Msg 123719 of 125222 at 10/5/2013 10:40:10 PM by hamjudo2000 In response to msg 119170 by hamjudo2000 view thread
Microsoft OS usage dropped below 50% for Wikipedia users, was Re: Time for Microsoft to panic
Wikimedia just posted more usage statistics. Windows had a 49.93% share in August of 2013. 4 years ago, for the month of September 2009, 88.68% of Wikimedia users used Windows PCs.
In 4 years, Microsoft dropped from stably controlling nearly 90% of the OS market for hosts used to browse the web, to controlling less than half , and dropping steadily. For the last 12 months, Microsoft's market share has been dropping on average more than 1.5% per month
More than a year ago, on August 15, 2012, I wrote: >>> Wikimedia gathers statistics any time somebody grabs a wikipedia page with an image, including the logo. (People who use text only browsers, do not significantly contribute to Microsoft revenue.) Three years ago, just shy of 90% of Wikimedia users were using browsers running on PCs running Windows, and the percentage was relatively constant month to month.
iPhone usage hit 1% share in November of 2009. At that point, Windows still had a 88.18% share. Fast forward to last month, Windows had a 69.15% share in July of 2012. They had a 1.3% drop in one month (70.45% share in June 2012). Most, but not all, of that decline is due to mobile usage climbing. All mobile usage combined for July is at a 19.6% share, so Windows isn't just losing market share to mobile devices, it is also losing share on the desktop.
Even if the recent compound increase in market loss is noise in the data, and the market share loss stabilizes at "only" something like 1% per month, it is still a huge shift away from Microsoft's income producers. http://www.investorvillage.com...
I opposed it because marriage is none of the Federal government's f*ing business.
This is where you are wrong and where everyone who keeps parroting this dumb line is conpletely wrong..
Marriage is irrespective of religion. You can have marriages that never come into contact with any religion. Marriages are fucking contracts. Contract law is certainly part of Federal law.
is it okay for the State to tell someone they can't do business with someone they don't like?
All of your english teachers are crying. This sentence right here is what shows the fucking contortions that the anti-gay-marriage idiots have to go through to explain their "logic."
And I've never seen anything worth paying them for.
Except maybe Windows FLP, which is not for sale for any price to anyone not having corporate licenses and its use is discouraged by Microsoft. Windows Embedded 8 is a fucking pig and is fucking useless. It's within 5 percent of the size of a full version of 7 or 8 and all of the resource use as a full version of 7 or 8.x. Why bother?
"Small devices?" According to who? Microsoft's idea of a small device isn't anyone else's that I know of.
Sure, I'll take all the DVDs that Microsoft is willing to send me. I need more beer coasters.
You can try to use whatever semantics you want but in the end the result is the same. People have taken something which they do not have a right to and have not compensated the person/group who has created the work.
You mean like the record companies do to so many artists? Except in rare cases like Nettwerk Music. For example, The Romantics never saw a penny from "What I Like About You."
The only way the vast majority of bands make money these days is by touring. The amount of money they get from recorded music is basically confiscated by the publisher.
When people pirate music, they're screwing the publisher, not the band.
The empirical scientific agnostic religion of ASTROCISM, created by the worldwide Slovene empire with the help of the Slovene TOP SECRET WORLD-WIDE COMPUTER ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA of THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO with its customs set up based upon the study of the Universe, primarily the study of our star, the Sun, "the giver of all light and heat and sole, sole sustenance of life on our planet, Earth," to aid the white Slovene spreading world population of Eurasia (Europe and Asia) which said population was composed of tiny independent farmers, namely a worldwide agrarian population.
The Slovenic empire through its religion of ASTROCISM made possible for man to advance to present day sophistication. THE ASTROCISM RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS AND FEAST DAYS WERE SOLELY TO ADVANCE THE AGRARIAN WHITE WORLD POPULATION WITH AUTOMATIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING.
ANYONE WANTING DETAILS ON ANYTHING IN MY EIGHT PAGE COMMUNIST GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD EXPOSÃ LETTER, PLEASE SEND POST PAID ENVELOPE.
