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It's one thing to make a rocket to take a human being to space. It's another thing entirely to make a "rocket" that will take a human being to space, or to sch
by whutsurnaym 2y ago
It's one thing to make a rocket to take a human being to space.
It's another thing entirely to make a "rocket" that will take a human being to space, or to school, or to work, or to the mall, or to the bank, or to church on sundays. And also it functions as a TV, a telephone, a radio, an encyclopedia, a games console, or anything else one can imagine. And then you wrap that up in a user interface that my grandmother can use without a NASA astronaut's level of training (YMMV).
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoAnd also backwards compatible forever and platform agnostic
- amelius 2y agoAnd it serves more cookies than my grandmother.
- yencabulator 2y agoThe "thin waist" is a reference to IP (as in TCP/IP), and it's literally the thing that enables those uses. https://web.archive.org/web/20111108105207/https://www.iab.org/wp-content/IAB-uploads/2010/11/hourglass-london-ietf.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20111108105207/https://www.iab.o...