If Disney was truly concerned with limiting overcrowding, a very simple solution would be limit the number of tickets sold. Once the park is sold out for the day, it is sold out.
They do. But the number of people it actually takes to reach the point of "sold out" when they stop letting people in the park is quite high. They usually don't stop ticket sales, because there's one other park (in California) and three other parks (in Florida) that guests can usually still go to. They simply stop letting people in the park.
The other difference is that, unlike a sports event or concert, the number of people in the park fluctuates throughout the day. All the people will be there for a specific event, they know exactly how many seats are in the venue, and everyone will arrive before the event and leave after. But a theme park is open all day with lots of different things to do. People will arrive at different times, leave at different times, some will leave and come back, some will go to another theme park. So even if Disney does stop letting people into a park because of overcrowding, it's usually just for a couple of hours until enough people have left that they can start letting people in.
In the US, the liability shift moves liability from the banks to the business only in one case: The bank has issued chip cards for the account and the merchant processes the transaction via swipe. If a chip card hasn't been issued, the bank is still liable. If the transaction was processed using the chip, the bank is still liable.
Unfortunately, the terminal is on the opposite side of the airport from the rail lines. A trolley spur along Harbor Drive to the terminal was studied in the 1980s but there were several problems.
The current plan is to improve pedestrian access between the Middletown station and a stop on the new shuttle service between the parking and rental car facility being built on the north side.
Actually, Barclay's cards are still Chip and Signature, in that they are programmed to prefer the signature and will only prompt you for a PIN if the location is unable to accept a signature (like a European train ticket kiosk). But that's still better than some issuers (like Chase and Capital One), which don't support PIN at all (other than for cash advances like they always have).
There are a couple credit unions at least that are issuing PIN-peferring cards.
Different banks are taking different approaches, with some proactively sending out new cards, most at minimum accepting a request for a new card with a chip, and some waiting until cards expire before sending out new chip cards. Stores like Home Depot will continue to accept your valid magnetic stripe card; the only time they'll decline the swipe is if you swipe a chip card, it will prompt you to insert the card into the chip reader.
Verified by Visa isn't widely used among US online merchants. The only time I can recall running into it was with Ticketmaster, and at the time it was a hassle (some redirect to my bank's web site, not a code via text) such that I cancelled out of it, let the authorization decline, and tried again using Amex which didn't have an equivalent to Verified by Visa.
Softcard + Google Wallet = Android Pay (kinda sort of, at least in spirit).
Samsung Pay is basically LoopPay + NFC. The big deal about Samsung Pay is the LoopPay technology that lets it transmit a magnetic field that emulates a magnetic stripe, so it works at nearly all credit card terminals that support a magnetic stripe, not just those that have NFC enabled (which is what is required for Apple Pay and Android Pay).
All cards support chip only transactions. The problem is that not all self service unattended machines will support it, some are set up to require a PIN in all cases. But not all American cards support PIN.
Visa has a mandate that self service unattended kiosks support chip only, but I have little faith that they'll be able to enforce that mandate, or at minimum, that changes will be made promptly (the mandate was supposed to have gone into effect this month).
It's not a legislative mandate in the United States. The liability shift is a policy change by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover to entice merchants and card issuers to switch to EMV.
I have heard some speculation that the US is doing a phased migration and will eventually to a switch to Chip and PIN, but nothing definitive. I know Chase had said they would change, then put that off after customer testing supposedly showed a preference for Signature over PIN.
There are, at the moment, three issuers of PIN-preferred cards in the United States: United Nations Federal Credit Union, First Tech Federal Credit Union, and Harvard University Employees Federal Credit Union. The first two anyone can join by first becoming a member of a particular nonprofit association. Given a choice, I would go for First Tech (or the Harvard Alumni card if you qualify) since they offer no foreign transaction fees and support all PIN variations (where the PIN can either be verified by the card itself or over the network by the bank); UNFCU only offers no foreign transaction fees on a card with an annual fee (you'd have to decide for yourself if the annual fee is worth the other additional benefits).
There is one other PIN-preferred option, the Diners Club MasterCards issued by BMO Harris Bank. However, they stopped taking applications several months ago and haven't resumed, so they're not an option at present if you don't already have it.
