wish you would return to having the top markets as subjects for boards..

[AMRadioGuy]

I've gotta agree... the top cities are where most of the action is on the board. It feels... dead... in its current iteration. Going through the regions is a bit stilted.

 

[Weiserguy]

Did the board software just censor the "c-u-m" term in "Magna or Summa C-u-m Lauda"? (BTW, it's "Laude".) If so, wow, that is either a big coding oops or an extreme case of censorship. I mean, that's a Latin term (which means "With High/Highest Honors") that's been around forever and has nothing to do with sex, much less profanity or obscenity.

 

[fybush]

* Google maps, Waze and GPS have just about destroyed any map reading skills with anyone under 30. My son only learned the state maps to get out of 6th grade. If you ask him where a city is he is clueless until he looks it up on the Internet. He is is an Engineer who is graduating this August Magna or Summa *** Lauda (depends on his last class grade Calculus 3 grade). My Dad had a Mathematics degree and would have done a Physics Masters but his GI bill ran out. BTW: the math knowledge skipped my generation.

Any generalizations about generations are just that - generalizations. My 20 year old inherited her mom's sense of direction, which is none whatsoever. My 16 year old inherited my sense of direction. He uses Google Maps as a tool, as do I, but he has a very keen sense of where he is and how to get where he's going.

He can read a paper map just as well as any of us old people can.

 

[lanceventa]

Did the board software just censor the "c-u-m" term in "Magna or Summa C-u-m Lauda"? (BTW, it's "Laude".) If so, wow, that is either a big coding oops or an extreme case of censorship. I mean, that's a Latin term (which means "With High/Highest Honors") that's been around forever and has nothing to do with sex, much less profanity or obscenity.

That's one of the many back-end settings I haven't even begun to wrap my head around how they work. Frank and predecessors filled the censorship log with well over a hundred entries that need to be looked over.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Did the board software just censor the "c-u-m" term in "Magna or Summa C-u-m Lauda"? (BTW, it's "Laude".) If so, wow, that is either a big coding oops or an extreme case of censorship. I mean, that's a Latin term (which means "With High/Highest Honors") that's been around forever and has nothing to do with sex, much less profanity or obscenity.

That's one of the many back-end settings I haven't even begun to wrap my head around how they work. Frank and predecessors filled the censorship log with well over a hundred entries that need to be looked over.

Until you fix that, how am I supposed to accurately quote the title of Quiet Riot's biggest hit?

 

[Weiserguy]

That's one of the many back-end settings I haven't even begun to wrap my head around how they work. Frank and predecessors filled the censorship log with well over a hundred entries that need to be looked over.

I wasn't pointing a finger at you or any other RD individual, Lance, just at the absurdity of the result.

 

[AMRadioGuy]

Any generalizations about generations are just that - generalizations. My 20 year old inherited her mom's sense of direction, which is none whatsoever. My 16 year old inherited my sense of direction. He uses Google Maps as a tool, as do I, but he has a very keen sense of where he is and how to get where he's going.

He can read a paper map just as well as any of us old people can.

When I take the Corvair on road trips (at least one per summer) my rule is that no GPS is allowed... I use a paper road map to plot out a route (no interstates, either) and then follow it. The trips are often 16 or more hours of driving over two days. I'm 22. I can use a road map very well.

However... I'm definitely in the minority of youngins with that ability. I don't know anyone else my age who even has a paper road map let alone knows how to use one. That said, I think most of my friends at least have a general idea where major cities are located.

 

[secondchoice]

Did the board software just censor the "c-u-m" term in "Magna or Summa C-u-m Lauda"? (BTW, it's "Laude".) If so, wow, that is either a big coding oops or an extreme case of censorship. I mean, that's a Latin term (which means "With High/Highest Honors") that's been around forever and has nothing to do with sex, much less profanity or obscenity.

Sorry I "voiced" it from my phone. I should have proofed it. I miss my old Microsoft phone. Word would have made a suggestion for the offending words. Also one skill (or drawback) from my rip and read news days is my brain will "overlook" typos and misspelled words. That's why I have to be extra careful with contracts. Unless it's a Standard UCC document I always have someone else read it too.

BTW it took a week or two to figure out how some of the names in Ashville NC were pronounced. Almost got fired.

 

[K.M. Richards]

However... I'm definitely in the minority of youngins with that ability. I don't know anyone else my age who even has a paper road map let alone knows how to use one. That said, I think most of my friends at least have a general idea where major cities are located.

I still have a Thomas Bros. map book from 1994. Does that count for anything?

 

[secondchoice]

When I was 7 or 8, I started collecting road maps from gas stations. IIRC Conoco had a listing for radio stations (AM) on the back side. I lost that box in one of my moves. Some states like ND, SD, and Wyoming didn't have that many stations listed. I been told that in the 1950's and 60's there where places on US highways you could drive for a hundred miles and not pick up radio station out west. In the 1970s if it wasn't for stations like the old WFFA and WBAP driving west of Weatherford TX on I20 could get lonely fast.

