Hmm...let me see, not beeing able to get a signal on my GSM phone never, EVER, happened to me; doesn't matter in what mountians/middle-of-nowhere I was. That's what I call "purely"...
PS. And you have to remember that "beeing able to use your phone" also means "not beeing ripped by roaming costs". When I go to different country, I simply buy prepaid sim card of local operator.
No offense, but anybody modding you "informative" should have his/. account suspended...
LOOK AT THE TOTAL NUMBERS!!! This new survey has just started! The previous one had a little over ONE MILLION systems surveyed. This one - only 50 THOUSAND so far. 50 thousand of systems/users who log in most frequently. Who are the most "die hard" (whatever that means) players. OF COURSE they have better systems...
I know statistics are hard...but this is/. (and the factor I'm talking about above is pretty basic one)
PS. Personally I suspect the end results won't differ significantly...look how much of VERY OLD (by hardware review sites "standards") gear is still in use. If those people were reluctant to upgrade for so many years, why would they do it now en masse?
It is astonishing how some people have no idea what they're talking about...Aaron, at the least check Wiki. Especially which country was lead by Miloevi, or the role of Bosnia in the war...
Opera probably doesn't offer ads simply because people would block it, and people here doesn't mean Google at all...
Besides, Google basically ignores Opera (and Webkit) in their web apps...we don't have much better situation now than creating webpages for IE only. Now people create for IE and Firefox (most of you don't see the problem of course...). I wonder when we'll have webpages that simply follow standards...
Fighting with Microsoft on the mobile market - I can live with that. But I'm not sure if succesfull Gphone leaves a lot of place to tech which isn't bad...just different (Symbian or Opera come to mind)
Especially since polish translations (with the exception of "The Longest Journey", IMHO better than original, and "Planescape: Torment", which was a monumental task that turned out at least as good) usually suck big time;)
I'm reasing discussion that unfold below, and just thought about something...
Perhaps the reason why in Poland there's certain opposition to surveilence/etc. is because the last time significant number of people were killed in organised action (call it "terrorism" if you must, but I wouldn't) is when the _government_ turned against its people. Only 25 years ago...
Few months ago I also stumbled upon FastStone Maxview, and initially I thought I've found perfect replacement for Irfanview. However, after a month of usage, I came to conclusion that...Irfanview is actually less bloated, for me. Yes, Maxview preloads next image so it might have some advantage here...but it starts slower than Irfanview. Very noticeably slower...:/
One can wonder if the attitude of "go all out, 110% to win" is sustainable in society over longer periods of time...perhaps it's better in the long term to be a little more lax, focused on not so large immediate achievements.
(excluding already mentioned ones in up-moded replies)
NOD32 - probably least bloated antivirus, I don't notice it on 5 year old PC (even better when you turn off IMON module)
Google Talk (native Windows client) - while it doesn't have all the functionality of Skype (notably landline calling and video)...well, just compare them. Bonus: while Skype and Gtalk are roughly the same, quality-wise, on fast connection, Gtalk wins hands-down on slower ones.
Combined Community Coded Pack (CCCP:P - http://cccp-project.net/ ) - pretty much created because the authors had enough of bloat in other solutions.
Official Last.fm player - quite good considering its download size and RAM usage (and well...basically its running all the time here)
Winrar - for a long time I'd recommend 7zip...but really, Winrar isn't that much heavier, but is...considerably faster than 7zip in decompressing large RAR archives here.
When you remember that Opera is private company, consider also that it is based in Norway, one of the least corrupt countries in the world...for the same reason typical/. criticism of publicly traded (US?) companies (stockholders profit above all else/etc.) wouldn't apply that much here...
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So I did...and ONE city has CDMA.
Hmm...let me see, not beeing able to get a signal on my GSM phone never, EVER, happened to me; doesn't matter in what mountians/middle-of-nowhere I was. That's what I call "purely"...
PS. And you have to remember that "beeing able to use your phone" also means "not beeing ripped by roaming costs". When I go to different country, I simply buy prepaid sim card of local operator.
...when the survey ends
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=360717&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=21353931#21359297
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=360717&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=21353931#21359297
They will show up, relax...
No offense, but anybody modding you "informative" should have his /. account suspended...
/. (and the factor I'm talking about above is pretty basic one)
LOOK AT THE TOTAL NUMBERS!!! This new survey has just started! The previous one had a little over ONE MILLION systems surveyed. This one - only 50 THOUSAND so far. 50 thousand of systems/users who log in most frequently. Who are the most "die hard" (whatever that means) players. OF COURSE they have better systems...
