I've been looking for something to replace my subscription to SA for a long time. Over the years, it has become wayyyy too much like popular science/mechanics for my taste.
Anybody remember the windows tutorial in Windows 3.1? Quite a bit of that was commited to teaching the user to use the mouse (right-click contextual menu stuff, click and drag, etc.). This really isn't anything new, but seeing how many people don't seem to realize that a mouse has more than one button, these lessons will never be obsolete. Looking at how unintuitive multi-button mice are, I think the one-button mouse is one thing that Apple got right.
I can't believe that there are other factors that make us hang out with the blue or red crowd before attaching a specific ideology to our choice, since young people are so overwhelmingly liberal merely by virtue of their youth.
Young minds are clouded by all sorts of emotions and such that cause them to act irrationally. Somthing like the mind of a woman. Some things are just better not to try to reason with.
NASA seems to have become a victim of its successes in the 60's and 70's. An agency-wide "attitude problem" formed within NASA and created an environment in which mistakes like this are more likely. Don't take my word for it. Read the Columbia Report. In particular, check out part two (starting on pg. 99).
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I've been looking for something to replace my subscription to SA for a long time. Over the years, it has become wayyyy too much like popular science/mechanics for my taste.
Anybody remember the windows tutorial in Windows 3.1? Quite a bit of that was commited to teaching the user to use the mouse (right-click contextual menu stuff, click and drag, etc.). This really isn't anything new, but seeing how many people don't seem to realize that a mouse has more than one button, these lessons will never be obsolete. Looking at how unintuitive multi-button mice are, I think the one-button mouse is one thing that Apple got right.
I can't believe that there are other factors that make us hang out with the blue or red crowd before attaching a specific ideology to our choice, since young people are so overwhelmingly liberal merely by virtue of their youth. Young minds are clouded by all sorts of emotions and such that cause them to act irrationally. Somthing like the mind of a woman. Some things are just better not to try to reason with.
NASA seems to have become a victim of its successes in the 60's and 70's. An agency-wide "attitude problem" formed within NASA and created an environment in which mistakes like this are more likely. Don't take my word for it. Read the Columbia Report. In particular, check out part two (starting on pg. 99).
Actually, Steely Dan had a Gibson fetish. Those songs were written after Gibson wrote neuromancer.
R-12 is not in use anymore, but R-22 is. It is not as bad as the older freon, but it is still not a good idea to spill it.