Satellite constellations are more like 30+. If you are going to be doing heavy bandwidth multiple connections you will use even more.
Teledesic (since dead, IIRC) proposed a constellation of over 700 satellites. We all had a hearty chuckle over that in design class. They changed that before the world lost sight of them to less than 300 satellites. I would love to see how much crack they import for the use of the guys designing the hand-off protocalls.
Regardless, you simply cannot get around high ping when it comes to satellites. You have an up and down of minimum 700km. Not so bad, right? But you have to amplify the hell out of the signal (talking about -100dB reception strength here). Then figure out where the hell to send it. Do you bounce it through your own network (in space?). If so... OUCH! If not, send it back to the ground, where it has to be highly amplified AGAIN and then put the signal onto the normal data lines. So you keep most of the land-based lag sources, and then add a whole BUNCH on top of that.
I recall once that a raw satellite ping on a particular sat took 0.2 seconds. However, a system ping took over a half second.
Raw ping is just my way of saying that the satellite said 'oh! heard something I respond NOW!'. As opposed to the system check which actually processes the signal through all the normal electronics then sends back an 'ok'. Don't recall the altitude.
But yeah, as you said. -- satellites suck for ping, but so what? They have their uses. And good uses they are:~)
There is a certain large public university in Indiana. The EE course is pretty much the only university to use a certain EE textbook written by a certain EE professor who works at the large public university in indiana.
Other than that, I have no examples. I only had three classes in 3 years that 'needed' actual textbooks. My favorite textbook requirement was one where -- even though the book cost $110 -- the prof was dissing on it before he had dismissed the class on the first day. 'It sucks, but its the best thing out there. The author is a pompus' etc etc. I like the book, and rather thought it was the other way around....
I do agree with the GP, however, about the artificial market. It isn't really the profs who force students to buy THEIR books, but rather the BS '1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th' edition crap. Oh, and my favorite, the 'Non-US edition' which is paperback and 1/2 the price of the US edition. Professors should not be allowed to change a text for (x) number of years simply to update to a new edition. If there is a good reason to change YES! by all means. But too many profs just go 'oh, new editon. I'll use that'. Then send the order to the bookstore, which stops buying the old edition back from students, which means everyone has to buy new, which... Grrrr;~)
While I was only REQUIRED to buy 3 textbooks (and I already had purchased one of them) I bought textbooks all the time; bought three for one class alone (the class which covered quaternion rotations).
Most of the profs in my department write their own notes and have them bound -- students pay for them at the copy shop, usually fairly cheap. One prof would photocopy using the office printer and hand them out in class. We're talking about some 100+ pages of notes for each semester per student:~).
Good to point out that many people ignore the libary. My university had a copy of every textbook that was required available for use (but not checkout). If you won't be needing a book much, or really are unable to afford a book this might a be a good place to go.
Yes, but commercial airline flight went from being not existing to mundane in 45 years.
Really... there isn't much difference. Sure, it is harder math, needs better materials. But working with what we have should 'just work' by now, and new advances would make it 'just work' that much better/more affordably.
I suppose if it were something that could turn a big profit, it would by now. E.g. If the moon were to have been found to be strewn with boulders of platinum or sex gods or something;~)
and don't forget that you don't just get 'wator vapor' when you burn shit at 3000 deg. F.
Heellloo nitrogen combustion in the exhaust stream!
That said, it really isn't a big deal currently (due mostly to low launch numbers) and we are moving away from the toxic fuels... which brings me tooooo:
I love space etc etc. NASA fucked up (ha, there's a new one) when they decided to continue to use the SRBs for the next gen launcher. Probably costs as much to transport them from Utah to Florida than it would to fuel up an equally powerful liquid booster stage.
Bite me it will be faster. It was done to appease a congress-critter.
Everybody probably already has nukes in space. That isn't a 'big deal' in terms of design/delivery. Easy peasy.
What is WANTED is the ability to strike within a few minutes, and hit a target the size of a car, destroying as little as possible aside from the target. That whole 'Rods from God' crap or whatever, plus lasers, plus ????? Who knows what else.
