Your right.. It's pretty darn close.. Kayak has been my favorite flight search site for a long time... Kayak still beats Bing in that it has a layover slider which is useful in weeding out flights that have things like a 20 minute connection (what are the chances you'd miss that flight ?).. it also lets you weed out turboprops and regional jets.. The duration slider could be useful I suppose, but I usually just click on the column.
I give them Kudos for refraining from using expedia.. but I don't see this replacing my use of Kayak... BTW, an identical flight search (SFO to BCN in Aug) gave 615 itineraries on Kayak, and 420 on Bing and the cheapest flight was $112 cheaper on Kayak
Well from an investors point of view, I suppose your right.. but a company is more than the shares that people put into it. Just because a competitor can buy you out, doesn't mean you want to sell out to them.. regardless of the amount.. Redhat is also publicly traded, would you say their board "screwed the pooch" if they rejected being bought out by Microsoft ?
So you need a new bank. All the browsers you mention support the necessary encryption for online banking. Sites that require only IE or Safari as a browser for a connection tell me that either their web developers have a bug up their butt, or they are just too lazy.. either way I wouldn't give em my business.
I use them kinda, as my ATT.net page is "powered by" Yahoo.. I originally had no interest in Yahoo because I always used Excite, but Excite had email problems for like 45 days. and they got all flakey updating their content.. So I started searching for another portal.. As I had DSL through AT&T I figured I'd give it a try.. and it's turned out to be pretty good.. Not as customizable as Excite, but has the benefit in that I can just get my email through the web site which is handy with my dual booting.. Don't know if it will affect my ATT page, but recently read that there is a major change coming to Yahoo allowing much more customizing.
Name another cell phone where this is done ?... The point of having a customer replaceable battery is that if the battery goes bad you can replace it.. It's also handy if you have a phone who's battery doesn't last long enough to use for a whole day.
Whatever dude.. I am sure it is beyond your closed mind to accept as fact that there are 55,000,000 people in Burma and 400,000 in the military.. and that if a majority of people wanted change, they could make it happen.. In your world, the only ones supporting the "regime" are the regime itself. The country is reportably 89 percent Buddhist, and apparently in order to get into the military or the government you have to be Buddhist.. Seems to me that's the way they want it.. If an uprising for change is to succeed, then the majority of a population needs to be behind it... I think it is you who is sheltered in disbelief that people could choose to live in a way unacceptable to you.
Your name calling is real intelligent by the way.. and really changes my mind towards your way of thinking.
I don't think so.. Here's why.. users are lazy, and this is the biggest vulnerability.. With most Linux distributions, software is distributed by the "distro" (usually through repositories).. This is the easy way.. The hard way is installing from outside this source and making it work.. the really hard way, is compiling from source... Now since most users are lazy, it's generally going to come from the distro repo where it has gone through many eyes and testing before it was available.. The other difference is executables.. If someone emails me something like a script, it requires extra effort to make it executable.. again laziness prevails in Linux's favor.
horrible atrocities in the name of vile ideology in other countries is tolerable to you, because it makes for nice vacation pictures
First off.. who are you (or who am I) to decide if an "ideology" is vile ?.. and who said anything about atrocities ?... The point is, if a people of a country want to have a certain type of government that is up to them.. You may find that governments policies and actions not up to your standards, but that is the way they want it.. In the US, we have decided that mixing religion and the government doesn't work.. I agree with it, because we have so many various religions here, as well as people with no religion.. But if a people in a country that has a majority religion wants to do that, that is their choice.. Religion often has some strict rules and harsh punishments associated with it.. and it may be strange or seem unfair to you, but that is the way they want it.. and just as our system says not to impose a religion on others, it says not to restrict a religion.. why would you do that for a country that is not yours ?
My "human conscience" is just fine.. I don't kill people if they don't do what I want them to.. I follow the laws of the country I live in, and the countries I visit.. The laws in the country I live in that I don't like, I work to change.. In the countries I don't live in, I have no say.
Well if you are the westerner "with a clue".. I am happy to be clueless.
Usually the U.S.A. only decides to use economic sanctions when censorship is being used for I(negative) political purposes.
They use sanctions to try and obtain the political result they want.. For example trying to stop nuclear research.. Censorship, like it or not, is each countries own business.. and in fact you can say the same for the individual states in the US..
