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Cause programmers love a circular reference 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Well, I have given up trying to mess about with the video software any longer, and after numerous attempts to publish, eventually got at least a full export. It will have to do.
Not as refined as as it should be, needed more trimming down and some of the captions didn't export.
You can find the video link at the bottom of the blog post here Qatar is Calling: 1st Desert Camping![^] blog.
Better than nothing! 
Oh, in case you are wondering, that is me in the white T-shirt and black shorts.
Edit: I just checked out Google Maps Satellite view, and think I found where we were: Google Maps[^]
modified 18-Nov-16 9:28am.
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Desert Camping? not waking up freezing cold  
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Seas can be deserts. The definition is about mm of rainfall, not general wetness.
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Mmm, I know thats how I floored a tour guide in the States once she asked the question 'what is the biggest desert on Earth?', I replied Antartica, she checked her iPad found I was right and after that I was always looked at to check facts...
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Near the sea its going to stay warm.
Of course, what you say is very true though, low greenhouse gas (water vapour) in the air causes high highs and low lows. All GH gasses do is moderate extremes. Thats why where it is humid, its more constant with a much lower high.
Still, dont tell the AGW scientists this, the basic physics gives them the sh*ts... 
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I see sand.
I see the water.
Isn't that usually called "Beach" and not "Desert" ? ? ?
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You have to drive through the desert to get the beach! 
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One might have to fly to Qatar to get there - but that doesn't make it an airport?
Similarly, what if one arrived at that point from the water side instead of the sand side?
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So how far inland do you have to go to no longer be classed as 'the beach'? Is there a strict definition?
beach - National Geographic Society[^] says "Beaches can also be barren desert coastlines."
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As I'm not a member of the National Geographic Society I needn't abide by their rules, decisions, or opinions.
So - how far? Well - that depends upon where you are at the time.
I live on a barrier island. Those living on "the mainland" consider all of us as living on/by the beach. On the other hand, those of us lining here consider the beach to start at the boardwalk.
However, if one is on the boardwalk, one might decide to go down to the beach (i.e., sandy part).
[What? No elephanting boardwalk on Qatar's beach? Cheapskates!]
In any case - I see a tent near the water-line and people frolicking in a beach-like manner. So - it's clearly a beach.
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"The ocean is a desert with it's life underground and a perfect disguise above." 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Name that horse!
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I name this horse "Unnamed". Gawd Bless 'Er, and all who Sail in 'Er.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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By that definition, Texas is one big beach. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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It actually looks more like a big firing range 
That's why I'd love to live there
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Thats the sort of comment made John Simmons!
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CDP1802 wrote: beach
You spelled that almost correctly. Also, note that you spell that state with a double-s.
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I drove round Saunton sands for a few hours and had a similar experience.
THe upside was the Devon pub just off the beach....
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DaveAuld wrote: Well, I have given up trying to mess about with the video software any longer
Yeah, I can see that... 
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Excellent! I love great camping trips like this, and try to get out at least once a month, or every other month. A great resource for finding places to explore is the Expedition Portal[^].
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POWER BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE EMBEDDED[^]
Yes , that's what they are calling it!
Microsoft is on a roll!
And the other ones :
"Machine Learning" is just about Data mining under new skin.
"Internet of Things" - We called it embedded systems half a century back?
And there's so many of them!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: And the other ones :
"Machine Learning" is just about Data mining under new skin.
"Internet of Things" - We called it embedded systems half a century back?
Not Really - Well, No.
Machine Learning may only use data mining coincidentally. Look up AI, or more specifically, Neural Networks.
Internet of Things - is more than embedded systems; it's embedded systems that also have an connection to the internet - and thus other embedded systems (and hackers).
Although these two are certainly now buzzwords, you description seems well off the mark.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: that also have an connection to the internet
This means I've been working with Internet of things from the 2000's.
It still doesn't justify such a blown out marketing campaigns about IoT.
To me it just feels equivalent to giving a new fancy name like "Visuals of Things" to an embedded system just because you connected it to a display unit.
Adding network connectivity is just like that right? It's just a feature answering a requirement in that product / project. I'd like to ask - Is there any ONE thing that IoT does today, we couldnt have done it with 'Embedded systems' of 1990s?
Almost all devices we developed with embedded OS did connect to the network. Even before the concept of IoT thee were fleet management systems with so many devices synching status in high volumes.
I'm very sure the IoT drumbeats are not worth it. I'm not saying the domain is scope-less. Of course we got a plethora of hardwares & platforms available now. But you could have very well continued with the same old name - "Embedded systems".
In the name of IoT, more things are actually done in the server than on the device!.
I attended a Microsoft Azure IoT event. An year back. They were showing off a lot of advanced features of Azure. (I do love Azure). As they continued to explain about high-volume data ingestion from devices & so on, I stopped and checked with the presenter, what feature in Azure exactly deals with the device? The answer was just The message ingestion system. Which is purely a server feature  . Even there's no separate IoT protocol existed. It was just using HTTP calls. There's nothing on the platform that in specific to an 'IoT' device. What the devices could do with the Azure messaging services, you could still do that from a normal computer connected to the internet. It's just a message processing system. This was an year back.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Machine Learning may only use data mining coincidentally. Look up AI, or more specifically, Neural Networks.
Machine learning and data mining often employ the same methods and overlap significantly, but while machine learning focuses on prediction, based on known properties learned from the training data, data mining focuses on the discovery of (previously) unknown properties in the data (this is the analysis step of Knowledge Discovery in Databases). Data mining uses many machine learning methods, but with different goals; on the other hand, machine learning also employs data mining methods as "unsupervised learning" or as a preprocessing step to improve learner accuracy. Much of the confusion between these two research communities (which do often have separate conferences and separate journals, ECML PKDD being a major exception) comes from the basic assumptions they work with: in machine learning, performance is usually evaluated with respect to the ability to reproduce known knowledge, while in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) the key task is the discovery of previously unknown knowledge. Evaluated with respect to known knowledge, an uninformed (unsupervised) method will easily be outperformed by other supervised methods, while in a typical KDD task, supervised methods cannot be used due to the unavailability of training data.
Machine learning - Wikipedia[^]
Do we have to strain this much? It takes so much effort to differentiate the two 'technologies'.
As I said, yes there would be technological updates. But we could have simply called it Data Mining 2.0 & Embedded Systems 2.0, just like how the handful of new updates in Web was called Web 2.0.
Even giving new names to technologies is fine. but making blatant campaigns as if it's a totally new technology looks so childish.
One of the old embedded system companies here in India, have completely re-worded their product /services portfolio just doing a Find & Replace of "Embedded system" & "IoT". Same old products, nothing changed. but they are now an IoT company and beating the drums.
And for the record sake, Micorosoft's own Machine Learning expert (I forgot his name) Shouted it loud enough saying not to get fussed with 'Machine Learning', as it's just the same old Data mining in new skin. Of course there's some flavors & layers added. He was pointing to Azure ML.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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