I also miss the seats they had that faced each other. I'd get there early to get early boarding, then sit in one of those aisles and prop my feet up so nobody would sit there. Super selfish, I'll admit, but as long as the flight wasn't full, I got lots of extra leg room.
To my knowledge, SWA has never done this. They have always done a 'first come first serve' kind of thing. Whoever checks-in first, gets to board first and pick whatever seat they want.
I think you're confusing fuel efficiency with manufacturing efficiency. The auto makers certainly don't need much additional motivation to drive manufacturing efficiency since that delivers straight to their profits, but fuel-efficiency they didn't have nearly as much motivation to care about that, until the government started telling them they had to.
I installed one of those in my last apartment. It cost $20, was digital, had a backlight for when I might want to manually override the program at night, and served as a handy wall clock too. No internet connection so no security hole. No privacy issues. Lowered my bill relative to its mercury-filled non-programmable predecessor. Paid for itself in like two months.
Nest was never a solution. The IoT generally is not, much in the way that the F35 is not a viable means of waging a large-scale war.
Maybe it wasn't a solution for you, but it is a solution for a lot of people. I too have had various programmable thermostats for years, and yes they were a great improvement over manual thermostats. You know what though? I don't have the same home/away schedule all the time. It fluctuates significantly. Sometimes I go into the office, sometimes I work from home all day. Sometimes I'm home in the evening or on the weekend and sometimes I'm not. So a thermostat which can automatically detect when I'm not home and lower the AC if I forget to do it on the way out the door solves one of my problems. And I've found other features of the Nest to be useful and it and has made a noticeable difference in my electricity usage.
So the Nest was a solution, just perhaps not for you.
Heard a lot of similar arguments about the internet in the early days.
Not to say bitcoin will definitely be successful at all, let alone as successful as the internet, but a lot of people see a lot of potential in bitcoin and blockchain technologies so I'm keen on watching how it all pans out./feeding the troll
No, there is not a parent server "tracking" things. It's a whole peer-to-peer network that tracks things and only the blocks that the network as a whole agrees on become part of the chain. One would have to compromise a large percentage of the nodes on the network to directly "mess with" the data.
This is why the people who really want bitcoin to be successful want as many miners and full nodes as possible.
Typically I just use PuTTy in Windows to access my Linux environments. I don't do much command line stuff IN Windows so the Command Prompt is all I use for that.
When using Linux [as I do all day for work] I typically use XFCE's Terminal then use GNU Screen
So you're willing to waste a few generations of children to wait for the free hand to take its effect?
Tell me that you don't identify as a Libertarian, please?
It doesn't take generations. My child was going to a charter school. When she started in 1st grade, it was wonderful. The school was fantastic. By 3rd grade, the school had changed and it was no longer a good fit for her. We took her out of that school and put her in another school. We had the immediate choice and ability to move her to another school.
With regular public schools, you have no choice. You go to the school that the government tells you to go to based on your address. If that school is terrible and/or can't properly serve your child [whether it be because the child is gifted or because the child has learning disabilities], you have no recourse. Most people don't have the ability to move into whatever school district/zone they want to.
That's not to say that the charter school concept doesn't have issues, but I think it would make more sense to work to mitigate those issues rather than just saying that charter schools are no good and getting rid of them completely.
It helps if you actually read the comment [Crazy idea on Slashdot I know]. They weren't using Excel for ticketing. They were using Excel to create a dashboard displaying information and metrics about tickets in their actual ticketing system, which while it may not be the optimal way to do that, doesn't strike me as that unreasonable.
Sounds like these people are in a time warp. They obviously are not high-performance hardware users or they would be familiar with keyboards that use Cherry switches.
Who says we aren't? I am. But I've never used a keyboard that feels and types as well as a Model M. For me at least, I'm able to type significantly faster on one than I am on any other keyboard I've ever tried. I've got 2 of them, they cost me about $8 each, including one of these Airline Reservation Versions.
As a Unix/Linux admin, typing is my bread and butter, so I'm going to continue using the best tool for the job. For me, that's a Model M keyboard. I don't care how much it pissess off the Windows admins in my office, with their cheap-ass Dell keyboards.
