We makers of tasteless jokes (puns, sarcasm, etc.) like to ensure that the product was received in full.
Better to reinforce beyond reason that an inane comment is received as a joke, than to live in fear that they simply didn't get it and are trying to ignore you.
Solution, start weighing every passenger and charge them by weight. Or, everybody pays the same up to 175 lbs and then there's a $20 surcharge for every ten pounds over that.
How about just selling airline tickets at a reasonable, flat price?
All these complaints and proposed schemes in the name of "fairness" are the kind of bullshit that lead to the unbundling and charging of things that used to be included in the ticket. Forget fat people, it probably costs airlines just as much to listen to people complain that ticket prices are 'unfair' because they don't have carry-ons, they don't eat the meals, or they're skinny.
You fly cheaper in the same way that those grocery club cards save you 50% on your groceries.
Prisoner's dilemma. You save the most if everybody refuses to use the club cards, everybody buys the same amount as when they have the club card, and the grocer passes along the savings from not having to administer the program.
In reality, though, coupons and club systems are just a great way to get people to pay as much as they can and maximize profit. If some people are willing to pay a dollar for an apple, but others are only willing to pay 50 cents, charge a dollar and give 1/2 off coupons to the second group. Much better than lowering the price to 50 cents and losing the profit from those who would pay a dollar, or charging a dollar and losing the sales of those who wouldn't pay that much.
(There's also the privacy/datamining/advertising implications)
But it's about consumer choices. Now, I can buy my airfare with Airline A, pay my baggage handling fee to Airline B, and buy the in-flight meal from Airline C.
That way, if Airline A charges take-off fees and Airline B charges landing fees, you can take off with B and land with A.
Now there's the system working for air travel customers! All you have to do is figure out what combination you want!
I've got Blogger blogs with various identities, and the comment moderation messages all forward my main gmail account, but I have to log out and log in as another identity (or do it with a different browser) to approve/reject the comment.
Simultaneous multiple login would make this much easier.
I think the major load on the charging systems would either be early morning when you just get to work and plug in, or early evening when you just get home and plug in. Not exactly prime time for brown outs..
My understanding, based on the time-of-use billing coming soon to a power company near me, is that early evening when you just get home and plug in is exactly prime time for power shortages.
You could centrally control when recharging stations activate, but is somebody plugging in at 5:30 pm because they want to recharge it overnight, or because they want to pick up their kids from (band/soccer/whatever) practise at 9pm?
If you are a bicyclist going 15 mph and you suffer a collision with a motor vehicle going 35 mph, there is a very significant difference in the amount of force exerted by the impact depending on whether you are going against traffic (50 mph) or with traffic (20 mph).
The difference for a pedestrian is negligible, and therefore it is preferable to be facing traffic, in order to potentially foresee a collision and move to avoid it.
Oh, come on, it wasn't that long. I'm sick of people being so short in their attention span that they have to complain about any piece of text not short enough for Twitter.
So presumably you read it, then? And you saw it was a parody of the "Leave Britney Alone" speech?
Are you seriously suggesting that that's worth reading, at any length?
Foxit's markup does not appear in Preview on OS X, nor did it appear in Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 or 9. My colleague was entirely unable to read the markup made to the PDF in Foxit (which kind of defeats the purpose of a published standard format).
Indeed, one of my mac users was sent a PDF that had been marked up with Foxit by a volunteer. The markup only shows in Foxit reader, which is only available on Windows. A complete waste of the volunteer's time.
Precisely. The real usefulness of this program is that it looks to the consumer to sell them a decrease in demand at what is likely to be a lower cost than having to buy the peak extra capacity.
It's all well and nice for the blowhards elsewhere in this thread to say "I should be able to use as much power as I want at a reasonable rate." I'd rather have my utility come to me and say "look, we're out of capacity for the next 90 minutes of the month. Would you like us to pay 100x what we normally pay for power and forward you the bill, or would you like to reduce your consumption for a bit and we'll refund you 50x what we normally pay for that decrease in power use?"
I don't necessarily agree that "c'mon let me shoot" turns him from a soldier into a murderer (though other factors likely do), and I'm an anti-war bicycle-riding Canuck.
What I see is a soldier who believes, based on what he sees (or chooses to see), is the enemy, whom it's his job to kill. He's frustrated because he needs to call in what he sees and he needs to wait for authorization to shoot (which he knows he will get based on the description of the scene he relays--I presume that's all the information available to the ones giving authorization). While waiting for that authorization, he's potentially exposed to return fire and the bad guys might get away.
We know it's wrong because we know that that is a photographer and he's carrying a camera and not a gun. He either didn't see that or chose not to see it (consciously or unconsciously) because he wanted to match his observations to what he wanted to see.
But as for the "C'mon! Let me shoot!", that's not the factor that makes him a murderer, it's just frustration with red tape.
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We makers of tasteless jokes (puns, sarcasm, etc.) like to ensure that the product was received in full.
Better to reinforce beyond reason that an inane comment is received as a joke, than to live in fear that they simply didn't get it and are trying to ignore you.
- RG>
Solution, start weighing every passenger and charge them by weight. Or, everybody pays the same up to 175 lbs and then there's a $20 surcharge for every ten pounds over that.
How about just selling airline tickets at a reasonable, flat price?
All these complaints and proposed schemes in the name of "fairness" are the kind of bullshit that lead to the unbundling and charging of things that used to be included in the ticket. Forget fat people, it probably costs airlines just as much to listen to people complain that ticket prices are 'unfair' because they don't have carry-ons, they don't eat the meals, or they're skinny.
