Cog wheels? luxury. In my day, we had didn't have numbers. All we had was broken shards of glass that our parents would produce by breaking bottles over our already tired-from-26-hour-a-day-coal-mining bodies. Then, we had to eat the glass (but not too much, or we'd get thrashed for being greedy). Cog wheels indeed...
A somewhat helpful article, but not too much meat and i hate clicking through so many pages during one article.
It's how they pay for the site. When you think about it, if they can sell banner ads with the promise of 3-5 times more views (because each article has 3-5 pages), they're going to sell more banner space. Moreover, I think that most newspaper articles are set up this way, though not to as great an extent ("Story continued on page E5").
Comments thus far seem to imply that people are thinknig that this thing will magically pluck your thoughts from your brain. What I got out of it is that this is the next generation of sub-vocal microphones that are used by the military. You still have to "vocalize" (i.e. manipulate your voice box and perhaps toungue and jaw) in order for the thing to detect anything at all. So, on a mind reading level, how is that any different than a regular microphone? If you were in a situation where someone wanted to obtain insight in to your subconcious thoughts (i.e. an interogation), perhaps they might be able to gain something. But it seems to me that you could conciously tighten your larynx to prevent anything from being transmitted.
From what I know, airlines don't build anything with their own money when it comes to airports. When you buy a ticket, there is a tax on it called a PFC. It amounts to $3-5 per coupon. This tax goes directly to maintaining and expanding the airport in question. So, if by 'tax payer' you mean 'PFC tax payer', then I suppose you're right.
Life might not, but math certainly can. E.g. x^n + y^n = z^n is not true for positive integers x,y,z and n > 2. Proof: 250 pages long or so alone. The final article to put it all together is 100+ pages alone. And you won't understand shit until you've read a couple thousand pages of basic number theory. If you think that's ever going to be something you can slap up on the blackboard in an hour, you're wrong.
You're correct...for now. Just because that's the only proof that we have right now of Fermat's last theorem doesn't mean that there isn't a simpler one. I think that's what the OP was saying...
Although counter-intuitive, it works. Granted, I'm a bodybuilder and need to keep my metabolism up, but eating every couple of hours keeps the fires stoked and raises your basal metabolism. Eating more often allows your body to say "hey! I know that I'm going to get more food again in a couple of hours, so I won't bother turning these calories into fat". Also, start a powerlifiting routine if you can. Not a whole lot of time out of your schedule, but the extra muscle serves to eat up more calories. Good luck!
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Waiting for this book, and then discovering slowly just how awful it was, set back a clustering project at my workplace by several months, by the way.
So, let me get this straight: you tried to implement a technology that you knew nothing about from a book that you'd never read and then were surprised that everything didn't come up roses?
So, you're saying that Sun magically transported the postcard from the post box to their employee? Or do you think that it's more plausible that the USPS did a fair amount of work to get it there and then Sun either did a finger on the email address or send a message to said address to find out who to send it to through interoffice mail?
What all of the replies thus far have failed to realize is that pricing an airline ticket is not the same as pricing a VCR. As someone who works for an IT company that writes software for the airline industry, I know better. The reason that companies like Sabre and Orbitz exist and are in direct competition with each other is that finding the lowest fare between point A and point B is hard. In this case, it's not the prices that are the secret, but rather the pricing system. For instance, say you're going between Minneapolis International and O'Hare. Common sense would tell you that the lowest fare would be a direct flight. But, depending on the day and other conditions, you might get a cheaper fare if you go through Detroit.
Also, I don't see how the OP's employer hopes to beat Sabre's price if they discover that Sabre is cheaper. The airline industry requires that money collected for a ticket be divied up a certain way: x goes to taxes, y goes to commission, and the the rest is split amongst the actual fare (which is set by the airline). the OP's employer would have to find the fares such that they could actually beat the price. If not, the airline is within their right to ask for the difference.
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Cog wheels? luxury. In my day, we had didn't have numbers. All we had was broken shards of glass that our parents would produce by breaking bottles over our already tired-from-26-hour-a-day-coal-mining bodies. Then, we had to eat the glass (but not too much, or we'd get thrashed for being greedy). Cog wheels indeed...
These sound like the charm bracelets that my little sister drooled over in the 80's. Except even more pointless.
Comments thus far seem to imply that people are thinknig that this thing will magically pluck your thoughts from your brain. What I got out of it is that this is the next generation of sub-vocal microphones that are used by the military. You still have to "vocalize" (i.e. manipulate your voice box and perhaps toungue and jaw) in order for the thing to detect anything at all. So, on a mind reading level, how is that any different than a regular microphone? If you were in a situation where someone wanted to obtain insight in to your subconcious thoughts (i.e. an interogation), perhaps they might be able to gain something. But it seems to me that you could conciously tighten your larynx to prevent anything from being transmitted.
From what I know, airlines don't build anything with their own money when it comes to airports. When you buy a ticket, there is a tax on it called a PFC. It amounts to $3-5 per coupon. This tax goes directly to maintaining and expanding the airport in question. So, if by 'tax payer' you mean 'PFC tax payer', then I suppose you're right.
Although counter-intuitive, it works. Granted, I'm a bodybuilder and need to keep my metabolism up, but eating every couple of hours keeps the fires stoked and raises your basal metabolism. Eating more often allows your body to say "hey! I know that I'm going to get more food again in a couple of hours, so I won't bother turning these calories into fat". Also, start a powerlifiting routine if you can. Not a whole lot of time out of your schedule, but the extra muscle serves to eat up more calories. Good luck!
So, you're saying that Sun magically transported the postcard from the post box to their employee? Or do you think that it's more plausible that the USPS did a fair amount of work to get it there and then Sun either did a finger on the email address or send a message to said address to find out who to send it to through interoffice mail?
Also, I don't see how the OP's employer hopes to beat Sabre's price if they discover that Sabre is cheaper. The airline industry requires that money collected for a ticket be divied up a certain way: x goes to taxes, y goes to commission, and the the rest is split amongst the actual fare (which is set by the airline). the OP's employer would have to find the fares such that they could actually beat the price. If not, the airline is within their right to ask for the difference.