To really understanding this debate it is extremely useful to read Steven Pinker's Book (former MIT guy now at Harvard) the "Blank Slate". In brief his arguements as they apply to this are that there is a lot of data to show many XX beings (women) (but not all) have specific genes related to not so much the ability to do math and science but simply the desire to do it. Seems many (though not all women (many is equal to about 70%) women would rather interact with people rather than "ideas". The science behind this is pretty good and for me compelling. Pinker has a website and answers email so maybe this would make a good slashdot interview.
Some of you don't seem to get out to much - this is a "story" and a front page story because the question is - is Firefox casuing a sea change by moving users away from microsoft? Is this a sign people in general are willing to move away from microsoft? The issue here is does Firefox work better then ie? Does it even work at all? I too have found firefox (I'm not looking for anyone's help -as the source code is available I'd just as soon read it and answer my own questions) is a little quirky but not more so than ie. Further, it is many times faster and many times easier to use. So as to the central question, yes Firefox is real and better and I think there is little microsoft can do as people seem to be quite sick of microsoft and free software from them is not good enough. I would like nothing better for microsoft to crawl to some dark corner (another dark corner) and just give it up and go away - like the buggy whip.
I'd go so far to say that if someone else is using your system (aka computer) it is neither safe or reliable in any sense of the word -- so on one hand it doesn't matter and on the other it doesn't matter. As to the product - I'm in love.
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To really understanding this debate it is extremely useful to read Steven Pinker's Book (former MIT guy now at Harvard) the "Blank Slate". In brief his arguements as they apply to this are that there is a lot of data to show many XX beings (women) (but not all) have specific genes related to not so much the ability to do math and science but simply the desire to do it. Seems many (though not all women (many is equal to about 70%) women would rather interact with people rather than "ideas". The science behind this is pretty good and for me compelling. Pinker has a website and answers email so maybe this would make a good slashdot interview.
Some of you don't seem to get out to much - this is a "story" and a front page story because the question is - is Firefox casuing a sea change by moving users away from microsoft? Is this a sign people in general are willing to move away from microsoft? The issue here is does Firefox work better then ie? Does it even work at all? I too have found firefox (I'm not looking for anyone's help -as the source code is available I'd just as soon read it and answer my own questions) is a little quirky but not more so than ie. Further, it is many times faster and many times easier to use. So as to the central question, yes Firefox is real and better and I think there is little microsoft can do as people seem to be quite sick of microsoft and free software from them is not good enough. I would like nothing better for microsoft to crawl to some dark corner (another dark corner) and just give it up and go away - like the buggy whip.
nada, it's very easy to type Oprah in google and exactly what you want
I'd go so far to say that if someone else is using your system (aka computer) it is neither safe or reliable in any sense of the word -- so on one hand it doesn't matter and on the other it doesn't matter. As to the product - I'm in love.