In that case, I usually use JetBlue or Southwest to get to New York or SFO and then fly Singapore Air
This can be a risky move - If the Southwest or JetBlue flight goes mechanical and you miss your connection you're SOL. If, on the other hand, you have a through-ticket on one of Singapore's Star Alliance partners then you're protected...
But if you fly fairly often (say, 50,000 miles a year or more) for work etc., then the traditional carriers start making a lot more sense
They also make a lot of sense if you want to fly from Des Moines to Paris or from New Orleans to Rio. You can check in with a "tradional" legacy carrier at those airports and be checked all the way through to your international destination, baggage and all (via a hub). Try doing *that* on Southwest. I realize Americans who have passports and travel overseas regularly are very much in the minority, but for those who do this is a valuable service.
US Airways does fly to Buenos Aires cheaper than American Airlines in some situations
US Airways doesn't service BA. They might sell you a code-share ticket on another carrier, but you will be paying that other carrier's equivalent fare.
This isn't about merely presenting the fares - This is about actually booking airline tickets, including upsales and seat selections, complete with integration to inventories and loads. For that, you need more than a screen-scraping 'fare compare' application...
I could probably make a lot of money scamming little old ladies, or working as a hitman or a pimp - However I choose not to because it's morally wrong. Just because I have no respect for you because you can make tons of cash spamming doesn't mean I have a mental disorder - It just means I have you in the same category as cowards who scam grannies.
To be honest, I dunno... I've only noticed them plowing me over in the past couple of years. It could be the case that they've taken longer to catch on here in Vancouver due to topograpy. Eventually hipster-urges trump common sense, but perhaps because of the hills around these parts it took longer than usual.
The cyclists certainly are where I live (Vancouver, Canada). Every day I see helmet-less hipster-cyclists rocketing down sidewalks, running red lights, weaving through traffic, travelling the wrong way down one-way streets and on and on. The latest thing in terms of hipster-cool bicycles are minimalist rides with no gears and no brakes:
I work for a company that, amongst other things, makes laptop security software. Anecdotally, one of the reasons we see a slow adoption of 'thin' clients in mobile fleets is the reluctance of enterprises to deploy wireless broadband (cellular) cards into their laptop deployments. If you have 1000 laptops, at $50 per device per month for mobile broadband that's another $2.4M for wireless data over the 4-year life of the laptop. A tough pill to swallow, and you can't expect your mobile employees to constantly seek out free WiFi. Until internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous at a much cheaper price point, clients will stay thick...
No, it's not insane, it's clever, as it further helps to prove that the gov'ment can't protect Mr. and Mrs. Citizen from every potential 'threat' everywhere, all the time and that you as a citizen need to keep calm and carry on - That plane you see buzzing around the Statue of LIBERTY is probably just a little plane, not some terrorist weapon.
Because, from time to time, "stuff happens" resulting in no power & no telecom services and in that scenario, if you want to buy food for your kid, "cash is king." An example from recent history is the ice storm in '98 where some homes and businesses were without power for weeks. For this reason (I live in an earthquake zone) I have around two-hundred five-dollar bills hidden away in case I need them...
I see adults cross the street without looking while on the phone and not even notice me beeping at them. And this was back when I drove a beat up car that sounded like a Boeing 747
Amen to that brother.
The thing that floors me is that people get hit by trains. TRAINS! We're talking like five-thousand plus tons of steel rumbling down a track, and people don't notice. How is this even possible? How self-absorbed do you have to be to notice a freaking TRAIN. I used to live not far from a freight line and the whole bloody ground shook when a train went by...
And yet I got a contractless 'pay-as-you-go' flip phone for $10 five years ago
If it was a TracFone or one of their ilk then while it was contractless, it was still locked - So that's not a fair comparison. TracFones are locked because they're subsidized based on the *expected* future revenue from the purchase of airtime.
You don't have to be crazy to want a phone like that but you do have to be crazy to pay 79.95 EUR ($105) for it.
This price seems pretty reasonable to me - By comparison, an unlocked, carrier-agnostic entry-level iPhone is over $500. Even a baseline LG GB250G is $150.
The only people who can 'turn it on' are ISVs who have been configured by Intel. These ISVs and the anti-lock chipset have a private-key pair. Only an authorized ISV can manage the anti-theft chipset and/or lock a device. So if your device is stolen you log into your management console and send a lock command to your device. When it's recovered, you enter your recovery code to unlock it.
the point isn't to help you, the one specific person whose laptop just got stolen; but to gradually phase "stealing laptops" out of the list of things that are economically viable by upping the odds that the thief will get nothing but a brick for their time...
That's exactly right (I'm very familiar with this technolgy). Intel's long-term goal is to make laptops an unattractive theft target, in the same way car stereo manufacturers have made car stereos unattractive theft targets. If you take it to the pawnshop / fence and it doesn't work, the fence won't buy it. Over time, thieves (even the dumb ones) will stop stealing laptops as it's not worth the effort.
