But do you really think the defection from IE is six times as much among savvy users than among the grandmothers whose computers the savvy users maintain?
Yes. Possibly even more within web developer circles. Savvy people that aren't religious about their software will typically migrate to bigger and better things as soon as they're able. Your typical user has no reason to fix something that isn't broken to them. This is why despite my best efforts I still can't convince most of the people I know to switch away from IE.
Since you've apparently been under a rock during the past ten years of computing, I'll let you in on a little secret. PC no longer refers to the generic "personal computer" of 1982. The definition of a PC has changed over the years, to the point where now it's simply a shorter form of "IBM PC Compatible". You're like those pretentious cockbites that say "USian". Nobody thinks you're clever but you and other retards.
My point is that persons with these kind of abilities simply do not think on the same level we 'regular' people do about problems of this type. You might see an endless mass of 11"x1/4" strips of paper, but to the right mind it's nothing but a puzzle with all the pieces the same shape that you have to put together using the image and not the edges. Of course the chance of being able to piece it all together decreases exponentially with the amount of data introduced, but that's to be expected.
If a Savant can communicate with us he will be as clueless as we are with regards to the mechanisms that he uses to solve his problems.
Maybe he'll be as clueless as YOU are (doubt it), but deducing the how and why is what doctors (you know, the guys with specialized knowledge that know just a bit more than some douchebag on slashdot) are there for. It's fairly trivial nowdays to monitor brainwave activity. It's how scientists deduce such things as "Where do I remember to take a shower?" and "How do I move my arm?" By linking the activity of a certain part of the brain to certain functions you can begin to get an idea of what controls what. If you can know precisely what someone is thinking, you can look at HOW they are thinking it. The problem is most autistic people can't describe what they are thinking, let alone describe the method of their thoughts.
Lumping them all under "intellectual property" just causes confusion.
Maybe to YOUR idiot ass. Intellectual Property refers to property that exists in a non-physical state. Music, software, movies, text, and so on. The term doesn't have a fucking thing to do with copyrights, patents, or trademarks. It is simply a nebulous term that refers to non-physical goods.
And, as many have pointed out, these are totally unfriendly to the colorblind (even with the UI "additions" of putting a plus-sign in the green button, a minus-sign in the yellow, etc).
Bullshit. By your reasoning, traffic lights should pose a problem for the colorblind, but they don't. The position of the button is what matters, not the color. Red on top, yellow in the middle, green on bottom. I'll assume that since a colorblind person has to learn that, then they can handle learning "green on left, red on right" just as easily.
You're the prime example of Slashdot retardation I've seen today. How about I sue Redhat because the gcc programmers broke it and now my old apps won't compile? I don't think so. Please, dude, just fucking die like the pathetic twat you are.
The Opera people, people that DEVELOP A FUCKING BROWSER, should know that many websites serve different CSS because NO TWO BROWSERS RENDER THE SAME, and that's just one way around it. Bitching about that is idiotic and smacks of kindergarten age whiny-assing. Do you want interoperability in browser rendering, or do you want web standards that actually do what they were initially intended to do? You get one or the other, not both.
Of course not. Stallman actually LIKES copyright (except for the length of the term, AFAIK) since it's basically what keeps the GPL from being moot. Without copyright, there is no Free software.
So it's eBay's fault that the seller wanted you to pay him in cash... what the FUCK are you talking about? Wait, I just noticed the Dagon Ball bullshit in your nick. You fail.
Imagine selling a car via a local newspaper, and finding a representative at your door demanding a cut in addition to whatever they charged you to list the item in the first place!
Umm... that's the way auctions work, dumbass. eBay isn't a classified ad, it's an online auction. Auctions work the same way the world over. You pay a fee to sell your shit. Once it's sold you pay a percentage of the final price (usually a flat fee, but some places use a sliding scale) to the house. So does the buyer. Your complaints, like the majority of those against eBay, are made out of total ignorance of how auctions work.
Wow. You're a fucking dipshit. I suppose that since the entire history of UNIX is C-based that it's the most insecure type of OS in existance, huh? Didn't think so. Next lamer, please!
If you get hopped up on adrenaline while sitting in the middle of no-fucking-where freezing your balls off while waiting for some deer to show up, you REALLY need to go outside more often.
Because, currently, 'PC' is taken to mean "IBM PC Compatible" and not "Anything smaller than a refrigerator." Words and phrases change definitions, both implicit and explicit, all the time.
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Since you've apparently been under a rock during the past ten years of computing, I'll let you in on a little secret. PC no longer refers to the generic "personal computer" of 1982. The definition of a PC has changed over the years, to the point where now it's simply a shorter form of "IBM PC Compatible". You're like those pretentious cockbites that say "USian". Nobody thinks you're clever but you and other retards.
My point is that persons with these kind of abilities simply do not think on the same level we 'regular' people do about problems of this type. You might see an endless mass of 11"x1/4" strips of paper, but to the right mind it's nothing but a puzzle with all the pieces the same shape that you have to put together using the image and not the edges. Of course the chance of being able to piece it all together decreases exponentially with the amount of data introduced, but that's to be expected.
Or something like that. My head hurts.
22,514 decimal places. It should be obvious that we're not talking about people to whom minor concerns such as size and shape apply.
Did you even read the parent's post, or did you just go into the generic GPL jerkoff out of pure twitch habit?
You're the prime example of Slashdot retardation I've seen today. How about I sue Redhat because the gcc programmers broke it and now my old apps won't compile? I don't think so. Please, dude, just fucking die like the pathetic twat you are.
The Opera people, people that DEVELOP A FUCKING BROWSER, should know that many websites serve different CSS because NO TWO BROWSERS RENDER THE SAME, and that's just one way around it. Bitching about that is idiotic and smacks of kindergarten age whiny-assing. Do you want interoperability in browser rendering, or do you want web standards that actually do what they were initially intended to do? You get one or the other, not both.
Wow. Dude, seriously, go the fuck outside.
Or you could just follow the people walking out of the high roller area with armloads of chips. That might work too. Dumbass...
So it's eBay's fault that the seller wanted you to pay him in cash... what the FUCK are you talking about? Wait, I just noticed the Dagon Ball bullshit in your nick. You fail.
Wow. You're a fucking dipshit. I suppose that since the entire history of UNIX is C-based that it's the most insecure type of OS in existance, huh? Didn't think so. Next lamer, please!
If you get hopped up on adrenaline while sitting in the middle of no-fucking-where freezing your balls off while waiting for some deer to show up, you REALLY need to go outside more often.
Because that's OBVIOUSLY much simpler and in no way cryptic to people that haven't used Linux before. Please, quit drinking lead based paint.
Because, currently, 'PC' is taken to mean "IBM PC Compatible" and not "Anything smaller than a refrigerator." Words and phrases change definitions, both implicit and explicit, all the time.
Stupid pedantic dipshits like yourself should be shot in the face, lest you actually manage to find someone to breed with. Go die.
No, in the book he just showed up with two heads. It WAS a fancy dress party, after all.
Your statement is incredibly fucking stupid, seeing as they ARE fixing the units with the problem. Dipshit.