Note that Active Daily Users is an estimate of the number of users who are using Firefox on a daily basis.
And well, i couldn't find much else on their statistics. What does 'try it out' even mean? They have solid numbers on how many are downloaded, but I'm interested in how exactly they're coming up with these statistics. Does firefox report to them when it's being used? I don't think so... number of people downloading the upgrades? Maybe...
I know I've downloaded it several times for various computers, some I use daily, some maybe once a week, how many users do I show up as? Are they able to measure if people are using another browser? If I take a weekend off from the internet does my blip dissapear?
It's just silly to think every other person that goes through the trouble of downloading it, and doesn't even load the application. Something must be skewing the data, cause this makes no common sense. Unless someone can find out where this stuff comes from I say BS.
"We had adequate supplies, the people and the vehicles," Howell said at a news conference in Baton Rouge. "It was the middle of a military rescue operation trying to save lives. We were asked not to go in, and we abided by that recommendation."
The goddamn mission statement of the organization is that they are apolitical! They are neutral to everything except the suffering of humans. Perhaps that means they fund-raise aggressively, so be it, but they'll help you regardless of what you think of them.
Were there soldiers/citizens of different nations there?
They did this in England in WWII because they didn't want to disrespect the British people by giving the Americans free stuff when the British were really low on food. I assume Korea was a similar choice. Anyway, I don't think they still charge like that, but they probably did so with good intentions. I know they give folks in Iraq free phone calls home, and give firefighters and police across that nation free stuff during fires and other large events.
Believe what you will, but as far as I'm concerned no organization does more for the people that have been shat on. They don't discriminate sides, races, genders, religions whatsoever, and they're at every tragedy, from a hurricane to a small 1 house fire, no matter how little press there is.
So feel free to disagree with their choice from 50 years ago, but don't hold it against them because when your house is on fire they'll be there shortly after the fire truck to find you a hotel room.
Indeed, a republic is better than a democracy for the reason that the mobs are usually not smart enough to govern themselves. On the other hand we should expect ethical and lawful behavior from our representatives...and probably we should have term limits for congress and shorter supreme court terms (than till death), since the more power is shared, the less time any particular person has to be corrupted.
Somehow the future is surprising, yet not surprising. I revel in watching the world change, the same mistakes being made, but still with crazy plot twists.
The future has always been quite similar to the past, that's probably the most striking thing about it. Culturally things have hardly changed in centuries. People fight over religion, travel wherever they can to get away from each other, experiment with anything they get their hands on, grow up, get married, raise children, and die. The tools we use change, but our actual lives as homo sapiens...not so much.
Godwin's law, and the added losing caveats attributed to it, is often misused to ridicule valid reasoning. Godwin made the law because chumps were using Hitler analogies when the topic wasn't severe, like about Bill Gates, and he didn't want real proper uses of a Hitler argument to be watered down.
If the topic of the post is actually fascism, which government spying on the populace was a part of, then Godwin's law does not apply.
Godwin's law is supposed to be applied when, for example, I say George Steinbrenner is worse than Hitler, because the topic is wholly unrelated to fascism.
You don't need 'em with today's mice. I got rid of mine years ago when opticals came out, and now with wireless I sometimes use my leg while reclining.
While I like was he says most of the time about protecting our rights, then he's goes of on unrealistic lame tangents about how we need to shutdown every government organization.
Well to hell with that libertarian dream, we have a real country with real problems to run that needs real governing. I want paved roads, and I want clean water, and I want national parks, and I want corporate oversight, and I want help paying my tuition, and don't want the poor starving on the streets or looting grocery stores with pistols. We can have those and still have our rights with a little goddamn moderation.
A famous jazz composer (google failed me on his name) once wrote a song with no notes, just 2 minutes or so of rests.
He would sit down at the piano, put his hands on the keys, and just tap his foot counting the rests with a serious face.
The art in the piece he said, was how the audience reacted to the absurd sight of a man just sitting there quietly for 2 minutes and then getting up and bowing as if he had done something. The reactions would range from patience, to confusion, to laughter, back to confusion etc.
Omg, you can't possibly support purple, what a retard. Have you ever worked on a serious project before? Anyone in the industry knows that purple is just for dreamers, but green is how practical things get done. Stop wasting everyone's time with your lame pro-purple arguments.
It's so hard to buy games nowadays with prices like that, especially when you rarely tire of the old ones, and some can be acquired via friends and other non paying methods.
You really can't buy anything unless you know for sure it's worth it, or you have a good paying job.
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Is that just a clever quip or have you actually read something to that effect?
I've never even considered buying one...until now.
This is all part of the Universe's master plan.
1. Align Galaxies.
2. ???????
3. Profit!!
Because the Vista SP1 simply uninstalls Vista and installs XP.
they say
Note that Active Daily Users is an estimate of the number of users who are using Firefox on a daily basis.
And well, i couldn't find much else on their statistics. What does 'try it out' even mean? They have solid numbers on how many are downloaded, but I'm interested in how exactly they're coming up with these statistics. Does firefox report to them when it's being used? I don't think so... number of people downloading the upgrades? Maybe...
