15 years ago people would complain about facing the dump or the noisy AC and it was a game of musical rooms moving people around until someone took the room
now they just price those rooms for people who don't care about it and let the rest of us pay a small premium to be locked into a better room
when priceline first started i read about the business model and they said it was based on yield management and getting rid of inventory that would have been lost in the end
lately with everything in travel being all about price it seems all these sites do nothing more than allow everyone to price their stuff and get rid of the annoying customers who try to sneak in upgrades or complain about their room
same thing on hotel sites. was in atlantic city last year and all the rooms are divided up between different sections of the hotel and you pay more for oceanview. and that's just a peek at the ocean. once you book they pester you with upgrades for a better view of the ocean
try booking a kid friendly cruise a year out during a school break, the prices are sky high because everyone is using big data and whatever to know when and where people are traveling. it's been this way for decades. In the 90's airline tickets to Italy would magically drop by 50% in October.
After priceline came out almost 20 years ago people learned to make money off the cheapskates. They will advertise cheap hotel rooms but those have the worst views of the garbage dump.
my inlaws thought they got a deal on a cruise one time and told me to go to some russian travel agent to book a room and take the kids. turned out it was a school week right before the Easter break
try getting a discount at Disney in July or August
Easy to get a cheap room in Vegas as long as you're there on Wednesday. Actually it's the best day since the place isn't packed full
same with cheap airline tickets and any other vacation. go outside the peak season. my wife and I had a good deal in Negril on our honeymoon cause we went in October. Downside is some things were closed and some tours not running cause of the lack of people
this is more about idiot developers who go all autistic at the thought of having to lift a finger to change code that won't work on newer versions of IIS
it's an obsolete tablet with the worst online experience of all the consoles and now you can't even save your games. and i hear the digital game purchases are tied to physical consoles. my xbox one i can delete a game, install it again and my saves will be there
why would you need all of them since it's double content. I only get HBO during Games of Thrones season and then watch a few other shows i missed during the year
difference is when you buy a house and screw something up it's on you to fix it yourself or pay someone. sometimes you might even get fined by your town or thrown in jail
with a lot of this stuff people buy and then break it with cheap supplies or bad parts and then run to the manufacturer demanding warranty service. i've used cheap off brand toner in the 90's and when i got rid of it my HP Laserjet printers suddenly stopped jamming every other day.
the fifth amendment is so the cops can't torture you to force you to confess like used to happen in Europe around the time it was written. I read an interesting book one time how they used to put you on the rack and break your bones until you confessed or they were sure you really didn't do it.
the concept that the police can collect evidence and you have to give up evidence of your guilt has been around for a long time cause justice trumps your right to break the law
from all the stories i've heard of Europe there are a few national universities and one or two city universities in each city. doing well academically means you ace the junior or senior year exams that make the SAT look like a play date
my guess is something like the top 20% of the students go on to college and the rest you GTFO school, learn a trade and do whatever you can and unlike the USA you're forever locked out of the jobs that will require a degree from a good school.
in the USA you can go to an average city college, get straight A's, study your a$$ off for some graduate school entrance exam and get into a top law or medical school. or graduate from an average school and work your a$$ off at work and work into a high paying job that may usually need a degree from a top school
most CEO's in the USA today didn't go to the top schools for their bachelor's degrees but worked their way up
it's really about a dozen ideas but the matrix is your cookie cutter hero story with a bunch of old names thrown in to make dummies think how deep it is
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15 years ago people would complain about facing the dump or the noisy AC and it was a game of musical rooms moving people around until someone took the room
now they just price those rooms for people who don't care about it and let the rest of us pay a small premium to be locked into a better room
try doing that when it's full
when priceline first started i read about the business model and they said it was based on yield management and getting rid of inventory that would have been lost in the end
lately with everything in travel being all about price it seems all these sites do nothing more than allow everyone to price their stuff and get rid of the annoying customers who try to sneak in upgrades or complain about their room
same thing on hotel sites. was in atlantic city last year and all the rooms are divided up between different sections of the hotel and you pay more for oceanview. and that's just a peek at the ocean. once you book they pester you with upgrades for a better view of the ocean
try booking a kid friendly cruise a year out during a school break, the prices are sky high because everyone is using big data and whatever to know when and where people are traveling. it's been this way for decades. In the 90's airline tickets to Italy would magically drop by 50% in October.
