For the same journey on the tube, there are often several different routes. One of my regular journeys could be traversed over three practical routes (plus countless stupidly long ones). My preferred option isn't actually the quickest - it's about 2 or 3 minutes slower than the obvious/optimum route - but I choose it because during the summer the trains on that particular line are cooler
Can an airline really treat passengers like this? - by Simon Calder, travel correspondent for the Independent
Yes. The captain is in charge of the aircraft. And if he or she decides that someone needs to be offloaded, that command has to be obeyed. From the moment that the unfortunate individual in this case said, "I'm staying put", he became a disruptive passenger.
From that moment he was disobeying the captain's command. Officials were legally entitled to remove him, and as the videos show, he was dragged from the plane. It appears from the evidence that the law was broken - by him, not by the airline. But I would be surprised if United pressed charges.
I don;t think he has the basis to sue. Once onboard an aircraft, the captain is in charge. He issued an instruction for that passenger to leave - the passenger disobeyed that order, so was at fault. Regardless of how s****y it may be for the airline to bump him from the flight, or the circumstances in which it happened, the passenger was guilty of failing to comply with the captain's instruction.
I imagine he could sue the airline for the way that the situation was handled, but the airline could equally well go after him because of his behaviour.
I always cringe when I hear people claiming they saw a planet or a meteor.
Why? A number of planets are often quite clearly visible in the night sky. Likewise, it's not unusual to see meteors/shooting stars/whatever you want to call them, especially during 'storm' periods like Leonids, Perseids, etc.
Just finished "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. I know Dawkins himself isn't everybody's cup of tea, but the book is excellent....I should have read it ages ago - it's really helped me come to terms with my atheism,
One in the middle of a runway won't necessarily disable the site for long, as a single crater is repairable in a reasonable amount of time. A runway that's been peppered with ordnance to the point where it resembles a teenager's face is much more definitely out of action for an appreciable period of time.
That said, I also though that using as many as 59 missiles, especially at over £1.5M a shot, seemed a bit over-the-top.
Unless a standard user decides they like the service and want to pay for premium membership, then they are basically just an overhead to Spotify, If they are so reluctant to pay anything that they'll go elsewhere, then that is largely a good thing for Spotify, as it's one fewer freeloader to support
My old Samsung worked fine when I got it, and over its lifetime suffered two noticeable degradations in reliability - each coinciding with an automatic update of the OS. Each update left more device features unreliable or completely borked.
New (also Android) phone works fine for now. Need to find a way to turn off automatic updates before it ends up going the same way.
Here is the truth... If we do not get off this rock and escape this gravity well then the entire species is doomed.
...being doomed is probably no more or less than we deserve. To believe that we're the absolute pinnacle of evolution and deserve to last for ever is sheer arrogance. In the overall scheme of things we're just like the dinosaurs - dominant and influential, but ultimately just another note on the planet's timeline.
I just hope we get wiped out before we have the opportunity to head to another planet and start wrecking that one as well
Moto's implementation is western, but the Huawei approach doesn't carry any real eastern or western bias. Swiping left to go back (or right to go forward) only really makes sense in a culture where people read from left to right - to someone who naturally reads right-to-left, a left-swipe would suggest a 'go forward' action
I was thinking something along the same lines...not "would you...?" but "do you really need to....?"
You can be all protectionist about your personal data to the point that you'd rather nuke it on the phone than let a government official see it, but that throws up other issues. Once it's gone, it's gone, so how do you convince someone that you just deleted a load of personal photos that you're very protective of, and not some horrible and incriminating terror-related material?
Too much gets said about how great electrically powered vehicles are, but they're only zero emission at point o suse. Not enough gets said about where the electricity to charge those batteries comes from - unless it's wind/solar/wave, then it's actually quite a lot of emissions in the overall system.
Stuff I've gotten from conferences I've attended over the last few years (in no particular order)
- Learned stuff from good quality presenters
- Learned how to do good presentation using PowerPoint, instead of usual Death By PPT (the speakers/experts at the conferences I've gone to have been very good both technically and as presenters)
- Picked up a few shiny things from trade stands alongside the main conference
- Free beer and food at post conference networking sessions
- Chance to travel to new places, and try to fit in a bit of exploration
I don't think you'll ever go to a conference where every last minute is of value to you, but there should be some things that you can take away and get benefit from after the conference. The big challenge is trying to express that with some form of tangibleness so that you can persuade your boss to pay for your fees, travel, accommodation, etc.
We view everything in the past and describe it as if we saw it in real time. Only difference is, the light from the tree falling in front of me only took 20 nanoseconds to reach my eyes. Still, I just say "that tree just fell", not "that tree fell 20 nanoseconds ago and I just witnessed it now"
If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to see it, does it emit photons?
Slashdot Mirror
The mantra of the Chrome team was once "Don't break the web".
Their parent's mantra used to be "Don't be evil".
Can you see a pattern beginning to emerge here?
For the same journey on the tube, there are often several different routes. One of my regular journeys could be traversed over three practical routes (plus countless stupidly long ones). My preferred option isn't actually the quickest - it's about 2 or 3 minutes slower than the obvious/optimum route - but I choose it because during the summer the trains on that particular line are cooler
Web site placed me in Moscow, Russia.
