1 41% Internet Explorer 7.0 2 17% Internet Explorer 6.0 3 15% FireFox 3.5.4 4 15% Internet Explorer 8.0 5 4% FireFox 3.0.15
Most of the IE6 are most likely spam/malware bots looking for exploits, because the page views for these tend to all look like they are looking for a "registration" page, login page, lost password page, etc.
Yes, I have dummy pages setup for just such a purpose.
Here's one. How would you explain the same exact situation in one place where it is seemingly blatantly by color of skin, where there is no significant differences in color of skin?
Poverty and slums and ghettos are fairly universal thoughout the world, and very rarely does it matter what color of skin one has, compared to others.
In Africa, there are whole regions where black on black power struggles occur, and the minority is not that significantly different than the majority.
The point I'm making, is that it isn't color of skin that is the cause, it is just something to distract from the REAL cause, man's inhumanity to man.
The worst propgators of this are not the white Anglo Christian heterosexual males (Most aren't Anglo btw), but the self hating race baiters like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Jeremiah Wright.
They do nothing to resolve the issue of man's inhumanity to man, and turn any dialogue into self fulfilling prophecies.
Whenever you have people pitting one group against another group, it is nothing short of hatred. PERIOD.
Yes, I've been to slums around the world. They are all around the world, and the only thing in common is that you have one group of people being pitted against another, without regard to individuality, and rarely does it have anything to do with "race".
Libertarians don't care about power, or authority, except for that of the individual. Power accumulated into groups is where the problems truly lie. The problem with people like yourself, is that they see power in terms of groups of people, and yet seek solutions by grouping people for power consolidation, which really is the problem in the first place.
True libertarians realize the catch22 nature of using groups to isolate individuals from the power of self.
THAT is why libertarianism is popular around here, as it is about liberty of all people, not just the groups you belong to.
Then there is the ATT 3G Coverage that is misleading. I live in a fairly rural area, and near one remote ATT tower I can get full 3G speed, only the tower itself doesn't have much in the way of data off of it, so all that 3G speed is bottlenecked by ISDN speeds, or impacted T1 or some crappy microwave link or...
So, while they "offer" 3G, it isn't what it seems, and is all but useless for any data. All that data communication is useless, and ATT customeres have to revert back to SMS text messaging.
I now have Vz on a BB, and while I do have issues, they aren't with 3G speeds. If the phone says I have 3G, I have 3G. It at least isn't lying to me.
And... war on poverty, terrorism, illiteracy, FOXNews, Hate speech... actually any war on ______ that isn't actually a shooting war against a defined group of people.
You cannot kill off this kind of Piracy, because it is an concept, not an actual group of people.
If I buy a book, I can legally do whatever I want with it. Read it, shred it, use it for toilet paper.
Unless it is a Koran, then you're just infringing upon the rights of every Muslim everywhere. Yeah, this might be some kind of flamebait, but really, is it?
I dare ya to buy a Koran and wipe your ass with it.. in public... and see exactly what happens.
What if you could "preload" maps of areas you are likely to be in ahead of time into your device? My phone (Blackberry 8330) has a microSD card that could hold all the maps of any place I might head to on vacation. In fact, because it is a microSD card, I could preload many cards with maps and have them available.
While I'm sure the early versions of gMaps and gNavigate will not have this available, I would suspect that Google will no doubt figure out that this gaping whole (no goatse here please). Quite frankly though, having GPS on a phone is almost worthless to me, because if I'm in an area with Cell coverage, I'm not lost. And if I am lost, it is because there is no cell coverage.
Just in case my wife is reading/. "NO we're not lost, we're on an adventure and exploring! Isn't this FUN!!!"
The current limiting factor of HARD DRIVES is platter/sector/head feature. SSDs have no such limit. Imagine a File System that recognizes a new additional drive space and just configures it for you, automatically, as a single contiguous unit.
UNIX style Partitioning where everything is a single logical unit makes much more sense than the whole Windows C: D: E: drive paradigm.
This is going to be a huge Paradigm shift in how we think about "drives", and storage. In fact, I would suspect that the fist "computer" which will take advantage of such a thing will be Apple Macintosh.