After priceline came out almost 20 years ago people learned to make money off the cheapskates. They will advertise cheap hotel rooms but those have the worst views of the garbage dump.
my inlaws thought they got a deal on a cruise one time and told me to go to some russian travel agent to book a room and take the kids. turned out it was a school week right before the Easter break
try getting a discount at Disney in July or August
Easy to get a cheap room in Vegas as long as you're there on Wednesday. Actually it's the best day since the place isn't packed full
same with cheap airline tickets and any other vacation. go outside the peak season. my wife and I had a good deal in Negril on our honeymoon cause we went in October. Downside is some things were closed and some tours not running cause of the lack of people
this is more about idiot developers who go all autistic at the thought of having to lift a finger to change code that won't work on newer versions of IIS
it's an obsolete tablet with the worst online experience of all the consoles and now you can't even save your games. and i hear the digital game purchases are tied to physical consoles. my xbox one i can delete a game, install it again and my saves will be there
so this hack only works when the hacker spends a lot of his own money for no payback? how do i make money off this?
yes, comcast has thousands of people who do nothing more than read sent/received emails and choose an ad to insert for you to see
I will never forgive you apple
if you get a window seat you just need a hole big enough to suck a bunch of people out. maybe a seat by the wing and you can blow the wing off
chances are people reuse passwords and they were able to log on to people's icloud using credentials from another site.
why would you need all of them since it's double content. I only get HBO during Games of Thrones season and then watch a few other shows i missed during the year
maybe we'll do that and you can go back to your cultural revolution and killing each other
difference is when you buy a house and screw something up it's on you to fix it yourself or pay someone. sometimes you might even get fined by your town or thrown in jail
with a lot of this stuff people buy and then break it with cheap supplies or bad parts and then run to the manufacturer demanding warranty service. i've used cheap off brand toner in the 90's and when i got rid of it my HP Laserjet printers suddenly stopped jamming every other day.
so you're saying they are like Amazon?
why spend billions of $$$ to run wires when you can use someone else's network to sell your stuff?
the fifth amendment is so the cops can't torture you to force you to confess like used to happen in Europe around the time it was written. I read an interesting book one time how they used to put you on the rack and break your bones until you confessed or they were sure you really didn't do it.
the concept that the police can collect evidence and you have to give up evidence of your guilt has been around for a long time cause justice trumps your right to break the law
Amazon has a huge warehouse around Edison and at least one more in Pennsylvania with UPS and Fedex stopping by nightly for pickups
no, just like for a lot of kids in the USA now it's having parents with enough money to get you tutoring and make you do well in school
from all the stories i've heard of Europe there are a few national universities and one or two city universities in each city. doing well academically means you ace the junior or senior year exams that make the SAT look like a play date
my guess is something like the top 20% of the students go on to college and the rest you GTFO school, learn a trade and do whatever you can and unlike the USA you're forever locked out of the jobs that will require a degree from a good school.
in the USA you can go to an average city college, get straight A's, study your a$$ off for some graduate school entrance exam and get into a top law or medical school. or graduate from an average school and work your a$$ off at work and work into a high paying job that may usually need a degree from a top school
most CEO's in the USA today didn't go to the top schools for their bachelor's degrees but worked their way up
Windows 7 is almost 10 years old at this point. how long should MS support it for?
it's really about a dozen ideas but the matrix is your cookie cutter hero story with a bunch of old names thrown in to make dummies think how deep it is
they burned the bodies after having their slaves remove gold teeth and anything else of value
because there are thousands and thousands of pages of documentation and photos of the nazis creating an industrialized killing system