That "locally owned company" wouldn't be EPB in Chattanooga would it?
Locally the only options are 15/10/6/3/1.5/.256 DSL from CenturyTel (BellSouth DSL has similar options) and 6 from Comcast. Both companies seem to hover right around the $50 per month price.
Hopefully EPB would help bring those prices down to a more reasonable level.
This issue is no better with Tivo, Tivo just doesn't tell you that 3 minutes of your show is an emergency broadcast.
How is the Tivo supposed to "tell" you that? Do you have some information about when Emergency Alert System messages go out? And as far as I understand it, my Series 2 doesn't care about EAS messages and Series 3 have to obey them because of CableCard specifications. As far as I've read, cable provided STBs have to obey the EAS commands just as Tivo Series 3 does.
Now all the ads that they keep adding to the guide, and the way they abbreviate show titles while they haven't yet used HALF the length of the guide entry, now that is stupid software problems.
What ads are you talking about? Pressing the guide button my Series 2 Tivo doesn't show any ads, it never has. And the length of titles!? What are you talking about. The title names on the right hand side show a length of about 22 characters, which most shows titles fit nicely in. It doesn't even sound like you're using a Tivo at all. Even if you didn't like using the Tivo style guide you can change to a more traditional grid style in the guide settings. And what "stupid software problems" are you talking about?
Having to press 3 numbers (002) to change the channel, while the "enter" button does nothing, now that is stupid. I liked being able to press "2" and sit and wait for it to change the channel.
Now I'm convinced you either are talking about some other box (not Tivo software) or are spreading FUD. You don't have to press 002 to go to channel 2, just press 2 and wait a couple of seconds. I just tested it on my own Tivo, it worked exactly as described. Now if you're using the Tivo to control (via IR) someone else's STB (or Dish box) then your complaint is aimed at the creator of that box, not Tivo.
I don't work for Tivo (I wished I did!) but I do love how it's changed my TV view habits.
I'll second the M500. Used mine till the battery finally gave out (no longer holds a charge, waiting to buy a replacement one on eBay). In fact, reading books on my Palm seem to make the book reading experience go by faster.
I use Plucker as the reader and convert most of the files I want to read on my Palm using Plucker on my desktop machine.
And having the low resolution screen doesn't (at least to me) seem to be a problem.
I support an income tax here - ideally a heavily progressive one that will not hurt the poor, and will only slightly affect the middle-income Tennessee residents.
Nothing personal against you, but...
Living in Hamilton county Tennessee is looking more expensive by the moment.
Shopping will cost you 9.25% in sales tax (which looks to be among the higher sales taxes in the nation according to http://thestc.com/STrates.stm). Most likely not highest, but damn!
My property tax went up this year, thanks Hamilton county commission.
And now they do an emissions check on your vehicle, $10 per year per car plus whatever it takes to get it up to snuff, which, lets just admit it, has more to do with a car tax than the environment. With I-75 running right through the middle of the county with all those trucks belching out their exhaust I'm really sure that checking the emission on my 99 Century is really going to help the environment.
So, if it's all the same to you, I won't support an income tax. I'll try to hang onto my already dwindling income as it is.
Tivo allows you to put music and videos in a shared file so you can view them on your Tivo.
I know that you can use the Tivo server on a network to push both picture and mp3 files to your Tivo, but I don't know how you can do this with video? The Tivo ToGo api doesn't mention anything about pushing video to the Tivo. How do you do it (other than hacking the Tivo HD)?
I just want this on record but, you DO support the forced removal of people and giving their land to the likes of Walmart in the name of "public" use?
I think everybody is losing sight of the matter in the name of "just compensation". There is no price high enough for someone who does not want to move out of their home. Period.
The idea that a local city council can decide they want my land to give to a private corporation just disgusts me. And hiding it behind eminent domain just makes it worse. Just come out and say what you really want it for: money! The same tract of land can make more tax money being held by a private business than it did being held by a private citizen.
This all just bolsters my belief in politicians. You can't trust them any farther than you can throw them. Like ants scurrying to sugar, so do poloticians to money.
In the first Red Dwarf book the Coca-Cola companies sends enough stars into premature supernova as to write the words 'Coke adds life'. It was visible even in the daytime. Many billion dollarpounds were spent in creating the ad.
