I've spent a career automating processes. My first such innovation came in my first year and I remember having these feelings when I realized the consequences of my proposal. I spoke to my manager and she said it was our duty to make things more efficient for our customer and that if we didn't someone else would. There is always someone paying the bill whether it's customers, shareholders, private investors or tax payers or maybe in a more abstract way the environment. We always have an obligation to use those resources wisely. In the end these people will retrain and do something else as evidenced by our current unemployment rate.
Inert gas narcosis on air/nitrox doesn't become a significant concern until past 4ata / 100fsw. For air that's a PPN2 of 3.12. Breathing 100% N2 at 1 ata wouldn't even remotely induce any type of narcosis.
This is different the breathing in fresh N2 with each breath. Breathing is controlled by CO2 levels and this method tricks the body into thinking everything is fine by keeping CO2 levels low in the body. Very effective... you never know what hit you.
Now why are we trying to "solve old problems"? That's purely a political problem not a technical problem.
From what I've read, the first gene therapy drug approved in Europe costs $1.4M USD. Unless this can somehow get down to $20, this doesn't sound like an end to an epidemic to me. It looks more like a second chance for the 1% to me.
No offense, but you should have started and stopped right there. No offense, but since you've never served you don't know what you are talking about and it isn't your concern anyways. Start by reading UCMJ article 134 aka "General Article". It's the one they can throw at you because they felt like it. Certainly what has happened in the FaceBook groups falls under the description of bringing discredit to the armed forces.
USMC.. You Signed (the) Mother* Contract. All your SJW snowflake rights were waived at the door.
Semper Fi
I used to work for Continental (pre United... 2003-2005) and here's how I recall it all works to the best of my 12 year old memory of it all.
A given flight would have PBTs... Passenger Boarding Totals. It broke down into Available Seats, Seats Sold and Maximum number of seats that can be sold. A given flight early in the AM might have 100 seats and they might be allowed to sell 120 seats where as a similar flight later in the day might have 100 seats and only be allowed to sell 105 or 110 seats. It's all based on data that predicts when people are more likely to not show up to a flight for any given reason. The goal is to send that flight off full at 100 seats. If 105 show up then 5 people are going to be bribed to volunteer to give up their seat and on rare occasion that no one will do the numbers dictate someone isn't going.
Then you got the stand by passengers (non revenue pass riders)... there are employees, limited vendors, familites buddies, retires and so on. They can book beyond the maximum of seats because they don't count to that. They only get a seat if at the end of the day less people show up then seats available.
Then you have the positive space non revenue riders. These are people who are officially conducting company related business. Various policies and procedures govern this and some abuse happens here and there at management discretion. When I first came to the company I flew back and forth between DCA and IAH every week for 3 months on positive space non rev passes. Officially this was against policy (I was supposed to pay so much money a month and fly non-rev as a 'commuter' but my management chain allowed it.
Finally when traveling on a positive space pass you have the ability to declare "must ride" status. In that scenario it's as if you are a paying customer and you are no longer standby. You better have a pretty good reason for it though because a full "Y" fare is going to be charged back to your department and your manager / director / VP is going to want to know what gives. Good reasons exist like hey I need to courier this part to fix a plan or I need to get to that city so that plan full of 200 people can depart on time. It kinda sucks but it's a Spock needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
It would seem that this flight wasn't "overbooked" in the classical sense more that they had a bunch of must rides suddenly show up that caused the overbooking. That simply can't be predicted ahead of time.
That said, the practice of getting the police involved and do what they did is completely repulsive to me. United should be ashamed on this one IMO.
As for that girl that was denied boarding for what she was wearing... get over it. That's the terms she agree to when she got that pass. I knew the rules and I knew it was responsibility to make sure my guests knew to follow them and to never embarrass me. United should get slack on that one IMO.
To be honest, they are so many product lines and SKUs out there these days that the only thing I do is search for the passmark rating and make sure it isn't a total dog and that it's at least a little bit better then what I used to have.
Is there a better approach?
For my desktop / hyper-v server I'm still running a 5 year old i7-2600k (passmark 8504) and don't really see any need to replace it. My laptop is running an i7-2620m (passmark 3811) and it seems fine to.
