That might be a little high. I mean, not everyone "loves eating". Some of us eat because we are hungry. Some of us don't even eat every time we get hungry, but put it off for awhile. Some of us get up, and leave the dinner table before we feel "full".
In my own personal slice of the world, far less than half of the people I know are "fat". Far fewer are "obese". Many of us could stand to lose 20 to 50 pounds, but that is merely "overweight". At a guess, most of those who are either physically fit, or a little bit overweight don't exactly "love eating". We just eat to stay healthy, for the most part.
Actually, oil prices have gone up primarily because the US Dollar has been devalued. Compare the value of the 1970 dollar to the value of gold, oil, the yen, the yuan, or any foreign currency. Then, compare the value of the 2012 dollar to all those same items.
The dollar has been devalued, oil has increased in price very little. Several cents a barrel, in fact, not dollars.
You can fix a broken game by playing the game? Nonsense. The game is broken, whether you happen to be a winner or a loser. The problem being pointed out is, currently everyone loses except those few players who happen to own a few congress critters.
"Secondly, it auto-installs if the plug-in isn't present."
Ahhh, yes, I remember that. That was the Wonderful World of Windows. Things just auto-install themselves with little, if any, input from the user, or the administrator.
In alternate realities, such as the Unixverse, the user must call up a program from which he searches for the particular package he wants to install. Or, he must be familiar enough with his package manager to call it up from a terminal. Auto-install has proven to be a Very_Bad_Thing, time and again.
People who read this site are mostly geeks, nerds, IT, developers, or some such who are computer literate. But, NO ONE who reads this site is ignorant of how pervasive Java is. NO ONE who reads this site is completely ignorant of the ways in which John and Jane Q. Public uses their computers.
Like DavidClarkeHR's mother, my wife "needs" Java. Her computer may suffer any number of ills, and she'll ignore them. But, if she can't play her Pogo Games, the old broad is going to make my life miserable until the problem is fixed. To her, "the internet" pretty much means Pogo, Facebook, email, Craig's List, classified ads in the Texarkana Gazette, and a little bit of news.
Oh, wait - how can I forget her soap operas? The woman has given up on television, and watches her daily shows on the computer now.
THAT is the internet, for millions of people.
Java don't work? "I WANT IT FIXED BEFORE I GET HOME FROM WORK!! You can forget about taking trash out, you can forget to pick your clothes up off the bathroom floor, you can leave the sink full of dirty dishes, BUT FIX MY INTERNET!!"
Ditto what Rick Zeman said. There are thousands of petitions on the internet, and several sources of those petitions send me emails daily, asking me to sign petitions.
I often want to sign the stupid petitions as "opposed", or whatever.
But, of course! Why do you think the 2nd amendment is so important to us? It's important that all us criminals can defend ourselves from each other! Not to mention that we don't want the warden or his gang to come back!
Pal, Australia. What does the word conjure up? Think. I know you had history classes in school. Australia was a penal colony. Meaning, they were rogues before they ever got to Australia. They are EXPECTED to be rogue! Putting the words "Australia" and "rogue" in the same sentence is redundant and repetitive.
Hey now! You and your facts make it hard to be a smartass!;^)
I could point to my rear drum brakes, and tell you that they aren't hydraulic, but you'd quickly point out that there isn't a cable either. It might be interesting to check the history of bikes, to find out when and where they did use cables for braking systems. Maybe another day, LOL!
People do deteriorate when confined to a wheelchair. People who are aware of that fact can do something about it.
Jim was a UDT/Frogman. (Note, he wasn't a SEAL, they didn't have SEALS when he served.) Long after his discharge, Jim discovered that he was diabetic. Long story short, he lost both legs to diabetes. When his legs were cut off, he woke up in a recovery room with another guy who had the same problem, same amputation.
Jim resisted efforts to sell him an electrically powered wheelchair. His room mate bought a high dollar powered wheel chair.
The old sailor lived for decades, powering his own wheelchair with his own arms. His room mate only made it about 7 years. Each year, that room mate gained more weight, grew weaker, got lazier and lazier, and finally died.
You're right, studies are needed, but you're most certainly on the right track with your guesses.
