Most of the current US launch fleet wouldn't exist without the military. Their need to loft satellites with the latest technology for the Pentagon and for the various intelligence agencies gives a reason for the aerospace companies to push new designs on them frequently, some of which have improvements in thrust or modularity, and some of which are little more than repackaged versions of what's been in use for years, with minimal hardware changes. Launches used by NASA or for commercial purposes are often sort of side thoughts in the design process.
I haven't played in a couple of years, but I don't remember carriers being able to transport non-aircraft units, and there's no way for a sub to move that far in one turn.
I've been using Vonage's service for a couple of months now, and except for some minor issues when I'm doing file transfers, the signal is clear, and definitely worth it. I've lowered my phone bill by about $25 a month (I pay about $40 for the service), and will soon be removing a couple of additional things so that they balance out. In addition, a few family members are considering moving to Vonage.
Now security is a bit of a concern, but since most people who would want to intercept my calls would likely try either the analog line first or else try to intercept the cordless phone signal, I'm not worried too much. If they can get in, they can listen to me get pestered by friends for solutions, or hear about how my nephew across the country is doing well in school. If I had something really pressing, I'd look for another solution, but for now I'm content to wait for the service to provide support through a firmware update, and if they don't and I need it then I'll look for something else.
Unfortunately, this looks like something that came out of the PR department rather than the engineering department.
I agree. I found particularly distasteful the following paragraph:
"Before the Clinton administration, wind power was too expensive, Alderfer said. But since then, technological improvements to the fans made it economically feasible."
I took this to mean that technological improvements in the last few years have made this possible. How Clinton figures into this is unclear, and I tend to think that it was either used as a chronological point of reference or else someone wanted to make him look good. Take your pick depending on your view. Either way, it's still poor journalistic practice.
Add to this the fact that they often do these tests while bouncing through 500 open relays that they don't control, and you have an extremely hard to detect, hard to control wardialer.
How difficult/time consuming would it be for someone with a decent commercial internet connection (DS3 or better) to run a scan of the entire IP address range, sending a test e-mail back to himself through all discovered open relays (perhaps with the e-mail address used @testingcompany.com for easy identification)? This list could then be used either to contact address owners and perhaps creating public blacklist for those who refuse to plug the holes.
Simplifying the math, with about 4 billion total addresses (I'm not factoring in private ranges), and one attempt per second, I get 134 computer years. Divide this by a corresponding increase in the number of possible attempts per second, and it slices down rapidly. For example, 100 attempts per second would be 1.34 computer years, and that could be further lowered by either faster or multiple computers (or both). Factor in the private address ranges and it drops even further. The main problem I see in this is the possibility of a perceived attack, though this could be moderated by randomizing the address listing so a large block owner doesn't get hundreds of probes a second.
I'm sure spammers already do these kinds of things anyway, so why can't we? Or does someone already do this?
Try adding a trigger to each entrance to show the description, similar to the description seen when entering the house in Port Llast (I don't remember the owner's name) that is owned by the guy that sells you the anti-werewolf stuff.
Gah... This is so lame.... I should know the name and I can't remember it... I think you should know what I'm talking about, if you've been there.
I don't think any age is better or worse than any other
According to the California Office of Traffic Safety, drivers aged 15-20 made up 6.3% of the population, but were involved in 12.5% of the injury and fatality collisions (http://www.ots.ca.gov/campaign/youthq/brief.asp). The group made up of 16-year-olds are also shown to have a fatal accident rate of 42 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, compared to the average of two for ages 30-50. I'd say there's a sharp difference between age groups.
Unlike some places, our insurance here varies only on driving record (licence goes up by $25 every bad thing you do, car never goes up) which is the way is should be.
Your mention of SK means, I presume, Saskatchewan, suggesting that Canada is your home. Canadian insurance laws seem quite different from American insurance laws. I'm anxious for next summer to come around so I reach the three-year point when the collision on my record -- my fault -- comes off. The settlement was for $10,000, and my rates got boosted by about $450 a year, meaning that they get $1350 for me costing them $10K, not to mention whatever other incidental costs are there. Of course, I've been paying my insurance company between $1200 and $2100 a year, depending on what I've been driving, whether I have a collision on my record, and my age group, so I guess it's fair. But I have no moving violations, and the two accidents have been relatively minor. I'm an odd exception to the rule.
