you can't (or maybe they changed it) buy a card with a certain # of exact fares
That's actually the first type of MetroCard that was introduced in 1993. Later on they let you add any amount of money, then they introduced the "buy ten rides, get 11" scheme, and finally the unlimited-ride plans.
In one case in the 80's people cheered at platforms in Queens because the train was on time for the first time in ages.
Heh...good ol' Larry Reuter (head of the MTA) and his weekly comments that "the system is SO much better than it was in the '70s" -- which are immediately followed by some sort of failure or fire or something that causes the entire West Side to shut down for four hours. I loved his "fixing the A & C lines will take anywhere from three to five years" a week before service was 80% restored. Give this man his own standup comedy show 'cause he's unfailingly hilarious.
Not in New York, here they just operate the doors and make announcments
Only on NYC Transit (subways). On the other MTA entities (LIRR, Metro-North) and NJ Transit they work like they do in the rest of the world -- punch tickets, make announcements, hide when there's a problem...
Items 6-9 are only as large as they are in magnitude because of the war in Iraq, which has nothing to do with bin Laden.
I agree re: items 7 & 8; however, items 6 & 9 (6: Resulted in large permanent increases in US airline ticket prices, 9: May have increased cancer rates and other long term health costs for something on the order of 2 million people) are directly related to the attacks and, therefore, bin Laden.
You shouldn't have to learn the difference; it's blindingly obvious, unless you have some kind of learning disorder. You should have learned it in school. If you still can't get this straight (or "its" and "it's", or "lose" and "loose", or that past participles usually have a "d" at the end), then you haven't learned how to use your language correctly.
Personally, I HATE the wheel thingie on the ipod. I also don't want to go into the menu everytime I want to adjust the volume. But that's just me. I know a lot of people love it. I just don't get it.
Evidently not, since to adjust the volume you use the wheel, you don't "go into the menu".
TiVo handles the "season pass" better. If I set up a season pass to always record a show, the TiVo gets it, even if the network changes the air time. My cable DVR often misses shows for this reason. Sometimes it just doesn't record shows for no reason whatsoever.
My Time Warner DVR has never screwed this up. Ever. For a while, Good Eats was bouncing all over the schedule, and I never missed a single new episode.
The cable DVR doesn't even let me search for shows by title, let alone keyword.
While I can't search by title or genre, I can browse by title or genre.
My mother has always said that the automatic garage door opener is the greatest labor-saving device ever invented. I'd agree, with the possible exception of the dishwasher.
I figure the latest incarnation of the iBook (what do you call the non-clamshell version?) is the single most common laptop in the world
More popular than the ThinkPad? Doubtful. More popular than the Dell Latitude? Also doubtful. I have a G4 iBook at home myself, but when I'm out on the road I don't see anybody with iBooks (or PowerBooks, for that matter); they're all either ThinkPads or Dells.
Section 202 (b) (6) states that to be valid the document must contain
The person's address of principle residence.
All kidding aside, for this to be a valid addition to US law, I'd expect that the drafters would know the difference between "principle" and "principal".
Then again, this could be the first result of No Child Left Behind.
Interesting how everyone assumes only pop music
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Out of 40-some-odd posts, none mentioning anything other than pop music -- and by that I mean rock, hiphop, rap, Asslee Simpson, etc. There are other forms of music on albums, you know. The classical industry, while not as huge as maybe it was 15 years ago, is still chugging along, and nobody's predicting the death of jazz albums. (The death of jazz, maybe, but not of the albums.)
Oh, also?
I can't recall the last time I bought anything that flowed together as a single work
Who says that an album has to flow? Originally, a recording was only released to keep the artist in the public's mind until the next tour. That changed in the mid-'60s, when the studio became more of an instrument (Beatles, Beach Boys, Hendrix, King Crimson later on, etc.) and it was possible to create music that was impossible to reproduce live without bringing along eight thousand additional musicians. Getting back to the point, some of the best albums I have don't "flow together as a single work" -- The Who's Odds & Sods, for example, is a collection of b-sides and obscurities that wasn't designed to be an album at all.
He's spot-on with the voices and facial expressions
I assume you mean that about the Star Wars show, yes? Because how are we to know whether he's "spot-on" with the voices of LOTR characters? Unless you mean "characters as portrayed in the movies", in which case I'd have to say "who cares, since several of the characters in the movies were horribly miscast?"
rip your CDs with iTunes or buy songs from the ITMS and it automatically adds all the correct ID3 name tags
I'd say about a third of the time I have to re-do the tags when I'm ripping a CD using iTunes. And I'm not talking about oddball stuff, either -- it swapped track title and artist for all tracks on Phillippe Herreweghe's disc of the Brahms motets, for example, so they came out as "Title: Brahms; Album: Motets; Artist: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her". I always have to check really carefully when I'm using iTunes.
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And my absolute favorite, hobbiest/hobbyist.
Carry on.
My mother has always said that the automatic garage door opener is the greatest labor-saving device ever invented. I'd agree, with the possible exception of the dishwasher.
Principal Principle
Evidently you flunked spelling and grammar in second grade, too.
Then again, this could be the first result of No Child Left Behind.
(Hey, someone had to say it...)