The whole point of making an iphone app is 1) iphone has gps 2) it's mostly, if not fully programmable 3) some people have iphones 4) therefore you can survey a site for free without a total station if you own an iphone or know someone who does, without paying for topographical data or using outdated and inaccurate databases or extracting the terrain from google earth (inaccurate too, at least for this region), and then use the points to build the terrain in Revit or any other software

If I had the resources to make it I'd probably be able to pay rent

oh. it'd only really be useful in determining change of elevation, and you can do that with a string, measuring tape/stick and level. the app would also be more inaccurate and not really a survey, but I guess relatively quick

virtually(?) every mobile phone has gps tho. you could probably even do this with a web tool, maybe it already exists

oh. it'd only really be useful in determining change of elevation, and you can do that with a string, measuring tape/stick and level. the app would also be more inaccurate and not really a survey, but I guess relatively quick

virtually(?) every mobile phone has gps tho. you could probably even do this with a web tool, maybe it already exists

Well it is just an idea, if I had an iphone like everyone of the 99% does I could make a proof of concept and either I'd become filthy rich or nothing would happen. Either way the iphone GPS thing would still be useful because you'd still need to record accurate coordinates in order for the elevation determining procedure to be useful at all. Earlchips the whole point is exploiting lazyness, not doing things the hard way

I get it, I get it! we're just spitballin' - learn that term well if you endeavor to become a big wig app dev

I think phone GPS (including smartphones like iphone) is only accurate to ~20 feet though. but you're right, if you could make an app like that you'd probably reel in the big bucks. my professor knew the guys who developed GIS, but they all live on private islands now

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202

this is pretty much the saddest thing if you guys haven't read it

on a less depressing note,

lulz
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/kony-2012-filmmaker-arrested-san-diego-205649394.html

That looks clearly like a KGB  fabrication

My dad called me an asshole last night.

Not offended or anything, I basically dismiss almost everything he says, and when he's drunk like he was, I dismiss absolutely everything.

But he's never called me an asshole before, so it just kind of shocked me at the nerve of it. He's called my half brother an asshole (on my mom's side) before, but he isn't his son. *shrugs*

My dad drinks alot and calls me an asshole everytime I take long enough to talk to him to get that far. When I was little he'd call me "jackass" most of the time. I'm older now so I just tell him to stfu with his old decrepit ass and hang up on him most of the time when he's drunk.  I don't really talk to him alot anyways and ts a pretty dysfunctional relationship but it works enough not to go through all the awkward bullshit of fixing it.

Does anyone know if it's OK to put google adsense ads in a facebook application?

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Love it how today you can watch random people on the internet and they won't even know it. I feel like the government.

Actually I feel kinda safe. I can't imagine the government peeking at millions of people doing stupid boring stuff for hours for any reason at all. LOL TERRORISM. I think even if they had access to every camera that is accessible through the internet, and had massive amounts of computational power, even if they had control of the biggest botnets in existence today and could use them to analyze people's behavior it would still be way too easy to get away with committing terrorist attacks of pretty much any kind if you're devoted enough to your cause