parcel data that definitively defines property boundaries.
BOGUS statement.
As soon as I downloaded this I zoomed in on the area I live in (somewhere in N. Galveston CO. , Texas) and saw immediately the property lines were wrong.
Not by a small margin either. All property lines along the road I live along were shifted by offset of around 20 to 30 feet.
A further look at neighboring streets showed similar offsets.
In the linked article to the story the blog clown stated this wondrous GM Pro could cheaply solve property disputes (or words to that effect).
Yah, right. Nope. Might cause trouble but not a tool to cheaply determine property boundaries.
Unreliable, therefor useless.
Anyone else care to check theirs? I imagine it varies region to region how useful it is but bottom line if wrong in this area it is most likely wrong in other far flung areas.
Well, maybe I was not stating clearly. That is an example of the BEST ratio , typical (with some exceptions) Most media ratings on that site have far higher ratios of male vs female participation.
For grins I looked up on IMDB Spartacus, Blood and Sand vs ratings ratio on Games of Thrones.
Tits and ass and dick ratio between those two are extreme, and sure enough Games of Thrones has far more women voting.
Huh, science is fun.
This is the case with the Internet Movie Database IMDB.com as well.
If you look across various movie and TV show scores one see's a typical 5 to 1 ratio biased to males.
Overall 4 to 10 ratio or more depending on material. SOmething like Game of Thrones is 4 to 1 male to female participation in rating game which is about as even as it gets on IMDB.
I've pondered the reason why for years.
Not having a huge pool of females to probe for reasons as to why this is, I toss it to that they have more important things to do.
Or maybe they are just being prissy.
I belong to a large 'meta' gaming guild with 1000's of active older gamers mostly involved with MMO type games over the years, and there too, the vast majority of members are male.
So what ancient versions of Firefox does this work on?
If you are going to suggest a fix at least provide
info on something that is updated at least once in a blue moon.
According to the plugin page this was updated back on Sept 2, 2012.
Well, I suppose it does sound that way. I'll give it my spin from a 56 year old perspective and maybe some insight for you.
When I graduated from a very middle class neighboorhood High School (in the shadow of the Johnson Space Center, Clear Lake,TX) back in 1974 I knew full well that the standards I was being judged by were less than prior years.
I can't speak for all school districts, onlly the one I was involved with but I know many across the United States, by that time, had greatly backed off standard needed to graduate and teaching methods had changed during the 60's.
Examples. Multiple choice questions tests began to become far more common as time went on. In the past students had either fill in the blank or worse, ESSAY type responces on weekly tests.
I'm sure even todays student realizes how easy multiple choice tests are and that fill in the blank and essay systems require more knowledge. By the time I was in school in the 60's and 70's essay responses were pretty much gone. It was rare for me to face them.
On English courses. In years before my experience in public High School students were required to file far more written essays during the year than we were.
In fact, by the time I graduated my school district had greatly relaxed the final English requirements and the final essay test score impact on your total score was lowered by a significant amount.
Mathematics. In my school district the math requirements were lowered during the 70's. By the time I graduated one merely needed ALgebra 1 and Geometry 1 to get a free pass to graduation. Pretty sad as prior generations, particularly early 60's era and before had MUCH more math required under their belts prior to thinking of going to college.
The sciences. Again, lowered requirements. Physics was required in prior years. In my case again, one didn't need near as much chemistry and 'real' physics was not required.
You could get by with a pretty skimpy science exposure overall.
I've got a number of books on my shelves that date to the early part of prior century and up thru the mid 40's that focus on the teaching of Algebra and Geometry to that eras equivilant of grade school thru high school levels. Trust me those books show to me that expected standards were much higher for students earlier in the food chain. Grade school kids were learning mathematics that only was experienced by me until High School in the 70's.
I recall when a High School degree actually meant something. By the 80's it was common feeling among many I worked with then that High School degrees by that era were becoming more and more meaningless due to the standards the Publik Skool Districts were using.