Two other fairly large issuers, USAA and Navy Federal Credit Union, were offering PIN-preferring cards but switched to Signature preferring.
But one question to consider is if you need a PIN-preferring card, or merely one that supports PIN? In the latter case, you'll still sign most of the time but if you encounter a situation where a PIN is required, it will work. Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and Synchrony Bank (they issue a lot of affiliate branded cards like Walmart and Banana Republic) all fall into this category. A PIN preferring card would allow you to more easily blend in in Europe, but for now would actually be harder to use in the US; particularly in restaurants since even those that have switched to EMV card readers are still doing the thing where they take your card away from the table, so you'd end up having to go with them to wherever they have the terminal set up to enter your PIN, rather than being like Europe and Canada where the waiter has a portable credit card reader that they bring to your table.
Though if you think about Amazon's use case for it, this makes sense. Amazon's main business involves running web servers, not clients so much. I could see them writing a server-only TLS library, though they certainly could make use of the client side as well (in Kindle, for instance), so it makes sense that they'd start out with the server side and add the client functionality later.
That's true that the mainstream movies on IMAX, even on a real IMAX screen, aren't the same. I saw one of the Matrix sequels on a real IMAX screen in San Francisco and there was a good amount of unused space on the screen since the film was shot widescreen and the traditional IMAX screen's aspect ratio is closer to square. Mainstream movies, at best, have a few key scenes filmed with IMAX equipment.
Now, real, made for IMAX films on a proper IMAX screen (whether flat or domed), that's something else. I grew up going to IMAX at what's now called the California Science Center and that was the real deal. Space Station 3D (which I saw at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida), for example, was impressive. That's 3D and IMAX worth paying for, not the postproduction conversion 3D crap that Hollywood has been putting out. I want to see Living in the Age of Airplanes but the closest theater showing it is over 700 miles away.
Sounds like you have things a bit backwards. IMAX is known for really big flat screens. As in, 5 story tall screens. Then, what was then known as the San Diego Hall of Science, went looking for a large format projection system for their dome planetarium, and wound up working with IMAX to redesign the system for the planetarium. The result was initially called OMNIMAX and is now known as IMAX Dome.
IMAX's real downfall was the introduction of their digital projection system into retrofitted multiplex cinemas. Sure, IMAX makes the projector and improves the sound system, but it's not the huge screen that people associate with the IMAX brand. And since there's no distinction in the branding between traditional large format IMAX and the new thing, people might not know what they're getting. Ticket prices are the same, and there are multiplexes out there that have real large format IMAX screens (Edwards Irvine Spectrum in California is one).
That's fine and all. But it doesn't matter since LibreOffice is distributed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, not GPL. http://www.libreoffice.org/dow...
I don't know offhand if there's a conflict between the App Store and MPL.
At least in the summary. So a 3D video game is better than a plastic card. Which nobody ever looks at. How about useful comparisons, like comparing to a prerecorded video demonstration and to flight attendants doing a live safety demonstration in the cabin.
Interesting that you bring up Walmart, since they had problems with a site where a Walmart/Sam's Club complex was being built in the middle of Honolulu 11 years ago: http://the.honoluluadvertiser....
That's how BootX (one of the Mac OS 8/9 Linux boot loaders for PowerPC Macs) worked. Mac OS would start loading, then a dialog would come up and you could select Mac OS or Linux. You could also run the application from Mac OS anytime after the OS was fully booted. In either case, when you selected Linux, it pushed Mac OS out of memory and Linux would start up.
The 747-400 is rapidly disappearing from the long haul passenger travel market. The A380 is being used on some high demand routes and on the longest flights (the current world's longest nonstop flight is Dallas-Sydney, operated by a Qantas A380). Virtually everything else is going to twins, with the 777-300ER proving particularly popular by providing near 747 capacity and range on two engines.
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Since the Star Wars lands won't open until sometime next year.
If Disney was truly concerned with limiting overcrowding, a very simple solution would be limit the number of tickets sold. Once the park is sold out for the day, it is sold out.
They do. But the number of people it actually takes to reach the point of "sold out" when they stop letting people in the park is quite high. They usually don't stop ticket sales, because there's one other park (in California) and three other parks (in Florida) that guests can usually still go to. They simply stop letting people in the park.