Which reminds me, one of the things I don't see anyone mentioning about those cheap keyboards these days is that there is NO plastic around the keys by which to grab the keyboard to pick it up. Any time I am stuck using one and I have to pick up the keyboard, I end up mashing a bunch of keys and screwing up whatever is on the screen because there's only a tiny area above the INS/Home/Pgup keys to grab it by. Crappy typing notwithstanding, even just that issue drives me up the wall!
Home Depot has been replacing terminals with dip terms for EMV. But the issuers are waiting for some more traction. Most US merchants don't want to pay for the terminals, since the risk doesn't shift sufficiently for them to pay the money.
And as mentioned above, any card-not-present transactions are unaffected by EMV. Most of these rings sell cards to be used not-present. It;s fairly common to place the order on the website for local pickup, grab the loot and fence it. EMV doesn't stop that.
It *could* if the store at least used the Chip + Pin to validate the person picking up the loot.
Granted, I still don't see how it helps stop people buying stuff on Amazon but that one example you provided should be fairly simple to avoid.
Perhaps they are aiming for a new demographic, who might feel embarrassed by every one else having low user ID's, and who aren't smart enough to understand yyyy-mm-dd date formats?
That's the only thing that makes sense to me. The beta is horrible and as a *LONG* time reader and commenter here, I won't continue visiting if they go live with that horrid beta interface.
The difference is that when you "lose" gold it still exists. If your hard drive crashes and you don't have your bitcoin wallet backed up your bitcoins cease to exist.
Actually no, they still exist, you just can't access them without the private key. In theory, given enough computational power [unlikely] one could manage to find/re-generate the same private key and would thus have access to those bitcoins. Of course, if anyone ever had that much computation power available to them it would probably make the rest of bitcoin unviable.
So from a practical standpoint the bitcoin are lost, but they still technically exist.
Pedantic I know. Perhaps one could compare it more to that gold being 'lost' by being converted into some other compound [ie. auric chloride]. The gold is unusable as a currency in that form and thus is 'lost' from that standpoint. But, given the technical know how and resources, you could presumably recover the gold from the compound but it would be difficult and expensive.
The biggest issue I had with I, Robot was that Asimov intentionally wrote robot stories that did "not" involve scary robots running amok and killing people, but that's exactly the movie they made.
On its own as an action/adventure sci-fi, and not branded as an Asimov story I thing the movie would have been much better received, at least by fans of his stories.
FTS: The Debian technical committee has been asked to vote on which init system to use, which could swing in favor of using Upstart due to the Canonical bias present on the committee."
So what are the chances of getting the Canonical-associated board members to recuse themselves from the vote, given the obvious conflict of interest there?
Ive got two Suns. A UltraSparc 10, and a Sun fire V210. Both slow, by todays standards, but they run SunOS fine. but they are going to the scrappers on Friday. SunOS 9 is just too old.
I don't know about the UltraSparc 10, but the V210 will run Solaris 10 just fine.
Actually, it would probably run Solaris 11 just fine if S11 didn't detect the hardware and refuse to install.
It doesn't seem too long ago 8 Ultrasparcs and 12GB of RAM was the shit. It must really hurt to pull that invoice from 2005 out...
I'm certain it would be just as painful to look at how much one has spent in power and cooling to run that monstrosity since 2005.
It's amazing how drool-worthy systems like this were once upon a time, yet now I realize they are bulky, heavy, loud, hot, power-hungry and painfully slow. I'm just glad we've gotten rid of all our legacy 'purple' Sun hardware.
I suppose it would make a nice end table next to your sofa however.
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I also miss the seats they had that faced each other. I'd get there early to get early boarding, then sit in one of those aisles and prop my feet up so nobody would sit there. Super selfish, I'll admit, but as long as the flight wasn't full, I got lots of extra leg room.
To my knowledge, SWA has never done this. They have always done a 'first come first serve' kind of thing. Whoever checks-in first, gets to board first and pick whatever seat they want.
I think you're confusing fuel efficiency with manufacturing efficiency. The auto makers certainly don't need much additional motivation to drive manufacturing efficiency since that delivers straight to their profits, but fuel-efficiency they didn't have nearly as much motivation to care about that, until the government started telling them they had to.
