AirTran Airways is another great example. The original AirTran was bought by the airline ValuJet which had a rather famous accident. ValuJet decided to use AirTran's name to get the blank slate effect.
the sender will get a non-delivery notification so he/she can act on it
Now, here:
I'm not sending any non-delivery notification.
Your new explanation makes sense but you have a statement in there that directly conflicts with what you said the first time (and flamed someone else for responding to it).
This is an interesting issue for me right now, since my fiance uses AT&T, and I use Verizon, and at some point next spring (when our current contracts expire), we're going to pick one or the other. I've never had anything but Verizon and have been pretty happy with their coverage, even when I'm out camping. But since we've been together, on the two or three occasions I couldn't get a Verizon signal, she has been able to get a good AT&T signal. Sooner or later, I'm sure we'll run into a situation where I have signal and she doesn't, but it hasn't happened yet, and I expected Verizon to be better than AT&T. It's kind of fun to be doing a test like this, and it's sort of a unique opportunity.
Obviously this is a limited-scope test with all kinds of variables not taken into account. And so far we feel that the difference in coverages that we have seen aren't really enough to be an overriding factor in our decision - maybe a contributory factor, but not overriding.
Really, I just want to be able to tether cheaply...
Spamassassin catches much of my spam, but I'm getting more and more in my inbox.
But your "non-delivery notification" is what the other person was responding to - you're effectively backspamming the people whose email addresses get put on outgoing spam. For some reason, this happens to me about once a year - someone will use one of my email addresses as the return address on a spam message, so I'll get hundreds/thousands of "your message was rejected because it looked like spam" messages, along with normal bounce messages. Of course I'm not out spamming people, but I have to deal with the crap by both spammers and by people sending reject emails. For these reasons, I'm with the poster above that said we should just put a bounty on spammers - I've spent far too much time dealing with the consequences (hint: It's not "just delete the message").
Word and the like have grammar checkers. I know they're not perfect, but they almost certainly would catch most spam... and they don't offer translation functions.
Of course they'd also catch many non-spam messages, too, at the highest settings, so the rules would have to be pretty loose.
Does anyone else remember the "Lazy Inventor" section of Dilbert.com in the late 90s? "All talk, no funding." You'd post an idea and others would rip it apart. Someone posted the idea of "child-free days in restaurants, stores, movie theaters, etc.", and I'm pretty sure the ensuing flamewar contributed to the end of all the great extras on that site...
I know there are motorcyclists out there that ride dangerously, but you have to admit the GP is correct - plenty of people out there drive badly, and it's not vehicle-specific. If you don't believe that, then you're probably part of the problem.
To the GP - they aren't trying to kill motorcyclists specifically; they're trying to kill EVERYONE.
For what it's worth, the CompuServe I (and many others here, obviously) remember was long before those types of deals came up. I distinctly remember my dad ordering airline tickets for our family to go to Florida online back in 1984 (using our PCjr wtih a 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodem...I still have the modem, actually), and I'm pretty certain it was through CompuServe's SABRE application/connection/whatever.
We had CompuServe until about 1986, when we moved to a different part of the state, and we no longer had a local phone number. GEnie, however, did, so we signed on with that. I spent some time playing around with it, but of course the hourly fee was annoying to my father. Eventually I discovered a BBS in the area I could call for free and GEnie went by the wayside.
If memory serves, the deals you're talking about were in the late-90s/early-2000s.
That wasn't Clear - that probably was the US gov't checking on you evil foreigners. Clear was a for-profit program that let you skip the security line in some airports.
Please cite the law saying bicycles must stay off the roads. I've never heard of one like this (outside of freeways, of course), so I'm curious which state has this. Usually the law is that bicycles MUST use the roads instead of sidewalks.
Ever actually use one? The Simpsons episode that poked fun at them was right on target: Bart is rolling along nicely, he sees it getting dark, so he activates the lights. From there he's barely moving, struggling to get anywhere, and the light only comes on for brief periods then goes back out.
Perhaps they've improved them since that version, but I don't recall seeing anything other than battery-operated lights when I was into cycling a couple years back.
European headlights in at least some cars (maybe many cars) can be angled up or down with a flick of a knob inside. I think that's what the poster is talking about. Very cool stuff. We don't get cool things like that in the US.