This might require a whole new form factor or perhaps drive cage technology. And when it happens, people will buy the storage space they need, for the price they want, and when they need more, they just buy more.
And My prediction is that by 2013-15 you'll start seeing the last of the Hard Drives, and the end of Seagate, maybe sooner.
If the Linuxheads were smart, they'd start planning for this eventuality now, and start making it EASY to add Storage (we're not gonna call them drives much longer either).
The end of spinning platters is coming, and anyone banking on them is going to be on the short end.
And this is why I STILL don't have a BlueRay player. I'm waiting for the thing after BlueRay, some sort of Memory Card Movie player. I'm just wondering what is taking them so long.
What happens when we can fully grow a baby outside of a natural womb?
So would you say that a fetus is no longer a fetus when technology and not a mother's womb can keep it alive long enough to ensure survival without technology? I wonder how you view 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions. FYI the youngest surviving premature birth was in the 21-23 week gestation period (about 5 months), depending on who you ask.
If you're protesting the use of technology to keep a baby alive, then what do you say about Scuba Divers and Astronauts who require technology to live outside their natural environments, are they not people at that moment? Or does the use of technology to keep people alive not count for babies? I wonder how you feel about people on heart/lung machines, or even dialysis.
How about you replace Fetus with.... say... "Jew" or "Negro" or "Retarded". When we de-humanize the victim by calling them "non-human" we dehumanize all.
If it makes you feel better when you abort a baby by calling it a fetus, then by all means do so. It doesn't change the facts that by any arbitrary definition of what it means be "human", you can't justify killing the baby.
And if we, as a society, aren't going to protect the ones that need the most protecting, then we aren't much of a society, are we?
I'm the guy who saw the $1.50 ceramic frog, saw the maker's mark on the bottom, realized it was actually worth $100, and I could sell it to the antique dealer for $50 and offered to buy it from you for $0.75 and held out the three quarters which you took.
Waiting for prices to climb is a lousy reason not to sell right now. There is no guarantee that the values will indeed rise. What needs to happen is for banks to start selling the houses at whatever value causes them to be sold. PERIOD.
We'll never know the value of the houses if they are not sold, and therefore cannot fully understand the depths of how sunk the economy really is. Banks holding onto houses in foreclosure are NOT good for the economy.
IMHO any Bank that took Federal $ should be required to liquidate holdings at auction. Let's just say the limit to hold a house is 365 days, before forced public auction. If they can get the house sold, great. If not, it goes to auction.
Once houses start getting sold again, and the inventory of houses on the market start to reach nominal levels, then we'll know the TRUE value of houses.
And it would free up a great deal of equity currently being held hostage.
You need to read what I said closer. The only time people are EXPLOITED (taken advantage of) is when GREED (desire for wealth) overcomes LOGIC and REASON.
It is not saying that greed requires logic, reason or stupidity, because it doesn't. Greed is the desire for wealth, and is neither good nor bad, in and of itself.
Again, if people think that giving someone they don't know, full access to their bank account, on a vague promise of making lots of money, with little or no effort, they deserve what they get.
But hey, they might actually get the $2,204,458 fee. You never know!
"They also feel that it is a natural right for the elite to profit from the plebeians."
Only Partially true, and therefore false.
The correct phrase (being libertarian) is this
"It is an natural right for one to profit from another, provided both are in agreement to the terms and conditions of the trade".
You're inserting class warfare terminology where none should exist. Yes, elites can profit from plebeians, but plebeians can also profit from the elites.
Inserting class warfare terminology is nothing more than strawman and false dichotomy. The fact that you do it, suggest you know what "value" everything should have, regardless of how other people value things.
Take for example, your "inferior people" terminology. Have you ever considered the poor person's view point, that they are getting more value by being "taken advantage of" the rich than if they didn't have that opportunity in the first place?
Lets take, for example, the Philippines, an average third world country, much like others. If I offer a Filipino a job, at say $500 a month to be "network analyst" for my company there, would you consider that wrong, especially considering such a job here in the US is 4,000-6,000 per month?