My dad is even further off. He's been driving for 30 years, and has never had a moving violation or been in a single accident. He's come close, but never had one. Luck and skill. My middle brother, OTOH, is 25 and has four speeding tickets and three collisions, one of which resulted in the totaling of two relatively young cars cars and a six-month suspended license. I've seen his insurance bill, and it's not pretty. But it is simple statistics. Between the two extremes of my dad and his spotless record, and my brother, lies me. I see those, and I understand why the numbers on my insurance bill look as they do.
Canada has fewer people, generally a little more spread out than the United States, so the insurance laws and rates will be different. I know people who live in places where there's only a single paved road through town, and they pay less than half of what I do. They have lower chances of an accident. I drive the highways of Southern California, meaning I take risks whether it's my foot on the floor or not (usually not, but sometimes...). Part of living in the place I choose.
Actually, any judge of competent jurisdiction may find something unconstitutional and strike it down. Whether the appeals courts reverse it is another matter. There are many cases where a law is struck down at the trial level, and the appeals courts and the Supreme Court refuse to review the case, meaning the original judge's decision stands.
Write a letter (preferably reasonably polite, or at least respectful), sign it, put it in an envelope with your Congressperson's address on it, add a stamp to the envelope, and let the mailman deliver it for you. I've done this about a half-dozen times, and I've gotten four responses by mail that addresses the questions I had, as well as one form letter thanking me for sending my concerns in.
E-mail is almost certainly not read, at least in full. Snail mail is often read at least by a staffmember, and occasionally also by the addressee. It's worth a shot, and the effort one goes through shows that you're serious about it.
Microsoft has terminated support for Windows 95. Windows 98 and 98SE will be supported through the end of June, 2003, almost a year away. Yes, it's a bit short considering the number of people still running Win98, but it is still supported.
This isn't something that I ever saw. What I did see was the Windows 98 update CD that included the service pack and the security patches to that point, and I think also IE5.
That's because the research arms of most companies, while potentially of a major benefit, are typically a small consideration. If you bought, say Cisco, do you think more money would be coming out of the existing sales, or out of the R&D department? (Ignore the common barbs against Cisco's R&D.) While R&D could come up with some really great products, that will be then, not now.
The customer base is also important. Consider that if you have 100,000 customers, and your target company has 50,000 customers, if there is no direct competition between your company and your target, you now have a 50% larger potential customer base for your original products, and triple the porential customer base for your target. It's a simplified view, I know, but it's still a strong consideration.
Finally, keep in mind that sometimes it's the smaller companies that don't get advertised that a company buys to allow expansion of the products. Maybe they see that a little $1M a year company is on the right track, but does not and perhaps will never have the capital to make it big. When your $5B a year company offers $5M plus stock and a job with a hefty raise to this little guy, the media isn't going to pay much attention, and the sale will likely end up as a brief press release or perhaps no more than a blurb in the "What happened yesterday in brief" column of the business section of your local paper. The sum total of it would be something like, "XYZ Corp. (Symbol: XYZ) purchased the privately held ABC, Inc., yesterday for $10M is cash and stock." That's often it.
If you know where to look, you'll see these things. The trick is, there are thousands of publicly-traded companies, and monitoring the sales of all of them can be very tricky.
As of about 1:50pm EST on July 12, their market cap was hovering around $400M. I'm sure that just their long-distance service would sell for more in a post-bankruptcy auction, so an outright purchase right now by a relatively wealthy investor, say, someone with a few billion dollars, could conceivably take the company private, using existing revenues and perhaps a moderate cash infusion to pay off the debts. The owner could then spin off or sell some aspects of the existing business (such as MCI) to raise some additional capital to fix procedural issues that prevent profitability (I'm sure there's a lot of streamlining that could be done), and one of the biggest turnarounds ever could be seen.
Obviously, there are some technical difficulties, as such an offer would require a great quantity of pure cash to work out, or a lot of stock trades to raise the cash, and would probably attract more media attention than most people would like to consider, but it is possible. It would also be a tremendously fun gamble to watch play out.
Actually, the Supreme Court hasn't addressed it in this aspect -- read the full decision. While the Supreme Court has addressed the statements on occasion in assorted essentially offhand comments, they have never specifically addressed this question. If they had, the Ninth Circuit would never have picked this case up.
