I've been using Opera since its 2.x days, and am typing this on 6.03.
The incidence of pages rendering poorly has oscillated bewtween 2% and 8% for a long time.
But lately - within the past 3 or 4 months - my "gotta use IE for this one" ratio has jumped to about 15%. Clearly, page designers are defaulting to designing only for IE, and and the trend appears to be accelerating, not stabilizing.
As a mere user, I have no insight into the constraints web page creators are under, but I can say they clearly are, site by site, surrendering their freedom to Redmond, whether they know/care or not.
The companies that make and the people that buy SUVs, which get 1/2 to 1/3 the gas mileage of my car, didn't ask for my approval when they decided to make/buy these vehicles. So why should I care if they approve of my personal actions against them?
Your parents didn't get approval to have you share the planet with me. May I kill you? Why should I care what they, or you, think of my "personal actions".
I configured one room of my home into a home office where mommy, daddy, and the 2 kids (now 6 and 2) each have their own desk, computer and access to the shared fat pipe.
I am fortunate enough to work near my home, so I will be at my home office desk most of the time when the kids are likely to be at their little work stations.
I expect to see most of what is going on, and field the same kinds of questions I get when they are involved with other media/communications.
My only question going forward is, when will my son start forwarding erotic matter to me?;)
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Beneath contempt.
The suits have been spending WAY too much time in Southern California reading the trade mags and following micro-trends in television entertainment.
It's over. I mourn.
The incidence of pages rendering poorly has oscillated bewtween 2% and 8% for a long time.
But lately - within the past 3 or 4 months - my "gotta use IE for this one" ratio has jumped to about 15%. Clearly, page designers are defaulting to designing only for IE, and and the trend appears to be accelerating, not stabilizing.
As a mere user, I have no insight into the constraints web page creators are under, but I can say they clearly are, site by site, surrendering their freedom to Redmond, whether they know/care or not.
Ithaca is an exceedingly cheap place to live. A fine *house* will run you less than a small NY or Boston apartment, so the comparisons are not valid.
Betcha they focus-group tested it, and discovered that philosophers are deemed dull while sorcerers are scary and fun.
I've been lobbying for 5 years for various market info vendors to port their applications to Linux, and the response is a uniform "Huh?"
This is really great news for Street IT.
For desktops, the hardest nut to crack will be the stranglehold of .doc and .xls file formats.
But Slashdotters knew that already.
I'll say.
I bought a 98 box for my son to play his games on, it came with ME instead of 98, and refused to play any Disney CD.
Funny. It played all the Magic School Bus (tm) CDs, but those were all created by....Microsoft.
I repacked and sent the machine back the next morning.
The upgrade process crashed both Opera 5 and Netscape 4.7x on two separate machines here. I hope this is a temporary problem, but I'm not optimisitic.
Your parents didn't get approval to have you share the planet with me. May I kill you? Why should I care what they, or you, think of my "personal actions".
I am fortunate enough to work near my home, so I will be at my home office desk most of the time when the kids are likely to be at their little work stations.
I expect to see most of what is going on, and field the same kinds of questions I get when they are involved with other media/communications.
My only question going forward is, when will my son start forwarding erotic matter to me? ;)
Sorry if my *.cornell.edu address offends...
TimeWarnerAOLRoadRunner promised me cable web access in NYC a year ago, and still hasn't "quite" gotten around to it.
Lots of these guys are operating a vaporware scam to keep people from choosing other vendor options.
Don't take 'em seriously.
Minorities historically get lower scores on these tests than whites.
Using the perverse logic of modern victimology, the only conclusion certain folks can reach based on this is that the tests are racist. QED.