Subj : Re: Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Nov 01 2019 01:47:46 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 27-Oct-2019 09:30 <=- BM>> So makes more sense to use Montreal. Just 'sounds funny' with my BM>> limited experience. NB>> I've flown out of Toronto to Great Britain a couple of times... made NB>> for a less expensive and better connecting flight... A British friend NB>> of mine that lived here in the Rochester airport told me that she NB>> flew that way all the time when she'd make trips back home, so I gave NB>> it a try... :) BM> Makes sense. The various locations play a big part. Exactly. :) BM> When I was growing up in southern New Hampshire any major flying was BM> done out of Logan International (Boston - BOS); there was an airport BM> in Nashua NH but no commercial flights, next one was in Manchester NH BM> -- I don't recall much about it back then other than it was a military BM> airbase. While I was in college Manchester (MHT) took off (no pun BM> intended!) and became an alternative of sorts to Logan, only 50 miles BM> away. That allowed it to really expand and is now "Manchester - BM> Boston Regional", so a lot of travel which had gone to BOS now goes BM> to MHT. Lots of shuttle services between the two airports and the BM> areas between, air and ground. Makes sense to divert some of the traffic off of Logan... keep it from getting too congested.... BM>> And LIS in a message last week, I had assumed the Swiss (airline) BM>> flight to Chicago was the same as the one at Boston - nope. Guess a BM>> thousand miles isn't that much more for an international flight. NB>> They do tend to use the larger planes, with a longer flight NB>> ability... BM> When tends to work out well as landing in the ocean to refuel isn't BM> done! ...Overland one needs to watch out for those short runways! Yup... both need to be accounted for... :) BM> Also was thinking: we tend to think of the Earth as flat. Not BM> thinking Flat Earth Society flat, but flat as in table top map rather BM> than the actual sphere, which tends to alter the perception of where BM> things are. Looking at a flight path mapping ORD to ZUR is a definite BM> arced route on the flat map -- closer to a straight line on a globe. BM> Plus that route is north of the US's New England boarder with Canada, BM> so BOS is a detour. (The things one finds out with these little BM> chats!) Never know what might prompt looking up things and learning details... ;) NB>>>> Maybe someday when you are caught up on all those projects, and NB>>>> no But Firsts get in the way.... Maybe even take a course at NB>>>> the community college, or online...? :) BM>>> Isn't Googling for the answer considered 'on-line'? Actually BM>>> taking a classroom or on-line class wouldn't be a bad idea. By the BM>>> time all the But Firsts have dwindled down to allow for time to take BM>>> the classes there won't be any crisis for me to use my new knowledge BM>>> on! NB>>> But it could be useful for the next crisis thereafter... ;) BM>> True; really more reasons for than against taking the classes. NB>> That's what it was looking like to me... :) BM> But First....! No, no.... we were going to try to get past all of those... BM>> There are times when I have and I have seen others describe what the BM>> device looks like, what the screen appearance is, etc., because don't BM>> know the term ==> "the display from the computer is larger than the BM>> TV's showing" "Oh, you mean 'overscan'." NB>> When one doesn't know the word, description is definitely the way to NB>> go... and then one might even learn the right word for it... :) BM> Right. Some times the correct word makes just as much if not more BM> sense than the descriptive word/s: "picture too big" ==> "overscan", BM> though that makes sense only if one realizes the display on the screen BM> is really being scanned and not magically appears. OTOH "judder' -- BM> maybe derived from 'jerking' and 'shudder'? ...My brain hurts! Now that's a word I'd not heard before.... ;) NB>>>> Still mind-boggling to me... ;) BM>>> Just the copying of the usual and customary small files on a grand BM>>> scale! ...Though sometimes get into the little details of a file system BM>>> will only handle so big a file and probably some other etc's. NB>>> True.... and EXACTLY... BM>> One way of learning is to get thrown into the pool! NB>> As long as one doesn't drown doing it... BM> But then one could have a whole new set of error messages! Reboot BM> could be 'everone out of the pool'; a computer freeze could be 'system BM> went ice fishing but the hole disappeared'..... No thank you..... ;0 ttyl neb .... Windows: Just another pane in the glass. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .