I'm not sure what the Legal department's motivations were, but I believe it's most likely along the lines of providing a framework in which to have a stronger legal challenge to scrapers and and air/hotel/car meta-search sites. Orbitz get's scraped by a LOT of people for many different motivations. Some are trying to provide as many sources for fares or room rates as possible (Sidestep, Yahoo Farechase, Kayak, Mobissimo, etc). Some of these sites Orbitz allows (with business partnerships), some of them they shun when they see any accesses. There are also those who scrape (competitors, or those whom the competitors hire) to get a gauge on competitiveness (QL2, Marketscore, etc). As for the question of the usefullness of this policy as directed towards 'members', notice that to reprice any fare or hotel rate (which confirms that the system's cached fare/rate is still valid by contacting the airline/hotel system directly (which is more expensive for Orbitz)) you need an Orbitz login. Scrapers commonly will register these logins by the hundreds every time they visit (thereby subjecting them to the TOS).
Beer has a lot more to offer than just antioxidants, especially when you drink unfiltered homebrew/craft beers. For one, there's a ton of fiber (I've heard 5g/12oz quoted (too lazy to confirm)) which is good considering that most of us dont get near the recommended amount (~25g/day I think). Also, unfiltered beer contains a considerable amount of yeast (no, not just on the bottom, suspended too) which has tons of vitamin B12 (ever seen 'brewers yeast' at the health food store). I've heard also that lack of B12 is one of the main causes of hangovers - to this day, I've never had a (bad) hangover drinking my own beer.
Sure, there are a lot of alternative fuels (hydrogen, alcohol, solar, etc) that could replace oil, but a lot of our dependance on oil has nothing to do with burning fuel. Plastics, synthetic fabrics, and a ton of other products are all made with petroleum products. Take nylon-66; The starting material for that is Hexene. Hexene comes from petroleum. Before we can get rid of our dependance on oil, we have to find alternatives to making synthetic materials.
I goto a medium sized state university, and one thing i was extrememly disappointed about when arriving here was how crappy my upload speeds, download speeds, and latency was. It always used to be that university kids had the best connections, so they were major hubs for warez trading. I'm lucky if i can get 15k/s down and 3 or 4k/s up. All of my friends at other schools experience the same thing. 3 years ago a friend i had at UIUC was bragging to me how he could get 350k/s down and 150k/s up. It seems that with both an increasing number of students with computers and also an increasing number of people using file sharing tools, universities have started to notice how expensive bandwidth costs and so have stopped being so generous. I used get alot of warez, but now im turning more to linux and open source solutions because im just too skeptical that a 400mb file will complete if its going at 4 or 5k/s.
It seems wherever I go, I hear someone complaining how new cars require you to be as smart as this or that kindof scientist to work on them nowadays. I really dont feel that its true. My 50 year-old father who's been working on cars since he was 16 felt this way. I took him into the garage one day to explain some stuff about our Ford Taurus. The one thing that you have to remember is that the engine in new cars is the same engine that was in cars in 1960; there's just tons of little gadgets bolted on to them. Instead of a carburetor, you have fuel injectors shooting the fuel directly behind the intake valves. Instead of a fixed mixture of air/fuel, the computer uses sensors to figure out if the car is running to lean or too rich and adjusts the fuel spray accordingly. People always cite how much diagnostic tools cost and how the normal grease monkey or gearhead cant afford them. While there are diagnostic tools that'll hook up to computers for not all that much (~$300-$500), they're right in that the really good ones are too expensive ($2000+). The plus side though, is that these really aren't needed. Sure they make it a bit easier to check and see whether a sensor is out, but you can check your sensors with a shop manual and an ohmmeter(most Chilton's manuals have the acceptable range of resistance listed). Alternatively, there's usually a few wires on the diagnostic connector (or a diagnostic jumper on the fuse block) that you can short and cause the check engine light to blink an error code. The error code you get from this is the same code you get from using a fancy diagnostic link. You just have to look it up and you know what's wrong (or what the computer *thinks* is wrong). Need a new computer? $20 at the boneyard. Cars today aren't really very different from cars 30 years ago. I have no more trouble working on our '67 Mercury Cougar than I do working on our '98 Ford Taurus.
For audio at least, the Memorex cdrs that come in the 30packs with the slimline cases have worked great for me. I work at a college radio station that has CD players that are VERY picky with burned cds (So picky that most people avoid using them at all costs (they're Denon C630s)), and I've NEVER had one of these Memorex cds skip or stop on me. I usually burn at 4x on a Matsushita (Panasonic) 4x4x32 cd burner. Using these cd players, I definately do see a difference in playback performance between cd brands (Imation does particularly bad (though I can't remember any other brands that suck for those players at the moment)).