From footnote 12 on page 9130 (23rd page of 29 in the decision):
We recognize that the Supreme Court has occasionally commented in dicta that the presence of "one nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. See Allegheny, 492 U.S. at 602-03; Lynch, 465 U.S. at 676; id. at 693 (O'Connor, J., concurring); Abington Sch. Dist. v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 303-04 (1963) (Brennan, J., concurring); id. at 306-08 (Goldberg, J., joined by Harlan, J., concurring); Engel, 370 U.S. at 435 n. 21. However, the Court has never been presented with the question directly, and has always clearly refrained from deciding it. Accordingly, it has never applied any of the three tests to the Act or to any school policy regarding the recitation of the Pledge. That task falls to us, although the final word, as always, remains with the Supreme Court.
The three tests it mentions are also clearly covered in the decision, and the statute does fail them all significantly. Whether the full Ninth Court or even SCOTUS will see it that way may be a different story.
Airships can stay up for far longer periods of time than can a heavier-than-air vehicle. Consider that the Hindenburg took three *days* to cross from Berlin to New Jersey. Airships can also hover, and are very stable. There are few limits on size (Hindenburg was 804 feet in length), and can keep sufficient supplies on board for a small crew for days or longer.
Because they can stay longer than fixed-wing and have more room and carrying capacity than helicopters, they can mount water cannon allowing for more directed targeting.
As for your assertion on the reliability of the technology, aircraft technology in general was very undeveloped then, and several countries (and even companies) around the world use airships that have been around for a very long time with a very high safety record.
The paint was mostly powdered aluminum, used because it allowed the zeppelin to be shiny and visible from a distance. The hydrogen was used up quickly, whereas the aluminum kept burning.
The link above says that they didn't know that powdered metals burned. This isn't quite correct. A researcher found a single memo tucked deep into the Nazi archives that acknowledged that the paint could burn. It was buried for presumably political reasons.
Doesn't relative crystal strength increase as size decreases? IANAMSW, but I seem to remember reading this somewhere very recently. If this holds true, then these crystals may be more durable than first appears.
$1 billion is a lot, but the companies are getting used to it. Keep in mind that many of the new facilities Intel and AMD have built (or are in the process of planning/building) will cost $3 billion or more, and only a small fraction of that is structural.
The U.S. winning WW2 started in Nevada at the test site.
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding your reference, but wasn't most of the research done at Los Alamos, NM, the University of Chicago, and Oak Ridge, TN, with the first detonation at Trinity Site in New Mexico? I know a lot of later work was done in Nevada, and the primary underground test ranges were there, but I believe that was all post-WW2.
Well, someone could put a vertical hand-grip on top of a mouse, moving the buttons up there so the user's hands would maintain the same position. Of course, how it would appear is something else entirely.
"Bobby, what are you doing?!" "I'm just moving the mouse, mom! It's normal!" "At least go in the bathroom to do that!"
I do the same thing. I never learned to truly touch-type mostly because I thought that AP Chem was much more interesting than typing classes. Since then, I've managed to sort of be able to touch-type (except on this blasted lame-ass keyboard at work with the tiny backspace key) at a reasonable speed (admittedly not a speed-demon), and in a way that exercises my arms.
Ergonomics have their place. I've used a lot of things that weren't particularly comfortable (like this desk), while some other things have been pleasant (like the Aeron chair I have). Howeverm some decidedly non-ergonomic items like my keyboard and even my standard office chair at home can be preferable to some of the annoying "innovations" out there.
Besides, ergonomic keyboards make it that much more difficult to get to all of my Counter-Strike keys.:)
They don't answer directly, but if the King/Queen disapproves of something, it becomes a Very Bad Thing in the eyes of many people. The monarchy may not wield much in the way of real power, but it wields influence over the thoughts of large sections of the population, which is sometimes even better.
I don't know or recall if there's any shreds of Mosaic in IE 6.0
From IE's About dialogue box:
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc. Contains security software licensed from RSA Data Security Inc. Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. Multimedia software components, including Indeo(R); video, Indeo(R) audio, and Web Design Effects are provided by Intel Corp. Unix version contains software licensed from Mainsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Mainsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Mainsoft is a trademark of Mainsoft Corporation. Warning: This computer program is protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.
I imagine that the code is close enough as a derivative (or perhaps still there) that there's still a reason to include the text.