I'll have to admit that Epson does have a terrible design. They have the changeable tanks, which is good, but the print heads stay with the machine. I work with just one epson inkjet at work and it is exhibiting signs of clogging jets. While Canon's design is similar, the heads are designed to be removable (but they are not cheap).
The points brought up are exactly the reasons I choose a Canon printer when I needed a new printer. I choose the Canon I850 because of its speed and photo printing quality.
The ink tanks are separated by color, are transparent, and include no electronics on the tank itself.
And I can purchase new tanks for $9 each, locally, when a particular color runs out.
Since the tanks don't have an electronic components, the printer doesn't "talk" to the tanks, so no funny stuff is happening with Canon tanks.
The particular thing about "Masks" was Brent Spiner's ability as an actor. I thought he did an excellent job. On the other hand, I do agree with you about "Yesterday's Enterprise".
In my humble opinion, the cream-of-the-crop for TNG was the episode named "The Inner Light". Not much in the way of techno-babble or action, but exceptional in performances and surprisingly, music. Read here about this episode.
Judging from your post I guess you don't like Walmart very much. I just wanted to go over a few of points
The problem is that this data gives them a lot of POWER to move markets. Knowing what someone is going to buy before they do is one thing, but combined with the way they force their suppliers to cater to their wishes it can reach evil levels. Evil? Are Walmart employees holding guns to the heads of suppliers? Are they kidnapping their children? Raping their spouses? Are they doing something illegal, breaking some law somewhere? How is Walmart forcing suppliers to do anything?
Walmart can break a supplier overnight. If the supplier chooses not to do business with Walmart, then the supplier has to deal with the choice they have made. Walmart is not required by anybody to deal with any specific supplier at any time. If Walmart wants to drop one supplier for another because some purchasing manager of Walmart didn't like the tie of the supplier's salesman, then that is their prerogative.
It also hurts small business, collecting and shipping money to the bible belt from every small town in the country. Especially in rural areas, local businesses who've been around for decades are constantly failing because of the global pressure of Walmart. Walmart will lose money in a store just to gain market share, something the small business person will not be able to do and still feed his family. I'll sum your above paragraph into one word: competition. The old adage stands: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Do "small business" and "rural areas, local businesses" have some unspoken "right" to be in business even in the face of superior competition? What would it take to make sure that the small local businesses stay? To what lengths would you go? Would you prevent Walmart from opening new stores? Perhaps even make them close current stores. Restricting free market to ensure free market doesn't work. If you devise some method for allowing small businesses to survive then you have to allow Walmart to use the same method, thus undermining your original intent. Anything less then it would not be free market.
Walmart is not a good thing. Yes, they've done a good job supplying redneck and poor america with knock offs of luxury items at low prices. But have they really helped us? Hiring illegal workers, paying below market wages, etc. They have really changed the landscape of small town USA and a lot of people have been raped. It's sad but I guess the global attitude is inevitable. It's just sad that the delicate economic balances formed in rural communities over the past 100 years have been shattered by this corporate behemoth. One day the market will readjust I guess, but it's just depressing. I would like to digress for a moment and state that you opened this paragraph with malicious and vindictive statements which brought nothing to your argument. I am neither a "redneck" nor poor, but would argue that I purchase items at Walmart that are not "knock offs of luxury items" or "low prices". While Walmart may sell items that fit your idea of those types of items, they sell lots of items that are neither. Do you look down the end of your nose at people who bought Apex DVD players at Walmart? While that brand of DVD player is most certainly cheaper than something BestBuy would sell, the functionality is identical. Quality, debatable, maybe. I've had plenty of main brand names malfunction. As for the rest of the paragraph, just get over it. You're "depressed" because Walmart can out compete all other business? And what "delicate economic balances" are you speaking of? The market is in a constant flux.
Consumers are just lazy I guess and are obsessed about saving 10 or 15 cents on toilet paper when in reality they are costing themselves a lot more in terms of abandoning their local economy and sending their dollars to Arkansas. Because that money could be given to a local merchant who i
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
The infamous "click of death", was not because of "...read heads were ripping off..."
