So you suggest I should quit my job and change to a different career path?
No, I mean compromise by flying an airline with inflight power or compromise by doing the presentations before you fly (like I did in the good ol' days) or compromise by opening and closing apps as you need them or compromise by buying a power pad battery or compromise by leaving early so you can work on them in your hotel room when you arrive or...
Being as most of my travel is for work - meaning I am likely going somewhere to do a presentation - the flight is a great place to finish putting said presentation together.
As I posted earlier, I'm *Gold, flew 66 segments last year, many of them flights to presentations. I've given hundreds of them and I've never been in a situation where I needed all those apps open at the same time. Time for a compromise somewhere.
Too many price-insensitive business travelers willing to pay *any* price with the corporate credit card
I'm a business traveller - Flew 65K miles on 66 segments in 2012. When I've been on flights with IF internet I've never bothered with it. I edit presentations, work on spreadsheets, reply to email ("save draft"), or watch a movie. It's my few hours when I'm *not* connected...
desperately to catch up with the "way worse" to be it's own sort of police state
If that's true, why did the USA oppose the UN's attempt at 'internet governance?' You think they would be all over the opportunity to regulate the internet.
No, it's illegal due to a small but powerful block of voters in Miami. If it was illegal due to ideological differences there would be many dozens of states for which it would be illegal to trade - Likely including China.
Back then in the dial-up days, you had all kinds of local ISP's available. It would have been almost impossible for the U.S. government to really control the internet.
Where do you think all those mom-and-pop dialup ISPs got their feeds that they distributed via their modem banks?
Cue up obligatory "But the USA is way worse!" postings from trolls who have never left their mother's basement and who have no idea what a *real* police state is.
My Sony TV and Sony Blu-ray player are connected to the internet, but I view very little online content. Crackle is available on the TV but the content is regionally-limited here in Canada. It's top-heavy with Anime I've never heard of and episodes of Sanford and Son and Fantasy Island. My Blu-ray player has a YouTube viewer, but searching content is painful on a remote and, as near as I can tell, Sony doesn't make an all-in-one with a keyboard. Both of them have Netflix decoders, but I'm not paying another $120/year for Netflix. There are also apps like Flickr but they're so painful to use they're next to useless. I've never even opened the web browser.
Does this save them enough money that they can pass it off to you as a reduced fare?
It allows them to display a legitimately lower fare, yes. My elite status means no checked bag fees, so they don't have to factor those into the displayed price. They know not to display business class fares because I never buy them. Star Alliance means they can show US Airways, which are usually cheaper... etc.
This isn't about personal data concerning your bank balance or your religion - It's about saving your personal preferences so the systems can tailor a ticket price for you. For example, I'm a frequent business traveller with Elite status. My profile -
- I'm Canadian
- Try to fly carriers in the Star Alliance
- Flew 65K miles last year
- Rarely cross an ocean
- Star Alliance Gold passenger
- Prefer one-stop (or less routings)
- Credit point to Air Canada Aeroplan
- Always fly economy
- Sometimes purchase upgrade to Economy Plus on United
- Rarely check bags
- Always sit at the window
- Like to sit forward of the wing
- Usually fly out of YVR, sometimes tempted by BLI
- Don't like transiting YYZ
...this is about allowing me to create that profile so when I ask for a ticket price these details are taken into account and there are no 'suprises' in the price.
Without the leach field, the homeowner would know about the fraud within a few weeks and sue the contractor
Not necessarily - For many years it was common to drain a septic system into a hole in the ground (without a leach field). Often you would frame a cedar box with an open bottom lined with stones (cedar lasts a long time buried in the ground) and discharge into that. If the earth had a high enough rate of percolation the system would work for years.
It sure was - I remember our Model I used to sit in a room upstairs in our house, directly under our TV antenna. You could tell whether my brother was playing Sea Dragon or Scarfman based on the interference on the TV.