See my reply to Hairyfeet above. I had played with Safari a little prior to Google getting involved with Webkit. But, I had ONLY played with it. When Google released their first version, I downloaded it, played with it, THEN realized that it was much like Safari.
For whatever reasons, Chromium's first versions ran better for me than whichever versions of Safari I had messed with. After browsing with Google's browser, I went back and grabbed Safari again, to make side-by-side comparisons. I found them to be very much the same.
I was careful to note in my post that Webkit preceded Chromium, that Webkit isn't a Google invention. It's just that Webkit didn't make an impact on me until Chromium came out. And, I'll bet there are millions of other people who would admit that the same were true for them.
"How do you buy 'it' twice when the 'it' is two different things,"
That is so, so wrong.
My wife never bought a video cassette because she wanted a video cassette. I never bought a music casette because I wanted a cassette. Never bought a floppy drive just because I wanted a floppy drive laying around. Ditto with CD's, DVD's, ebooks, real tree books, or whatever.
It's the CONTENT you're paying for.
I want to watch the movie, or read the book. That's why I pay real money for it. The book is the same whether it appears on screen, or I have to hold the book open. The movie is the same whether it's on DVD, or video cassette. And, I only expect to pay for it ONCE to be entitled to use it as I see fit.
Even if the content is edited so that it is more usable and/or appealing in a new format, it's still the same stuff.
Oh, stop with the squealing - I've liked Webkit since Google started working on it, BECAUSE I wasn't very much aware of Webkit before Google started working on it.
To state the matter in a different way, I've liked every browser that I've touched that was webkit based. Chromium was the first.
It took years for any of the worst leaders in the last century to kill millions of people. Blowing up planets would give body counts in the billions with just a few hour's work - if there were any bodies to be found afterward.
Aircraft carriers don't have dicks to hang in the wind. If you want to see dick, ship out on a destroyer. We are what the airedales wish they were. We are what the airedale's girlfriends and wives were looking for. The Corps is still looking for a few good men, but the best men have already shipped out aboard DESTROYERS!!!
Webkit browsers passed all the acid tests long before Trident ever got close to passing. Trident was the lowest scoring engine, and as far as I know, it is still the lowest scoring.
Maybe Microsoft has simply given up on ever getting Trident to pass? Maybe they know that Trident can never attain all the standards implemented today, or standards that will be implemented in years to come? Face it man, MS has been working hard in recent years just to get into the same league as all the other modern browsers.
Webkit blows Trident away. Why WOULDN'T Microsoft take advantage of a more modern engine? It will save them tons of money!
Perhaps you misunderstood everything you read on the subject.
No one seems to be suggesting that Microsoft adopt Chrome, or Chromium. Both of those browsers belong to Microsoft's competition. What does NOT belong to the competition, is the ENGINE that underlies Chrome, Chromium, Safari, Arora, Bolt,
You make a fairly decent point. Not a good point, just a decent point. But, Webkit doesn't have a history that is anything like Trident. I don't care if Microsoft uses Webkit, Gekho, or something entirely new. Just get rid of Trident.
AC says you're dumb - I disagree with him. Your opinion is pretty well thought out.
I do, however, disagree with your assessment somewhat. Trident needs to die, and die hard. Microsoft needs to pull that abomination out of Windows completely, along with all the ActiveX controls, all it's privileges, all of it's quirks, both good and bad.
I don't believe that I'll ever think that Windows is a "good" operating system, but the removal of Trident would make it one hell of a lot better. Sure, I know that many of IE's worst vulnerabilities have been "fixed", but I shall never forget how many vulnerabilities there have been, or how bad they have been.
As for Webkit - I've liked it since it's debut under Google's name. Sure, I realize it's not Google's invention, but webkit is cool.
If/when Microsoft shifts to Webkit, they really, really, REALLY need to install it as an unprivileged application, and make certain that it just BROWSES. It doesn't need hooks into dozens of programs, it doesn't need privileges, it doesn't need much of anything. A few plugins, addons such as Mozilla and Google offer for their own browsers. Leave it at that.
A browser on Windows should be just as much, and no more than a browser on any Unix-like. The browser shouldn't even be used for updates, as Microsoft has done for all these years. A separate and distinct updating program is a requirement, with no overlap in privileges.
