Safety issue or just lazy?

American Airlines announced it would try to compete with the better of the airlines by offering pajamas and turn-down service in their International First-Class product. It took all of a week before us lazy Americans decided that is a crazy amount of work. Never mind that many leading airlines offer this service.

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) filed a grievance, and because “this is too much work and we’re lazy” isn’t cause for filing a grievance the APFA is conducting a survey asking if the bedding or act of changing into pajamas is a safety hazard on the aircraft. Again, never mind that many leading airlines already offer this service.

The survey, which can be found via the previous link, asks questions like:

“Were there any safety issues with the bedding before landing?”

“Were there any safety issues with the turndown service at all?”

“Were there lines for the lavs when passengers changed into/out of pajamas?”

Service sucks in the USA because we Americans are lazy, and we consistently prove we are unable to provide quality service to our customers.

via One Mile At A Time

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Who remembers when Internet Explorer became the default browser for the Mac? Hahaha. Oh good times.

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Super Fun Engagement Shoot

This looks like a super fun engagement shoot!

http://www.amandarynda.com/2011/08/zombie-engagement-photos/

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple

Thanks to Steve Jobs for everything he's done at Apple and for the Tech community. Good luck to Tim Cook in his new role as CEO.

via everywhere

Part of the letter from Jobs:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

First Woman Judo Master 10th Degree Black Belt

After 98 years, the phone call finally came.

Last week, Sensei Keiko Fukuda of San Francisco became the first woman to be promoted to judo’s highest level: 10th degree black belt.

Only three people in the world, all men living in Japan, have ever reached that mark.

The martial arts promotion by USA Judo brought 98-year-old Fukuda to tears at the women’s dojo where she still teaches in Noe Valley. 

via SFGate

XKCD Explained

How have I not heard of this blog before now? I’ll go with the, “well, because you’re so super-smart you got every joke and never had to have XKCD explained to you.” Yeah… right.

explain xkcd

 

Tech Company Org Charts

This org chart made me LOL. It’s so true. Too bad they didn’t do one for RIM.

Kim Jong-Il is MMO gold farming to finance North Korean nuclear program.

via The New York Times, Forbes, and CNET

Long story short, hackers are gaining access to popular South Korean gaming servers to prevent their accounts for being flagged for cheating. They are using scripts to automatically play Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) games and gain gold and items which they then sell for real currency on places like Ebay. In turn the hackers get to keep 55% and the rest of the money gets forwarded to North Korean agents. South Korean officials tracked the money to the North Korean nuclear program and to Kim Jong-Il’s purchases of Rolex watches which he uses to placate senior North Korean military officers.

Buzz Out Loud funny quotes:

• “Earn your gold gamers! Earn It!”
• “I shouldn’t laugh, but yeah. Literally, if you buy virtual gold, the terrorists win.”
• “We get nuked because a bunch of lazy worldwide gamers were addicted to their video games. What is going on in the world!?”

Sang-Hun, Choe. 2011. Seoul Warns of Latest North Korean Threat: An Army of Online Gaming Hackers. The New York Times. 4 August.

Tassi, Paul. 2011. Kim Jong-Il’s Latest Cash Source is MMO Gold Farming. Forbes. 8 August.

Wood, Molly and Brian Tong. 2011. Buzz Out Loud Episode 1526: Prepare for Maximum Overdrive!. CNET. 8 August.

12 Years Ago Star Wars was Revived

Totally Rad Show noted that on this day in 1999 Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace released to theaters which makes me feel old.

Here are some interesting facts.

12 years ago on this day…

• … most people didn’t yet realize how much the story sucked - still in zOMG-THAT-WAS-AWESOME mode
• … I had no idea who played the decoy Queen Amidala (a girl named Keira Knightley or something)
• … I had an AMAZING Diamond Rio 600 32MB MP3 player (it could JUST hold an album at crappy bit-rates)
• … The very first iPod was still two years in the future
• … I had a Hotmail account (actually still do)
• … The CLOSEST thing I used to a “Social Network” was AIM
• … AsianAvenue was 2 years old by this time, but I didn’t use it
• … LiveJournal was one month old
• … I knew how to make a website, but it was fugly. WTF is CSS?
• … Apple was still in trouble and the iBook did not yet exist (although the colorful iMac was gaining popularity)
• … Mac OS 9 was still in development and Mac OS X was two years in the future
• … Tablets were a miseriable, horrible failure (as I type this in the SquareSpace iPad app)
• … Bluetooth 1.0 spec was defined, but almost no one knew what Bluetooth was
• … I had a computer with a brand new Pentium III processor (500 MHz) and an incredible 14GB hard drive
• … Zip Disks were the way people moved data
• … I searched the internet with DogPile
• … I used IE5 because, well, it was the best and Netscape 4.x was getting super-old
• … I was still two years away from having a cell phone (the obligatory Nokia 33xx)

Actually, this post makes me realize how MUCH happened in the year 2001.

Microsoft shows off Internet Explorer 10 running on 1GHz ARM at MIX developer conference

After painfully long updates between IE6, IE7, and IE8, Internet Explorer 9 was given notice it’s successor is on the way. IE10 will bring CSS3 support, HTML5 support, and a few W3C APIs.

Typical for Microsoft, they were pretty tight lipped about the future of IE except to take a potshot at Chrome (and also Firefox) nothing that faster cadence (releasing more versions more often) does NOT mean more progress. True, but ideally it means more frequent security updates so…

The amazing thing about this preview was that IE10 (and therefore the version of Windows 7 running on the demo rig) was written to run on ARM. Exciting news.

Microsoft shows off Internet Explorer 10 running on 1GHz ARM at MIX developer conference