Seems like you are much closer to what's happening in Russian browser market than me (being only in one of semi-neighboring countries, having a buddy from Ukraine which seems to have similar browser share to Russia), I wonder if you can confirm my suspicions as to "why":
one of the major factors in Opera uptake is that people usually got white-box PCs, often set up by somebody who knows a thing or two about them, installs the OS...and knows which browser works fine. Especially in a place where many machines are slower and with low amounts of RAM, where Opera flies. (?)
I imagine uptake of laptops changes this a bit...though from what I see still not all of them come with usable OS.
If we would have an avalanche (of cyclists; and not as a "critical mass" BS), then that would be a damn good thing, as far as changing attitudes towards transportation goes. In which case hijacking cities by motorists shouldn't be also as acceptable as it is now.
Opera is the number one browser (overall, ahead of IE) in Ukraine (and supposedly Belarus, though it's hard to get reliable stats about that country...), in Q2 2010 it should be no.1 in Russia. Also, in a lot of countries of Central Europe, in all those new EU members, it has quite respectable share of between 5 and 10%. In some of them even Opera Mini (j2me) is ahead of Safari.
I guess it's also about many people from those areas not visiting webpages generating stats at which you look.
So, who is a bigger message board tool? Those who constantly flood them with false claims about their favorite product or...those who simply point out the first group is in error?
BTW, Opera has noscript built in for a long time...and adblock too (this list www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ + UI element blocker). You just...don't know that, and flood message board with your lack of knowledge.
At the top of the page you have flags of other countries in the region. Seems Russia will have Opera as number one browser soon, too. And a few which have FF as number one (which is also quite common in Western Europe or Nordic countries, not included in this ranking), or where even Opera Mini registers higher than Safari.
That is just BS. In my country roads seem to even up to two times narrower than in the US (yeas, probably not really two times, definitely much more narrow though). Nobody has nervous breakdown just because of the need to pass bikes.
I love NIMBY. I hope it will allow me to buy a nice house/etc. cheaply from idiots, when my country will finally decide to build a nuclear power plant and hopefully picks one particular area...
Ah, yes, because Opera wouldn't have any market share otherwise.
Never mind that it's the number one browser in Ukraine, number one alternative to IE in Russia (and look like it will be number one overall in a few months), and in my backyard that I know about (post-Soviet EU memberstates) it is usually #3 browser hovering between 5 and 10%. Heck, in quite a few of them Opera Mini (the j2me one) is ahead of Safari...
EU "gets in the way" of European companies when their practices harm the market, so that suggests it isn't a case of "us vs. them", like you're trying to paint it.
Also, "in terms of population, economy and global political influence" they are already very similar; EU actually bigger in first two certainly. And I guess the third category depends mainly on whether or not you want to count US eagerness to go to wars.
...you know, the place that already doesn't have browser monoculture. Therefore, your premise doesn't hold true - they don't want to shatter IE monoculture, create variation in the market. They just don't want people to use IE.
And especially in Europe, that's very much four engines, not three, with one or two places having Opera as number one browser, few other as number one alternative browser, and in many it has quite respectable usage share.
28nm...that should be interesting for Nvidia. Considering 40nm TSMC process is still painful for them; and I don't see Nv going eagerly to Global Foundries.
Really, most things which should be encrypted - are. There's no reason to push encryption everywhere; especially if it would confuse people and make them think everything is safe just because it's encrypted.
Security theater to keep people on their, similarly defective, latest product is the best thing MS could do for now, it seems. I'm waiting for comment from Bruce Schneier...
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Seems like you are much closer to what's happening in Russian browser market than me (being only in one of semi-neighboring countries, having a buddy from Ukraine which seems to have similar browser share to Russia), I wonder if you can confirm my suspicions as to "why":
one of the major factors in Opera uptake is that people usually got white-box PCs, often set up by somebody who knows a thing or two about them, installs the OS...and knows which browser works fine. Especially in a place where many machines are slower and with low amounts of RAM, where Opera flies. (?)
I imagine uptake of laptops changes this a bit...though from what I see still not all of them come with usable OS.
