Just charge them the extra rates for extra luggage up to the amount of weight in excess of the average weight for a man/woman.
Every piece of luggage has a weight limit and this rate can be applied to the larger person and any excess can be considered as additional bags.
Perhaps anorexic passengers can sell their underused wright limit pounds as 'roll-over' pounds creating a new market or in case they have pound overages the next time they fly...
Frequent-flier pounds?
Would this now mean that conjoined-twins must pay for two tickets also or only one ticket, but subject only to the conditions that they are obese and flying in Canada?
If your company is run by cheap bastards who have their hourly employee time-clock billing system tied into a booted PC ONLY, I say sue the crap out of them!
I used to work for a really cheap company, but we had a dedicated time clock system with punch cards (that eventually evolved into a magnetic strip w/PIN code system).
I got paid to boot up my PC or to sweep the floor all day and never boot up... no difference really, it is ALL WORK.
NOTE: Booting up your work PC is PART OF YOUR JOB (otherwise I'd leave it on 24/7)...
Just like the State Highway Patrol gets paid for the time Troopers take start and defrost their cruisers. Are they working? SURE ARE! (And they get paid for that time too... not just for 'protecting and serving' and writing speeding tickets...)
Removing batteries only protects from the active 'pinging' replies.
The potato-chip bag only works if the mylar plastic's aluminum layer is sufficiently thick to act as an effective Farady Cage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
Just as RFID tags do not require batteries to give disclose their location and unique identifiers, modern cell phones also have similar functionality batteries or not...
The 'new' James T. Kirk better nail EVERYBODY!
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The new James T. Kirk better be sleeping with ANY female in his vicinity just like the old one did!!!
NOT TO MENTION..... HIS... OVER.. ACTING.... SKILLS....
I remember Kirk seemingly slept with a new woman nearly every episode including that green alien chic... (Capt. Picard was far too celibate)
I want a Kirk character that leaves today's generation of 'sensitive' weenie men saying: "Wow, That's a man's man!" (Just look at what has sadly happened to Bond over the years...)
Anyone actually watch the Extended Director's Cut (DVD) of James Cameron's "The Abyss"?
(Mental Note: Do not piss off the deep sea dwelling aliens... Check!)
Actually, it is more precisely: "Guns and Bullets don't kill People, PEOPLE kill people".
(The Gun and Bullets are merely tools in the hand of man)
It is not the hammer that causes the busted thumb, but the person swinging it...
www.microsoft.bob
www.eat.me
etc... ...And will this effect DNS servers that are currently in use? Are there limits to the number of top level domains in their tables?
Reminds me of that infamous phrase: "Vote Early and Vote Often!"
(Of course, this phrase is literally out of Chicago-American Politics...) ...Wait!, Isn't one of the current Presidential candidates from the Chicago Political area??? Coincidence??
Actually no matter how many USB2 interfaces and chips your laptop may have, there is *still* only one USB2 "Host Controller", It is called the "CPU". If the CPU is taxed, the USB2 or USB3 will be lagged with high latency.
FireWire OTOH, is exactly what SCSI was to Drive Interfaces (pre-SAS and/or pre-SATA). FireWire has its own discreet host controller (its own 'chip') and is not bandwidth and latency-dependent on the CPU and whatever the CPU might be doing.
USB3 will be no decent/equivalent replacement for FireWire because it is not Controller-based in a discreet chip and thus will be unstable as far as latantcy goes.
Also, FireWire has a DMA (Direct Memory Access) channel that allows it to access system memory without the CPU's help. Many of the A/V synchronization issues CANNOT be resolved with USB2 or USB3 so FireWire will reign superior for most of these uses. USB2 and USB3 are not latency-stable to within the required precision and tolerances to be used for A/V sync across multiple devices. FireWire was BUILT FOR THIS ABILITY, specifically, because nothing else could do it.
Apple is omitting it deliberately to force MBP sales over their "cheaper" line. Hell, my $600 Dell PC Laptop has ExpressCard 54 and FireWire *standard*.
This is like comparing Automatic Transmissions to Manual Transmissions. One is cheaper than the other. One works better than the other for most situations. But one is *always* used by the race car drivers because it is best performing and most reliable... and it is interesting to note that FireWire is an Apple-licensed technology and they are omitting it from their own devices?!...
