It prevented the common Windows practice of "hijacking" another application's file extensions.
That's a feature, not a bug. If I install a new app, I want it to open such-and-such file types. The only problem is apps that silently re-associate themselves with all their file types when they open, and anyone who writes such an application should be flogged and rubbed with salt IMHO.
Having your file types stolen by another application should be responded to with a warning popup specifying the file type(s), the apps with which they're now associated, and giving the following options: (1) Reassociate the types. (2) Don't reassociate, and stop checking these file types. Yes, popups are annoying as hell, but if two apps are fighting over the file type you'll only see the warning twice: once from each app. Consider it part of the installation process.
God, what a mess. You're seriously advocating this behavior? Do you work for RealNetworks?
When I install an app, if and when I want it to open such-and-such file types, I will make that change myself.
The problem is for those of us that didn't know that creator codes exist.
We would set.avi files to all open in VLC, and be confused when some opened in quicktime.
This is a bugfix.
So let me get this straight. 1.You set the default AVI app to VLC. 2. You deliberately chose some AVI files, went into File Properties ("Get Info"), and individually set those to open with QuickTime instead. 3. You were confused when those specific AVI files actually opened with QuickTime?
Fine, whatever. Some people aren't going to get it. But the system should not be designed around such people.
It's not a problem, it's a fix. This is the way it should work.
Suppose I put a Word document on a computer where OO.o is installed instead of Office. The document says "open me in MS Word". The OS says, "Word isn't installed". What happens? What originally should have happened: The OS looks at the document, says "Word document, open this with OO.o", and everything works great. The extra information was a stupid extra step. "Word document" is all the OS needs in order to figure out how to open it.
That's always the way it worked. If you had a Word file (Type=W8BN, Creator=MSWD) on a system without Word (MSWD) installed, the system would identify any other applications capable of opening W8BN files, and open it using that app.
The extra information only came into play when there was more than one application capable of opening W8BN files. It prevented the common Windows practice of "hijacking" another application's file extensions.
The apps are dumbed down versions. For example, the OS X version of Powerpoint will not let me create animations where objects move along a path (which is really useful to show how data flows through an abstract model or graph). The Windows version does.
Fixed in the latest service pack. (Why was it suddenly fixed in a service pack, after letting several full releases go by without it? Because Apple's Keynote gained the ability.)
The OS X version of Outlook, Entourage, won't really talk to Exchange and definitely won't let you schedule meetings with multiple attendees. This is Microsoft's fault.
Not true. (I do it every week. Not even difficult; you just keep adding attendees just like you did the first one. You can even view availability on the little graph like Outlook.) But in any event, Entourage is going to be scrapped in the next version of Office. Why? Because Apple's apps had caught up to Entourage's (weak) level of support.
Basically, Microsoft has enjoyed the same position with Office on the Mac that it has with Windows, despite not delivering the same level of capability. That's starting to change, because it's pretty easy to beat a product that isn't very good.
These parents are in for a nasty shock when their precious snowflakes head off to university and can't get in. What you will discover, and many homeschooling parents have already found out, is that they don't care how good a job you think you did or how proud you are. You pass their various admissions tests, or you go somewhere else. They are not at all interested in your ideas of how education should be. Your reading comprehension, writing, and math skills had better be up to spec or you are sent packing.
Even if they succeed in insilling the knowledge necessary to pass the admissions tests (homeschoolers are required, at least in my state, to pass regular competency tests, just like public school students) any child educated in this way will be woefully unprepared for the regimented world of the higher-level instruction. All of a sudden, they'll be expected to shut up, sit still, and listen for hours to a boring instructor with his whiteboard and PowerPoint slides.
Screen readers (for the visually impaired) already do. Generally, it's an awful way to browse the web; a slow and purely literal description of everything, including buttons, links, and images.
If you've ever played with speech synth, you know it's solidly in the cool-but-not-very-useful category.
Unless you're illiterate or just can't see, you don't want to experience the web this way.
Shouldn't I have a better way to look at multiple pages than separate tabs and windows?
There are. Opera and Safari have wall-of-thumbnails views. There's RSS if you want to skim through text summaries. There's even a cool Firefox add-on that concatenates series of pages into one long scrollable page. (Great for those multipage articles with endless "next>>" links.)
