Still "Rule 240" went went out with Airline Deregulation years ago. It's a generic term these days and every airline can pretty much do what they want as far as re-accommodating passengers.
For the most part they are fairly consistent and I'm sure that's mostly only for customer service/competition reasons.
As has been pointed out by others, while hub-and-spoke has it's flaws, it's also the best solution (from an economic standpoint) to get from say Billings, MT to Jacksonville, FL.
There is no way any airline could make money flying that route directly.
And Southwest does, in fact, operate on a hub-and-spoke system. They have major hubs in Dallas (DAL), Houston (HOU),Phoenix (PHX) and Baltimore (BWI) among others.
However, they also supplement that system with regular point-to-point service, but only on profitable routes (from big metro area "a" to big metro area "b"). Again, they'd lose their shirt on the "Billings-Tallahassee" route.
On the other hand, Delta can get you from Billings to Tallahassee....
"...he told me unless Delta signed the ticket over to us they were not doing anything special for us. I didn't know what that meant..."
The Air Canada agent was probably assuming that the Delta ticket in question was a non-refundable ticket. If so, it was only valid on Delta (or it's regional affiliates like Comair).
In the case of a ticket endorsed "Valid only on XX" (as non-refundable tickets are) said ticket would have to be reissued to reflect validity on another airline before any other airline could take it.
In other words, the other airline wants to be paid by Delta for accepting their passengers.
CoolerMaster rocks. I discovered them when looking for a new PC. I went with a smaller "botique" brand this time and two of the 4 brands I'd narrowed it down to offered various CoolerMaster cases as options.
I 'discovered" open source apps for Windows just this past year. I "found" hundreds of them. Most of them were ports of GNU/BSD apps. Some were pure Windows from the beginning.
Then I found Cygwin. After playing with it for a bit I realized that it would be much simpler just to switch to Linux.....
So, I came back to Linux after 4 years "away".
So in my case open source on Windows brought the advantage of an open source platform to my attention - front and center.
One has the option of putting the desktop applications menu on the top or the bottom of the screen in both KDE & GNOME. It's up to the distro as to how it's done.....
I have said menu on top in both. Speaking of which, why limit yourself to just KDE or GNOME? I alternate, depending on need or mood quite frequently.
Then of course there is XFCE, Fluxbox, Enlightenment.....
Apparantly many disagree. After all, it's easy to get a "normal" looking (vs "lcd") "digital" clock in KDE (as well as an analog "face" one). Apparantly people prefer the LCD digital look.
I figured this would happen too. I got my Free 9.1 DVD (thanks to a tip in a past/. article) a month or so ago and have yet to get around to installing it. I can't decide if I want to try it or another distro.
I've you've ever used Netscape or Mozilla Composer, you've used Nvu (with somewhat fewer features). Nvu was started from the Mozilla Composer code base. I discovered it earlier this year and I love it. It's perfect for my needs.
Google hasn't "infiltrated" Firefox. The search bar has Google set as the default but you can add virtually any search engine you want in addition to or instead of it. It's not the "Google search bar" it's simply "The Search Bar"
The folks at Mozilla just recognized that Google is the best search engine out there (and the most popular I believe) and decided to make it easier to access it. I believe this is also true of the Safari and Opera browsers as well.
I'd read previously (I believe here on/.) that some of Google's recent hires included former Microsoft employees who were involved in the development of IE.
That led me to conclude that if in fact Google is planning it's own browser, it would not be Gecko-based.
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My memory card adapter cost $12.00, installed...
At best it's absurd. At worst it's hideous.
I'd take an old-fashioned "beige box" over that thing any day.
I've never heard of ModBlog. Unless and until it gains the popularity and "community" of LiveJournal, I'll stay where I am.
I suspect if anything, LiveJournal will get better, not worse under SixApart.
Still "Rule 240" went went out with Airline Deregulation years ago. It's a generic term these days and every airline can pretty much do what they want as far as re-accommodating passengers.
For the most part they are fairly consistent and I'm sure that's mostly only for customer service/competition reasons.
Their web server is unrelated to thier Crew Scheduling system or reservations systems.
As has been pointed out by others, while hub-and-spoke has it's flaws, it's also the best solution (from an economic standpoint) to get from say Billings, MT to Jacksonville, FL.
There is no way any airline could make money flying that route directly.
