Firefox??? ooooh yeah, I remember now. I thought it went the way of Netscape, didn't know people actually still used it today.
OMG, yer so funny! Or you would be, if Firefox didn't have the biggest share of the browswer market aside from M$ IE, 23%-35%, depending on who you believe. That's quite a bit more than Chrome, Safari, Opera and Konqueror combined. And Firefox has increased its market share every calendar year since it came out, perhaps with the exception of this year. But yeah,no one uses it, lol.
People still use Konqueror? Even if I was running Linux, I'd be using Chrome, or Firefox, or Opera..
No, I think you have been misinformed. No one is still using Konqueror because no one ever used it in the first place. A lot of us linux users prefer Gnome to KDE, and even a ton of us who use KDE insist on something more "mainstream," like Firefox, Chrome or Opera, which are all better options, in my opinion. Konqueror's overall penetration of the web browser market is probably negligible, as its influence on the competition.
Konquerer is sort of like a NASAR Sprint Cup car - fast, but not the best tool for most jobs, and more of a novelty than something I'd want to drive every day. Some people love each of this things, and I think most of these people are silly, uneducated, and love to ignore the real world.
Why is the promoter or whomever even bothering to do this, all ridiculous legal implications aside? A lot of festivals explicitly allow open taping, even today. And when people trade live "bootlegs," they usually do just that, trade, or give copies away. Festival tapers generally do not cash in on their recordings, nor could they if they wanted to since there is basically no market for these recordings. Sure, if the promoters sell high-quality recordings done from the sound board, they might make a few bucks after the bands and their labels take their cut, but not much, and evil bootleggers are of no competitive concern.
I think there's a "Soviet Russia" joke here somewhere, but this is so ridiculous and ass-backwards that I won't even try to figure it out. Any judge that allows something like this to proceed is truly a joke himself.
Or when the professor takes a leave of abscence, the course is a "deversity" requirement, and the new surprise instructor is an admitted feminist who talks openly about her personal problems and hates young men. Yes, this happened to me, and I recieved a 17 (as in 17%) on the first exam of the semester, which was short-answer and essay based. I expected a B or a C, as it was not my best subject, but I was a good student. Due to numerous complaints, the part-time instructor was not asked to return. My money would have been lost if I had wagered on my grade, since I withdrew from the class before being cornered into an unfairly poor grade. Clearly there are more factors involved than just studying hard, so this is definitely gambling, unless the grading is 100% objective, which is rarely the case, especially with more advanced coursework.
Dear NAMCO,
You are irrelevant, and your Pac-man brand is dead (your bad, evolve and keep releasing, or die). No one is trying to rip you off, nor does anyone want to. Get over yourselves.
I've said it a thousand times, and I'll say it again: the statistics that the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, etc. claim are misleading, and very wrong. They are drawing conclusions that suite their cause (wallets), not getting to the root of things. I do not condone outright piracy and counterfeiting, though hopefully this explains some of it. They count every instance of and illegal or unauthorized copy being transferred as a lost sale, or a net loss. This is not so, and I contend that most downloads or sales of cheap counterfeit merchandise are in fact a direct result of ridiculously high prices for legitimate items, rather than a cause of high prices.
Back in the days of cassettes and when VHS was king, I used to get all sorts of things from the local library. I'd often dub copies for myself and return the borrowed copy almost immediately. When we all transitioned to CDs, I kept up this practice. I was also known to download a fairly hefty amount of software from local BBS's, and later the internet. My reason for doing this? I simply could not afford to spend $12 on a tape I wasn't sure I'd even like, $15+ for a CD that might include one song I liked, or $20-$30 for a movie I'd watch once or twice then stick on a shelf. Buy a shirt, a hammer, or a TV, or a pizza that turns out to be crap? You can return it for a refund. Not so with music, movies, software, etc., even if it doesn't work right (in the case of lots of software and computer games). Nearly everyone has bought a CD they don't like, and they are all screwed.
So perhaps downloading, torrents, and p2p file transfers are rampant. I'm sure of it. But much of this is due to high prices and the flooding of the music/movie/software markets with utter crap. Were the opportunity to download for free not there, most of these unauthorized downloads would absolutely NOT translate into sales. I buy a few CDs a year to support my favorite few artists, as I have for the past 15+ years, which is what I can afford to buy. Yes, I download more than that, but if I couldn't, I still would not buy more. I did not buy movies before I could download them, and I never will - not enough re-use value. Software? I use linux and almost strictly free software now, and have no need for windows junk. A lot of people are like me, too.
At the annual SIGGRAPH show, Microsoft Research showed new technology that can remove the blur from images on your camera or phone using on-board sensors -- the same sensors currently added to the iPhone 4. No more blurry low light photos!