This isn't to say that by today there are not brilliant 20 somethings out there. We all know there are.
It is my sense, at the ancient age of 56 , that there are far less as a percentage of the population, of solid very knowledgeable people in the pool to pick from.
Indeed, think about it. I was amazed myself at the progress of the USA space program. I knew it was powered by German science as that was no secret. I knew that we had a miserable space program at the start of the 60's and were actually incapable of lifting jack squat into space without rockets blowing up right and left.
Mercury, Gemini , Apollo and the landing men on the fraking moon on July 20, 1969 all occurred in a mere damn 9 years.
That sir, was a miracle compared to today. I don't think it could be reproduced.
So, yah, though it hurts to admit it. I agree, that that generation of 20 to 30 year olds were far more potent than the generation I came from in the sense they
I'm going to do my part by going out to buy mass quantities of Roundup (TM) and the like to hose down any greenery in my neighborhood.
Doing so in full knowledge I'm doing ultimate good for dah whole world, despite what it does to my neighborhood lawns.
With Tom Baker brought back in full youth and form via the miracle of CGI.
After all, as everyone knows he was the only Doctor that was, The Doctor. The rest are just pretenders.
Yah, that's the ticket.
As an American, proud as I am, I wish to apologia in advance for what Hollywood is surely to do to the Doctor Who image.
That said, recent incarnations of the series just are plain bad and I can no longer watch these past few years, but I suppose the lack of weed and youth are the reasons it seems to bad to me now.
I've enjoyed many Massive Online RPGames since 2001. Oh, six or so or more come to mind.
I might have tried this one. However.
Soon as I saw some game play vid of wankers wacking away at each other with light sabres and little damage being done I realized there was no way I could enjoy the game.
I could not remove from my mind 'the fact' that a light sabre in the Star War universe I know (movies) is one mean SOB weapon. About the only thing a light sabre bounces off of is another farking light sabre. LIght sabres were used to cut thru farking bulkheads for crying out loud./sigh
As silly as the movies were they firmly established in my mind what 'Star Wars' physics are. For the game to reduce such a massive weapon to a mere limp dick sword just does not pass the credible BS test.
But, I suppose they had to have light sabres in the game or the wankers would not flock to the game.
Me , I would have been satisfied with something less then a farking GOD MODE light sabre, just drop them except for use by certain NPC's or special events.
Of course the game makers knew it would be silly to have the God Mode light sabre in the game they had to nerf them. I guess they were stuck in a 'situation' as they knew a huge wanker population wants to be pretend Jedi Knights.
So they have to serve them. I do not like wankers.
Oh well, I lose.
Based on the flock of peeps going bonkers over this I'm in a tiny minority of potential players.
So, enjoy your wanking away with light sabres.
No, you will not find me in your lines at the Star Wars conventions either.
ONce I read that I realized my only sane course of action was to call up CS and let em know WHY I am canceling.
Posting on that blog was fun but pointless. If anyone bothers to read what that Netflix VP of Communications says you will realize you only have one sane course of action.
Cancel, and let em know why. I spent a good 5 minutes chewing on the ear of that CS rep. If everyone that was in a stir over this issue did the same I would bet they would change Mr. Steve Swasey's ' job title to Janitor where he could do less harm.
After you see his comments you'll understand what has to be done.
Amazing.
You can live without Netflix. I did, prior to Fall of 2009. I can live without them again.
These are the same asshats (feds run by leftist expletives) that pumped nearly half a billion dollars into Tesla, the electric car company.
According to Ed Wallace of http://www.insideautomotive.com/ (he has a radio program where he went on at length about Tesla car company today) This outfit is in over its head 300,000 dollars in per car for cars they expect to sell for some 120k or there abouts.
They claim to expect to sell 20,000 units per year. To date they have only sold some few 1000.
