I just popped up our site's stats We have had about 31,000 visits this month (according to awstats). IE comes in at 23%. The winner is Safari at 26.1%, so that tells use there are a helluva lot of iPhones out there. Firefox and Mozilla come in at 17.3% and 10%. Chrome comes in at 16.1%.
What it tells me, most of all, is that smart devices are becoming the dominant surfing platforms, and that not just IE, but Windows in general in slipping down the list.
I still find IE abysmally slow, to the point that the only reason I use it at all is because we're stuck using Siebel, and it needs the ActiveX control to run. So far as I'm concerned, other than as a legacy app platform, IE serves no purpose.
Your words ring hollow as I try to figure out why just one of the people in my office is getting a password prompt when using Outlook 2010 to access our Exchange 2010 server. Is it Outlook? Is it Windows 7 cert store on the staff member's workstation? Is it Active Directory? Is it Exchange 2010? Is it God?
Microsoft, making simple things complicated since 1988. Christ, I know people who still insist Wordpad is all they need in a word processor.
I enjoy Tarantino films as much as the next red blooded male, but really, what is a Tarantino script:
1. Introduce quirky archetypal characters. 2. Gory death scenes cast in a humorous light. 3. Lots of dialog between quirky archetypal characters. 4. Absolutely astonishing amount of blood and gore, with lots of humorous hip dialog, so you laugh as someone is shot, stabbed, torn apart, beheaded or otherwise eradicated. 5. Final dialog scenes, perhaps some gore, but inevitably leading to... 6. Over the top death and destruction on a scale that makes the mind revolt against what its seeing, with inevitably satisfying catharsis as the Tarantino-esque definition of good triumphs over the difficult to differentiate definition of evil fails. 7. Close with Morricone score or slightly obscure funky 1970s R&B song. 8. Profit!!!!!!
Crikey, I remember running OS/2 level 1 on a CoCo 2 and having device driver, memory management and i/o subsystems far more advanced than pretty much any other home computer; all on an 8 bit processor with 64k of RAM.
Pointing out that some nasty people believe nasty things is not the same thing as saying "And another theory is that no Jews were killed by the Nazis, and those who claim it is are members of Jewish conspiracy to enslave God-fearing Aryans."
The same goes for saying "And another theory is that God created humans 6,000 years ago, and it's just as legitimate as the claim that we evolved from a common ancestor billions of years ago."
Creationism isn't a theory, not in the scientific sense, so teaching it as a legitimate theory is teaching children a falsehood.
Throwing invalid and in many cases demonstrably false claims at students who don't have the background to see the invalidity is ludicrous. I mean, why single science out? Why not teach Holocaust denial in history class? After all, wouldn't that challenge students too? Perhaps you could also teach 2+2=5 and French verb conjugation in English class.
Schools are supposed to teach science, like any other subject, to a reasonable degree of accuracy. Teaching students that somehow just because someone calls some nonsense claim a "theory" is not teaching at all.
Mann's initial research is from the mid-1990s. That's like claiming Big Bang cosmology can be questioned because assumptions made by the scientists who discovered CMBR may have been off, or insisting General Relativity is wrong because Einstein didn't produce a quantum theory of gravity.
And a police officer has the technical capacity to walk into my house and shoot me dead. That I can appreciate his likely skill with a service revolver doesn't mean he gets to shoot me dead at a whim.
The same applies to the NSA. That it has some bright brains who have some impressive technical capabilities does not mean that they should be permitted to wantonly do it without proper civilian oversight, including the requirement that no US citizen's data be collected without an explicit and accurate warrant.
In other words; capacity is only part of the equation.
And the Continental Congress and the Continental Army all should have been executed as traitors for open revolt against their lawful Sovereign and consorting with enemies of said Sovereign. And yet, oddly, they are celebrated as heroes who struck a great blow for liberty and achieved freedom for their nation.
Mann isn't a fraud, his observation an have been confirmed and refined, and you and Steyn are cowards incapable of facing the universe as it is. The only difference is at least Steyn is man enough to put his name to his libel.
I can imagine there will be a drop in users, but the idea that it will go extinct in three years seems out to lunch to me. Beyond that, I'm not sure it's methodologically sound to say "MySpace went tits up, so will Facebook". Facebook has done a lot to try to increase the capabilities and services users can use, out of sheer necessity of keeping them on board. It strikes me that Facebook is trying to do the exact opposite of Myspace.
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I can't think of too many sites that don't load slower, and the startup time is just awful.
I just popped up our site's stats We have had about 31,000 visits this month (according to awstats). IE comes in at 23%. The winner is Safari at 26.1%, so that tells use there are a helluva lot of iPhones out there. Firefox and Mozilla come in at 17.3% and 10%. Chrome comes in at 16.1%.
What it tells me, most of all, is that smart devices are becoming the dominant surfing platforms, and that not just IE, but Windows in general in slipping down the list.
I still find IE abysmally slow, to the point that the only reason I use it at all is because we're stuck using Siebel, and it needs the ActiveX control to run. So far as I'm concerned, other than as a legacy app platform, IE serves no purpose.
