The vPod!!!
Well..finally.... the iPod Shuffle which I've ordered like 20 days back online was finally delivered to me yesterday. It was a sweet surprise and welcome to look at the darn thing just as I came home yesterday. Its so damn cute and i havent used that adjective in the past 24 years! Its the miniature version of the iPod with a 512 MB memory but that accounts to like 124 songs and I sure can live with it. But it did cost me a $100!!
And I also got my wireless optical mouse for my laptop. A touchpad is good but if u want to work longer on a laptop i guess u wud need a mouse.
An interesting fact one of my professors told us the other day in class. The Canadian Forest Department, it seems, needs to have a count of the total number of trees and the type of trees in all the forests of Canada. And this count needs to be updated on a regular basis. And how do they do this, well, they take pictures(birds-eye view) of the forests from an elevated point like from a helicopter or so and.... one poor guy looks at these pictures and counts the trees!!! I mean this is fucking crazy and ridiculous!! i can hardly imagine the plight of a guy sitting in a dark room with a table lamp and magnifying lens and counting the number of trees in a picture. All of us almost died out laughing in the class when the proff told us this and then he gave us a shit load homework....
posted by Vithal @ 01:15
1 Comments:
I am not sure if they really count trees like this!! From what I have heard: They take a bird's eye view picture. Then they calculate area from that pic, and calculate green-area. They then check tree density. From that they just find the total number of trees!! It doesnt take an Einstein do this stuff!!
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