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Most of the current US launch fleet wouldn't exist without the military. Their need to loft satellites with the latest technology for the Pentagon and for the various intelligence agencies gives a reason for the aerospace companies to push new designs on them frequently, some of which have improvements in thrust or modularity, and some of which are little more than repackaged versions of what's been in use for years, with minimal hardware changes. Launches used by NASA or for commercial purposes are often sort of side thoughts in the design process.
I haven't played in a couple of years, but I don't remember carriers being able to transport non-aircraft units, and there's no way for a sub to move that far in one turn.
I've been using Vonage's service for a couple of months now, and except for some minor issues when I'm doing file transfers, the signal is clear, and definitely worth it. I've lowered my phone bill by about $25 a month (I pay about $40 for the service), and will soon be removing a couple of additional things so that they balance out. In addition, a few family members are considering moving to Vonage.
Now security is a bit of a concern, but since most people who would want to intercept my calls would likely try either the analog line first or else try to intercept the cordless phone signal, I'm not worried too much. If they can get in, they can listen to me get pestered by friends for solutions, or hear about how my nephew across the country is doing well in school. If I had something really pressing, I'd look for another solution, but for now I'm content to wait for the service to provide support through a firmware update, and if they don't and I need it then I'll look for something else.
Unfortunately, this looks like something that came out of the PR department rather than the engineering department.
I agree. I found particularly distasteful the following paragraph:
"Before the Clinton administration, wind power was too expensive, Alderfer said. But since then, technological improvements to the fans made it economically feasible."
I took this to mean that technological improvements in the last few years have made this possible. How Clinton figures into this is unclear, and I tend to think that it was either used as a chronological point of reference or else someone wanted to make him look good. Take your pick depending on your view. Either way, it's still poor journalistic practice.
It also depends on local laws. Some states provide rights to employees that cannot be signed away, no matter what the wording is.
Add to this the fact that they often do these tests while bouncing through 500 open relays that they don't control, and you have an extremely hard to detect, hard to control wardialer.
How difficult/time consuming would it be for someone with a decent commercial internet connection (DS3 or better) to run a scan of the entire IP address range, sending a test e-mail back to himself through all discovered open relays (perhaps with the e-mail address used @testingcompany.com for easy identification)? This list could then be used either to contact address owners and perhaps creating public blacklist for those who refuse to plug the holes.
Simplifying the math, with about 4 billion total addresses (I'm not factoring in private ranges), and one attempt per second, I get 134 computer years. Divide this by a corresponding increase in the number of possible attempts per second, and it slices down rapidly. For example, 100 attempts per second would be 1.34 computer years, and that could be further lowered by either faster or multiple computers (or both). Factor in the private address ranges and it drops even further. The main problem I see in this is the possibility of a perceived attack, though this could be moderated by randomizing the address listing so a large block owner doesn't get hundreds of probes a second.
I'm sure spammers already do these kinds of things anyway, so why can't we? Or does someone already do this?
Try adding a trigger to each entrance to show the description, similar to the description seen when entering the house in Port Llast (I don't remember the owner's name) that is owned by the guy that sells you the anti-werewolf stuff.
Gah... This is so lame.... I should know the name and I can't remember it... I think you should know what I'm talking about, if you've been there.
I don't think any age is better or worse than any other
. The group made up of 16-year-olds are also shown to have a fatal accident rate of 42 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, compared to the average of two for ages 30-50. I'd say there's a sharp difference between age groups.
According to the California Office of Traffic Safety, drivers aged 15-20 made up 6.3% of the population, but were involved in 12.5% of the injury and fatality collisions (http://www.ots.ca.gov/campaign/youthq/brief.asp)
Unlike some places, our insurance here varies only on driving record (licence goes up by $25 every bad thing you do, car never goes up) which is the way is should be.
Your mention of SK means, I presume, Saskatchewan, suggesting that Canada is your home. Canadian insurance laws seem quite different from American insurance laws. I'm anxious for next summer to come around so I reach the three-year point when the collision on my record -- my fault -- comes off. The settlement was for $10,000, and my rates got boosted by about $450 a year, meaning that they get $1350 for me costing them $10K, not to mention whatever other incidental costs are there. Of course, I've been paying my insurance company between $1200 and $2100 a year, depending on what I've been driving, whether I have a collision on my record, and my age group, so I guess it's fair. But I have no moving violations, and the two accidents have been relatively minor. I'm an odd exception to the rule.
