It's a judgment call, but I'd say these numbers, assuming the original poster didn't make them up, are probably pretty representative of a site like cnn.com. Obviously he didn't want to give away his source, but if it had been a tech-oriented site, my guess is Firefox would've been up at least past 10%.
Whatever you say, Nick, you autistic genius, you. -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
In college I took a class on Gandhi's life and legacy (taught by the lovely Janaki Bakhle) and, come midterm time, fully half the students in the class spelled his name "Ghandi" on the exam. Honestly, what the fuck?
Janaki just about blew her lid the next day in class. It was really hot.
That the author went on to explain his question doesn't imply that he hadn't intended to have a little ironic fun in the prelude. That you would fail to understand this, on the other hand, implies that you can't read people for shit. And there's really no shame in admitting that.
Neither is there shame in admitting you were wrong. One of your many problems, you ought to know, is that you suffer from a chronic inability to acknowledge any mistakes--not just here, but also in this thread, by your obstinate defense of a patently false claim; in this thread, by your peculiar refusal to acknowledge a strawman of your own construction (I say peculiar because pointing out strawmen is an obsessive pastime of yours); and in countless other comments I can't be bothered to dig up for the sole sake of your illumination.
My guess is that you're simply too proud to admit defeat, though you sense it. And therein lies the pathos of your situation. I am simply offering you advice, after all. Would that you'd learn to listen. -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
I suggest you save your vitriol for this humorless shitbag. -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
Jesus Christ, Nick. There's no shame in admitting that you misunderstood him. Your doing so would spare us the embarrassment of watching you blithely writing yourself into thickets of verbal undoings and squirming out via convenient misrepresentation. Neither of you are wrong, all right? Just let it die. -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
It would. If he weren't a dick, he wouldn't be Nick. -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
If you want others to take you seriously, you might reconsider your deliberate obtuseness. -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
It's not currently, but according to this rumor site, Tiger (the next version of OS X, due out this summer) will indeed include a graphing calculator app. However, to judge from the screenshots (one, two, three), it looks like utter shit compared to ye olde Graphing Calculator for Mac OS Classic.
Interesting, but you know, most people probably have the opposite perspective: Linux won't do them any good until it's capable of running iTunes. Sorry, just the way it is.
Quit being a douchebag, Nicholas. You know damn well you read every last reply you receive. In fact, I have no doubt whatsoever you'll read this very message, craving affirmation despite all your denials. Not that I expect a response from you; for all your talk, you still lack the balls to admit you can't walk the walk.
Nick, you're probably the most predictable person I've encountered online. I guess you just don't know when to quit. -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
I suppose I ought to be either (a) offended or (b) amused that you of all people would fancy me pathetic, but I'm honestly finding it difficult to give a flying fuck.
Thank you for throttling back on the karma bonus. I'll be watching to make sure you don't relapse. Otherwise--have a good life! -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
When will you tire of using your gratuitous karma bonus? I'll make you an offer. Stop, and I will never bother you again. -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
You know what, Nick? To judge from the first few posts here--which is all I could stand to read, quite frankly--you're actually a rather well-reasoned and intelligent individual, certainly more so than the dunce with whom you picked a fight. For this, congratulations. Your "accomplishment" does nothing, however, to absolve you of responsibility for polluting nearly half a discussion with altogether useless comments stillborn at an unreasonably high Score: 2.
In addition, I'm not sure you realize how pathetic it is that you feel the need to disparage aforementioned dunce by comparing his education to your somewhat less mediocre academic credentials, all with the aim of reassuring yourself of your own importance--which any disinterested third party with training in psychoanalysis would agree is your motivation, whether you realize it or not. This, in fact, is the reason I couldn't stand to read any more than the first few of your posts in this thread. It was simply too depressing to imagine a creature with smarts such as yours suffering in sad solitude, the world passing by, he unable to understand why. -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose automatic defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
"Misery of the oppressed Chinese people"? You know, many Chinese would say exactly the same thing about us. It wouldn't kill you to visit Beijing or Shanghai sometime and see how "miserable" Chinese citizens are. Even in the still underdeveloped interior, people are generally content.
I'd prefer to stay here in New York, of course, but that's just personal preference. Please understand that your conceptions of misery and oppression are very different from those of someone who grew up in a culture halfway around the world (assuming you're a Westerner).
You mean like everyone already does with their iPod Mini? Stroll around Central Park for ten minutes and you can't help but see dozens of joggers with these things around their arms.