Yes, Trident needs to die, quickly, and hard. It would be a wonderful thing if five years from now, Trident were just history, with zero support anywhere. I'd like to see websites assist people with updating from Trident simply. Just stop coding for Trident.
"This site is best viewed with ANY browser that is not Internet Explorer!"
Beneath the icy surface of a buried Antarctic lake, in super-salty water devoid of light and oxygen that is also cold enough to freeze seawater, researchers have now discovered that a diverse community of bacteria has survived for millennia.
The findings shed light on the extreme limits at which life can live not just on Earth, but possibly alien worlds, scientists added.
Researchers analyzed Lake Vida, which lies encapsulated within ice at least 60 feet beneath Antarctica's surface. Past studies revealed the brine in the lake has been isolated from the surface for at least 2,800 years.
Google's tracking gives you good search results? Funny, I've found that permitting tracking often causes ridiculous search results. One of my purchases, for instance. I bought a scarf - nice wool scarf, long and wide, perfect for wrapping around your neck to cover the bare spot between your motorcycle helmet and your armored jacket. One of the tags associated with that scarf was "fashion".
As a result, I get various search results associated with "fashion", but I don't see "motorcycle" or "cold weather gear", or "wool", any any of dozens of more applicable things.
I may not be the very last guy you would ask about fashion, but I'm pretty damned close to whoever is last.
To be fair, I block a lot of tracking, including much of Google's own tracking. All the same, I have NEVER performed a search that included the "fashion" tag. Never, ever, ever, not once. I have done countless searches with the words wool, motorcycle, Honda, GL500, Twisted Twin, and more. I get no results in my everyday searches associated tith those terms, or others that I commonly use.
To be clear - those "fashion" hits never appeared on my search pages UNTIL I purchased that blue and white checkered scarf.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/flaming+lips/she+dont+use+jelly_20054118.html
That song is stupid and irritating - but it could solve the problem with personal intubation.
That might be a little high. I mean, not everyone "loves eating". Some of us eat because we are hungry. Some of us don't even eat every time we get hungry, but put it off for awhile. Some of us get up, and leave the dinner table before we feel "full".
In my own personal slice of the world, far less than half of the people I know are "fat". Far fewer are "obese". Many of us could stand to lose 20 to 50 pounds, but that is merely "overweight". At a guess, most of those who are either physically fit, or a little bit overweight don't exactly "love eating". We just eat to stay healthy, for the most part.
Actually, oil prices have gone up primarily because the US Dollar has been devalued. Compare the value of the 1970 dollar to the value of gold, oil, the yen, the yuan, or any foreign currency. Then, compare the value of the 2012 dollar to all those same items.
The dollar has been devalued, oil has increased in price very little. Several cents a barrel, in fact, not dollars.
You can fix a broken game by playing the game? Nonsense. The game is broken, whether you happen to be a winner or a loser. The problem being pointed out is, currently everyone loses except those few players who happen to own a few congress critters.
"Secondly, it auto-installs if the plug-in isn't present."
Ahhh, yes, I remember that. That was the Wonderful World of Windows. Things just auto-install themselves with little, if any, input from the user, or the administrator.
In alternate realities, such as the Unixverse, the user must call up a program from which he searches for the particular package he wants to install. Or, he must be familiar enough with his package manager to call it up from a terminal. Auto-install has proven to be a Very_Bad_Thing, time and again.
People who read this site are mostly geeks, nerds, IT, developers, or some such who are computer literate. But, NO ONE who reads this site is ignorant of how pervasive Java is. NO ONE who reads this site is completely ignorant of the ways in which John and Jane Q. Public uses their computers.
Like DavidClarkeHR's mother, my wife "needs" Java. Her computer may suffer any number of ills, and she'll ignore them. But, if she can't play her Pogo Games, the old broad is going to make my life miserable until the problem is fixed. To her, "the internet" pretty much means Pogo, Facebook, email, Craig's List, classified ads in the Texarkana Gazette, and a little bit of news.
Oh, wait - how can I forget her soap operas? The woman has given up on television, and watches her daily shows on the computer now.
THAT is the internet, for millions of people.
Java don't work? "I WANT IT FIXED BEFORE I GET HOME FROM WORK!! You can forget about taking trash out, you can forget to pick your clothes up off the bathroom floor, you can leave the sink full of dirty dishes, BUT FIX MY INTERNET!!"
