How many of those Polish potentially swayed by the "Opera Turbo technology - speed up your Internet connection" are actually going to -stick to- using Opera, rather than going back to IE or using another browser they might have downloaded through that same choice screen?
Opera has 12% market share in Poland, which is almost double that of Safari and Chrome combined. No notable increases, despite the number of extra downloads, or they haven't been recorded yet in the stats.
Isn't the *middle* choice going to be more important than the leftmost one?
We have a screen-centred dialog here that shows five browsers. One is going to end up smack-middle on the screen - and guess what - Windows centres the mouse pointer when it boots, which is when the screen will appear.
People often go for middle ground. Then they go to the direction they read... So in my mind, the 3rd choice is going to be the most important, followed by 4 for LTR cultures, and 2 for RTL.
But I'm talking out of my ass here... Any research into the importance of elements in a short horizontal list?
For that matter IE8 sucks too. I wish Microsoft would just get it together and use webkit or gecko as their rendering engine. They could keep the familiar IE interface and whatever extras they wanted without forcing this load of crap on all us poor developers that just want standards support.
I don't know... Recently I made a CSS-heavy website with a ton of JS (MooTools), and to be honest, I haven't encountered *any* rendering quirks or bugs in IE8. It behaved just as well as the "normal" browsers. Everything just worked.
I found several bugs in IE7 (height: 1% and tweaking z-index helped), and I was done fixing the site for IE7 in 15 minutes. On the other hand, I found a couple of JS bugs/quirks in Gecko - one was my fault (used innerText whereas I shouldn't have), and the other one might have been the fault of MooTools.
I know this is heresy, but I'm quite happy with IE8. It never caused me any trouble.
In any case, screw TVs - I want OLED computer monitors, which are luckily very usable even once you get to around 20".
You won't get those.
Unless something drastically changes, which I highly doubt, OLED monitors just won't happen. OLED is extremely susceptible to burn-in, thus unsuitable for computer displays.
I've been selected to try out the new YouTube video page. If that's forced evolution, then I don't want to be a part of it...
There are no normal links anywhere anymore. Whereas previously the video links were http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxx, they are now monstrosities with a hundred characters in the URL.
It's all full of AJAX. I haven't tried disabling JS to see what happens... The layout has changed, it's confusing, and it's ugly. When the video you are watching stops, the next one starts automatically, as if it were all a giant playlist.
If you get that piece of garbage (which is a clear devolution, not an evolution), delete YouTube's cookies. I'm not sure which one was responsible; I just got rid of all of them and got normal YouTube back.
It still bugs me that it's very, very hard to make a customizable browser like Opera open new tabs with a ctrl-click like every other browser.
What's wrong with the middle mouse button?
Opera used Shift for that purpose before other browsers even had tabs, and it still works that way (I think - I really don't know, because I've had a mouse with a scroll wheel for many years now).
This system will still force our adversaries to build more complex rockets and delivery systems. Rocket science is tough even for the Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans. So maybe in their attempt to upgrade their rockets to bypass our barely working defense systems, they will make even more mistakes than we did, and their rockets will fail all on their own. Based on resent missile test from Russia and North Korea it might just work.
I know you were just joking, but I'm not sure if there is reason to believe that the Russian "spiral" missile test was a failure. Just a couple of days after the incident above Norway, the exact same thing happened over Moscow with an older type of ICBM (I can't find any links right now, Google just keeps giving me the Norway story). It's either an unbelievable coincidence, or things are not quite as they seem...
Google *themselves* claim 40 million Chrome users. Opera Mini alone has more users than Chrome, not to mention the desktop version. And yet Chrome is represented by having ten times Opera Mini's market share according to those stats sites. Right...
I'm uploading the IE6 No More code to my website now. There's a point where users of outdated software need to be told there's four major cost-free options, including a much updated version of IE if they want to stick with IE.
Five.
It's missing Opera, which globally has more users than Chrome, for example, and wtfpwns both IE and Firefox combined market share in certain countries. In most European countries, Opera has more users than Safari and Chrome.
While the concept is neat, the choices aren't, and they are both offensive and ignorant.