I installed one of those in my last apartment. It cost $20, was digital, had a backlight for when I might want to manually override the program at night, and served as a handy wall clock too. No internet connection so no security hole. No privacy issues. Lowered my bill relative to its mercury-filled non-programmable predecessor. Paid for itself in like two months.
Nest was never a solution. The IoT generally is not, much in the way that the F35 is not a viable means of waging a large-scale war.
Maybe it wasn't a solution for you, but it is a solution for a lot of people. I too have had various programmable thermostats for years, and yes they were a great improvement over manual thermostats. You know what though? I don't have the same home/away schedule all the time. It fluctuates significantly. Sometimes I go into the office, sometimes I work from home all day. Sometimes I'm home in the evening or on the weekend and sometimes I'm not. So a thermostat which can automatically detect when I'm not home and lower the AC if I forget to do it on the way out the door solves one of my problems. And I've found other features of the Nest to be useful and it and has made a noticeable difference in my electricity usage.
So the Nest was a solution, just perhaps not for you.
Yep, remember the 40-bit vs. 128-bit encryption browsers.
Yes. It was terrible. And we are STILL encountering fallout from that idiocy.
See SSL FREAK vulnerability from last year.
What I think is that I'm pretty happy with my LG Watch Urbane.
Heard a lot of similar arguments about the internet in the early days.
Not to say bitcoin will definitely be successful at all, let alone as successful as the internet, but a lot of people see a lot of potential in bitcoin and blockchain technologies so I'm keen on watching how it all pans out. /feeding the troll
No, there is not a parent server "tracking" things. It's a whole peer-to-peer network that tracks things and only the blocks that the network as a whole agrees on become part of the chain. One would have to compromise a large percentage of the nodes on the network to directly "mess with" the data.
This is why the people who really want bitcoin to be successful want as many miners and full nodes as possible.
Typically I just use PuTTy in Windows to access my Linux environments. I don't do much command line stuff IN Windows so the Command Prompt is all I use for that.
When using Linux [as I do all day for work] I typically use XFCE's Terminal then use GNU Screen
So you're willing to waste a few generations of children to wait for the free hand to take its effect?
Tell me that you don't identify as a Libertarian, please?
It doesn't take generations. My child was going to a charter school. When she started in 1st grade, it was wonderful. The school was fantastic. By 3rd grade, the school had changed and it was no longer a good fit for her. We took her out of that school and put her in another school. We had the immediate choice and ability to move her to another school.
With regular public schools, you have no choice. You go to the school that the government tells you to go to based on your address. If that school is terrible and/or can't properly serve your child [whether it be because the child is gifted or because the child has learning disabilities], you have no recourse. Most people don't have the ability to move into whatever school district/zone they want to.
That's not to say that the charter school concept doesn't have issues, but I think it would make more sense to work to mitigate those issues rather than just saying that charter schools are no good and getting rid of them completely.
It helps if you actually read the comment [Crazy idea on Slashdot I know]. They weren't using Excel for ticketing. They were using Excel to create a dashboard displaying information and metrics about tickets in their actual ticketing system, which while it may not be the optimal way to do that, doesn't strike me as that unreasonable.
the Emacs vs VI war is over (Emacs won) ...
Yeah I'm thinking not. I've been a Unix sysadmin for over 15 years and I've never worked with a single person who uses Emacs.
In the immortal words of Weird Al:
"I've beta tested every operating system; gave props to some but others, I dissed 'em "
Yeah I tend to update and change my OS frequently on my personal systems. Work systems tend to be kept in known stable configurations.
Sounds like these people are in a time warp. They obviously are not high-performance hardware users or they would be familiar with keyboards that use Cherry switches.
Who says we aren't? I am. But I've never used a keyboard that feels and types as well as a Model M. For me at least, I'm able to type significantly faster on one than I am on any other keyboard I've ever tried. I've got 2 of them, they cost me about $8 each, including one of these Airline Reservation Versions.
As a Unix/Linux admin, typing is my bread and butter, so I'm going to continue using the best tool for the job. For me, that's a Model M keyboard. I don't care how much it pissess off the Windows admins in my office, with their cheap-ass Dell keyboards.
