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Adding this to my private list of reasons whenever someone scoffs at "paying $25k a year for a pair of LCDs and a cheap keyboard". Thanks.
by function_seven 10y ago
Adding this to my private list of reasons whenever someone scoffs at "paying $25k a year for a pair of LCDs and a cheap keyboard". Thanks.
- raldi 10y agoYeah you can be on the phone with the company travel department telling you the United flight at 10:13 doesn't fly between Dulles and New York on Tuesdays, and quickly type FLY IAD NYC<go> and you'll see a line like 12. UA 456 10:13 IAD 11:35 LGA vvvv vv (Where the v's are checkmarks in day-of-week columns; so you know it flies every day but Thurs) Then you type 12<go> and get all the details. It all happened as fast as you could type plus about 10msec plus the speed of light roundtrip to lower Manhattan. And in the nine years since I used it, I bet they added other points of presence on other continents.
- cousin_it 10y agoYou can get the same info by typing "flight schedule iad nyc" into Google. It gives you a box that shows all flight numbers, takeoff and landing times, airport codes, and which days of the week they fly. (You might need to disable adblock though.)
- koyote 10y agoI just tried that and indeed had to disable uBlock for it to show up. I wonder how many other Google features I have been missing out on due to adblock being turned on... Edit: turning off 'cosmetic filtering' on uBlock put it back again.
- cousin_it 10y agoThis list of Google SERP features is pretty impressive: http://www.link-assistant.com/news/serp-guide.html http://www.link-assistant.com/news/serp-guide.html Though it's still missing tons of stuff like finance, calculator, flight status, etc.
- awesomerobot 10y agoCurious if anyone knows: is the Bloomberg terminal interfacing directly with one of the major CRS systems like Amadeus?
- aj7 10y agoYou pay with your money, right?
- function_seven 10y agoI don't understand the question. Yeah, you (royal "you") pay with money. I don't pay for it, since I wouldn't get the value out of it.
- aj7 10y agoWe clearly don't understand each other. You say "Adding this to my private list of reasons whenever someone scoffs at "paying $25k a year for a pair of LCDs and a cheap keyboard". I think, "his work is paying the 25k." I don't scoff. But I can't afford it. By the way, the guy who said Google "flight schedule LAX ORD" did a great service here.
- function_seven 10y agoOh, gotcha. I wasn't really talking about the who, but rather if a Bloomberg terminal is worth the cost. From time to time there are people who are just baffled why "a pair of LCDs and a keyboard" cost $2k each month. The answer being that the service is the thing being bought, and that it's clearly worth it to the people and companies that subscribe.