My dad is even further off. He's been driving for 30 years, and has never had a moving violation or been in a single accident. He's come close, but never had one. Luck and skill. My middle brother, OTOH, is 25 and has four speeding tickets and three collisions, one of which resulted in the totaling of two relatively young cars cars and a six-month suspended license. I've seen his insurance bill, and it's not pretty. But it is simple statistics. Between the two extremes of my dad and his spotless record, and my brother, lies me. I see those, and I understand why the numbers on my insurance bill look as they do.
Canada has fewer people, generally a little more spread out than the United States, so the insurance laws and rates will be different. I know people who live in places where there's only a single paved road through town, and they pay less than half of what I do. They have lower chances of an accident. I drive the highways of Southern California, meaning I take risks whether it's my foot on the floor or not (usually not, but sometimes...). Part of living in the place I choose.
Actually, any judge of competent jurisdiction may find something unconstitutional and strike it down. Whether the appeals courts reverse it is another matter. There are many cases where a law is struck down at the trial level, and the appeals courts and the Supreme Court refuse to review the case, meaning the original judge's decision stands.
Write a letter (preferably reasonably polite, or at least respectful), sign it, put it in an envelope with your Congressperson's address on it, add a stamp to the envelope, and let the mailman deliver it for you. I've done this about a half-dozen times, and I've gotten four responses by mail that addresses the questions I had, as well as one form letter thanking me for sending my concerns in.
E-mail is almost certainly not read, at least in full. Snail mail is often read at least by a staffmember, and occasionally also by the addressee. It's worth a shot, and the effort one goes through shows that you're serious about it.
Correction:
Microsoft has terminated support for Windows 95. Windows 98 and 98SE will be supported through the end of June, 2003, almost a year away. Yes, it's a bit short considering the number of people still running Win98, but it is still supported.
This isn't something that I ever saw. What I did see was the Windows 98 update CD that included the service pack and the security patches to that point, and I think also IE5.
That's because the research arms of most companies, while potentially of a major benefit, are typically a small consideration. If you bought, say Cisco, do you think more money would be coming out of the existing sales, or out of the R&D department? (Ignore the common barbs against Cisco's R&D.) While R&D could come up with some really great products, that will be then, not now.
The customer base is also important. Consider that if you have 100,000 customers, and your target company has 50,000 customers, if there is no direct competition between your company and your target, you now have a 50% larger potential customer base for your original products, and triple the porential customer base for your target. It's a simplified view, I know, but it's still a strong consideration.
Finally, keep in mind that sometimes it's the smaller companies that don't get advertised that a company buys to allow expansion of the products. Maybe they see that a little $1M a year company is on the right track, but does not and perhaps will never have the capital to make it big. When your $5B a year company offers $5M plus stock and a job with a hefty raise to this little guy, the media isn't going to pay much attention, and the sale will likely end up as a brief press release or perhaps no more than a blurb in the "What happened yesterday in brief" column of the business section of your local paper. The sum total of it would be something like, "XYZ Corp. (Symbol: XYZ) purchased the privately held ABC, Inc., yesterday for $10M is cash and stock." That's often it.
If you know where to look, you'll see these things. The trick is, there are thousands of publicly-traded companies, and monitoring the sales of all of them can be very tricky.
As of about 1:50pm EST on July 12, their market cap was hovering around $400M. I'm sure that just their long-distance service would sell for more in a post-bankruptcy auction, so an outright purchase right now by a relatively wealthy investor, say, someone with a few billion dollars, could conceivably take the company private, using existing revenues and perhaps a moderate cash infusion to pay off the debts. The owner could then spin off or sell some aspects of the existing business (such as MCI) to raise some additional capital to fix procedural issues that prevent profitability (I'm sure there's a lot of streamlining that could be done), and one of the biggest turnarounds ever could be seen.
Obviously, there are some technical difficulties, as such an offer would require a great quantity of pure cash to work out, or a lot of stock trades to raise the cash, and would probably attract more media attention than most people would like to consider, but it is possible. It would also be a tremendously fun gamble to watch play out.
Actually, the Supreme Court hasn't addressed it in this aspect -- read the full decision. While the Supreme Court has addressed the statements on occasion in assorted essentially offhand comments, they have never specifically addressed this question. If they had, the Ninth Circuit would never have picked this case up.
