When you're spending other people's money, you don't think about cost. It's not like the people who buy these tickets earned the money themselves by digging ditches.
I think most Americans (and probably a lot of other people) are very confused about what to call you folks. We have UK, Great Britain, England, and a bunch of smaller regions... Ireland, Scotland, Wales, etc. I know you folks have it all sorted out in your heads but it might be a good idea for you to put on some kind of PR campaign to educate us on what to call you. Just decide on one term and I'm sure we will all get behind it. Until then, stop whinging about it.
Thank you for these tips on making my Mac less obnoxious. It's also reassuring that you don't think I need to replace it.
While I do appreciate your suggestions, I do think that you need to work on your mentoring style. It seems more appropriate to the Marines than us more gentle civilians. Perhaps if you were less strident people might like you better.
I have a 2010 Macbook Air. Performance did get worse with each update of OSX and I was told that El Capitan would be better but I didn't notice an improvement. Lately, Chrome has been burning up the machine which goes to 100% and full fans when opening more than a few tabs... some weird stuff there so I switched back to Firefox. My UI comments are in comparison to Linux (I haven't used Windows for 15 years). My reference to toy UI refers specifically to the "skeumorphic" UI which I find childish and counterproductive. I did enjoy Spotlight at first but for some reason later updates to it have made it almost useless. I used iMovie occasionally but, again updates made it confusing and difficult. I avoid iTunes like the plague but it (and iCloud) keep intruding. I appreciate OSX Unix roots but the substitution of the "Command" key for the standard Control key for some (but not all) functions is something that just keeps irritating me. The "Finder" program has been inexplicably crashing since El Capitan. I just don't understand how they can screw up a simple basic file list. The machine is getting old and in need of replacement. I was originally drawn to it because of the hardware design but never felt comfortable with the software. Time to move on and I think I'll give Chromebook a try. If it doesn't work out, I can install Linux on it and it should be a good machine.
I'm about to replace my Macbook Air (which has become progressively worse with each OSX update) with a Chromebook. Faster, cheaper. I don't need any of the installed Mac software and I'm tired of the toy UI.
I just switched back to Firefox from Chrome because Chrome under OSX was burning up my laptop. If I opened a few tabs with Javascript, the machine would go to 100% CPU, the fans come on full blast and I would just sit and wait forever. Now that I've switched back to Firefox, there is none of this drama. I can open as many tabs as I want and the CPU use stays very low. Much better.
I agree with you about the US being most productive. However, the inequality issue is not a separate discussion. It is the core issue. The problem is that all of the benefits of productivity go to the owners, not the workers and the owners continually try to drive down worker wages with scams such as the H1 visas. The US should not be in a "race to the bottom" with the rest of the world. Here's an interesting take on the issue (and the source of my numbers): https://www.theguardian.com/te...
This is standard Republican neoliberal economics. 1. Cut funding for a government service. 2. Service deteriorates. 3. Privatize the service (of course, it's much more expensive now but that's OK since it's going to private corporations.)
You don't need Internet for digital books. Good old sneakernet works well especially for schools. Also, electricity and computers are not as rare as you imagine.
Biofuels processes One example of a Biofuel-based synthetic fuel process is Hydrotreated Renewable Jet (HRJ) fuel. There are a number of variants of these processes under development, and the testing and certification process for HRJ aviation fuels is beginning.[35][36]
There are two such process under development by UOP. One using solid biomass feedstocks, and one using bio-oil and fats. The process using solid second-generation biomass sources such as switchgrass or woody biomass uses pyrolysis to produce a bio-oil, which is then catalytically stabilized and deoxygenated to produce a jet-range fuel. The process using natural oils and fats goes through a deoxygenation process, followed by hydrocracking and isomerization to produce a renewable Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene jet fuel.[37]
I believe I read recently that someone was working on a "hybrid" airplane which would use battery power for takeoff and on the ground maneuvering which would help with emissions and efficiency. (I believe the article may have even made it to/. where it was trashed, of course.) Here's one hybrid almost ready to fly. It has a 300 mile battery range and a small motor for 1000 mile range. http://voltavolare.com/
I was on a 737 leaving Baltimore for the West Coast (Southwest Airlines). We took off and were starting ascent when the pilot came on and said "there's a red light on in the cockpit that shouldn't be on so we'll have to go back". We immediately turned and landed... probably less than 10 minutes in the air. We were greeted by fire engines which the pilot said were "a precaution" and we stopped away from the terminal for an inspection. We had to wait for them to find another plane to continue our trip which took a few hours. (BTW, Southwest sent me a voucher for the full amount of my fare for "the inconvenience".) This plane probably had a pretty full fuel load for the cross country flight. I do believe that they can land but I don't think it's good for the airplane which probably required maintenance in addition to whatever caused the "red light".)
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Thanks for straightening us out on the Aussies... now could you help with the ?Pommies?
When you're spending other people's money, you don't think about cost.
It's not like the people who buy these tickets earned the money themselves by digging ditches.
I think most Americans (and probably a lot of other people) are very confused about what to call you folks. We have UK, Great Britain, England, and a bunch of smaller regions... Ireland, Scotland, Wales, etc. I know you folks have it all sorted out in your heads but it might be a good idea for you to put on some kind of PR campaign to educate us on what to call you. Just decide on one term and I'm sure we will all get behind it.