Uh, what? No more blurry low light photos... if you can get your Apple phone to work with Microsoft technology!
Apparently, here in the brave new world of the 21st century, every relative has to work in order to pay off the credit cards and cell phone bill, so there's insufficient personnel to staff these "families".
Well, for a lot of us working is not about credit cards and cell phone bills. Some people lost their "good" jobs when the housing industry and the economy tanked, and are forced to work two really crappy ones (those of us that can even get them), just to make ends meet and not lose our modest homes. (And, for the record, giving up my home is not an option, as my mortgage payment is less than what I'd pay for a halfway decent apartment) I'd love to take care of my mom all day, but if I did, I'd have to move into her tiny house (because I'd lose my house, which she can't get around in because of all the stairs), and YOU'D be paying for me to eat and go to the doctor, because I would have no income. Now, if we had universal healthcare, reasonably priced education (I'll probably be paying for college forever), and any ability to recover after losing jobs and our credit ratings getting screwed (which, ironically, hurts when looking for a good job, which would allow us to fix things), then our families might have the ability to care for our elderly again.
Oh yeah, and if veeryone didn't live for 30-40 years after retiring, and modern medicine didn't keep people hanging on by a thread when they have no business being alive, unlike back in the goold ole days you speak of, this would all be lot more likely. Times change, we don't all have 12 kids, sit around the fire after dinner, reading our one book by the light of the candle we made, and die of disease by age 45. Families have changed, too.
Found some science in Caddy Shack, have you? That's great. A popular urban legend holds that the movie contains some humor, but I haven't been able to locate anything very funny.
No, he's saying that all of the otherwise-reputable companies he trusts have been letting him down lately because of their poor internet security. Facebook? Sucks. Hell Pizza? A big chain, i presume, and sucky security, obviously. Twitter? I don't know, but I don't trust them with anything important. Lots of banks, a ton of universities, and many other entities of various sizes expose you to risks such as identity theft. Strong, unique passwords are a no-brainer, but you can't protect yourself if the sites you trust expose your info to every script kiddie and 1337 hax0r who comes along. But I suppose knowing who the "celebrity" (quotes because we are talking about New Zealand) is, and thus how likely to be targeted he or she is.
73% of iPhone owners scored their satisfaction with the carrier as an 8, 9, or 10 on a 10-point scale.
Well, duh, of course the results of their unscientific survey look that way - this does not take into account all of the people in bad AT&T service areas who have already given up, sold their iPhoneies on eBay, and switched to another carrier - it was a survey of current iphone users. It also doesn't account for all of the iphone owners who were unable to respond because they couldn't connect, nor the fact that there are lots of morons who keep using crap because the don't know that there are better options, or simply can't admit that what they have isn't awesome.
It is simply factual that AT&T's network doesn't have a great enough capacity in many cities, and that their 3G footprint is not as big as Verizon's (not that I would ever promote Verizon).
This is absolute crap argument, death grip does not cause iPhone to drop calls, it is fully capable of dropping calls without it.
Yes, and the counter-argument that lots of other phones are affected by the death grip is also a bit misleading. Apparently many other phones are indeed also negatively impacted by death grips, but I tried it a bunch of times with my G1, and even the completely unnatural grip that made it lose a bar could NOT make it drop a call. A faraday cage preventing the most anticipated phone of 2010 from working properly would not be a shock, but the same phone dropping calls because "you're holding it wrong," is utterly ridiculous.
The games: cool, if that's what you want. The apps: amazing. The screen and aesthetics: fantastic. But if it can't make simple phone calls as well as my Nokia 5110 from 1999, it is pretty damned useless. And hilarious.
All jokes aside, commercial hemp has more applications then just narcotics/psychoactive.
Yeah, we all know all about the numerous non-munchies inducing uses for hemp. Weed has other uses, we get it. But the fiber argument is usually a justification or excuse to legalize growing for all intents and purposes, put forth by people who just want to get high. That's fine, too. I have no problem with any responsible adult toking up at home, but these folks should just admit that their quest isn't about rope (with an "r").
And as for the Oakland deal, that is about marijuana that will be sold for profit largely to people with phony medical "needs." Oaktown is not trying to woo paper companies, they're trying to give people what they want, eliminate some of the shady criminal element from the equation (weed is still the bread and butter product for most drug dealers, but who will mess with those characters if they can get some smoke from a store, safely and cheaply, and make some much-needed money.
Now, if large scale growing is approved, it probably won't be long before the DEA, ATF, and FBI are on the scene shutting them down. They still go after big fish, and the last time I checked, Federal law still supersedes state and local law, even in "The 'Land" (and Arizona).
