The remote itself costs more than $2500? Even looking at high end audio review sites, the most expensive remote I could find was the Philips TSi6400 iPronto Wireless Home Control Panel with an price of $1300-1700. So I'm a little curious to see your remotes.
Generally speaking, guessing what you want is what software does.
Defaults, preferences, templates and even localized software exist so that the system and/or an application can make a 'best guess' as to what you want whenever you perform an action or sequence.
Defaults - chosen by humans and configured for the software. Preferences, same.
I think you're over extrapolating the abstraction metaphor...
A little off? When everyone was forecasting 500,000 to 1,000,000 phones sold - hell, jcr here was claiming that they would press release the millionth phone sold on the Tuesday, or by week's end, 140,000 is pretty spectacularly UNDERWHELMING.
Activation delays, gifts, and such would account for... let's be generous, maybe twenty per cent. It didn't meet market expectations (sales, that is, don't worry, I'm not bashing the precious iPhone).
Very true. That's why most jurisdictions mandate the use of pool fences and safety locks. Regulation. I'm pretty sure that wasn't what your ill-thought counterpoint intended, but nonetheless.
In that case, I'd stand corrected. Admittedly, my understanding was from getting back on at LAX, and hearing "Welcome aboard the continuation of flight blah... For those passengers joining us..." - but I guess that could be attributed to reading from memory/script, rather than an accurate portrayal of bookings.
Would be interesting (well, in a 'useless trivia' sense as to whether they're allowed to standby/waitlist missed connections onto that flight out of LAX...
Are you kidding me? I flew Qantas Melbourne LAX Seattle six months ago, carrying two backpacks. One 'smaller' 17" laptop backpack, with various stuff. Probably 10 lb. And one Lowepro Computrekker Plus AW - this bad boy is designed to hold multiple camera bodies, lenses, and a 17" laptop. This thing was closer to forty pounds with a 8lb laptop, camera body, four or five lenses, etc, etc.
Noone batted an eye, except for the security explosives screener who laughed, "Seven kilograms?!?"
Normally I hate this and people who do it. But I tried to justify it as a one time one way trip (I was immigrating).
This is all pretty much standard operating procedure on any international long-haul flight.
You'd think so, until I had the misfortune to have to endure United Melbourne - Sydney - San Francisco - Seattle. "One alcoholic beverage per passenger" (although it may have been "one free..."). And not just policy, but enforced. I watched a guy ask, after getting wine from the attendant in his aisle, another attendant. She yelled down the aisle to the first attendant, "No, he's had his already". Bleh.
Ryanair are the "biggest international airline" by a highly subjective, probably inaccurate measurement. They fly many domestic routes, which have been somehow counted. Far more likely is that they are number three or four at best, and Lufthansa is number one.
It's also a little tenuous to suggest that an airline founded in 1985 with a fleet of 136 aircraft having no lost aircraft is comparable to an airline founded in 1920 with a fleet of 230 is comparable, especially when, as you note, both Qantas and Ryanair are at zero losses in the jet age.
And on that jet age note, it's also rather important to point out that Qantas have ALSO had zero deaths since moving to into the jet age.
So let's not start holding Ryanair as superior just yet.
The very airline the article is talking about does exactly this.
Qantas offers a flight SYD > LAX > JFK. The LAX-JFK leg is flown by Qantas, not codeshare.
I think this is okay, because the actual flight origin is technically Sydney, not within the US. That being said, you are able to purchase tickets purely for the LAX > JFK leg, and thus fly a foreign airline entirely within the US.
Reading doesn't seem to agree with you. The telco is perfectly entitled to have control over the disposition of services. Remember that contractual agreement you signed with them to use their cable? Why would the telco NOT have control over disposition of services over their cable?
compared to the people who don't know enough to request XP when they buy a new system.
Nice ad hominem. The people who want, or don't ask for something other than, Vista, well, they're just ignorant, ain't they?
Also, among potential Mac switchers, it is probably common knowledge that now is not the time to buy.