While I do love to use pad my folding@home stats on the PS3, I would never seriously consider it for online gaming... Sony is too big brotherish...
Actually it just boosts my F@H stats mostly these days rather than gets used for anything else... and it plays blue-ray DVDs occasionally...
If I am going to shell out $60 for a PS3 game, I'll just spend much less cash for a better game and online experience with my Steam account and use my superior GTX 280 video card in my PC.
I know that not everyone has a gaming PC (I sympathize, I was once a very poor ramen-eating college student), but once you have a well-built fast gaming PC, you will laugh at your past days wasted as a console player realizing what you were missing all the resolution and speed. Now add freedom to the list that is missing using consoles like the PS3.
Unless it is a true peer to peer gameplay without a central controlling server, but rather for a hosting server (similar to how UT2k4 servers operate), I am not really interested.
There is something liberating about telling people stuff about myself *or choosing not to do so*! It is called discretion, and is it what anyone playing games online should understand. There are weirdos in the world, some of them game. DUH!
Where does the Sony slippery slope end?
Not being able to go to certain web sites like Facebook and MySpace with the PS3 included browser (because you might enter some personal information?)
LOL Sony, please buy and vowel and spell out a clue!
I agree with your point that the new Penryn mac laptops are not orders of magnitude faster than the Merom based previous generation.
But it begs the question...
For example, recently I upgraded a 500MHz G3 12" iBook for a friend and it had FireWire ports on it... I imaged the HDD using the FireWire port and an external FireWire HDD enclosure.. I followed this complex procedure ( http://uk.geocities.com/ibookupgrade/lower_case_removal.htm ) for replacing the HDD in that little old laptop and re-imaged the new internal drive and it booted right up... I am very doubtful I could have done that with the USB ports..
If Apple saw to it fit to equip that VERY SLOW iBook with FireWire, then there really is not REAL Plausible excuse that these new Intel Mac Laptops are missing the ExpressCard slots and they do not incorporate FireWire as well? I think it is on purpose and they are saving probably a dollar or two in costs, but will make many more dollars as people who need it are forced to pay the stiff Apple tax and get the Pro model that has both the ExpressCard and FireWire.
Not that I am a fanboy of Apple, but my $600 old Dell Inspiron 6400 has BOTH FireWire 400 and ExpressCard 54 as standard equipment (but the back of the display is missing the glowing Apple logo)... Just saying.
My Firewire 400 external drives routinely kick the crap out of my USB2 external drivers when archiving large volumes of itty-bitty files.
If I remember correctly, USB2 is controllerless and requires CPU overhead and therefore the latency of USB2 sucks badly compared to FireWire (IEEE 1394x) with its controller and DMA (Direct Memory Access) channel.
This just makes sense if you have ever tried it.
FireWire 800 is even better than FireWire 400 for most anything and it is backward compatible. I believe it is much much faster than USB2 could ever hope to be and it is here NOW. (USB3 is still a LONG way off)
This is really about MONEY and Apple's either being greedy or cheap or both. Apparently they did this specifically on purpose as other 'new' models have FireWire... So, Why?
Apple is not wanting to pay the FireWire licensing fees and they are apparently wanting to push their user base into buying an affordable Hackintosh laptop (what many will likely do) or er.., will, uh... I mean Apple intends for their FireWire needing users to just pay many hundreds more for the "Pro" model that has FireWire.
As I understand it, there are also many cool things you can do with hard disk (and DVD and CD) 1-to-1 disk imaging with FireWire on the OSX macs too.. Not anymore. It's a Feature!
Abrams loves to use the classic literary device named "in medias res" (Latin for "into the middle of things") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res
Hope this movie is very well done and that the acting.... for... Kirk.... is... Overacted... IN... The... True... Shatner... Style... (Though it will be very hard for any new Trek movie to top Montalban's Kahn villain character though...)
I have several comments:
The Insurance revocation idea is a bad one... I will not use companies that have this "feature" in their phones, I will take my money elsewhere.
