Like I/E used to force you to do. Write for them and then write for everybody else that was current.

uhhhh, I think that was kind of the point of the title of article. You didn't even have to RTFA ,just understand the title.
You know how Internet Explorer came with Windows but people would install other browsers like Netscape?

Bell Labs tested people memorizing numbers and that's how we ended up with the 7-digit ones. People can only handle so much info. And some people can only handle less.

If well done," almost anything works. Problem is a HUD designed by marketers, salesmen or engineers in love with technology.

How 'bout a big red box when your smartphone battery is low?
And of course we need tire pressure indicators and fuel gauge and ...

In America, that's what IS known as "news."

Actually, the drone operators are going to end up with more PTSD than regular pilots. There was a really good article on Wired a few months ago by a pilot who flew in WWII and Korea and other places. You drop your bombs and you land back home.

Drone operators follow a man for months. He's a real person. They see his wife and kids and see him shopping and whatever.
Then they kill him.
Then they keep watching. See his wife come out and cry over the body. See the ambulance pick him up while his children are crying.
Then they monitor his funeral to look for other targets.

If that doesn't affect you deeply, you're probably a psychopath.

They are more "vulnerable" because they are attacked more often. Wearing a shield is like wearing a target. The likelihood of being attacked is increased.

Laws need to be public, but negotiations must _always_ be private or else they aren't negotiations. If you know my bottom line, I've got no wiggle room which means I have zero ability to negotiate.

Not in a democracy, that's for damn sure. And I'm not being sarcastic.

We like choosing our government policy the same way we choose Top 40 hits or internet memes--purely by the popularity of personal preference. It's my right to vote for people who say good government can be done for free.

It's the same reason our American government prefers to support dictators. You can rely on them better than you can rely on the fickle desires of the general population. Governing is difficult because these are not bullshit issues. It seems to be part of the essential biology of human civilization.

For a lot of installed applications, especially in the medical field, it is as mandatory as Windows XP is (there are hardware reasons why that is still in use many places).
In addition, lots of businesses have client-server software that really only works with I/E (altho they may call their internal thing a web-based system)

That's because they buy into the Libertarian myth that they made their money themselves.
Daniel Boone couldn't build his own rifle from rocks and sticks, because he didn't have the time nor the skills and Bill Gates could not get rich in Yemen or Somalia simply because the market wasn't big enough, regardless of whether it was steady enough and supported by laws and regulations and trust-worthy money.

Business folks refuse to recognize the need for a government and a market, thinking those things just happen naturally. Even today, the conservative voters and their politicians (get cause-effect correct if you're defining a problem) still want to fix the Bush-recession by raising interest rates even tho most economists recognize the lack of recovery is because of a depressed market and not because of a depressed ability to borrow money. There is no reason to expand a factory if you cannot sell what's already being produced.

The top tax rate in the US during the 1950s was 90%. That meant businesses paid their top employees a lot more (instead of giving _all_ the money to the CEO) and the government had enough money to build the interstate highway system (what is that worth for marketing) and fly to the moon. Then we decided rich people needed to keep "their" money and gradually for most of the people in America (more than half), life started to trend downhill.

We're all in this together. Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant. And this isn't a plea for communism which many conservatives scream at folks who aren't on board with them 1000%. We already know communism doesn't work in groups larger than about 280 or so (but it works fantastically well for a nuclear family. We also know unfettered Capitalism that puts all the money into the rich folks hands without investing in infrastructure will destroy the society. You can see this in any kingdom that didn't invest in bridges or roads or put the collected tax money back in the hands of the people somehow.
Adam Smith (1776) didn't push for complete economic freedom, just for competition within a well-regulated marketplace. Of course, he was writing to kings, most of whom had an interest in keeping their country runnning for mutiple generations.

That doesn't seem to be a true statement about voters nowadays.

I actually did RTFA. The historical stuff is interesting. The assertion that no place else will ever come close is completely unsupported.
I remember reading excerpts from historical articles about NYC and London in economic texts and how they would never be eclipsed.

1. Both NY and London hit certain sizes and then the close interaction (required according to the author) between peoples cannot happen as well because of the size of the crowd.
2. When the prices of renting get too high, the smartest students can't afford to move there, not unless they go into finance (or can live on H1-B wages)
3. The price of water in California is going to skyrocket. That changes everything about the immediate area.

Tulips in Holland (1500s), Tea from Asia (1600s), Beaver pelts from America (1700s), Watches from Switzerland (1800s), all highy profitable markets not only guranteed to never fail by their salesmen, but ones that failed spectacularly fast when the end did hit.

Yup. Reboot the plane every time it's at the gate.

A social worker friend of mine said that Ritalin was a _diagnostic_ drug. If you had ADD symptoms and they went away with Ritalin, then you had ADD. IF the symptoms didn't go away, you had something else. I thought that was interesting and weird, but if you think about it, actually useful too in a backasswards kind of way.

NASA will use all sorts of experts, but they will of course ignore the discoveries of the first expert they hired to help find life on Mars, James Lovelock.

Hired to build machines to search for life on Mars, he investigated biology and quickly realized that over geologic time, extremophiles such as bacteria found in hot springs or in the arctic could not survive without all the rest of life creating the free oxygen and other elements and compounds necessary for life. NASA ignored The Gaia Hypothesis completely yet that was a discovery they paid for.