If you actually have some ideas of your own in mind, I'm sure some add-on developer would love to hear from you.
Why does it all crash so much?
My browser generally doesn't. When it does, it's usually because of Flash. Unless Adobe suddenly gets its shit together, that's not something any browser developer can fix.
Why must it be such an unelegant, awful thing to display information to from programming languages?
Mostly because we don't have any better ideas yet.
An apology costs nothing, and serves to remind the citizens that governments are works in progress.
In general, the good governments of the world are the ones that admit they were wrong, not just by changing their ways, but by openly acknowleging past wrongs. The lousy ones are the ones that pretend they were perfect all along.
Ok this opinion might be unpopular here, but the British Government has nothing to apologize about when talking of persecution of Alan Turing. The fact is: Alan Turing broke the law that was on the books at that time. The people knew of Turing's sexual orientation, but he did not have to act on it, if that was against the law.
Are you telling me that, if you lived in a country where your having sex was made illegal, that you would just stop having sex? Seriously? Do you think you could do that? Do you think that the average guy could manage that for any length of time? Because that's what it was. Turing was just a guy, living in a place where having sex with his chosen partner was illegal.
Some laws are just plain unjust. There is absolutely nothing wrong in breaking such laws.
NOW: What British government should apologize for, is persecution of all gays in the UK and the rest of the (now) commonwealth, which includes Alan Turing. The persecution in itself was wrong, not a treatment of the particular individual.
Agreed, both because the persecution in abstract was wrong, and the treatment of the individuals (Turing and the nameless others) was also wrong.
1. A payment in the amount of the computer. It goes not your income taxes as a bonus. 2. They transfer ownershhip to you. It goes on your income taxes as non-cash compensation for the value of the computer. It is your property afterwards; they can't take it back when you quit. 3. They issue you a company laptop. It remains their property; if you quit, you have to return it.
For 1 and 2, the computer is yours, and you can do whatever you like. Just like your car and your TV, which were purchased with money from your paycheck. The company has no say in what you do with the computer afterwards. You could even immediately sell them on eBay (though they'd probably be unhappy and demand the money back, and might fire you if you refused to pay them.)
For 3, you shouldn't do anything personal on it, nor should you install any of your own licensed software on it..
3) VERY IMPORTANT - Apple will stop selling 10.5 the day they release 10.6. So if you have a macbook or intel imac with 10.4(.11) on it and don't get it updated to 10.5 before the 28th you cannot install Snow Leopard. The AASPs are going to go mad as of today trying to order as many 10.5 retail packs as they can get their hands on. If you will be needing one, you'd better get it NOW.
Apple sells a "boxed set" that upgrades Tiger to Snow Leopard, with no intermediate steps.
Yes, the Boxed Set is $169, which is more than Leopard alone was($129) but it does inlcude iLife and iWork as a bonus. (Yes, this is just a ploy to get more copies of iLife and iWork out there.)
Many people would consider the upgrade from Windows 6.0 to Windows 6.1 to be a service pack, too. In fact, many people would consider Window 6.0 to be unusable by itself.
But Microsoft charges for upgrades from 6.0 to 6.1, unless you bought 6.0 after a certain date.
(In case you were wondering, 6.0 was Vista. 6.1 is 7. Yes, 6.1 = 7.)
What's there to "reverse engineer"? Apple already has a competing product, MobileMe / me.com.
The difference between Google and Apple's products is that Google's product is free and isn't tied to any particular hardware platform and works well on many devices in addition to the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to offer that kind of product because they want to tie all their products together and lock their users in.
Apple has an official, no-additional-cost MobileMe client for Windows. MobileMe works as effectively for Windows+Outlook+IE8 as it does on a Mac. (Which is not particularly well.)
Because that represents more to carry/lose/forget? Because you don't always have the right paper ones for the route you are using? Because paper ones will eventually crumpled/torn/worn out? Because paper ones become outdated when names/numbers/routes change? Because paper ones make you figure out which operating schedule applies to the current date/time ?