I'm a day, 42 with daughters 13 and 11. I'm one of those casual gamers that everyone despises. My days of tripped out PCs are long behind me and I get a little COD action from time to time. I had an XBOX 360 until it died and then a couple PS3s and a Wii. My girls loved all the games on the Wii along with Mindcraft and Little Big Planet on the PS3.
After years of not buying a Wii U because I heard it sucked, I went ahead and picked one up for Christmas. At the same time I retired an older Westinghouse 47" LCD and replaced it with a newer Sharp 60" LCD. I was pleasantly surprised and we've had countless nights of playing Splatoon and Mario Kart 8. I keep an eye out at the used game store and picked up a few more titles. I can see there is little content but for what little price we paid I feel like this was a good, fun purchase.
I can't say I've seen much reason to go to a PS4 or Xbox 1 so I guess we'll keep this around for a few more years until something really advance. (4K would be a requirement) comes along.
They aren't supporting XP, they are supporting Chrome on XP. I don't see how this is so shocking as software companies have long done this. We develop applications that are expected to work on XP / 2003 through Windows 8.1 and it wasn't really that long ago we were still targeting Windows 2000. It constrains some of your choices and increases your testing surface but if the business thinks there is money to be made going after a customer segment, we do it.
The solution to that is to not buy such software.
If it is not free or simply licensed, just do not use it.
... tell that to my boss.
Simply buying less software doesn't solve the problem. I work in a development environment where sdk's, runtimes, libraries and so on that we don't "buy" are the hardest technologies to keep track of in terms of license compliance.
I'd be very interested in this but the last time I check it doesn't support.NET's remoting API's such as webservices.
I'd want to be able to make rich thin clients that talk to application layer servers but Apple always make sure the garden is well walled.
What you are describing is the concept of `born secret` or `born classified`. It's real, and it's important but it doesn't really compare to the EFF v DirecTV issue IMHO.
"But it was also fraught with commercial possibilities"
Your new overlords welcome those oh so evil commercial possibilites.
A better word would have been Ripe not Fraught.
It's trivial to make a bootable Windows CD that's been slipstreamed with service packs, hotfixes and additional device drivers and unattended configuration settings. Nothing makes you `need` or `require` a floppy to install Windows.
I just bought a Gateway MX6920 Centrino Duo laptop for $799. It runs Vista RC1 including Aero just fine. I also disagree with Vista and Office costing $1000 per seat and with imaging technologies and software deployment tools the man hours involved to do a deployment are nowhere near what he says. I should know, I was involved in countless XP deployments when working for a firm with over 18,000 workstations in the AD forest.
Laugh all you want, but my Hard Core Setup Engineering blog has proudly gone pink today. After giving me two wonderful daughters, by wife has been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer.
Cancer is serious stuff my friends. I hope you never have to find out personally.
It is interesting that when IE is involved the exploit is a certainty but when Firefox is involved it's only `claimed`.
Slashdot Article Titles:
IE:
Zero-Day IE Exploit In the Wild
aMS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found
PowerPoint 0-Day Points to Corporate Espionage
Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit
Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs
FireFox;
Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox
Intersting.... a searh of Slashdot for 'zero day' reveals that when it's an IE explot it's a certainty to exist but when it's a Firefox exploit it's `claimed`.
Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox
Zero-Day IE Exploit In the Wild Sep 18, 2006
Microsoft Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack
MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found
PowerPoint 0-Day Points to Corporate Espionage
Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit
Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs
It says "or reinstall a previous edition of Windows". They aren't locking you into buying Longhorn. They are just saying you can't rollback to a previous persion of Windows without doing a full reload.
I just got a new Gateway MX6920 for only $800 and it's running Vista, Aero/3D Flip and my development/fun tools just fine. There is no way in hell I'm going back to Windows XP on this machine.
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I've spent a career automating processes. My first such innovation came in my first year and I remember having these feelings when I realized the consequences of my proposal. I spoke to my manager and she said it was our duty to make things more efficient for our customer and that if we didn't someone else would. There is always someone paying the bill whether it's customers, shareholders, private investors or tax payers or maybe in a more abstract way the environment. We always have an obligation to use those resources wisely. In the end these people will retrain and do something else as evidenced by our current unemployment rate.
