I grew up in Haiti and we mainly learned how to type and basic Microsoft Office Products. In 9th grade we started with Publisher making Flyers. Continued with FrontPage where we made simple websites. At that time, I already had some html knowledge and used Photoshop and Dreamweaver and some manual html edits to complete my project. Our teacher the next year was a friend of mine who was an undergraduate student in Computer Science at a local University. He tried to teach the class about relational databases using Access. Unfortunately, most of the class was not able to follow along so we switched to spreadsheets using Excel.
Mind you, I feel I was privileged enough to have access to a computer at home while most of the class didn't. I also had an interest in programming while most of the others were not very interested. This was at a private catholic school. Ironically enough, a good number of my former classmates studied computer science at University both in Haiti and abroad.
That is because a lot of the companies and the wealthier people have internet connections via satellite. They either use Direcway (now Hughesnet) or StarBand. They also have backup generators and power inverters with batteries. Not only that, there are a number of wireless ISP's that do not rely on the Cellular network. They are also connected to the internet via satellite. They do not use as many towers thus are easier to maintain.
Yup... Like you said, Continental just sent a printout of their screen to DHS in this case. Some travel agencies tend to put all the frequent flyer numbers they have on hand for the passenger on every reservation. All that is there is information that is usually found in a PNR. Seems like it was booked using Sabre. By the way, it's not just the US receiving this information. It is transmitted to all countries that request it. And that list of countries is expanding.
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I grew up in Haiti and we mainly learned how to type and basic Microsoft Office Products. In 9th grade we started with Publisher making Flyers. Continued with FrontPage where we made simple websites. At that time, I already had some html knowledge and used Photoshop and Dreamweaver and some manual html edits to complete my project. Our teacher the next year was a friend of mine who was an undergraduate student in Computer Science at a local University. He tried to teach the class about relational databases using Access. Unfortunately, most of the class was not able to follow along so we switched to spreadsheets using Excel. Mind you, I feel I was privileged enough to have access to a computer at home while most of the class didn't. I also had an interest in programming while most of the others were not very interested. This was at a private catholic school. Ironically enough, a good number of my former classmates studied computer science at University both in Haiti and abroad.
That is because a lot of the companies and the wealthier people have internet connections via satellite. They either use Direcway (now Hughesnet) or StarBand. They also have backup generators and power inverters with batteries. Not only that, there are a number of wireless ISP's that do not rely on the Cellular network. They are also connected to the internet via satellite. They do not use as many towers thus are easier to maintain.
Yup... Like you said, Continental just sent a printout of their screen to DHS in this case. Some travel agencies tend to put all the frequent flyer numbers they have on hand for the passenger on every reservation. All that is there is information that is usually found in a PNR. Seems like it was booked using Sabre. By the way, it's not just the US receiving this information. It is transmitted to all countries that request it. And that list of countries is expanding.