Even so, I'd say it's pretty certain that the total number of people using Firefox v1.0 on a regular basis is *much* higher than 10m, and still growing...
The OEMs have shipped tens of millions of XP systems since August with IE 6-SP2 as the default. Despite all the fuss and fume on Slashdot, the rollout of SP2 has gone pretty well. I'd not be greatly surprised to see Firefox stall out at about it's current market share.
So how soon until they release their New York Times advertisement?
On the same day granny gets her new tri-focals and can read your name without mistaking it for an obituary. But by then she will be the only one who cares.
Why are they bothering even making these people cart themselves to the library?
The service is a lending library that provides books and players to the blind and disabled. It works much like Netflix. But there are no rental fees or postal charges of any sort. Readers are often elderly, housebound, or in nursing homes, with multiple disabilites, no internet access, no mobility, no disposable income worth mentioning.
The service provides audio books and players for the blind and disabled. You might try offering your ultra cool palm sized mp3 player to someone with a neurological disease like MS and see how well they manage.
This site best viewed with Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape 6.1 or higher. Macromedia Flash Player 5.0 or higher is required to view the scrolling announcements.Welcome to Penn State New Kensington (Updated December 10, 2004)
I would like to see a link to a PSU site on this story. Google can be too much like an echo chamber. You never get to the primary source. Searching through the PSU Portal yields only relatively bland pronouncements like this: "ITS highly recommends using one of the alternate browsers listed below for routine Web browsing."Security Problem with Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Browser (Updated July 12, 2004)
the greatest hurdle in spreading alternative solutions is making typical Windows users realize that they do have a choice.
the greatest hurdle is persuading users to make the choice. alternative browsers have been trumpted from the rooftops for years and none has made a lasting impression on IE's market share.
The Virgina planter elite was based on the ownership of black slaves and their descendents through all eternity, a decadent society sustained by fear and force in which invention, new ideas, innovation of any sort, generated from within could not flourish. Jefferson surely understood this on some fundamental level. 18th Century Virgina does not give birth to a Franklin or an Eli Whitney. In the 19th Century Virginia will turn it's back on Jefferson himself.
but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices
Jefferson believed in a society of small independent farmers, something on the model of the Roman Republic. The Industrial Revolution was transforming England in ways he could not have begun to comprehend, much less accept.
The claim is mostly inaccurate because it presupposes that the copying individual would otherwise have bought a copy from the publisher. That is occasionally true, but more often false; and when it is false, the claimed loss does not occur.
The natural assumption to make is that you copied the work because it was something you wanted and needed but weren't willing to pay for,
else why copy it at all? It seems to me that the burden is on you to prove otherwise.
In a free market system, no business is entitled to cry "foul" just because a potential customer chooses not to deal with them.
But he has dealt with them. Your friend was not innocently playing bridge, he was reading a copy of a book he did not pay for. That, in the ordinary meaning of the word, is theft.
If the public decides it can share copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a "loss" when it is not.
There is no necessary connection between "sharing" and "not paying." But neither can the public compel a publisher to produce anything or distribute through channels to which they have access.
Your use of the word "public" feels slippery.
In the American system, copyright is based on Constitutional principles, with the details left to the discretion of the Congress and is intended to serve the interests of our people as a whole, not the adolescent wish fullfillment of the file-sharing demographic, in which the $300 million needed to produce The Lord of the Rings magically appears without the prospect of a financial return.
1906 means the city has natural gas lines, AC and DC electric power lines running everywhere, flammable liquids, gasoline, oil, kerosene, stored and in use everywhere for stationary engines, stoves, heaters, lanterns, etc.
But the water mains are mid-19th century construction, with small neighborhood reservoirs for emergencies. You have a few of the first "modern" fire trucks, telephone and telegraph systems for dispatch, but no radio.
The big quake will crack the gas mains, the water mains. You'll have major fires breaking out all over the city and no communications.
"The name of the fireman referred to in within letter is unknown."
In the chaos of the earthquake and fire you have the hearsay testimony of a single unknown fireman who spoke to a signal corps officer and no evidence of any successful follow-up.
Stories that range from the plausible to the just plain nuts are told and retold by everyone caught up in such a disaster, an officer can pick up on these tales, add to them unconsciously, and be perfectly convinced that they are true.
There are few things in life that evoke so profound a emotional response as seeing your house on fire, the instinct in American culture is to rebel against it at any cost. The dynamiting of private homes in San Francisco was profoundly traumatic. The grandiose arson conspiracy you suggest seems to me psychologically and socially impossible.
The army is ruthlessly dynamiting buildings to create firebreaks, giving way to no one, and in a mood to shoot first and ask questions later. Looters are being shot on sight. Gas leaks are igniting fires everywhere, the water mains are broken. The grand Palace Hotel with it's own reservoir is burning to the ground. 3,000 are dead. 28,000 buildings worth $500 million have been destroyed. It is dead certain your tinderbox Victorian mansion will be the next to go.