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I'm not sure what the Legal department's motivations were, but I believe it's most likely along the lines of providing a framework in which to have a stronger legal challenge to scrapers and and air/hotel/car meta-search sites. Orbitz get's scraped by a LOT of people for many different motivations. Some are trying to provide as many sources for fares or room rates as possible (Sidestep, Yahoo Farechase, Kayak, Mobissimo, etc). Some of these sites Orbitz allows (with business partnerships), some of them they shun when they see any accesses. There are also those who scrape (competitors, or those whom the competitors hire) to get a gauge on competitiveness (QL2, Marketscore, etc).
As for the question of the usefullness of this policy as directed towards 'members', notice that to reprice any fare or hotel rate (which confirms that the system's cached fare/rate is still valid by contacting the airline/hotel system directly (which is more expensive for Orbitz)) you need an Orbitz login. Scrapers commonly will register these logins by the hundreds every time they visit (thereby subjecting them to the TOS).
Beer has a lot more to offer than just antioxidants, especially when you drink unfiltered homebrew/craft beers. For one, there's a ton of fiber (I've heard 5g/12oz quoted (too lazy to confirm)) which is good considering that most of us dont get near the recommended amount (~25g/day I think). Also, unfiltered beer contains a considerable amount of yeast (no, not just on the bottom, suspended too) which has tons of vitamin B12 (ever seen 'brewers yeast' at the health food store). I've heard also that lack of B12 is one of the main causes of hangovers - to this day, I've never had a (bad) hangover drinking my own beer.
Sure, there are a lot of alternative fuels (hydrogen, alcohol, solar, etc) that could replace oil, but a lot of our dependance on oil has nothing to do with burning fuel. Plastics, synthetic fabrics, and a ton of other products are all made with petroleum products. Take nylon-66; The starting material for that is Hexene. Hexene comes from petroleum. Before we can get rid of our dependance on oil, we have to find alternatives to making synthetic materials.
I goto a medium sized state university, and one thing i was extrememly disappointed about when arriving here was how crappy my upload speeds, download speeds, and latency was. It always used to be that university kids had the best connections, so they were major hubs for warez trading. I'm lucky if i can get 15k/s down and 3 or 4k/s up. All of my friends at other schools experience the same thing. 3 years ago a friend i had at UIUC was bragging to me how he could get 350k/s down and 150k/s up. It seems that with both an increasing number of students with computers and also an increasing number of people using file sharing tools, universities have started to notice how expensive bandwidth costs and so have stopped being so generous. I used get alot of warez, but now im turning more to linux and open source solutions because im just too skeptical that a 400mb file will complete if its going at 4 or 5k/s.
It seems wherever I go, I hear someone complaining how new cars require you to be as smart as this or that kindof scientist to work on them nowadays. I really dont feel that its true. My 50 year-old father who's been working on cars since he was 16 felt this way. I took him into the garage one day to explain some stuff about our Ford Taurus. The one thing that you have to remember is that the engine in new cars is the same engine that was in cars in 1960; there's just tons of little gadgets bolted on to them. Instead of a carburetor, you have fuel injectors shooting the fuel directly behind the intake valves. Instead of a fixed mixture of air/fuel, the computer uses sensors to figure out if the car is running to lean or too rich and adjusts the fuel spray accordingly. People always cite how much diagnostic tools cost and how the normal grease monkey or gearhead cant afford them. While there are diagnostic tools that'll hook up to computers for not all that much (~$300-$500), they're right in that the really good ones are too expensive ($2000+). The plus side though, is that these really aren't needed. Sure they make it a bit easier to check and see whether a sensor is out, but you can check your sensors with a shop manual and an ohmmeter(most Chilton's manuals have the acceptable range of resistance listed). Alternatively, there's usually a few wires on the diagnostic connector (or a diagnostic jumper on the fuse block) that you can short and cause the check engine light to blink an error code. The error code you get from this is the same code you get from using a fancy diagnostic link. You just have to look it up and you know what's wrong (or what the computer *thinks* is wrong). Need a new computer? $20 at the boneyard. Cars today aren't really very different from cars 30 years ago. I have no more trouble working on our '67 Mercury Cougar than I do working on our '98 Ford Taurus.
For audio at least, the Memorex cdrs that come in the 30packs with the slimline cases have worked great for me. I work at a college radio station that has CD players that are VERY picky with burned cds (So picky that most people avoid using them at all costs (they're Denon C630s)), and I've NEVER had one of these Memorex cds skip or stop on me. I usually burn at 4x on a Matsushita (Panasonic) 4x4x32 cd burner. Using these cd players, I definately do see a difference in playback performance between cd brands (Imation does particularly bad (though I can't remember any other brands that suck for those players at the moment)).
This person has a perfectly valid and on-topic comment on this topic. Why is it that he was labeled as a troll?