You know what is strange ?.. There are people (not saying you, so don't freak), that on the one hand want everyone to be the same and live the same and have the same government.. and then on the other hand they will be living in fear of the "One World Government".. My opinion is to let people live the way they want.. If it doesn't work they will change it, and if they don't they must not want it enough, and who am I to make them ?.. I in fact love traveling and seeing differences.. It would be pretty boring if every place was the same.
I don't think they should have read the script either (If it did indeed happen), but if you think about it.. searching is searching.. Why is examining papers someone is carrying more invasive than searching their pockets ?... Yes (If it did happen) it is embarrassing for him, but getting searched twice (If it did happen) is embarrassing in itself anyway.
All that said, the whole airport screening thing has gone overboard to the point of being ridiculous.. The shoes thing in particular bugs me. They should start phasing that out.. at least that's what they SHOULD do.. Perhaps one day there might be someone with some cajones to stand up and say how stupid an unnecessary it is.. and then perhaps things will slowly start phasing back to more sensible security.
Well, the execution of their plan in a timely manner is definitely a failure.. the blogs from both sides are also failures in providing any reasons... Mr Limuxwatch hides any information about himself or his motives.. I mean, is he upset because it hasn't progressed to his satisfaction ?.. Is he upset because he doesn't want it done at all ?.. exactly what is his stake in all this ?
I suppose that is true to a point.. but perhaps there is more to the story than processors.. for example, I imagine you would have similar experiences in surfing the internet when comparing the latest processor and something 5 years old.. when they are both connected using a 300 baud modem.. A faster processor doesn't necessarily mean a faster "system".. and software is part of that system.. mp3's don't play faster with a faster processor (by design) perhaps there is something in the design of their software that is limiting the performance.
Your system #2 will probably run it just fine.. I won't try and sell you anything, but you could back up your data and download a free trial of Win 7 from MS and try it.. Also, just for the future.. have a look at some of the motherboard "combo's" at Tigerdirect there are some that come with ram, or with ram and hard drive.. and they are fairly reasonable, and this stuff isn't hard to do.. The reason I mention the combo's with hard drive, is that you could use the ability to install more ram, and while your at it you may as well go to SATA hard drives because you definitely could use more hard drive capacity.
How do you ask someone in a noisy nightclub "specifically in one ear" insuring that the other ear is not hearing ?.. and how do they know that the results are specific to sound and not visual ?.. perhaps someone approaching you from your right side makes you less defensive than from your left side.
In Iran.. protesters that have been arrested, have been put on TV to tell how they have been influenced by the BBC and Voice of America to riot.. This is part of their punishment. The government is spinning everything as a western plot.. The latest is that the shooting of the girl Neda, was somehow staged by the west.. The Iranian governments propaganda is is like conspiricist theories on steroids.. They will use a question about beaming broadband to prove that the west is behind it all, you can be sure,
If it's a gift and not compensation for work preformed, then it is not income. If it's a prize from say a contest or Lottery, prizes are taxed, but that is a different situation in that there is gambling involved and tax deductions taken for sales promotions.. A true "gift' has no tax burden for the receiver.. and no tax burden for the giver until you reach the magic number of something like $12,000.. At least that is true of individuals... You can bet that there would probably be some eyebrows raised if a company or corporation gifted someone with a large sum of money or property. There would be nothing illegal about a private company doing something like this, but you can bet it would be looked at hard by the IRS.. It would also have to be a gift that wasn't taken as a deduction by the company as part of sales promotion.. that would be a true gift.. It is a fair bet though that most of the blogging "gifts" are not gifts, but sales promotions.
If I had the money, and was so inclined.. it would be possible for me to give anyone say $100,000.00 and them not owe a dime in taxes on it.. I would however be responsible for paying something like $33,000.00 to the IRS in gift tax,, I can not give the person $135 grand and tell them to pay the taxes.
There are companies.. such as PayChex, with multiple branches in many cities.. and there are other companies just like them.. and they all handle multiple businesses at each branch that have all different types of pay and tax schemes,, and I guarantee not one of these places uses software that cost even as much as a half a million, let alone 40 million.. in fact, why not just use one of these companies ?
"bad guys" force illegal immigrants/migrants to sell pirated DVDs on the street, thus showing an example of how innocent foreigners are harmed by the trade in illegal software/media.
Using the above.. Then illegal is innocent... So illegal software is, innocent pirated DVD's on the street.
Yeah the whole thing sucked, and stunk from high heaven.. and we haven't learned a damn thing, or else we would be doing something to get some kind of stability in oil prices. It is totally crazy the price range dealt with.. That whole mess kind of led to Arnold yanking away the governors spot didn't it ? , Which was a little unfair as most of the fixes (patches ?) where done right before Davis lost his job.