The other difference is that, unlike a sports event or concert, the number of people in the park fluctuates throughout the day. All the people will be there for a specific event, they know exactly how many seats are in the venue, and everyone will arrive before the event and leave after. But a theme park is open all day with lots of different things to do. People will arrive at different times, leave at different times, some will leave and come back, some will go to another theme park. So even if Disney does stop letting people into a park because of overcrowding, it's usually just for a couple of hours until enough people have left that they can start letting people in.
the way we are all connected through facebook, google+, twitter, whatever
If ads go away, how will Facebook/Google+/Twitter pay to operate their servers? No social network, no connectivity to build referrals.
In the US, the liability shift moves liability from the banks to the business only in one case: The bank has issued chip cards for the account and the merchant processes the transaction via swipe. If a chip card hasn't been issued, the bank is still liable. If the transaction was processed using the chip, the bank is still liable.
How do you defend against this? How do you fix whatever security hole it's using?
The answer to both of these questions is the same. Buy our (not mine personally, the people who put out this report) antimalware software.
Unfortunately, the terminal is on the opposite side of the airport from the rail lines. A trolley spur along Harbor Drive to the terminal was studied in the 1980s but there were several problems.
The current plan is to improve pedestrian access between the Middletown station and a stop on the new shuttle service between the parking and rental car facility being built on the north side.
Actually, Barclay's cards are still Chip and Signature, in that they are programmed to prefer the signature and will only prompt you for a PIN if the location is unable to accept a signature (like a European train ticket kiosk). But that's still better than some issuers (like Chase and Capital One), which don't support PIN at all (other than for cash advances like they always have).
There are a couple credit unions at least that are issuing PIN-peferring cards.
Different banks are taking different approaches, with some proactively sending out new cards, most at minimum accepting a request for a new card with a chip, and some waiting until cards expire before sending out new chip cards. Stores like Home Depot will continue to accept your valid magnetic stripe card; the only time they'll decline the swipe is if you swipe a chip card, it will prompt you to insert the card into the chip reader.
Verified by Visa isn't widely used among US online merchants. The only time I can recall running into it was with Ticketmaster, and at the time it was a hassle (some redirect to my bank's web site, not a code via text) such that I cancelled out of it, let the authorization decline, and tried again using Amex which didn't have an equivalent to Verified by Visa.
Softcard + Google Wallet = Android Pay (kinda sort of, at least in spirit).
Samsung Pay is basically LoopPay + NFC. The big deal about Samsung Pay is the LoopPay technology that lets it transmit a magnetic field that emulates a magnetic stripe, so it works at nearly all credit card terminals that support a magnetic stripe, not just those that have NFC enabled (which is what is required for Apple Pay and Android Pay).
You're welcome. You might find this FAQ on a subreddit I help moderate useful too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chipc...
All cards support chip only transactions. The problem is that not all self service unattended machines will support it, some are set up to require a PIN in all cases. But not all American cards support PIN.
Visa has a mandate that self service unattended kiosks support chip only, but I have little faith that they'll be able to enforce that mandate, or at minimum, that changes will be made promptly (the mandate was supposed to have gone into effect this month).
It's not a legislative mandate in the United States. The liability shift is a policy change by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover to entice merchants and card issuers to switch to EMV.
I have heard some speculation that the US is doing a phased migration and will eventually to a switch to Chip and PIN, but nothing definitive. I know Chase had said they would change, then put that off after customer testing supposedly showed a preference for Signature over PIN.
There are, at the moment, three issuers of PIN-preferred cards in the United States: United Nations Federal Credit Union, First Tech Federal Credit Union, and Harvard University Employees Federal Credit Union. The first two anyone can join by first becoming a member of a particular nonprofit association. Given a choice, I would go for First Tech (or the Harvard Alumni card if you qualify) since they offer no foreign transaction fees and support all PIN variations (where the PIN can either be verified by the card itself or over the network by the bank); UNFCU only offers no foreign transaction fees on a card with an annual fee (you'd have to decide for yourself if the annual fee is worth the other additional benefits).
There is one other PIN-preferred option, the Diners Club MasterCards issued by BMO Harris Bank. However, they stopped taking applications several months ago and haven't resumed, so they're not an option at present if you don't already have it.