Bottom line according to MY reading of what Mr Wallace said is that this company is a shill and sham that will accomplish taking money from foolish investors that came late to the game and US Taxpayers who as we can all bear witness appear to be fools as well.
qoombah99 blurted: "One more thing: Always label the axes on a plot dammit. and then always tell people in words what the axes are BEFORE you tell them what the plot says."
Is this the US military your advising? Do they still use a lot of axes?
Sounds like good advice though. I'd hate for some grunt to confuse
F Wood Axe for chopping wood.
F Tosser Axe for wood shaving
F Fire Axe (For hitting fire with)
F Hurlbat (just to confuse em).
F Danish Axe (Often found in upper end pastry shops)
F Axis Axe (Used to prune excess axes down to a single axis)
Slashdot Mirror
So does this transliteration issue indicate that
Lastpass and it's ilk have possibly been 'randomly'
generating words and phrases in reverse Chinese?
GOod Grief.
SOmeone with too much time on their hands research this ASAP.
"Thanks for posting this *after* the deadline."
Exactly what I thought upon reading the submission.
Saving my time and effort to submit a bogus name
in time for the deadline. THanks.
I wanted to just add a fact to the study above.
I don't bother reading most of the posts
I moderate here on slash . on when I have the points!!!
Ironic , eh?
THis is interesting coincidence::
https://www.comcastroturf.com/
enter Butterfield as search term
End up at
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/searc...?
With results of 17 Butterfield surnames all reporting
exact same text . All submitted their FCC filing
on exact same date. Huh.
I"m sure there is nothing to see here so safe
to assume FCC will just accept them all as legit.
Did a Daily Mail (UK) headline editor suddenly
get hired by Slashdot?
I'd have gone with:
Your account are all belong to us.
After they ban those Killer Robots....
The word is they will then move to ban
global climate change.
parcel data that definitively defines property boundaries.
BOGUS statement.
As soon as I downloaded this I zoomed in on the area
I live in (somewhere in N. Galveston CO. , Texas)
and saw immediately the property lines were wrong.
Not by a small margin either. All property lines along
the road I live along were shifted by offset of around 20 to 30 feet.
A further look at neighboring streets showed similar
offsets.
In the linked article to the story the blog clown stated
this wondrous GM Pro could cheaply solve property disputes (or words to that effect).
Yah, right. Nope. Might cause trouble but not a tool to cheaply determine property boundaries.
Unreliable, therefor useless.
Anyone else care to check theirs? I imagine it varies region to region how useful it is but bottom line if wrong in this area it is most likely wrong in other far flung areas.
Well, maybe I was not stating clearly. That is an example of the BEST ratio , typical (with some exceptions) Most media ratings on that site have
far higher ratios of male vs female participation.
For grins I looked up on IMDB Spartacus, Blood and Sand vs ratings ratio on Games of Thrones.
Tits and ass and dick ratio between those two are extreme, and
sure enough Games of Thrones has far more women voting.
Huh, science is fun.
This is the case with the Internet Movie Database IMDB.com
as well.
If you look across various movie and TV show scores
one see's a typical 5 to 1 ratio biased to males.
Overall 4 to 10 ratio or more depending on material. SOmething
like Game of Thrones is 4 to 1 male to female participation
in rating game which is about as even as it gets on IMDB.
I've pondered the reason why for years.
Not having a huge pool of females to probe for reasons as to why this is, I toss it to that they have more important things to do.
Or maybe they are just being prissy.
I belong to a large 'meta' gaming guild with 1000's of active older gamers mostly involved with MMO type games over the years, and there too, the vast majority of members are male.
What difference, at this point, does it make??!?!
Oh my, Mr. Balmer. You DO need that vacation soon, don't you?
Maybe you should consider speeding up that retirement date.
Relax in that hot tub more often.
Dmn, nd hr I am out of mod pnts.
This pst is qiute infrmativ.
Wht hte hekc is worng wthi my kyeborad?
I was.
Not available for Firefox 19.0
So what ancient versions of Firefox does this work on?
