There is a 50 year difference in expectations between TOS and today.

James Bond, Star Wars, Indiana Jones etc etc ;) All mostly filmed in the UK.

No, that isn't why people are stuck on old versions of IE - I work for a major UK insurance broker, we have Windows 7 here and we run IE 11, however the major UK insurer (household name) that I deal with on the web side of things is also on Windows 7 but they use IE 8. Scary eh? When I build a new insurance website, the only people I'm dealing with who have IE issues are these people.

Most people are stuck on an old browser for reasons other than they are too cheap ass to pay for an OS upgrade.

Why aptly named? The Spartans had nothing to do with the Trojan horse mythology, that was the Trojans and the Greeks.

Doesn't have such a negative visual aspect as a perfectly secure fence, doesn't involved major works such as a "medieval" moat etc? Would look like theres nothing there.

Fairly cheap as well.

Or turn over the outer lawns to rabid badgers.

The street circuits are mainly used because they raise greater awareness that a race is being held than if they went to an existing race track and relied on traditional marketing for the races.

Also, how about you take your undue criticism and stick it - how about you come up with a better formula and make it work? The entire point of starting it now is because the technologies aren't mature enough - getting manufacturers to push development in order to win races is what drives the technologies here (see how much stuff has come out of F1).

The cars are stock for the first season for cost reasons, for the second season there are several chassis builders and several power unit suppliers signed up, so there will be a better spread of performance amongst the pack.

I'm personally not so sure about it surviving a court challenge anyway - the FCC decided suddenly to substantially change the regulatory system for an established, massive market, bring in a huge swathe of new rules and regulations for existing major players. I don't feel comfortable where a government agency can something of that scale to an established market without any new laws passed.

Yeah, let's go with that logic next time a major healthcare website is hacked and your private data is suddenly plastered everywhere.

Or, let's realise there is no restriction on how much blame there is to go round, and we blame Apple for having bugs in their software, and we blame Google for going out of their way to exploit a bug in Apples software.

Google deserves to be slapped down for this.

Its probably a line item off a program accounting invoice, where everything purchased for the program is billed at the same amount - 1/xth of the total program cost. So that toilet seat might have come out at $30k, but so would have the jet engine on the next line.

... and we don't need to do it again.

Revenue != usable, spare income.

For the past few decades, apart from a spike in 2010, Coca Colas profit margins have hovered roughly between 15% and 20% - so a 15% increase in cost base would have left them borderline profitable or unprofitable for quite a lot of that period.

Yes he did, in a 707 which had no envelope protection or anything of the ilk.

My point was rather about killing the flight computers than doing barrel rolls tho :) You can do a lot more in simulators with the hardware state than you can in real life.

Try doing that in the air...

How the fuck does that "make me wrong"? Because I didn't specify what nationality the "well known car manufacturer" was? In what world does your post contradict my post? It adds information (that Lexus is a brand of Toyota, a Japanese car manufacturer), but it doesnt negate any of the information in my post.

Or are you one of these people who always has to show that someone is "wrong", somehow, in some way?