If user figures are that important to Opera, why not eliminate the ads on the free version? I'm sure people would come flocking to Opera if their free version had no ads. I for one know that I would.
Frankly, many users find ads annoying, which is why Firefox users find the popup-blocking feature in Firefox quite useful. This feature would almost be pointless if you had ads regardless of what site you are looking at. Spending less time bashing other browsers and more time developing would probably be a wise choice as well.
Does anyone actually realize that not everyone in China is actually against what's happening there? Sure, there are those who desire freedom of speech, but there are also many who don't. Many of us are brought up in a society that advocates freedom of speech, but we should realize that there are Chinese citizens who have lived without it their whole lives and simply have no interest in having it.
The best course of action would be to accept these students, train them in the ways of ethical hacking, then give them a degree and place them in a field where they would be useful (There are many subdivisions of White Hats/Grey Hats/Black Hats, depends on the subject matter/programming language.)
This might be a wise path to follow, assuming that 1) What they were doing could be considered hacking, and 2) That these students were even interested in pursuing a computer-related career.
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If user figures are that important to Opera, why not eliminate the ads on the free version? I'm sure people would come flocking to Opera if their free version had no ads. I for one know that I would.
Frankly, many users find ads annoying, which is why Firefox users find the popup-blocking feature in Firefox quite useful. This feature would almost be pointless if you had ads regardless of what site you are looking at. Spending less time bashing other browsers and more time developing would probably be a wise choice as well.
Does anyone actually realize that not everyone in China is actually against what's happening there? Sure, there are those who desire freedom of speech, but there are also many who don't. Many of us are brought up in a society that advocates freedom of speech, but we should realize that there are Chinese citizens who have lived without it their whole lives and simply have no interest in having it.