FOR YOUR ONLY HOPE FOR A FUTURE.
FRANCIS E. DEC, ESQUIRE 29 Maple Avenue Hempstead, NY 11550
P.S. I have a pawn shop typewriter now. The gov. gangsters have sprayed it with an odor that makes me sick and vomit. I type on the back door step in the fresh air.
Rezpresone przez Communistyczny Zbojecny Computerski Bog na calem swiecia nawet na odleglych planetach, WAS NIE ZAPOMINAM!
"giantbuttplugs.info" he said, using it as a metasyntactic variable.
So I says to myself, "who the fuck would register that?" Then I says to myself, "it's the internet, someone must be using it.".gov,.info,.org,.mil,.net are all available.
The.com is taken.
Domain Name: giantbuttplugs.com Registry Domain ID: Registrar URL: http://www.fabulous.com/ Updated Date: 2013-06-30T17:14:35Z Creation Date: 2006-08-16T02:14:40Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2014-08-16T00:00:00Z Registrar: FABULOUS.COM PTY LTD. Registrar IANA ID: 411 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@fabulous.com Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +61.730070015 Reseller: N/A Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: N/A Registrant Name: Domain Admin Registrant Organization: Sunlane Media LLC Registrant Street: PO Box 231789 Registrant City: Encinitas Registrant State/Province: CA Registrant Postal Code: 92024 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.877 849 6203 Registrant Phone Ext: N/A Registrant Fax: +1.877 849 6203 Registrant Fax Ext: N/A Registrant Email: fabulous@sunlane.com Registry Admin ID: N/A Admin Name: Domain Admin Admin Organization: Sunlane Media LLC Admin Street: PO Box 231789 Admin City: Encinitas Admin State/Province: CA Admin Postal Code: 92024 Admin Country: US Admin Phone: +1.877 849 6203 Admin Phone Ext: N/A Admin Fax: +1.877 849 6203 Admin Fax Ext: N/A Admin Email: fabulous@sunlane.com Registry Tech ID: N/A Tech Name: Domain Admin Tech Organization: Sunlane Media LLC Tech Street: PO Box 231789 Tech City: Encinitas Tech State/Province: CA Tech Postal Code: 92024 Tech Country: US Tech Phone: +1.877 849 6203 Tech Phone Ext: N/A Tech Fax: +1.877 849 6203 Tech Fax Ext: N/A Tech Email: fabulous@sunlane.com Name Server: ns1.fabulous.com Name Server: ns2.fabulous.com DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2014-01-26T13:00:00Z
The.com expires in August, you can probably snap it up then.
Or the guy who had adopted the oh so brilliant minds of the Foreign Policy Initiative (nee PNAC) so that we would be dropping bombs on Tehran two months after inauguration.
His Romneyness didn't back away from the statements by Dan Senor that we would be at war with Iran at the behest of Israel.
It's about Yale's misuse of copyright to censor. You cannot copyright raw data. You can only copyright the representation of that data. This has been proven time and again by court cases where phone book publishers tried suing online phone directories and lost. Cookbook publishers were also smacked down by courts because recipes themselves are mere data and instructions and thus not copyrightable. Sweat of the brow isn't enough to apply copyright.
YBB+ wasn't a copyright infringement in any way, shape, or form. If YBB+ had copied the layout and the graphics of the Yale page, then Yale would have been entirely correct. However, that's not the case. The data representation was/better/ and didn't copy YBB.
It's censorship when you pretend that you're on the right side of the law and you use that to intimidate someone into taking down his stuff.
You, sir, are the one who doesn't understand copyright.
... using ad blocking and/or host files to deep-six ad networks not only produces a nicer user experience, but it's a valid security measure.
Trusting the web site is not enough. You have to trust the ad network too. Since any Joe Schmoe can buy ad space on an ad network, trusting the ad network means you're trusting Joe Schmoe.
Wow, you're getting a lot of venom from all those AC's, huh?
There's a reason why they're called cowards.