Ditto what Rick Zeman said. There are thousands of petitions on the internet, and several sources of those petitions send me emails daily, asking me to sign petitions.
I often want to sign the stupid petitions as "opposed", or whatever.
Squee? FFS - obviously I'm not into memes and other stupid shits . . .
Apparently you are?
But, of course! Why do you think the 2nd amendment is so important to us? It's important that all us criminals can defend ourselves from each other! Not to mention that we don't want the warden or his gang to come back!
Pal, Australia. What does the word conjure up? Think. I know you had history classes in school. Australia was a penal colony. Meaning, they were rogues before they ever got to Australia. They are EXPECTED to be rogue! Putting the words "Australia" and "rogue" in the same sentence is redundant and repetitive.
Hey now! You and your facts make it hard to be a smartass! ;^)
I could point to my rear drum brakes, and tell you that they aren't hydraulic, but you'd quickly point out that there isn't a cable either. It might be interesting to check the history of bikes, to find out when and where they did use cables for braking systems. Maybe another day, LOL!
People do deteriorate when confined to a wheelchair. People who are aware of that fact can do something about it.
Jim was a UDT/Frogman. (Note, he wasn't a SEAL, they didn't have SEALS when he served.) Long after his discharge, Jim discovered that he was diabetic. Long story short, he lost both legs to diabetes. When his legs were cut off, he woke up in a recovery room with another guy who had the same problem, same amputation.
Jim resisted efforts to sell him an electrically powered wheelchair. His room mate bought a high dollar powered wheel chair.
The old sailor lived for decades, powering his own wheelchair with his own arms. His room mate only made it about 7 years. Each year, that room mate gained more weight, grew weaker, got lazier and lazier, and finally died.
You're right, studies are needed, but you're most certainly on the right track with your guesses.
On a 500cc "bicycle" that would still be very dangerous. Sticky cables, stretchy cables, any sort of odd behaviour from the cables - not for me!!
http://cx500forum.com/
See my reply to Hairyfeet above. I had played with Safari a little prior to Google getting involved with Webkit. But, I had ONLY played with it. When Google released their first version, I downloaded it, played with it, THEN realized that it was much like Safari.
For whatever reasons, Chromium's first versions ran better for me than whichever versions of Safari I had messed with. After browsing with Google's browser, I went back and grabbed Safari again, to make side-by-side comparisons. I found them to be very much the same.
I was careful to note in my post that Webkit preceded Chromium, that Webkit isn't a Google invention. It's just that Webkit didn't make an impact on me until Chromium came out. And, I'll bet there are millions of other people who would admit that the same were true for them.
"How do you buy 'it' twice when the 'it' is two different things,"
That is so, so wrong.
My wife never bought a video cassette because she wanted a video cassette. I never bought a music casette because I wanted a cassette. Never bought a floppy drive just because I wanted a floppy drive laying around. Ditto with CD's, DVD's, ebooks, real tree books, or whatever.
It's the CONTENT you're paying for.
I want to watch the movie, or read the book. That's why I pay real money for it. The book is the same whether it appears on screen, or I have to hold the book open. The movie is the same whether it's on DVD, or video cassette. And, I only expect to pay for it ONCE to be entitled to use it as I see fit.
Even if the content is edited so that it is more usable and/or appealing in a new format, it's still the same stuff.
Oh, stop with the squealing - I've liked Webkit since Google started working on it, BECAUSE I wasn't very much aware of Webkit before Google started working on it.
To state the matter in a different way, I've liked every browser that I've touched that was webkit based. Chromium was the first.
Squeal now, Hairy!
It took years for any of the worst leaders in the last century to kill millions of people. Blowing up planets would give body counts in the billions with just a few hour's work - if there were any bodies to be found afterward.
Efficiency is a good thing, is it not?
Aircraft carriers don't have dicks to hang in the wind. If you want to see dick, ship out on a destroyer. We are what the airedales wish they were. We are what the airedale's girlfriends and wives were looking for. The Corps is still looking for a few good men, but the best men have already shipped out aboard DESTROYERS!!!
Webkit browsers passed all the acid tests long before Trident ever got close to passing. Trident was the lowest scoring engine, and as far as I know, it is still the lowest scoring.