If I recall correctly, there was also a situation where no power plants had been built in ages, so they had to import power from other states and growth in CA and the other states was a factor.. So you do run into the same situation with the net, if it's growth continues.. And then of course we have the same problems with oil refineries and gasoline.. no new refineries being built, which would do a lot for reducing the price of gas.. Yes I agree conservation is nice, but I also think it's sad that people can't afford to travel the country and have adventurous vacations by automobile or RV.. We will all just sit at home and look at pictures of Yosemite and Yellowstone on the Internet.. that's conservation for you.
It's especially bad when you consider that the GPS signal is not even provided by the carrier.. It's not like your costing them money by using it. They want you to think that by using their custom GPS software with a monthly fee you are using GPS signals sent by them.. (although AGPS is a signal from them I suppose).. In reality their navigation services should only be a one time charge for the software.. Worse ripoff than text message charges !
Well, imagine if you were in their shoes.. I imagine every day starts fairly well with those who have not waited too long being pleasant with them.. as the day wears on they start to deal with annoyed and angry people.. and the thing is, these annoyed and angry people are annoyed and angry at the wrong people.. It is the others in line who don't have their crap together, and have complicated problems that require 20 minutes to solve that the people should be angry with.. I don't think I have every had a transaction with the DMV that required more than a few minutes, but there is always someone in front of me who has some weird problem.. like the last time I went.., a guy with DUI's in another state that he had proof of clearing up, but still had a computer hold on him.. This, and he also had out an of state vehicle to register.. All this required phone calls, and managers, and all sorts of hubbub.. In the same time it took them to deal with him, they could have done 40 people like me.. Do I blame the DMV lady ?.. no she was simply doing what she could to help the person in front of her.. and there are more where this guy came from, people with overdue boat registrations, people trying to register an abandoned vehicle, or a vehicle from someone who died, and all sorts of anarchy.
The problem is, what do they do with it the other 300 plus days that this is not used for an outside sporting event ?.. Of course they use it.. perhaps under the pretext of "training",. but it would be used, and abused you can count on it.
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Your right.. It's pretty darn close.. Kayak has been my favorite flight search site for a long time... Kayak still beats Bing in that it has a layover slider which is useful in weeding out flights that have things like a 20 minute connection (what are the chances you'd miss that flight ?) .. it also lets you weed out turboprops and regional jets.. The duration slider could be useful I suppose, but I usually just click on the column.
I give them Kudos for refraining from using expedia.. but I don't see this replacing my use of Kayak... BTW, an identical flight search (SFO to BCN in Aug) gave 615 itineraries on Kayak, and 420 on Bing and the cheapest flight was $112 cheaper on Kayak
Well from an investors point of view, I suppose your right.. but a company is more than the shares that people put into it. Just because a competitor can buy you out, doesn't mean you want to sell out to them.. regardless of the amount.. Redhat is also publicly traded, would you say their board "screwed the pooch" if they rejected being bought out by Microsoft ?
So you need a new bank. All the browsers you mention support the necessary encryption for online banking. Sites that require only IE or Safari as a browser for a connection tell me that either their web developers have a bug up their butt, or they are just too lazy.. either way I wouldn't give em my business.
I use them kinda, as my ATT.net page is "powered by" Yahoo.. I originally had no interest in Yahoo because I always used Excite, but Excite had email problems for like 45 days. and they got all flakey updating their content.. So I started searching for another portal.. As I had DSL through AT&T I figured I'd give it a try.. and it's turned out to be pretty good.. Not as customizable as Excite, but has the benefit in that I can just get my email through the web site which is handy with my dual booting.. Don't know if it will affect my ATT page, but recently read that there is a major change coming to Yahoo allowing much more customizing.
Name another cell phone where this is done ? ... The point of having a customer replaceable battery is that if the battery goes bad you can replace it.. It's also handy if you have a phone who's battery doesn't last long enough to use for a whole day.
Whatever dude.. I am sure it is beyond your closed mind to accept as fact that there are 55,000,000 people in Burma and 400,000 in the military.. and that if a majority of people wanted change, they could make it happen.. In your world, the only ones supporting the "regime" are the regime itself. The country is reportably 89 percent Buddhist, and apparently in order to get into the military or the government you have to be Buddhist.. Seems to me that's the way they want it.. If an uprising for change is to succeed, then the majority of a population needs to be behind it... I think it is you who is sheltered in disbelief that people could choose to live in a way unacceptable to you.
