chapter 289

Stonebridge Enclave

7/23/2012

touch screens

link to my Stonebridge video (it's just unbelievable)

Took this screen capture with click of button, you could call it a picture, remotely with my iPad probably 3000 miles from the internet server that holds the video (above). It is quite amazing if you grasp that concept. Of course that's nothing like the 40 thousand mile trip that the signal traveled to retrieve the geographic data represented on the Trimble screen. I can smell the coffee, it is a new day.

The screen shows the dozer operator that he is just left of centerline of the road being developed. The "computers" in the satellite and dozer control the shaping of the dirt to within the horizontal and vertical  dimensions of a golf ball.

I wouldn't have been able to decipher this last week by viewing the video on my old laptop. The iPad has tremendous resolution, it's better than the specifications, and mine is the "old" iPad. Apple is OK even if they stole the mouse from Xerox. All this with the flick of my finger. I hearken back to 30 years ago when we struggled learning DOS 1.0 (Microsoft's theft from IBM) and the government wouldn't authorize us the cost of a mouse because it was frivolous and unproductive. I'd love to justify the cost of a smart phone but I don't know anyone to call and it just seems frivolous and unproductive.

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