Which reminds me, one of the things I don't see anyone mentioning about those cheap keyboards these days is that there is NO plastic around the keys by which to grab the keyboard to pick it up. Any time I am stuck using one and I have to pick up the keyboard, I end up mashing a bunch of keys and screwing up whatever is on the screen because there's only a tiny area above the INS/Home/Pgup keys to grab it by. Crappy typing notwithstanding, even just that issue drives me up the wall!
Home Depot has been replacing terminals with dip terms for EMV. But the issuers are waiting for some more traction. Most US merchants don't want to pay for the terminals, since the risk doesn't shift sufficiently for them to pay the money.
And as mentioned above, any card-not-present transactions are unaffected by EMV. Most of these rings sell cards to be used not-present. It;s fairly common to place the order on the website for local pickup, grab the loot and fence it. EMV doesn't stop that.
It *could* if the store at least used the Chip + Pin to validate the person picking up the loot.
Granted, I still don't see how it helps stop people buying stuff on Amazon but that one example you provided should be fairly simple to avoid.
Perhaps they are aiming for a new demographic, who might feel embarrassed by every one else having low user ID's, and who aren't smart enough to understand yyyy-mm-dd date formats?
That's the only thing that makes sense to me. The beta is horrible and as a *LONG* time reader and commenter here, I won't continue visiting if they go live with that horrid beta interface.
The difference is that when you "lose" gold it still exists. If your hard drive crashes and you don't have your bitcoin wallet backed up your bitcoins cease to exist.
Actually no, they still exist, you just can't access them without the private key.
In theory, given enough computational power [unlikely] one could manage to find/re-generate the same private key and would thus have access to those bitcoins.
Of course, if anyone ever had that much computation power available to them it would probably make the rest of bitcoin unviable.
So from a practical standpoint the bitcoin are lost, but they still technically exist.
Pedantic I know. Perhaps one could compare it more to that gold being 'lost' by being converted into some other compound [ie. auric chloride]. The gold is unusable as a currency in that form and thus is 'lost' from that standpoint. But, given the technical know how and resources, you could presumably recover the gold from the compound but it would be difficult and expensive.
The biggest issue I had with I, Robot was that Asimov intentionally wrote robot stories that did "not" involve scary robots running amok and killing people, but that's exactly the movie they made.
On its own as an action/adventure sci-fi, and not branded as an Asimov story I thing the movie would have been much better received, at least by fans of his stories.
FTS: The Debian technical committee has been asked to vote on which init system to use, which could swing in favor of using Upstart due to the Canonical bias present on the committee."
So what are the chances of getting the Canonical-associated board members to recuse themselves from the vote, given the obvious conflict of interest there?
Best I saw myself was 6.5 years on a Solaris 8 system. I took a screenshot before I shut it down:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doubletwist/3662948158/
And yes, I know it was insecure. It wasn't a system I managed outside of being tasked with decommissioning it.
If you'd like to improve some of your typing skills, you could always try TypeRacer
Try measuring its terminal velocity by dropping it off of a very tall building. Preferably, drop it on Larry Ellison's head.
FTFY
FTFY
Why yes, we are a Sun/Oracle customer. How did you know?
Ive got two Suns. A UltraSparc 10, and a Sun fire V210. Both slow, by todays standards, but they run SunOS fine. but they are going to the scrappers on Friday. SunOS 9 is just too old.
I don't know about the UltraSparc 10, but the V210 will run Solaris 10 just fine.
Actually, it would probably run Solaris 11 just fine if S11 didn't detect the hardware and refuse to install.
It doesn't seem too long ago 8 Ultrasparcs and 12GB of RAM was the shit. It must really hurt to pull that invoice from 2005 out...
I'm certain it would be just as painful to look at how much one has spent in power and cooling to run that monstrosity since 2005.
It's amazing how drool-worthy systems like this were once upon a time, yet now I realize they are bulky, heavy, loud, hot, power-hungry and painfully slow. I'm just glad we've gotten rid of all our legacy 'purple' Sun hardware.
I suppose it would make a nice end table next to your sofa however.
I'm a big fan of Bistromathics as a method of travel.