Yup, foiled. But regarding what you mention - it appears that starting in Opera, and testing afterwards in other modern browsers, might be giving even slightly larger chance of instant success...
And what was not modest with pointing out how the numbers include mobiles (should, really, considering for how many people now that's primary or only available means of access) and what is Opera position in this most rapidly expanding segment?
(FYI, I'm lately not on Opera for almost half a year, except very occasionally on mobile...not exactly a case of hyping my darling)
Large part of what people expect from extension mechanism is already there BTW; userjs apart from expected types of actions can also put items in right click menu and bookmarklets; plus - people are "hijacking" Opera Unite mechanism for offline/local-only functionality. And no need to be a cynic, Opera desktop also grew nicely in some places; and mostly does so steadily, if slowly, wherever it some foothold. Since it doesn't seem to shred away what distinguishes it, that might as well continue with people in "lesser places" hooking up.
It would at most slightly prolong the inevitable; MD would have problems with scaling to bigger storage and smaller physical sizes. Especially if trying to combine it with the idea of music phones... (no, iPhone is neither the first nor the most widely used; I even guess that Sony Ericsson might have already sold more music capable phones than MD players)
They're not loosing share of users - first, you might want to expand the time period displayed; secondly - that's website hits, not users. The way many new mobile users, in some places with current wave of smartphone craze, browse the web differs from how large part of Opera users do so - significant portion of them in very rapidly expanding but still "developing" world, where people are still much more frugal with number of sites visited (numbers are there)
Most of them on so called "feature phones" BTW, a category which is not going away, however the pundits in some highly atypical but highly visible markets would like us to believe. But once those places will be able to get on the PC bandwagon, many people might still appreciate Opera in such setting. Similarly to how it is the #1 or one of top browsers throughout most of CIS (and that's a matter of choice, of people valuing advantages of Opera which are much more visible on slower / cheaper / long-lived machines)
You yourself used a number which includes people browsing from mobile; to make it look worse...
Either way, Opera is profitable and their profitability has a healthy rise, also during the last 2 years. That's something, considering they are, among major browsers, the longest without any corporate granddaddy.
By glancing at that list - basically everything, except more niche things with non-descriptive names, is built-in.
Now, such ignorance of the feature set of a product while, ultimately, keeping it's GUI paradigm familiar and simple - that's a fundamentally hard to solve problem. With barebones extensible browser people take their time, can start slow, gradually brining in all the functionality; not feeling overwhelmed. But using something "static" they tend to assume there's nothing more than meets the eye (certainly they would capable of realizing it)
Opera is the #1 mobile web browser worldwide, by website stats (and that despite many of its users certainly being cautious with the number os sites visited, without the luxury of cheap data transfers)
As others pointed out - free for half a decade. Also free and virtually the only practical choice for hundreds of millions of people who have a so called "feature phone" as virtually their only means of internet access.
But yes, respect, especially considering they are by far the longest without a corporate granddaddy keeping them afloat (remember Mozilla & AOL?)
Thing is - a lot of those people don't even have computers (yet?). Opera is already the #1 mobile web browser by website stats... and that's despite how a lot of that share comes from users which are certainly very frugal about the number of sites visited / data transferred (and typically on so called "feature phones" - which is their main and often only means of web access). There's a high chance those people might start using desktop version, if it comes down to choosing - and in many places they do choose rather than settle on what's installed by default, "big" Opera is at the top or very near throughout the whole CIS (but there people have a motivation for choosing - machines last longer, are cheaper, slower; conditions where advantages of Opera become much more readily appreciated)
And as company they are steadily growing anyway, with nicely rising profitability (easily checked, they are publicly traded), even throughout the last 2 years.
CRT TVs are still made for some of the biggest markets; considering how the difference between "3D" and "2D" flat displays is very much smaller, the latter should remain at least as a budget option (which might be not so great quality-wise...)
Oh boy... either wide shots of the action from a distance, quite flat in nature and where most of the information is conveyed by position on the field, or very "fast" close-ups showing very local action and with the rust blurred out. That will be fun disaster to watch.
That Nvidia "3D" shutterglasses thing is available for, what, 2 years? In a market quite a bit more receptive to expensive upgrades necessary for new "shiny" - I guess it's my fault for not noticing how major of a success it is.
Oh I think technologies can be easily blamed. For a more extreme example in another field: dental drill. Sure, one can argue that a good implementation, in the hands of a very skilled person, will only hurt slightly or even almost not at all; and how the pain depends mostly on the "consumer", but...
Ultimately local anesthesia is your best bet against what is a very inherent part of the technology. Well, I guess people could always use painkillers when watching TV.