I suspect there are more than a few Hondurans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, El Salvadorians, Belizians, Costa Ricans, and Panamanians who would take exception to that statement
Have you been to any of those countries? When you travel down there, you'll see that they all proudly proclaim that they're part of "Central America." They puposely distance themselves from North or South America. For example, here's a Belizean license plate:
My point is that, as a Canadian, I don't really care if people who live in the USA call themselves "American." It's the generally-agreed upon term. I'm not refusing to call myself "American" because of some insecurity complex or because I'm on some high horse - I'm simply not going to call myself "American" because it's not the correct term to describe a Canadian or Mexican. If you live in North America, you're Canadian, American or Mexican. That's just how it is.
You're a what now? What the smeg is a "Statsian?" Sounds like a species on Star Trek.
Dude, I live in North America, and I'm not American. I don't know of a single North-American residing non-American that objects to residents of the USA referring to themselves as "Americans." You're American, dude. Just use the term and get over yourself.
Good point, but I also think you're missing the parent's rather subtle and clever point - Today, you can watch TV for free (granted you are required to give up some time for commercials, but you can always mute the TV or go unload the dishwasher).
All you need to do is put up a piece of metal (an antenna) and there's tons of content for free - In fact in many locales, "free" over-the-air HDTV is of better quality than the compressed HD service you get from the cable company. There's no 'free' internet - So if all this content moves online, what happens to the free OTA options?
One of the things I found interesting in the 60 Minutes "Facebook" segment last week was the Facebook offices. Not only did Zuckerberg appear to not have an office, he didn't even have a cube. He just seemed to have a desk / table in the middle of a big open area full of other people at tables. His "head of development" (their CTO, I guess) was on another desk/table backed onto Zuckerberg's. When they showed the developers they were all seated side-by-side on long narrow tables - Row upon row. Again, no offices, and no cubes. I guess if your staff is all under 25 and comes from a LAN Party / University lab culture it seems perfectly normal, but man I sure wouldn't want to work there...
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In that case, I usually use JetBlue or Southwest to get to New York or SFO and then fly Singapore Air
This can be a risky move - If the Southwest or JetBlue flight goes mechanical and you miss your connection you're SOL. If, on the other hand, you have a through-ticket on one of Singapore's Star Alliance partners then you're protected...
But if you fly fairly often (say, 50,000 miles a year or more) for work etc., then the traditional carriers start making a lot more sense
They also make a lot of sense if you want to fly from Des Moines to Paris or from New Orleans to Rio. You can check in with a "tradional" legacy carrier at those airports and be checked all the way through to your international destination, baggage and all (via a hub). Try doing *that* on Southwest. I realize Americans who have passports and travel overseas regularly are very much in the minority, but for those who do this is a valuable service.
US Airways does fly to Buenos Aires cheaper than American Airlines in some situations
US Airways doesn't service BA. They might sell you a code-share ticket on another carrier, but you will be paying that other carrier's equivalent fare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_destinations
No need. US Airways and Southwest seem to be the cheapest these days.
Let me know how that works for you the next time you want to fly to Buenos Aires or one of the many other destinations served by AA.
This isn't about merely presenting the fares - This is about actually booking airline tickets, including upsales and seat selections, complete with integration to inventories and loads. For that, you need more than a screen-scraping 'fare compare' application...
I could probably make a lot of money scamming little old ladies, or working as a hitman or a pimp - However I choose not to because it's morally wrong. Just because I have no respect for you because you can make tons of cash spamming doesn't mean I have a mental disorder - It just means I have you in the same category as cowards who scam grannies.
Many cities, including mine, have had electric buses for decades:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7605380@N08/838292900/sizes/z/in/photostream/
In fact, I'm going to ride on one in about an hour...
did it truly take that long to reach CA?
To be honest, I dunno... I've only noticed them plowing me over in the past couple of years. It could be the case that they've taken longer to catch on here in Vancouver due to topograpy. Eventually hipster-urges trump common sense, but perhaps because of the hills around these parts it took longer than usual.
A cyclist is under no such illusion
The cyclists certainly are where I live (Vancouver, Canada). Every day I see helmet-less hipster-cyclists rocketing down sidewalks, running red lights, weaving through traffic, travelling the wrong way down one-way streets and on and on. The latest thing in terms of hipster-cool bicycles are minimalist rides with no gears and no brakes:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/3248144604_fdc29f42c7_o.jpg
While in these parts it's the law that cyclists must wear helmets and obey traffic rules, these laws are generally unenforced.
I work for a company that, amongst other things, makes laptop security software. Anecdotally, one of the reasons we see a slow adoption of 'thin' clients in mobile fleets is the reluctance of enterprises to deploy wireless broadband (cellular) cards into their laptop deployments. If you have 1000 laptops, at $50 per device per month for mobile broadband that's another $2.4M for wireless data over the 4-year life of the laptop. A tough pill to swallow, and you can't expect your mobile employees to constantly seek out free WiFi. Until internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous at a much cheaper price point, clients will stay thick...
