Speaking of gravity (I know this would be a big rehash), isn't it funny that every planet the intrepid explorers (in most of the Sci-Fi movies) land on has a permissibly breathable atmosphere and a gravitational pull equal to that on earth (or home planet)? Even the 'small planet' of Tatooine or Naboo has the same gravity. Even the same ambient temperatures (except for the snow-filled planet, of course, where the native animals' innards are surprisingly warm, and it snows - I wonder how the water evaporates).
The native creatures aren't usually scared of the aliens. They don't welcome them open-armed either. You can find palatable (and hopefully non-toxic) food everywhere. (Yechch, I am a born vegetarian).
Oh, by the way, I am a big Star Wars fan - I watched the first two releases when I was too young for such observations.
-> People like me forcing everybody around to switch, by installing from my downloaded installer?
-> Distributions on free CDs along with IT magazines?
Security flaws that get fixed within a day, even if they are critical, should not be used as red herrings. There would be a large number of people who haven't updated their Firefox installation just because it's too much of bandwidth. So the 'composite' argument does not hold too much of water.
With a proper campaign in semi-IT literate markets, you can achieve much greater penetration for Firefox. You just have to get the lay user overcome his/her inertia to try another browser. You might not be able to convert Opera users, but IE lock-ins are prime target. I know. I have converted many, only it doesn't show in my Spreadfirefox score.
My next target is the new IT administration team: I'll get them to install Firefox on every PC they get called to administer, at my workplace.
What should really be counted is the pagehits by FF on various mainstream sites that measure and report such things.
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Pentium, Celeron (for the red giant candidate), Xeon? And Opteron for their nearest 0 magnitude neighbour?
Speaking of gravity (I know this would be a big rehash), isn't it funny that every planet the intrepid explorers (in most of the Sci-Fi movies) land on has a permissibly breathable atmosphere and a gravitational pull equal to that on earth (or home planet)? Even the 'small planet' of Tatooine or Naboo has the same gravity. Even the same ambient temperatures (except for the snow-filled planet, of course, where the native animals' innards are surprisingly warm, and it snows - I wonder how the water evaporates).
The native creatures aren't usually scared of the aliens. They don't welcome them open-armed either. You can find palatable (and hopefully non-toxic) food everywhere. (Yechch, I am a born vegetarian).
Oh, by the way, I am a big Star Wars fan - I watched the first two releases when I was too young for such observations.
-clueless Nick
-> People like me forcing everybody around to switch, by installing from my downloaded installer? -> Distributions on free CDs along with IT magazines? Security flaws that get fixed within a day, even if they are critical, should not be used as red herrings. There would be a large number of people who haven't updated their Firefox installation just because it's too much of bandwidth. So the 'composite' argument does not hold too much of water. With a proper campaign in semi-IT literate markets, you can achieve much greater penetration for Firefox. You just have to get the lay user overcome his/her inertia to try another browser. You might not be able to convert Opera users, but IE lock-ins are prime target. I know. I have converted many, only it doesn't show in my Spreadfirefox score. My next target is the new IT administration team: I'll get them to install Firefox on every PC they get called to administer, at my workplace. What should really be counted is the pagehits by FF on various mainstream sites that measure and report such things.