perhaps there was rapid decompression caused by the turbulence caught the pilots without their masks on, and they fell unconscious, thus no distress call, and a crash. there could have been a structural failure and the airplane may have broken up on descent to a lower altitude. remember the American Airlines crash in New York in October, 2001, where the vertical fin broke off, it was an Airbus A300. The BOAC crash caused by turbulence near Mt.Fuji in 1966 was a massive structural failure as well. Hard to believe the pilots would not have seen this weather on the radar and steered around it. Then again, they depend on meteorological reports and guidance from the ground in these situations, and may have been waiting for instructions. I've never flown through severe turbulence (few have and lived to tell about it) but I've experienced light turbulence, the kind where your butt leaves your seat very briefly, and it's not fun. 4 hours of that and you have a back ache.
I hate online chat. Hate it hate it hate it. Sitting there waiting for someone to type back at you, it's totally stupid. I'll never use this Google Wave. Email is good enough for me. And nothing can replace a good old phone call.
excellent. the more people who run OSX outside of Apple hardware may yet convince Apple to release a version of OSX for home builders. why they didn't do this in the beginning I'll never know.
women were so "happy" 40 years ago they decided to march in the streets for the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment). women were so happy 40 years ago they were burning their bras for equality. women were so happy 40 years ago they made far less than their male counterparts and sex discrimination was open and readily accepted in business. yep, women sure were happy 40 years ago. the author is a nut!
and not to mention completely blocking Google Payments from having any part in ebay auctions, and shutting down the excellent Western Union Auction Payments service, where the buyer pays the fee to send the payment, and ebay can't double dip in the fees (charging the seller a fee for the final value and then charging the seller a fee to receive payment through paypal).
Feel really sorry for the employees of the prisons that are being shut. Fortunately there is no shortage of prisoners in the USA and there is real job growth potential in prison guard and other security related industry in the USA.
frankly, I don't think the demographic that is buying Macs (mostly college-aged kids) hasn't changed and won't simply stop buying Macs because of some ad campaign by Microsoft. Windows Vista sucked before it was released, it sucked when it was released, and it still sucks at the point when Microsoft is trying to bury it. Macs offer a very different user experience from Windows, and it's like saying a Chevy is better than a BMW because it's cheaper. They are two entirely different products that both happen to have a screen and a keyboard.
it just shocks me when normally intelligent people get into some sort of dream state and think they are entitled to something they clearly cannot afford. I make more than $2777 or whatever take-home pay this guy had after his alimony payments, and my wife and I live in a one bedroom condo we bought for $130k, and our mortgage is a little less than the same size apartment in the city we live in would cost. but this guy shot himself in the foot and bought a house that was clearly more than he could afford, and that is just basic math. if he had been honest with himself, and done the math, he wouldn't have gone broke. glad he is doing well with the book though.
as an aside, how many points does a user need to be able to vote an article or coment down? (Interesting that this comment will be voted down by people who have that ability)
I've purchased a lot of gear from B&H. This article is a little inaccurate, B&H opened in the late 1960s, my father bought his Nikon F FTn from them through the mail in 1969 and I still have the receipt for it.
Japan recycles their nuclear waste, should be done in the USA too. Hopefully Obama will be able to get new plants built, we're going to need them when all the cheap Chinese cars start coming in in a few years (it's already happening around my area, and they are cheap).
you guys didn't play the original Sim City did you. I used to leave my Mac Plus on all night to grow the population, I could run the game on a single 800k floppy, wow. Amazing how quickly the senior members of YC will vote someone down. Guess it's your way of keeping YC an elite site, and it boosts your morale knowing you're all better than us small-time users. Yawn, how boring is that?
they're also 10 times more likely to say "shiver me timbers" when prompted.
actually I have downloaded music a lot in the past, from allofmp3.com and mp3sparks.com, and if I like it enough I do buy the actual CD because I want the complete package. Some music I purchased online through the Apple iTunes music store was so bad I wished I could return it. But no returns. Every CD store I know of will at least give you store credit.
My first ever computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000. It was given to my by my uncle, who won it in a golf tournament. It came with a 16k memory expansion module, that plugged into the back of it, and a couple of cassette games, Frogger, and something else that I can't remember now. It took about 20-30 minutes to load the games by cassette. The membrane keyboard was terrible. Of course there was no modem or printer, so it was pretty limited. The best thing about it was that it was so small. Less than a year after I got it, the keyboard stopped accepting inputs, so I took it into the shop and smashed it to smithereens with a hammer.
the shopping mall was a product of the 1960s, when land was cheap. I hate shopping malls. They take up a huge amount of real estate, encourage people to drive instead of walk and take transit, and house overpriced businesses selling things I don't want anyway. The only reason I go into Bellevue Square is to visit the Apple Store, which now is too small for the number of people shopping there and so crowded it is unpleasant in there so I don't stay.
Sometimes I do a search on google, and roughly half the results are meaningless gobbledegook. Clearly these results are this kind of project. It makes me wonder what percentage of websites are just revenue-earning sites with absolutely no useful real-world content. Like a newspaper or magazine with 50% of its pages taken up by advertising.