They are sort of there already. People are making apps for Opera Unite which don't really use online/"serverlike" capability, just do useful things locally. And userjs, capable of adding stuff to right click menu, even longer.
So it's part adding few polishing bits, part marketing / it needs to be "extensions" apparently.
It's BTW amazing to me how Buddhism appears to, basically, almost manage in making people value... cessation of existence. To long for such outcome, in a way (except "longing" is inappropriate description of course); how it won't include rebirth(*) doesn't change the end result.
Now, I can't really know how it ends up in the actual folk flavors of buddhism, but it's a start / certainly seems to successfully convey more wisdom about our existence than premises of life everlasting (particularly its folk "we'll mostly just carry on, but in a greater place")
(*)But even here, considering consecutive lives aren't supposed to consciously remember previous ones, merely to draw on their "experience" - it can be very quickly attached to the overall societal progress, or indeed of our whole civilization.
Heh, a bit similar to audio - the execs and marketers hoping for their vision of the future (SACD, Minidisc, etc.) vs. what turned out to be the future (mp3,... you know the rest of the story)
How often do you use "3D" photos? Have you ever made even one such photograph? It's quite easy and quite inexpensive for a long time, has experienced many short fascinations from time to time during the last ~150 years. But ultimately - ignored.
Stereoscopic photographs are around for around 150 years, are easy and quite cheap to make & view. Almost completely ignored - despite the fact you certainly can find porn among them too.
Certainly there are "compromises" possible which would only require a small push in the right direction.
Many cemeteries are already also quite pleasant inner-city parks, for example. Burying bodies on a side in a way allowing active decomposition / for the plants to sensibly benefit, plus some memorial wall - that should be quite quickly accepted. Some customs are reasonably close already (yeah, we can gather the bones after decomposition like that too, why not)
Unfortunately, I imagine there would serious push-back from the death industry - the main beneficiaries of embalming, "grave sprawl" or steel and hardwood coffins plus graves lined with concrete; which appear designed to prevent decomposition - to hell with long-term consequences (hey, we will be already dead by then anyway, so who cares...)
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Yup, foiled. But regarding what you mention - it appears that starting in Opera, and testing afterwards in other modern browsers, might be giving even slightly larger chance of instant success...
And what was not modest with pointing out how the numbers include mobiles (should, really, considering for how many people now that's primary or only available means of access) and what is Opera position in this most rapidly expanding segment?
(FYI, I'm lately not on Opera for almost half a year, except very occasionally on mobile...not exactly a case of hyping my darling)
Large part of what people expect from extension mechanism is already there BTW; userjs apart from expected types of actions can also put items in right click menu and bookmarklets; plus - people are "hijacking" Opera Unite mechanism for offline/local-only functionality. And no need to be a cynic, Opera desktop also grew nicely in some places; and mostly does so steadily, if slowly, wherever it some foothold. Since it doesn't seem to shred away what distinguishes it, that might as well continue with people in "lesser places" hooking up.
...which at some point starts to look weird, if so relatively unchanging and common.
It has adblock built-in, you just have to provide it with a list (that plus GUI element blocker)
It would at most slightly prolong the inevitable; MD would have problems with scaling to bigger storage and smaller physical sizes. Especially if trying to combine it with the idea of music phones... (no, iPhone is neither the first nor the most widely used; I even guess that Sony Ericsson might have already sold more music capable phones than MD players)
They're not loosing share of users - first, you might want to expand the time period displayed; secondly - that's website hits, not users. The way many new mobile users, in some places with current wave of smartphone craze, browse the web differs from how large part of Opera users do so - significant portion of them in very rapidly expanding but still "developing" world, where people are still much more frugal with number of sites visited (numbers are there)
Most of them on so called "feature phones" BTW, a category which is not going away, however the pundits in some highly atypical but highly visible markets would like us to believe. But once those places will be able to get on the PC bandwagon, many people might still appreciate Opera in such setting. Similarly to how it is the #1 or one of top browsers throughout most of CIS (and that's a matter of choice, of people valuing advantages of Opera which are much more visible on slower / cheaper / long-lived machines)
You yourself used a number which includes people browsing from mobile; to make it look worse...
Either way, Opera is profitable and their profitability has a healthy rise, also during the last 2 years. That's something, considering they are, among major browsers, the longest without any corporate granddaddy.
By glancing at that list - basically everything, except more niche things with non-descriptive names, is built-in.
Now, such ignorance of the feature set of a product while, ultimately, keeping it's GUI paradigm familiar and simple - that's a fundamentally hard to solve problem. With barebones extensible browser people take their time, can start slow, gradually brining in all the functionality; not feeling overwhelmed.
