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I have another way -- Firefox (all versions) at 32%, Internet Explorer (all versions) at 55%. The fact that the IE market is split between 6.X, 7.X and 8.X doesn't not detract from the (regrettable) fact that Internet Explorer is the most popular browser, worldwide. Different versions do not a different browser make.

In hindsight, this distribution is rather predictable -- FF nags you to update (rightly so) whereas IE can't even update itself, let along notify you about it.

Here's a plot (thankfully, they give out the raw CSV data) with the "all versions" included. Firefox has a ways to go. http://yfrog.com/j5temptlp

They messed up the stitching... that of someone invented a camouflage car.

I'm a supporter of nuclear energy, but don't let anyone dumb too close a nuclear power plant.

It's good we have this guy in control of a nuclear power plant.

Every few years, there is yet another theory that claims to be better suited for our models than Einstein's. Then they realize they overlooked something and find Einstein's idea fit better than ever.

Yeah: http://yfrog.com/b9sciencevsfaithbigp

This sentiment is rather old, I'm sure before and when Einstein came about, people were saying the same thing about Newtonian physics. Skepticism about new theories are fine, but I'm sure the science will come to a point where we do discover something better than Einstein's formulas in some areas.

BTW, my physics is really rusty, doesn't one of Einstein's equations devolve into a newtonian equation at slow speed? Which just shows that things are truly built on top of one another.

Unless you want some time off from computer, take your laptop with you. It's still a lot easier than always going to a Internet Kiosk and can use it otherwise than just quickly uploading images off.

However when traveling, experiencing is the greatest thing. Not planning too much.

Let me give you an example.

At home it's easy to get oriented to the same ways always. Sure sliced ham, bacon, pineapple and roasted red peppers with provolone cheese on a parmesan crust pan pizza with barbeque sauce on it is nice (*). You love it, it tastes good. But sometimes it's time to just go for it, doing the dramatic change without thinking about it earlier. Change that damn pizza to chicken breast, white sauce, smoked bacon and tomatoes on a provolone crust with a mexican sauce on top of it (*). And if you're really going wild, order a chocolate ice cream with strawberries and m&m's on top of it!

What I'm basically saying is that just go and do something. As the geeky non-social persons we are, it's actually really easy to get to know new people when in a foreign country. Maybe because then you have a need to go to talk with people, or sound more interesting to girls since you're from other lands, or come out as mysterious because you dont even understand each others languages. Don't plan everything beforehand - leave there that possibility for problems. I visited Russia earlier this year and lost my immigration card while there. It took some planning out to get out of the country, but it was fun in the end.

Also, since you are near London, there's a great pizza place in Naples that you should visit.

Unless you want some time off from computer, take your laptop with you. It's still a lot easier than always going to a Internet Kiosk and can use it otherwise than just quickly uploading images off.

However when traveling, experiencing is the greatest thing. Not planning too much.

Let me give you an example.

At home it's easy to get oriented to the same ways always. Sure sliced ham, bacon, pineapple and roasted red peppers with provolone cheese on a parmesan crust pan pizza with barbeque sauce on it is nice (*). You love it, it tastes good. But sometimes it's time to just go for it, doing the dramatic change without thinking about it earlier. Change that damn pizza to chicken breast, white sauce, smoked bacon and tomatoes on a provolone crust with a mexican sauce on top of it (*). And if you're really going wild, order a chocolate ice cream with strawberries and m&m's on top of it!

What I'm basically saying is that just go and do something. As the geeky non-social persons we are, it's actually really easy to get to know new people when in a foreign country. Maybe because then you have a need to go to talk with people, or sound more interesting to girls since you're from other lands, or come out as mysterious because you dont even understand each others languages. Don't plan everything beforehand - leave there that possibility for problems. I visited Russia earlier this year and lost my immigration card while there. It took some planning out to get out of the country, but it was fun in the end.

Also, since you are near London, there's a great pizza place in Naples that you should visit.

well lets see slashdot

chinese here ->
russian here ->

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I'm not going to dig all day, there are others, you don't think the press on this was accidental do you?

Dig all day? We've seen one claim from you that the results for "Least Secure OS" are skewed, when the initial results of both Google and Bing are identical. We've also seen you complain that when you type "Google" into Bing, you don't get the results you want (which apparently are something other than Google). Here for all to see are the comparison results: http://yfrog.com/5hgooglevbingp. I think the one on the left actually looks less cluttered and I like the way all the popular Google services are neatly collated for you at the top. So yes, as you're the one making accusations of conspiracy and saying how many instances of this there are, you do have to do more digging if you want to convince anyone.

You seem incredulous that people think the press on this was "accidental". It's just a news story. Either you're saying that the results aren't true and that Bing doesn't have 10%, or you think this isn't newsworthy. If you have evidence to disprove the former, bring it. If you don't think the latter, don't bother posting.

I think you're actually a Microsoft shill trying to push people into arguing the benefits of Bing by posting such easily refutable arguments against it. It's more plausible than someone actually saying these things because they believe them. Am I right?

Google does appear to honor the Accept-Language header setting (which you can set in Firefox).

For example, I just set my Firefox language setting to "German [de]", cleared my cookies and visited google.com. Lo and behold, Google.com in German. Interestingly, it didn't auto-redirect me to Google UK -- I'm in England right now -- although there's a link to Google UK at the bottom.

If you change browser settings like this, be sure to clear your cookies first -- sometimes existing cookies contain prefs about which site you want to go to, clearing them lets you start from a clean slate.

Google does appear to honor the Accept-Language header setting (which you can set in Firefox).

For example, I just set my Firefox language setting to "German [de]", cleared my cookies and visited google.com. Lo and behold, Google.com in German. Interestingly, it didn't auto-redirect me to Google UK -- I'm in England right now -- although there's a link to Google UK at the bottom.

If you change browser settings like this, be sure to clear your cookies first -- sometimes existing cookies contain prefs about which site you want to go to, clearing them lets you start from a clean slate.

As I said elsewhere, a lot of plugins seem not to report their version information. Why don't you disable them too?

According to your plugin checker the following plugins on my system don't report version information:
        Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U13 Java(TM) Platform SE binary
        Microsoft Office Live Plug-in for Firefox Office Live Update v1.4
        Java Deployment Toolkit 6.0.150.3 NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
        ActiveTouch General Plugin Container ActiveTouch General Plugin Container Version 104
        Adobe Acrobat Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape
        Microsoft® Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin np-mswmp
        Google Update Google Update
        iTunes Application Detector iTunes Detector Plug-in

See this screen shot.

Many of these have had vulnerabilities in the past.

Tell me about it.
http://yfrog.com/1487157783g
Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00

...that I see a Scientology ad here.

Yup... this is what your website looks like running in Firefox 3 at 1024x768 (only the status bar has been removed, the scroll bars should be visible, but they aren't, because of your awful design) on my Mac with the latest updates. The pot is calling the kettle back...