I agree--I don't see that wearing one as a necklace would be a benefit.
Please do yourself a favor and consult this week's Economist, particularly the cover article and the "Special Report" halfway down the right-hand column. I hate to fob you off like this on an external source, even one as intelligent as The Economist--I'd prefer to address your bizarre misconceptions directly and individually--but I'm pressed for time, so I hope you'll accept my apologies.
I will, however, take a moment to point out that one serious concern to we Americans is that the dollar will lose its status as an international currency of reserve--notably, the price of gold has nearly doubled since the late 1990s--and this loss will make it much harder for our country to borrow money and finance private industry.
Please do read the articles I mentioned, and perhaps you will understand why so many people are terrified at our administration's callous neglect of our decades-old strong dollar policy.
"Revaluate" is indeed an uncommon word; I believe the word you were looking for was "revalue." As you indicate, Chinese authorities have indicated a willingness to repeg the yuan to the dollar at a higher rate, though a completely free-floating yuan is still some time off due to concerns about the fragility of the nation's, indeed all Asia's, financial system.
Incidentally, this week's Economist has a pair of articles (one, two) you might be interested in.
Staggering it is to the world entire that you could hold such self-righteous certitude in your imagined intellectual superiority, given your propensity for petty, meaningless nitpicking and your demonstrated unwillingness to concede any point, no matter how insignificant, in the face of overwhelming evidence which threatens to bury you as a stubborn but hapless shrimp is buried in a concrete tsunami. The surest sign of intolerable nitwithood, Nicholas Warren Brown, is a severe want of a capacity for introspection. Have you gazed deeply into a mirror lately? -- Sick of pompous windbags, especially those whose reflexive defense mechanism is to lash out with bizarre and easily refuted accusations? Change "Karma Bonus" modifier to -1 penalty.
I'm not sure you've really thought this through. Are you seriously suggesting that a company ought to get a free pass on its misdeeds just because its ownership changes?
When your business buys another business, it comes as a package deal. You've got to take the bad along with the good. And presumably, if you're sinking however many millions into buying the company, you believe the latter outweighs the former.
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Guess you missed the story yesterday about Goodger and company embracing and extending the Javascript standard.
It's a judgment call, but I'd say these numbers, assuming the original poster didn't make them up, are probably pretty representative of a site like cnn.com. Obviously he didn't want to give away his source, but if it had been a tech-oriented site, my guess is Firefox would've been up at least past 10%.
(Since when does Slashdot use captchas?)
Whatever you say, Nick, you autistic genius, you.
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Thank you! That always bothers me.
In college I took a class on Gandhi's life and legacy (taught by the lovely Janaki Bakhle) and, come midterm time, fully half the students in the class spelled his name "Ghandi" on the exam. Honestly, what the fuck?
Janaki just about blew her lid the next day in class. It was really hot.
Sounds to me more like Mac OS X's preferences system (accessed on the command line through the defaults utility).
That the author went on to explain his question doesn't imply that he hadn't intended to have a little ironic fun in the prelude. That you would fail to understand this, on the other hand, implies that you can't read people for shit. And there's really no shame in admitting that.
Neither is there shame in admitting you were wrong. One of your many problems, you ought to know, is that you suffer from a chronic inability to acknowledge any mistakes--not just here, but also in this thread, by your obstinate defense of a patently false claim; in this thread, by your peculiar refusal to acknowledge a strawman of your own construction (I say peculiar because pointing out strawmen is an obsessive pastime of yours); and in countless other comments I can't be bothered to dig up for the sole sake of your illumination.
My guess is that you're simply too proud to admit defeat, though you sense it. And therein lies the pathos of your situation. I am simply offering you advice, after all. Would that you'd learn to listen.
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I suggest you save your vitriol for this humorless shitbag.
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Jesus Christ, Nick. There's no shame in admitting that you misunderstood him. Your doing so would spare us the embarrassment of watching you blithely writing yourself into thickets of verbal undoings and squirming out via convenient misrepresentation. Neither of you are wrong, all right? Just let it die.
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It would. If he weren't a dick, he wouldn't be Nick.
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Wow. You're an even greater douchebag than the little shit you dragged into this argument.
If you want others to take you seriously, you might reconsider your deliberate obtuseness.
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It's not currently, but according to this rumor site, Tiger (the next version of OS X, due out this summer) will indeed include a graphing calculator app. However, to judge from the screenshots (one, two, three), it looks like utter shit compared to ye olde Graphing Calculator for Mac OS Classic.