Would that offend your sense of fairness? What if I told you that $500 / month was 30%(or more) higher than the actual going rate for that position in Manila and would be considered excellent pay for the job?
You see, the left winger in you is the one actually keeping the Filipino poor, not the Libertarian in me. Because if the choice is to hire the Filipino for $500 or NOT hire the Filipino at $5000/mo guess what, the Filipino won't have a job in your world.
And I won't even get started on "unions" ruining whole industries (auto, steel), by creating inefficiencies in the marketplace. The government should have let GM go bankrupt, and let the unions explain to their workers why they don't have any jobs.
The problem is, you don't know what the consequences of monopolies are before they are enabled.
WE have no idea what the consequences of Standard Oil staying as a monopoly because.... well it was... broken up before we could let the FREE markets compete and bring oh... you know... a viable alternative to oil.... say for example.... alcohol fuel. And the resulting lowering of Greenhouse Gases that all the left wing nutjobs are whining about.
No, we don't know the result of letting the MARKET fix the problem (routing around inefficiencies), but instead brought pressure upon government to break it up.
Fast forward a few decades, and now we have another monopoly in place. This one is called "Microsoft". I would dare say that if Microsoft was NOT a monopoly then LINUX would never have existed except as a "research project". Same with Open Office.
You see, monopolies are part of free markets, and eventually, if we have patience enough, will end up dying under their own behemoth weight and baggage.
When we break up a natural monopoly, we'll never know what fantastic alternative will arise to supplant it. Cable gives rise to Satellite TV. If the cost of cable was low, satellite tv would never have existed. The high cost of cable provided the means for that alternative.
My point being this, we are extremely short sighted in our view of monopolies. Yes, I don't like them any more than anyone else. And like everyone else, I'll simply use them until I have to route around it. And I'll reward the person(s) who create an alternative to monopoly.
Take a look at a new install of IE8, and the choices for their default "search" engine. Page one.... NO GOOGLE... WTF???? You have to click page 2 before you see it.
Yes folks, MS gives you a choice, but hides the most obvious one people will look for. Nothing has changed.
Hey, don't knock MJ... He's proof positive that in America it is TRULY the land of opportunity. Where else can a poor little black boy grow up to be a rich white woman?
Money is not good, nor evil. Money is just a tool to exchange goods and services. Goods are limited, and so are your services. Money is the only tool we have to express value in something. If everything has the same value, then it is worthless.
The only time people are exploited in cases like this, is when GREED overcomes LOGIC and REASON, i.e. MONEY FOR NOTHING (and chicks for free).
People who are scammed like this deserve it. It is a cost of stupidity. Stupid should hurt.
You can DENY health care for those that AREN'T covered by insurance and can't afford to pay it.
As long as there are no consequences for NOT having Health Insurance, then the problem remains, and the system stays broken.
Now queue the whiny liberals "what about the children". These are usually the same liberals who whine about the very same argument when it is made by conservatives. Both sides use the lame "Do it for the children" argument.
FYI, that is a cheap way of simply ignoring the bigger problem, which is government shouldn't intrude on people's private lives and decisions... EVER.
Vote Libertarian and get rid of this childish logic.
I've said the exact same thing for three or four years now. In fact, if WINE were the target, MS would crap a brick or two.
What we need now is a "Runs on WINE" logo/certification process that is a marketing ploy. Imagine if all the Windows software out there has a WINE glass sticker that says exactly that. People will then ask "what is WINE" and we can smugly say...
WINE Is Not an Emulator
This needs to be a HUGE push by all of us geeks. Seriously. If you're a WINDOWS Dev, you need to bring this up in the next production meeting. "Lets get this running on WINE"
PLEASE for the love of TUX (or FSM or other diety of choice) do it.
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Here is my top 5 browsers by %
1 41% Internet Explorer 7.0
2 17% Internet Explorer 6.0
3 15% FireFox 3.5.4
4 15% Internet Explorer 8.0
5 4% FireFox 3.0.15
Most of the IE6 are most likely spam/malware bots looking for exploits, because the page views for these tend to all look like they are looking for a "registration" page, login page, lost password page, etc.
Yes, I have dummy pages setup for just such a purpose.
