This struck me as funny.
Last year I introduced a geologist to geocaching,
using his gov't issue gps. That trinket has an
accuracy of 1cm x 2cm (I forget which is vert/horiz),
and runs about $10k. I remember thinking at the time
how much I wanted one of those, and now I'm reading
about Army folks who prefer the OTS models
(off-the-shelf).
I'm reminded of something my father used to say: "The
grass is greener on the other side, until you get
there and discover it's really astroturf'.
Mark A. Pederson
--- Team Tierra Buena <
teamtierrabuena@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> They
> showed a picture of a bazillion-dollar mil-spec GPS.
> Then the narrator
> stated that the soldiers prefer to use consumer
> models as they are far
> lighter and consume batteries much more slowly,
> while the film showed a
> soldier using a clearly-labeled Garmin Vista to do
> the waypoint
> projection.
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