I know I've downloaded it several times for various computers, some I use daily, some maybe once a week, how many users do I show up as? Are they able to measure if people are using another browser? If I take a weekend off from the internet does my blip dissapear?
It's just silly to think every other person that goes through the trouble of downloading it, and doesn't even load the application. Something must be skewing the data, cause this makes no common sense. Unless someone can find out where this stuff comes from I say BS.
Lousiana refused the help.
"We had adequate supplies, the people and the vehicles," Howell said at a news conference in Baton Rouge. "It was the middle of a military rescue operation trying to save lives. We were asked not to go in, and we abided by that recommendation."
The goddamn mission statement of the organization is that they are apolitical! They are neutral to everything except the suffering of humans. Perhaps that means they fund-raise aggressively, so be it, but they'll help you regardless of what you think of them.
Wow, what a stupid reason to dislike them.
Were there soldiers/citizens of different nations there?
They did this in England in WWII because they didn't want to disrespect the British people by giving the Americans free stuff when the British were really low on food. I assume Korea was a similar choice. Anyway, I don't think they still charge like that, but they probably did so with good intentions. I know they give folks in Iraq free phone calls home, and give firefighters and police across that nation free stuff during fires and other large events.
Believe what you will, but as far as I'm concerned no organization does more for the people that have been shat on. They don't discriminate sides, races, genders, religions whatsoever, and they're at every tragedy, from a hurricane to a small 1 house fire, no matter how little press there is.
So feel free to disagree with their choice from 50 years ago, but don't hold it against them because when your house is on fire they'll be there shortly after the fire truck to find you a hotel room.
How about we have a system where each vote is equal!!
Indeed, a republic is better than a democracy for the reason that the mobs are usually not smart enough to govern themselves. On the other hand we should expect ethical and lawful behavior from our representatives...and probably we should have term limits for congress and shorter supreme court terms (than till death), since the more power is shared, the less time any particular person has to be corrupted.
Somehow the future is surprising, yet not surprising. I revel in watching the world change, the same mistakes being made, but still with crazy plot twists.
The future has always been quite similar to the past, that's probably the most striking thing about it. Culturally things have hardly changed in centuries. People fight over religion, travel wherever they can to get away from each other, experiment with anything they get their hands on, grow up, get married, raise children, and die. The tools we use change, but our actual lives as homo sapiens...not so much.
Godwin's law, and the added losing caveats attributed to it, is often misused to ridicule valid reasoning. Godwin made the law because chumps were using Hitler analogies when the topic wasn't severe, like about Bill Gates, and he didn't want real proper uses of a Hitler argument to be watered down.
If the topic of the post is actually fascism, which government spying on the populace was a part of, then Godwin's law does not apply.
Godwin's law is supposed to be applied when, for example, I say George Steinbrenner is worse than Hitler, because the topic is wholly unrelated to fascism.
Fry: Wow. In my day, the only reason people went on the Internet was pornography.
Professor Farnsworth: Actually, that's still the case.
Comes free when you buy 'World of Warcraft: The Flamethrower'!
Mousepad?
You don't need 'em with today's mice. I got rid of mine years ago when opticals came out, and now with wireless I sometimes use my leg while reclining.
While I like was he says most of the time about protecting our rights, then he's goes of on unrealistic lame tangents about how we need to shutdown every government organization.
Well to hell with that libertarian dream, we have a real country with real problems to run that needs real governing. I want paved roads, and I want clean water, and I want national parks, and I want corporate oversight, and I want help paying my tuition, and don't want the poor starving on the streets or looting grocery stores with pistols. We can have those and still have our rights with a little goddamn moderation.
A famous jazz composer (google failed me on his name) once wrote a song with no notes, just 2 minutes or so of rests.
He would sit down at the piano, put his hands on the keys, and just tap his foot counting the rests with a serious face.
The art in the piece he said, was how the audience reacted to the absurd sight of a man just sitting there quietly for 2 minutes and then getting up and bowing as if he had done something. The reactions would range from patience, to confusion, to laughter, back to confusion etc.
Brilliant in my opinion.
Omg, you can't possibly support purple, what a retard. Have you ever worked on a serious project before? Anyone in the industry knows that purple is just for dreamers, but green is how practical things get done. Stop wasting everyone's time with your lame pro-purple arguments.
*looks into the future*
...
How do you turn off the monitor?
It's easy, you just use the touch screen button there.
Oh, then how do you turn it back on?
Are you *sure* we can call that intelligent design?
*ducks*
As a Mainer I must remind you of our motto, Dirigo, meaning 'I lead'.
And hopefully our folksy saying "As goes Maine, so goes the nation" will hold fruit with this issue, ayuh.
Woman: Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.
Dennis: Well, that's what it's all about!
What about the study about how only three movies this summer were bearable to watch?
(Pirates, Sunshine, Superman)
I agree, unless someone die, it's not a revolution.
It's so hard to buy games nowadays with prices like that, especially when you rarely tire of the old ones, and some can be acquired via friends and other non paying methods.
You really can't buy anything unless you know for sure it's worth it, or you have a good paying job.