Okay,
Here's one. How would you explain the same exact situation in one place where it is seemingly blatantly by color of skin, where there is no significant differences in color of skin?
Poverty and slums and ghettos are fairly universal thoughout the world, and very rarely does it matter what color of skin one has, compared to others.
In Africa, there are whole regions where black on black power struggles occur, and the minority is not that significantly different than the majority.
The point I'm making, is that it isn't color of skin that is the cause, it is just something to distract from the REAL cause, man's inhumanity to man.
The worst propgators of this are not the white Anglo Christian heterosexual males (Most aren't Anglo btw), but the self hating race baiters like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Jeremiah Wright.
They do nothing to resolve the issue of man's inhumanity to man, and turn any dialogue into self fulfilling prophecies.
Whenever you have people pitting one group against another group, it is nothing short of hatred. PERIOD.
Yes, I've been to slums around the world. They are all around the world, and the only thing in common is that you have one group of people being pitted against another, without regard to individuality, and rarely does it have anything to do with "race".
Libertarians don't care about power, or authority, except for that of the individual. Power accumulated into groups is where the problems truly lie. The problem with people like yourself, is that they see power in terms of groups of people, and yet seek solutions by grouping people for power consolidation, which really is the problem in the first place.
True libertarians realize the catch22 nature of using groups to isolate individuals from the power of self.
THAT is why libertarianism is popular around here, as it is about liberty of all people, not just the groups you belong to.
Then there is the ATT 3G Coverage that is misleading. I live in a fairly rural area, and near one remote ATT tower I can get full 3G speed, only the tower itself doesn't have much in the way of data off of it, so all that 3G speed is bottlenecked by ISDN speeds, or impacted T1 or some crappy microwave link or ...
So, while they "offer" 3G, it isn't what it seems, and is all but useless for any data. All that data communication is useless, and ATT customeres have to revert back to SMS text messaging.
I now have Vz on a BB, and while I do have issues, they aren't with 3G speeds. If the phone says I have 3G, I have 3G. It at least isn't lying to me.
What about ambidextrous people. I'm just asking.
For those that don't get it, and I hate having to explain it, that is an actual line from one of the Jack-In-The-Box commercials.
Gawd, sometimes I wonder about who is reading /. these days.
And ... war on poverty, terrorism, illiteracy, FOXNews, Hate speech ... actually any war on ______ that isn't actually a shooting war against a defined group of people.
You cannot kill off this kind of Piracy, because it is an concept, not an actual group of people.
"I love most of the ones Jack in the Box"
Yeah. You might want to keep that to yourself.
Unless it is a Koran, then you're just infringing upon the rights of every Muslim everywhere. Yeah, this might be some kind of flamebait, but really, is it?
I dare ya to buy a Koran and wipe your ass with it .. in public ... and see exactly what happens.
Google isn't dumb.
What if you could "preload" maps of areas you are likely to be in ahead of time into your device? My phone (Blackberry 8330) has a microSD card that could hold all the maps of any place I might head to on vacation. In fact, because it is a microSD card, I could preload many cards with maps and have them available.
While I'm sure the early versions of gMaps and gNavigate will not have this available, I would suspect that Google will no doubt figure out that this gaping whole (no goatse here please). Quite frankly though, having GPS on a phone is almost worthless to me, because if I'm in an area with Cell coverage, I'm not lost. And if I am lost, it is because there is no cell coverage.
Just in case my wife is reading /. "NO we're not lost, we're on an adventure and exploring! Isn't this FUN!!!"
It has also hit Drudge via Breitbart, the new "Mainstream" media.
The thing I can't figure out is why this is on /. other than /.ers hate Scientology (and all religion).
When I saw this I filed it under "meh". The fine is puny and it won't change anything.
... I'm not dead yet ... He's only Mostly Dead ... Braaaaaainnsssssss
The current limiting factor of HARD DRIVES is platter/sector/head feature. SSDs have no such limit. Imagine a File System that recognizes a new additional drive space and just configures it for you, automatically, as a single contiguous unit.
UNIX style Partitioning where everything is a single logical unit makes much more sense than the whole Windows C: D: E: drive paradigm.