But for twenty cents on the dollar you mean to hang around and make sure, even if it gets you killed.
($175 million in claims were filed, most likely paid through re-insurance in London.)
How many people buy a new version of Windows just because it's new but they don't actually assess the need.
generally they buy the version of Windows which ships with their new Dell, which is usually a pretty good match. and probably causes less heartburn than downloading the latest nightly build of your favorite Linux distro.
The quote is from an FAQ for beginners. I wasn't buying into the argument that WinCE would be too much a load on the controller. The more interesting argument here is what sort of telemetry do you want from a model, could you/should you attempt to fly a model from a virtual cockpit?
I'm interested in precisely who is AOL's targeted demographic for this product
Targeting the older demographic can make you serious money when 2/3 of the U.S. population is 35 and over, and would rather pay a buck for a one-click download of Norah Jones than muck around for hours with LimeWire or Kazaa.
Go for it WinCE might help you make the Darwin awards
CG-48 Yorktown was decomissioned December 3rd after twenty years in service, a long and interesting career in which a Smart Ship testbed failure in 1997 would rate as significant only on Slashdot. CG-48 Yorktown
CVN-77 George H.W. Bush, the last of the Nimitz-class carriers, now under construction, will incorporate W2K based technology developed by Microsoft Federal Systems. 'Son of Windows' to control carrier $5 billion dollar warships can take a decade and more to plan, fund and complete. So let's hear no complaints that the Navy wasn't looking at a commercial Linux solution in '97-'98, or earlier.
And your batteries will probably last 3X longer as well because you aren't driving a GUI with all the WinCE overhead.
"Outdoor powered R/C models have typical engine runs of about 10-20 minutes. The R/C gliders can stay up as long is the air currents are favourable and flights are sometimes only limited by the battery charge left on the radio when that particular flight begins; say 10-45 minutes." Introduction to Model Aircraft
Given the time expended in preparation, launch, recovery and repair, it seems most unlikely that the batteries in your R/C controller would fail before you have to call it a day.
Wide Screen HD-Ready sets are at the $500 price point. Toshiba 26HF84 26" TheaterWide® HDTV-ready That is low enough to drive standard definition sets off the market. I think the migration to high definition DVDs will begin much sooner and move much faster than Slashdot expects.
The Technology Glossary for Microsoft's Kiswahili localization project is at 3,000 words and phrases, with contributions from volunteer linguists and a cost of $100,000 USD.
The Language Interface Pack will require an additional 650,000 words and phrases. The important and unanswered question here is which set of linguistic constructs will become standard, the Microsoft project appears to have substantial institutional support. a Microsoft Launches Its Kiswahili Edition (October 29,2004)
any loon with a cause and money to burn can get their one-shot at fame in the Times. but there is a reason these advocacy adds sell at discount: only the true believers actually read them.
This ad is meant, pure and simple, as a way to get NYT readers to wonder how in the hell a program can be so good that it got 10,000 people to donate money to advertise it.
Marketing types will be wondering what genius blows $60K on a b/w tombstone page two weeks before Christmas. You are competing for attention against the best efforts of every upscale restailer in the northeast.
You mean like multiple postings on slashdot, CNET, and other highly trafficked internet sites? Oh wait... that's what has happened with this ad campaign
Old news. Filed and forgotten a month before the add makes it into print.
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The OEMs have shipped tens of millions of XP systems since August with IE 6-SP2 as the default.
Despite all the fuss and fume on Slashdot, the rollout of SP2 has gone pretty well. I'd not be greatly surprised to see Firefox stall out at about it's current market share.
On the same day granny gets her new tri-focals and can read your name without mistaking it for an obituary. But by then she will be the only one who cares.
The service is a lending library that provides books and players to the blind and disabled. It works much like Netflix. But there are no rental fees or postal charges of any sort. Readers are often elderly, housebound, or in nursing homes, with multiple disabilites, no internet access, no mobility, no disposable income worth mentioning.
The service provides audio books and players for the blind and disabled. You might try offering your ultra cool palm sized mp3 player to someone with a neurological disease like MS and see how well they manage.
The answer is yes, of course. Titles include new radio plays, with CD quality audio. Welcome to ZBS!
I would like to see a link to a PSU site on this story. Google can be too much like an echo chamber. You never get to the primary source. Searching through the PSU Portal yields only relatively bland pronouncements like this: "ITS highly recommends using one of the alternate browsers listed below for routine Web browsing." Security Problem with Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Browser (Updated July 12, 2004)
the greatest hurdle is persuading users to make the choice. alternative browsers have been trumpted from the rooftops for years and none has made a lasting impression on IE's market share.
since when did filesharing make you an author and not a distrbutor?
Freenet is a threat only in the minds of it's developers.
Technologies developed by the military for the needs of the military.
but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices
Jefferson believed in a society of small independent farmers, something on the model of the Roman Republic. The Industrial Revolution was transforming England in ways he could not have begun to comprehend, much less accept.