Not supporting military in space. Especially the US military, as we are currently the most aggressive of the large military forces already.
... desktop, until some company comes out with a 'browser' platform which completely ignores all of the BS recommendations by the W3C.
By which I mean, they don't even *try* to conform, nor do they pretend to conform. This mythical company will write a completely new NETWORK CENTRIC platform. Note I do *not* mean 'web based'. The web is complete shit. Look at it for gods sake! People like to pretend it is different or somehow better than ('x'), but I've been here since BBSs -- I promise, if anything you get less bang for your hours worth of 'development' now than you did when HTML 1.1 was the standard.
Until someone tells the W3C to piss off we won't be seeing anything truly innovative again -- the standards bodies work at maybe 10% of the rate of technology innovation. It just doesn't work.
Which isn't to say I don't belive in standards! They are *required* for such a wide, wide world to play together. But we need a standards body that either moves its ass like results matter, or gets the fuck out of the way.
Case in point: The 'world wide web' had 100% static pages until sometime in the past few years. You couldn't do so much as add TextBox_A.value and TextBox_B.value without reloading a page.
Even now you have to do post and reload with most methods of web development. What a joke!
Anyway, here's to hoping for a new 'internet platform' which is just soooo good that we all flock too it like awed sheep.
Going digital will massively reduce the amount of EM 'in the air'.
We could broadcast something like 50Mbps using one channel of TV (12 Mhz of bandwidth using quad etc etc -- I'm probably wrong here, been a few years). Anyway, there are 12Mhz at an absolute minimum of 1 bit per cycle.
More to the point, analog has zippo for error correction, so it has to be broadcast at a much higher power. Digital radio from XFM hits your antenna with a dB rating of something like -90dB (better at low latitudes, worse at higher) -- which would be akin to broadcasting about 100 watts from an FM tower (as opposed to hundreds of thousands of watts).
That key is a trust issue; e.g. 'do I BELIEVE that this person is who he says he is?'.
If I say I am Microsoft Corp and I have managed to forge a verisign key, then I might be able to get you to run code on your machine in trusted mode -- maybe. But you have to do SOMETHING for that to happen, once I've cracked verisign (e.g. browse to a page and have been stupid enough at sometime in the past to have checked 'always trust crap from MS).
The topic at hand concerns there being ONE key set that would let anybody who has it listen in on any VoIP conversation without the need for ANY action on the victoms part.
In reality, it won't be only one key set, it would probably be an algorithm based on a number of factors, plus some key system. Doesn't matter, it won't last -- it WILL be broken.
But then, it isn't very hard for me to pull up to the phone junction box in the street an pull your line and listen in on your land line conversations. Verizon uniforms aren't exactly hard to find these days.
So it isn't the end of the world; it is just stupid. Anybody that has been using the net for more than a few years will easily find ways to communicate that cannot be intercepted and decrypted; sure, someone will know that person X is trying to talk with person Y in a secure fashion -- but that isn't grounds for *anything*. Yet.
My mother-in-law tried to use my wife's Wegman's loyalty card, and they checked her ID and wouldn't let her use it.
And you think this is okay? Are you insane? I can't understand how anyone can consider these bullshit 'loyalty' cards a good thing... But to ID someone to make sure they are using their own card?
Why not just require a customer to show their ID? Bypass this BS loyalty card shit completely.
Wake up.
DON'T SHOP AT STORES THAT SCREW YOU FOR NOT USING THEIR DATA COLLECTION SCHEME! Then guess who goes out of business if they don't change their ways?
... and maybe PDX can learn how to send flights directly from one useful airport to another.
Honest to god. It costs me a hundred dollars more to fly from PDX to STL than from PSP to STL or IND... wtf? PALM SPRINGS. Probably because I from PDX I STILL have to go through Arizona or SFO.
The only flights out of Portland seem to be to the closest hub of whatever carrier you choose. Total suckage.
