That hasn't been the case with previous releases. Part of which is the result of MS not offering the latest IE to older OSes. Right now even if I wanted to I couldn't install IE9 because it isn't supported by XP. Also it's far more likely for users of IE to be tied into a corporate application which requires IE6. (Though technically not as true as it used to be Browsium)
I predict that within the next few months the number of users still on something prior to Firefox 4 will drop to under 20% and keep dropping. At least that's the way it has been in the past, and this is a much better release than they've had in a while.
I don't think that it would be healthy for the net to rise much about that 30-35% range. One of the problems that Firefox had to address early on was the after math of one of the two browsers losing the battle for market share. At least with 3 dominant browsers you'd be in a much better situation trying to claw back in.
The problem is that having people avoid the checks doesn't imply that fewer people are going to be drinking and driving. It's just as likely that it means that the same people who were drinking and driving will take an alternate route home in order to bypass the check points.
It's the probably of an area where there are no arrests, it could be that no crimes are being committed or it could be that there just aren't any arrests of people that do commit crimes.
Around here in WA state we have those adverts to that say that they'll be stepping up enforcement actions during particular weekends where DUI related fatalities are more common, but they do not tell you where the checkpoints are going to be because they want people to avoid the DUI ticket by taking a cab or otherwise not driving under the influence.
To be fair, you can only depress the price of a good or service so much by offshoring work, at some point you need to find something else to do, and lowering executive pay packages doesn't count.
Actually, in the film industry that's a really big deal. It's tough enough to make the jump from supporting actor to lead or bigger parts without somebody stealing lines. Depending upon ones luck, that can very easily kill a career.
Nice to see that the trolls about the fictitious memory leaks aren't deterred by the problem having been fixed quite a few revisions ago. I've never seen Firefox 4.0 use more than 400mb ever, and even then it was due to an extension with a memory leak. As soon as I got rid of that the memory usage maxed out at a respectable 250mb.
Perhaps in the US, but given the greed and incompetence of our politicians it was essentially dead years ago. The governor of WA had to refuse further shipments of nuclear waste to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation until the feds actually cleaned it up. As it was much of the waste was sitting in leaking containers and leaching into the ground water.
We have largely been stuck with it since the Manhattan project back in the 40s as it was the source of the first full scale plutonium reactor in the world.
You pay a significant premium for tiny. By your logic, netbooks should cost $500 minimum because they've got a larger screen than a smartphone. It doesn't work that way, turning a $200 netbook into a $300 tablet ought not be anywhere near as impossible as you're suggesting.
That power is already used. So, unless this blocks enough light that people have to start turning on lights because of it, it's a gain. Which is to say it'll reduce the amount of electricity that the building uses.
Naming rights on a building after it's completed is completely stupid. One of our local buildings has been renamed several times, and you find people referring to it by all of those names, even though the most recent naming is back to what it was originally and was nearly a decade ago.
Personally, I refuse to call it anything other than the Sears Tower, just because I think it's asinine to rename a world renowned landmark.
Eh, just make them draw their own video games and have their friend play the bad guys. I know that worked really well when I was a kid. Sigh, kids today have no idea how good they've got it. I remember wasting hours of Vanguard and all sorts of primitive by today's standards games.
I'm not sure about that, but I remember years ago learning HTML and it being considered best practice to specify dimensions on all images so that the browser new what space to reserve so that people could start reading whilst the pages loaded. It was relatively obvious back in days when it could take a long time for even a small page to finish loading.
That's 3G only, the rest of the features work just fine. But if AT&T buys out T-Mobile, then having a T-Mobile handset would be an advantage for when you get subjected to those ridiculous bandwidth caps.
The issue is that there's not really much difference between the carriers. You've got Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. That's about it, and for the most part they're in a competition to figure out who can cheat the consumer out of the most money while providing the lowest quality service.
Then there's the people who didn't choose AT&T, but got sucked up when AT&T bought their carrier and for whatever reason didn't see any of the other providers as being any better.
Dr. Matloff's assertion is utter crap! US students aren't pursuing "STEM" careers because one needs to pay a fortune in college tuition to make a mediocre salary. Why bother? Also, nerdy "STEM" careers aren't cool/trendy/whatever.
US culture doesn't value "STEM" careers. Why should US citizens go against their own culture?
You don't think that this might be a significant part of how a society values something? Plus, it's not against our culture, it's against the culture of a bunch of small minded imbeciles that can't cope with the fact that climate change is heavily impacted by human development and that evolution in some form is definitely real, even if we haven't completely nailed the mechanics of it.
That's sort of the problem. At the end of the day, no matter how fulfilling a vocation is, if it doesn't put food on the table and a roof over your head, it's not a viable career path. Which is something that has largely been forgotten in recent years by the people running the government. It's an absolute joke that it's considered reasonable to entrust multi-billion dollar buildings to people that are barely able to pay their bills not to mention all the projects which are done on the cheap because the public doesn't want to pay the real costs of the construction.