Your name calling is real intelligent by the way.. and really changes my mind towards your way of thinking.
I don't think so.. Here's why.. users are lazy, and this is the biggest vulnerability.. With most Linux distributions, software is distributed by the "distro" (usually through repositories) .. This is the easy way.. The hard way is installing from outside this source and making it work.. the really hard way, is compiling from source... Now since most users are lazy, it's generally going to come from the distro repo where it has gone through many eyes and testing before it was available.. The other difference is executables.. If someone emails me something like a script, it requires extra effort to make it executable.. again laziness prevails in Linux's favor.
horrible atrocities in the name of vile ideology in other countries is tolerable to you, because it makes for nice vacation pictures
First off.. who are you (or who am I) to decide if an "ideology" is vile ? .. and who said anything about atrocities ? ... The point is, if a people of a country want to have a certain type of government that is up to them.. You may find that governments policies and actions not up to your standards, but that is the way they want it.. In the US, we have decided that mixing religion and the government doesn't work.. I agree with it, because we have so many various religions here, as well as people with no religion.. But if a people in a country that has a majority religion wants to do that, that is their choice.. Religion often has some strict rules and harsh punishments associated with it.. and it may be strange or seem unfair to you, but that is the way they want it.. and just as our system says not to impose a religion on others, it says not to restrict a religion.. why would you do that for a country that is not yours ?
My "human conscience" is just fine.. I don't kill people if they don't do what I want them to.. I follow the laws of the country I live in, and the countries I visit.. The laws in the country I live in that I don't like, I work to change.. In the countries I don't live in, I have no say.
Well if you are the westerner "with a clue".. I am happy to be clueless.
Usually the U.S.A. only decides to use economic sanctions when censorship is being used for I(negative) political purposes.
They use sanctions to try and obtain the political result they want.. For example trying to stop nuclear research.. Censorship, like it or not, is each countries own business.. and in fact you can say the same for the individual states in the US..
You know what is strange ?.. There are people (not saying you, so don't freak), that on the one hand want everyone to be the same and live the same and have the same government.. and then on the other hand they will be living in fear of the "One World Government".. My opinion is to let people live the way they want.. If it doesn't work they will change it, and if they don't they must not want it enough, and who am I to make them ?.. I in fact love traveling and seeing differences.. It would be pretty boring if every place was the same.
I don't think they should have read the script either (If it did indeed happen), but if you think about it.. searching is searching.. Why is examining papers someone is carrying more invasive than searching their pockets ? ... Yes (If it did happen) it is embarrassing for him, but getting searched twice (If it did happen) is embarrassing in itself anyway.
All that said, the whole airport screening thing has gone overboard to the point of being ridiculous.. The shoes thing in particular bugs me. They should start phasing that out.. at least that's what they SHOULD do.. Perhaps one day there might be someone with some cajones to stand up and say how stupid an unnecessary it is.. and then perhaps things will slowly start phasing back to more sensible security.
Well, the execution of their plan in a timely manner is definitely a failure.. the blogs from both sides are also failures in providing any reasons... Mr Limuxwatch hides any information about himself or his motives.. I mean, is he upset because it hasn't progressed to his satisfaction ? .. Is he upset because he doesn't want it done at all ?.. exactly what is his stake in all this ?
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I suppose that is true to a point.. but perhaps there is more to the story than processors.. for example, I imagine you would have similar experiences in surfing the internet when comparing the latest processor and something 5 years old .. when they are both connected using a 300 baud modem.. A faster processor doesn't necessarily mean a faster "system".. and software is part of that system.. mp3's don't play faster with a faster processor (by design) perhaps there is something in the design of their software that is limiting the performance.
Your system #2 will probably run it just fine.. I won't try and sell you anything, but you could back up your data and download a free trial of Win 7 from MS and try it.. Also, just for the future.. have a look at some of the motherboard "combo's" at Tigerdirect there are some that come with ram, or with ram and hard drive.. and they are fairly reasonable, and this stuff isn't hard to do.. The reason I mention the combo's with hard drive, is that you could use the ability to install more ram, and while your at it you may as well go to SATA hard drives because you definitely could use more hard drive capacity.
How do you ask someone in a noisy nightclub "specifically in one ear" insuring that the other ear is not hearing ? .. and how do they know that the results are specific to sound and not visual ?.. perhaps someone approaching you from your right side makes you less defensive than from your left side.
