Sigh. Everyone is posted their results. So here's mine.
Internet Explorer 5.0/6.0 - 48% Netscape 5.0 - 30% Konqueror/3.x - 9% Opera/7.x - 1% Netscape 4.0 - 0.5%
I'm assuming "Netscape 5.0" is Gecko, because otherwise it's not listed. I don't see any Safari, but the number of OSX users I get means it is there, so maybe it's hiding under a different name. And yes, I do get NS4 users, that's because NS4 is still the default browser for Solaris.
...but how do we get to the other 95% of the population?
We don't want the other 95% of the populace to be using it. Didn't you get the memo? Monocultures are bad. Take it up to 60%, or even 75%. But don't make it so high the stupid web developers think they can continue writing pages that only work on one browser.
I want to see a healthy mix of browers out there. This may seem like heresy to some, and I'll probably be modded down like it always happens when I don't genuflect before the Inflamed Fox, but there are indeed other worthwhile and standards conformant browsers out there. Safari, Konqueror, Opera, to name three big ones. It won't be too much longer before we get a KHTML based browser for Windows.
I'm starting to see sites that say "best viewed in Firefox". This is wrong. This is a neanderthal throwback. I have to suppress the urge to whack them over the head with a rolled up newspaper.
Konqueror or Safari is measurably slower than Firefox on my Linux system and my Mac.
Though I don't have a Mac, I have noticed that Konqueror is significantly faster than Firefox on my FreeBSD system.
I'm sorry, I've just posted an observation that implies Firefox is not the epitome of browsers. My Slashdot Karma is being deducted now, and later tonight the Firefox fanboys will come by and break my kneecaps.
You're the one who's being deceptive. The truth and fact of the matter is that Kerry voted for the DMCA. No way around it, he voted for it. Period. End of story.
If you're trying to say it's not his fault because everyone else did too, then that's not a very good endorsement. You're arguing that he's pathologically susceptible to peer pressure.
It's been TWENTY YEARS since they started working on a GNU kernel. As even RMS admits, they picked the wrong design for a kernel, but as he won't admit, they're too stubborn to change it.
He can't really see into the future and say with any certainty that Linux is going to "win out" other any other operating system.
While he can't say whether one particular OS is going to win, he *CAN* say what the general trend is going to be. That's because he has ten years of Linux history behind him. He's intimately familiar with the adoption curve. He's intimately familiar with the problem domain.
It's extremely doubtful that Linux will undergo a "shadowy fate". There's nothing in the history that suggests it's going to happen. Operating systems that have encountered "shadowy fates" have had them preceeded by periods of decline and/or lackluster support by the developers.
He could have spent the last eight years in the Senate introducting DMCA-defanding bills, but he didn't. That's right, he did not. Not once did he lift a finger to castrate the DMCA.
I think there's far too many people out there living in a Pollyanna world who think Kerry will magically change if he becomes President. But guess what? He's going to be the exact same person as President as he was as Senator. Surprise! Some of you Democrats are like girlfriends, thinking they can change their boyfriend if they got married. "Oh, I know he leaves the toilet seat up now, but after Kerry and I get married I can change him! And I'll also get him to stop scratching his nuts in public and stop supporting the DMCA!"
this doesn't even register on the talent meter of social engineering.
Oh but it does! Stop being an ass and look around you. Not everyone is an expert RedHat administrator. Not everyone is paranoid enough to check the headers of every email their receive. Some people are <gasp> newbies! To them the "redhat-fedora" domain looks damned official.
And that fedora-redhat.com is not and has never been used by Fedora or Red Hat. And so on.
Really now? This should set off alarms in people's minds? Do you really expect people to *know* that "fedora-redhat.com" doesn't belong to RedHat? This is social engineering at its finest.
Holy Crap! It's a flying lawnmower! I'm rubbing my eyes to take a second look, and it STILL looks like a damned lawnmower. Where are the wings? Rotors? Is there some guy in an ultralight outside of the frame dragging it around with fishing line?
Women didn't "rise" to becaue pharoahs in ancient Egypt. Rather they were born into the top ruling family of the ruling class. As others have noted, there have been numerous examples of female monarchs of sexist societies throughout history.
Wasn't that the point of the parent post? One can select a set of utterly truthful and verifiable facts that can support whatever political leaning you want. Throw in a few mild adjectives and suddenly you get blatant bias obvious to everyone but its target audience who continue to deny that it's there.
That last quote was my paraphrase. What he actually said was "...shows voters supporting Kerry as being more in tune with the events and world attitudes surrounding the war in Iraq."
p.s. Every Nader and Cobb supporter I know are voting for Nader only because California is a "safe" state. They've told me so.
Okay people, quiz time. How many of you can guess the world view of corngrower, the submitter of this article? To give you a hint, here's his a paraphrase of his submission.
"A study on the perceptual fantasy worlds that voters live in demonstrates that Kerry voters' fantasy worlds are more real than the Bush voters' fantasy worlds!"