Fuck me, you're kidding. The average guy on the street, even the one fed up with Windows crashes, just "knows" (because hell, everyone knows, it's common knowledge, as you say), that he should 'probably wait til Leopard' is out. Ha. Ha. Ha. If I ask the average "potential Mac switcher" to name any of the OS X versions, I'm pretty sure he'd get... ooh... zero, or one. Maybe two if I dropped a hint about "named after large game cats".
It does make me feel good (schadenfreude, perhaps) that, as someone working at a big software company, and thus with many H1B colleagues who talk endlessly about the horrors of trying to get green cards, etc, that, because I married a US citizen, I had filed for my green card three months after arriving, and received it a few short months after.
If you think there's a top tier lawyer/lawfirm out there that won't bill you separately and additionally for paralegal work, I gotta surprise for you...
Wow, cynic much? How about someone asked about that to the guy at campus responsible for the Microsoft contract, who contacted someone at Microsoft, with a link saying "is this true?"
Seems just a little more reasonable than "actively patrolling blogs".
Linus doesn't even write code anymore. If not for the perceived morality of having a kernel under the GPL, and the droves of developers who participated for that very reason, he would be a complete non-entity.
RMS stopped writing code years ago... is he a "tool" who is just "mouthing off", too?
It's readily apparent that the inevitable consequence will be a shift away from Linux kernel under GPL2 towards Solaris under GPL3.
Fuck me, that's funny. Listen, I like Solaris, but I don't think any such thing is happening any time soon, let alone is a "readily apparent" "inevitable consequence".
Not entirely. For instance, I am suing my landlord over failure to return security deposit. He says it was for professional cleaning of the carpet. Cleaning which occurred after I had the carpets professionally cleaned, paid invoice sent to him, and the carpet was recorded as 'clean' on the moveout inspection.
There are all sorts of other arguments, but the contention is this, that no fees which are nonrefundable can be counted as part of a security deposit. As in, if you want a mandatory cleaning fee, it's specified. Of course if you need to use it to recover costs, you can, but you can't take a $1000 deposit knowing you will never return more than $500, in advance. This is in Washington, btw, http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=59.18 .285.
Their argument is that the rental contract says "Renter agrees to management cleaning carpets and having these costs deducted from the deposit", and that my agreement trumps the law. Not so, says the law: This says "(2) No rental agreement may provide that the tenant: (a) Agrees to waive or to forego rights or remedies under this chapter;".
Lest anyone think I'm being an asshole, this was the last straw from a landlord who entered the premises without notice, nor consent, failed to make repairs for a caved in ceiling until a prospective new tenant needed to see the property, etc, etc.
Anyone who is on their cellphone for three hours a day for work purposes on a personal phone is a dick. Get on the corporate plan, or get a company account, whatever. Whatcha' gonna do if you get stiffed on the bill - it's you, liable.
Yes, it'd help, the 4100 only has 10mbps, IIRC, and a slower CPU... I know that Telstra in Australia gives you a 51xx series cable modem when you use or upgrade to their "extreme" service (17mbps/256kbps).
Bullshit. It's apparently you who didn't read the article:
First, let's take the trigonometric functions, SIN (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.287), COS (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.50) and TAN (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.313). Hard to mess these up right? Well, what if you fail to state whether their arguments are angle expressed as radians or degrees? Whoops. Same problem for the return value of the inverse functions, ASIN (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.12), ACOS (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.4), ATAN (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.14), and ATAN2 (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.15). It is hard to have interoperable versions of these functions if the units are not specified. What kind of review in Ecma would miss something so simple?
Units should be specified at least in spec - this is indeed an issue.
But point me to ONE SINGLE INSTANCE where the above even REMOTELY implies that the different functions use inconsistent units.