The reason why the Nexus One failed is because it was so damned expensive out of pocket.
That's certainly a part of the reason - people (at least in the US, I can't speak for folks elsewhere) are used to getting "free" phones, or shelling out $100-$200. Can we get cheaper monthly airtime/data plans without a subsidized phone?
Also, the Nexus One is not exactly drop-dead gorgeous; it looks nice, but not as sleek as say, the iphoney or the Droid Incredible. I'm also not sure the advertising and exposure were great enough. Yes, geeks all knew about it, but I have never once heard anyone (heard, as in mention verbally, out loud in person) mention anything about it. Did people know it existed? Did they have any clue what networks it would work with, considering we aren't used to non-carrier specific advertising?
I would love to have one, and would have bought one if:
1. It were a bit cheaper
2. My G1 was a bit older when the Nexus One came out
3. It had a keyboard - I have large hands and hate touchscreen keyboards.
4. I knew it would work well on T-Mobile's network. Will it?
Of course not. I like talapia with a little butter (unsalted), pepper, and lime juice, or a bit of black bean salsa if I have some around. Grilled salmon needs no salt. My fresh-caught walleye and yellow perch get dipped in egg wash and bread crumbs, then fried, no salt added. Bad analogy, since lots of fish can be fine without salt but the potatoes in question will likely still need salt to please most people, as more common varieties of spuds do.
Yeah, it sounds like a useful technology, very interesting... until one of the numerous components in the system fails. Too many potential failure points for such a critical system. Will the tiles be effective if the gas system goes non-op?
I recently (as in last week) purchased an original Apple// analogue joystick at auction on eBay, and I plan on building an Apple-joystick-port-to-USB-human-interface-device adapter circuit using a microcontroller such as the Microchip PIC. Should be straight forward, and if I am successful I will publish a how-to online, with schematics, parts list, microcontroller source code and Gerber data for the PCBs. Wish me luck!
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I almost forgot, here's a graph of Internet Explorer's market share since 2005:
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And Firefox market share since 2005:
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(Note that the trends are correct, though not to scale.)
Firefox??? ooooh yeah, I remember now. I thought it went the way of Netscape, didn't know people actually still used it today.
OMG, yer so funny! Or you would be, if Firefox didn't have the biggest share of the browswer market aside from M$ IE, 23%-35%, depending on who you believe. That's quite a bit more than Chrome, Safari, Opera and Konqueror combined. And Firefox has increased its market share every calendar year since it came out, perhaps with the exception of this year. But yeah,no one uses it, lol.
People still use Konqueror? Even if I was running Linux, I'd be using Chrome, or Firefox, or Opera..
No, I think you have been misinformed. No one is still using Konqueror because no one ever used it in the first place. A lot of us linux users prefer Gnome to KDE, and even a ton of us who use KDE insist on something more "mainstream," like Firefox, Chrome or Opera, which are all better options, in my opinion. Konqueror's overall penetration of the web browser market is probably negligible, as its influence on the competition.
Konquerer is sort of like a NASAR Sprint Cup car - fast, but not the best tool for most jobs, and more of a novelty than something I'd want to drive every day. Some people love each of this things, and I think most of these people are silly, uneducated, and love to ignore the real world.
Why is the promoter or whomever even bothering to do this, all ridiculous legal implications aside? A lot of festivals explicitly allow open taping, even today. And when people trade live "bootlegs," they usually do just that, trade, or give copies away. Festival tapers generally do not cash in on their recordings, nor could they if they wanted to since there is basically no market for these recordings. Sure, if the promoters sell high-quality recordings done from the sound board, they might make a few bucks after the bands and their labels take their cut, but not much, and evil bootleggers are of no competitive concern.
I think there's a "Soviet Russia" joke here somewhere, but this is so ridiculous and ass-backwards that I won't even try to figure it out. Any judge that allows something like this to proceed is truly a joke himself.
Or when the professor takes a leave of abscence, the course is a "deversity" requirement, and the new surprise instructor is an admitted feminist who talks openly about her personal problems and hates young men. Yes, this happened to me, and I recieved a 17 (as in 17%) on the first exam of the semester, which was short-answer and essay based. I expected a B or a C, as it was not my best subject, but I was a good student. Due to numerous complaints, the part-time instructor was not asked to return. My money would have been lost if I had wagered on my grade, since I withdrew from the class before being cornered into an unfairly poor grade. Clearly there are more factors involved than just studying hard, so this is definitely gambling, unless the grading is 100% objective, which is rarely the case, especially with more advanced coursework.