Almost all cars in the sixties had STEEL dashes, no seat belts (let alone air bags), drum brakes and no ABS, and no crumple zones
The car I grew up riding in as a kid was a '62 Chevy. It had lots of vinyl padding on the dash (I remember banging my nose on it as a kid) and seat belts for everyone (lap belts only).
The problem for a small business is the accounting nightmare of having to keep your books straight an ensuring each state gets paid its due.
You make it sound like you have some chilly Bob Cratchit hunched over a desk with a quill pen and stacks of ledgers trying to work it out. These days it's all done with software on these nifty machines called "computers" - Your online shopping cart calculates and posts the tax to a General Ledger Account based on region, then you just remit that amount based on the GL, often automatically.
The cultural hostility towards this move puzzles me. Here, in Canada, if I make a purchase from Amazon.ca I pay provincial and federal sales taxes. It's always been that way and no one bats an eye because it seems, well, reasonable. If I don't want to pay tax I can buy the item used or stolen (or both) for cash on Craigslist.
There is no reliable way to get your data out of a Microsoft Office document
A few weeks ago I needed to run a Powerpoint on a PC that didn't happen to have office on it, so quickly installed Libreoffice. Powerpoint opened like a charm.
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Good luck getting that through airport security...
Man, you're an obstinate fellow. I carry mine through security all the time, with no problems.
So you suggest I should quit my job and change to a different career path?
No, I mean compromise by flying an airline with inflight power or compromise by doing the presentations before you fly (like I did in the good ol' days) or compromise by opening and closing apps as you need them or compromise by buying a power pad battery or compromise by leaving early so you can work on them in your hotel room when you arrive or...
...compromise.
Being as most of my travel is for work - meaning I am likely going somewhere to do a presentation - the flight is a great place to finish putting said presentation together.
As I posted earlier, I'm *Gold, flew 66 segments last year, many of them flights to presentations. I've given hundreds of them and I've never been in a situation where I needed all those apps open at the same time. Time for a compromise somewhere.
How about supporting it with a tiny fraction of the cost of the flight tickets which we already pay for?
Because many airlines are teetering on the brink of insolvency and that 'tiny fraction' often represents the meager profit margin on a given ticket.
Not when it is running Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, Excel, and Word simultaneously it doesn't.
Here's a crazy thought.... Close some applications!
Too many price-insensitive business travelers willing to pay *any* price with the corporate credit card
I'm a business traveller - Flew 65K miles on 66 segments in 2012. When I've been on flights with IF internet I've never bothered with it. I edit presentations, work on spreadsheets, reply to email ("save draft"), or watch a movie. It's my few hours when I'm *not* connected...
desperately to catch up with the "way worse" to be it's own sort of police state
If that's true, why did the USA oppose the UN's attempt at 'internet governance?' You think they would be all over the opportunity to regulate the internet.
http://www.zdnet.com/u-s-now-totally-unified-in-opposition-of-u-n-internet-governance-7000008382/
Why is it illegal? Ideological differences.
No, it's illegal due to a small but powerful block of voters in Miami. If it was illegal due to ideological differences there would be many dozens of states for which it would be illegal to trade - Likely including China.
Back then in the dial-up days, you had all kinds of local ISP's available. It would have been almost impossible for the U.S. government to really control the internet.
Where do you think all those mom-and-pop dialup ISPs got their feeds that they distributed via their modem banks?
Cue up obligatory "But the USA is way worse!" postings from trolls who have never left their mother's basement and who have no idea what a *real* police state is.
My Sony TV and Sony Blu-ray player are connected to the internet, but I view very little online content. Crackle is available on the TV but the content is regionally-limited here in Canada. It's top-heavy with Anime I've never heard of and episodes of Sanford and Son and Fantasy Island. My Blu-ray player has a YouTube viewer, but searching content is painful on a remote and, as near as I can tell, Sony doesn't make an all-in-one with a keyboard. Both of them have Netflix decoders, but I'm not paying another $120/year for Netflix. There are also apps like Flickr but they're so painful to use they're next to useless. I've never even opened the web browser.