The following quote is from the link provided above, "The clicking sound itself is nothing more than the sound of the heads being retracted from the cartridge into the drive then immediately reinserted."
You've worked for 23 years for one company. Then you become unemployed in Sep-2003. That is about 11 months unemployment.
Now, let us assume that you worked 50 weeks out of a year, that is 1150 weeks (50 * 23) total employment. That's 46,000 hours of labor (given a 40 hours per week: 1150*40)
Now, if you had been put money in an emergency fund, say $55 a week. That comes to a total of $63,250.00. (55*1150)
A family could live off of $63,250.00 for a year, which equals about $1216.35 a week (63250/52). Even if you found, somehow, that $1216.35 per week was not enough to cover your monthly bills, why didn't you immediately take another job, ANY job (which of course would supplement your emergency fund)?
What was your emergency financial plan over the course of your 23 years employment? Does not the financial security of your family (and property) take priority over finding (and waiting for) the "perfect" job? I'm not trying to be mean, but am genuinely curious.
While I understand your point (and agree with it) about inappropriate material in the office space, I still don't agree with Microsoft's decision to mark the font update as critical. I always took the level of 'critical' to mean critical to the operation of the OS.
Microsoft marked a font update as critical because the font contained characters that may offend some people/class/group. Don't think they are above marking things as critical just to get it installed. How a font update is critical, I don't know.
I believe that everybody can have an opinion. Well, that goes without saying. Anything less, well then you wouldn't be human.
I also believe that everybody can make their own choices about sexuality without being verbally and physically attacked because they have a different type of relationship than another. And you calling bsDaemon a 'homophobe', because he/she believes that homosexuality is wrong, follows this how? I do believe that it falls under "...being verbally... attacked..." Yet you do the very thing, which makes you a hypocrite
You can not like gay people all day long for all I care. Really? You seemed to care? Try doing that in society today! You'll be labeled an old fashioned religious zealot and a homophobe.
But you should at least not attack their right as an American to the pursuit of happiness. Their right? Since when is it a right? When that famous author penned that line, 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness', homosexuality was not in his mind. Remember that up until recently, and still in most local locations, homosexuality is still a crime, classified among all the other deviant sexual crimes (rape, molestation, bestiality).
If your religion does not like the thought of gay marriage then fine. Don't marry gay people in your church and don't recognize them. While in your perfect world that may work, in reality it doesn't fly. A church isn't just a church building it is its members. It's a community. Church's have members run organizations and businesses. Church members are on school boards and go to business meetings. Are you expecting these people just to check their believes at the door of the church when they leave? They carry their believes throughout the week, not just at church. These beliefs that they carry all week long influences their decisions and choices.
But the state and the church are to remain separate and so then, the state should recognize marriage regardless of the gender combination. Please don't forget that this county was founded by VERY religious people. You must also remember that it was still people, imperfect people. But being imperfect does not preclude you from following God's law. The founding fathers thought it necessary to separate church from state. Freedom of religion does not be freedom from religion. No matter how you want to color early American history, our founders were still Christians. Maybe not perfect, but still Christians, which is why the line, '... life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' falls under the context of God's law.
Well, it looks like you believe one thing, and yet wrote (i.e. 'verbally attacked', your words, bsDaemon) another. Hypocrite
Well, 'phone company' and 'telephone' are two different items. But in reality, what NY is trying to regulate is not the 'telephone' device itself, but the service required to make use of the 'telephone' device. By that meaning of the word 'telephone' walkie-talkies and cb radios are 'telephones'. Yet those items aren't regulated or taxed, or should I say, the actual using of them is not regulated or taxed (the actual item itself may be taxed with a sales tax or such). Note that the definition didn't specify how the signals got from point A to point B.
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That "locally owned company" wouldn't be EPB in Chattanooga would it?
Locally the only options are 15/10/6/3/1.5/.256 DSL from CenturyTel (BellSouth DSL has similar options) and 6 from Comcast. Both companies seem to hover right around the $50 per month price.
Hopefully EPB would help bring those prices down to a more reasonable level.
This issue is no better with Tivo, Tivo just doesn't tell you that 3 minutes of your show is an emergency broadcast.