Their iPhone app would actually be much more useful if it was location-aware, and could tell you the nearest stops or station, but it doesn't seem to have that capability. (If it did, I would buy it in a heartbeat.) Google Maps has this ability.
Was I the only one bothered by the sad attempt to bridge the gap between EP 3 and EP 4 by simply throwing away all the nice full color displays and elegant controls that we saw in the ships of the first 3 episodes, and in one fell swoop go back to the flashing lights and big on/off switches of the last 3? You know, at the end of EP 3 when Darth takes command of the Empire fleet, only to strut out onto the bridge of a ship that looked like it was designed to control a hydroelectric dam and not fly among the stars...
Maybe I was the only one.
Pretty easy to justify, if you're of the mindset. It goes along with the general theme of "Why are the 'newer' ships so much less sleek and shiny?"
The ships of the Old Republic era were built in a time of peace. Even them "military" vehicles were mostly for show and prestige. Presumably, they were mostly flown as honor guards and diplomatic escorts. Interfaces were lavish and sophisticated, with lots of hands-off automation to make them easy to fly. But when designing for the Empire, shipbuilders switched to high-contrast interfaces centered around essential functions for their dedicated killing machines.
For that matter, compare Compiz to the glass cockpit of a commercial jet or modern fighter.
Contact your phone company and say that a nuisance caller has been harassing you. They will provide you with the caller's details.
Keep in mind that collection calls are not illegal. If you have no knowledge of the person they are asking for you may tell the collector that you would like the collection calls to stop. If the calls continue, you may want to ask to speak to a supervisor or compliance manager. If you have requested that the collection calls stop and the collectors continue to call, you may contact the Federal Trade Commission to file a complaint. Contact the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-382-4357 or file online at The Federal Trade Commission.
Fuck you! i do not owe you any money so you sort it out, it is not my problem
Actually if you wanted to be a real dick you could sue the collection agencies rather easily and collect at least $1,000 per violation. I would recommend that the people who are receiving these calls read up on the 'Fair Debt Collection Practices Act'. Send a cease and desist order to the debt collector as provided for by the FDCPA and when they call you again file suit. Wait a few months and cash your check.
Just try getting them to identify themselves.
"Hello, may I speak to Joe Deadbeat?" "No, there is no Joe Deadbeat at this number." *click* (Five minutes later) "Hello, may I speak to Joe Deadbeat?" "Who is this, please?" "Are you Joe Deadbeat?" "No. Who is this, please?" "Can you tell me where Joe Deadbeat is?" "No, I don't know Joe Deadbeat." *click*
If you don't admit to being the debtor they're calling about, they will not give you the opportunity to sue them. They will continue to harass you until you either admit to being the debtor, or change your phone number.
Of the 6000 delivered Boeing 734 planes there were 144 hull-loss accidents resulting in 3847 fatalities. Of the 3958 delivered A32x there were 20 hull-loss accidents with a total of 631 fatalities.
Yes, that's right. There are only 1.5 times more delivered Boeing 737 but they have a 5 times higher hull-loss accident rate a 6 times higher fatality rate. Correcting for the same number of machines there would be 4.8 times more hull-loss accidents and 4 times more fatalities at Boeing.
Now compare while factoring in age or number of takeoff/landing cycles. For the 737NG, they even out.
IMHO, spreading deliberately misleading incomplete information is just as bad as spreading bullshit. So please stop.
So Campbell denies something, and the source of the claim goes to ground?
Sure... that sounds like snopes has reached a reliable interpretation of events.
Indeed it does.
Lloyd Grove of The Washington Post was unable to reach Baroness Williams to gain her confirmation of the tale, but he did receive a call from Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of communications and strategy. "I can tell you that the prime minister never heard George Bush say that, and he certainly never told Shirley Williams that President Bush did say it," Campbell told The Post. "If she put this in a speech, it must have been a joke."/quote
Seriously...do you see a shred of support for the claim that Bush said that to Blair? The most direct source denied it, the original source could not be reached to confirm it, and the original outlet was the famously sarcastic British tabloid press. Sounds like a thoroughly busted rumor to me.
I'm sure some people are pushing for RFID for the wrong reasons, but I'm all for it as a replacement for barcodes as far as keeping stock goes. Imagine going to Walmart, and your shopping buggy automatically tells the clerk how much money you owe! Well, that might be a ways off, but it's possible.