Two other fairly large issuers, USAA and Navy Federal Credit Union, were offering PIN-preferring cards but switched to Signature preferring.
But one question to consider is if you need a PIN-preferring card, or merely one that supports PIN? In the latter case, you'll still sign most of the time but if you encounter a situation where a PIN is required, it will work. Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and Synchrony Bank (they issue a lot of affiliate branded cards like Walmart and Banana Republic) all fall into this category. A PIN preferring card would allow you to more easily blend in in Europe, but for now would actually be harder to use in the US; particularly in restaurants since even those that have switched to EMV card readers are still doing the thing where they take your card away from the table, so you'd end up having to go with them to wherever they have the terminal set up to enter your PIN, rather than being like Europe and Canada where the waiter has a portable credit card reader that they bring to your table.
Though if you think about Amazon's use case for it, this makes sense. Amazon's main business involves running web servers, not clients so much. I could see them writing a server-only TLS library, though they certainly could make use of the client side as well (in Kindle, for instance), so it makes sense that they'd start out with the server side and add the client functionality later.
That's true that the mainstream movies on IMAX, even on a real IMAX screen, aren't the same. I saw one of the Matrix sequels on a real IMAX screen in San Francisco and there was a good amount of unused space on the screen since the film was shot widescreen and the traditional IMAX screen's aspect ratio is closer to square. Mainstream movies, at best, have a few key scenes filmed with IMAX equipment.
Now, real, made for IMAX films on a proper IMAX screen (whether flat or domed), that's something else. I grew up going to IMAX at what's now called the California Science Center and that was the real deal. Space Station 3D (which I saw at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida), for example, was impressive. That's 3D and IMAX worth paying for, not the postproduction conversion 3D crap that Hollywood has been putting out. I want to see Living in the Age of Airplanes but the closest theater showing it is over 700 miles away.
Sounds like you have things a bit backwards. IMAX is known for really big flat screens. As in, 5 story tall screens. Then, what was then known as the San Diego Hall of Science, went looking for a large format projection system for their dome planetarium, and wound up working with IMAX to redesign the system for the planetarium. The result was initially called OMNIMAX and is now known as IMAX Dome.
IMAX's real downfall was the introduction of their digital projection system into retrofitted multiplex cinemas. Sure, IMAX makes the projector and improves the sound system, but it's not the huge screen that people associate with the IMAX brand. And since there's no distinction in the branding between traditional large format IMAX and the new thing, people might not know what they're getting. Ticket prices are the same, and there are multiplexes out there that have real large format IMAX screens (Edwards Irvine Spectrum in California is one).
That's fine and all. But it doesn't matter since LibreOffice is distributed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, not GPL. http://www.libreoffice.org/dow...
I don't know offhand if there's a conflict between the App Store and MPL.
At least in the summary. So a 3D video game is better than a plastic card. Which nobody ever looks at. How about useful comparisons, like comparing to a prerecorded video demonstration and to flight attendants doing a live safety demonstration in the cabin.
Interesting that you bring up Walmart, since they had problems with a site where a Walmart/Sam's Club complex was being built in the middle of Honolulu 11 years ago: http://the.honoluluadvertiser....
That's how BootX (one of the Mac OS 8/9 Linux boot loaders for PowerPC Macs) worked. Mac OS would start loading, then a dialog would come up and you could select Mac OS or Linux. You could also run the application from Mac OS anytime after the OS was fully booted. In either case, when you selected Linux, it pushed Mac OS out of memory and Linux would start up.
The 747-400 is rapidly disappearing from the long haul passenger travel market. The A380 is being used on some high demand routes and on the longest flights (the current world's longest nonstop flight is Dallas-Sydney, operated by a Qantas A380). Virtually everything else is going to twins, with the 777-300ER proving particularly popular by providing near 747 capacity and range on two engines.
Facebook today auto plays videos in your newsfeed. But you can turn it off: https://www.facebook.com/help/...
True about showing ID and tickets, but as far as I know, they don't record that information, they just inspect it. (I could be wrong on that one too).
TSA don't need to record your information at the checkpoint, because they already get it from the airline as part of the Secure Flight program.