As a libertarian, I think both major candidates are tyrannical statists, but of the two, Kerry seems more statist when it comes to intellectual property.
Copyright law already ENSURES that a lawful owner of a copy MAY make an archival copy. This law has been affirmed by court decision. You don't need Kerry to examine the issue, because the issue is already settled! All we need is a chief executive who will protect the rights we already have! (unfortunately, that will be neither of the major candidates)
Bush: "We must vigorously enforce intellectual property protections"
Gee, sounds an awful lot like the people here. "We must vigorously enforce the GNU General Public License!"
I double checked your quote, and I was right the first time: you're all pissed because someone is equating the intelligence of a skull-n-bones yalie to a skull-n-bones yalie. I didn't reduce the equation to beans, the ORIGINAL post did that!
While both did give wishy-washy answers, that's because they're politicians. But once you get past that, it's interesting to see that the candidate who gave the better answer was Bush.
Bush: "Blaming the technology does not address the issue. We must vigorously enforce intellectual property protections and prosecute the violations, not the technology."
In other words, fight copyright violations, not software. Isn't that what everyone has been saying here for the past half decade?
Kerry: "I am open to examining whether legislative action is necessary to ensure that a person who lawfully obtains or receives a transmission of a digital work may back up a copy of it for archival purposes or transfer it to a digital media device for the purpose of non public performance or display."
In other words, he's examining to see if it's okay for you to have a right that you already possess under Title 17!
I head over to the polling place thinking about the presidential candidates, gubanatorial candidates, senators and congressment and legislatures. I even think about the propositions and initiatives. But every time I get there, there's these selections I have to make for school boards and hospital districts and old judges and coroners.
So I think to myself, "Jones for Dog Catcher"? Who the hell is Jones? Old man Smith down the street had a Jones sign in his yard, and Smith ain't a bad sort, so maybe I should vote for Jones...
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Sigh. Everyone is posted their results. So here's mine.
Internet Explorer 5.0/6.0 - 48%
Netscape 5.0 - 30%
Konqueror/3.x - 9%
Opera/7.x - 1%
Netscape 4.0 - 0.5%
I'm assuming "Netscape 5.0" is Gecko, because otherwise it's not listed. I don't see any Safari, but the number of OSX users I get means it is there, so maybe it's hiding under a different name. And yes, I do get NS4 users, that's because NS4 is still the default browser for Solaris.
...but how do we get to the other 95% of the population?
We don't want the other 95% of the populace to be using it. Didn't you get the memo? Monocultures are bad. Take it up to 60%, or even 75%. But don't make it so high the stupid web developers think they can continue writing pages that only work on one browser.
I want to see a healthy mix of browers out there. This may seem like heresy to some, and I'll probably be modded down like it always happens when I don't genuflect before the Inflamed Fox, but there are indeed other worthwhile and standards conformant browsers out there. Safari, Konqueror, Opera, to name three big ones. It won't be too much longer before we get a KHTML based browser for Windows.
I'm starting to see sites that say "best viewed in Firefox". This is wrong. This is a neanderthal throwback. I have to suppress the urge to whack them over the head with a rolled up newspaper.
Konqueror or Safari is measurably slower than Firefox on my Linux system and my Mac.
Though I don't have a Mac, I have noticed that Konqueror is significantly faster than Firefox on my FreeBSD system.
I'm sorry, I've just posted an observation that implies Firefox is not the epitome of browsers. My Slashdot Karma is being deducted now, and later tonight the Firefox fanboys will come by and break my kneecaps.
We weren't talking about the man's character, we were talking about whether he voted for the DMCA or not. The fact is that he did.
You're the one who's being deceptive. The truth and fact of the matter is that Kerry voted for the DMCA. No way around it, he voted for it. Period. End of story.
If you're trying to say it's not his fault because everyone else did too, then that's not a very good endorsement. You're arguing that he's pathologically susceptible to peer pressure.
They take something that's reasonable, and extend it to absurdity to make the claim that the reasonable example is also absurd.
Categorizing Mozilla as "Linux" (the example you claimed was absurd) is no more absurd than categorizing WindowMaker as "Linux".
It's important to note that Window Maker is part of the GNUStep project
It's also important to note that WindowMaker does not use the GNUstep API in any form.
It's been TWENTY YEARS since they started working on a GNU kernel. As even RMS admits, they picked the wrong design for a kernel, but as he won't admit, they're too stubborn to change it.
He can't really see into the future and say with any certainty that Linux is going to "win out" other any other operating system.
While he can't say whether one particular OS is going to win, he *CAN* say what the general trend is going to be. That's because he has ten years of Linux history behind him. He's intimately familiar with the adoption curve. He's intimately familiar with the problem domain.