- RG>
You fly cheaper in the same way that those grocery club cards save you 50% on your groceries.
Prisoner's dilemma. You save the most if everybody refuses to use the club cards, everybody buys the same amount as when they have the club card, and the grocer passes along the savings from not having to administer the program.
In reality, though, coupons and club systems are just a great way to get people to pay as much as they can and maximize profit. If some people are willing to pay a dollar for an apple, but others are only willing to pay 50 cents, charge a dollar and give 1/2 off coupons to the second group. Much better than lowering the price to 50 cents and losing the profit from those who would pay a dollar, or charging a dollar and losing the sales of those who wouldn't pay that much.
(There's also the privacy/datamining/advertising implications)
- RG>
But it's about consumer choices. Now, I can buy my airfare with Airline A, pay my baggage handling fee to Airline B, and buy the in-flight meal from Airline C.
That way, if Airline A charges take-off fees and Airline B charges landing fees, you can take off with B and land with A.
Now there's the system working for air travel customers! All you have to do is figure out what combination you want!
- RG>
Weird-arch Linux, or weird arch-Linux?
- RG>
I've got Blogger blogs with various identities, and the comment moderation messages all forward my main gmail account, but I have to log out and log in as another identity (or do it with a different browser) to approve/reject the comment.
Simultaneous multiple login would make this much easier.
- RG>
Then just un-brother him. (You can do that on Facebook, right? I've never actually used the thing)
- RG>
I think the major load on the charging systems would either be early morning when you just get to work and plug in, or early evening when you just get home and plug in. Not exactly prime time for brown outs..
My understanding, based on the time-of-use billing coming soon to a power company near me, is that early evening when you just get home and plug in is exactly prime time for power shortages.
You could centrally control when recharging stations activate, but is somebody plugging in at 5:30 pm because they want to recharge it overnight, or because they want to pick up their kids from (band/soccer/whatever) practise at 9pm?
- RG>
If you are a bicyclist going 15 mph and you suffer a collision with a motor vehicle going 35 mph, there is a very significant difference in the amount of force exerted by the impact depending on whether you are going against traffic (50 mph) or with traffic (20 mph).
The difference for a pedestrian is negligible, and therefore it is preferable to be facing traffic, in order to potentially foresee a collision and move to avoid it.
- RG>
Heck, I don't pay a penny for Firefox(SeaMonkey) or its extensions, but they're what keep me from checking out other browsers.
- RG>
Ooh, snap! That's cold!
- RG>
I tried a Linux live CD on my Windows 95 laptop, and it totally borked the floppy drive.
- RG>
So presumably you read it, then? And you saw it was a parody of the "Leave Britney Alone" speech?
Are you seriously suggesting that that's worth reading, at any length?
- RG>
If it doesn't move and it's supposed to, nuclear explosion. If it's not supposed to move and it does, duct tape.
- RG>
No, apparently it's a sun!
- RG>
Foxit's markup does not appear in Preview on OS X, nor did it appear in Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 or 9. My colleague was entirely unable to read the markup made to the PDF in Foxit (which kind of defeats the purpose of a published standard format).
- RG>
Indeed, one of my mac users was sent a PDF that had been marked up with Foxit by a volunteer. The markup only shows in Foxit reader, which is only available on Windows. A complete waste of the volunteer's time.
- RG>
Precisely. The real usefulness of this program is that it looks to the consumer to sell them a decrease in demand at what is likely to be a lower cost than having to buy the peak extra capacity.
It's all well and nice for the blowhards elsewhere in this thread to say "I should be able to use as much power as I want at a reasonable rate." I'd rather have my utility come to me and say "look, we're out of capacity for the next 90 minutes of the month. Would you like us to pay 100x what we normally pay for power and forward you the bill, or would you like to reduce your consumption for a bit and we'll refund you 50x what we normally pay for that decrease in power use?"
- RG>
Electrical tape works wonders, you know.
Put a strip of it on each side of your 16:9 monitor, and the dimensions are so much easier to deal with.
- RG>
While I have your attention, shame on you for letting your business go dark without tying up the loose ends (e.g., informing your customers).
Who's to say he didn't? He could very well have tied up loose ends, but that doesn't stop the scammers from invoicing the former customers anyway.
- RG>
Mod parent up; the Rhino Party is pretty good at pointing out the lunacies of the political system by exaggerating them.
- RG>
50 million tweets/day
140 characters of message
60 bytes of metadata (timestamp, sender id, etc.)
10 GB of twitter archive per day
10 TB per 3 years
Yes, but how much is all of that in Libraries of Congress?
- RG>
I don't necessarily agree that "c'mon let me shoot" turns him from a soldier into a murderer (though other factors likely do), and I'm an anti-war bicycle-riding Canuck.
What I see is a soldier who believes, based on what he sees (or chooses to see), is the enemy, whom it's his job to kill. He's frustrated because he needs to call in what he sees and he needs to wait for authorization to shoot (which he knows he will get based on the description of the scene he relays--I presume that's all the information available to the ones giving authorization). While waiting for that authorization, he's potentially exposed to return fire and the bad guys might get away.
We know it's wrong because we know that that is a photographer and he's carrying a camera and not a gun. He either didn't see that or chose not to see it (consciously or unconsciously) because he wanted to match his observations to what he wanted to see.
But as for the "C'mon! Let me shoot!", that's not the factor that makes him a murderer, it's just frustration with red tape.
- RG>
I think you have to download it from xkcd...
- RG>
I dunno, reading the summary, I thought "Silverlight Thursday" had a certain ring to it. Like "Black Friday".
- RG>