Inert gas narcosis on air/nitrox doesn't become a significant concern until past 4ata / 100fsw. For air that's a PPN2 of 3.12. Breathing 100% N2 at 1 ata wouldn't even remotely induce any type of narcosis. This is different the breathing in fresh N2 with each breath. Breathing is controlled by CO2 levels and this method tricks the body into thinking everything is fine by keeping CO2 levels low in the body. Very effective... you never know what hit you. Now why are we trying to "solve old problems"? That's purely a political problem not a technical problem.
From what I've read, the first gene therapy drug approved in Europe costs $1.4M USD. Unless this can somehow get down to $20, this doesn't sound like an end to an epidemic to me. It looks more like a second chance for the 1% to me.
\I've never been in the armed services but
No offense, but you should have started and stopped right there. No offense, but since you've never served you don't know what you are talking about and it isn't your concern anyways. Start by reading UCMJ article 134 aka "General Article". It's the one they can throw at you because they felt like it. Certainly what has happened in the FaceBook groups falls under the description of bringing discredit to the armed forces. USMC.. You Signed (the) Mother* Contract. All your SJW snowflake rights were waived at the door. Semper Fi
I used to work for Continental (pre United ... 2003-2005) and here's how I recall it all works to the best of my 12 year old memory of it all.
A given flight would have PBTs ... Passenger Boarding Totals. It broke down into Available Seats, Seats Sold and Maximum number of seats that can be sold. A given flight early in the AM might have 100 seats and they might be allowed to sell 120 seats where as a similar flight later in the day might have 100 seats and only be allowed to sell 105 or 110 seats. It's all based on data that predicts when people are more likely to not show up to a flight for any given reason. The goal is to send that flight off full at 100 seats. If 105 show up then 5 people are going to be bribed to volunteer to give up their seat and on rare occasion that no one will do the numbers dictate someone isn't going.
Then you got the stand by passengers (non revenue pass riders) ... there are employees, limited vendors, familites buddies, retires and so on. They can book beyond the maximum of seats because they don't count to that. They only get a seat if at the end of the day less people show up then seats available.
Then you have the positive space non revenue riders. These are people who are officially conducting company related business. Various policies and procedures govern this and some abuse happens here and there at management discretion. When I first came to the company I flew back and forth between DCA and IAH every week for 3 months on positive space non rev passes. Officially this was against policy (I was supposed to pay so much money a month and fly non-rev as a 'commuter' but my management chain allowed it.
Finally when traveling on a positive space pass you have the ability to declare "must ride" status. In that scenario it's as if you are a paying customer and you are no longer standby. You better have a pretty good reason for it though because a full "Y" fare is going to be charged back to your department and your manager / director / VP is going to want to know what gives. Good reasons exist like hey I need to courier this part to fix a plan or I need to get to that city so that plan full of 200 people can depart on time. It kinda sucks but it's a Spock needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
It would seem that this flight wasn't "overbooked" in the classical sense more that they had a bunch of must rides suddenly show up that caused the overbooking. That simply can't be predicted ahead of time.
That said, the practice of getting the police involved and do what they did is completely repulsive to me. United should be ashamed on this one IMO.
As for that girl that was denied boarding for what she was wearing... get over it. That's the terms she agree to when she got that pass. I knew the rules and I knew it was responsibility to make sure my guests knew to follow them and to never embarrass me. United should get slack on that one IMO.
To be honest, they are so many product lines and SKUs out there these days that the only thing I do is search for the passmark rating and make sure it isn't a total dog and that it's at least a little bit better then what I used to have. Is there a better approach? For my desktop / hyper-v server I'm still running a 5 year old i7-2600k (passmark 8504) and don't really see any need to replace it. My laptop is running an i7-2620m (passmark 3811) and it seems fine to.