It's extremely doubtful that Linux will undergo a "shadowy fate". There's nothing in the history that suggests it's going to happen. Operating systems that have encountered "shadowy fates" have had them preceeded by periods of decline and/or lackluster support by the developers.
He could have spent the last eight years in the Senate introducting DMCA-defanding bills, but he didn't. That's right, he did not. Not once did he lift a finger to castrate the DMCA.
I think there's far too many people out there living in a Pollyanna world who think Kerry will magically change if he becomes President. But guess what? He's going to be the exact same person as President as he was as Senator. Surprise! Some of you Democrats are like girlfriends, thinking they can change their boyfriend if they got married. "Oh, I know he leaves the toilet seat up now, but after Kerry and I get married I can change him! And I'll also get him to stop scratching his nuts in public and stop supporting the DMCA!"
this doesn't even register on the talent meter of social engineering.
Oh but it does! Stop being an ass and look around you. Not everyone is an expert RedHat administrator. Not everyone is paranoid enough to check the headers of every email their receive. Some people are <gasp> newbies! To them the "redhat-fedora" domain looks damned official.
And that fedora-redhat.com is not and has never been used by Fedora or Red Hat. And so on.
Really now? This should set off alarms in people's minds? Do you really expect people to *know* that "fedora-redhat.com" doesn't belong to RedHat? This is social engineering at its finest.
Holy Crap! It's a flying lawnmower! I'm rubbing my eyes to take a second look, and it STILL looks like a damned lawnmower. Where are the wings? Rotors? Is there some guy in an ultralight outside of the frame dragging it around with fishing line?
p.s. Love the background music
Women didn't "rise" to becaue pharoahs in ancient Egypt. Rather they were born into the top ruling family of the ruling class. As others have noted, there have been numerous examples of female monarchs of sexist societies throughout history.
Wasn't that the point of the parent post? One can select a set of utterly truthful and verifiable facts that can support whatever political leaning you want. Throw in a few mild adjectives and suddenly you get blatant bias obvious to everyone but its target audience who continue to deny that it's there.
That last quote was my paraphrase. What he actually said was "...shows voters supporting Kerry as being more in tune with the events and world attitudes surrounding the war in Iraq."
p.s. Every Nader and Cobb supporter I know are voting for Nader only because California is a "safe" state. They've told me so.
Okay people, quiz time. How many of you can guess the world view of corngrower, the submitter of this article? To give you a hint, here's his a paraphrase of his submission.
"A study on the perceptual fantasy worlds that voters live in demonstrates that Kerry voters' fantasy worlds are more real than the Bush voters' fantasy worlds!"
NOW which answer do you think was best?
As a libertarian, I think both major candidates are tyrannical statists, but of the two, Kerry seems more statist when it comes to intellectual property.
Copyright law already ENSURES that a lawful owner of a copy MAY make an archival copy. This law has been affirmed by court decision. You don't need Kerry to examine the issue, because the issue is already settled! All we need is a chief executive who will protect the rights we already have! (unfortunately, that will be neither of the major candidates)
Bush: "We must vigorously enforce intellectual property protections"
Gee, sounds an awful lot like the people here. "We must vigorously enforce the GNU General Public License!"
You awesome erudition and perspicacity has rendered me speechless...
I double checked your quote, and I was right the first time: you're all pissed because someone is equating the intelligence of a skull-n-bones yalie to a skull-n-bones yalie. I didn't reduce the equation to beans, the ORIGINAL post did that!
While both did give wishy-washy answers, that's because they're politicians. But once you get past that, it's interesting to see that the candidate who gave the better answer was Bush.
Bush: "Blaming the technology does not address the issue. We must vigorously enforce intellectual property protections and prosecute the violations, not the technology."
In other words, fight copyright violations, not software. Isn't that what everyone has been saying here for the past half decade?
Kerry: "I am open to examining whether legislative action is necessary to ensure that a person who lawfully obtains or receives a transmission of a digital work may back up a copy of it for archival purposes or transfer it to a digital media device for the purpose of non public performance or display."
In other words, he's examining to see if it's okay for you to have a right that you already possess under Title 17!
So nice to see that people are leaving their preconceptions at the door.
You might not like Kerry, but you can hardly fault his intelligence. How can you back that up?
Oh wow! I haven't seen rebuttals like that since kindergarten!
Ed: "Both your daddys are beans! Ha ha! One's a lima bean and one's a pinto bean! Ha ha!"
Ted: "Aaaah! Mom! He called daddy a name!"
Fred: "Shut up Ted, you sound like an idiot!"
I always called him green...
I head over to the polling place thinking about the presidential candidates, gubanatorial candidates, senators and congressment and legislatures. I even think about the propositions and initiatives. But every time I get there, there's these selections I have to make for school boards and hospital districts and old judges and coroners.
So I think to myself, "Jones for Dog Catcher"? Who the hell is Jones? Old man Smith down the street had a Jones sign in his yard, and Smith ain't a bad sort, so maybe I should vote for Jones...