Don't be a shitbag. Did it occur to you to finish reading that very sentence you quoted?
Interesting, but you know, most people probably have the opposite perspective: Linux won't do them any good until it's capable of running iTunes. Sorry, just the way it is.
Oh, I get it. Ripping off artists is okay, as long as you're ripping off record execs at the same time. Thanks for the clarification!
Quit being a douchebag, Nicholas. You know damn well you read every last reply you receive. In fact, I have no doubt whatsoever you'll read this very message, craving affirmation despite all your denials. Not that I expect a response from you; for all your talk, you still lack the balls to admit you can't walk the walk.
Nick, you're probably the most predictable person I've encountered online. I guess you just don't know when to quit.
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I suppose I ought to be either (a) offended or (b) amused that you of all people would fancy me pathetic, but I'm honestly finding it difficult to give a flying fuck.
Thank you for throttling back on the karma bonus. I'll be watching to make sure you don't relapse. Otherwise--have a good life!
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When will you tire of using your gratuitous karma bonus? I'll make you an offer. Stop, and I will never bother you again.
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You know what, Nick? To judge from the first few posts here--which is all I could stand to read, quite frankly--you're actually a rather well-reasoned and intelligent individual, certainly more so than the dunce with whom you picked a fight. For this, congratulations. Your "accomplishment" does nothing, however, to absolve you of responsibility for polluting nearly half a discussion with altogether useless comments stillborn at an unreasonably high Score: 2.
In addition, I'm not sure you realize how pathetic it is that you feel the need to disparage aforementioned dunce by comparing his education to your somewhat less mediocre academic credentials, all with the aim of reassuring yourself of your own importance--which any disinterested third party with training in psychoanalysis would agree is your motivation, whether you realize it or not. This, in fact, is the reason I couldn't stand to read any more than the first few of your posts in this thread. It was simply too depressing to imagine a creature with smarts such as yours suffering in sad solitude, the world passing by, he unable to understand why.
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"Misery of the oppressed Chinese people"? You know, many Chinese would say exactly the same thing about us. It wouldn't kill you to visit Beijing or Shanghai sometime and see how "miserable" Chinese citizens are. Even in the still underdeveloped interior, people are generally content.
I'd prefer to stay here in New York, of course, but that's just personal preference. Please understand that your conceptions of misery and oppression are very different from those of someone who grew up in a culture halfway around the world (assuming you're a Westerner).
You mean like everyone already does with their iPod Mini? Stroll around Central Park for ten minutes and you can't help but see dozens of joggers with these things around their arms.
I agree--I don't see that wearing one as a necklace would be a benefit.
Please do yourself a favor and consult this week's Economist , particularly the cover article and the "Special Report" halfway down the right-hand column. I hate to fob you off like this on an external source, even one as intelligent as The Economist--I'd prefer to address your bizarre misconceptions directly and individually--but I'm pressed for time, so I hope you'll accept my apologies.
I will, however, take a moment to point out that one serious concern to we Americans is that the dollar will lose its status as an international currency of reserve--notably, the price of gold has nearly doubled since the late 1990s--and this loss will make it much harder for our country to borrow money and finance private industry.
Please do read the articles I mentioned, and perhaps you will understand why so many people are terrified at our administration's callous neglect of our decades-old strong dollar policy.
"Revaluate" is indeed an uncommon word; I believe the word you were looking for was "revalue." As you indicate, Chinese authorities have indicated a willingness to repeg the yuan to the dollar at a higher rate, though a completely free-floating yuan is still some time off due to concerns about the fragility of the nation's, indeed all Asia's, financial system.
Incidentally, this week's Economist has a pair of articles (one, two) you might be interested in.
Staggering it is to the world entire that you could hold such self-righteous certitude in your imagined intellectual superiority, given your propensity for petty, meaningless nitpicking and your demonstrated unwillingness to concede any point, no matter how insignificant, in the face of overwhelming evidence which threatens to bury you as a stubborn but hapless shrimp is buried in a concrete tsunami. The surest sign of intolerable nitwithood, Nicholas Warren Brown, is a severe want of a capacity for introspection. Have you gazed deeply into a mirror lately?
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I'm not sure you've really thought this through. Are you seriously suggesting that a company ought to get a free pass on its misdeeds just because its ownership changes?
When your business buys another business, it comes as a package deal. You've got to take the bad along with the good. And presumably, if you're sinking however many millions into buying the company, you believe the latter outweighs the former.