From footnote 12 on page 9130 (23rd page of 29 in the decision):
We recognize that the Supreme Court has occasionally commented in dicta that the presence of "one nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. See Allegheny, 492 U.S. at 602-03; Lynch, 465 U.S. at 676; id. at 693 (O'Connor, J., concurring); Abington Sch. Dist. v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 303-04 (1963) (Brennan, J., concurring); id. at 306-08 (Goldberg, J., joined by Harlan, J., concurring); Engel, 370 U.S. at 435 n. 21. However, the Court has never been presented with the question directly, and has always clearly refrained from deciding it. Accordingly, it has never applied any of the three tests to the Act or to any school policy regarding the recitation of the Pledge. That task falls to us, although the final word, as always, remains with the Supreme Court.
The three tests it mentions are also clearly covered in the decision, and the statute does fail them all significantly. Whether the full Ninth Court or even SCOTUS will see it that way may be a different story.
Airships can stay up for far longer periods of time than can a heavier-than-air vehicle. Consider that the Hindenburg took three *days* to cross from Berlin to New Jersey. Airships can also hover, and are very stable. There are few limits on size (Hindenburg was 804 feet in length), and can keep sufficient supplies on board for a small crew for days or longer.
Because they can stay longer than fixed-wing and have more room and carrying capacity than helicopters, they can mount water cannon allowing for more directed targeting.
As for your assertion on the reliability of the technology, aircraft technology in general was very undeveloped then, and several countries (and even companies) around the world use airships that have been around for a very long time with a very high safety record.
http://www.carolina.com/tech-ed/hydrogen.asp
The paint was mostly powdered aluminum, used because it allowed the zeppelin to be shiny and visible from a distance. The hydrogen was used up quickly, whereas the aluminum kept burning.
The link above says that they didn't know that powdered metals burned. This isn't quite correct. A researcher found a single memo tucked deep into the Nazi archives that acknowledged that the paint could burn. It was buried for presumably political reasons.
I Am Not A Materials Science Whiz
Doesn't relative crystal strength increase as size decreases? IANAMSW, but I seem to remember reading this somewhere very recently. If this holds true, then these crystals may be more durable than first appears.
$1 billion is a lot, but the companies are getting used to it. Keep in mind that many of the new facilities Intel and AMD have built (or are in the process of planning/building) will cost $3 billion or more, and only a small fraction of that is structural.
The U.S. winning WW2 started in Nevada at the test site.
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding your reference, but wasn't most of the research done at Los Alamos, NM, the University of Chicago, and Oak Ridge, TN, with the first detonation at Trinity Site in New Mexico? I know a lot of later work was done in Nevada, and the primary underground test ranges were there, but I believe that was all post-WW2.
Well, someone could put a vertical hand-grip on top of a mouse, moving the buttons up there so the user's hands would maintain the same position. Of course, how it would appear is something else entirely.
"Bobby, what are you doing?!"
"I'm just moving the mouse, mom! It's normal!"
"At least go in the bathroom to do that!"
I do the same thing. I never learned to truly touch-type mostly because I thought that AP Chem was much more interesting than typing classes. Since then, I've managed to sort of be able to touch-type (except on this blasted lame-ass keyboard at work with the tiny backspace key) at a reasonable speed (admittedly not a speed-demon), and in a way that exercises my arms.
:)
Ergonomics have their place. I've used a lot of things that weren't particularly comfortable (like this desk), while some other things have been pleasant (like the Aeron chair I have). Howeverm some decidedly non-ergonomic items like my keyboard and even my standard office chair at home can be preferable to some of the annoying "innovations" out there.
Besides, ergonomic keyboards make it that much more difficult to get to all of my Counter-Strike keys.
They don't answer directly, but if the King/Queen disapproves of something, it becomes a Very Bad Thing in the eyes of many people. The monarchy may not wield much in the way of real power, but it wields influence over the thoughts of large sections of the population, which is sometimes even better.
I don't know or recall if there's any shreds of Mosaic in IE 6.0
From IE's About dialogue box:
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc.
Contains security software licensed from RSA Data Security Inc.
Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
Multimedia software components, including Indeo(R); video, Indeo(R) audio, and Web Design Effects are provided by Intel Corp.
Unix version contains software licensed from Mainsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Mainsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Mainsoft is a trademark of Mainsoft Corporation.
Warning: This computer program is protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.
I imagine that the code is close enough as a derivative (or perhaps still there) that there's still a reason to include the text.