The natural assumption to make is that you copied the work because it was something you wanted and needed but weren't willing to pay for, else why copy it at all? It seems to me that the burden is on you to prove otherwise.
In a free market system, no business is entitled to cry "foul" just because a potential customer chooses not to deal with them.
But he has dealt with them. Your friend was not innocently playing bridge, he was reading a copy of a book he did not pay for. That, in the ordinary meaning of the word, is theft.
If the public decides it can share copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a "loss" when it is not.
There is no necessary connection between "sharing" and "not paying." But neither can the public compel a publisher to produce anything or distribute through channels to which they have access.
Your use of the word "public" feels slippery.
In the American system, copyright is based on Constitutional principles, with the details left to the discretion of the Congress and is intended to serve the interests of our people as a whole, not the adolescent wish fullfillment of the file-sharing demographic, in which the $300 million needed to produce The Lord of the Rings magically appears without the prospect of a financial return.
1906 means the city has natural gas lines, AC and DC electric power lines running everywhere, flammable liquids, gasoline, oil, kerosene, stored and in use everywhere for stationary engines, stoves, heaters, lanterns, etc.
But the water mains are mid-19th century construction, with small neighborhood reservoirs for emergencies. You have a few of the first "modern" fire trucks, telephone and telegraph systems for dispatch, but no radio.
The big quake will crack the gas mains, the water mains. You'll have major fires breaking out all over the city and no communications.
In the chaos of the earthquake and fire you have the hearsay testimony of a single unknown fireman who spoke to a signal corps officer and no evidence of any successful follow-up.
Stories that range from the plausible to the just plain nuts are told and retold by everyone caught up in such a disaster, an officer can pick up on these tales, add to them unconsciously, and be perfectly convinced that they are true.
There are few things in life that evoke so profound a emotional response as seeing your house on fire, the instinct in American culture is to rebel against it at any cost. The dynamiting of private homes in San Francisco was profoundly traumatic. The grandiose arson conspiracy you suggest seems to me psychologically and socially impossible.
But for twenty cents on the dollar you mean to hang around and make sure, even if it gets you killed.
($175 million in claims were filed, most likely paid through re-insurance in London.)
generally they buy the version of Windows which ships with their new Dell, which is usually a pretty good match. and probably causes less heartburn than downloading the latest nightly build of your favorite Linux distro.
The quote is from an FAQ for beginners. I wasn't buying into the argument that WinCE would be too much a load on the controller. The more interesting argument here is what sort of telemetry do you want from a model, could you/should you attempt to fly a model from a virtual cockpit?
Targeting the older demographic can make you serious money when 2/3 of the U.S. population is 35 and over, and would rather pay a buck for a one-click download of Norah Jones than muck around for hours with LimeWire or Kazaa.
CG-48 Yorktown was decomissioned December 3rd after twenty years in service, a long and interesting career in which a Smart Ship testbed failure in 1997 would rate as significant only on Slashdot. CG-48 Yorktown
CVN-77 George H.W. Bush, the last of the Nimitz-class carriers, now under construction, will incorporate W2K based technology developed by Microsoft Federal Systems. 'Son of Windows' to control carrier $5 billion dollar warships can take a decade and more to plan, fund and complete. So let's hear no complaints that the Navy wasn't looking at a commercial Linux solution in '97-'98, or earlier.
"Outdoor powered R/C models have typical engine runs of about 10-20 minutes. The R/C gliders can stay up as long is the air currents are favourable and flights are sometimes only limited by the battery charge left on the radio when that particular flight begins; say 10-45 minutes." Introduction to Model Aircraft
Given the time expended in preparation, launch, recovery and repair, it seems most unlikely that the batteries in your R/C controller would fail before you have to call it a day.
Unpasteurized dairy products are historically linked to many dangerous bacterial infections, such as Brucellosis. Europeans are not immune. Human Listeriosis Outbreaks Linked to Dairy Products in Europe
Wide Screen HD-Ready sets are at the $500 price point. Toshiba 26HF84 26" TheaterWide® HDTV-ready That is low enough to drive standard definition sets off the market. I think the migration to high definition DVDs will begin much sooner and move much faster than Slashdot expects.
The Language Interface Pack will require an additional 650,000 words and phrases. The important and unanswered question here is which set of linguistic constructs will become standard, the Microsoft project appears to have substantial institutional support. a Microsoft Launches Its Kiswahili Edition (October 29,2004)
any loon with a cause and money to burn can get their one-shot at fame in the Times. but there is a reason these advocacy adds sell at discount: only the true believers actually read them.
Marketing types will be wondering what genius blows $60K on a b/w tombstone page two weeks before Christmas. You are competing for attention against the best efforts of every upscale restailer in the northeast.
You mean like multiple postings on slashdot, CNET, and other highly trafficked internet sites? Oh wait... that's what has happened with this ad campaign
Old news. Filed and forgotten a month before the add makes it into print.