Unsurprisingly, what you state has pretty much nothing to do with the issue at hand. The functions are consistent, they use the same units. YOU, as a programmer, AS YOU SHOULD, should not imply conversions in units that are not implied in the functions, or otherwise. If you have a value of, say "0.8", returned by a trig function, and then you multiply by 1000 to convert mm to m, you're at fault for failing the fundamental issue at hand, not the language for saying "Hey, you used a unit of radians in a distance function!".
But that's of no matter to you, is it? Far easier to "BLAME MICRO$OFT!"
Wow, UK standards are falling too - in Australia if you want to get into university with a high school pass in two of the three math options, you'd better know and understand radians.
Why is there a 'Student Edition' of MS Office at 80% discounts if MS doesn't pander to high school students?
To advertise academic discounts? This is a specious comment. Above and beyond that, you can aim something at students, without aiming at the lowest common denominator. Should Word's dictionary also have cartoon images with definitions and things like "A is for Apple", too?
Every high school I know teaches angles in degrees, not radians.
Perhaps in Junior High. Anywhere where you're expected to having a working knowledge of 'real' trigonometry (for me, 10th grade math) DEFINITELY taught radians, extensively.
Fair comment. I did get told it would be unsupported and might not work, because of T-Zones. But in reality, T-Zones is their WAP portal and such. Tell them you have -supported phone here-. They'll activate it on the account. They'll send a config message to your phone. If you've told them a similar model, you should be okay with this, if not, this URL is invaluable: http://tmobileus.wdsglobal.com/phonefirst - it'll give you config instructions for many many phones, including unsupported handsets. If yours isn't there, check the settings for the T-mobile MDA - apropos of the Windows Mobile specific stuff, the settings required should be straightforward, if you know anything about configuring this sort of thing.
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The remote itself costs more than $2500? Even looking at high end audio review sites, the most expensive remote I could find was the Philips TSi6400 iPronto Wireless Home Control Panel with an price of $1300-1700. So I'm a little curious to see your remotes.
Defaults - chosen by humans and configured for the software. Preferences, same.
I think you're over extrapolating the abstraction metaphor...
Activation delays, gifts, and such would account for ... let's be generous, maybe twenty per cent. It didn't meet market expectations (sales, that is, don't worry, I'm not bashing the precious iPhone).
Very true. That's why most jurisdictions mandate the use of pool fences and safety locks. Regulation. I'm pretty sure that wasn't what your ill-thought counterpoint intended, but nonetheless.
Would be interesting (well, in a 'useless trivia' sense as to whether they're allowed to standby/waitlist missed connections onto that flight out of LAX...
Noone batted an eye, except for the security explosives screener who laughed, "Seven kilograms?!?" Normally I hate this and people who do it. But I tried to justify it as a one time one way trip (I was immigrating).
You'd think so, until I had the misfortune to have to endure United Melbourne - Sydney - San Francisco - Seattle. "One alcoholic beverage per passenger" (although it may have been "one free ..."). And not just policy, but enforced. I watched a guy ask, after getting wine from the attendant in his aisle, another attendant. She yelled down the aisle to the first attendant, "No, he's had his already". Bleh.
It's also a little tenuous to suggest that an airline founded in 1985 with a fleet of 136 aircraft having no lost aircraft is comparable to an airline founded in 1920 with a fleet of 230 is comparable, especially when, as you note, both Qantas and Ryanair are at zero losses in the jet age.
And on that jet age note, it's also rather important to point out that Qantas have ALSO had zero deaths since moving to into the jet age.
So let's not start holding Ryanair as superior just yet.
See my sister comment, but in short, there is at least one foreign domestic flight within the US.
Qantas offers a flight SYD > LAX > JFK. The LAX-JFK leg is flown by Qantas, not codeshare.
I think this is okay, because the actual flight origin is technically Sydney, not within the US. That being said, you are able to purchase tickets purely for the LAX > JFK leg, and thus fly a foreign airline entirely within the US.
Reading doesn't seem to agree with you. The telco is perfectly entitled to have control over the disposition of services. Remember that contractual agreement you signed with them to use their cable? Why would the telco NOT have control over disposition of services over their cable?
