Free Telescopes

Free Telescopes

by Liv Published on November 2nd, 2009, 7:20 am Rift: SCIENCE

Sure it's on a key chain, but it's free.

http://www.sunexplosion.com/news458.htm

On a side note isn't it a bit presumptuous when the country drop down list is alphabetical but they list the U.S. first? Always bugs me a bit.

[A Person]

i wonder why they bother with a drop down which takes longer to navigate than typing 'USA', 'CAN' or 'UK'

If you live in the Turks and Caicos Islands it might help - except that they're no on the list.

The drop down for states and provinces is also a waste of time, to ge to Alberta you need to press 'a' ten times, instead of typing 'AB'. if you live in a province of France you can't even type it in

This kind of insular thinking comes up all the time. I had a web designer who spent some considerable time programming a control that would insist on telephone numbers being in the (XXX) XXX-XXXX format, anything else was rejected as 'not a telephone number'. When I pointed out that as an international company we did not want to exclude potential customers from the world outside North America he got quite huffy.

Then you get computer systems where the reports will only fit on 8.5" x 11 paper. The rest of the world that uses A4 (8.3" x 11.7") is out of luck

[Liv]

Yeah I loathe forms....

On the paper, it's also binding... I tried to get something bound with a certain clip, and found it practically impossible to find in the U.S.