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rear end posted:The Middle Eastern airlines (Etihad, Emirates and Qatar Airways mostly) are really loving nice. turkish is quite nice too, although not as decadent as emirates. their transatlantic flights can be surprisingly cheap
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Aug 9, 2019 23:28
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:also every retail store with more than a few cashiers should have one long line feeding to whichever cashier is free the last few times I’ve been to a frys this has made it very stark how far frys has fallen from its glory days. the big stores like Sunnyvale have 50+ cashier stands, but these days you never see more than 5 staffed, and not much of a line it’s kinda mysterious how fry’s still exists tbh, what with the 1-2 punch of amazon destroying retail and that one frys exec who embezzled shitloads of money (to gamble in vegas, so they weren’t able to claw much back)
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The Management posted:truetone is very sensitive to screen calibration. replacement screens already do a poo poo job because they don’t update the factory calibration data, so the gamma correction is wrong. once you start adjusting the colors dynamically it gets pretty hosed. True Tone is on OLED displays as well that are pretty much impossible to keep calibrated, this is moronic.
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Aug 9, 2019 23:41
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evilweasel posted:prices aren’t the only thing their fleet of 737s wants to bring down aside from the joke there’s an easily googled photo of the southwest 737max fleet sitting grounded in victorville ca, and apparently they’re putting feelers out to airbus not the first time the latter has happened, but it’s likely to be more serious than just bargaining leverage this time around. the max debacle has been an object lesson in how far it’s safe to keep incrementally upgrading a really old airplane design. southwest management is a bunch of fools if they haven’t realized by now that the max is the last 737 family airframe they should buy
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Lambert posted:True Tone is on OLED displays as well that are pretty much impossible to keep calibrated, this is moronic. we’re talking about airlines now flac stymie
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BobHoward posted:aside from the joke there’s an easily googled photo of the southwest 737max fleet sitting grounded in victorville ca, and apparently they’re putting feelers out to airbus airbus has a design that’s almost exactly as old. the problem isn’t age it’s that the 737 design just couldn’t accommodate the new fuel-efficient engine and the airbus equivalent could, so Boeing slapped it on anyway rather than cede the midsized jet market to airbus and welp if the design had been slightly different so that the engine could fit on without a redesign they’d never have done all the crap they did to try and make it work anyway.
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evilweasel posted:airbus has a design that’s almost exactly as old. the problem isn’t age it’s that the 737 design just couldn’t accommodate the new fuel-efficient engine and the airbus equivalent could, so Boeing slapped it on anyway rather than cede the midsized jet market to airbus and welp “almost exactly as old” is doing a lot of work there. it’s describing a gap of 20 years, and elides a giant difference in the engines the respective planes were originally designed for 737’s first flight was in 1967. like most 1960s jetliners it was designed for turbojets, comically narrow (and inefficient) by modern standards. it was updated in the 1980s for the cfm56 turbofan; that program was a success, but already stretched the limits of what could be done, and even so boeing had to settle for a reduced fan diameter version of the cfm56 a320’s first flight was 1987, and it was designed around the full diameter cfm56 the rest, we agree on: when even larger diameter turbofans needed to be installed, the a320 required reasonable tweaks, but the 737 ought to have been shitcanned in favor of a clean sheet design, drat the market share
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the 737 was also designed when jet bridges were much rarer and so boarding an aircraft required stairs. The shorter height of the 737 facilitated that, and could accommodate the previously mentioned tiny engines. It really is hard to overstate how old and outmoded the 737 design is.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:fry's and micro center both do this so does best buy
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El_Elegante posted:the damage i cause by air travel is negated by the guilt i feel while doing so 
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hot take: Alaska Airlines is Not Good Bankers forced them to take on Virgin America which neither side wanted, then they proceeded to throw out everything that Virgin did right, down to their uniforms (Banana Republic did actual clothing engineering on crew uniforms for VA, then they got a bridal gown designer with an asian name who Wasn't Vera Wang to do the new Alaska clothing and it apparently sucks). They also went from a 100% 737 fleet to now having to deal with Airbus, good job there. Their gates in JFK were in the basement of the BA terminal somehow, and when I asked them to fill up my water bottle on a flight, they said "yeah we got an email about that… we can't do that any more…" They want to be Southwest so bad but can't.
