Net Applications doesn't say anything about users and what they have installed or use. They look at website and which browsers people use to access them. So apparently, out of every 100 hits on the websites they monitor, less than 60 of them use IE.
So whenever you surf with Firefox, you'll be counted as a Firefox user. And when you surf with something else, they'll count your hits too and put them under some other browser.
Microsoft is desperately updating their browser to meet the same modern standards as the competition. IE9 is supposidly going to be a revolution for them, supporting all sorts of long standing stuff like SVG, CSS3, HTML5 and supporting a fast Javascript engine, which is exactly the direction in which Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera have been developing lately.
Obviously Microsoft is doing this in an attempt to gain some market share again. It's great for web developers, because they can finally start really deploying some of that shiney new tech. But in reality, most people aren't aware of these webstandards at all and aren't switching to Firefox or Chrome because MSIE doesn't support them. They're switching because other browsers are faster, more secure, less obnoxious, more cool and support more plugins and other goodies.
I don't think IE will ever be as big again as they once were, but because MS doesn't get what the root of the problem is, they're helping the web forward in the process of trying to get some users back. Which is actually great for everyone.
why are they making such a big fuss about something his doctor recommended?
Because it's a game console. You can play Zelda on it. And Mario. Playing such games doesn't have anything to do with treating the man's injury. Besides (and maybe even more important) a lot of people want a game console, like a Nintendo Wii. Giving away such devices for free when people are sick is going to make a lot of people sick.
I have seen Breaking Bad and if there's one show out there to deserve the title of "every geek's favourite non-sci-fi show" it should definately be that one! Breaking Bad is by far the most awesome thing on TV right now.
Especially the little guy shouldn't put hundreds of dollars into Adobe Flash Professional to create slow-loading, unsemantic binary blobs and call it a "website". Your customers will be much happier with a snappy search engine optimized standard-compliant HTML page, a good looking CSS stylesheet and maybe some fancy and gracefully degrading Javascript effects as icing on the cake. There are loads of freely available open source content managment systems out there with support for themes which will provide you with exactly this, for no money at all.
It seems more appealing to people who like to pretend they're not geeks, watch lots of TV, and laugh at "real geeks" for being socially inept.
Yeah, exactly. It also annoys me the "real geeks" in TBBT don't behave like real geeks at all. For example, in the first episode of TBBT the geeks boast about how many friends they have on MySpace. WTF? That's something a highschool girl would do. A real geek wouldn't be on MySpace in the first place, because they don't like giving up their privacy like that and would tell people who try to lure them into the web 2.0 social networking hype to get off their lawn.
Who is forcing anyone to use MacOS? Unlike Windows, OS X (and Linux for that matter) is used by people who actually like using it. People who don't like it, use something else. What a crazy world, eh.
The trend is to produce videos in an MP4 container using the H.264 codec. You can create and play this sort of video files with or without QuickTime, so everybody wins.
Still why can't someone buy OSX 10.6 and put it in a VM?
Because Apple is not in the business of selling operating systems, they are in the business of selling computers. If people could run Mac OS X on non-Macs, that would hurt Mac sales, virtualized or not.
A bit offtopic, but yesterday I realized that while quicktime pro can export to MP4 as well as MOV, if you want to use H264, you need to use the MOV container. Why?
That's not true at all. I have QuickTime Pro right here. When I choose "export" from the file menu, you can choose to export to an MP4 file. When you click "options", you can set the codec to H264. Here's a screenshot.
The fact you can run OS X as a guest on a Mac does not imply you are actually using Mac OS X as host OS. You can use Boot Camp to run Linux or Windows as host OS on a Mac as well. My question is: can you run OS X as a guest in such a situation, or does it only work from an OS X host OS?
Does anyone know if this works with all hosts? Can you run a virtualized Mac OS X guest on a Mac from a Windows or Linux host? Or can you just run OS X guests with an OS X host?
I don't get what they want to achieve with Silverlight. If they truly make IE9 compatible with HTML5 and offer a decent Javascript engine, what will the benefits of Silverlight be? Isn't Microsoft shooting itself in the foot with this?
Yeah, that big old monolithic kernel is really starting to pay off. Today the same collegue I was referring to in the GP wanted to install the office printer on his netbook. It's a Samsung SCX-4500W, a laser-printer connected through WiFi. On Windows, installing this baby means going through a series of installers, which you have to find on Samsungs website. Installing it in Ubuntu is a simple click on a button, as the printer is completely auto-detected and drivers are already present. It's really quite bizarre that out of all desktop operating systems, Windows is actually the one hardest for users to work with.
But by posting this article on Slashdot, we get another excuse to fight out some holy wars and rant on about various random topics involving Linux, Microsoft, Windows, OOXML and whatever you can think of. I wouldn't be suprised if somewhere in the comments people would start another browser war or say something about the ridiculous policies of Apple regarding the App Store.
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Net Applications doesn't say anything about users and what they have installed or use. They look at website and which browsers people use to access them. So apparently, out of every 100 hits on the websites they monitor, less than 60 of them use IE.
So whenever you surf with Firefox, you'll be counted as a Firefox user. And when you surf with something else, they'll count your hits too and put them under some other browser.