Maybe Microsoft has simply given up on ever getting Trident to pass? Maybe they know that Trident can never attain all the standards implemented today, or standards that will be implemented in years to come? Face it man, MS has been working hard in recent years just to get into the same league as all the other modern browsers.
Webkit blows Trident away. Why WOULDN'T Microsoft take advantage of a more modern engine? It will save them tons of money!
Perhaps you misunderstood everything you read on the subject.
No one seems to be suggesting that Microsoft adopt Chrome, or Chromium. Both of those browsers belong to Microsoft's competition. What does NOT belong to the competition, is the ENGINE that underlies Chrome, Chromium, Safari, Arora, Bolt,
Oh here, just read the list for yourself, it's pretty long:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-based
You make a fairly decent point. Not a good point, just a decent point. But, Webkit doesn't have a history that is anything like Trident. I don't care if Microsoft uses Webkit, Gekho, or something entirely new. Just get rid of Trident.
AC says you're dumb - I disagree with him. Your opinion is pretty well thought out.
I do, however, disagree with your assessment somewhat. Trident needs to die, and die hard. Microsoft needs to pull that abomination out of Windows completely, along with all the ActiveX controls, all it's privileges, all of it's quirks, both good and bad.
I don't believe that I'll ever think that Windows is a "good" operating system, but the removal of Trident would make it one hell of a lot better. Sure, I know that many of IE's worst vulnerabilities have been "fixed", but I shall never forget how many vulnerabilities there have been, or how bad they have been.
As for Webkit - I've liked it since it's debut under Google's name. Sure, I realize it's not Google's invention, but webkit is cool.
If/when Microsoft shifts to Webkit, they really, really, REALLY need to install it as an unprivileged application, and make certain that it just BROWSES. It doesn't need hooks into dozens of programs, it doesn't need privileges, it doesn't need much of anything. A few plugins, addons such as Mozilla and Google offer for their own browsers. Leave it at that.
A browser on Windows should be just as much, and no more than a browser on any Unix-like. The browser shouldn't even be used for updates, as Microsoft has done for all these years. A separate and distinct updating program is a requirement, with no overlap in privileges.
Yes, Trident needs to die, quickly, and hard. It would be a wonderful thing if five years from now, Trident were just history, with zero support anywhere. I'd like to see websites assist people with updating from Trident simply. Just stop coding for Trident.
"This site is best viewed with ANY browser that is not Internet Explorer!"
I don't think you 90% scenario is very realistic. Have some copy/pasta:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57554856/ancient-life-found-in-buried-antarctic-lake/
Beneath the icy surface of a buried Antarctic lake, in super-salty water devoid of light and oxygen that is also cold enough to freeze seawater, researchers have now discovered that a diverse community of bacteria has survived for millennia.
The findings shed light on the extreme limits at which life can live not just on Earth, but possibly alien worlds, scientists added.
Researchers analyzed Lake Vida, which lies encapsulated within ice at least 60 feet beneath Antarctica's surface. Past studies revealed the brine in the lake has been isolated from the surface for at least 2,800 years.
You're smarter than you look, Hairy dude.
Dd you notice that Stefan looks like a grown up Charlie Brown?
Google's tracking gives you good search results? Funny, I've found that permitting tracking often causes ridiculous search results. One of my purchases, for instance. I bought a scarf - nice wool scarf, long and wide, perfect for wrapping around your neck to cover the bare spot between your motorcycle helmet and your armored jacket. One of the tags associated with that scarf was "fashion".
As a result, I get various search results associated with "fashion", but I don't see "motorcycle" or "cold weather gear", or "wool", any any of dozens of more applicable things.
I may not be the very last guy you would ask about fashion, but I'm pretty damned close to whoever is last.
To be fair, I block a lot of tracking, including much of Google's own tracking. All the same, I have NEVER performed a search that included the "fashion" tag. Never, ever, ever, not once. I have done countless searches with the words wool, motorcycle, Honda, GL500, Twisted Twin, and more. I get no results in my everyday searches associated tith those terms, or others that I commonly use.
To be clear - those "fashion" hits never appeared on my search pages UNTIL I purchased that blue and white checkered scarf.