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if we’re doing airline stuff then, for anyone in Europe who flies regularly, I just want to recommend EasyJet Plus. i pay 200 quid a year for it and I get a front row seat every flight, free carry on, advance boarding ahead of the plebes, dedicated check in if I have hold bags, fast track security lane (which is worth the money alone during the summer when the airports are full of amateur flyers), and I can switch to an earlier flight free of charge. It basically makes EasyJet flights more agreeable and pleasant than a BA flight costing 10 times as much and is astonishingly good value
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Aug 11, 2019 08:44
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Jimmy Carter posted:They also went from a 100% 737 fleet to now having to deal with Airbus, good job there.
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Aug 11, 2019 08:50
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a reminder that while Boeing was whining that making a clean-sheet successor to the 737 would cost too much, they spent over $40 bil on stock buybacks in the last 6 years. The entire 787 program cost around $30 bil, and a good chunk of that was just sheer incompetence at outsourcing. also they're gonna try the oldest game in the book at re-branding https://twitter.com/AeroimagesChris/status/1150602370104975360
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Jimmy Carter posted:a reminder that while Boeing was whining that making a clean-sheet successor to the 737 would cost too much, they spent over $40 bil on stock buybacks in the last 6 years. The entire 787 program cost around $30 bil, and a good chunk of that was just sheer incompetence at outsourcing. lol the perfect crime  
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the angle of that photo is just perfect in emphasizing how far forward they had to go to place the giant better moderns engines to avoid having to reclassify the airplane, and why even the best ~software solution~ would have been a nightmare to create even in a best possible world drat
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Aug 11, 2019 10:06
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guillotines that remove the heads of executives quickly are a crime against the hundreds upon hundreds of lives lost so that some tycoon could add more money onto their already unfathomable mountain of wealth the rustier and slower the better, imo
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Aug 11, 2019 10:08
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rumor is the naming scheme is going to be: iPhone 11 for the XR equivalent iPhone 11 Pro for the Xs equivalents because lol
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Aug 11, 2019 14:15
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I'm buying the Pro for Workstations.
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Aug 11, 2019 14:26
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jal economy plus is the best time i’ve had on an airplane and i most certainly hate flying more than all of you
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:jal economy plus is the best time i’ve had on an airplane and i most certainly hate flying more than all of you Lufthansa economy is the best. They just didn’t stop handing out free booze the one time I flew on them.
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Aug 11, 2019 16:33
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evilweasel posted:Lufthansa economy is the best. They just didn’t stop handing out free booze the one time I flew on them. p. much every non-american carrier hands out free booze. they also have food that, while still being airline food, resembles actual food instead of "some meat-esque thing in brown sauce" that you seem to get no matter what you order on carriers like united turkish is probably the best economy class food i've had
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Aug 11, 2019 17:00
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Aziz of Arabia posted:what do airplanes have to do with Apple computer corporation you can use an apple brand credit card to buy airline tickets...
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Aziz of Arabia posted:what do airplanes have to do with Apple computer corporation what does anything have to do with anything?
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Pinterest Mom posted:PowerPhone 11 hell yeah release the PowerPhone Tim 
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Aug 11, 2019 17:26
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ugh, yes, can we please stop having interesting chat about the deadly failures of another massive corporation and instead make fun of the stupid names of apples latest toy
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Aug 11, 2019 18:19
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how many lives must we lose to the touch bar before apple starts taking this seriously?
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Aug 11, 2019 18:21
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The_Franz posted:p. much every non-american carrier hands out free booze. they also have food that, while still being airline food, resembles actual food instead of "some meat-esque thing in brown sauce" that you seem to get no matter what you order on carriers like united every carrier offers better food and free booze in economy for international flights, including american ones. Lufthansa, air italiana, klm, etc. all the major international carriers for each country have the same poo poo reputation for their domestic flights as delta/united/american
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Aug 11, 2019 18:22
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infernal machines posted:how many lives must we lose to the touch bar before apple starts taking this seriously? shocked to death by a short in the touch bar. thats how I want to die
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Aug 11, 2019 18:22
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mystes posted:Unless the 737 max can be saved, this is probably going to be unavoidable for any airline including Southwest now. southwest is uniquely affected because their fleet is only 737s. no wide bodies, no puddle jumpers, no planes of any kind except 737 variants other airlines may buy a lot of boeing, but they will be using a variety of boeing models. idk about foreign airlines, but the other three american airlines operate a mixture of everything boeing has made in the last 20 years: 717, 737, 757, 767, 777, 787, in addition to a variety of airbus models not just variants of a single narrow-body aircraft design from the 1960s
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Aug 11, 2019 18:44
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Shifty Pony posted:rumor is the naming scheme is going to be: this is still better branding than xr / xs
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