In Iran.. protesters that have been arrested, have been put on TV to tell how they have been influenced by the BBC and Voice of America to riot.. This is part of their punishment. The government is spinning everything as a western plot.. The latest is that the shooting of the girl Neda, was somehow staged by the west.. The Iranian governments propaganda is is like conspiricist theories on steroids.. They will use a question about beaming broadband to prove that the west is behind it all, you can be sure,
If it's a gift and not compensation for work preformed, then it is not income. If it's a prize from say a contest or Lottery, prizes are taxed, but that is a different situation in that there is gambling involved and tax deductions taken for sales promotions.. A true "gift' has no tax burden for the receiver.. and no tax burden for the giver until you reach the magic number of something like $12,000 .. At least that is true of individuals... You can bet that there would probably be some eyebrows raised if a company or corporation gifted someone with a large sum of money or property. There would be nothing illegal about a private company doing something like this, but you can bet it would be looked at hard by the IRS.. It would also have to be a gift that wasn't taken as a deduction by the company as part of sales promotion .. that would be a true gift.. It is a fair bet though that most of the blogging "gifts" are not gifts, but sales promotions.
If I had the money, and was so inclined.. it would be possible for me to give anyone say $100,000.00 and them not owe a dime in taxes on it.. I would however be responsible for paying something like $33,000.00 to the IRS in gift tax ,, I can not give the person $135 grand and tell them to pay the taxes.
There are companies.. such as PayChex, with multiple branches in many cities.. and there are other companies just like them .. and they all handle multiple businesses at each branch that have all different types of pay and tax schemes,, and I guarantee not one of these places uses software that cost even as much as a half a million, let alone 40 million .. in fact, why not just use one of these companies ?
"bad guys" force illegal immigrants/migrants to sell pirated DVDs on the street, thus showing an example of how innocent foreigners are harmed by the trade in illegal software/media.
Using the above.. Then illegal is innocent... So illegal software is, innocent pirated DVD's on the street.
Yeah the whole thing sucked, and stunk from high heaven.. and we haven't learned a damn thing, or else we would be doing something to get some kind of stability in oil prices. It is totally crazy the price range dealt with.. That whole mess kind of led to Arnold yanking away the governors spot didn't it ? , Which was a little unfair as most of the fixes (patches ?) where done right before Davis lost his job.
If I recall correctly, there was also a situation where no power plants had been built in ages, so they had to import power from other states and growth in CA and the other states was a factor.. So you do run into the same situation with the net, if it's growth continues.. And then of course we have the same problems with oil refineries and gasoline.. no new refineries being built, which would do a lot for reducing the price of gas.. Yes I agree conservation is nice, but I also think it's sad that people can't afford to travel the country and have adventurous vacations by automobile or RV.. We will all just sit at home and look at pictures of Yosemite and Yellowstone on the Internet.. that's conservation for you.
It's especially bad when you consider that the GPS signal is not even provided by the carrier.. It's not like your costing them money by using it. They want you to think that by using their custom GPS software with a monthly fee you are using GPS signals sent by them.. (although AGPS is a signal from them I suppose) .. In reality their navigation services should only be a one time charge for the software.. Worse ripoff than text message charges !
Heck, leave it up.. travel to Prague and take a photo in front of it for the next Christmas card.
Well, imagine if you were in their shoes.. I imagine every day starts fairly well with those who have not waited too long being pleasant with them.. as the day wears on they start to deal with annoyed and angry people.. and the thing is, these annoyed and angry people are annoyed and angry at the wrong people.. It is the others in line who don't have their crap together, and have complicated problems that require 20 minutes to solve that the people should be angry with.. I don't think I have every had a transaction with the DMV that required more than a few minutes, but there is always someone in front of me who has some weird problem.. like the last time I went.., a guy with DUI's in another state that he had proof of clearing up, but still had a computer hold on him.. This, and he also had out an of state vehicle to register.. All this required phone calls, and managers, and all sorts of hubbub.. In the same time it took them to deal with him, they could have done 40 people like me.. Do I blame the DMV lady ? .. no she was simply doing what she could to help the person in front of her.. and there are more where this guy came from, people with overdue boat registrations, people trying to register an abandoned vehicle, or a vehicle from someone who died, and all sorts of anarchy.
The problem is, what do they do with it the other 300 plus days that this is not used for an outside sporting event ? .. Of course they use it.. perhaps under the pretext of "training",. but it would be used, and abused you can count on it.