No, it's not insane, it's clever, as it further helps to prove that the gov'ment can't protect Mr. and Mrs. Citizen from every potential 'threat' everywhere, all the time and that you as a citizen need to keep calm and carry on - That plane you see buzzing around the Statue of LIBERTY is probably just a little plane, not some terrorist weapon.
Get your ass to Mars...
Why do we still carry money anyway?
Because, from time to time, "stuff happens" resulting in no power & no telecom services and in that scenario, if you want to buy food for your kid, "cash is king." An example from recent history is the ice storm in '98 where some homes and businesses were without power for weeks. For this reason (I live in an earthquake zone) I have around two-hundred five-dollar bills hidden away in case I need them...
I see adults cross the street without looking while on the phone and not even notice me beeping at them. And this was back when I drove a beat up car that sounded like a Boeing 747
Amen to that brother.
The thing that floors me is that people get hit by trains. TRAINS! We're talking like five-thousand plus tons of steel rumbling down a track, and people don't notice. How is this even possible? How self-absorbed do you have to be to notice a freaking TRAIN. I used to live not far from a freight line and the whole bloody ground shook when a train went by...
And yet I got a contractless 'pay-as-you-go' flip phone for $10 five years ago
If it was a TracFone or one of their ilk then while it was contractless, it was still locked - So that's not a fair comparison. TracFones are locked because they're subsidized based on the *expected* future revenue from the purchase of airtime.
See more -
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080714/0053011666.shtml
You don't have to be crazy to want a phone like that but you do have to be crazy to pay 79.95 EUR ($105) for it.
This price seems pretty reasonable to me - By comparison, an unlocked, carrier-agnostic entry-level iPhone is over $500. Even a baseline LG GB250G is $150.
If my laptop is stolen, how the hell is disabling it remotely going to help me?
Here's a one-minute video that explains how it helps you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u07ReT5jxds
The only people who can 'turn it on' are ISVs who have been configured by Intel. These ISVs and the anti-lock chipset have a private-key pair. Only an authorized ISV can manage the anti-theft chipset and/or lock a device. So if your device is stolen you log into your management console and send a lock command to your device. When it's recovered, you enter your recovery code to unlock it.
the point isn't to help you, the one specific person whose laptop just got stolen; but to gradually phase "stealing laptops" out of the list of things that are economically viable by upping the odds that the thief will get nothing but a brick for their time...
That's exactly right (I'm very familiar with this technolgy). Intel's long-term goal is to make laptops an unattractive theft target, in the same way car stereo manufacturers have made car stereos unattractive theft targets. If you take it to the pawnshop / fence and it doesn't work, the fence won't buy it. Over time, thieves (even the dumb ones) will stop stealing laptops as it's not worth the effort.
Or that's the idea, anyway.
I suspect there are more than a few Hondurans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, El Salvadorians, Belizians, Costa Ricans, and Panamanians who would take exception to that statement
Have you been to any of those countries? When you travel down there, you'll see that they all proudly proclaim that they're part of "Central America." They puposely distance themselves from North or South America. For example, here's a Belizean license plate:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1AAaANrTdAM/SgHAxpUOqcI/AAAAAAAABKg/MVvHKJR7EWI/s400/belize.jpg
The C.A. on the plate stands for "Central America."
My point is that, as a Canadian, I don't really care if people who live in the USA call themselves "American." It's the generally-agreed upon term. I'm not refusing to call myself "American" because of some insecurity complex or because I'm on some high horse - I'm simply not going to call myself "American" because it's not the correct term to describe a Canadian or Mexican. If you live in North America, you're Canadian, American or Mexican. That's just how it is.
I am United Statsian
You're a what now? What the smeg is a "Statsian?" Sounds like a species on Star Trek.
Dude, I live in North America, and I'm not American. I don't know of a single North-American residing non-American that objects to residents of the USA referring to themselves as "Americans." You're American, dude. Just use the term and get over yourself.
Sure there is -- it's called "unsecured wireless".
Back in the good ol' days when the wireless routers shipped with security off by default, my neighbourhood was choc-a-bloc with these. Not any more...
Good point, but I also think you're missing the parent's rather subtle and clever point - Today, you can watch TV for free (granted you are required to give up some time for commercials, but you can always mute the TV or go unload the dishwasher).
All you need to do is put up a piece of metal (an antenna) and there's tons of content for free - In fact in many locales, "free" over-the-air HDTV is of better quality than the compressed HD service you get from the cable company. There's no 'free' internet - So if all this content moves online, what happens to the free OTA options?
One of the things I found interesting in the 60 Minutes "Facebook" segment last week was the Facebook offices. Not only did Zuckerberg appear to not have an office, he didn't even have a cube. He just seemed to have a desk / table in the middle of a big open area full of other people at tables. His "head of development" (their CTO, I guess) was on another desk/table backed onto Zuckerberg's. When they showed the developers they were all seated side-by-side on long narrow tables - Row upon row. Again, no offices, and no cubes. I guess if your staff is all under 25 and comes from a LAN Party / University lab culture it seems perfectly normal, but man I sure wouldn't want to work there...