Can we start a Latest & Greatest Apple thread?

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Will,

I would suggest more authoritative sources than this site. This is a water cooler debate here. You might try:

http://www.alpa.org/portals/alpa/com...M_11-15-10.pdf

Every pilot has to be disciplined to manage their rest. It is challenging to try to bed down in the early afternoon for an all night flight. Most catch their circadian lows 10am & 2pm for most and carefully regulate caffeine intake. Very low amounts of melatonin (3mg) can also be used well before duty in to help getting to sleep.

Many schedules are built so the all night red eye is the leg home completing the rotation, so the pilot is recovering on their time at home.

Sleep is a challenge.

 

They threw every and anything at the wall. Some might stick. Another vote might be held. The union must be very disappointed the rule change has not helped them win any representational votes, thus far.

I predict since FA's have seen that Doug Steenland did not return and life really hasn't changed, the momentum of the previous vote will build. Voters like to be on the winning side of the vote and studies have shown voters will change their decision in favor of a predicted winner. ... after a while you begin to understand the biblical references to sheep.

 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._airbus02.html

Might be a game changer, especially for a 100 seater. It would be interesting to see the comparison with the C series with the new specs on the Airbus--and Boeing's reaction.

 

Lifted from the internet:
Apple is reportedly in the final testing stages of a fourth-generation iPhone variant first referenced in iOS 3.2. That device, which has the product code iPhone3,2, is widely expected to be a CDMA-compatible iPhone that has been rumored to launch on Verizon in early 2011.

Apple stores information about devices supported by iOS in a file called USBDeviceConfiguration.plist. Those devices are referenced by a model code with the name of the device, a major revision number, and a minor revision number. For instance, the original iPhone is coded iPhone1,1 while the iPhone 3G, considered a minor variation, is iPhone1,2. The iPhone 3GS is also known as iPhone2,1.

iOS 3.2 contained references to three separate fourth-generation iPhone devices: iPhone3,1, iPhone3,2 and iPhone3,3. Once the iPhone 4 shipped in June, it was confirmed to be iPhone3,1. Little information exists about the other two product codes, but we speculated then that one may be a CDMA model while the other could be a 4G-compatible model.

Sources for Boy Genius Report said that the iPhone3,2 model is currently in "AP" stage testing, described as the final phase before retail release. If the model is indeed a CDMA-compatible version of the iPhone 4, that would coincide nicely with rumors that the iPhone would launch on Verizon in early 2011—though Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg has done his best to deflect those rumors.

Oddly, the device is also said to have a SIM slot, despite CDMA networks not using SIMs to connect devices. BGR speculated that it could mean the device is merely an interim revision of the current iPhone 4 to correct widely reported antenna issues, but evidence of it being planned as far back as iOS 3.2 suggests otherwise. Instead, it is more probable that Apple is building a device that could be used on either CDMA/EV-DO or GSM/UMTS networks—the company was said to be courting Qualcomm last year for a baseband chip compatible with both systems.

BGR's source didn't say anything about iPhone3,3, though the source did say that a fifth-generation device had already reached "EVT," or engineering verification testing. That device has already been rumored to adopt a Qualcomm baseband compatible with the LTE 4G standard in addition to offering both EV-DO and UMTS 3G fallback.

 

Phone Nerds.....

 

Put all of the requested dates off on the same bid line with an Else Start Next at the end of that bid line. Then in the next bid group build your bid as a line holder.

One caution is that you may not be able to get all of the weekends off due to blocks of days off maximum. IF there are 5 weekends and your category is limited to only four blocks of days off, you will not be able to get one of them. You will also need to make sure that you satisfy the minimum number of days on in between blocks of days off.

Hope this helps.

 

No kidding - out of those phone posts, I didn't understand a single sentence (but honestly didn't try too hard).

I'm still looking for a cell phone with a dial on the front.

 

Dude, E175s are so nice to ride on.

Glad Delta didn't want them.

 

The AFA interference claims are embarrassing. If that's all they've got then they are in deep trouble. There's no way the NMB can call for a new vote based on those flimsy allegations and still maintain any appearance of being impartial.

The unions got the NMB to change the voting rules and they still lost.
I can't see the NMB bailing them out again. It would be way too obvious.