There are a lot of reasons for weight gain. Most of them are not "lack of willpower."
I was in one of my Depression management groups, and this guy walked in one day. He said "I'm here because my therapist said I should be here. Thing is, I don't have depression"
He weighed 450.
I looked at him and thought "You're fucking wearing your depression, man."
> which for 98% of the population is solved with willpower and determination alone
Spoken like someone who's never had to deal with weight issues.
You're a complete asshole. No, really.
>food isn't a addictive as heroin
It's worse, actually. You don't need heroin to live. You need food to live. It's always around. There is no putting it away. There is no removing yourself from the environment that triggers it.
And that's what you don't effin' get.
This calvinist shit really has gotten old.
But hey, you keep going with your preconceived notions about how things "should" work instead of how they do.
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Postscript.
I am closer to you these days, btw.
I am in Concord, NH. Hope you are well.
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Msg 123719 of 125222 at 10/5/2013 10:40:10 PM by hamjudo2000
In response to msg 119170 by hamjudo2000 view thread
Microsoft OS usage dropped below 50% for Wikipedia users, was Re: Time for Microsoft to panic
Wikimedia just posted more usage statistics. Windows had a 49.93% share in August of 2013. 4 years ago, for the month of September 2009, 88.68% of Wikimedia users used Windows PCs.
In 4 years, Microsoft dropped from stably controlling nearly 90% of the OS market for hosts used to browse the web, to controlling less than half , and dropping steadily. For the last 12 months, Microsoft's market share has been dropping on average more than 1.5% per month
More than a year ago, on August 15, 2012, I wrote:
>>>
Wikimedia gathers statistics any time somebody grabs a wikipedia page with an image, including the logo. (People who use text only browsers, do not significantly contribute to Microsoft revenue.) Three years ago, just shy of 90% of Wikimedia users were using browsers running on PCs running Windows, and the percentage was relatively constant month to month.
iPhone usage hit 1% share in November of 2009. At that point, Windows still had a 88.18% share. Fast forward to last month, Windows had a 69.15% share in July of 2012. They had a 1.3% drop in one month (70.45% share in June 2012). Most, but not all, of that decline is due to mobile usage climbing. All mobile usage combined for July is at a 19.6% share, so Windows isn't just losing market share to mobile devices, it is also losing share on the desktop.
Even if the recent compound increase in market loss is noise in the data, and the market share loss stabilizes at "only" something like 1% per month, it is still a huge shift away from Microsoft's income producers.
http://www.investorvillage.com...
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The Federal government does not regulate the principles of contract law.
You're a fucking moron. For fucking reals.
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BMO
I opposed it because marriage is none of the Federal government's f*ing business.
This is where you are wrong and where everyone who keeps parroting this dumb line is conpletely wrong..
Marriage is irrespective of religion. You can have marriages that never come into contact with any religion. Marriages are fucking contracts. Contract law is certainly part of Federal law.
is it okay for the State to tell someone they can't do business with someone they don't like?
All of your english teachers are crying. This sentence right here is what shows the fucking contortions that the anti-gay-marriage idiots have to go through to explain their "logic."
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BMO
Before you go accusing me of being a Microsoft shill - I've spent the past 7 years developing software on Linux
Un-fucking-likely.
You've echoed fucking Microsoft talking points - that makes you a shill.
Dumbass.
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BMO
You can't read. That's typical among Windows shills.
I said the *one* *defining* difference that the *user* sees is metro.
The other, background stuff, doesn't matter all that much to the end user, and when you try to explain it, their eyes glaze over.
But mention Metro, and they start getting mad.
Now go away.
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BMO
Metro? What Metro? I have Classic Shell installed so I never see it.
I find this common among 8.x shills such as yourself.
The one defining thing that separates 8 from 7 at the user's end is "not that important."
You idiots are fucking hilarious.
No, I will not eat your shit sandwich with smaller bites.
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BMO
And I've never seen anything worth paying them for.
