Bonus points for airports that set up a row of seats in the lobby, so you can compare and decide who NOT to get a ticket from.
Once you're at the airport, you already have the ticket, though - isn't that a bit too late?
(Unless you're one of those people who buys tickets last-minute, one-way, and pays for them in cash?)
Adding an affiliate ID to the link. Classy.
Ah, thanks. I must not have been looking properly.
If Nokia wants to fix this, they should get together an industry group to design and agree to use such a connector
XKCD tells you about what happens when you promote a new standard to supersede previous ones.
Why does it always (not just default) assume that you are using "pages"? I would like to type a dozen chapters or so, each of around 20-30 kB of text. No pages. I don't want it to break my text.
Typesetting and page formatting is something I want to leave to the publishers. I don't want to write "documents" for either paper or web. I write novels, not pages.
Word used to have a mode for that, where it displayed things without most formatting.
I believe it was a successor of the times when machines weren't quite fast enough for real-time WYSIWYG, so you would only turn on WYSIWYG mode when you wanted to check the pages... but you could work without.
Sadly, they removed that mode several versions back.
...SMART for the heart!
At any rate, I was reminded of SMART for hard drives, which also work by monitoring lots of individual data points over time and trying to detect things which point to a future problem before it occurs.
If we say we have a glass of wine on Friday nights, don't write down the lie "patient is a moderate drinker."
Huh? I don't get it. Is one glass of wine a week not drinking in moderation?
What label would you have used instead?
They tend to use the inverse measurement: litres per 100 kilometres (l/100 km). I think it's just called "fuel consumption", with the "over a standard distance of 100 km" part implied in the name.
If the inspector sees a package containing a bunch of plastic cards and something that looks like a passport, they are naturally going to wonder what that's doing being sent via international mail. It's not as if you can accidentally leave your passport at home when leaving the country.
It's not? Worked for me when I went on a school trip to Austria. My teacher was not amused to have to get up at the middle of the night with me (sleeper train) when we crossed the border to fill out paperwork with the border guards. And my passport got sent by express post to follow me.
(Ended up arriving after I had already come back so the school we visited had to send it back home again, but that's another story.)
Most phones, even if you remove the SIM, will allow you to phone the emergency services (999, 911, 112 or whatever). I believe it's a requirement of the GSM standard.
This used to be the case in Germany but is no longer so. If I recall correctly, the number of prank calls (or misdials, or pocket dialling, or whatever) made them decide to remove this feature.
I don't know whether this is the case in all of Europe but wouldn't be surprised.
GCCs middle end is intentionally blurry
How can it be an end if it's in the middle?
Also, the "more legroom" is also a thing of the past in many places... the seat next to you will be free but the seat pitch is the same throughout the aeroplane on many short-haul flights.
I thought of that panel, too.
The radicals and tones are an essential portion of the language, removing them would be like taking English words and removing the spaces and punctuation marks. It would turn it into a mess.
Radicals, maybe, but there do exist tonal languages written with an accented version of the Roman alphabet.
Heck, there exist dialects of Mandarin written with an alphabet (Cyrillic, in this case).
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth
