Did you run into any out-of-sync issues between video and audio? (eg. someone's lips move noticeably before you hear the audio) In the past I had problems, and that was my main reason for not involving a general purpose computer in the initial encoding process this time around.

My guess, without having any particular knowledge, is that the factory will have some kind of internal grid system (fairly common), and aligning the factory with a compass direction means you can easily convert between internal coordinates and lat/lon GPS coordinates. Of course assuming you aren't converting by hand, it's not really hard to convert even if the factory were not axis-aligned.

I could be way off, but I can't think of another way that statement could make sense.

I've been using a DVD Player/Recorder machine to digitize old home movies from VHS-C (using a converter tape in a VHS player) to DVD. Then I rip the DVD into a VIDEO_TS folder using RipIt for Mac and also have it create a .m4v file. I save both formats for posterity, as well as the physical DVD I burned and (for now) the original tape.

My personal point of view is that high school history was full of dates and names and difficult for me to memorize. I did not find it interesting, even though on paper my teacher was a published author and one might assume was doing a fine job teaching. Fast forward to my adult life and I have found many sources of interesting historical accounts and am more interested in history now than I ever was. The interplay of different events on different parts of the world is fascinating.

I was just watching a tornado video on youtube and noticed one of the computer screens in the communication centre had a BSOD: http://youtu.be/sl_CM6wlry0?t=...

You mean the same BBY that showed the gold plated monster hdmi look so much better than the display next to it?

They crippled it on purpose and what you saw was a downgraded or scaled image to make you blow $$$$. I could be wrong but don't trust Bestbuy

Pack behaviour - that was my thought as well. I have seen video of a pack of lions exacting revenge on an elephant. The elephant got so exhausted with all those lions on it that it fell over and the writing was on the wall after that. What a slow, horrible way to go. An article recently suggested that T-Rexes may have hunted in packs which makes it plausible that an animal like the Dreadnoughtus could actually be taken down.
Also worth considering what vulnerabilities being that large could pose, such as getting stuck in a ravine or falling victim to some other terrain hazard making it easy for predators to wait for it to weaken before striking.

In the cases where coding experience alone makes someone better than someone who has education and coding experience, that would lead me to suspect a high level of innate coding talent in the person without formal education in the field. Certainly could happen. If you could take the same person and measure their talent with and without formal education, what would you expect to find?

Question should be rephrased: Does learning to code outweigh learning to code _better_?
It also ignores the other things you learn while getting your degree, and learning to cope with pressure which isn't present when you're learning to code whenever you feel like it.

But all companies operate the same. Everything out there only works in old IE

Just a guess, but probably would require too many changes to their build infrastructure and associated tooling to be worth the while, since version numbers aren't surfaced that much to the average user anyway.

Have you tried creating a new profile and comparing speed? There have been a number of Firefox issues caused by certain profile data. How about disabling all addons and trying again? Do both of those things and see how that compares, then narrow down the options.

Just installed the latest Firefox and did a bit of random surfing. First impression: noticeably faster than before, probably even on par with Chrome.

Better still, it also came with DEBUG.COM.