DisplayPort seems like one of those technologies that have great mind share, as well as some advantages over the competing technology, but will never gain mainstream adoption (See: Firewire).
It's on the way.
Practically every new graphics card has DisplayPort output, and practically every new monitor has DisplayPort input. Give it a couple of years, and you'll be using DisplayPort, too.
I don't have an Xbox 360 or a PS3, they cost half my monthly salary. So does the cheapest Blu Ray player I can find (and that one craps out with non-ASCII subtitles). Apple TV doesn't accept discs and costs more than Xbox/PS3, I've never heard about Popcorn or MviX, I don't have any USB hard drives, and the TV is far from any available computer network.
Things will improve over the years regarding h.264 player prices, but they are still unavailable to me because they cost four figures in my local currency;)
Prescott dissipated 105W from only 112 mm^2, or about twice the power density of this chip, I don't think cooling will be a major problem.
That's why it was called Preshot and why Intel had given up on Netburst. It was a bitch to cool down, and - unlike GPUs - it had the benefit of cooling with bigger heatsinks and larger fans.
That's way faster to read than anything on a bleed-your-yeys white background.
For a lot of people (I've seen estimates between 20% and 50%), light-on-dark is much harder to read than dark-on-light, even if they wear corrective glasses or contact lens.
I get headaches from reading light text on a dark background...
I meant for computer monitors. It's not likely to happen, unless miracles happen with the technology itself.
If you take a look at existing OLED screens, they are all used in devices that don't display a static picture 8+ hours a day. Buy an OLED TV, use it as a computer monitor, and watch it get ruined quickly. According to some people, the burn-in is worse than with early plasma screens.
guaranteed to be thicker than LED or LCD, and with phosphor delay; I want LED so that I can have [effectively] instant transitions. we can get back the delay effect with processing, but you can't eliminate phosphor delays when you've got phosphors.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we'll see OLED any time soon. It still has longevity issues and burn-in is nasty. We'll see what happens 3-4 years from now, but as far as computer monitors are concerned, I don't think OLED is viable... So we're stuck with poor LCDs.
I hope not, because I would really, really like data backup on discs, not disks.
I don't care about HD-DVD and Blu Ray as such, but the thing I resent Sony the most is that they've more or less prevented us from having "HD" burners in our computers already. If both formats were still alive, I think we'd be happily burning our data to 25-33 GB $2 discs on $50 burners today... As it is, they cost five times as much.
I found that site, but immediately discarded it when I read "I am a MooTools developer" in the disclaimer. I'd like to hear from people around here instead:)
Scamming the scammers makes *you* a scammer. End of story. If you enjoy making fun of people who aren't even behind the business but merely badly-paid employees, you need to rethink your moral grounds.
Don't steer the discussion over to the victims, this has nothing to do with them. What this story and what that forum post is about is simple, pathetic griefing. I could understand such things being amusing to teenagers, but not grown-up people. It's pathetic, it's insulting, it's bad.
Humiliating people is still humiliating people, one way or another. It doesn't matter if you do it to the world's greatest thief, killer or dictator, or to an employee of the big Nigerian scam boss (what, do you really think the dressed-up protagonists of the lame comic are the actual scammers?).
I know of people that go around town and take pictures of impoverished and mentally challenged individuals and then post them to a website to make fun of. That really isn't far from what the sad, pathetic forum griefer had done.
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How many of those Polish potentially swayed by the "Opera Turbo technology - speed up your Internet connection" are actually going to -stick to- using Opera, rather than going back to IE or using another browser they might have downloaded through that same choice screen?
Opera has 12% market share in Poland, which is almost double that of Safari and Chrome combined. No notable increases, despite the number of extra downloads, or they haven't been recorded yet in the stats.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-PL-monthly-200903-201003-bar
Isn't the *middle* choice going to be more important than the leftmost one?
We have a screen-centred dialog here that shows five browsers. One is going to end up smack-middle on the screen - and guess what - Windows centres the mouse pointer when it boots, which is when the screen will appear.
People often go for middle ground. Then they go to the direction they read... So in my mind, the 3rd choice is going to be the most important, followed by 4 for LTR cultures, and 2 for RTL.