Dear NAMCO,
You are irrelevant, and your Pac-man brand is dead (your bad, evolve and keep releasing, or die). No one is trying to rip you off, nor does anyone want to. Get over yourselves.
Sincerely,
Everyone
I've said it a thousand times, and I'll say it again: the statistics that the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, etc. claim are misleading, and very wrong. They are drawing conclusions that suite their cause (wallets), not getting to the root of things. I do not condone outright piracy and counterfeiting, though hopefully this explains some of it. They count every instance of and illegal or unauthorized copy being transferred as a lost sale, or a net loss. This is not so, and I contend that most downloads or sales of cheap counterfeit merchandise are in fact a direct result of ridiculously high prices for legitimate items, rather than a cause of high prices.
Back in the days of cassettes and when VHS was king, I used to get all sorts of things from the local library. I'd often dub copies for myself and return the borrowed copy almost immediately. When we all transitioned to CDs, I kept up this practice. I was also known to download a fairly hefty amount of software from local BBS's, and later the internet. My reason for doing this? I simply could not afford to spend $12 on a tape I wasn't sure I'd even like, $15+ for a CD that might include one song I liked, or $20-$30 for a movie I'd watch once or twice then stick on a shelf. Buy a shirt, a hammer, or a TV, or a pizza that turns out to be crap? You can return it for a refund. Not so with music, movies, software, etc., even if it doesn't work right (in the case of lots of software and computer games). Nearly everyone has bought a CD they don't like, and they are all screwed.
So perhaps downloading, torrents, and p2p file transfers are rampant. I'm sure of it. But much of this is due to high prices and the flooding of the music/movie/software markets with utter crap. Were the opportunity to download for free not there, most of these unauthorized downloads would absolutely NOT translate into sales. I buy a few CDs a year to support my favorite few artists, as I have for the past 15+ years, which is what I can afford to buy. Yes, I download more than that, but if I couldn't, I still would not buy more. I did not buy movies before I could download them, and I never will - not enough re-use value. Software? I use linux and almost strictly free software now, and have no need for windows junk. A lot of people are like me, too.
At the annual SIGGRAPH show, Microsoft Research showed new technology that can remove the blur from images on your camera or phone using on-board sensors -- the same sensors currently added to the iPhone 4. No more blurry low light photos!
Uh, what? No more blurry low light photos... if you can get your Apple phone to work with Microsoft technology!
Apparently, here in the brave new world of the 21st century, every relative has to work in order to pay off the credit cards and cell phone bill, so there's insufficient personnel to staff these "families".
Well, for a lot of us working is not about credit cards and cell phone bills. Some people lost their "good" jobs when the housing industry and the economy tanked, and are forced to work two really crappy ones (those of us that can even get them), just to make ends meet and not lose our modest homes. (And, for the record, giving up my home is not an option, as my mortgage payment is less than what I'd pay for a halfway decent apartment) I'd love to take care of my mom all day, but if I did, I'd have to move into her tiny house (because I'd lose my house, which she can't get around in because of all the stairs), and YOU'D be paying for me to eat and go to the doctor, because I would have no income. Now, if we had universal healthcare, reasonably priced education (I'll probably be paying for college forever), and any ability to recover after losing jobs and our credit ratings getting screwed (which, ironically, hurts when looking for a good job, which would allow us to fix things), then our families might have the ability to care for our elderly again.
Oh yeah, and if veeryone didn't live for 30-40 years after retiring, and modern medicine didn't keep people hanging on by a thread when they have no business being alive, unlike back in the goold ole days you speak of, this would all be lot more likely. Times change, we don't all have 12 kids, sit around the fire after dinner, reading our one book by the light of the candle we made, and die of disease by age 45. Families have changed, too.
Found some science in Caddy Shack, have you? That's great. A popular urban legend holds that the movie contains some humor, but I haven't been able to locate anything very funny.
So, thank god you're like the other 99.6% of the world, and you DON'T live in New Zealand.
I will get my ass of your lawn immediately, SIR!!!!
No, he's saying that all of the otherwise-reputable companies he trusts have been letting him down lately because of their poor internet security. Facebook? Sucks. Hell Pizza? A big chain, i presume, and sucky security, obviously. Twitter? I don't know, but I don't trust them with anything important. Lots of banks, a ton of universities, and many other entities of various sizes expose you to risks such as identity theft. Strong, unique passwords are a no-brainer, but you can't protect yourself if the sites you trust expose your info to every script kiddie and 1337 hax0r who comes along. But I suppose knowing who the "celebrity" (quotes because we are talking about New Zealand) is, and thus how likely to be targeted he or she is.