Except maybe Windows FLP, which is not for sale for any price to anyone not having corporate licenses and its use is discouraged by Microsoft. Windows Embedded 8 is a fucking pig and is fucking useless. It's within 5 percent of the size of a full version of 7 or 8 and all of the resource use as a full version of 7 or 8.x. Why bother?
"Small devices?" According to who? Microsoft's idea of a small device isn't anyone else's that I know of.
Sure, I'll take all the DVDs that Microsoft is willing to send me. I need more beer coasters.
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BMO
You can try to use whatever semantics you want but in the end the result is the same. People have taken something which they do not have a right to and have not compensated the person/group who has created the work.
You mean like the record companies do to so many artists? Except in rare cases like Nettwerk Music. For example, The Romantics never saw a penny from "What I Like About You."
The only way the vast majority of bands make money these days is by touring. The amount of money they get from recorded music is basically confiscated by the publisher.
When people pirate music, they're screwing the publisher, not the band.
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BMO
e^(i*tau)=1
What now, motherfucker?
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BMO
The empirical scientific agnostic religion of ASTROCISM, created by the worldwide Slovene empire with the help of the Slovene TOP SECRET WORLD-WIDE COMPUTER ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA of THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO with its customs set up based upon the study of the Universe, primarily the study of our star, the Sun, "the giver of all light and heat and sole, sole sustenance of life on our planet, Earth," to aid the white Slovene spreading world population of Eurasia (Europe and Asia) which said population was composed of tiny independent farmers, namely a worldwide agrarian population.
The Slovenic empire through its religion of ASTROCISM made possible for man to advance to present day sophistication. THE ASTROCISM RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS AND FEAST DAYS WERE SOLELY TO ADVANCE THE AGRARIAN WHITE WORLD POPULATION WITH AUTOMATIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING.
ANYONE WANTING DETAILS ON ANYTHING IN MY EIGHT PAGE COMMUNIST GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD EXPOSÃ LETTER, PLEASE SEND POST PAID ENVELOPE.
FOR YOUR ONLY HOPE FOR A FUTURE.
FRANCIS E. DEC, ESQUIRE
29 Maple Avenue
Hempstead, NY 11550
P.S. I have a pawn shop typewriter now. The gov. gangsters have sprayed it with an odor that makes me sick and vomit. I type on the back door step in the fresh air.
Rezpresone przez Communistyczny Zbojecny Computerski Bog na calem swiecia nawet na odleglych planetach, WAS NIE ZAPOMINAM!
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BMO
"giantbuttplugs.info" he said, using it as a metasyntactic variable.
So I says to myself, "who the fuck would register that?" Then I says to myself, "it's the internet, someone must be using it." .gov, .info, .org, .mil, .net are all available.
The .com is taken.
Domain Name: giantbuttplugs.com
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar URL: http://www.fabulous.com/
Updated Date: 2013-06-30T17:14:35Z
Creation Date: 2006-08-16T02:14:40Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2014-08-16T00:00:00Z
Registrar: FABULOUS.COM PTY LTD.
Registrar IANA ID: 411
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@fabulous.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +61.730070015
Reseller: N/A
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: N/A
Registrant Name: Domain Admin
Registrant Organization: Sunlane Media LLC
Registrant Street: PO Box 231789
Registrant City: Encinitas
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 92024
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.877 849 6203
Registrant Phone Ext: N/A
Registrant Fax: +1.877 849 6203
Registrant Fax Ext: N/A
Registrant Email: fabulous@sunlane.com
Registry Admin ID: N/A
Admin Name: Domain Admin
Admin Organization: Sunlane Media LLC
Admin Street: PO Box 231789
Admin City: Encinitas
Admin State/Province: CA
Admin Postal Code: 92024
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.877 849 6203
Admin Phone Ext: N/A
Admin Fax: +1.877 849 6203
Admin Fax Ext: N/A
Admin Email: fabulous@sunlane.com
Registry Tech ID: N/A
Tech Name: Domain Admin
Tech Organization: Sunlane Media LLC
Tech Street: PO Box 231789
Tech City: Encinitas
Tech State/Province: CA
Tech Postal Code: 92024
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.877 849 6203
Tech Phone Ext: N/A
Tech Fax: +1.877 849 6203
Tech Fax Ext: N/A
Tech Email: fabulous@sunlane.com
Name Server: ns1.fabulous.com
Name Server: ns2.fabulous.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2014-01-26T13:00:00Z
The .com expires in August, you can probably snap it up then.