I'm a day, 42 with daughters 13 and 11. I'm one of those casual gamers that everyone despises. My days of tripped out PCs are long behind me and I get a little COD action from time to time. I had an XBOX 360 until it died and then a couple PS3s and a Wii. My girls loved all the games on the Wii along with Mindcraft and Little Big Planet on the PS3. After years of not buying a Wii U because I heard it sucked, I went ahead and picked one up for Christmas. At the same time I retired an older Westinghouse 47" LCD and replaced it with a newer Sharp 60" LCD. I was pleasantly surprised and we've had countless nights of playing Splatoon and Mario Kart 8. I keep an eye out at the used game store and picked up a few more titles. I can see there is little content but for what little price we paid I feel like this was a good, fun purchase. I can't say I've seen much reason to go to a PS4 or Xbox 1 so I guess we'll keep this around for a few more years until something really advance. (4K would be a requirement) comes along.
I'm a build and release engineer. I always know what depends on what.... especially when the developers don't.
They aren't supporting XP, they are supporting Chrome on XP. I don't see how this is so shocking as software companies have long done this. We develop applications that are expected to work on XP / 2003 through Windows 8.1 and it wasn't really that long ago we were still targeting Windows 2000. It constrains some of your choices and increases your testing surface but if the business thinks there is money to be made going after a customer segment, we do it.
One previous example is Reagan-National airport in Washington, D.C., where runways 1/19 and 4/22 were originally 18/36 and 3/21.
I think you mean 1/19 used to be 36/18. If runway 1 became 18 and 19 became 36 that would be one hell of a magnatic drift. :-)
As a former Marine and a current geek SIGINT software engineer, I take issue with calling almost anyone in the chair force a 'warrior'.
The solution to that is to not buy such software. If it is not free or simply licensed, just do not use it.
... tell that to my boss.
Simply buying less software doesn't solve the problem. I work in a development environment where sdk's, runtimes, libraries and so on that we don't "buy" are the hardest technologies to keep track of in terms of license compliance.
I'd be very interested in this but the last time I check it doesn't support .NET's remoting API's such as webservices.
I'd want to be able to make rich thin clients that talk to application layer servers but Apple always make sure the garden is well walled.
I keep reading that `50,000 people` are in his debt but that would assume a 0% mortality rate. I wonder what the real numbers are.
What you are describing is the concept of `born secret` or `born classified`. It's real, and it's important but it doesn't really compare to the EFF v DirecTV issue IMHO.
"But it was also fraught with commercial possibilities" Your new overlords welcome those oh so evil commercial possibilites. A better word would have been Ripe not Fraught.
...You may not work around technical limitations in the software...
Isn't that practically the definition of Software Development and Systems Integration????
I'm too cheap to buy games new. I'll find it at the local Planet Replay in due time regardless of who originally sold it.
It's trivial to make a bootable Windows CD that's been slipstreamed with service packs, hotfixes and additional device drivers and unattended configuration settings. Nothing makes you `need` or `require` a floppy to install Windows.
Actually no, because your linksys router is also subject to a license agreement that says it must accept interference from other devices.
I just bought a Gateway MX6920 Centrino Duo laptop for $799. It runs Vista RC1 including Aero just fine. I also disagree with Vista and Office costing $1000 per seat and with imaging technologies and software deployment tools the man hours involved to do a deployment are nowhere near what he says. I should know, I was involved in countless XP deployments when working for a firm with over 18,000 workstations in the AD forest.
Laugh all you want, but my Hard Core Setup Engineering blog has proudly gone pink today. After giving me two wonderful daughters, by wife has been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. Cancer is serious stuff my friends. I hope you never have to find out personally.
It is interesting that when IE is involved the exploit is a certainty but when Firefox is involved it's only `claimed`. Slashdot Article Titles: IE: Zero-Day IE Exploit In the Wild aMS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found PowerPoint 0-Day Points to Corporate Espionage Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs FireFox; Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox
Intersting.... a searh of Slashdot for 'zero day' reveals that when it's an IE explot it's a certainty to exist but when it's a Firefox exploit it's `claimed`. Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox Zero-Day IE Exploit In the Wild Sep 18, 2006 Microsoft Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found PowerPoint 0-Day Points to Corporate Espionage Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs
It says "or reinstall a previous edition of Windows". They aren't locking you into buying Longhorn. They are just saying you can't rollback to a previous persion of Windows without doing a full reload. I just got a new Gateway MX6920 for only $800 and it's running Vista, Aero/3D Flip and my development/fun tools just fine. There is no way in hell I'm going back to Windows XP on this machine.