This is going to be a huge Paradigm shift in how we think about "drives", and storage. In fact, I would suspect that the fist "computer" which will take advantage of such a thing will be Apple Macintosh.
This might require a whole new form factor or perhaps drive cage technology. And when it happens, people will buy the storage space they need, for the price they want, and when they need more, they just buy more.
And My prediction is that by 2013-15 you'll start seeing the last of the Hard Drives, and the end of Seagate, maybe sooner.
If the Linuxheads were smart, they'd start planning for this eventuality now, and start making it EASY to add Storage (we're not gonna call them drives much longer either).
The end of spinning platters is coming, and anyone banking on them is going to be on the short end.
And this is why I STILL don't have a BlueRay player. I'm waiting for the thing after BlueRay, some sort of Memory Card Movie player. I'm just wondering what is taking them so long.
What happens when we can fully grow a baby outside of a natural womb?
So would you say that a fetus is no longer a fetus when technology and not a mother's womb can keep it alive long enough to ensure survival without technology? I wonder how you view 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions. FYI the youngest surviving premature birth was in the 21-23 week gestation period (about 5 months), depending on who you ask.
If you're protesting the use of technology to keep a baby alive, then what do you say about Scuba Divers and Astronauts who require technology to live outside their natural environments, are they not people at that moment? Or does the use of technology to keep people alive not count for babies? I wonder how you feel about people on heart/lung machines, or even dialysis.
How about you replace Fetus with .... say ... "Jew" or "Negro" or "Retarded". When we de-humanize the victim by calling them "non-human" we dehumanize all.
If it makes you feel better when you abort a baby by calling it a fetus, then by all means do so. It doesn't change the facts that by any arbitrary definition of what it means be "human", you can't justify killing the baby.
And if we, as a society, aren't going to protect the ones that need the most protecting, then we aren't much of a society, are we?
I'm the guy who saw the $1.50 ceramic frog, saw the maker's mark on the bottom, realized it was actually worth $100, and I could sell it to the antique dealer for $50 and offered to buy it from you for $0.75 and held out the three quarters which you took.
Thank you. :-D
Waiting for prices to climb is a lousy reason not to sell right now. There is no guarantee that the values will indeed rise. What needs to happen is for banks to start selling the houses at whatever value causes them to be sold. PERIOD.
We'll never know the value of the houses if they are not sold, and therefore cannot fully understand the depths of how sunk the economy really is. Banks holding onto houses in foreclosure are NOT good for the economy.
IMHO any Bank that took Federal $ should be required to liquidate holdings at auction. Let's just say the limit to hold a house is 365 days, before forced public auction. If they can get the house sold, great. If not, it goes to auction.
Once houses start getting sold again, and the inventory of houses on the market start to reach nominal levels, then we'll know the TRUE value of houses.
And it would free up a great deal of equity currently being held hostage.
The pilots weren't sleeping .... they were fornicating; filming the new porno (tentatively titled "Snakes on a Plane").
You need to read what I said closer. The only time people are EXPLOITED (taken advantage of) is when GREED (desire for wealth) overcomes LOGIC and REASON.
It is not saying that greed requires logic, reason or stupidity, because it doesn't. Greed is the desire for wealth, and is neither good nor bad, in and of itself.
Again, if people think that giving someone they don't know, full access to their bank account, on a vague promise of making lots of money, with little or no effort, they deserve what they get.
But hey, they might actually get the $2,204,458 fee. You never know!
"They also feel that it is a natural right for the elite to profit from the plebeians."
Only Partially true, and therefore false.
The correct phrase (being libertarian) is this
"It is an natural right for one to profit from another, provided both are in agreement to the terms and conditions of the trade".
You're inserting class warfare terminology where none should exist. Yes, elites can profit from plebeians, but plebeians can also profit from the elites.
Inserting class warfare terminology is nothing more than strawman and false dichotomy. The fact that you do it, suggest you know what "value" everything should have, regardless of how other people value things.
Take for example, your "inferior people" terminology. Have you ever considered the poor person's view point, that they are getting more value by being "taken advantage of" the rich than if they didn't have that opportunity in the first place?