Does this save them enough money that they can pass it off to you as a reduced fare?
It allows them to display a legitimately lower fare, yes. My elite status means no checked bag fees, so they don't have to factor those into the displayed price. They know not to display business class fares because I never buy them. Star Alliance means they can show US Airways, which are usually cheaper... etc.
This isn't about personal data concerning your bank balance or your religion - It's about saving your personal preferences so the systems can tailor a ticket price for you. For example, I'm a frequent business traveller with Elite status. My profile -
...this is about allowing me to create that profile so when I ask for a ticket price these details are taken into account and there are no 'suprises' in the price.
- I'm Canadian
- Try to fly carriers in the Star Alliance
- Flew 65K miles last year
- Rarely cross an ocean
- Star Alliance Gold passenger
- Prefer one-stop (or less routings)
- Credit point to Air Canada Aeroplan
- Always fly economy
- Sometimes purchase upgrade to Economy Plus on United
- Rarely check bags
- Always sit at the window
- Like to sit forward of the wing
- Usually fly out of YVR, sometimes tempted by BLI
- Don't like transiting YYZ
What about Meccano? Maybe it's a Commonwealth thing, but when I was a kid, that was my go-to building toy. Now it's all Lego, Lego, Lego.
Example:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/15/article-1338800-0C670197000005DC-903_964x593.jpg
I think you mean someone watched License to Kill and liked the idea
Q also issues OO7 a signature gun in Skyfall.
Without the leach field, the homeowner would know about the fraud within a few weeks and sue the contractor
Not necessarily - For many years it was common to drain a septic system into a hole in the ground (without a leach field). Often you would frame a cedar box with an open bottom lined with stones (cedar lasts a long time buried in the ground) and discharge into that. If the earth had a high enough rate of percolation the system would work for years.
The original TRS-80 was a wideband RF jammer
It sure was - I remember our Model I used to sit in a room upstairs in our house, directly under our TV antenna. You could tell whether my brother was playing Sea Dragon or Scarfman based on the interference on the TV.
US has extradition treaty with Belize
He wasn't extradited, he was deported.
What about my 286DX, you insensitive clods!
Guns: The U.S. government's answer to a wide range of situations.
Actually, it seems to me that guns are the U.S. citizens' answer to a wide range of situations.
If Wikileaks were to have leaked the engine plans online then Slashdot would have cheered in triumph - Information wants to be free!
However, when the *physical* engines disappear it's the fault of those sneaky Israeli rats who should have never had OUR engines in the first place.
Almost all cars in the sixties had STEEL dashes, no seat belts (let alone air bags), drum brakes and no ABS, and no crumple zones
The car I grew up riding in as a kid was a '62 Chevy. It had lots of vinyl padding on the dash (I remember banging my nose on it as a kid) and seat belts for everyone (lap belts only).
The problem for a small business is the accounting nightmare of having to keep your books straight an ensuring each state gets paid its due.
You make it sound like you have some chilly Bob Cratchit hunched over a desk with a quill pen and stacks of ledgers trying to work it out. These days it's all done with software on these nifty machines called "computers" - Your online shopping cart calculates and posts the tax to a General Ledger Account based on region, then you just remit that amount based on the GL, often automatically.
The cultural hostility towards this move puzzles me. Here, in Canada, if I make a purchase from Amazon.ca I pay provincial and federal sales taxes. It's always been that way and no one bats an eye because it seems, well, reasonable. If I don't want to pay tax I can buy the item used or stolen (or both) for cash on Craigslist.
and deliberately incompatible with all others
There is no reliable way to get your data out of a Microsoft Office document
A few weeks ago I needed to run a Powerpoint on a PC that didn't happen to have office on it, so quickly installed Libreoffice. Powerpoint opened like a charm.