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5 minimum to initialise more is better. In a mining environment, the Russian Glonass ones help too. Pesky highwalls tend to obstruct a lot of satellites.
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and it was obvious to me and you but maybe not everyone. LOL
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oh great. Now I've chased Pio off. Terrific
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Well to be honest, for me the only real application for GPS (non-military of course) is on the golf course. I am thinking of fitting out my golf cart with GPS. I only need about 3 foot accuracy.
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On second thought, I'm not sure how much good it would do. Since GPS is obstructed by trees, I may never get good readings.
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Many carts these days are fitted with them, but then again, you play in the sand so.....
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ah - you will need some kind of DGPS to get that kind of accuracy
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Hey Pio,
Do you know why they named it golf?
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Club Car makes a 4x4 version. A/C is also an option.
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trees are a problem. depends on the GPS. Some will work OK
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Do you know why they named it golf? Because "tennis" was already taken.
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Because all the other four letter words were already taken.
Besides, golf predates tennis.
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trees are a problem. depends on the GPS. I guess the other option is to hit the ball in the fairway but where's the fun in that?
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I googled this: There is no universally accepted derivation for the word 'golf.' One of the most common misconceptions is that the word GOLF is an acronym for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. This at least is definitely not true.
The first documented mention of the word 'golf' is in Edinburgh on 6th March 1457, when King James II banned ‘ye golf’, in an attempt to encourage archery practice, which was being neglected.
Before the creation of dictionaries, there was no standardised spelling of any given word. People wrote words phonetically. Goff, gowf, golf, goif, gof, gowfe, gouff and golve have all been found in documents in Scotland.
Most people believe the old word 'gowfe' was the most common term, pronounced 'gouf'.
A minority of people hold the view that golf is a purely Scottish term, derived from Scots words 'golf', 'golfand' and 'golfing', which mean 'to strike' as in 'to cuff'.
It seems most likely that the terms golf, chole and kolf, which were the names for a variety of medieval stick and ball games in Britain and in continental Europe, are all derived from a common word of a pre-modern European language, following Grimm's grammatical law, which details the clear phonetic similarities of these words.
Golf (and chole and kolf) are all presumed to have originally meant 'club'. Golf has also been associated with the German word for club 'kolbe', (Der Kolben). It is also probably related to the Dutch word and game 'kolven'.
In 1636, David Wedderburn used the word Baculus, which is Latin for 'club' as the title for his 'Vocabula', listing Latin terms for golf, which supports this derivation. The Vocabula contains the first clear mention of the golf hole, the essential element of modern links golf and is thus the first unambiguous proof of the existence of the game in Scotland.
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Many carts these days are fitted with them, but then again, you play in the sand so..... If you play in the sand, it is highly recommended to get a cart with a wench. The stronger the wench, the better. That way, if you get stuck, she can get out and push. [I know I am going to pay for that] <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
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trees are a problem. depends on the GPS. I guess the other option is to hit the ball in the fairway but where's the fun in that? Besides, it shortens the length of your game, lowers your score and generally just zaps the fun right out of you. Plus, you still have all your balls when you finish. Who wants that?
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The way I see it - until you shoot an "18", there is always room for improvement.
From an economic perspective, if you pay $85 for a green fee and score a "72", that comes out to $1.18 per stroke. If you shoot a "116", that comes out to $0.73 per stroke. So it is economically beneficial to score higher. That's why those pros, who score so low, have to be paid so much. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to afford to play golf.
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Last thing I remember, she was covered with mud and had the PR flag stapled to her *** She must had been wrestling with your wife Todd, not me. Your wife sounds scary. Myrta
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The next shift is on.
The womens leave & the talk turns to heavy equipment & golf...or is it the other way around. The talk turns to heavy equipment & golf then the womens leave?
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Steph, you people! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
Coming from a place of fear is many things; unattractive, creats imbalance, skews your perspective, doesn't allow you to create the strength you need. I know this from the early days of my D situation.
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