Nice ad hominem. The people who want, or don't ask for something other than, Vista, well, they're just ignorant, ain't they?
Fuck me, you're kidding. The average guy on the street, even the one fed up with Windows crashes, just "knows" (because hell, everyone knows, it's common knowledge, as you say), that he should 'probably wait til Leopard' is out. Ha. Ha. Ha. If I ask the average "potential Mac switcher" to name any of the OS X versions, I'm pretty sure he'd get ... ooh ... zero, or one. Maybe two if I dropped a hint about "named after large game cats".
Priceless.
Hah. You should check out the reality - Google actually pays industry average, or slightly below.
It does make me feel good (schadenfreude, perhaps) that, as someone working at a big software company, and thus with many H1B colleagues who talk endlessly about the horrors of trying to get green cards, etc, that, because I married a US citizen, I had filed for my green card three months after arriving, and received it a few short months after.
If you think there's a top tier lawyer/lawfirm out there that won't bill you separately and additionally for paralegal work, I gotta surprise for you ...
Seems just a little more reasonable than "actively patrolling blogs".
RMS stopped writing code years ago... is he a "tool" who is just "mouthing off", too?
Fuck me, that's funny. Listen, I like Solaris, but I don't think any such thing is happening any time soon, let alone is a "readily apparent" "inevitable consequence".
There are all sorts of other arguments, but the contention is this, that no fees which are nonrefundable can be counted as part of a security deposit. As in, if you want a mandatory cleaning fee, it's specified. Of course if you need to use it to recover costs, you can, but you can't take a $1000 deposit knowing you will never return more than $500, in advance. This is in Washington, btw, http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=59.18 .285.
Their argument is that the rental contract says "Renter agrees to management cleaning carpets and having these costs deducted from the deposit", and that my agreement trumps the law. Not so, says the law: This says "(2) No rental agreement may provide that the tenant: (a) Agrees to waive or to forego rights or remedies under this chapter;".
Lest anyone think I'm being an asshole, this was the last straw from a landlord who entered the premises without notice, nor consent, failed to make repairs for a caved in ceiling until a prospective new tenant needed to see the property, etc, etc.
Anyone who is on their cellphone for three hours a day for work purposes on a personal phone is a dick. Get on the corporate plan, or get a company account, whatever. Whatcha' gonna do if you get stiffed on the bill - it's you, liable.
Yes, it'd help, the 4100 only has 10mbps, IIRC, and a slower CPU... I know that Telstra in Australia gives you a 51xx series cable modem when you use or upgrade to their "extreme" service (17mbps/256kbps).
Units should be specified at least in spec - this is indeed an issue.
But point me to ONE SINGLE INSTANCE where the above even REMOTELY implies that the different functions use inconsistent units.
Go on, do it.
But that's of no matter to you, is it? Far easier to "BLAME MICRO$OFT!"
Wow, UK standards are falling too - in Australia if you want to get into university with a high school pass in two of the three math options, you'd better know and understand radians.
To advertise academic discounts? This is a specious comment. Above and beyond that, you can aim something at students, without aiming at the lowest common denominator. Should Word's dictionary also have cartoon images with definitions and things like "A is for Apple", too?
Perhaps in Junior High. Anywhere where you're expected to having a working knowledge of 'real' trigonometry (for me, 10th grade math) DEFINITELY taught radians, extensively.
Fair comment. I did get told it would be unsupported and might not work, because of T-Zones. But in reality, T-Zones is their WAP portal and such. Tell them you have -supported phone here-. They'll activate it on the account. They'll send a config message to your phone. If you've told them a similar model, you should be okay with this, if not, this URL is invaluable: http://tmobileus.wdsglobal.com/phonefirst - it'll give you config instructions for many many phones, including unsupported handsets. If yours isn't there, check the settings for the T-mobile MDA - apropos of the Windows Mobile specific stuff, the settings required should be straightforward, if you know anything about configuring this sort of thing.