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BMO
WSJ op-ed
The opinions posted in the financial version of Fox News (it is a Murdoch holding, after all) is "news for nerds"?
Fucking WHAT?
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Or the guy who had adopted the oh so brilliant minds of the Foreign Policy Initiative (nee PNAC) so that we would be dropping bombs on Tehran two months after inauguration.
His Romneyness didn't back away from the statements by Dan Senor that we would be at war with Iran at the behest of Israel.
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BMO
'If you want to justify closing a library, you make access difficult and then you say it is hardly used.'
So we have "starve the beast" in Canada now.
Spiffy. Not.
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BMO
copyright, which is a completely different issue.
It's about Yale's misuse of copyright to censor. You cannot copyright raw data. You can only copyright the representation of that data. This has been proven time and again by court cases where phone book publishers tried suing online phone directories and lost. Cookbook publishers were also smacked down by courts because recipes themselves are mere data and instructions and thus not copyrightable. Sweat of the brow isn't enough to apply copyright.
YBB+ wasn't a copyright infringement in any way, shape, or form. If YBB+ had copied the layout and the graphics of the Yale page, then Yale would have been entirely correct. However, that's not the case. The data representation was /better/ and didn't copy YBB.
It's censorship when you pretend that you're on the right side of the law and you use that to intimidate someone into taking down his stuff.
You, sir, are the one who doesn't understand copyright.
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BMO
... using ad blocking and/or host files to deep-six ad networks not only produces a nicer user experience, but it's a valid security measure.
Trusting the web site is not enough. You have to trust the ad network too. Since any Joe Schmoe can buy ad space on an ad network, trusting the ad network means you're trusting Joe Schmoe.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't.
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BMO
> Particularly ones where they have no product that they offer,
This is exactly what is going on. What's left of Nokia won't have any manufacturing capacity or products. Another NPE.
>Motorola
Motorola makes actual products.
Being this dumb should hurt.
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BMO
Wow, you're getting a lot of venom from all those AC's, huh?
There's a reason why they're called cowards.
There are a lot of reasons for weight gain. Most of them are not "lack of willpower."
I was in one of my Depression management groups, and this guy walked in one day. He said "I'm here because my therapist said I should be here. Thing is, I don't have depression"
He weighed 450.
I looked at him and thought "You're fucking wearing your depression, man."
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BMO
Most of my life I had huge weight issues.
In appx 6 months, I lost somewhere between 80 and 100 pounds. I don't know for sure because I didn't measure my weight when I started.
I lost it through the same depression that had put the weight on.
I don't recommend this kind of weight loss.
Lastly,
Go fuck yourself, you cunt.
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BMO
> which for 98% of the population is solved with willpower and determination alone
Spoken like someone who's never had to deal with weight issues.
You're a complete asshole. No, really.
>food isn't a addictive as heroin
It's worse, actually. You don't need heroin to live. You need food to live. It's always around. There is no putting it away. There is no removing yourself from the environment that triggers it.
And that's what you don't effin' get.
This calvinist shit really has gotten old.
But hey, you keep going with your preconceived notions about how things "should" work instead of how they do.
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BMO
It's threads like this that make it easy to spot the boot-lickers, and send their messages down to -1.
Now go scream impotently about me censoring you.
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BMO
Yes people have the right to free speech. No, it doesn't give them the right to say whatever they want whenever they want.
And you say this without even the slightest hint of irony.
The stupid, it should hurt.
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BMO
I'm not your friend. Indeed, you have become "unfriended" to use a Facebookism.
Because, frankly, you are completely willfully ignorant of history, and I don't suffer fools well.
Bye.
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BMO
And you completely missed his point.
People like you are the problem.
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