From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [71.162.243.5]) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC5821F0CC for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 15:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C08540475; Mon, 14 May 2012 18:46:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 18:46:05 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: dave taht Message-ID: <20120514224605.GA7232@thyrsus.com> References: <4FB18539.1060705@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FB18539.1060705@gmail.com> Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Subject: Re: [Thumbgps-devel] Macx-1, prototype #3 arrives in redwood city X-BeenThere: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:46:24 -0000 dave taht : > My prototype arrived today. > > I am on the second floor of a concrete building. Nearby are several > hundred machines (archive.org, ntp.org, the f-root cluster, etc). I > am 20 feet from the nearest window, with no clear view of the sky. > > I have a lock, on 6 satellites! It's still refining it's estimate as > to my attitude and speed (right now it thinks I'm moving at .6mph), > but wow. Yeah, the indoor performance of this thing is *astonishing*. Blows the doors off any other GPS I've ever used. -- Eric S. Raymond