OTOH, if Insurance companies pay or heavily subsidize my cellular service (like, say... throw in a "free" tetherable USB 3G Internet Connection package on my smart cell phone for using the service, I'm in.. in THAT case...)
What's to say that someone is using the phone in speaker phone mode? Or even Bluetooth mode?
My Cell Phone communicates to my TomTom over Bluetooth for example.
As a fellow biker, I have taken it upon myself to install the absolute loudest pipes (that will not cause personal kidney damage) on my V-Twin as well as a set of vintage set of 1970's harmonic car horns (chromed of course!). NOTE: Earplugs are worn anyway to protect against wind hearing damage. Both noisemakers are effective at getting the attention of distracted drivers who are on their phones and not looking at me as they change lanes, etc... Following them home is a good idea too as long as down shifting and revving is something I feel like doing... Thanks!
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What's next?
'McDonalds Drive Trough user patents method for burning self with hot coffee.'?
Here is a Mil-Spec approved permanent SSD erasure device: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/hammer-1.jpg
Just charge them the extra rates for extra luggage up to the amount of weight in excess of the average weight for a man/woman.
Every piece of luggage has a weight limit and this rate can be applied to the larger person and any excess can be considered as additional bags.
Perhaps anorexic passengers can sell their underused wright limit pounds as 'roll-over' pounds creating a new market or in case they have pound overages the next time they fly...
Frequent-flier pounds?
Would this now mean that conjoined-twins must pay for two tickets also or only one ticket, but subject only to the conditions that they are obese and flying in Canada?
If your company is run by cheap bastards who have their hourly employee time-clock billing system tied into a booted PC ONLY, I say sue the crap out of them!
I used to work for a really cheap company, but we had a dedicated time clock system with punch cards (that eventually evolved into a magnetic strip w/PIN code system).
I got paid to boot up my PC or to sweep the floor all day and never boot up... no difference really, it is ALL WORK.
NOTE: Booting up your work PC is PART OF YOUR JOB (otherwise I'd leave it on 24/7)...
Just like the State Highway Patrol gets paid for the time Troopers take start and defrost their cruisers. Are they working? SURE ARE! (And they get paid for that time too... not just for 'protecting and serving' and writing speeding tickets...)
As a HAM, I have met a few who have nifty gear able to tune into cell phones and their 'pings' or tower replies (from post-911 US cellphones) and a few of them have told me that there seems to be more than just pinging or tickling the towers going on. More than is needed to keep up the TX/RX channels open or for simply switching towers based on cell tower capacity and range to the handset.
Others hinted that the removal of the battery does not fully prevent (post-911 US cellphones) from receiving radio frequency energy and replying uniquely (just like RFID tags do but cell phones have Much better antennas).
Links that touch some on this topic:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=8068
http://jya.com/cell-track.htm
http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/gen/37748res20081112.html
http://allgpstracking.net/gpstracking/index.php/gpstracking/2006/03/12/how_gps_works_gps_tracking
http://ezinearticles.com/?Cell-Phone-Location-Tracking-Information&id=782355
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21442821-Cell-phone-location-tracking-without-telcos-help
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081116-foia-docs-show-feds-can-lojack-mobiles-without-telco-help.html
http://www.danbrown.com/secrets/digital_fortress/cell_phones.html
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3945496.ece
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but because RFID tags cost only a few cents each, why would similar capability NOT be incorporated into the chips of modern cell phones. Tear down an RFID tag, it is just a very very small semiconductor chip paired to a set of antennas between layers of opaque plastic tape an a sticker backing.
(NOTE: In college, we had fun by carefully removing discovered RFID tags and 'repatriating' them onto different and unrelated merchandise at our local Wal-Mart Supercenter... good times..... not to be confused with the old tried and true bi-metallic strips that loss control departments use which set off the door antenna loops that we all walk through. But sticking one of those to your buddy's jacket made for a good laugh...)
Removing batteries only protects from the active 'pinging' replies.
The potato-chip bag only works if the mylar plastic's aluminum layer is sufficiently thick to act as an effective Farady Cage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
Just as RFID tags do not require batteries to give disclose their location and unique identifiers, modern cell phones also have similar functionality batteries or not...
The new James T. Kirk better be sleeping with ANY female in his vicinity just like the old one did!!!
