Firefox's market share drops from 30% to 3% in ten years. 46 million users. It is waste of time asking the geek for an explanation. He would be barely visible as a rounding error. The truth is that almost every contemporary bplatforn - including the smart TV and the video game console - has a serviceable default browser. But even the PC is becoming increasingly app-oriented as Windows 11 makes plain. It is becoming harder to see how something as mundane as the web browser could have ever generated such passions.

Well, it is aa brilliant an idea as making your expensive hardwood floor electrically conductive.

AOL had a lot to offer in it's prime, something the geek has never been willing to adimit. AOL integrated e-mail, chat, instant messaging, file transfers, etc, into a single easy-to-use client, with all the complexities hidden below the surface. One that played nicely with third-party software like mIRC Chat, there was USENET, a web browser, later IE4, and there was Neverwinter Nights. Flat rate monthly billing and local dial-up accesss.

The drug is used in humans to head llice and other parasites. But not orally in the doses calibrated for an animal that weighes 900-2000 lbs and quite normally pass about 50 lbs of waste a day. If you want purge your system more inconvently and explosively than the prep for a colonoscopy be my guest.

The producer needs a crystal ball. That will tell him what audiences will be looking for five to ten years down the road. The project that won't be derailed somewhere along the way by studio in-fighting, financial problems, technical problems, story, script or casting.

The earliest surviving film adaptation of Cinderella is from 1899. Roger & Hammerstein produced a musical for television inn1957. But the only version of thr old legends and fairy tales the geek ever seems to know and wants to criib from belong to Disney.

Early automobiles took a lot of punishment. Ford tried to keeo the most exposed and vulnerable components simple and easily repairable by any rural mechanic. That was not true of things like the casting of the engine block.

The mainstream distros got that way by reaching out to users who were not hard-core O$ geeks.

The virus was given time to mutate into a more dangerous form..It strikes younger and hits harder. That is what moves the goalposts.

The IBM PC had instant credibility as an office machine. Keyboard built like a tank. Not unlike your Selectric. 80 column text and monitor. Strong thitd part support from established software developers like Peachtree. In many ways a simple, straight-forward upgrade from CP/M.

Words quickly take on meaning in common usage that are often different and much broader than you or the contributers to the Wikipedia might like. To the average driver "Autopilot" implies full automation and nothing you can say will change that.

The NYT is profitale with about 8 million paying subscribers online - and a 100 million or so more casual - but by no means penny-pinched - readers attracted to it's newsletters, cooking classes, rosswords, etc.

Word Perfect was a stand-alone character-based word processor ported to evey system and OS known to man. Each with its own debilitating fiefdom within the company. It most dstinvtovr feature was the hundreds of custom made print drivers that shipped with the program. Which the Windows printer API made instantly obsolete. Word Perfect struggled with the transition to the WYSIWYG GUI and it's cobbled together office suite was no match for the emergent MS Office.

In the US, fashion can be protected by trademarks and design patents. The pattern of a fabric can be copyrighted. The time and expenrse required to nail this down can be worthwhile for a relatively stable high end product line.

The. last year the US was majrity rural and agrarian was 1860. The farmer mechanized not only to be more productive but to replace labor that was being drawn to better paying and less demanding jobs elsewhere. Which is saying something when you consider working conditions in the 19th Century.