Microsoft is desperately updating their browser to meet the same modern standards as the competition. IE9 is supposidly going to be a revolution for them, supporting all sorts of long standing stuff like SVG, CSS3, HTML5 and supporting a fast Javascript engine, which is exactly the direction in which Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera have been developing lately.
Obviously Microsoft is doing this in an attempt to gain some market share again. It's great for web developers, because they can finally start really deploying some of that shiney new tech. But in reality, most people aren't aware of these webstandards at all and aren't switching to Firefox or Chrome because MSIE doesn't support them. They're switching because other browsers are faster, more secure, less obnoxious, more cool and support more plugins and other goodies.
I don't think IE will ever be as big again as they once were, but because MS doesn't get what the root of the problem is, they're helping the web forward in the process of trying to get some users back. Which is actually great for everyone.
Yeah, but people aren't standing in line to get crutches now, are they?
why are they making such a big fuss about something his doctor recommended?
Because it's a game console. You can play Zelda on it. And Mario. Playing such games doesn't have anything to do with treating the man's injury. Besides (and maybe even more important) a lot of people want a game console, like a Nintendo Wii. Giving away such devices for free when people are sick is going to make a lot of people sick.
I'm not saying they should condone it, but a Wii is probably a lot cheaper than any other form of treatment or medication. Just saying.
I have seen Breaking Bad and if there's one show out there to deserve the title of "every geek's favourite non-sci-fi show" it should definately be that one! Breaking Bad is by far the most awesome thing on TV right now.
Especially the little guy shouldn't put hundreds of dollars into Adobe Flash Professional to create slow-loading, unsemantic binary blobs and call it a "website". Your customers will be much happier with a snappy search engine optimized standard-compliant HTML page, a good looking CSS stylesheet and maybe some fancy and gracefully degrading Javascript effects as icing on the cake. There are loads of freely available open source content managment systems out there with support for themes which will provide you with exactly this, for no money at all.
Oh wait, there's no such thing as a negative Bejeweled 2 score.
It seems more appealing to people who like to pretend they're not geeks, watch lots of TV, and laugh at "real geeks" for being socially inept.
Yeah, exactly. It also annoys me the "real geeks" in TBBT don't behave like real geeks at all. For example, in the first episode of TBBT the geeks boast about how many friends they have on MySpace. WTF? That's something a highschool girl would do. A real geek wouldn't be on MySpace in the first place, because they don't like giving up their privacy like that and would tell people who try to lure them into the web 2.0 social networking hype to get off their lawn.
At least it's funnier than The Big Bang Theory.
Who is forcing anyone to use MacOS? Unlike Windows, OS X (and Linux for that matter) is used by people who actually like using it. People who don't like it, use something else. What a crazy world, eh.
Only in countries which recognize software patents, such as the US. In Europe, there's no risk at all.
The trend is to produce videos in an MP4 container using the H.264 codec. You can create and play this sort of video files with or without QuickTime, so everybody wins.
Seriously, QuickTime Pro in Windows? I'm amazed there are people who use that combination :-P
That's pretty awesome then!
Still why can't someone buy OSX 10.6 and put it in a VM?
Because Apple is not in the business of selling operating systems, they are in the business of selling computers. If people could run Mac OS X on non-Macs, that would hurt Mac sales, virtualized or not.
A bit offtopic, but yesterday I realized that while quicktime pro can export to MP4 as well as MOV, if you want to use H264, you need to use the MOV container. Why?
That's not true at all. I have QuickTime Pro right here. When I choose "export" from the file menu, you can choose to export to an MP4 file. When you click "options", you can set the codec to H264. Here's a screenshot.
The fact you can run OS X as a guest on a Mac does not imply you are actually using Mac OS X as host OS. You can use Boot Camp to run Linux or Windows as host OS on a Mac as well. My question is: can you run OS X as a guest in such a situation, or does it only work from an OS X host OS?
Does anyone know if this works with all hosts? Can you run a virtualized Mac OS X guest on a Mac from a Windows or Linux host? Or can you just run OS X guests with an OS X host?
I don't get what they want to achieve with Silverlight. If they truly make IE9 compatible with HTML5 and offer a decent Javascript engine, what will the benefits of Silverlight be? Isn't Microsoft shooting itself in the foot with this?
Why is that sad?
So you send your client a PDF. Problem solved.
Isn't the monolithic Linux kernel the reason that all drivers (including the one for this "exotic" printer) are included in every Linux distro?
Yeah, that big old monolithic kernel is really starting to pay off. Today the same collegue I was referring to in the GP wanted to install the office printer on his netbook. It's a Samsung SCX-4500W, a laser-printer connected through WiFi. On Windows, installing this baby means going through a series of installers, which you have to find on Samsungs website. Installing it in Ubuntu is a simple click on a button, as the printer is completely auto-detected and drivers are already present. It's really quite bizarre that out of all desktop operating systems, Windows is actually the one hardest for users to work with.
But by posting this article on Slashdot, we get another excuse to fight out some holy wars and rant on about various random topics involving Linux, Microsoft, Windows, OOXML and whatever you can think of. I wouldn't be suprised if somewhere in the comments people would start another browser war or say something about the ridiculous policies of Apple regarding the App Store.