And Southwest does, in fact, operate on a hub-and-spoke system. They have major hubs in Dallas (DAL), Houston (HOU),Phoenix (PHX) and Baltimore (BWI) among others.
However, they also supplement that system with regular point-to-point service, but only on profitable routes (from big metro area "a" to big metro area "b"). Again, they'd lose their shirt on the "Billings-Tallahassee" route.
On the other hand, Delta can get you from Billings to Tallahassee....
"...he told me unless Delta signed the ticket over to us they were not doing anything special for us. I didn't know what that meant..."
The Air Canada agent was probably assuming that the Delta ticket in question was a non-refundable ticket. If so, it was only valid on Delta (or it's regional affiliates like Comair).
In the case of a ticket endorsed "Valid only on XX" (as non-refundable tickets are) said ticket would have to be reissued to reflect validity on another airline before any other airline could take it.
In other words, the other airline wants to be paid by Delta for accepting their passengers.
But What if I don't want to print? :-)
Besides, I have no problem clicking "next".
CoolerMaster rocks. I discovered them when looking for a new PC. I went with a smaller "botique" brand this time and two of the 4 brands I'd narrowed it down to offered various CoolerMaster cases as options.
I ended up with a CoolerMaster Cavalier 1 (with the side window option). I love it. It looks like what a tower case would have looked like in the Art Decco era (had PCs been around then). Very "retro".
The latest GNOME is 2.8 (released a few months ago).
For a while I was playing with SUSE 9.0 last September and was dissapointed in that it had GNOME 2.4 (which to me seemed old).
So GNOME 2.2 is downright ancient.
Who makes more profit from Mac software than anyone (besides Apple)?
Adobe? Macromedia?
Nope..
Microsoft.
Exactly.
I 'discovered" open source apps for Windows just this past year. I "found" hundreds of them. Most of them were ports of GNU/BSD apps. Some were pure Windows from the beginning.
Then I found Cygwin. After playing with it for a bit I realized that it would be much simpler just to switch to Linux.....
So, I came back to Linux after 4 years "away".
So in my case open source on Windows brought the advantage of an open source platform to my attention - front and center.
I think there's room for everyone...
One has the option of putting the desktop applications menu on the top or the bottom of the screen in both KDE & GNOME. It's up to the distro as to how it's done.....
I have said menu on top in both. Speaking of which, why limit yourself to just KDE or GNOME? I alternate, depending on need or mood quite frequently.
Then of course there is XFCE, Fluxbox, Enlightenment.....
"BSD is for people who love UNIX. Linux is for those who hate Microsoft."
Uhhh. I run Linux and I don't hate Microsoft...
Since when is Ziff-Davis not "legitimate"???
Apparantly many disagree. After all, it's easy to get a "normal" looking (vs "lcd") "digital" clock in KDE (as well as an analog "face" one). Apparantly people prefer the LCD digital look.
:-)
I happen to be one of those people..
Libranet? GNOME 2.2??? I think not....
I actually have the feature disabled on my Amzaon.com account. I don't like it.
I admire Howard Sterm. I don't alwyas agree with him politically but I do admire the guy.
Basically though, I'm just bored with him.
Sure it matters to me. I find this article far more interesting than anything having to do with Star Wars, Star Trek or Star Whatever...
AS they say "different strokes, for different folks"
I figured this would happen too. I got my Free 9.1 DVD (thanks to a tip in a past /. article) a month or so ago and have yet to get around to installing it. I can't decide if I want to try it or another distro.
I've you've ever used Netscape or Mozilla Composer, you've used Nvu (with somewhat fewer features).
Nvu was started from the Mozilla Composer code base. I discovered it earlier this year and I love it. It's perfect for my needs.
Google hasn't "infiltrated" Firefox. The search bar has Google set as the default but you can add virtually any search engine you want in addition to or instead of it. It's not the "Google search bar" it's simply "The Search Bar"
The folks at Mozilla just recognized that Google is the best search engine out there (and the most popular I believe) and decided to make it easier to access it. I believe this is also true of the Safari and Opera browsers as well.
I'd read previously (I believe here on /.) that some of Google's recent hires included former Microsoft employees who were involved in the development of IE.
That led me to conclude that if in fact Google is planning it's own browser, it would not be Gecko-based.
Actually, the author is is correct. Your description is reminiscent of Mozilla and not Mozilla Firefox...