If you are going to suggest a fix at least provide
info on something that is updated at least once
in a blue moon.
According to the plugin page this was updated back
on Sept 2, 2012.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=491557
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved#User.js_file_locks_certain_preferences
Maybe that is it. Google was used.
about:config settings not saved
"Since when was ageism okay?"
Well, I suppose it does sound that way. I'll give it my spin
from a 56 year old perspective and maybe some insight
for you.
When I graduated from a very middle class neighboorhood
High School (in the shadow of the Johnson Space Center, Clear
Lake,TX) back in 1974 I knew full well that the standards
I was being judged by were less than prior years.
I can't speak for all school districts, onlly the one I was involved with but I know many across the United States, by that time, had greatly backed off standard needed to graduate and teaching methods had changed during the 60's.
Examples. Multiple choice questions tests began
to become far more common as time went on. In the
past students had either fill in the blank or worse, ESSAY
type responces on weekly tests.
I'm sure even todays student realizes how easy multiple
choice tests are and that fill in the blank and essay
systems require more knowledge. By the time I was in
school in the 60's and 70's essay responses were
pretty much gone. It was rare for me to face them.
On English courses. In years before my experience
in public High School students were required to file
far more written essays during the year than we were.
In fact, by the time I graduated my school district
had greatly relaxed the final English requirements
and the final essay test score impact on your total
score was lowered by a significant amount.
Mathematics. In my school district the math requirements
were lowered during the 70's. By the time I graduated
one merely needed ALgebra 1 and Geometry 1 to get
a free pass to graduation. Pretty sad as prior generations, particularly early 60's era and before had MUCH more
math required under their belts prior to thinking of going
to college.
The sciences. Again, lowered requirements. Physics
was required in prior years. In my case again, one didn't need
near as much chemistry and 'real' physics was not required.
You could get by with a pretty skimpy science exposure overall.
I've got a number of books on my shelves that date to the
early part of prior century and up thru the mid 40's that
focus on the teaching of Algebra and Geometry to that
eras equivilant of grade school thru high school levels.
Trust me those books show to me that expected
standards were much higher for students earlier
in the food chain. Grade school kids were learning
mathematics that only was experienced by me
until High School in the 70's.
I recall when a High School degree actually meant something.
By the 80's it was common feeling among many I worked
with then that High School degrees by that era were
becoming more and more meaningless due to the
standards the Publik Skool Districts were using.
This isn't to say that by today there are not brilliant
20 somethings out there. We all know there are.
It is my sense, at the ancient age of 56 , that there
are far less as a percentage of the population, of solid
very knowledgeable people in the pool to pick from.
Indeed, think about it. I was amazed myself at the progress
of the USA space program. I knew it was powered by
German science as that was no secret. I knew
that we had a miserable space program at the start of the 60's and were actually incapable of lifting jack squat into
space without rockets blowing up right and left.
Mercury, Gemini , Apollo and the landing men on the fraking
moon on July 20, 1969 all occurred in a mere damn 9 years.
That sir, was a miracle compared to today. I don't think
it could be reproduced.
So, yah, though it hurts to admit it. I agree, that that generation
of 20 to 30 year olds were far more potent than the generation
I came from in the sense they
Sounds good to me.
I'm going to do my part by going out to buy mass quantities
of Roundup (TM) and the like to hose down any
greenery in my neighborhood.
Doing so in full knowledge I'm doing ultimate good for
dah whole world, despite what it does to my neighborhood
lawns.
I can see it now
Doctor Who in 3D!!
With Tom Baker brought back in full youth and form
via the miracle of CGI.
After all, as everyone knows he was the only Doctor
that was, The Doctor. The rest are just pretenders.
Yah, that's the ticket.
As an American, proud as I am, I wish to apologia in
advance for what Hollywood is surely to do to the Doctor
Who image.
That said, recent incarnations of the series
just are plain bad and I can no longer watch these past few years, but I suppose the lack of weed and youth
are the reasons it seems to bad to me now.