Until then, stop whinging about it.
Thank you for these tips on making my Mac less obnoxious.
It's also reassuring that you don't think I need to replace it.
While I do appreciate your suggestions, I do think that you need to work on your mentoring style. It seems more appropriate to the Marines than us more gentle civilians. Perhaps if you were less strident people might like you better.
I have a 2010 Macbook Air.
Performance did get worse with each update of OSX and I was told that El Capitan would be better but I didn't notice an improvement. Lately, Chrome has been burning up the machine which goes to 100% and full fans when opening more than a few tabs... some weird stuff there so I switched back to Firefox.
My UI comments are in comparison to Linux (I haven't used Windows for 15 years). My reference to toy UI refers specifically to the "skeumorphic" UI which I find childish and counterproductive. I did enjoy Spotlight at first but for some reason later updates to it have made it almost useless. I used iMovie occasionally but, again updates made it confusing and difficult. I avoid iTunes like the plague but it (and iCloud) keep intruding.
I appreciate OSX Unix roots but the substitution of the "Command" key for the standard Control key for some (but not all) functions is something that just keeps irritating me. The "Finder" program has been inexplicably crashing since El Capitan. I just don't understand how they can screw up a simple basic file list.
The machine is getting old and in need of replacement. I was originally drawn to it because of the hardware design but never felt comfortable with the software. Time to move on and I think I'll give Chromebook a try. If it doesn't work out, I can install Linux on it and it should be a good machine.
You can put an SD card in the Chromebook for as much storage as you want.
I'm about to replace my Macbook Air (which has become progressively worse with each OSX update) with a Chromebook. Faster, cheaper. I don't need any of the installed Mac software and I'm tired of the toy UI.
If no API, how do they expect Pizza Hut, Uber, etc. to link to the system?
Are egg minutes different than regular minutes?
I got 47 from fast.com and 65 from speedtest.net. Charter cable.
(Tried it several times and still got a significant discrepancy.)
Please let us know how you really feel about Edge.
I just switched back to Firefox from Chrome because Chrome under OSX was burning up my laptop. If I opened a few tabs with Javascript, the machine would go to 100% CPU, the fans come on full blast and I would just sit and wait forever.
Now that I've switched back to Firefox, there is none of this drama. I can open as many tabs as I want and the CPU use stays very low. Much better.
I agree with you about the US being most productive.
However, the inequality issue is not a separate discussion. It is the core issue.
The problem is that all of the benefits of productivity go to the owners, not the workers and the owners continually try to drive down worker wages with scams such as the H1 visas. The US should not be in a "race to the bottom" with the rest of the world.
Here's an interesting take on the issue (and the source of my numbers):
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Who/what is "hosts"?
Productivity has increased 72% in last 15 years but real wages only 8%.
Guests who benefited?
But they usually only arrest the women.
Men get a pass.
This is standard Republican neoliberal economics.
1. Cut funding for a government service.
2. Service deteriorates.
3. Privatize the service (of course, it's much more expensive now but that's OK since it's going to private corporations.)
Welcome to the world of "Surveillance Capitalism"... you are the product they are selling.
About 10 months over the past 15 years. Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda,Rwanda... Implementing health information systems so some experience with the field.
You don't need Internet for digital books. Good old sneakernet works well especially for schools.
Also, electricity and computers are not as rare as you imagine.
Hackaday.io has a project to develop an automatic book scanner for Ethiopia. Uganda could use this to make books easily available.
https://hackaday.io/project/10...
I think it's more like this from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Biofuels processes
One example of a Biofuel-based synthetic fuel process is Hydrotreated Renewable Jet (HRJ) fuel. There are a number of variants of these processes under development, and the testing and certification process for HRJ aviation fuels is beginning.[35][36]
There are two such process under development by UOP. One using solid biomass feedstocks, and one using bio-oil and fats. The process using solid second-generation biomass sources such as switchgrass or woody biomass uses pyrolysis to produce a bio-oil, which is then catalytically stabilized and deoxygenated to produce a jet-range fuel. The process using natural oils and fats goes through a deoxygenation process, followed by hydrocracking and isomerization to produce a renewable Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene jet fuel.[37]
Synthetic fuels may be easy but fossil fuels are so cheap that they can't compete. A carbon tax would level the playing field.
I believe I read recently that someone was working on a "hybrid" airplane which would use battery power for takeoff and on the ground maneuvering which would help with emissions and efficiency. (I believe the article may have even made it to /. where it was trashed, of course.)
Here's one hybrid almost ready to fly. It has a 300 mile battery range and a small motor for 1000 mile range.
http://voltavolare.com/
I was on a 737 leaving Baltimore for the West Coast (Southwest Airlines). We took off and were starting ascent when the pilot came on and said "there's a red light on in the cockpit that shouldn't be on so we'll have to go back".
We immediately turned and landed... probably less than 10 minutes in the air. We were greeted by fire engines which the pilot said were "a precaution" and we stopped away from the terminal for an inspection. We had to wait for them to find another plane to continue our trip which took a few hours. (BTW, Southwest sent me a voucher for the full amount of my fare for "the inconvenience".)
This plane probably had a pretty full fuel load for the cross country flight. I do believe that they can land but I don't think it's good for the airplane which probably required maintenance in addition to whatever caused the "red light".)