But I'm talking out of my ass here... Any research into the importance of elements in a short horizontal list?
For that matter IE8 sucks too. I wish Microsoft would just get it together and use webkit or gecko as their rendering engine. They could keep the familiar IE interface and whatever extras they wanted without forcing this load of crap on all us poor developers that just want standards support.
I don't know... Recently I made a CSS-heavy website with a ton of JS (MooTools), and to be honest, I haven't encountered *any* rendering quirks or bugs in IE8. It behaved just as well as the "normal" browsers. Everything just worked.
I found several bugs in IE7 (height: 1% and tweaking z-index helped), and I was done fixing the site for IE7 in 15 minutes. On the other hand, I found a couple of JS bugs/quirks in Gecko - one was my fault (used innerText whereas I shouldn't have), and the other one might have been the fault of MooTools.
I know this is heresy, but I'm quite happy with IE8. It never caused me any trouble.
In any case, screw TVs - I want OLED computer monitors, which are luckily very usable even once you get to around 20".
You won't get those.
Unless something drastically changes, which I highly doubt, OLED monitors just won't happen. OLED is extremely susceptible to burn-in, thus unsuitable for computer displays.
What are you talking about?
The new YouTube layout page, which will be rolled to all users soon.
I wish I had taken some screenshots... :(
I've been selected to try out the new YouTube video page. If that's forced evolution, then I don't want to be a part of it...
There are no normal links anywhere anymore. Whereas previously the video links were http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxx, they are now monstrosities with a hundred characters in the URL.
It's all full of AJAX. I haven't tried disabling JS to see what happens... The layout has changed, it's confusing, and it's ugly. When the video you are watching stops, the next one starts automatically, as if it were all a giant playlist.
If you get that piece of garbage (which is a clear devolution, not an evolution), delete YouTube's cookies. I'm not sure which one was responsible; I just got rid of all of them and got normal YouTube back.
It still bugs me that it's very, very hard to make a customizable browser like Opera open new tabs with a ctrl-click like every other browser.
What's wrong with the middle mouse button?
Opera used Shift for that purpose before other browsers even had tabs, and it still works that way (I think - I really don't know, because I've had a mouse with a scroll wheel for many years now).
This system will still force our adversaries to build more complex rockets and delivery systems. Rocket science is tough even for the Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans. So maybe in their attempt to upgrade their rockets to bypass our barely working defense systems, they will make even more mistakes than we did, and their rockets will fail all on their own. Based on resent missile test from Russia and North Korea it might just work.
I know you were just joking, but I'm not sure if there is reason to believe that the Russian "spiral" missile test was a failure. Just a couple of days after the incident above Norway, the exact same thing happened over Moscow with an older type of ICBM (I can't find any links right now, Google just keeps giving me the Norway story). It's either an unbelievable coincidence, or things are not quite as they seem...
By "globally" do you mean "in your head"?
No, I mean "globally".
See this for an example: http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2010/01/02/odd-browser-stats
Google *themselves* claim 40 million Chrome users. Opera Mini alone has more users than Chrome, not to mention the desktop version. And yet Chrome is represented by having ten times Opera Mini's market share according to those stats sites. Right...
There's also this http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2009/03/16/a-look-at-desktop-market-share-cis-edition this http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2009/03/16/desktop-market-share-former-yugoslavia-edition and this http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/desktop-market-share-baltic-edition and this http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/desktop-market-share-central-eastern-europe-edition ...
Whether you like it or not, Opera is *massive* in Europe and has a far greater market share than you'd like to believe.
For that reason, the stupid code on "IE6 No More" site is insulting.
I'm uploading the IE6 No More code to my website now. There's a point where users of outdated software need to be told there's four major cost-free options, including a much updated version of IE if they want to stick with IE.
Five.
It's missing Opera, which globally has more users than Chrome, for example, and wtfpwns both IE and Firefox combined market share in certain countries. In most European countries, Opera has more users than Safari and Chrome.
While the concept is neat, the choices aren't, and they are both offensive and ignorant.