How is the Tivo supposed to "tell" you that? Do you have some information about when Emergency Alert System messages go out? And as far as I understand it, my Series 2 doesn't care about EAS messages and Series 3 have to obey them because of CableCard specifications. As far as I've read, cable provided STBs have to obey the EAS commands just as Tivo Series 3 does.
Now all the ads that they keep adding to the guide, and the way they abbreviate show titles while they haven't yet used HALF the length of the guide entry, now that is stupid software problems.
What ads are you talking about? Pressing the guide button my Series 2 Tivo doesn't show any ads, it never has. And the length of titles!? What are you talking about. The title names on the right hand side show a length of about 22 characters, which most shows titles fit nicely in. It doesn't even sound like you're using a Tivo at all. Even if you didn't like using the Tivo style guide you can change to a more traditional grid style in the guide settings. And what "stupid software problems" are you talking about?
Having to press 3 numbers (002) to change the channel, while the "enter" button does nothing, now that is stupid. I liked being able to press "2" and sit and wait for it to change the channel.
Now I'm convinced you either are talking about some other box (not Tivo software) or are spreading FUD. You don't have to press 002 to go to channel 2, just press 2 and wait a couple of seconds. I just tested it on my own Tivo, it worked exactly as described. Now if you're using the Tivo to control (via IR) someone else's STB (or Dish box) then your complaint is aimed at the creator of that box, not Tivo.
I don't work for Tivo (I wished I did!) but I do love how it's changed my TV view habits.
Paul Winfield R.I.P.
I'll second the M500. Used mine till the battery finally gave out (no longer holds a charge, waiting to buy a replacement one on eBay). In fact, reading books on my Palm seem to make the book reading experience go by faster.
I use Plucker as the reader and convert most of the files I want to read on my Palm using Plucker on my desktop machine.
And having the low resolution screen doesn't (at least to me) seem to be a problem.
I support an income tax here - ideally a heavily progressive one that will not hurt the poor, and will only slightly affect the middle-income Tennessee residents.
Nothing personal against you, but...
Living in Hamilton county Tennessee is looking more expensive by the moment.
Shopping will cost you 9.25% in sales tax (which looks to be among the higher sales taxes in the nation according to http://thestc.com/STrates.stm). Most likely not highest, but damn!
My property tax went up this year, thanks Hamilton county commission.
And now they do an emissions check on your vehicle, $10 per year per car plus whatever it takes to get it up to snuff, which, lets just admit it, has more to do with a car tax than the environment. With I-75 running right through the middle of the county with all those trucks belching out their exhaust I'm really sure that checking the emission on my 99 Century is really going to help the environment.
So, if it's all the same to you, I won't support an income tax. I'll try to hang onto my already dwindling income as it is.
Tivo allows you to put music and videos in a shared file so you can view them on your Tivo.
I know that you can use the Tivo server on a network to push both picture and mp3 files to your Tivo, but I don't know how you can do this with video? The Tivo ToGo api doesn't mention anything about pushing video to the Tivo. How do you do it (other than hacking the Tivo HD)?
I just want this on record but, you DO support the forced removal of people and giving their land to the likes of Walmart in the name of "public" use?
I think everybody is losing sight of the matter in the name of "just compensation". There is no price high enough for someone who does not want to move out of their home. Period.
The idea that a local city council can decide they want my land to give to a private corporation just disgusts me. And hiding it behind eminent domain just makes it worse. Just come out and say what you really want it for: money! The same tract of land can make more tax money being held by a private business than it did being held by a private citizen.
This all just bolsters my belief in politicians. You can't trust them any farther than you can throw them. Like ants scurrying to sugar, so do poloticians to money.
In the first Red Dwarf book the Coca-Cola companies sends enough stars into premature supernova as to write the words 'Coke adds life'. It was visible even in the daytime. Many billion dollarpounds were spent in creating the ad.
I'll have to admit that Epson does have a terrible design. They have the changeable tanks, which is good, but the print heads stay with the machine. I work with just one epson inkjet at work and it is exhibiting signs of clogging jets. While Canon's design is similar, the heads are designed to be removable (but they are not cheap).
The points brought up are exactly the reasons I choose a Canon printer when I needed a new printer. I choose the Canon I850 because of its speed and photo printing quality.
The ink tanks are separated by color, are transparent, and include no electronics on the tank itself.
