I like your thinking, and it works up until the point where you have shareholders.
Shareholders means 'people who own the company', and they get to demand answers to trifling questions about when the company is actually going to start selling new products.
My point was that the question is so laden with presumption, that even to respond to it within its own frame of reference would be to lose sight of the crux (and I live to ogle them cruxes).
Admittedly, I expressed that point in a overly oblique way. But if the submitter gets to reference that absurd extinction timeline, I insist that a similar quantity of slack be cut for me.
I'm sorry about getting Opera's nationality wrong, and not a little ashamed. But nobody is trustworthy, not when there's humans involved. That said, I can believe that Opera is at the less untrustworthy end of the spectrum.
Yup, that's the downside. And one I can accept, though others might feel differently.
I value my privacy, but have judged that, so long as I avoid sending sensitive passwords, bank card data etc., I am happy for a bunch of Swedish nerds to have access to my mobile browsing data. A damn sight happier than letting my phone company have the same data.
The marketplace has been duped into believing that this is the best technology can provide.
I do not believe that this is the cause.
As is correctly noted above, there are only market pressures involved. When that's the case, customers rarely factor 7 or 8 different metrics (eg. price, quality, reliability etc.) into their decision making. Rather, they identify what they want, then find the cheapest supplier, and provided that there is no compelling reason to avoid the supplier, do the deal.
This means that suppliers concentrate on maintaining enough of a service that they can advertise without being sued, and getting the price down. They have no reason to do any more.
My mobile phone operator gives me a good phone, and cheap calls. But their data charges, and roaming charges are extremely uncompetitive. As data/roaming charges make up a small proportion of my bill, I can't justify prioritizing them when I am shopping around for a contract. I am rewarded with a good old gouging.
Thanks for mentioning it so I can avoid Opera Mini.
Hey, don't mention it.
I'm not really using a mobile browser for its speed, the main benefit for me is that it saves me c.£150 a year. And by 'quicker' I mean in comparison to the browser the phone comes with. In, you know, real life.
As a loyal Firefox user, I'd LOVE to see a mobile version if it can compete with the speed of Opera.
With Opera (mini and, i think, mobile), the pages you request are sent via Opera's servers, where they are put through some kind of compression. The upshot is that not only is Opera quicker, but I can visit almost twice the number of pages for my money. In practice, given that you can set it to not download pictures, I get about 3 times more pages-per-buck than when I use the browser the phone comes with.
That being said I'd be surprised if they were as high as 70%
Prepare to keep those eyebrows exactly where they are- The 70% refers to the transfer of heat energy to air pressure 'power' within the piston. It's still impressive, but the +70% claim relates only to one step of the process.
Pure aluminum is soft, aircraft grade aluminum (and virtually all aluminum used in the real world) is alloyed with other elements, greatly increasing its strength.
Here's a breakdown of the composition of Aluminum Alloy 6061 to give you an idea...
It can be useful if, and only if, the appropriate protections are put in place.
Owing to Germany's history, there exists a keen sense among the populous that making the government too powerful is a bad thing. No such feeling is present among a majority of Americans/British/etc., and the possibility of governmental abuse of an ID card scheme is consequently real.
To paraphrase the old saw, 'The price of freedom is eternally fumbling for utility bills'.
Just to give you the alternate perspective- I love the idea of Opera, and use the kick-ass mini (and mobile) versions every day. But on my desktop, it just seems so foreign. It's like a swiss army knife, with inbuilt functionality poking out every which way, and (in my head) obstructing the work I've got planned- It doesn't feel like it's mine.
I realise that it mostly is amazing, and I'm not satisfied with Firefox by any means, but Opera just feels alien; a bit like when you start messing about with WINE after a long period of not needing to.
I realise that seems woolly as fuck, but I guess Opera is sufficiently advanced that such intangible and abstract criticisms become the only valid ones.
I see it now- the closed-source model is equivalent to Superman hiding his susceptibility to Kryptonite. Oh wait, the bad guys knew that, didn't they....
Phoenix- All correct, but: You harbour an endearingly naive belief the the politicians are trying to do the right thing for the US. They do the right thing for themselves alone.
It's also 10 Months in Iraq (and that's 10 months above and beyond the ongoing cost of maintaining the world's most powerful army, so doesn't include the costs the US would incur if all those soldiers/tanks/bombs were sat quietly at home).
Bargain. And remember, most of that money is flowing out of the US public purse, straight into the hands of... Bush's golfing buddies.
I think that the conclusions of this study are too sweeping (or they've been 'sexed-up' to generate more interest). But you make no effort to explain the over-representation of 'graduates in science, engineering, and medicine' in the extremist groups.
I have an engineer-type mindset, and when I believe something, I really believe it. I have always figured that it was because my engineery thought patterns, and the corresponding deductions I make about life in general, give me a set of well reasoned, watertight stances about which I then feel compelled to become hardline (the compulsion arising from the rigor of my reasoning). I also take pride in changing my stance whenever someone convinces me I'm wrong.
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I like your thinking, and it works up until the point where you have shareholders.
Shareholders means 'people who own the company', and they get to demand answers to trifling questions about when the company is actually going to start selling new products.
By law, this information can't be kept secret.
