Do you understand that the boss, who *isn't* on the plane, doesn't give a shit? He's paying you to be on a plane to somewhere, and if he has the opportunity to get work out of you (like conference calls or whatever) while you're in the air, he's going to take it. You will be told by your company that you will fly an…

Until your management tells you that you *will* fly such airlines so that you *are* reachable. Because that's what they pay you for, not to sit in a chair in the sky and relax for most of a work day.

Trust me, it will happen. I spent 15 years traveling (mostly internationally) 30% of the time, and I'm absolutely…

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Their CEO apparently doesn't understand where airline profits come from. It comes from business travelers who are paying for full fare coach, business class, or first class tickets. And those are precisely the guys who are going to want to fly on an airline that allows for phone calls, because it makes them more…

The missile doesn't have to be faster than light, only faster than the person/system trying to target it. A laser is useless unless you can actually acquire the target with it.

Leave the spandex in, so we can stretch our dollars!

Edit: Of course. Already been used in the article. I guess I'm a day late and a dollar short...

Much more convenient for foot rubs.

Wallpaper download link please?

Reminds me of Space 1999.

Of course the superuser is root. MacOS X is a certified UNIX (and Linux isn't).

I think my star was removed once. Not by Jesus, though.

Before he retired after 35 years as a pilot for American, my uncle was a 777 trainer. Of course, he began his flying career as an Air Force combat pilot in Vietnam. And he was an aerobatic pilot with his biplane in his spare time for many years. So I guess he had a better handle on how to actually fly than most.

This will last precisely as long as it takes for a pedestrian to get hit in these crosswalks, at which time the city will be sued for not having standard crosswalk lines painted there.

If it didn't make money for everybody involved, it wouldn't be happening. The economies of scale make it profitable.

Your basic assumption is wrong. The water is free. It falls from the sky.

This guy would be a space ace pilot. He's essentially accelerating to the halfway point, then flipping and decelerating to the destination. Unreal.

Costco also sells Kirkland branded 15 year single malt that is actually made by MacAllan, for a lot less than the MacAllan branded bottle of the same age.

Apple created a completely new OS in a world that was entrenched in Symbian, Blackberry, etc. Google created a completely new OS in a world that was entrenched in the same ones, plus iOS was already on the scene. I get it: the guy's pissed because the OS that he got paid to work on (WebOS) failed to commercialize.…

As long as we're picking arbitrary dates for comparison, why not pick a picture from the Medieval Warming Period to compare to today? Or sometime during the Jurassic to compare to 10,000 years ago during the last ice age? That one would show catastrophic global cooling...

Dean Kamen did design a better wheelchair (one that could even walk up stairs, and allow the user to interact with others at a normal standing height):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT