I recently flew Easyjet and noticed they didn't allocate any seat numbers on my boarding pass. You could pay extra to board first, but not many people did.
The people that did pay had a couple of minutes to start boarding before the stampede followed them, naturally it was very competitive and you grabbed the closest seat.
It seemed to speed up the boarding process no end, on other airlines I sometimes wait for my late boarding call before boarding because it's so slow:-)
Sometimes if you wait long enough they make you feel important and call your name!
IMHO these people that conducted the study need to spend their time elsewhere.
For all those males out there, I take this moment to remind you all that viewing female breasts for 10 minutes a day is proven to relax you. I should know someone sent me the "Powerpoint", and yes I did some personal study:)
It really does work.
The article is amusing.
1) Microsoft's ability to use the exact same HTML based strategy (like their current Live initiative); and
2) More threatening is Microsoft leapfrogging the current environment by solving rich application installation/uninstallation and enforcing an acceptable contract regarding what rich apps can do on a user's machine. Microsoft.Net? I'd be interested to know what good Microsoft web products people actually use.
Can they create a decent web app? I love Microsoft desktop apps, but think they're web apps suck.
As I understand it Microsoft don't want to create web app's as they'd have a hard time charging for them.
Who wants to install applications? Acceptable contract? Microsoft has acceptable contracts... he must be joking surely.
Unfortunately for Google, Microsoft is a lot closer to solving these two issues than people think. Microsoft has the best virtual machine with.NET, the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs. And they have a notion. Steve Ballmer himself has started touting the exact strategy they need - Click Once and Run. The final thing they need is a technical solution for.NET - similar to what a little startup in Redwood City, CA has done for Java... So Microsoft can write HTML and produce nice installs with acceptable contracts and they're nearly there?
Attention all web app developers Microsoft is nearly ready for you to start developing web apps.
That's like saying Vista will be on time:)
Perhaps I'm reading this wrong....... Microsoft aren't even on the same playing field, just because they have a swag of development tools that produce good desktop apps doesn't mean they can nearly produce good web apps.
Although if you're talking about development, google is facilitating web development but really the Internet is rife with web developers that would never touch Visual Studio with a 10 foot pole to produce their web apps.
The general population is far too lazy to make their own explosives, apart from those really crazy ones. How about banning guns? Bar recreation use and promoting hobby rockets:) That sounds like a fine compromise. That would make me feel 10x safer when traveling in the US, I don't actually live there.
This is a great way to describe Perl:) I'll definately be using it.
Though you can make Perl look structured, as with English.
So much effort though, as with English.
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I recently flew Easyjet and noticed they didn't allocate any seat numbers on my boarding pass. You could pay extra to board first, but not many people did.
:-)
The people that did pay had a couple of minutes to start boarding before the stampede followed them, naturally it was very competitive and you grabbed the closest seat. It seemed to speed up the boarding process no end, on other airlines I sometimes wait for my late boarding call before boarding because it's so slow
Sometimes if you wait long enough they make you feel important and call your name!
IMHO these people that conducted the study need to spend their time elsewhere. For all those males out there, I take this moment to remind you all that viewing female breasts for 10 minutes a day is proven to relax you. I should know someone sent me the "Powerpoint", and yes I did some personal study :)
It really does work.
The general population is far too lazy to make their own explosives, apart from those really crazy ones. How about banning guns? Bar recreation use and promoting hobby rockets :) That sounds like a fine compromise. That would make me feel 10x safer when traveling in the US, I don't actually live there.
This is a great way to describe Perl :) I'll definately be using it.
Though you can make Perl look structured, as with English.
So much effort though, as with English.