Lets take, for example, the Philippines, an average third world country, much like others. If I offer a Filipino a job, at say $500 a month to be "network analyst" for my company there, would you consider that wrong, especially considering such a job here in the US is 4,000-6,000 per month?
Would that offend your sense of fairness? What if I told you that $500 / month was 30%(or more) higher than the actual going rate for that position in Manila and would be considered excellent pay for the job?
You see, the left winger in you is the one actually keeping the Filipino poor, not the Libertarian in me. Because if the choice is to hire the Filipino for $500 or NOT hire the Filipino at $5000/mo guess what, the Filipino won't have a job in your world.
And I won't even get started on "unions" ruining whole industries (auto, steel), by creating inefficiencies in the marketplace. The government should have let GM go bankrupt, and let the unions explain to their workers why they don't have any jobs.
The problem is, you don't know what the consequences of monopolies are before they are enabled.
WE have no idea what the consequences of Standard Oil staying as a monopoly because .... well it was ... broken up before we could let the FREE markets compete and bring oh ... you know ... a viable alternative to oil .... say for example .... alcohol fuel. And the resulting lowering of Greenhouse Gases that all the left wing nutjobs are whining about.
No, we don't know the result of letting the MARKET fix the problem (routing around inefficiencies), but instead brought pressure upon government to break it up.
Fast forward a few decades, and now we have another monopoly in place. This one is called "Microsoft". I would dare say that if Microsoft was NOT a monopoly then LINUX would never have existed except as a "research project". Same with Open Office.
You see, monopolies are part of free markets, and eventually, if we have patience enough, will end up dying under their own behemoth weight and baggage.
When we break up a natural monopoly, we'll never know what fantastic alternative will arise to supplant it. Cable gives rise to Satellite TV. If the cost of cable was low, satellite tv would never have existed. The high cost of cable provided the means for that alternative.
My point being this, we are extremely short sighted in our view of monopolies. Yes, I don't like them any more than anyone else. And like everyone else, I'll simply use them until I have to route around it. And I'll reward the person(s) who create an alternative to monopoly.
Take a look at a new install of IE8, and the choices for their default "search" engine. Page one .... NO GOOGLE ... WTF???? You have to click page 2 before you see it.
Yes folks, MS gives you a choice, but hides the most obvious one people will look for. Nothing has changed.
Hey, don't knock MJ ... He's proof positive that in America it is TRULY the land of opportunity. Where else can a poor little black boy grow up to be a rich white woman?
Money is not good, nor evil. Money is just a tool to exchange goods and services. Goods are limited, and so are your services. Money is the only tool we have to express value in something. If everything has the same value, then it is worthless.
The only time people are exploited in cases like this, is when GREED overcomes LOGIC and REASON, i.e. MONEY FOR NOTHING (and chicks for free).
People who are scammed like this deserve it. It is a cost of stupidity. Stupid should hurt.
OR
You can DENY health care for those that AREN'T covered by insurance and can't afford to pay it.
As long as there are no consequences for NOT having Health Insurance, then the problem remains, and the system stays broken.
Now queue the whiny liberals "what about the children". These are usually the same liberals who whine about the very same argument when it is made by conservatives. Both sides use the lame "Do it for the children" argument.
FYI, that is a cheap way of simply ignoring the bigger problem, which is government shouldn't intrude on people's private lives and decisions ... EVER.
Vote Libertarian and get rid of this childish logic.
I do believe the Salary for the position is $420/wk. It isn't much, but the benefits are great!
I've said the exact same thing for three or four years now. In fact, if WINE were the target, MS would crap a brick or two.
What we need now is a "Runs on WINE" logo/certification process that is a marketing ploy. Imagine if all the Windows software out there has a WINE glass sticker that says exactly that. People will then ask "what is WINE" and we can smugly say ...
WINE Is Not an Emulator
This needs to be a HUGE push by all of us geeks. Seriously. If you're a WINDOWS Dev, you need to bring this up in the next production meeting. "Lets get this running on WINE"
PLEASE for the love of TUX (or FSM or other diety of choice) do it.