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Buy before 31 January and travel within 90 days, and you can get a round trip ticket from the West Coast for just under $800.00, all in, on China Air (Taiwan).

You might want to read that again. The article is taking about bank loans to airlines that want to buy new aircraft.

Thank you for the great report and photos!

Had you read the article you would have seen that Boeing, in a round about way, acknowledged the mistake. Now for a little from the other side of the Atlantic where they do things, oh, so well.... "ANALYSIS: Where next for the Airbus Military A400M?" By Niall O'Keeffe After maintaining an optimistic front throughout last year, EADS has finally conceded that the problems facing Europe's Airbus Military A400M programme are of a scale equal to the giant transport, and called on its partner nations to negotiate a new contract to complete development and production of the type. Lead stakeholder EADS on 9 January announced that it was seeking "a new approach" for the troubled A400M project, after its plans to fly the first production aircraft from mid-2008 failed to become reality. EADS chief executive Louis Gallois says this is intended to reflect "the military nature of the programme" and the risk involved, but any change to the current €20 billion ($26.6 billion) A400M deal will be the subject of intensive and difficult negotiations between industry, the programme's seven launch nations and Europe's OCCAR procurement agency over the coming months. The new EADS proposal hinges on resuming production activities only after flight-testing of the A400M has reached "adequate maturity", with an expectation that deliveries will begin "around three years after first flight". It also calls for changes to undisclosed "technical characteristics" of the airlifter....... ......... "ANGRY RESPONSE UK defence secretary John Hutton says the UK "cannot accept a three- or four-year delay" in the delivery of its 25 A400Ms, and attributes the delay to "problems that EADS is having in producing the aircraft, not because of any policy decision made by the UK government or any other partner nations involved. We, along with all our partner nations, will have to consider very carefully what the right response to the problem is." http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/...tary-a400m.html

What made all the difference in the world, in my opinion, is he is also a glider pilot and an older pilot with real flying experience. I doubt, unfortunately, a younger pilot whose only experience is flying these "modern flying computers" could have done as well. Fly-by-wire has taken a great deal of "joy" out of flying and today's airline pilot is more of a computer systems administrator that a pilot.

ABOUT F****** TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflas...+temp_top+story "...Boeing (BA), beset by repeated snarls that have delayed commercial deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner into early 2010, is rethinking the global outsourcing model that critics say has caused much of the nearly two-year holdup. The company is making plans to bring more work back in-house. Frustrated by production and design snafus that Boeing engineers say have led the company repeatedly to send staffers out to suppliers to iron out difficulties, the company's top executives are suggesting they will rely less on their outside suppliers. While the forthcoming version of the Dreamliner, the 787-8, may be affected by the plans over time, efforts to scale back on outsourcing are expected to be more aggressive on future versions of the plane, especially the 787-9, scheduled for delivery in 2012...." The complete story can be found at the link above.

A Little Old Lady With A Very Dirty Mind.

British Cuisine?! Wouldn't that be an oxymoron?

Is the entrance to the restaurant and the rooms one and the same? If not where is the entrance to the hotel rooms in relationship to the restaurant? Thanks.

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Do a search of this forum and you will find at least two reviews of the Sunshine Hotel and Residence, if not more. It is very girlfriend friendly. Stay in the "new" wing, not the old. Make sure you keep everything locked up all the time. Do NOT leave anything of value, no matter how small, laying around when any hotel employees are in your room for any reason. There is a reason the room service receipts are stamped in red, "Do Not pay the hotel employee" (or something to that effect).

It gets high marks, especially when used as you are using it, and is considered a "major distribution." More here, http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major I haven't used it myself, but did try Red Hat several years ago. I got a late start :) and bought my first personal computer 21 years ago. Started with DOS and quickly added Desqview. I miss Desqview. It was a great product. I was even running the early versions of Windows in it. :) In '95, I bought a copy of Slackware Linux and have been using it off and on ever since. Tried Red Hat, Caldera's OpenLinux (several versions) and along the way the various versions of winblows, including XP which, IMHO, is mickeysoft's best effort to date. When Vista was released, I read the reviews and went back to using Slackware Linux full time. I've also tried K/Ubuntu and can see why it has become the most popular of the many Linux distributions, but I don't care for changes they are making to Linux and have recently installed Slamd64, which is 64 bit version of Slackware. Long live Linux!

I wouldn't have believed this, but since it is microsoft, yes, they would try something like this. Hard to believe there are people who think microsoft is a good "corporate citizen." sheeeezzz!!!!! "Microsoft specs out 'pay as you go' PC scheme. Files patent for metering hardware capabilities but admits overall cost 'may be higher'" http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...mp;pageNumber=1

BTW, what "flavor" of Linux are you using?

Martin, What package are you running your server on? Apache?

The place is a pit IMHO: Try here: http://www.pattayatalk.com/forums/index.ph...;hl=Lord+Nelson

If you do a search you should be able to find a couple of reviews. if not in this forum, search the entire board.

"December 17th, 2008 Has Internet Explorer ever been safe? Posted by Zack Whittaker @ 5:08 am http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=670 "....This morning, I put forward the claim that Internet Explorer, in recent times (this decade) has not been secure, and shouldn’t be used unless absolutely necessary. Back in the day when Internet Explorer was more of an experiment than a viable browser, the iexplore.exe application was heavily tied into Windows, the explorer.exe application. If one faltered, more likely to be the former, the other would almost automatically screw up too. This meant, you got a bug or fault with Internet Explorer, that same bug would be replicated in Windows Explorer. This caused serious issues, hence why Internet Explorer 7 was entirely separate from Windows and could be easily updateable and removable. When a doctor of computing engineering tells the world not to watch or download porn through Internet Explorer, a world class and highly respected writer, that’s when you know a browser has a problem. This new-ish threat which came to light about a severe vulnerability in the browser, when reported by the BBC live on the BBC News channel, said: “…people should stop using the Internet Explorer web browser, and revert to a rival browser. Internet Explorer, of course being known around the world, and having the dominant marketshare of browsers, should not be used because of a reported zero-day attack.” [Tuesday 16th, around 3pm GMT]..." ******** You can read the entire article at the link at the top of this page.

The latest version of VLC is now 0.9.8a. http://www.videolan.org

Sometimes the long layovers are really nothing more than a method of getting the traveler to boost the local enconomy. :) Sometimes it is just poor scheduling. :)

Asiana is a good airline. Do they actually fly between O'Hara and Lax or is that leg done with another airline?

The Residence Garden is best bang for the buck in a hotel in Pattaya. If it were on Soi 13 it would be perfect.

Here we go again: "Boeing Schedules 787 Dreamliner First Flight for Second Quarter 2009; First Delivery for First Quarter 2010 Schedule change driven by impact of Machinists' strike and fastener replacement work." Story here: http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2008/q4/081211a_nr.html ****** I've been a fan of Boeing since the Dash-80 (707), but this doesn't appear to me to be the same company. My anger and the almost sense of betrayal, for a lack of a better word, perhaps I should say, bitter disappointment, over the 787 program is beyond words. As the financial world fell apart over the last couple of months it became apparent that somewhere along the line basic management principles were thrown out the window. and those, oh, so bright, MBA types, have taken us down the wrong road. Management in all industries need to get back to basics. If you have noticed, the banks that haven't gotten themselves in trouble, are those who stayed away from the financial shenanigans of the last 25 years or so, and concentrated on their core business, good old fashion banking. There is a lesson there to be learned.

"...The device was defused by a visiting bomb disposal expert from Mumbai, a Mr ‘Boom’ Singh,..." Thanks!