But yeah, PDX has the BEST approach (car) of any airport I've ever been too -- minus Heathrow, 'cause you just take the tube. Light rail to PDX is extremely painful (25 min drive, 1.5 hour MAX ride), but at least it exists. And the interior is very nice, with good food inside and out of security; though it is better outside. Hmmm.. a REALLY CRAPPY SANDWICH for 8 bucks? Orrr, a very nice bit of Ahi steak for 14? With some veggies and rice to boot? Hard choice.
As to the rest: Yes. *sigh*. Just dodging a depressing subject.
eh? I've heard a couple phones ring at 30+ thousand feet. Even had one lady answer who was sitting in front of me. She managed to chat away for at least 30 seconds before being told by someone that she was going to make the plane crash.
Pisses of the service providers to no end, as one call can hit a huge numbers of towers, closing one voice channel on each until the signal dies.
As to your last paragraph: oh yeah, 100% with you. Honestly, I think that anyone who uses the security card to try to corner market in order to make a buck should be tossed in jail. Sadly, we'd need to let all of the drug addicts, rapists and murderers out in order to fit all the real bastards in.
And the scariest thought to me is this: What if it DOES screw with their security? I mean, we all know it is crap to begin with... could it really be this vulnerable?
The shuttle was (and is) an experimental vessel being treated as if it were a fully understood workhorse.
I can't imagine how many people at NASA would get thier asses handed to them if I were to be magically high enough up in governement to do so.
When you DON'T KNOW you LOOK. I mean, hell, even just once on the first flight!? Nope.
We don't understand the shuttle. Shit happens that leaves engineers going 'well hell bob, I just don't know why that injector face on the SSME has been eaten away. Again.'
NASA pretends the Shuttle is more than it is. And all it *IS* is a test bed. Sadly instead of collecting valuable data *about the shuttle* on every single launch.... bah.
oops. Might read like I meant 'rip copies'. Not at all; the huge advantage to consoles is that you can actually USE THE SAME CARTRIDGE (disk, whatever) on different machines! And it is LEGAL!
And then there is game swapping. I've done that with every system I've owned; just talk to your friends before you buy games so that you all buy different ones.
You have to actually LIKE the person though, or things could get pretty rough;~)
Sometimes a game will be so good that you want your own copy; so you buy it. That is REALLY rare;~)
"A massive spacecraft built on the moon might possibly be constructed so that the shielding would reduce the radiation hazard," he told New Scientist. But even so he reckons that humans will be unable to travel more than 75 million kilometres (47 million miles) on a space mission about half the distance from the Earth to the Sun. This allowance might get them to Mars or Venus, but not to Jupiter or Saturn.
Why BS?
He gives a distance. Radiation is not absorbed based on HOW FAR YOU TRAVEL. It would be a TIME issue here folks. So, is that 75 million km mean a nice, slooooow hohmann trajectory -- maybe stopping along the way to look at the pretty void?
That alone made me want to bludgeon the bastard for restating the obvious (time in space implies radiation exposure, something we already knew).
They also never mentioned magnetic shielding; the earths magnetic field is INCREDIBLY weak. It is, however, huge. A smaller, strong field would not be that difficult to produce, and would decrease radiation inside the field by a calculable degree; e.g. it is simple math, if you know the particles in question and their velocity vectors (and have taken some physics).
Funny you mention that. I have a Toshiba laptop now instead of a certain other company's laptop for EXACTLY THAT REASON.
But... I use opera. And it was two laptops I bought, for a total of something like 4 grand.
Ecommerce page doesn't support a standards complient browser? What does that say about your #&$^*ing hardware? Buh bye!
It was a couple of years ago. They support opera now.
Sadly though, you are right. The people we REALLY need to educate are the 'sons and daughters' of the world; the people ma and pa call when 'The Internet doesn't work';~)
And it is virtually certain: any asshat still using IE is one of those people who will, at some point in time, call their child (should they have one) and ask how in the *&^#$ to make (x) work correctly.