Seriously, can you grasp what could happen if everything we bought came with an RFID tag? Imagine advertisers/insurance companies/your boss driving by your house with a sensor, and knowing: 1. You prefer Pepsi to Coke 2. Your wife is menstruating this week 3. You drink a heckuva lot of Jack Daniels 4. You watch a lot of bondage porn
Microsoft (wisely) decided that Mac users wouldn't tolerate the Ribbon. On the other hand, it wanted to keep the features of the Ribbon (Modeless editing, iconic/visual representation of functions, streamlining the maze of dialogs and submenus.) They came up with, among other things, a vastly expanded Formatting Palette.
The Formatting Palette is actually one tab of a palette called the Toolbox. It also uses accordion grouping for related functions, with however many sections of the accordion open as you want (or have room for.) The changes you make are applied in realtime to the document (no need to close the palette or click an Apply button.) http://catchthis.ca/online-marketing-blog/post-images/electronic-letterhead.jpg
In some ways, it's part of the general trend in OS X applications to have an Inspector palette; OmniGraffle and Keynote/Pages are good examples.
Compared to the Ribbon 1. It's movable, resizable, and closable 2. The accordion lets you see more than one function group at a time 3. No matter how many documents you have open, there's only one of them taking up space on screen at a time 4. It makes better use of the widescreen monitors (very common on Macs) using horizontal space instead of vertical space. 5. It doesn't supplant the traditional menus and toolbars, so experienced users aren't punished. 6. It doesn't break established conventions or look out of place.
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It prevented the common Windows practice of "hijacking" another application's file extensions.
That's a feature, not a bug. If I install a new app, I want it to open such-and-such file types. The only problem is apps that silently re-associate themselves with all their file types when they open, and anyone who writes such an application should be flogged and rubbed with salt IMHO.
Having your file types stolen by another application should be responded to with a warning popup specifying the file type(s), the apps with which they're now associated, and giving the following options: (1) Reassociate the types. (2) Don't reassociate, and stop checking these file types. Yes, popups are annoying as hell, but if two apps are fighting over the file type you'll only see the warning twice: once from each app. Consider it part of the installation process.
God, what a mess. You're seriously advocating this behavior? Do you work for RealNetworks?
When I install an app, if and when I want it to open such-and-such file types, I will make that change myself.
The problem is for those of us that didn't know that creator codes exist.
We would set .avi files to all open in VLC, and be confused when some opened in quicktime.
This is a bugfix.
So let me get this straight.
1.You set the default AVI app to VLC.
2. You deliberately chose some AVI files, went into File Properties ("Get Info"), and individually set those to open with QuickTime instead.
3. You were confused when those specific AVI files actually opened with QuickTime?
Fine, whatever. Some people aren't going to get it. But the system should not be designed around such people.
He also explains how to work around the problem
It's not a problem, it's a fix. This is the way it should work.
Suppose I put a Word document on a computer where OO.o is installed instead of Office. The document says "open me in MS Word". The OS says, "Word isn't installed". What happens? What originally should have happened: The OS looks at the document, says "Word document, open this with OO.o", and everything works great. The extra information was a stupid extra step. "Word document" is all the OS needs in order to figure out how to open it.
That's always the way it worked. If you had a Word file (Type=W8BN, Creator=MSWD) on a system without Word (MSWD) installed, the system would identify any other applications capable of opening W8BN files, and open it using that app.
The extra information only came into play when there was more than one application capable of opening W8BN files. It prevented the common Windows practice of "hijacking" another application's file extensions.
The apps are dumbed down versions. For example, the OS X version of Powerpoint will not let me create animations where objects move along a path (which is really useful to show how data flows through an abstract model or graph). The Windows version does.
Fixed in the latest service pack. (Why was it suddenly fixed in a service pack, after letting several full releases go by without it? Because Apple's Keynote gained the ability.)
The OS X version of Outlook, Entourage, won't really talk to Exchange and definitely won't let you schedule meetings with multiple attendees. This is Microsoft's fault.