I have a car that was also sold in Europe, and the features they have in Europe are far nicer than what was available in the US for the exact same car - the headlight aiming thing, climate control (instead of just "hot, cold, or somewhere in between"), insta-clear windshields, etc.
Oh, and in the good old days you could kiss your girlfriend goodbye at the gate,
I remember those days. When I was very young, my parents and I would occasionally go to BWI (new at the time) and watch the planes taking off and landing.
Now I have to "orbit the airport" because Logan doesn't provide any short-term parking outside the terminals.
That sucks. Some airports I've been to have a "cell phone waiting area" - you park in this lot for free, then your party calls you when they get their bags, and you swoop in and pick them up. Seems like a great idea.
I live in the DC area, but I was on a business trip to Eagle Butte back in '06. Talk about desolate area... it's hard to explain to people that haven't been there just how far apart everything is and how little there is between point A and point B. It was pretty neat, though. I've lived on the east coast all my life, so seeing other areas like that is interesting and fun.
I have an old Hayes Smartmodem 1200 around here somewhere. I don't plug it in very often, but it worked last time I tried it.
We used to have two working PCjrs. Unfortunately they disappeared a couple years back - my brother and I each thought the other had them. I think my dad threw them away when he was moving... then saved the PCjr monitor for some bizarre reason.
I was in a hobby shop a couple years back looking for parts for an R/C car, and I heard the employees telling a customer about another guy that lost his R/C helicopter. I guess the pilot got distracted for a moment, and when he looked back to the helicopter, the helicopter was nowhere to be found. He was getting friends to help him look for it.
I have an older laptop that won't resume after suspend, either in Linux or FreeBSD. Works fine under Windows, so I assume it's a quirky BIOS problem. I'd love faster boot times for that computer.
You know something is wrong when a discussion of MySQL is dominated by comments about PostgreSQL.
Or you're on Slashdot.
My guess: when the editors see the MySQL article in the queue, they think, "We haven't had a MySQL/PostgreSQL flamewar in a while. Let's post this!"
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AirTran Airways is another great example. The original AirTran was bought by the airline ValuJet which had a rather famous accident. ValuJet decided to use AirTran's name to get the blank slate effect.
But, yeah, "The Shack" is just silly.
Actually, we do get those here. Check out the TDI engine. While you're at it, research the size of a gallon on each side of the Atlantic.
In your first post:
the sender will get a non-delivery notification so he/she can act on it
Now, here:
I'm not sending any non-delivery notification.
Your new explanation makes sense but you have a statement in there that directly conflicts with what you said the first time (and flamed someone else for responding to it).
Obviously this is a limited-scope test with all kinds of variables not taken into account. And so far we feel that the difference in coverages that we have seen aren't really enough to be an overriding factor in our decision - maybe a contributory factor, but not overriding.
Really, I just want to be able to tether cheaply...
Spamassassin catches much of my spam, but I'm getting more and more in my inbox.
But your "non-delivery notification" is what the other person was responding to - you're effectively backspamming the people whose email addresses get put on outgoing spam. For some reason, this happens to me about once a year - someone will use one of my email addresses as the return address on a spam message, so I'll get hundreds/thousands of "your message was rejected because it looked like spam" messages, along with normal bounce messages. Of course I'm not out spamming people, but I have to deal with the crap by both spammers and by people sending reject emails. For these reasons, I'm with the poster above that said we should just put a bounty on spammers - I've spent far too much time dealing with the consequences (hint: It's not "just delete the message").
Word and the like have grammar checkers. I know they're not perfect, but they almost certainly would catch most spam... and they don't offer translation functions.
Of course they'd also catch many non-spam messages, too, at the highest settings, so the rules would have to be pretty loose.
Does anyone else remember the "Lazy Inventor" section of Dilbert.com in the late 90s? "All talk, no funding." You'd post an idea and others would rip it apart. Someone posted the idea of "child-free days in restaurants, stores, movie theaters, etc.", and I'm pretty sure the ensuing flamewar contributed to the end of all the great extras on that site...
...and that's the answer. Currently at 1, though your post deserves much higher.