NOT TO MENTION..... HIS... OVER.. ACTING.... SKILLS....
I remember Kirk seemingly slept with a new woman nearly every episode including that green alien chic... (Capt. Picard was far too celibate)
I want a Kirk character that leaves today's generation of 'sensitive' weenie men saying: "Wow, That's a man's man!" (Just look at what has sadly happened to Bond over the years...)
Am I the only one out there that thought a lightsaber would make chopping firewood a snap?
Oh' The humanity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKheYay-2MU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218
THIS.... is an Ex-Parrot!!
Someone clearly has too much of it....
(It is a good montage sequence though)
http://www.whelen.com/details_prod.php?head_id=9&cat_id=68&prod_id=415
Now I am wondering how to get one of these and tie it into my passenger car horn...
Horns are NOT what they used to be...
Anyone actually watch the Extended Director's Cut (DVD) of James Cameron's "The Abyss"?
(Mental Note: Do not piss off the deep sea dwelling aliens... Check!)
UPS already has Dibs on "Brown"...
Actually, it is more precisely: "Guns and Bullets don't kill People, PEOPLE kill people".
(The Gun and Bullets are merely tools in the hand of man)
It is not the hammer that causes the busted thumb, but the person swinging it...
www.microsoft.bob
...And will this effect DNS servers that are currently in use? Are there limits to the number of top level domains in their tables?
www.eat.me
etc...
Reminds me of that infamous phrase: "Vote Early and Vote Often!"
...Wait!, Isn't one of the current Presidential candidates from the Chicago Political area??? Coincidence??
(Of course, this phrase is literally out of Chicago-American Politics...)
Actually no matter how many USB2 interfaces and chips your laptop may have, there is *still* only one USB2 "Host Controller", It is called the "CPU". If the CPU is taxed, the USB2 or USB3 will be lagged with high latency.
FireWire OTOH, is exactly what SCSI was to Drive Interfaces (pre-SAS and/or pre-SATA). FireWire has its own discreet host controller (its own 'chip') and is not bandwidth and latency-dependent on the CPU and whatever the CPU might be doing.
USB3 will be no decent/equivalent replacement for FireWire because it is not Controller-based in a discreet chip and thus will be unstable as far as latantcy goes.
Also, FireWire has a DMA (Direct Memory Access) channel that allows it to access system memory without the CPU's help. Many of the A/V synchronization issues CANNOT be resolved with USB2 or USB3 so FireWire will reign superior for most of these uses. USB2 and USB3 are not latency-stable to within the required precision and tolerances to be used for A/V sync across multiple devices. FireWire was BUILT FOR THIS ABILITY, specifically, because nothing else could do it.
Apple is omitting it deliberately to force MBP sales over their "cheaper" line. Hell, my $600 Dell PC Laptop has ExpressCard 54 and FireWire *standard*.
This is like comparing Automatic Transmissions to Manual Transmissions. One is cheaper than the other. One works better than the other for most situations. But one is *always* used by the race car drivers because it is best performing and most reliable... and it is interesting to note that FireWire is an Apple-licensed technology and they are omitting it from their own devices?!...
While I do love to use pad my folding@home stats on the PS3, I would never seriously consider it for online gaming... Sony is too big brotherish...
Actually it just boosts my F@H stats mostly these days rather than gets used for anything else... and it plays blue-ray DVDs occasionally...
If I am going to shell out $60 for a PS3 game, I'll just spend much less cash for a better game and online experience with my Steam account and use my superior GTX 280 video card in my PC.
I know that not everyone has a gaming PC (I sympathize, I was once a very poor ramen-eating college student), but once you have a well-built fast gaming PC, you will laugh at your past days wasted as a console player realizing what you were missing all the resolution and speed. Now add freedom to the list that is missing using consoles like the PS3.
Unless it is a true peer to peer gameplay without a central controlling server, but rather for a hosting server (similar to how UT2k4 servers operate), I am not really interested.
There is something liberating about telling people stuff about myself *or choosing not to do so*! It is called discretion, and is it what anyone playing games online should understand. There are weirdos in the world, some of them game. DUH!
Where does the Sony slippery slope end?