Not true. (I do it every week. Not even difficult; you just keep adding attendees just like you did the first one. You can even view availability on the little graph like Outlook.) But in any event, Entourage is going to be scrapped in the next version of Office. Why? Because Apple's apps had caught up to Entourage's (weak) level of support.
Basically, Microsoft has enjoyed the same position with Office on the Mac that it has with Windows, despite not delivering the same level of capability. That's starting to change, because it's pretty easy to beat a product that isn't very good.
These parents are in for a nasty shock when their precious snowflakes head off to university and can't get in. What you will discover, and many homeschooling parents have already found out, is that they don't care how good a job you think you did or how proud you are. You pass their various admissions tests, or you go somewhere else. They are not at all interested in your ideas of how education should be. Your reading comprehension, writing, and math skills had better be up to spec or you are sent packing.
Even if they succeed in insilling the knowledge necessary to pass the admissions tests (homeschoolers are required, at least in my state, to pass regular competency tests, just like public school students) any child educated in this way will be woefully unprepared for the regimented world of the higher-level instruction. All of a sudden, they'll be expected to shut up, sit still, and listen for hours to a boring instructor with his whiteboard and PowerPoint slides.
Shouldn't this thing read to me by now, standard?
Screen readers (for the visually impaired) already do. Generally, it's an awful way to browse the web; a slow and purely literal description of everything, including buttons, links, and images.
If you've ever played with speech synth, you know it's solidly in the cool-but-not-very-useful category.
Unless you're illiterate or just can't see, you don't want to experience the web this way.
Shouldn't I have a better way to look at multiple pages than separate tabs and windows?
There are. Opera and Safari have wall-of-thumbnails views. There's RSS if you want to skim through text summaries. There's even a cool Firefox add-on that concatenates series of pages into one long scrollable page. (Great for those multipage articles with endless "next>>" links.)
If you actually have some ideas of your own in mind, I'm sure some add-on developer would love to hear from you.
Why does it all crash so much?
My browser generally doesn't. When it does, it's usually because of Flash. Unless Adobe suddenly gets its shit together, that's not something any browser developer can fix.
Why must it be such an unelegant, awful thing to display information to from programming languages?
Mostly because we don't have any better ideas yet.
The good ones are the ones who don't need a petition and signature campaign and heavy international political pressure to apologize for past wrongs.
True. There are no good ones.
I guess I should have said, "the better ones."
An apology costs nothing, and serves to remind the citizens that governments are works in progress.
In general, the good governments of the world are the ones that admit they were wrong, not just by changing their ways, but by openly acknowleging past wrongs. The lousy ones are the ones that pretend they were perfect all along.
Ok this opinion might be unpopular here, but the British Government has nothing to apologize about when talking of persecution of Alan Turing. The fact is: Alan Turing broke the law that was on the books at that time. The people knew of Turing's sexual orientation, but he did not have to act on it, if that was against the law.
Are you telling me that, if you lived in a country where your having sex was made illegal, that you would just stop having sex? Seriously? Do you think you could do that? Do you think that the average guy could manage that for any length of time? Because that's what it was. Turing was just a guy, living in a place where having sex with his chosen partner was illegal.
Some laws are just plain unjust. There is absolutely nothing wrong in breaking such laws.
NOW: What British government should apologize for, is persecution of all gays in the UK and the rest of the (now) commonwealth, which includes Alan Turing. The persecution in itself was wrong, not a treatment of the particular individual.
Agreed, both because the persecution in abstract was wrong, and the treatment of the individuals (Turing and the nameless others) was also wrong.
Exactly. Your company has three options.
1. A payment in the amount of the computer. It goes not your income taxes as a bonus.
2. They transfer ownershhip to you. It goes on your income taxes as non-cash compensation for the value of the computer. It is your property afterwards; they can't take it back when you quit.
3. They issue you a company laptop. It remains their property; if you quit, you have to return it.
For 1 and 2, the computer is yours, and you can do whatever you like. Just like your car and your TV, which were purchased with money from your paycheck. The company has no say in what you do with the computer afterwards. You could even immediately sell them on eBay (though they'd probably be unhappy and demand the money back, and might fire you if you refused to pay them.)