DisplayPort seems like one of those technologies that have great mind share, as well as some advantages over the competing technology, but will never gain mainstream adoption (See: Firewire).
It's on the way.
Practically every new graphics card has DisplayPort output, and practically every new monitor has DisplayPort input. Give it a couple of years, and you'll be using DisplayPort, too.
I don't have an Xbox 360 or a PS3, they cost half my monthly salary. So does the cheapest Blu Ray player I can find (and that one craps out with non-ASCII subtitles). Apple TV doesn't accept discs and costs more than Xbox/PS3, I've never heard about Popcorn or MviX, I don't have any USB hard drives, and the TV is far from any available computer network.
Things will improve over the years regarding h.264 player prices, but they are still unavailable to me because they cost four figures in my local currency ;)
Prescott dissipated 105W from only 112 mm^2, or about twice the power density of this chip, I don't think cooling will be a major problem.
That's why it was called Preshot and why Intel had given up on Netburst. It was a bitch to cool down, and - unlike GPUs - it had the benefit of cooling with bigger heatsinks and larger fans.
h264 is so incredible you don't need divx anyway.
My Pioneer DVD player doesn't play h.264. Neither does any other DVD player, except perhaps those that cost four figures (I haven't looked into that).
h.264 might be incredible, but I have no way of playing it on my TV.
That's way faster to read than anything on a bleed-your-yeys white background.
For a lot of people (I've seen estimates between 20% and 50%), light-on-dark is much harder to read than dark-on-light, even if they wear corrective glasses or contact lens.
I get headaches from reading light text on a dark background...
Hell no. I've been using Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins for two decades now, and it's a good thing that you aren't in charge of key behaviour ;)
On the other hand, the invenror of the Insert key deserves a mousetrap being put right under the light switch in their room.
So how do you copy and paste without the Insert key?
I meant for computer monitors. It's not likely to happen, unless miracles happen with the technology itself.
If you take a look at existing OLED screens, they are all used in devices that don't display a static picture 8+ hours a day. Buy an OLED TV, use it as a computer monitor, and watch it get ruined quickly. According to some people, the burn-in is worse than with early plasma screens.
guaranteed to be thicker than LED or LCD, and with phosphor delay; I want LED so that I can have [effectively] instant transitions. we can get back the delay effect with processing, but you can't eliminate phosphor delays when you've got phosphors.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we'll see OLED any time soon. It still has longevity issues and burn-in is nasty. We'll see what happens 3-4 years from now, but as far as computer monitors are concerned, I don't think OLED is viable... So we're stuck with poor LCDs.
I'm in a European country. $1 = 1, plus an extra price premium :/
HD DVD and Blu-ray are the new betamax.
I hope not, because I would really, really like data backup on discs, not disks.
I don't care about HD-DVD and Blu Ray as such, but the thing I resent Sony the most is that they've more or less prevented us from having "HD" burners in our computers already. If both formats were still alive, I think we'd be happily burning our data to 25-33 GB $2 discs on $50 burners today... As it is, they cost five times as much.
I found that site, but immediately discarded it when I read "I am a MooTools developer" in the disclaimer. I'd like to hear from people around here instead :)
I am unable to find comparisons of JQuery and MooTools.
If anyone has experience with both frameworks, could you please try to summarize the big differences and say which one you prefer?
Scamming the scammers makes *you* a scammer. End of story. If you enjoy making fun of people who aren't even behind the business but merely badly-paid employees, you need to rethink your moral grounds.
Don't steer the discussion over to the victims, this has nothing to do with them. What this story and what that forum post is about is simple, pathetic griefing. I could understand such things being amusing to teenagers, but not grown-up people. It's pathetic, it's insulting, it's bad.
Humiliating people is still humiliating people, one way or another. It doesn't matter if you do it to the world's greatest thief, killer or dictator, or to an employee of the big Nigerian scam boss (what, do you really think the dressed-up protagonists of the lame comic are the actual scammers?).
I know of people that go around town and take pictures of impoverished and mentally challenged individuals and then post them to a website to make fun of. That really isn't far from what the sad, pathetic forum griefer had done.