Not being able to go to certain web sites like Facebook and MySpace with the PS3 included browser (because you might enter some personal information?)
LOL Sony, please buy and vowel and spell out a clue!
I agree with your point that the new Penryn mac laptops are not orders of magnitude faster than the Merom based previous generation.
But it begs the question...
For example, recently I upgraded a 500MHz G3 12" iBook for a friend and it had FireWire ports on it... I imaged the HDD using the FireWire port and an external FireWire HDD enclosure.. I followed this complex procedure ( http://uk.geocities.com/ibookupgrade/lower_case_removal.htm ) for replacing the HDD in that little old laptop and re-imaged the new internal drive and it booted right up... I am very doubtful I could have done that with the USB ports..
If Apple saw to it fit to equip that VERY SLOW iBook with FireWire, then there really is not REAL Plausible excuse that these new Intel Mac Laptops are missing the ExpressCard slots and they do not incorporate FireWire as well? I think it is on purpose and they are saving probably a dollar or two in costs, but will make many more dollars as people who need it are forced to pay the stiff Apple tax and get the Pro model that has both the ExpressCard and FireWire.
Not that I am a fanboy of Apple, but my $600 old Dell Inspiron 6400 has BOTH FireWire 400 and ExpressCard 54 as standard equipment (but the back of the display is missing the glowing Apple logo)... Just saying.
My Firewire 400 external drives routinely kick the crap out of my USB2 external drivers when archiving large volumes of itty-bitty files.
If I remember correctly, USB2 is controllerless and requires CPU overhead and therefore the latency of USB2 sucks badly compared to FireWire (IEEE 1394x) with its controller and DMA (Direct Memory Access) channel.
This just makes sense if you have ever tried it.
FireWire 800 is even better than FireWire 400 for most anything and it is backward compatible. I believe it is much much faster than USB2 could ever hope to be and it is here NOW. (USB3 is still a LONG way off)
This is really about MONEY and Apple's either being greedy or cheap or both. Apparently they did this specifically on purpose as other 'new' models have FireWire... So, Why?
Apple is not wanting to pay the FireWire licensing fees and they are apparently wanting to push their user base into buying an affordable Hackintosh laptop (what many will likely do) or er.., will, uh... I mean Apple intends for their FireWire needing users to just pay many hundreds more for the "Pro" model that has FireWire.
As I understand it, there are also many cool things you can do with hard disk (and DVD and CD) 1-to-1 disk imaging with FireWire on the OSX macs too.. Not anymore. It's a Feature!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus
Seems like it would just be a lot cheaper to just add a FireWire CardBus 54 (PCIe) notebook controller card?
Abrams loves to use the classic literary device named "in medias res" (Latin for "into the middle of things") ... True... Shatner... Style... (Though it will be very hard for any new Trek movie to top Montalban's Kahn villain character though...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res
Hope this movie is very well done and that the acting.... for... Kirk.... is... Overacted... IN... The
I have several comments:
The Insurance revocation idea is a bad one... I will not use companies that have this "feature" in their phones, I will take my money elsewhere.
OTOH, if Insurance companies pay or heavily subsidize my cellular service (like, say... throw in a "free" tetherable USB 3G Internet Connection package on my smart cell phone for using the service, I'm in.. in THAT case...)
What's to say that someone is using the phone in speaker phone mode? Or even Bluetooth mode?
My Cell Phone communicates to my TomTom over Bluetooth for example.
As a fellow biker, I have taken it upon myself to install the absolute loudest pipes (that will not cause personal kidney damage) on my V-Twin as well as a set of vintage set of 1970's harmonic car horns (chromed of course!). NOTE: Earplugs are worn anyway to protect against wind hearing damage. Both noisemakers are effective at getting the attention of distracted drivers who are on their phones and not looking at me as they change lanes, etc... Following them home is a good idea too as long as down shifting and revving is something I feel like doing... Thanks!
What about Clown cars??? For example:
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/msi/lowres/msin139l.jpg
http://www.break.com/pictures/bark-banger-clown-car514174.html
http://www.skooogle.com/content/binary/motivation_clown_car.jpg
...for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyKvD-4IxOY
(Now imagine the brain surgeon trying to work with that going on...)