These kinds of claims make it all the more pathetic that the only users to ever have difficulty connecting to my wifi network had an iPod Touch and OS X 10.[4567]. In the end I had to disable WPA2 to allow the Macbook to connect - Windows XP caused no such grief.

What makes you think networks are all about hardware?

Nope. The class's name was geography. Once upon a time, they also taught some geology under those classes. That I remember.

Not a heat issue, it's a pressure issue. The fluid rock in the mantle squezes up into magma cavities underneath under the volcanos.

Now, it's possible to have a solid rock cap on top of such a cavity, but that results in massive explosions of smoke and ash (see pictures of cone-type volcanos) rather than long flows of very fluid magma (see pictures of shield-type volcanos).

Granted, it's been a couple decades since I covered any of this in a geography class, so I could be wrong.

I rather hope that as passionate software engineers grow out of their enterprise value range, they'll pursue open source projects.

And if they can't get into management, the world can always use network engineers.

Not that I want to disagree with you on this subject, but there's a difference between a cataloging of unrelated information and information which relates to each other.

A language is not "nothing but a listing of words an how they're used", a language is an idea which is described in a specification and/or implementation. That idea satisfies that "minimum amount of creativity" you need in order to copyright something.

Otherwise, a novel would just be a "narration of fictitious characters and things they did to each other as they resided in the author's mind", and would thus be similarly uncopyrightable.

The nuclear power plant in-show represents Weyerhaeuser ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyerhaeuser ), a large paper company for whom just about everybody worked in the 80s. Either you worked for them, your spouse worked for them, or your parent worked for them. This was the big industry in the Eugene/Springfield area when Groening was young. I imagine he went with a nuclear power plant instead because of the comedic opportunities.

I don't like C. Have Forth. https://github.com/MostAwesomeDude/cauliflower

Where there's a hotel capable with 500 rooms, there's likely to be a cable ISP within easy reach. The larger the hotel, the more cheap bandwidth is geographically handy.

There were too many active radios, and the spectrum was too crowded. They even switched to a four-channel layout instead of the three-channel. (We informally use a five-channel model in my apartment building, what with all the various tennants' APs and routers finding the least crowded piece of spectrum in their immediate area.