I know there are motorcyclists out there that ride dangerously, but you have to admit the GP is correct - plenty of people out there drive badly, and it's not vehicle-specific. If you don't believe that, then you're probably part of the problem.
To the GP - they aren't trying to kill motorcyclists specifically; they're trying to kill EVERYONE.
That's how that CNet editor died... his family survived by staying in the car.
I agree with you. The GPS is nice, it usually gives decent advice, but you have to keep THINKING.
For what it's worth, the CompuServe I (and many others here, obviously) remember was long before those types of deals came up. I distinctly remember my dad ordering airline tickets for our family to go to Florida online back in 1984 (using our PCjr wtih a 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodem...I still have the modem, actually), and I'm pretty certain it was through CompuServe's SABRE application/connection/whatever.
We had CompuServe until about 1986, when we moved to a different part of the state, and we no longer had a local phone number. GEnie, however, did, so we signed on with that. I spent some time playing around with it, but of course the hourly fee was annoying to my father. Eventually I discovered a BBS in the area I could call for free and GEnie went by the wayside.
If memory serves, the deals you're talking about were in the late-90s/early-2000s.
Sounds good. The ones we had were quite bad - there was so much extra drag that it was almost impossible to maintain speed for any distance.
That wasn't Clear - that probably was the US gov't checking on you evil foreigners. Clear was a for-profit program that let you skip the security line in some airports.
Please cite the law saying bicycles must stay off the roads. I've never heard of one like this (outside of freeways, of course), so I'm curious which state has this. Usually the law is that bicycles MUST use the roads instead of sidewalks.
Ever actually use one? The Simpsons episode that poked fun at them was right on target: Bart is rolling along nicely, he sees it getting dark, so he activates the lights. From there he's barely moving, struggling to get anywhere, and the light only comes on for brief periods then goes back out.
Perhaps they've improved them since that version, but I don't recall seeing anything other than battery-operated lights when I was into cycling a couple years back.
European headlights in at least some cars (maybe many cars) can be angled up or down with a flick of a knob inside. I think that's what the poster is talking about. Very cool stuff. We don't get cool things like that in the US.
I have a car that was also sold in Europe, and the features they have in Europe are far nicer than what was available in the US for the exact same car - the headlight aiming thing, climate control (instead of just "hot, cold, or somewhere in between"), insta-clear windshields, etc.
Oh, and in the good old days you could kiss your girlfriend goodbye at the gate,
I remember those days. When I was very young, my parents and I would occasionally go to BWI (new at the time) and watch the planes taking off and landing.
Now I have to "orbit the airport" because Logan doesn't provide any short-term parking outside the terminals.
That sucks. Some airports I've been to have a "cell phone waiting area" - you park in this lot for free, then your party calls you when they get their bags, and you swoop in and pick them up. Seems like a great idea.
I live in the DC area, but I was on a business trip to Eagle Butte back in '06. Talk about desolate area... it's hard to explain to people that haven't been there just how far apart everything is and how little there is between point A and point B. It was pretty neat, though. I've lived on the east coast all my life, so seeing other areas like that is interesting and fun.
I have an old Hayes Smartmodem 1200 around here somewhere. I don't plug it in very often, but it worked last time I tried it.
We used to have two working PCjrs. Unfortunately they disappeared a couple years back - my brother and I each thought the other had them. I think my dad threw them away when he was moving... then saved the PCjr monitor for some bizarre reason.
Wasn't there an X-ray machine with a coding error that caused people to get many times the dose they should've? Yep, here it is.
I was in a hobby shop a couple years back looking for parts for an R/C car, and I heard the employees telling a customer about another guy that lost his R/C helicopter. I guess the pilot got distracted for a moment, and when he looked back to the helicopter, the helicopter was nowhere to be found. He was getting friends to help him look for it.
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...there is a better way.
Which is? I'm honestly curious.
I have an older laptop that won't resume after suspend, either in Linux or FreeBSD. Works fine under Windows, so I assume it's a quirky BIOS problem. I'd love faster boot times for that computer.
You know something is wrong when a discussion of MySQL is dominated by comments about PostgreSQL.
Or you're on Slashdot. My guess: when the editors see the MySQL article in the queue, they think, "We haven't had a MySQL/PostgreSQL flamewar in a while. Let's post this!"