My point was that the question is so laden with presumption, that even to respond to it within its own frame of reference would be to lose sight of the crux (and I live to ogle them cruxes).
Admittedly, I expressed that point in a overly oblique way. But if the submitter gets to reference that absurd extinction timeline, I insist that a similar quantity of slack be cut for me.
Wow, parent is currently rated -1, Insightful. An Anonymous Coward has sucked insight out of the discussion.
I don't think you can get a better question than 'Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet?', only different ones:
Can jealousy save biscuits from a motorbike?
Can mice protect oscilloscopes from Scientology?
Should tardigrades steal tarte-tatin from the middle-eight of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird?
Tune in next week, same bat-time etc. etc....
I'm sorry about getting Opera's nationality wrong, and not a little ashamed. But nobody is trustworthy, not when there's humans involved. That said, I can believe that Opera is at the less untrustworthy end of the spectrum.
Yup, that's the downside. And one I can accept, though others might feel differently.
I value my privacy, but have judged that, so long as I avoid sending sensitive passwords, bank card data etc., I am happy for a bunch of Swedish nerds to have access to my mobile browsing data. A damn sight happier than letting my phone company have the same data.
As is correctly noted above, there are only market pressures involved. When that's the case, customers rarely factor 7 or 8 different metrics (eg. price, quality, reliability etc.) into their decision making. Rather, they identify what they want, then find the cheapest supplier, and provided that there is no compelling reason to avoid the supplier, do the deal.
This means that suppliers concentrate on maintaining enough of a service that they can advertise without being sued, and getting the price down. They have no reason to do any more.
My mobile phone operator gives me a good phone, and cheap calls. But their data charges, and roaming charges are extremely uncompetitive. As data/roaming charges make up a small proportion of my bill, I can't justify prioritizing them when I am shopping around for a contract. I am rewarded with a good old gouging.
I'm not really using a mobile browser for its speed, the main benefit for me is that it saves me c.£150 a year. And by 'quicker' I mean in comparison to the browser the phone comes with. In, you know, real life.
I've never experienced that, but I am in the UK, which from what I can tell has a much healthier mobile phone market.
That would drive me nuts though. Can you download 'offending' apps to a computer then transfer it locally?
I am angry just thinking about that error message.
Opera mini connects through that same WAP/HTTP gateway. It's just that you are, effectively, visiting pages via Opera's proxy server.
I could seriously become a fanboy at this rate.
Pure aluminum is soft, aircraft grade aluminum (and virtually all aluminum used in the real world) is alloyed with other elements, greatly increasing its strength.
Here's a breakdown of the composition of Aluminum Alloy 6061 to give you an idea...
It can be useful if, and only if, the appropriate protections are put in place.
Owing to Germany's history, there exists a keen sense among the populous that making the government too powerful is a bad thing. No such feeling is present among a majority of Americans/British/etc., and the possibility of governmental abuse of an ID card scheme is consequently real.
To paraphrase the old saw, 'The price of freedom is eternally fumbling for utility bills'.
Just to give you the alternate perspective- I love the idea of Opera, and use the kick-ass mini (and mobile) versions every day. But on my desktop, it just seems so foreign. It's like a swiss army knife, with inbuilt functionality poking out every which way, and (in my head) obstructing the work I've got planned- It doesn't feel like it's mine.
I realise that it mostly is amazing, and I'm not satisfied with Firefox by any means, but Opera just feels alien; a bit like when you start messing about with WINE after a long period of not needing to.
I realise that seems woolly as fuck, but I guess Opera is sufficiently advanced that such intangible and abstract criticisms become the only valid ones.
I agree that stuff should be made as simple as possible though, and bet that's not the case with the MSFT documentation.Do you mean select one in ten for death? (Ducks)
"I love the smell of molten server in the morning- Y'know, once www.ilrweb.com had a server...."
You mean bastard
I see it now- the closed-source model is equivalent to Superman hiding his susceptibility to Kryptonite. Oh wait, the bad guys knew that, didn't they....
Phoenix- All correct, but: You harbour an endearingly naive belief the the politicians are trying to do the right thing for the US. They do the right thing for themselves alone.
Why loose your venom on me?
$100 Billion is an inconceivable sum.
It's also 10 Months in Iraq (and that's 10 months above and beyond the ongoing cost of maintaining the world's most powerful army, so doesn't include the costs the US would incur if all those soldiers/tanks/bombs were sat quietly at home).
Bargain. And remember, most of that money is flowing out of the US public purse, straight into the hands of... Bush's golfing buddies.
It's only the internet I suppose.
I think that the conclusions of this study are too sweeping (or they've been 'sexed-up' to generate more interest). But you make no effort to explain the over-representation of 'graduates in science, engineering, and medicine' in the extremist groups.
I have an engineer-type mindset, and when I believe something, I really believe it. I have always figured that it was because my engineery thought patterns, and the corresponding deductions I make about life in general, give me a set of well reasoned, watertight stances about which I then feel compelled to become hardline (the compulsion arising from the rigor of my reasoning). I also take pride in changing my stance whenever someone convinces me I'm wrong.
I'll assume you were trying to be funny, but firmament means sky, not ground.
Don't tase us, Hasbro.