I know statistics are hard...but this is
PS. Personally I suspect the end results won't differ significantly...look how much of VERY OLD (by hardware review sites "standards") gear is still in use. If those people were reluctant to upgrade for so many years, why would they do it now en masse?
Hmm, troll or...you don't know the capabilities of your phone.
Because Poland and Russia is purely GSM. I should know, I live here...
It is astonishing how some people have no idea what they're talking about...Aaron, at the least check Wiki.
Especially which country was lead by Miloevi, or the role of Bosnia in the war...
More like "...only code for IE and Gecko"?
At least that's the impression I get (not using any of the above)
Most don't even try, that's the issue...
Opera probably doesn't offer ads simply because people would block it, and people here doesn't mean Google at all...
Besides, Google basically ignores Opera (and Webkit) in their web apps...we don't have much better situation now than creating webpages for IE only.
Now people create for IE and Firefox (most of you don't see the problem of course...). I wonder when we'll have webpages that simply follow standards...
Who we are? Monkeys! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15KgyXBX24
(dance, monkey, dance!)
...and chose quite a good hosting provider. No /. effect so far...
Fighting with Microsoft on the mobile market - I can live with that. But I'm not sure if succesfull Gphone leaves a lot of place to tech which isn't bad...just different (Symbian or Opera come to mind)
So they wouldn't embrace "Gphone design" and risk beeing delegated simply to make commodity hardware (?)
Especially since polish translations (with the exception of "The Longest Journey", IMHO better than original, and "Planescape: Torment", which was a monumental task that turned out at least as good) usually suck big time ;)
Going back to parent post...haven't you, by any chance, demostrated quite a bit of arrogance?...
Just want to let you know that seeing discussions like this reminds me that /. is still quite a good place to hang on.
That applies only to food and locally produced/Chinese clothes, etc.
Unfortunatelly electronic equipment, cars, etc. is usually ~2x more expensive...
I'm reasing discussion that unfold below, and just thought about something...
Perhaps the reason why in Poland there's certain opposition to surveilence/etc. is because the last time significant number of people were killed in organised action (call it "terrorism" if you must, but I wouldn't) is when the _government_ turned against its people. Only 25 years ago...
I should know, I see from my window street on which tanks were used against first organised protest in Eastern block... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_1956_protests )
LaTeX/Lyx?
via http://www.bitlbee.org/
Few months ago I also stumbled upon FastStone Maxview, and initially I thought I've found perfect replacement for Irfanview. :/
However, after a month of usage, I came to conclusion that...Irfanview is actually less bloated, for me. Yes, Maxview preloads next image so it might have some advantage here...but it starts slower than Irfanview. Very noticeably slower...
One can wonder if the attitude of "go all out, 110% to win" is sustainable in society over longer periods of time...perhaps it's better in the long term to be a little more lax, focused on not so large immediate achievements.
(excluding already mentioned ones in up-moded replies)
:P - http://cccp-project.net/ ) - pretty much created because the authors had enough of bloat in other solutions.
p ) - PDF printer, considerably outperforms PDFCreator (from Sourceforge) when creating laaarge documents.
NOD32 - probably least bloated antivirus, I don't notice it on 5 year old PC (even better when you turn off IMON module)
Google Talk (native Windows client) - while it doesn't have all the functionality of Skype (notably landline calling and video)...well, just compare them. Bonus: while Skype and Gtalk are roughly the same, quality-wise, on fast connection, Gtalk wins hands-down on slower ones.
Combined Community Coded Pack (CCCP
CutePDF Writer ( http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.as
Dorgem, Fwink - light webcam software, both on Surceforge.
Speedfan ( http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php ) - very light temp/fan speed/SMART monitoring app.
Most apps from Slysoft.
Official Last.fm player - quite good considering its download size and RAM usage (and well...basically its running all the time here)
Winrar - for a long time I'd recommend 7zip...but really, Winrar isn't that much heavier, but is...considerably faster than 7zip in decompressing large RAR archives here.
When you remember that Opera is private company, consider also that it is based in Norway, one of the least corrupt countries in the world...for the same reason typical /. criticism of publicly traded (US?) companies (stockholders profit above all else/etc.) wouldn't apply that much here...
It's not like it depends only on whether US decides, or not, to give it/something away.