How do you get exploded head off the computer screen.

I know, I'll wipe it off with Denny's chick's dress. I just have to get TYG's nose out of the way.

Your statement was: "ALPA has its wrongs." I asked you to name one. You give two contract items that you don't like. Thats not an ALPA "wrong."


As you say, there are no oil paintings anymore, so that's not an ALPA wrong either.

Still waiting for you to name one, actually.

Carl

Proof I really did evolve from monkeys... in this case a baboon. I make the same face!

I need one more minute. Then its all yours:D

TEN

Surface 2
 

I haven't seen too much about the announcement of the Surface 2 as our new electronic flight kit. The Surface RT (original Surface) was a failure as a consumer device and Microsoft had to take a $900 million writeup and dropped the price by 30%. The Surface 2 uses the same basic chassis BUT it is still ARM (not x86) based and has a very limited number of applications. Most tech pundits think it is Dead on Arrival sales wise due to it's price ($449) competing directly with the iPad. Although Microsoft has ample resources to continue building and selling this there are new x86 compatible small Windows tablets that will run all the new touchscreen (Metro) applications AND still run regular Windows Software (Office, Quicken, Chrome, iTunes, etc.) and ASUS is putting one out for $349 (32 GB storage) WITH keyboard or $399 (64 GB storage). The $449 Surface 2 does not come with a keyboard at that price and the keyboard options are all over $100. I pray that Delta got a killer price for this and the flight attendant's Lumia phones. It's hard to believe they went through a separate certification process when the rest of the EFB are all iPad based. We will see.

This is more about some VP at Microsoft getting a
bonus than it is about line pilots being issued a quality, proven, and useful device that will be supported by the manufacturer. I can't wait to see how useless this thing will be.

That's your opinion.

Has it officially passed National yet? Regardless, it still counts in my book. I can't help if you don't find it an acceptable answer.

I think it probably has more to do with a corporate account for Delta. JMO.

Tip o' the hat to the NY CPO, who figured out a way for me to write hiring recommendations even though I'm on mil leave and my Delta e-mail account has been suspended until I return. The fellow I worked with didn't have to go out of his way to find a solution, but he did. BZ!

Right. Like Microsoft is going to pull the account because we won't be forced to buy 10,000 of their useless paperweights. What other airline would?