If we would have an avalanche (of cyclists; and not as a "critical mass" BS), then that would be a damn good thing, as far as changing attitudes towards transportation goes. In which case hijacking cities by motorists shouldn't be also as acceptable as it is now.
Because we need someone to finally give us proper editor on top of the OS we use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong
1972, it seems.
On one hand...yeah, I know what you mean.
But on the other - Opera Software is a Nordic company. That implies certain business ethics unheard of in, say, US.
Thye don't generate revenue by directing users "to a homepage", but to a search engine; which sometimes displays relevant advertisements...
Yahoo is just a user of MS search technology.
Opera is the number one browser (overall, ahead of IE) in Ukraine (and supposedly Belarus, though it's hard to get reliable stats about that country...), in Q2 2010 it should be no.1 in Russia. Also, in a lot of countries of Central Europe, in all those new EU members, it has quite respectable share of between 5 and 10%. In some of them even Opera Mini (j2me) is ahead of Safari.
I guess it's also about many people from those areas not visiting webpages generating stats at which you look.
So, who is a bigger message board tool? Those who constantly flood them with false claims about their favorite product or...those who simply point out the first group is in error?
BTW, Opera has noscript built in for a long time...and adblock too (this list www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ + UI element blocker). You just...don't know that, and flood message board with your lack of knowledge.
Ukraine: http://www.ranking.com.ua/en/rankings/web-browsers-groups.html
At the top of the page you have flags of other countries in the region. Seems Russia will have Opera as number one browser soon, too. And a few which have FF as number one (which is also quite common in Western Europe or Nordic countries, not included in this ranking), or where even Opera Mini registers higher than Safari.
That is just BS. In my country roads seem to even up to two times narrower than in the US (yeas, probably not really two times, definitely much more narrow though). Nobody has nervous breakdown just because of the need to pass bikes.
I a bike can affect their arrival time in any meaningful way, the arrival time wasn't really planned...
Picasa in not a native Linux app, it ships with & uses Wine libraries under the hood.
And it seems it's being abandoned due to low adoption anyway...
I love NIMBY. I hope it will allow me to buy a nice house/etc. cheaply from idiots, when my country will finally decide to build a nuclear power plant and hopefully picks one particular area...
What about chairs?
I fear some OSS or Google friendly places would need to strengthen their fortifications in such case...
Ah, yes, because Opera wouldn't have any market share otherwise.
Never mind that it's the number one browser in Ukraine, number one alternative to IE in Russia (and look like it will be number one overall in a few months), and in my backyard that I know about (post-Soviet EU memberstates) it is usually #3 browser hovering between 5 and 10%. Heck, in quite a few of them Opera Mini (the j2me one) is ahead of Safari...
US government market interventionism:
corporations -> lobbyists -> government -> "free" market
EU "gets in the way" of European companies when their practices harm the market, so that suggests it isn't a case of "us vs. them", like you're trying to paint it.
Also, "in terms of population, economy and global political influence" they are already very similar; EU actually bigger in first two certainly. And I guess the third category depends mainly on whether or not you want to count US eagerness to go to wars.
I was surprised when I looked at poster name in this one and didn't see BadAnalogyGuy...
...you know, the place that already doesn't have browser monoculture. Therefore, your premise doesn't hold true - they don't want to shatter IE monoculture, create variation in the market. They just don't want people to use IE.
And especially in Europe, that's very much four engines, not three, with one or two places having Opera as number one browser, few other as number one alternative browser, and in many it has quite respectable usage share.
28nm...that should be interesting for Nvidia. Considering 40nm TSMC process is still painful for them; and I don't see Nv going eagerly to Global Foundries.
Really, most things which should be encrypted - are. There's no reason to push encryption everywhere; especially if it would confuse people and make them think everything is safe just because it's encrypted.
...or Death
Security theater to keep people on their, similarly defective, latest product is the best thing MS could do for now, it seems. I'm waiting for comment from Bruce Schneier...
Well, if the process was the thing that was supposed to scare him, so he will never do it again... (and not only him, other potential idiots too!)
Why more disclosure now? There doesn't seem to be any major AMD or, gasp, Intel product launch in progress...