And I can purchase new tanks for $9 each, locally, when a particular color runs out.
Since the tanks don't have an electronic components, the printer doesn't "talk" to the tanks, so no funny stuff is happening with Canon tanks.
The particular thing about "Masks" was Brent Spiner's ability as an actor. I thought he did an excellent job. On the other hand, I do agree with you about "Yesterday's Enterprise".
In my humble opinion, the cream-of-the-crop for TNG was the episode named "The Inner Light". Not much in the way of techno-babble or action, but exceptional in performances and surprisingly, music. Read here about this episode.
"Masks" would have to be a second favorite.
The only thing we did get is a free turkey last year but that was tied to the card, not the address.
Would that store be Bi-Lo?
Judging from your post I guess you don't like Walmart very much. I just wanted to go over a few of points
The problem is that this data gives them a lot of POWER to move markets. Knowing what someone is going to buy before they do is one thing, but combined with the way they force their suppliers to cater to their wishes it can reach evil levels.
Evil? Are Walmart employees holding guns to the heads of suppliers? Are they kidnapping their children? Raping their spouses? Are they doing something illegal, breaking some law somewhere? How is Walmart forcing suppliers to do anything?
Walmart can break a supplier overnight.
If the supplier chooses not to do business with Walmart, then the supplier has to deal with the choice they have made. Walmart is not required by anybody to deal with any specific supplier at any time. If Walmart wants to drop one supplier for another because some purchasing manager of Walmart didn't like the tie of the supplier's salesman, then that is their prerogative.
It also hurts small business, collecting and shipping money to the bible belt from every small town in the country. Especially in rural areas, local businesses who've been around for decades are constantly failing because of the global pressure of Walmart. Walmart will lose money in a store just to gain market share, something the small business person will not be able to do and still feed his family.
I'll sum your above paragraph into one word: competition. The old adage stands: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Do "small business" and "rural areas, local businesses" have some unspoken "right" to be in business even in the face of superior competition? What would it take to make sure that the small local businesses stay? To what lengths would you go? Would you prevent Walmart from opening new stores? Perhaps even make them close current stores. Restricting free market to ensure free market doesn't work. If you devise some method for allowing small businesses to survive then you have to allow Walmart to use the same method, thus undermining your original intent. Anything less then it would not be free market.
Walmart is not a good thing. Yes, they've done a good job supplying redneck and poor america with knock offs of luxury items at low prices. But have they really helped us? Hiring illegal workers, paying below market wages, etc. They have really changed the landscape of small town USA and a lot of people have been raped. It's sad but I guess the global attitude is inevitable. It's just sad that the delicate economic balances formed in rural communities over the past 100 years have been shattered by this corporate behemoth. One day the market will readjust I guess, but it's just depressing.
I would like to digress for a moment and state that you opened this paragraph with malicious and vindictive statements which brought nothing to your argument. I am neither a "redneck" nor poor, but would argue that I purchase items at Walmart that are not "knock offs of luxury items" or "low prices". While Walmart may sell items that fit your idea of those types of items, they sell lots of items that are neither. Do you look down the end of your nose at people who bought Apex DVD players at Walmart? While that brand of DVD player is most certainly cheaper than something BestBuy would sell, the functionality is identical. Quality, debatable, maybe. I've had plenty of main brand names malfunction. As for the rest of the paragraph, just get over it. You're "depressed" because Walmart can out compete all other business? And what "delicate economic balances" are you speaking of? The market is in a constant flux.
Consumers are just lazy I guess and are obsessed about saving 10 or 15 cents on toilet paper when in reality they are costing themselves a lot more in terms of abandoning their local economy and sending their dollars to Arkansas. Because that money could be given to a local merchant who i
Moff Intel: "I assure you, Lord Customer, my engineers are working as fast as they can."
Darth Customer: "Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them."
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
The infamous "click of death", was not because of "...read heads were ripping off..."
The following quote is from the link provided above, "The clicking sound itself is nothing more than the sound of the heads being retracted from the cartridge into the drive then immediately reinserted."
Just a question, but
After nearly 23 years with one organization
You've worked for 23 years for one company. Then you become unemployed in Sep-2003. That is about 11 months unemployment.