Yah, still a fan of Baker Who.
Waste of a good bomb.
Better bang for the buck and investment would be:
Drop it on Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Middle East is mostly sand.
Not a problem.
I will not be in the queue.
I've enjoyed many Massive Online RPGames since 2001. Oh, six or so or more come to mind.
I might have tried this one. However.
Soon as I saw some game play vid of wankers wacking
away at each other with light sabres and little damage being done I realized there was no way I could enjoy the game.
I could not remove from my mind 'the fact' that a light sabre /sigh
in the Star War universe I know (movies) is one mean SOB weapon. About the only thing a light sabre bounces off of is another farking light sabre. LIght sabres were used to cut thru
farking bulkheads for crying out loud.
As silly as the movies were they firmly established in my mind
what 'Star Wars' physics are. For the game to reduce
such a massive weapon to a mere limp dick sword just does not
pass the credible BS test.
But, I suppose they had to have light sabres in the game or the wankers would not flock to the game.
Me , I would have been satisfied with something less then a farking GOD MODE light sabre, just drop them except for use by certain NPC's or special events.
Of course the game makers knew it would be silly to have the God Mode light sabre in the game they had to nerf them. I guess they were stuck in a 'situation' as they knew a huge wanker population wants to be pretend Jedi Knights.
So they have to serve them. I do not like wankers.
Oh well, I lose.
Based on the flock of peeps going bonkers over this I'm in a tiny minority of potential players.
So, enjoy your wanking away with light sabres.
No, you will not find me in your lines at the Star Wars conventions either.
Let's dump it in Australia.
Bugger off .
Yeah, basically he says go blow a pipe. Screw you, we
like change for change sake.
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/06/10/netflix-changes-interface/
ONce I read that I realized my only sane course of action was to call up CS and let em know WHY I am canceling.
Posting on that blog was fun but pointless. If anyone
bothers to read what that Netflix VP of Communications says you will realize you only have one sane course of action.
Cancel, and let em know why.
I spent a good 5 minutes chewing on the ear of that CS rep. If everyone that was in a stir over this issue did the same I would bet they would change Mr. Steve Swasey's ' job title to Janitor where he could do less harm.
After you see his comments you'll understand what has to be done.
Amazing.
You can live without Netflix. I did, prior to Fall of 2009. I can live without them again.
These are the same asshats (feds run by leftist expletives) that
pumped nearly half a billion dollars into Tesla, the electric car company.
According to Ed Wallace of http://www.insideautomotive.com/ (he has a radio program where he
went on at length about Tesla car company today)
This outfit is in over its head 300,000 dollars in per car for cars they expect to sell for some 120k or there abouts.
They claim to expect to sell 20,000 units per year. To date they have only sold some few 1000.
Bottom line according to MY reading of what Mr Wallace said is that this company is a shill and sham
that will accomplish taking money from foolish investors that came late to the game and US Taxpayers who
as we can all bear witness appear to be fools as well.
Further reading on the sham Tesla TSLA electric cars:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/01/behind-the-hype-on-tesla/
Expect no less from this expenditure of YOUR money.. (assuming you are a American taxpayer).
I recommend anyone take a listen to his show when it is on Saturday AM.
Great site for talk show junkies is http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-shows-on-air.php
THEY ignored Ripley too and we saw where that ended up.
THEY will ignore a visionary like you as well.
THEY always do.
Pity the fools.
qoombah99 blurted: "One more thing: Always label the axes on a plot dammit. and then always tell people in words what the axes are BEFORE you tell them what the plot says."
Is this the US military your advising? Do they still use a lot of axes?
Sounds like good advice though. I'd hate for some grunt to confuse
F Wood Axe for chopping wood.
F Tosser Axe for wood shaving
F Fire Axe (For hitting fire with)
F Hurlbat (just to confuse em).
F Danish Axe (Often found in upper end pastry shops)
F Axis Axe (Used to prune excess axes down to a single axis)