A year or two ago everybody was happy with Gnome. Just Gnome, we didn't have to call it Gnome 2.x. Now we have Gnome 2.x, plain Gnome 3.x, Unity, Mint Gnome Shell Extensions, MATE and now another kid on the block... what the hell went wrong?
I'm still happily using Gnome 2.x (on LMDE), but it won't last forever:/
I've read about it being done in a few cities in Poland. It's more of an art happening then a practical thing. The "exposition" is made of members of different kind of minorities (one Jew, one atheist, one gay person, etc.) who you can "borrow" and talk to. Neat idea and of course it's been protested by homophobic morons.
one of my websites (love calculator - definitely not for us geeks) got 124000 visits in the past month. 72.11% of those were made with IE (any version). 28.10% of all IE visits were made with 6.0. This means IE 6 still has 20%.
Also, w3schools is #1 in Google's SERPS for a huge number of common keywords, try searching for some basic html or css stuff. Example: css background. I imagine they get HUGE traffic and "I came here using IE by mistake" visits are a meaningless fraction.
I have a friend who's primary computer (over 10 years old) still runs OS9 . Not only that - he's hooked via a 128 (or was it 256) kbps line that costs him more than a 30Mbps cable that's available in his area. He works in graphics and every time I hear "it works for me", I'm crying a little.
Well, it depends. If you believe in what GP says, Intel did nothing wrong, deserves to have a monopoly and customers shouldn't have a choice.
To GP: we've paid much more simply because there was a monopoly. Look at any market that enjoys it. First example that comes to my mind: CAD software. Polish prices, pulled more or less out of my butt: AutoCAD: $5k, VectorWorks: $500. As far as my wife's concerned, they're pretty much equal, but everyone else uses AutoCAD and she needs to buy a copy.
I've "burned" the beta on a pendrive - the wallpaper is different than @ these screenshots. The new one is kinda ugly, AFAIR even the GTK theme is different (back to human).
BTW, it's funny how they always release those super hot screenshots some time (1 or 2 days) before a new release is made. And it always gets to the front page of digg, linked from lifehacker and so on. I could never understand the point of doing this, apart from an obvious reason, which is getting visitors cheaply. They show a few dozen of screens with apps that haven't changed at all.
I spend considerable amounts of time in both countries.
In Poland I pretty much get the advertized speeds, maybe it's slightly slower in peek hours. Currently I'm connected via cable - 6 Mbps and yesterday's episode of House is coming home almost that fast.
I've lived in two different houses in UK over the past 1.5 years and used the web at friend's house numerous times. Every house had DSL connection (speeds between 6 and 10 Mbps) from different providers. It's decent during the day (I'd say ~3 Mbps), but once everyone comes back home from school/work (~5p.m.) speeds drop to below 512 kbps (web, anything out of the standard ports range drops to a crawl).
How in the world does installing bootleg copies gives anyone a "valuable experience learning to make the OS work firsthand"?
On the other note, I wonder what made them choose Linux. Was it a choice based on merits or did Hugo Chavez'es political stance (anti-US/capitalism) made an impact?
Back in the uni times a friend of mine and I used to play chess in pubs a lot. A few times we did it while being baked. The result was always the same - we were both waiting for the opponent to make a move... .
As for performance enhancing, it works quite the opposite - you tend to focus too much on one thing and have a hard time remembering all the others... once you remember another aspect of the game, you focus on it and again, forget about everything else. And sometimes you realize that you've been thinking about something completely irrelevant for the past few minutes.
Opera sells mobile version of their browser. Mozilla gets craploads of cash from Google, I guess for using G as the default search engine... there's this "search bar" with G pre-selected and AFAIR you get a co-branded start page when you install FF if it's not packaged by a 3rd party (Ubuntu for example changes it). 85% of Mozilla's $66.8M revenue came from Google in 2006.
There are zillions of ways that having a supremacy in the browser market can provide you indirect profits. From the top of my head:
* You tie it to your search engine (and sell ads on result pages)
* You fsck up the way pages render -> some bad webmasters design to meet the way your browser displays everything, because it's what 9x% of the people use (luckily no longer the case) -> ssome people are forced to use your browser, which runs only on the OS that you sell
Before Dell started pre-installing Ubuntu last year (announced ~Feb, selling since ~May, don't quote me), the pre-installed market share was probably less than 0.1%.
I haven't RTFA, but if it's really true, it is a big deal.
Don't know about others from the "a lot" group, but in Poland we use "," instead of ".", as in "Pi is approximately equal to 3,14159". Sometimes it can be a major PITA, when you get some data in one format and have to manually convert it to the other, so that it's recognized as a number.
We don't use anything instead of your use of ",", though. American "I have 1,000,000 pencils" would be "I have 1000000 pencils" or "I have 1 000 000 pencils".
You just have do draw a line somewhere. I for one always have some garlic, a crucifix and a wooden stake in the glove compartment, even though it's quite possible I'll never need them.
You don't and I'm not gonna hold it against you. I'm not even going to say your car isn't properly equipped.
Yeah, the point is that we're wasting thousands of hours of work because IE almost gets those points.
I think I can safely assume I speak for everyone who has anything to do with web design when I say I have a really hard time refraining from swearing like a sailor when I speak about IE.
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I have been reporting that problem for a while, but they just assume that I am an idiot who just doesn't know how to use a computer.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
A year or two ago everybody was happy with Gnome. Just Gnome, we didn't have to call it Gnome 2.x. Now we have Gnome 2.x, plain Gnome 3.x, Unity, Mint Gnome Shell Extensions, MATE and now another kid on the block... what the hell went wrong?