For 3, you shouldn't do anything personal on it, nor should you install any of your own licensed software on it..
3) VERY IMPORTANT - Apple will stop selling 10.5 the day they release 10.6. So if you have a macbook or intel imac with 10.4(.11) on it and don't get it updated to 10.5 before the 28th you cannot install Snow Leopard. The AASPs are going to go mad as of today trying to order as many 10.5 retail packs as they can get their hands on. If you will be needing one, you'd better get it NOW.
Apple sells a "boxed set" that upgrades Tiger to Snow Leopard, with no intermediate steps.
Yes, the Boxed Set is $169, which is more than Leopard alone was($129) but it does inlcude iLife and iWork as a bonus. (Yes, this is just a ploy to get more copies of iLife and iWork out there.)
Many people would consider the upgrade from Windows 6.0 to Windows 6.1 to be a service pack, too. In fact, many people would consider Window 6.0 to be unusable by itself.
But Microsoft charges for upgrades from 6.0 to 6.1, unless you bought 6.0 after a certain date.
(In case you were wondering, 6.0 was Vista. 6.1 is 7. Yes, 6.1 = 7.)
What's there to "reverse engineer"? Apple already has a competing product, MobileMe / me.com.
The difference between Google and Apple's products is that Google's product is free and isn't tied to any particular hardware platform and works well on many devices in addition to the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to offer that kind of product because they want to tie all their products together and lock their users in.
Apple has an official, no-additional-cost MobileMe client for Windows. MobileMe works as effectively for Windows+Outlook+IE8 as it does on a Mac. (Which is not particularly well.)
That statement only says that ATT was not involved directly in the Google Voice decision.
It does not say whether or not ATT had previously bound Apple contractually to reject all apps of this type..
Because that represents more to carry/lose/forget?
Because you don't always have the right paper ones for the route you are using?
Because paper ones will eventually crumpled/torn/worn out?
Because paper ones become outdated when names/numbers/routes change?
Because paper ones make you figure out which operating schedule applies to the current date/time ?
Their iPhone app would actually be much more useful if it was location-aware, and could tell you the nearest stops or station, but it doesn't seem to have that capability. (If it did, I would buy it in a heartbeat.) Google Maps has this ability.
Was I the only one bothered by the sad attempt to bridge the gap between EP 3 and EP 4 by simply throwing away all the nice full color displays and elegant controls that we saw in the ships of the first 3 episodes, and in one fell swoop go back to the flashing lights and big on/off switches of the last 3? You know, at the end of EP 3 when Darth takes command of the Empire fleet, only to strut out onto the bridge of a ship that looked like it was designed to control a hydroelectric dam and not fly among the stars...
Maybe I was the only one.
Pretty easy to justify, if you're of the mindset. It goes along with the general theme of "Why are the 'newer' ships so much less sleek and shiny?"
The ships of the Old Republic era were built in a time of peace. Even them "military" vehicles were mostly for show and prestige. Presumably, they were mostly flown as honor guards and diplomatic escorts. Interfaces were lavish and sophisticated, with lots of hands-off automation to make them easy to fly. But when designing for the Empire, shipbuilders switched to high-contrast interfaces centered around essential functions for their dedicated killing machines.
For that matter, compare Compiz to the glass cockpit of a commercial jet or modern fighter.
Contact your phone company and say that a nuisance caller has been harassing you. They will provide you with the caller's details.
Keep in mind that collection calls are not illegal. If you have no knowledge of the person they are asking for you may tell the collector that you would like the collection calls to stop. If the calls continue, you may want to ask to speak to a supervisor or compliance manager. If you have requested that the collection calls stop and the collectors continue to call, you may contact the Federal Trade Commission to file a complaint. Contact the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-382-4357 or file online at The Federal Trade Commission.
Fuck you! i do not owe you any money so you sort it out, it is not my problem
Actually if you wanted to be a real dick you could sue the collection agencies rather easily and collect at least $1,000 per violation. I would recommend that the people who are receiving these calls read up on the 'Fair Debt Collection Practices Act'. Send a cease and desist order to the debt collector as provided for by the FDCPA and when they call you again file suit. Wait a few months and cash your check.
Just try getting them to identify themselves.