Honestly: can you think of any current browser with FEWER features than IE? EVERYTHING out there is better (and generally, easier to use, minus the 'installed with OS' factor) than IE now. Opera, Firefox, Safari.... pine.. *cough*
My speculation without any facts to back me up would be that there exists a risk of knocking a tile free in the attempt. You don't have a high degree of control on a spacewalk compared to standing on the scaffolding.
OTOH, if they all want to stay up a wee bit longer....... *CRACK* "....ooops... crap... Houston... uhhhhh. Could you send us a new boat?"
And isn't it funny that teen preg. rates are higher in the more deeply religious areas of the US?
Sex is a toy. A very fun toy. That, much like all your rock climbing toys, can kill, maim, or otherwise screw you over financially for a very long time. Like rock climbing it can be a very spirtual experience for some, just as it is but a bit of distracting exertion for others.
The only thing special about sex that 'transcend[s] any laws, moral framework[s], or political affiliation[s]' is that sometimes it makes babies. That is it. No big words required. And indeed, if there weren't so many idiots opposing birth control on 'moral grounds' and imposing their minority will on the majority, birth control would be at least 99.9999% effective, instead of 97%. And side effects would be damned near zero instead of ranging from decreased libido (almost always) to death (rare, but unacceptably high).
Oh, and we would probably have AIDS under control by now, as we lost about 10 years thanks to the wonderful choice to list it as a disease that 'only faggots get, and good riddens' (can't recall where I read that sparkly little example of tolerence).
Once one accepts that the body is hilarious, and that sex is even funnier, one will enjoy life - and sex - much, much more.
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Satellite constellations are more like 30+. If you are going to be doing heavy bandwidth multiple connections you will use even more.
:~)
Teledesic (since dead, IIRC) proposed a constellation of over 700 satellites. We all had a hearty chuckle over that in design class. They changed that before the world lost sight of them to less than 300 satellites. I would love to see how much crack they import for the use of the guys designing the hand-off protocalls.
Regardless, you simply cannot get around high ping when it comes to satellites. You have an up and down of minimum 700km. Not so bad, right? But you have to amplify the hell out of the signal (talking about -100dB reception strength here). Then figure out where the hell to send it. Do you bounce it through your own network (in space?). If so... OUCH! If not, send it back to the ground, where it has to be highly amplified AGAIN and then put the signal onto the normal data lines. So you keep most of the land-based lag sources, and then add a whole BUNCH on top of that.
I recall once that a raw satellite ping on a particular sat took 0.2 seconds. However, a system ping took over a half second.
Raw ping is just my way of saying that the satellite said 'oh! heard something I respond NOW!'. As opposed to the system check which actually processes the signal through all the normal electronics then sends back an 'ok'. Don't recall the altitude.
But yeah, as you said. -- satellites suck for ping, but so what? They have their uses. And good uses they are
.... until someone introduces an uber-virus ;~)
;~)
I shall predict the name of the virus now....Celcius_233
There is a certain large public university in Indiana. The EE course is pretty much the only university to use a certain EE textbook written by a certain EE professor who works at the large public university in indiana.
;~)
:~).
Other than that, I have no examples. I only had three classes in 3 years that 'needed' actual textbooks. My favorite textbook requirement was one where -- even though the book cost $110 -- the prof was dissing on it before he had dismissed the class on the first day. 'It sucks, but its the best thing out there. The author is a pompus' etc etc. I like the book, and rather thought it was the other way around....
I do agree with the GP, however, about the artificial market. It isn't really the profs who force students to buy THEIR books, but rather the BS '1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th' edition crap. Oh, and my favorite, the 'Non-US edition' which is paperback and 1/2 the price of the US edition. Professors should not be allowed to change a text for (x) number of years simply to update to a new edition. If there is a good reason to change YES! by all means. But too many profs just go 'oh, new editon. I'll use that'. Then send the order to the bookstore, which stops buying the old edition back from students, which means everyone has to buy new, which... Grrrr
While I was only REQUIRED to buy 3 textbooks (and I already had purchased one of them) I bought textbooks all the time; bought three for one class alone (the class which covered quaternion rotations).
