Mal: Cut it out. Job's not done until we're back on Serenity. Zoe: Sorry, sir. Didn't mean to enjoy the moment.

'Ariel'


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le nubian - Dec 11, 2009 10:12:10 am PST #11945 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Do you love her?


Jessica - Dec 11, 2009 10:16:43 am PST #11946 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My current headphones are cheap $10 ones from Target, but they're just plain headphones - they don't have a speaker or a button to answer calls, so if someone calls me while I'm listening to a podcast I have to take them off to talk.

The Apple-branded in-ear iPhone earbuds are $80. Which is way too much, but the $30 Altec-Lansing ones I used to have fell apart after a couple of months, so the extra $$ may be worth it in the end.


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2009 10:18:17 am PST #11947 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Do you love her?

I already loved her with her jewelry. This is just because she needed to borrow my headphones for her trip to NZ. I was going to surprise her with replacements.

Dana, how long have you had the Sonys? I can't imagine shelling out $80 to replace the little Apple dealies. I'm not an audiophile, but even I don't think they're that good.


Dana - Dec 11, 2009 10:19:33 am PST #11948 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Dana, how long have you had the Sonys? I can't imagine shelling out $80 to replace the little Apple dealies.

Hmm. A few months? Less than six.

I had the previous version of the Apple in-ear ones, and I liked them, but the price went up and they added features I didn't need, and as you say, $80 is high.


Jon B. - Dec 11, 2009 10:20:44 am PST #11949 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Also, say I was interested in that range--wouldn't I get back a whole lot of pages date stamped--oh, any time the web has been active? Context-free numeric range searching seems a very odd thing to consider of value.

Can't argue with that.


DCJensen - Dec 11, 2009 10:55:27 am PST #11950 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I just view it as an option. Sort of, "if there is a numeric range inherent to your particular search, put it here, if not, ignore it."


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2009 12:09:43 pm PST #11951 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Well, everything on that page is an option. I just wonder if the payoff if worth the coding effort, or it was just a neat idea that percolated to the top.

Was there demand? What are the use cases? Business analysts want to know.


Gris - Dec 11, 2009 12:59:36 pm PST #11952 of 25501
Hey. New board.

I am posting this from the Delta in-flight WiFi. There was a promotion for a free session, though the prices aren't as terrible as I'd imagined anyway: $9.95 for the flight or $24.95 for a thirty-day pass, which might be good for a business traveler who flies lots of big-plane Delta flights, especially if they roll it out to most flights soon.

Anyway, first thing I did, of course, was run a bandwidth test. 686kbps download and 273kbps upload. Not too shabby, though not spectacular in these broadband days.

I wonder if the firewall blocks any ports, or if I could freely use bittorrent, etc? Not that I really would, but it'd be interesting to see.

Any dorky tests anybody wants me to run while I'm connected?


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2009 1:09:33 pm PST #11953 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My sister was allowed to use her Blackberry on one of her flights, if she could pick up a signal. She never got one. I was startled at that.


meara - Dec 11, 2009 1:18:23 pm PST #11954 of 25501

That would be exciting, Gris, for someone like me who travels a lot, but I have yet to see any planes with WiFi on them!! Oh, the myth of them in the wild...I keep seeing planes that ADVERTISE them (so mean, to show a commercial for your wifi on my flight to/from Hawaii, that was six hours long, but not HAVE the wifi on it...)