Uh... oh yeah, you mean "security audits." Yeah, uh, sure, we do that.
73% of iPhone owners scored their satisfaction with the carrier as an 8, 9, or 10 on a 10-point scale.
Well, duh, of course the results of their unscientific survey look that way - this does not take into account all of the people in bad AT&T service areas who have already given up, sold their iPhoneies on eBay, and switched to another carrier - it was a survey of current iphone users. It also doesn't account for all of the iphone owners who were unable to respond because they couldn't connect, nor the fact that there are lots of morons who keep using crap because the don't know that there are better options, or simply can't admit that what they have isn't awesome.
It is simply factual that AT&T's network doesn't have a great enough capacity in many cities, and that their 3G footprint is not as big as Verizon's (not that I would ever promote Verizon).
Haha, now come on, what do you really use it for? Everyone knows there were never any Mac games and you had to buy a Wintel machine.
This is absolute crap argument, death grip does not cause iPhone to drop calls, it is fully capable of dropping calls without it.
Yes, and the counter-argument that lots of other phones are affected by the death grip is also a bit misleading. Apparently many other phones are indeed also negatively impacted by death grips, but I tried it a bunch of times with my G1, and even the completely unnatural grip that made it lose a bar could NOT make it drop a call. A faraday cage preventing the most anticipated phone of 2010 from working properly would not be a shock, but the same phone dropping calls because "you're holding it wrong," is utterly ridiculous.
The games: cool, if that's what you want. The apps: amazing. The screen and aesthetics: fantastic. But if it can't make simple phone calls as well as my Nokia 5110 from 1999, it is pretty damned useless. And hilarious.
All jokes aside, commercial hemp has more applications then just narcotics/psychoactive.
Yeah, we all know all about the numerous non-munchies inducing uses for hemp. Weed has other uses, we get it. But the fiber argument is usually a justification or excuse to legalize growing for all intents and purposes, put forth by people who just want to get high. That's fine, too. I have no problem with any responsible adult toking up at home, but these folks should just admit that their quest isn't about rope (with an "r").
And as for the Oakland deal, that is about marijuana that will be sold for profit largely to people with phony medical "needs." Oaktown is not trying to woo paper companies, they're trying to give people what they want, eliminate some of the shady criminal element from the equation (weed is still the bread and butter product for most drug dealers, but who will mess with those characters if they can get some smoke from a store, safely and cheaply, and make some much-needed money.
Now, if large scale growing is approved, it probably won't be long before the DEA, ATF, and FBI are on the scene shutting them down. They still go after big fish, and the last time I checked, Federal law still supersedes state and local law, even in "The 'Land" (and Arizona).
Dude, the universe is a big place.
Nah, it can't be that big, or else how could the multiverse host infinite universes?
That's certainly a part of the reason - people (at least in the US, I can't speak for folks elsewhere) are used to getting "free" phones, or shelling out $100-$200. Can we get cheaper monthly airtime/data plans without a subsidized phone?
Also, the Nexus One is not exactly drop-dead gorgeous; it looks nice, but not as sleek as say, the iphoney or the Droid Incredible. I'm also not sure the advertising and exposure were great enough. Yes, geeks all knew about it, but I have never once heard anyone (heard, as in mention verbally, out loud in person) mention anything about it. Did people know it existed? Did they have any clue what networks it would work with, considering we aren't used to non-carrier specific advertising?
I would love to have one, and would have bought one if:
1. It were a bit cheaper
2. My G1 was a bit older when the Nexus One came out
3. It had a keyboard - I have large hands and hate touchscreen keyboards.
4. I knew it would work well on T-Mobile's network. Will it?
Do you put salt on your fish?
Of course not. I like talapia with a little butter (unsalted), pepper, and lime juice, or a bit of black bean salsa if I have some around. Grilled salmon needs no salt. My fresh-caught walleye and yellow perch get dipped in egg wash and bread crumbs, then fried, no salt added. Bad analogy, since lots of fish can be fine without salt but the potatoes in question will likely still need salt to please most people, as more common varieties of spuds do.
Yeah, it sounds like a useful technology, very interesting... until one of the numerous components in the system fails. Too many potential failure points for such a critical system. Will the tiles be effective if the gas system goes non-op?
I recently (as in last week) purchased an original Apple // analogue joystick at auction on eBay, and I plan on building an Apple-joystick-port-to-USB-human-interface-device adapter circuit using a microcontroller such as the Microchip PIC. Should be straight forward, and if I am successful I will publish a how-to online, with schematics, parts list, microcontroller source code and Gerber data for the PCBs. Wish me luck!
Luck? I am wishing you a girlfriend.