 

[lanceventa]

I wasn't pointing a finger at you or any other RD individual, Lance, just at the absurdity of the result.

I didn't say you were pointing a finger. I was explaining why that happened...

 

[BarryATL]

He can read a paper map just as well as any of us old people can.

But can he read cursive?

If the boomers ever want to take over the world, just write the battle plan in cursive. It is our secret language.

 

[davideduardo]

I never use my phone for this board. As you stated, there is less detail. Part of my happy time each day is to sit at my 17" screen laptop and read the forums I like. The top is RD and right behind it is Cruise Critic. How is that for diversified interests?

Interesting point: how do site users view the content?

I use a quarter screen on my 32" high resolution monitor and that works out perfectly. When on my iPad, I view full screen. I nearly never use my iPhone for web browsing of any kind.

 

[radiofan2023]

I use my iPad and laptop.

 

[davideduardo]

I wasn't pointing a finger at you or any other RD individual, Lance, just at the absurdity of the result.

I believe that Frank inherited the prohibited word list, and, in fact, I thought (and might be wrong) that it came from the board software provider.

 

[davideduardo]

When I was 7 or 8, I started collecting road maps from gas stations. IIRC Conoco had a listing for radio stations (AM) on the back side. I lost that box in one of my moves. Some states like ND, SD, and Wyoming didn't have that many stations listed. I been told that in the 1950's and 60's there where places on US highways you could drive for a hundred miles and not pick up radio station out west. In the 1970s if it wasn't for stations like the old WFFA and WBAP driving west of Weatherford TX on I20 could get lonely fast.

Abilene, Wichita Falls, Lubbok, Midland/Odessa, Sweetwater and lots and lots of small towns had stations in the 70's. Just look at a Broadcasting Yearbook from even the early 70's and you will find loads of stations.

 

[Mark Roberts]

Any generalizations about generations are just that - generalizations. My 20 year old inherited her mom's sense of direction, which is none whatsoever. My 16 year old inherited my sense of direction. He uses Google Maps as a tool, as do I, but he has a very keen sense of where he is and how to get where he's going.

He can read a paper map just as well as any of us old people can.

How early could he read a map? I could read maps by the time I was 4 and have been accumulating them, especially road maps, ever since. I even had a carpenter friend build a cabinet to hold all of them. In reality it holds about half of them.

I still have a Thomas Bros. map book from 1994. Does that count for anything?

Thomas Brothers was excellent and had a great map store on Jackson Square in San Francisco which was absorbed into Rand McNally about 20 years ago. Rand McNally kept buying up companies and then got into some financial challenges itself, though it is still selling maps. They’re hard to find, though.

While I use online maps all the time, I find that paper maps give me a way better sense of the physical context of the routes and destinations that I’m planning. Online maps are like a peephole into the graphical representation of a place; a paper map gives a wider view.

 

[Mark Roberts]

Interesting point: how do site users view the content?

I use a quarter screen on my 32" high resolution monitor and that works out perfectly. When on my iPad, I view full screen. I nearly never use my iPhone for web browsing of any kind.

My preference is to have it fullscreen on my monitor (22”, I think, but I’m not at home at the moment). I’m typing this on an iPad, a very recent acquisition for use while traveling, with the browser also fullscreen. I will look at it on my phone but will rarely post from the phone.

On the laptop I use multiple virtual workspaces and just have RD fullscreen in one of those workspaces.

 

[davideduardo]

While I use online maps all the time, I find that paper maps give me a way better sense of the physical context of the routes and destinations that I’m planning. Online maps are like a peephole into the graphical representation of a place; a paper map gives a wider view.

My most interesting experience with maps happened when I got to Puerto Rico in 1970. San Juan and its metro area has some of the most convoluted streets and strangest nomenclature. I spent hours memorizing the main roads, and then every weekend for months and months I'd drive all around the market, attaching visual images of stores, monuments, buildings, parks and the like to the images of the maps.

I still carried a map in the car, but most people would say "my house is two blocks from the Pueblo Supermarket. Turn right at the Walgreens and go 10 houses down". So if I visualized that business district, I could find the house easily.

More challenging was when I'd be invited to someone's country home in the hills or mountains. There it was "turn right at the Flamboyán tree and then left at the cluster of palms that are all leaning to the west..."

Even now, over 50 years later, I drive by landmarks, not street nomenclature. I love street views online when I am going somewhere new; I can remember those quite easily.

 

[Negin]

I believe that Frank inherited the prohibited word list, and, in fact, I thought (and might be wrong) that it came from the board software provider.

It did. When I was a Mod on a amateur radio board there was a preloaded censor list provided by XenForo. We had to tweak it to allow some words.