In post-Soviet Russia website places you
Well played, sir...well played
They're top in terms of prestige. This isn't just a laser-etched avocado - it's an M&S laser-etched avocado
From the BBC News website...
Can an airline really treat passengers like this? - by Simon Calder, travel correspondent for the Independent
Yes. The captain is in charge of the aircraft. And if he or she decides that someone needs to be offloaded, that command has to be obeyed. From the moment that the unfortunate individual in this case said, "I'm staying put", he became a disruptive passenger.
From that moment he was disobeying the captain's command. Officials were legally entitled to remove him, and as the videos show, he was dragged from the plane. It appears from the evidence that the law was broken - by him, not by the airline. But I would be surprised if United pressed charges.
I don;t think he has the basis to sue. Once onboard an aircraft, the captain is in charge. He issued an instruction for that passenger to leave - the passenger disobeyed that order, so was at fault. Regardless of how s****y it may be for the airline to bump him from the flight, or the circumstances in which it happened, the passenger was guilty of failing to comply with the captain's instruction.
I imagine he could sue the airline for the way that the situation was handled, but the airline could equally well go after him because of his behaviour.
I always cringe when I hear people claiming they saw a planet or a meteor.
Why? A number of planets are often quite clearly visible in the night sky. Likewise, it's not unusual to see meteors/shooting stars/whatever you want to call them, especially during 'storm' periods like Leonids, Perseids, etc.
Just finished "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. I know Dawkins himself isn't everybody's cup of tea, but the book is excellent....I should have read it ages ago - it's really helped me come to terms with my atheism,
One in the middle of a runway won't necessarily disable the site for long, as a single crater is repairable in a reasonable amount of time. A runway that's been peppered with ordnance to the point where it resembles a teenager's face is much more definitely out of action for an appreciable period of time.
That said, I also though that using as many as 59 missiles, especially at over £1.5M a shot, seemed a bit over-the-top.
Why can't we all just get along?
"standard spotify user" = non-paying user
"premium spotify user" = paying user
Unless a standard user decides they like the service and want to pay for premium membership, then they are basically just an overhead to Spotify, If they are so reluctant to pay anything that they'll go elsewhere, then that is largely a good thing for Spotify, as it's one fewer freeloader to support
Agreed.
My old Samsung worked fine when I got it, and over its lifetime suffered two noticeable degradations in reliability - each coinciding with an automatic update of the OS. Each update left more device features unreliable or completely borked.
New (also Android) phone works fine for now. Need to find a way to turn off automatic updates before it ends up going the same way.
Here is the truth... If we do not get off this rock and escape this gravity well then the entire species is doomed.
...being doomed is probably no more or less than we deserve. To believe that we're the absolute pinnacle of evolution and deserve to last for ever is sheer arrogance. In the overall scheme of things we're just like the dinosaurs - dominant and influential, but ultimately just another note on the planet's timeline.
I just hope we get wiped out before we have the opportunity to head to another planet and start wrecking that one as well
Moto's implementation sounds better to me. .
Moto's implementation is western, but the Huawei approach doesn't carry any real eastern or western bias. Swiping left to go back (or right to go forward) only really makes sense in a culture where people read from left to right - to someone who naturally reads right-to-left, a left-swipe would suggest a 'go forward' action
I was thinking something along the same lines...not "would you...?" but "do you really need to....?"
You can be all protectionist about your personal data to the point that you'd rather nuke it on the phone than let a government official see it, but that throws up other issues. Once it's gone, it's gone, so how do you convince someone that you just deleted a load of personal photos that you're very protective of, and not some horrible and incriminating terror-related material?
C is awesome - that is reason enough to learn it
Too much gets said about how great electrically powered vehicles are, but they're only zero emission at point o suse. Not enough gets said about where the electricity to charge those batteries comes from - unless it's wind/solar/wave, then it's actually quite a lot of emissions in the overall system.
I think it's actually lithiumy
Stuff I've gotten from conferences I've attended over the last few years (in no particular order) - Learned stuff from good quality presenters - Learned how to do good presentation using PowerPoint, instead of usual Death By PPT (the speakers/experts at the conferences I've gone to have been very good both technically and as presenters) - Picked up a few shiny things from trade stands alongside the main conference - Free beer and food at post conference networking sessions - Chance to travel to new places, and try to fit in a bit of exploration I don't think you'll ever go to a conference where every last minute is of value to you, but there should be some things that you can take away and get benefit from after the conference. The big challenge is trying to express that with some form of tangibleness so that you can persuade your boss to pay for your fees, travel, accommodation, etc.
2-3GB is still on the heavy side. We need a Windows deployment sans GUI that can run in a handful of megabytes. The smaller the better.
I believe that has existed for years, in the form of Embedded Windows.
Snowden should also be pardoned.
No he should not. He is a traitor and should be executed
We view everything in the past and describe it as if we saw it in real time. Only difference is, the light from the tree falling in front of me only took 20 nanoseconds to reach my eyes. Still, I just say "that tree just fell", not "that tree fell 20 nanoseconds ago and I just witnessed it now"
If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to see it, does it emit photons?
and incestors are watching
Bunch of motherf****rs
The AOL CD were junk. You couldn't reuse them.
I did - I seem to remember making a bathroom mirror out of a huge batch of them