I have a PC running Windows. My household has a 100% Windows marketshare.
I buy a tablet and a phone. Suddenly my Windows only has 33% marketshare, while Android went from 0 to 67%!
But I still have a PC running Windows. So does a billion other people.
Gotta love 'em analysts.
But what about all those European cars with the gas on the left and brake on the right so they can drive on the other side of the road?
Erm... The clutch is on the left. The brake is always in the middle.
I remember skipping a class because I was busy harvesting strawberries in SimFarm. Ah, those were the days...
That's assuming you were living in a country that had such magazines
BTW, I was playing Lemmings with a friend on his A500 when the first military jet flew by in low flight, broke the sound barrier and subsequently all the windows (a door frame also got blown out of the wall). Never could play that game again.
... and the majority of people couldn't access a BBS. Walkthroughs? Tutorials? If you were lucky, an actual real-life friend might have told you how to win the spitting competition in Monkey Island 2. Or you persevered, having a much greater attention span twenty years ago - uninterrupted by a billion browser tabs, FB notifications, phones ringing, etc. It was just the game and you.
I would have bought one already if it was a little cheaper. Nintendo stuff is supposed to be cheap and cheerful. $349 is too much, and the $299 version is too crippled to justify even building much less buying.
It costs $600 over here. I'll take your $349 any day.
I noticed that I kept intermittently getting disconnected at around the same time every day (indicative of a WPA deauthentication handshake capture attempt).
No, that is only indicative of perfectly normal behaviour in most of the world, since your connection is reset (and your IP changed) every 24 hours.
In my current position, I have definitely had to implement at the very least twice as many Chrome workarounds as IE in the last six months. I was very surprised to see Chrome behaving oddly and Firefox and IE rendering the pages identically, as prior to that time period, I had never seen Chrome and Firefox render a page in a substantially different way.
How does Opera render it?
This is why losing another rendering engine is bad... With 2:1 you have no idea who renders incorrectly. 2:2 says you'd better check the spec* , and 3:1 basically isolates the offender.
* Although, in my experience, I find that Webkit and Presto align more often than Webkit and Gecko, or Gecko and Presto, through which follows that Gecko often does the same thing as Trident, and Trident is usually not to be trusted.
This is bad news. Another step on the way to browser monoculture, with all the problems that can bring.
From TFA:
"It was always a goal to be compatible with the real web while also supporting and promoting open standards. That turns out to be a bit of a challenge when you are faced with a web that is not as open as one might have wanted."
The web isn't open. It never was. Many, many sites only start working properly in Opera when you mask as IE/Firefox, because browser sniffing is still a thing even in 2013.
The popularity of Webkit also brought its share of problems. Too many blogs and sites raving about experimental features, which end up being used on production sites with no fallbacks.
The majority of Opera users won't care. The rendering engine is highly insignificant; people use Opera because of what the browser as a whole can do. I find it mind-boggling that you still need *extensions* in other browsers for something as basic as mouse gestures. I also have no idea how you can remap keys in Firefox or Chrome. Perhaps an extension as well for something as simple as that? Don't even get me started on UI customization; there's nothing that comes even close to what Opera can do.
Opera was and still is great at innovating. Many "standard" features like tab reordering, speed dials and even ad blocking (!) appeared in Opera first, sometimes half a decade before someone else implemented it. If adopting Webkit means they can spend more time doing that, and if the "Opera experience" still remains, I'm fine with it and couldn't care less.
By the way - Opera's been losing market share to Chrome in countries where it was most popular (former USSR). Now there's no reason for those who switched to continue using Chrome. They can return back to Opera.
What still needs to be explained is what happens to all the embedded systems running Opera. That includes fridges, vending machines, airplane multimedia systems, and even the Wii.
Opera's market share is stable, but it's measured in tenths of a percent.
It's over 1% worldwide, and it's still a major player in the former USSR. It's losing to Chrome, though, while Firefox pretty much remains constant.
Mobile Safari appears to be the only _mobile_ browser with a market share worth talking about so far
There's well over 200 million Opera Mini/Mobile users, and the number doesn't seem to be decreasing...
The problem is that Opera does implement getUserMedia, but not peerConnection. They can do the part of RTC that accesses cameras and microphones, but not the part that sends it over the network.
A-ha! That explains it. Hopefully someone will mod you up.
Still, "getting Opera on board" should be no big deal. They pretty much started the whole thing.
Now if they can get Safari and Opera on board
You mean this Opera, from a year ago?
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/getusermedia-access-camera-privacy-ui/
I'm not sure if the TFA demo would work in Opera if it didn't specifically sniff for Firefox and Chrome, but be as it may, incomplete or not, getUserMedia() was part of Opera Stable already a year ago. Someone else with more insight into WebRTC will have to say why Opera doesn't work here.
I'm not living in a civilized country and the EFF sure isn't going to fly a lawyer halfway across the world, nor would that lawyer be permitted to practice law here. If the police gets your stuff - you can kiss it goodbye, along with your chance to get a decent life. You will forever be tagged as an offender and you will lose your passport. That is not a risk any sane person would be willing to take.
Because I'm paying a substantial amount of money for a 4096/256 connection. That's kilobit, not kilobytes per second.
Download, yeah, I could live with you leeching some of it, but any and all upload kills the download. Are you part of a botnet? If you start sending shit up, we'll both get choked on download speed; not only because of the upload, but also because of the number of connections. About 50 and my router starts crapping out.
What's that? Buy a better router that handles more connections and can segregate you with your own connection/bandwidth cap? Sure, everything for you! I'm rolling in cash!
So no, you can't have it. I pay for mine, you pay for yours. You're not a friend, you're a foe. I'm not letting you freeload in my house and eat my food, and I'm not letting you use my bandwidth money just because it's a "nice" thing to do. Especially if your activities make the police come to my doorstep, confiscate my computer and all my disks and discs (all of which I may or may not see again in a year or two), and if I get a criminal report attached to my lovely (and unique) name, which will make me lose my job and not ever be able to find a new one, even if I somehow avoid prison. "It wasn't me, judge! I swear!"
No way.
Mr. Kamdar, give people the keys to your house and point them to the fridge, electricity and running water. It's for the good of humanity!
Letting a DB server out on the internet is moronic by itself, but not having installed a patch that was available 6 months before the worm started spreading, well, that's even worse.
The worst thing of all, however, is that Microsoft *itself* had unpatched instances of SQL Server out on the net and they themselves got pwned.
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