It would be nice to have a job that's fulfilling and valuable, but at the end of the day, there just isn't enough support for some jobs to make getting the qualifications worthwhile.
It's not shortsighted, what percentage of the total number that we've imported with the H-1B visas have gone on to such heights? And how many Americans have gone onto do significant things in the field? The point is that by drowning out the homegrown talent with such wage depressing strategies you end up with an equally short sighted situation where there's a disincentive to Americans to even bother to try, because it's not cost effective to get the degrees necessary to compete.
Plus, what about the other folks like Einstein and Werner von Braun who were already hot shots when they immigrated here? It must be possible to come up with a reasonable compromise where they have to come under the normal process unless they really are filling a position which would otherwise go unfilled.
The difference is that it would reach a natural equilibrium. A lot of the workers coming in from other parts of the world are being shipped in specifically because they can afford to work for less than what a citizen could. Which is a really substantial problem, you can only afford to lower your wage expectations so far before you're looking at bankruptcy.
Plus, it's a lot harder to manage the education system if you don't know how much demand theirs going to be for a given occupation in the future. It's hard enough without having to predict how many people are going to be brought in to depress wages.
That says more about the work conditions than anything else. I would personally prefer to work for the same company for the rest of my career. The problem is that most companies don't give out raises sufficient to keep up any more, and if you want to get your fair value you're stuck hopping from job to job every few years. And that's assuming that the company even follows relevant pay and safety regulations. I quit my previous job because it was getting more and more dangerous and they weren't even bothering to ensure that my paycheck was right.
It's about backing the information up. At this point. I rarely if ever actually watch most of my movies, for the simple reason that I tend to just let the TV do the deciding for me. Plus, I've got Netflix which provides a pretty substantial amount of movies and TV shows that I might want to watch whenever I like. But, having it on your computer is more convenient at times, and if you're going to have copies for backup, you might as well have the ability to keep track of them.
Plus, sometimes you just get a hankering for a movie like the Matrix, or a particular scene out of the movie, and having the disc on your HDD makes that a lot more convenient.
I tend to do this, but it's largely because I like to have a backup of my media. Just because the RIAA wants me to buy another copy of my CDs and such if my house burns down, doesn't make that reasonable. They've got their money and I personally see no reason why I should have to buy another copy when I could just load up my backups.
Plus, it doesn't take that much time once you've got the bulk archived and some sort of strategy in place.
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That hasn't been the case with previous releases. Part of which is the result of MS not offering the latest IE to older OSes. Right now even if I wanted to I couldn't install IE9 because it isn't supported by XP. Also it's far more likely for users of IE to be tied into a corporate application which requires IE6. (Though technically not as true as it used to be Browsium)
I predict that within the next few months the number of users still on something prior to Firefox 4 will drop to under 20% and keep dropping. At least that's the way it has been in the past, and this is a much better release than they've had in a while.
I don't think that it would be healthy for the net to rise much about that 30-35% range. One of the problems that Firefox had to address early on was the after math of one of the two browsers losing the battle for market share. At least with 3 dominant browsers you'd be in a much better situation trying to claw back in.
The problem is that having people avoid the checks doesn't imply that fewer people are going to be drinking and driving. It's just as likely that it means that the same people who were drinking and driving will take an alternate route home in order to bypass the check points.
It's the probably of an area where there are no arrests, it could be that no crimes are being committed or it could be that there just aren't any arrests of people that do commit crimes.
Around here in WA state we have those adverts to that say that they'll be stepping up enforcement actions during particular weekends where DUI related fatalities are more common, but they do not tell you where the checkpoints are going to be because they want people to avoid the DUI ticket by taking a cab or otherwise not driving under the influence.
To be fair, you can only depress the price of a good or service so much by offshoring work, at some point you need to find something else to do, and lowering executive pay packages doesn't count.
Actually, in the film industry that's a really big deal. It's tough enough to make the jump from supporting actor to lead or bigger parts without somebody stealing lines. Depending upon ones luck, that can very easily kill a career.
Doubtful, few ISPs are stupid enough to throttle those tools.
As usually a brief case left with Honest Abe will certainly fix the problem.
OTOH, if we're lucky like AOL it will attract the dim and mentally feeble allowing the rest of us to get on in peace.
OTOOH we already have a page like that: lol cats
Nice to see that the trolls about the fictitious memory leaks aren't deterred by the problem having been fixed quite a few revisions ago. I've never seen Firefox 4.0 use more than 400mb ever, and even then it was due to an extension with a memory leak. As soon as I got rid of that the memory usage maxed out at a respectable 250mb.
Perhaps in the US, but given the greed and incompetence of our politicians it was essentially dead years ago. The governor of WA had to refuse further shipments of nuclear waste to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation until the feds actually cleaned it up. As it was much of the waste was sitting in leaking containers and leaching into the ground water.
We have largely been stuck with it since the Manhattan project back in the 40s as it was the source of the first full scale plutonium reactor in the world.
And as long as nobody strokes George Lucas we should be fine. Pre-prequel trilogy anyone?