I'm still happily using Gnome 2.x (on LMDE), but it won't last forever :/
I've read about it being done in a few cities in Poland. It's more of an art happening then a practical thing. The "exposition" is made of members of different kind of minorities (one Jew, one atheist, one gay person, etc.) who you can "borrow" and talk to. Neat idea and of course it's been protested by homophobic morons.
The project is called ywa Biblioteka (alive library) - http://www.zywabiblioteka.pl/ .
Ukraine ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-PL-monthly-200910-201010 ) and Ukraine ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-PL-monthly-200910-201010 ) seem to have the weakest IE market share. 19% and 20%. Still, there are some sites that require IE (I know of 2 banks).
Luckily browser makers don't have to worry about catering to idiots. Who needs 90% of the market?
My hard drive should be able to talk to your hairdresser.
one of my websites (love calculator - definitely not for us geeks) got 124000 visits in the past month. 72.11% of those were made with IE (any version). 28.10% of all IE visits were made with 6.0. This means IE 6 still has 20%.
Also, w3schools is #1 in Google's SERPS for a huge number of common keywords, try searching for some basic html or css stuff. Example: css background. I imagine they get HUGE traffic and "I came here using IE by mistake" visits are a meaningless fraction.
I have a friend who's primary computer (over 10 years old) still runs OS9 . Not only that - he's hooked via a 128 (or was it 256) kbps line that costs him more than a 30Mbps cable that's available in his area. He works in graphics and every time I hear "it works for me", I'm crying a little.
Well, it depends. If you believe in what GP says, Intel did nothing wrong, deserves to have a monopoly and customers shouldn't have a choice.
To GP: we've paid much more simply because there was a monopoly. Look at any market that enjoys it. First example that comes to my mind: CAD software. Polish prices, pulled more or less out of my butt: AutoCAD: $5k, VectorWorks: $500. As far as my wife's concerned, they're pretty much equal, but everyone else uses AutoCAD and she needs to buy a copy.
I've "burned" the beta on a pendrive - the wallpaper is different than @ these screenshots. The new one is kinda ugly, AFAIR even the GTK theme is different (back to human).
BTW, it's funny how they always release those super hot screenshots some time (1 or 2 days) before a new release is made. And it always gets to the front page of digg, linked from lifehacker and so on. I could never understand the point of doing this, apart from an obvious reason, which is getting visitors cheaply. They show a few dozen of screens with apps that haven't changed at all.
If the worst that can happen to our company is giving back what we stole, we're gonna do the naughty thing.
I spend considerable amounts of time in both countries.
In Poland I pretty much get the advertized speeds, maybe it's slightly slower in peek hours. Currently I'm connected via cable - 6 Mbps and yesterday's episode of House is coming home almost that fast.
I've lived in two different houses in UK over the past 1.5 years and used the web at friend's house numerous times. Every house had DSL connection (speeds between 6 and 10 Mbps) from different providers. It's decent during the day (I'd say ~3 Mbps), but once everyone comes back home from school/work (~5p.m.) speeds drop to below 512 kbps (web, anything out of the standard ports range drops to a crawl).
Google is your friend. From the meta description tag of netcraft.com:
"Netcraft provide monthly Internet research reports on the apparent death of FreeBSD."
How in the world does installing bootleg copies gives anyone a "valuable experience learning to make the OS work firsthand"?
On the other note, I wonder what made them choose Linux. Was it a choice based on merits or did Hugo Chavez'es political stance (anti-US/capitalism) made an impact?
Damn,
Back in the uni times a friend of mine and I used to play chess in pubs a lot. A few times we did it while being baked. The result was always the same - we were both waiting for the opponent to make a move... .
As for performance enhancing, it works quite the opposite - you tend to focus too much on one thing and have a hard time remembering all the others... once you remember another aspect of the game, you focus on it and again, forget about everything else. And sometimes you realize that you've been thinking about something completely irrelevant for the past few minutes.
Man, you're a wild beast.
Opera sells mobile version of their browser. Mozilla gets craploads of cash from Google, I guess for using G as the default search engine... there's this "search bar" with G pre-selected and AFAIR you get a co-branded start page when you install FF if it's not packaged by a 3rd party (Ubuntu for example changes it). 85% of Mozilla's $66.8M revenue came from Google in 2006.
There are zillions of ways that having a supremacy in the browser market can provide you indirect profits. From the top of my head:
* You tie it to your search engine (and sell ads on result pages)
* You fsck up the way pages render -> some bad webmasters design to meet the way your browser displays everything, because it's what 9x% of the people use (luckily no longer the case) -> ssome people are forced to use your browser, which runs only on the OS that you sell
Before Dell started pre-installing Ubuntu last year (announced ~Feb, selling since ~May, don't quote me), the pre-installed market share was probably less than 0.1%.
I haven't RTFA, but if it's really true, it is a big deal.
Don't know about others from the "a lot" group, but in Poland we use "," instead of ".", as in "Pi is approximately equal to 3,14159". Sometimes it can be a major PITA, when you get some data in one format and have to manually convert it to the other, so that it's recognized as a number.
We don't use anything instead of your use of ",", though. American "I have 1,000,000 pencils" would be "I have 1000000 pencils" or "I have 1 000 000 pencils".
You just have do draw a line somewhere. I for one always have some garlic, a crucifix and a wooden stake in the glove compartment, even though it's quite possible I'll never need them.
You don't and I'm not gonna hold it against you. I'm not even going to say your car isn't properly equipped.
Who knew Debian stable was so bleeding edge all these years (my grandma says "decades")?
Dude, you owe me some those 2 secods that I spent on copying and pasting.
Yeah, the point is that we're wasting thousands of hours of work because IE almost gets those points.
I think I can safely assume I speak for everyone who has anything to do with web design when I say I have a really hard time refraining from swearing like a sailor when I speak about IE.