Most of the profs in my department write their own notes and have them bound -- students pay for them at the copy shop, usually fairly cheap. One prof would photocopy using the office printer and hand them out in class. We're talking about some 100+ pages of notes for each semester per student
Good to point out that many people ignore the libary. My university had a copy of every textbook that was required available for use (but not checkout). If you won't be needing a book much, or really are unable to afford a book this might a be a good place to go.
Yes, but commercial airline flight went from being not existing to mundane in 45 years.
;~)
Really... there isn't much difference. Sure, it is harder math, needs better materials. But working with what we have should 'just work' by now, and new advances would make it 'just work' that much better/more affordably.
I suppose if it were something that could turn a big profit, it would by now. E.g. If the moon were to have been found to be strewn with boulders of platinum or sex gods or something
and don't forget that you don't just get 'wator vapor' when you burn shit at 3000 deg. F.
Heellloo nitrogen combustion in the exhaust stream!
That said, it really isn't a big deal currently (due mostly to low launch numbers) and we are moving away from the toxic fuels... which brings me tooooo:
I love space etc etc. NASA fucked up (ha, there's a new one) when they decided to continue to use the SRBs for the next gen launcher. Probably costs as much to transport them from Utah to Florida than it would to fuel up an equally powerful liquid booster stage.
Bite me it will be faster. It was done to appease a congress-critter.
oops. Missed that.
Google has been doing this since when? Before '99 at any rate. There is no way in hell this will stand up to a prior art attack.
Hopefully eHarmony et al. counter-sue for whatever charge it is you can leverage for frivolous lawsuits.
Actually no, to the WMD deliver.
Everybody probably already has nukes in space. That isn't a 'big deal' in terms of design/delivery. Easy peasy.
What is WANTED is the ability to strike within a few minutes, and hit a target the size of a car, destroying as little as possible aside from the target. That whole 'Rods from God' crap or whatever, plus lasers, plus ????? Who knows what else.
Not supporting military in space. Especially the US military, as we are currently the most aggressive of the large military forces already.
oops! I said 12Mhz per channel; it is actually only six. Mis-read something.
Cheers,
... desktop, until some company comes out with a 'browser' platform which completely ignores all of the BS recommendations by the W3C.
By which I mean, they don't even *try* to conform, nor do they pretend to conform. This mythical company will write a completely new NETWORK CENTRIC platform. Note I do *not* mean 'web based'. The web is complete shit. Look at it for gods sake! People like to pretend it is different or somehow better than ('x'), but I've been here since BBSs -- I promise, if anything you get less bang for your hours worth of 'development' now than you did when HTML 1.1 was the standard.
Until someone tells the W3C to piss off we won't be seeing anything truly innovative again -- the standards bodies work at maybe 10% of the rate of technology innovation. It just doesn't work.
Which isn't to say I don't belive in standards! They are *required* for such a wide, wide world to play together. But we need a standards body that either moves its ass like results matter, or gets the fuck out of the way.
Case in point: The 'world wide web' had 100% static pages until sometime in the past few years. You couldn't do so much as add TextBox_A.value and TextBox_B.value without reloading a page.
Even now you have to do post and reload with most methods of web development. What a joke!
Anyway, here's to hoping for a new 'internet platform' which is just soooo good that we all flock too it like awed sheep.
Cheers,
Going digital will massively reduce the amount of EM 'in the air'.
We could broadcast something like 50Mbps using one channel of TV (12 Mhz of bandwidth using quad etc etc -- I'm probably wrong here, been a few years). Anyway, there are 12Mhz at an absolute minimum of 1 bit per cycle.
More to the point, analog has zippo for error correction, so it has to be broadcast at a much higher power. Digital radio from XFM hits your antenna with a dB rating of something like -90dB (better at low latitudes, worse at higher) -- which would be akin to broadcasting about 100 watts from an FM tower (as opposed to hundreds of thousands of watts).
um, no.
That key is a trust issue; e.g. 'do I BELIEVE that this person is who he says he is?'.