But using something "static" they tend to assume there's nothing more than meets the eye (certainly they would capable of realizing it)
That total number includes mobile users. Where, accidentally, Opera is the #1 browser.
Opera is the #1 mobile web browser worldwide, by website stats (and that despite many of its users certainly being cautious with the number os sites visited, without the luxury of cheap data transfers)
As others pointed out - free for half a decade. Also free and virtually the only practical choice for hundreds of millions of people who have a so called "feature phone" as virtually their only means of internet access.
But yes, respect, especially considering they are by far the longest without a corporate granddaddy keeping them afloat (remember Mozilla & AOL?)
Thing is - a lot of those people don't even have computers (yet?). Opera is already the #1 mobile web browser by website stats... and that's despite how a lot of that share comes from users which are certainly very frugal about the number of sites visited / data transferred (and typically on so called "feature phones" - which is their main and often only means of web access). There's a high chance those people might start using desktop version, if it comes down to choosing - and in many places they do choose rather than settle on what's installed by default, "big" Opera is at the top or very near throughout the whole CIS (but there people have a motivation for choosing - machines last longer, are cheaper, slower; conditions where advantages of Opera become much more readily appreciated)
And as company they are steadily growing anyway, with nicely rising profitability (easily checked, they are publicly traded), even throughout the last 2 years.
CRT TVs are still made for some of the biggest markets; considering how the difference between "3D" and "2D" flat displays is very much smaller, the latter should remain at least as a budget option (which might be not so great quality-wise...)
Oh boy... either wide shots of the action from a distance, quite flat in nature and where most of the information is conveyed by position on the field, or very "fast" close-ups showing very local action and with the rust blurred out. That will be fun disaster to watch.
That Nvidia "3D" shutterglasses thing is available for, what, 2 years? In a market quite a bit more receptive to expensive upgrades necessary for new "shiny" - I guess it's my fault for not noticing how major of a success it is.
Or is it B&W, 405-line, vulnerable to interference pre-ww2 system?
Cats generally sleep on any suitably shaped CRTs, also smaller & more frugal with energy ones. In the summer, too.
Oh I think technologies can be easily blamed. For a more extreme example in another field: dental drill. Sure, one can argue that a good implementation, in the hands of a very skilled person, will only hurt slightly or even almost not at all; and how the pain depends mostly on the "consumer", but...
Ultimately local anesthesia is your best bet against what is a very inherent part of the technology. Well, I guess people could always use painkillers when watching TV.
They are sort of there already. People are making apps for Opera Unite which don't really use online/"serverlike" capability, just do useful things locally. And userjs, capable of adding stuff to right click menu, even longer.
So it's part adding few polishing bits, part marketing / it needs to be "extensions" apparently.
I'm somewhat disappointed by this, it seems some at CERN might be, too (text in lower left part of the image)
It's BTW amazing to me how Buddhism appears to, basically, almost manage in making people value... cessation of existence. To long for such outcome, in a way (except "longing" is inappropriate description of course); how it won't include rebirth(*) doesn't change the end result.
Now, I can't really know how it ends up in the actual folk flavors of buddhism, but it's a start / certainly seems to successfully convey more wisdom about our existence than premises of life everlasting (particularly its folk "we'll mostly just carry on, but in a greater place")
(*)But even here, considering consecutive lives aren't supposed to consciously remember previous ones, merely to draw on their "experience" - it can be very quickly attached to the overall societal progress, or indeed of our whole civilization.
The practical implementations of LCD glasses have quite poor viewing experience and are much, much more headache-inducing than "3D" TVs.
Heh, a bit similar to audio - the execs and marketers hoping for their vision of the future (SACD, Minidisc, etc.) vs. what turned out to be the future (mp3, ... you know the rest of the story)
How often do you use "3D" photos? Have you ever made even one such photograph? It's quite easy and quite inexpensive for a long time, has experienced many short fascinations from time to time during the last ~150 years. But ultimately - ignored.
Stereoscopic photographs are around for around 150 years, are easy and quite cheap to make & view. Almost completely ignored - despite the fact you certainly can find porn among them too.
Certainly there are "compromises" possible which would only require a small push in the right direction.
Many cemeteries are already also quite pleasant inner-city parks, for example. Burying bodies on a side in a way allowing active decomposition / for the plants to sensibly benefit, plus some memorial wall - that should be quite quickly accepted. Some customs are reasonably close already (yeah, we can gather the bones after decomposition like that too, why not)
Unfortunately, I imagine there would serious push-back from the death industry - the main beneficiaries of embalming, "grave sprawl" or steel and hardwood coffins plus graves lined with concrete; which appear designed to prevent decomposition - to hell with long-term consequences (hey, we will be already dead by then anyway, so who cares...)