Now, let us assume that you worked 50 weeks out of a year, that is 1150 weeks (50 * 23) total employment. That's 46,000 hours of labor (given a 40 hours per week: 1150*40)
Now, if you had been put money in an emergency fund, say $55 a week. That comes to a total of $63,250.00. (55*1150)
A family could live off of $63,250.00 for a year, which equals about $1216.35 a week (63250/52). Even if you found, somehow, that $1216.35 per week was not enough to cover your monthly bills, why didn't you immediately take another job, ANY job (which of course would supplement your emergency fund)?
What was your emergency financial plan over the course of your 23 years employment? Does not the financial security of your family (and property) take priority over finding (and waiting for) the "perfect" job? I'm not trying to be mean, but am genuinely curious.
While I understand your point (and agree with it) about inappropriate material in the office space, I still don't agree with Microsoft's decision to mark the font update as critical. I always took the level of 'critical' to mean critical to the operation of the OS.
Microsoft marked a font update as critical because the font contained characters that may offend some people/class/group. Don't think they are above marking things as critical just to get it installed. How a font update is critical, I don't know.
Incontheivable!
Are you sure it's Indigo? Imdb has the character titled "Inigo Montoya" played by Mandy Patinkin. You can check it out here
"...to develop something like BeOS seems like building a ship in your basement--you know it'll never see the "real" high seas."
The same thing could have been said about the development of Linux at one stage or another. Remember, just as Haiku is now, Linux once was also.
I believe that everybody can have an opinion.
Well, that goes without saying. Anything less, well then you wouldn't be human.
I also believe that everybody can make their own choices about sexuality without being verbally and physically attacked because they have a different type of relationship than another.
And you calling bsDaemon a 'homophobe', because he/she believes that homosexuality is wrong, follows this how? I do believe that it falls under "...being verbally... attacked..." Yet you do the very thing, which makes you a hypocrite
You can not like gay people all day long for all I care.
Really? You seemed to care? Try doing that in society today! You'll be labeled an old fashioned religious zealot and a homophobe.
But you should at least not attack their right as an American to the pursuit of happiness.
Their right? Since when is it a right? When that famous author penned that line, 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness', homosexuality was not in his mind. Remember that up until recently, and still in most local locations, homosexuality is still a crime, classified among all the other deviant sexual crimes (rape, molestation, bestiality).
If your religion does not like the thought of gay marriage then fine. Don't marry gay people in your church and don't recognize them.
While in your perfect world that may work, in reality it doesn't fly. A church isn't just a church building it is its members. It's a community. Church's have members run organizations and businesses. Church members are on school boards and go to business meetings. Are you expecting these people just to check their believes at the door of the church when they leave? They carry their believes throughout the week, not just at church. These beliefs that they carry all week long influences their decisions and choices.
But the state and the church are to remain separate and so then, the state should recognize marriage regardless of the gender combination.
Please don't forget that this county was founded by VERY religious people. You must also remember that it was still people, imperfect people. But being imperfect does not preclude you from following God's law. The founding fathers thought it necessary to separate church from state. Freedom of religion does not be freedom from religion. No matter how you want to color early American history, our founders were still Christians. Maybe not perfect, but still Christians, which is why the line, '... life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' falls under the context of God's law.
Well, it looks like you believe one thing, and yet wrote (i.e. 'verbally attacked', your words, bsDaemon) another.
Hypocrite
"...Obviously somebody is a homophobe."
That's always the final answer, isn't it, to call someone who has a moral opinion, a 'homophobe'?
Ohh, this person doesn't share the same opinion about homosexuality that I do, therefore he must be a 'homophobe'! How DARE he!
You don't like it?
No, I don't like it.
*car jumps over rising draw bridge
Car has some pickup.
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No, no, come closer boys, I want to see your faces.
Well, 'phone company' and 'telephone' are two different items. But in reality, what NY is trying to regulate is not the 'telephone' device itself, but the service required to make use of the 'telephone' device. By that meaning of the word 'telephone' walkie-talkies and cb radios are 'telephones'. Yet those items aren't regulated or taxed, or should I say, the actual using of them is not regulated or taxed (the actual item itself may be taxed with a sales tax or such). Note that the definition didn't specify how the signals got from point A to point B.