If I say I am Microsoft Corp and I have managed to forge a verisign key, then I might be able to get you to run code on your machine in trusted mode -- maybe. But you have to do SOMETHING for that to happen, once I've cracked verisign (e.g. browse to a page and have been stupid enough at sometime in the past to have checked 'always trust crap from MS).
The topic at hand concerns there being ONE key set that would let anybody who has it listen in on any VoIP conversation without the need for ANY action on the victoms part.
In reality, it won't be only one key set, it would probably be an algorithm based on a number of factors, plus some key system. Doesn't matter, it won't last -- it WILL be broken.
But then, it isn't very hard for me to pull up to the phone junction box in the street an pull your line and listen in on your land line conversations. Verizon uniforms aren't exactly hard to find these days.
So it isn't the end of the world; it is just stupid. Anybody that has been using the net for more than a few years will easily find ways to communicate that cannot be intercepted and decrypted; sure, someone will know that person X is trying to talk with person Y in a secure fashion -- but that isn't grounds for *anything*. Yet.
My mother-in-law tried to use my wife's Wegman's loyalty card, and they checked her ID and wouldn't let her use it.
And you think this is okay? Are you insane? I can't understand how anyone can consider these bullshit 'loyalty' cards a good thing... But to ID someone to make sure they are using their own card?
Why not just require a customer to show their ID? Bypass this BS loyalty card shit completely.
Wake up.
DON'T SHOP AT STORES THAT SCREW YOU FOR NOT USING THEIR DATA COLLECTION SCHEME! Then guess who goes out of business if they don't change their ways?
... and maybe PDX can learn how to send flights directly from one useful airport to another.
Honest to god. It costs me a hundred dollars more to fly from PDX to STL than from PSP to STL or IND... wtf? PALM SPRINGS. Probably because I from PDX I STILL have to go through Arizona or SFO.
The only flights out of Portland seem to be to the closest hub of whatever carrier you choose. Total suckage.
But yeah, PDX has the BEST approach (car) of any airport I've ever been too -- minus Heathrow, 'cause you just take the tube. Light rail to PDX is extremely painful (25 min drive, 1.5 hour MAX ride), but at least it exists. And the interior is very nice, with good food inside and out of security; though it is better outside. Hmmm.. a REALLY CRAPPY SANDWICH for 8 bucks? Orrr, a very nice bit of Ahi steak for 14? With some veggies and rice to boot? Hard choice.
As to the rest: Yes. *sigh*. Just dodging a depressing subject.
Cheers,
"For fuck's sake, it's not that hard, I'm French and I know this"
;~)
Close, but:
"For fuck's sake, it's not that hard; I'm French and I know this."
This is fun!
eh? I've heard a couple phones ring at 30+ thousand feet. Even had one lady answer who was sitting in front of me. She managed to chat away for at least 30 seconds before being told by someone that she was going to make the plane crash.
Pisses of the service providers to no end, as one call can hit a huge numbers of towers, closing one voice channel on each until the signal dies.
As to your last paragraph: oh yeah, 100% with you. Honestly, I think that anyone who uses the security card to try to corner market in order to make a buck should be tossed in jail. Sadly, we'd need to let all of the drug addicts, rapists and murderers out in order to fit all the real bastards in.
And the scariest thought to me is this: What if it DOES screw with their security? I mean, we all know it is crap to begin with... could it really be this vulnerable?
hehe. Oops. ;~)
"Gee, you were speeding to get to work on time. That's illegal. You're fired"
;~)
Well, if you work for Fed-Ex...
jk; falls under 'affecting work' too, as it raises insurance rates.
America: Land of the Free. Or something.
The shuttle was (and is) an experimental vessel being treated as if it were a fully understood workhorse.
I can't imagine how many people at NASA would get thier asses handed to them if I were to be magically high enough up in governement to do so.
When you DON'T KNOW you LOOK. I mean, hell, even just once on the first flight!? Nope.