You pay a significant premium for tiny. By your logic, netbooks should cost $500 minimum because they've got a larger screen than a smartphone. It doesn't work that way, turning a $200 netbook into a $300 tablet ought not be anywhere near as impossible as you're suggesting.
That power is already used. So, unless this blocks enough light that people have to start turning on lights because of it, it's a gain. Which is to say it'll reduce the amount of electricity that the building uses.
Naming rights on a building after it's completed is completely stupid. One of our local buildings has been renamed several times, and you find people referring to it by all of those names, even though the most recent naming is back to what it was originally and was nearly a decade ago.
Personally, I refuse to call it anything other than the Sears Tower, just because I think it's asinine to rename a world renowned landmark.
Eh, just make them draw their own video games and have their friend play the bad guys. I know that worked really well when I was a kid. Sigh, kids today have no idea how good they've got it. I remember wasting hours of Vanguard and all sorts of primitive by today's standards games.
I'm not sure about that, but I remember years ago learning HTML and it being considered best practice to specify dimensions on all images so that the browser new what space to reserve so that people could start reading whilst the pages loaded. It was relatively obvious back in days when it could take a long time for even a small page to finish loading.
That's 3G only, the rest of the features work just fine. But if AT&T buys out T-Mobile, then having a T-Mobile handset would be an advantage for when you get subjected to those ridiculous bandwidth caps.
The issue is that there's not really much difference between the carriers. You've got Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. That's about it, and for the most part they're in a competition to figure out who can cheat the consumer out of the most money while providing the lowest quality service.
Then there's the people who didn't choose AT&T, but got sucked up when AT&T bought their carrier and for whatever reason didn't see any of the other providers as being any better.
Dr. Matloff's assertion is utter crap! US students aren't pursuing "STEM" careers because one needs to pay a fortune in college tuition to make a mediocre salary. Why bother? Also, nerdy "STEM" careers aren't cool/trendy/whatever.
US culture doesn't value "STEM" careers. Why should US citizens go against their own culture?
You don't think that this might be a significant part of how a society values something? Plus, it's not against our culture, it's against the culture of a bunch of small minded imbeciles that can't cope with the fact that climate change is heavily impacted by human development and that evolution in some form is definitely real, even if we haven't completely nailed the mechanics of it.
That's sort of the problem. At the end of the day, no matter how fulfilling a vocation is, if it doesn't put food on the table and a roof over your head, it's not a viable career path. Which is something that has largely been forgotten in recent years by the people running the government. It's an absolute joke that it's considered reasonable to entrust multi-billion dollar buildings to people that are barely able to pay their bills not to mention all the projects which are done on the cheap because the public doesn't want to pay the real costs of the construction.
It would be nice to have a job that's fulfilling and valuable, but at the end of the day, there just isn't enough support for some jobs to make getting the qualifications worthwhile.
It's not shortsighted, what percentage of the total number that we've imported with the H-1B visas have gone on to such heights? And how many Americans have gone onto do significant things in the field? The point is that by drowning out the homegrown talent with such wage depressing strategies you end up with an equally short sighted situation where there's a disincentive to Americans to even bother to try, because it's not cost effective to get the degrees necessary to compete.
Plus, what about the other folks like Einstein and Werner von Braun who were already hot shots when they immigrated here? It must be possible to come up with a reasonable compromise where they have to come under the normal process unless they really are filling a position which would otherwise go unfilled.
The difference is that it would reach a natural equilibrium. A lot of the workers coming in from other parts of the world are being shipped in specifically because they can afford to work for less than what a citizen could. Which is a really substantial problem, you can only afford to lower your wage expectations so far before you're looking at bankruptcy.
Plus, it's a lot harder to manage the education system if you don't know how much demand theirs going to be for a given occupation in the future. It's hard enough without having to predict how many people are going to be brought in to depress wages.
That says more about the work conditions than anything else. I would personally prefer to work for the same company for the rest of my career. The problem is that most companies don't give out raises sufficient to keep up any more, and if you want to get your fair value you're stuck hopping from job to job every few years. And that's assuming that the company even follows relevant pay and safety regulations. I quit my previous job because it was getting more and more dangerous and they weren't even bothering to ensure that my paycheck was right.
It's about backing the information up. At this point. I rarely if ever actually watch most of my movies, for the simple reason that I tend to just let the TV do the deciding for me. Plus, I've got Netflix which provides a pretty substantial amount of movies and TV shows that I might want to watch whenever I like. But, having it on your computer is more convenient at times, and if you're going to have copies for backup, you might as well have the ability to keep track of them.
Plus, sometimes you just get a hankering for a movie like the Matrix, or a particular scene out of the movie, and having the disc on your HDD makes that a lot more convenient.
I tend to do this, but it's largely because I like to have a backup of my media. Just because the RIAA wants me to buy another copy of my CDs and such if my house burns down, doesn't make that reasonable. They've got their money and I personally see no reason why I should have to buy another copy when I could just load up my backups.
Plus, it doesn't take that much time once you've got the bulk archived and some sort of strategy in place.