"Hello, may I speak to Joe Deadbeat?"
"No, there is no Joe Deadbeat at this number."
*click*
(Five minutes later)
"Hello, may I speak to Joe Deadbeat?"
"Who is this, please?"
"Are you Joe Deadbeat?"
"No. Who is this, please?"
"Can you tell me where Joe Deadbeat is?"
"No, I don't know Joe Deadbeat."
*click*
If you don't admit to being the debtor they're calling about, they will not give you the opportunity to sue them. They will continue to harass you until you either admit to being the debtor, or change your phone number.
I'll bet the Verizon guy would've still shot first.
Of the 6000 delivered Boeing 734 planes there were 144 hull-loss accidents resulting in 3847 fatalities. Of the 3958 delivered A32x there were 20 hull-loss accidents with a total of 631 fatalities.
Yes, that's right. There are only 1.5 times more delivered Boeing 737 but they have a 5 times higher hull-loss accident rate a 6 times higher fatality rate. Correcting for the same number of machines there would be 4.8 times more hull-loss accidents and 4 times more fatalities at Boeing.
Now compare while factoring in age or number of takeoff/landing cycles. For the 737NG, they even out.
IMHO, spreading deliberately misleading incomplete information is just as bad as spreading bullshit. So please stop.
Snopes is laughably naive at times- this is a good example:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp
So Campbell denies something, and the source of the claim goes to ground?
Sure... that sounds like snopes has reached a reliable interpretation of events.
Indeed it does.
Lloyd Grove of The Washington Post was unable to reach Baroness Williams to gain her confirmation of the tale, but he did receive a call from Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of communications and strategy. "I can tell you that the prime minister never heard George Bush say that, and he certainly never told Shirley Williams that President Bush did say it," Campbell told The Post. "If she put this in a speech, it must have been a joke." /quote
Seriously...do you see a shred of support for the claim that Bush said that to Blair? The most direct source denied it, the original source could not be reached to confirm it, and the original outlet was the famously sarcastic British tabloid press. Sounds like a thoroughly busted rumor to me.
I'm sure some people are pushing for RFID for the wrong reasons, but I'm all for it as a replacement for barcodes as far as keeping stock goes. Imagine going to Walmart, and your shopping buggy automatically tells the clerk how much money you owe! Well, that might be a ways off, but it's possible.
Seriously, can you grasp what could happen if everything we bought came with an RFID tag? Imagine advertisers/insurance companies/your boss driving by your house with a sensor, and knowing:
1. You prefer Pepsi to Coke
2. Your wife is menstruating this week
3. You drink a heckuva lot of Jack Daniels
4. You watch a lot of bondage porn
Microsoft (wisely) decided that Mac users wouldn't tolerate the Ribbon. On the other hand, it wanted to keep the features of the Ribbon (Modeless editing, iconic/visual representation of functions, streamlining the maze of dialogs and submenus.) They came up with, among other things, a vastly expanded Formatting Palette.
The Formatting Palette is actually one tab of a palette called the Toolbox. It also uses accordion grouping for related functions, with however many sections of the accordion open as you want (or have room for.) The changes you make are applied in realtime to the document (no need to close the palette or click an Apply button.)
http://catchthis.ca/online-marketing-blog/post-images/electronic-letterhead.jpg
In some ways, it's part of the general trend in OS X applications to have an Inspector palette; OmniGraffle and Keynote/Pages are good examples.
Compared to the Ribbon
1. It's movable, resizable, and closable
2. The accordion lets you see more than one function group at a time
3. No matter how many documents you have open, there's only one of them taking up space on screen at a time
4. It makes better use of the widescreen monitors (very common on Macs) using horizontal space instead of vertical space.
5. It doesn't supplant the traditional menus and toolbars, so experienced users aren't punished.
6. It doesn't break established conventions or look out of place.
View > As List
Yup, it's a List, Details, and Tree view, all in one.
If he didn't notice that feature staring him in the face, it makes me question how thoroughly he evaluated the two platforms.
...that's what happen when you hire the low bidder?
Do you seriously think that just paying more will get you a better product? If so, Microsoft has a copy of Vista Ultimate they'd like to sell you.