We don't understand the shuttle. Shit happens that leaves engineers going 'well hell bob, I just don't know why that injector face on the SSME has been eaten away. Again.'
NASA pretends the Shuttle is more than it is. And all it *IS* is a test bed. Sadly instead of collecting valuable data *about the shuttle* on every single launch.... bah.
oops. Might read like I meant 'rip copies'. Not at all; the huge advantage to consoles is that you can actually USE THE SAME CARTRIDGE (disk, whatever) on different machines! And it is LEGAL!
And then there is game swapping. I've done that with every system I've owned; just talk to your friends before you buy games so that you all buy different ones.
;~)
;~)
You have to actually LIKE the person though, or things could get pretty rough
Sometimes a game will be so good that you want your own copy; so you buy it. That is REALLY rare
"A massive spacecraft built on the moon might possibly be constructed so that the shielding would reduce the radiation hazard," he told New Scientist. But even so he reckons that humans will be unable to travel more than 75 million kilometres (47 million miles) on a space mission about half the distance from the Earth to the Sun. This allowance might get them to Mars or Venus, but not to Jupiter or Saturn.
Why BS?
He gives a distance. Radiation is not absorbed based on HOW FAR YOU TRAVEL. It would be a TIME issue here folks. So, is that 75 million km mean a nice, slooooow hohmann trajectory -- maybe stopping along the way to look at the pretty void?
That alone made me want to bludgeon the bastard for restating the obvious (time in space implies radiation exposure, something we already knew).
They also never mentioned magnetic shielding; the earths magnetic field is INCREDIBLY weak. It is, however, huge. A smaller, strong field would not be that difficult to produce, and would decrease radiation inside the field by a calculable degree; e.g. it is simple math, if you know the particles in question and their velocity vectors (and have taken some physics).
Funny you mention that. I have a Toshiba laptop now instead of a certain other company's laptop for EXACTLY THAT REASON.
;~)
But... I use opera. And it was two laptops I bought, for a total of something like 4 grand.
Ecommerce page doesn't support a standards complient browser? What does that say about your #&$^*ing hardware? Buh bye!
It was a couple of years ago. They support opera now.
Sadly though, you are right. The people we REALLY need to educate are the 'sons and daughters' of the world; the people ma and pa call when 'The Internet doesn't work'
And it is virtually certain: any asshat still using IE is one of those people who will, at some point in time, call their child (should they have one) and ask how in the *&^#$ to make (x) work correctly.
Honestly: can you think of any current browser with FEWER features than IE? EVERYTHING out there is better (and generally, easier to use, minus the 'installed with OS' factor) than IE now. Opera, Firefox, Safari.... pine.. *cough*
Cheers,
My speculation without any facts to back me up would be that there exists a risk of knocking a tile free in the attempt. You don't have a high degree of control on a spacewalk compared to standing on the scaffolding.
OTOH, if they all want to stay up a wee bit longer....... *CRACK* "....ooops... crap... Houston... uhhhhh. Could you send us a new boat?"
And isn't it funny that teen preg. rates are higher in the more deeply religious areas of the US?
Sex is a toy. A very fun toy. That, much like all your rock climbing toys, can kill, maim, or otherwise screw you over financially for a very long time. Like rock climbing it can be a very spirtual experience for some, just as it is but a bit of distracting exertion for others.
The only thing special about sex that 'transcend[s] any laws, moral framework[s], or political affiliation[s]' is that sometimes it makes babies. That is it. No big words required. And indeed, if there weren't so many idiots opposing birth control on 'moral grounds' and imposing their minority will on the majority, birth control would be at least 99.9999% effective, instead of 97%. And side effects would be damned near zero instead of ranging from decreased libido (almost always) to death (rare, but unacceptably high).
Oh, and we would probably have AIDS under control by now, as we lost about 10 years thanks to the wonderful choice to list it as a disease that 'only faggots get, and good riddens' (can't recall where I read that sparkly little example of tolerence).
Once one accepts that the body is hilarious, and that sex is even funnier, one will enjoy life - and sex - much, much more.