Twitter news conference.

There's a phrase I never expected to see.
David Taylor


It's the "US Airforce space command" that got me

Beam me up Scotty

Steve Terry

"Ivan" wrote in message
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165126/gps_system_could_begin_to_fail_within_a_year.html

There will be other systems being rolled out later on this year "The
European Union's Galileo system, intended as a rival for GPS, is expected to
begin its rollout later this year.

However, does anyone know if our existing SatNavs will continue working
without batting an eyelid, or will they have to be upgraded, or come to that
even replaced?

Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Norman Wells
writes
Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Ivan
writes
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...system_could_b
egin_to_fail_within_a_year.html

Then it's just as well that I still have my AA 'Book of the Road'

Is that the AA's 'Illustrated Road Book of England and Wales', which
I have (dated 1965) and is still wonderful? It has a pen and ink
sketch of virtually every monument and anything else you might want
to see anywhere. The labour expended on it must have been phenomenal.

Mind you, the information on early closing days isn't too useful now.

No, I don't think so. It's the 'Reader's Digest AA Book of the Road'
- a hardback with a light brown cover, measuring about 6" x 12".

Nobbut a pale successor to the real thing then - 555 pages, plus road maps,
genuinely published by the AA, in a deep red binding. Every town has an
accompanying street map of the centre and GOLF is shouted at you if it has
some.


As
well as the maps and how your car works, it has a gazetteer of 28,000
place names (with the map references), and 'Roadside Recognition'
('Identifying the Works of Man and Nature' - buildings, monuments and
the like), flowers, trees, birds etc etc).

How terribly new age! I suppose it's in colour too?


The motorways are as of May 1967, so not much use for the M25 and M40,
and most of the M4! While central London will still be largely
accurate, it won't tell me where the congestion charge starts. Oh
happy days!

Motorways? What's them?

Ivan wrote:

"Ivan" wrote in message
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165126/gps_system_could_begin_to_fail_within_a_year.html


There will be other systems being rolled out later on this year "The
European Union's Galileo system, intended as a rival for GPS, is
expected to begin its rollout later this year.

However, does anyone know if our existing SatNavs will continue working
without batting an eyelid, or will they have to be upgraded, or come to
that even replaced?

http://www.techworld.com/mobility/ne...?newsid=101485
Galileo is incompatible with existing GPS devices.

"The agreement between the EU and the US, specifies that while Galileo
satellites will produce Galileo signals, and GPS satellites will produce
GPS signals, both signals on the ground will be compatible and
interoperable, allowing users in the future to use a device that
contains both GPS and Galileo chipsets, which are still to be defined.

Unfortunately, this will mean that existing GPS-based sat-nav devices
will require a different chipset to utilise the Galileo signal.

"The use of Galileo requires changes to the current GPS receivers,"
confirmed Javier Benedicto, Galileo project manager, ESA (European Space
Agency) Navigation Department in an emailed reply. "

D

"David Hearn" wrote in message
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Ivan wrote:

"Ivan" wrote in message
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165126/gps_system_could_begin_to_fail_within_a_year.html

There will be other systems being rolled out later on this year "The
European Union's Galileo system, intended as a rival for GPS, is expected
to begin its rollout later this year.

However, does anyone know if our existing SatNavs will continue working
without batting an eyelid, or will they have to be upgraded, or come to
that even replaced?

http://www.techworld.com/mobility/ne...?newsid=101485
Galileo is incompatible with existing GPS devices.

"The agreement between the EU and the US, specifies that while Galileo
satellites will produce Galileo signals, and GPS satellites will produce
GPS signals, both signals on the ground will be compatible and
interoperable, allowing users in the future to use a device that contains
both GPS and Galileo chipsets, which are still to be defined.

Unfortunately, this will mean that existing GPS-based sat-nav devices will
require a different chipset to utilise the Galileo signal.

"The use of Galileo requires changes to the current GPS receivers,"
confirmed Javier Benedicto, Galileo project manager, ESA (European Space
Agency) Navigation Department in an emailed reply. "



Many thanks Dave, just as I suspected, time to buy shares in Tom-Tom before
they launch their 'new' range of SatNavs methinks!

On Wed, 27 May 2009 10:15:56 +0100, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , Ivan
writes
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...system_could_b
egin_to_fail_within_a_year.html

Then it's just as well that I still have my AA 'Book of the Road' and a
London 'A-to-Z' (both bought in the 1960s).

Yes, the few of us that can still read maps or look at signposts will
be in big demand.

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On Wed, 27 May 2009 10:15:56 +0100, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , Ivan
writes
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...system_could_b
egin_to_fail_within_a_year.html

Then it's just as well that I still have my AA 'Book of the Road' and a
London 'A-to-Z' (both bought in the 1960s).

Yes, the few of us that can still read maps or look at signposts will
be in big demand.

You mean 'us men', of course!
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