Your words ring hollow as I try to figure out why just one of the people in my office is getting a password prompt when using Outlook 2010 to access our Exchange 2010 server. Is it Outlook? Is it Windows 7 cert store on the staff member's workstation? Is it Active Directory? Is it Exchange 2010? Is it God?
Microsoft, making simple things complicated since 1988. Christ, I know people who still insist Wordpad is all they need in a word processor.
Translation: Some attention whoring quack is going to waste taxpayer money and NASA time to no good end.
Inglorious Basterds was worth it just for Waltz's performance. Django was alright, but the final scene was way out there for even Tarantino.
My favorites remain Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown.
Sounds like you have the outline of a Tarantino movie!
I just killed Bowser's son. Do I get a Slashdot article detailing my grand Mario exploits?
I enjoy Tarantino films as much as the next red blooded male, but really, what is a Tarantino script:
1. Introduce quirky archetypal characters.
2. Gory death scenes cast in a humorous light.
3. Lots of dialog between quirky archetypal characters.
4. Absolutely astonishing amount of blood and gore, with lots of humorous hip dialog, so you laugh as someone is shot, stabbed, torn apart, beheaded or otherwise eradicated.
5. Final dialog scenes, perhaps some gore, but inevitably leading to...
6. Over the top death and destruction on a scale that makes the mind revolt against what its seeing, with inevitably satisfying catharsis as the Tarantino-esque definition of good triumphs over the difficult to differentiate definition of evil fails.
7. Close with Morricone score or slightly obscure funky 1970s R&B song.
8. Profit!!!!!!
I only hope he doesn't sue me.
Freedom is already dead. This is what is simply the icing the on surveillance state's cake.
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"It's okay if we spy on you, providing we implement a highly uninformative reporting scheme. Yay for us, we're so accountable!"
Crikey, I remember running OS/2 level 1 on a CoCo 2 and having device driver, memory management and i/o subsystems far more advanced than pretty much any other home computer; all on an 8 bit processor with 64k of RAM.
Pointing out that some nasty people believe nasty things is not the same thing as saying "And another theory is that no Jews were killed by the Nazis, and those who claim it is are members of Jewish conspiracy to enslave God-fearing Aryans."
The same goes for saying "And another theory is that God created humans 6,000 years ago, and it's just as legitimate as the claim that we evolved from a common ancestor billions of years ago."
Creationism isn't a theory, not in the scientific sense, so teaching it as a legitimate theory is teaching children a falsehood.
Throwing invalid and in many cases demonstrably false claims at students who don't have the background to see the invalidity is ludicrous. I mean, why single science out? Why not teach Holocaust denial in history class? After all, wouldn't that challenge students too? Perhaps you could also teach 2+2=5 and French verb conjugation in English class.
Schools are supposed to teach science, like any other subject, to a reasonable degree of accuracy. Teaching students that somehow just because someone calls some nonsense claim a "theory" is not teaching at all.
Mann's initial research is from the mid-1990s. That's like claiming Big Bang cosmology can be questioned because assumptions made by the scientists who discovered CMBR may have been off, or insisting General Relativity is wrong because Einstein didn't produce a quantum theory of gravity.
And a police officer has the technical capacity to walk into my house and shoot me dead. That I can appreciate his likely skill with a service revolver doesn't mean he gets to shoot me dead at a whim.
The same applies to the NSA. That it has some bright brains who have some impressive technical capabilities does not mean that they should be permitted to wantonly do it without proper civilian oversight, including the requirement that no US citizen's data be collected without an explicit and accurate warrant.
In other words; capacity is only part of the equation.
And the Continental Congress and the Continental Army all should have been executed as traitors for open revolt against their lawful Sovereign and consorting with enemies of said Sovereign. And yet, oddly, they are celebrated as heroes who struck a great blow for liberty and achieved freedom for their nation.
He deserves a ticker tape parade and to be listed among the great patriots who sacrificed personal safety and comfort in the name of liberty.
Mann isn't a fraud, his observation an have been confirmed and refined, and you and Steyn are cowards incapable of facing the universe as it is. The only difference is at least Steyn is man enough to put his name to his libel.
Wish I had some mod points. Brilliant post
I always enjoy propaganda pieces masquerading as posts. What's next, a nice painting called Flowers For Theo?
And how is BSD doing versus the oh-so-unfree GPLv2 Linux these days?
But, as always, the rules are simple. Pick the license you want for your project, and respect the license other developers pick for their projects.
Plants grow towards the sun because they need sunlight for energy. And evolution is considerably more complex than just "random useful traits".
I can imagine there will be a drop in users, but the idea that it will go extinct in three years seems out to lunch to me. Beyond that, I'm not sure it's methodologically sound to say "MySpace went tits up, so will Facebook". Facebook has done a lot to try to increase the capabilities and services users can use, out of sheer necessity of keeping them on board. It strikes me that Facebook is trying to do the exact opposite of Myspace.