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Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ'
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:48:25 +0100, BillW50 wrote:
In , Franc Zabkar wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:40:52 -0500, "BillW50" put finger to keyboard and composed: In , thanatoid wrote: Interesting. I posted the same info in 24hr a few days ago, since I found it quite amusing, but MY source says Opera users are the smartest by far. That seems to be missing from your version. Which sounds strange, since Opera displays incorrectly more so than other browsers. That's because those web sites use broken code created by other Microsoft products. ;-) - Franc Zabkar Then why does Chrome and Firefox work with them too? One website that annoyed me the most was titantv.com under Opera. And Opera has had lots of problems with forms and drop down menus too. Seems to work here (load of **** on but that's the the way it is) -- [dash dash space newline sig] "Nuns! NUNS! Reverse! Reverse!" |
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Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ'
On 8/1/2011 10:49, 98 Guy wrote:
Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...verage-IQ.html "Internet Explorer story was bogus" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430 |
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Bill Blanton wrote in
ng.com: On 8/1/2011 10:49, 98 Guy wrote: Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...t/8674678/Inte rnet-Explorer-users-have-below-average-IQ.html "Internet Explorer story was bogus" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430 The story may be bogus, but that does not change the fact most IE users are morons. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/hea...4000/7874798.s tm I wonder how many of the 200,000 that went for THIS one were IE users. |
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Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ'
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thanatoid wrote: Bill Blanton wrote in ng.com: On 8/1/2011 10:49, 98 Guy wrote: Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...t/8674678/Inte rnet-Explorer-users-have-below-average-IQ.html "Internet Explorer story was bogus" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430 The story may be bogus, but that does not change the fact most IE users are morons. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/hea...4000/7874798.s tm I wonder how many of the 200,000 that went for THIS one were IE users. Most Firefox users are dumber IMHO. Luckily I don't use either very much. But most Firefox users somehow believe they are protected and they leave themselves wide open. And if you check out the infection rate, FF and IE is going neck and neck. And I can't believe Mozilla leaves DCOM wide open (like ActiveX under IE). They should know better, but they never had done nothing about it. If Microsoft acted so stupid, we would never hear the end of it. ;-) -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ'
"BillW50" wrote in :
In , thanatoid wrote: Bill Blanton wrote in ng.com: On 8/1/2011 10:49, 98 Guy wrote: Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...t/8674678/Inte rnet-Explorer-users-have-below-average-IQ.html "Internet Explorer story was bogus" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430 The story may be bogus, but that does not change the fact most IE users are morons. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/hea...4000/7874798.s tm I wonder how many of the 200,000 that went for THIS one were IE users. Most Firefox users are dumber IMHO. Luckily I don't use either very much. But most Firefox users somehow believe they are protected and they leave themselves wide open. And if you check out the infection rate, FF and IE is going neck and neck. And I can't believe Mozilla leaves DCOM wide open (like ActiveX under IE). They should know better, but they never had done nothing about it. If Microsoft acted so stupid, we would never hear the end of it. ;-) You know what's REALLY dumb? We scorn the age of medicine where getting your bumps felt seemed like a really neat idea, but now we're supposed to get our browsers felt? Cue Shirley Bassey and a nice dose of Propellerheads: It's all just a little bit of history repeating! |
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Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ'
"BillW50" wrote in
: In , thanatoid wrote: Bill Blanton wrote in ng.com: Most Firefox users are dumber IMHO. In a way. They're dumber because they don't realize FF is just as unsafe unless you install a whole batch of add-ons. In the early days of FFox's rise, after trying it and being TOTALLY disgusted, I called it "IE for people who like to say they are too smart to use IE" for a while. Luckily I don't use either very much. But most Firefox users somehow believe they are protected and they leave themselves wide open. And if you check out the infection rate, FF and IE is going neck and neck. And I can't believe Mozilla leaves DCOM wide open (like ActiveX under IE). They should know better, but they never had done nothing about it. If Microsoft acted so stupid, we would never hear the end of it. ;-) Yeah, like with Linux, there's a strange silence surrounding ANY problems in the FFox camps. I have stuck by Opera since I discovered it, at ver. 5.x, and it is just reassuring to always see data about it being the best- maintained and safest browser. It has been this way consistently since the beginning. While also the most innovative browser, it always had Flash problems, but it's not the only browser that did, and they have fixed it with 10. Also, it was always the fastest, now 3 are about the same and one trails behind a bit. I agree there is a much steeper learning curve with Opera, while other browsers are "use out of the box", and it took SOME time to find out how to set it up the way I wanted, but it was worth it. A major release always tends to have some VERY irritating new features (whose value I sometimes see later, and after the initial annoyance, I actually consider putting them back in), but I know of no other fully functional browser which is as customizable and which writes ONE line to the registry (on my system, anyway) and which behaves exactly as you want it. I have NOT tried Chrome, but I distrust Google more than MS at this point. OffByOne remains the fastest and safest, but it has a few limitations (which I see as assets) which most people seem unable to tolerate. But for me, the less "page design" and pointless graphics I see, the better. And NOTHING beats no script and no popups and no Flash by design. :-) |
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Lostgallifreyan wrote in
: snip You know what's REALLY dumb? We scorn the age of medicine where getting your bumps felt seemed like a really neat idea, but now we're supposed to get our browsers felt? Can you explain what you mean? Duh... (Where my IE?) Cue Shirley Bassey and a nice dose of Propellerheads: It's all just a little bit of history repeating! That is a great song. Some genius manager got the good lyrics, got Bassey (great as ever) and had a minor super-hit ready to go. I am surprised you even remember the "band's" name! |
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Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ'
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:33:58 -0400, webster72n wrote:
OTOH, maybe I grew up with IE has something to do with it? g. Perhaps. I recall a YUPPIE asking to look at my copy of コミクアフタヌーン. I handed it to him properly oriented. He grasped the open pages and attempted to flip the binding. Realizing he was grasping the comic the "wrong" way, he turned it over, bring the binding under his left hand. Now he could flip the pages, but realized (from the advertisements) that he was looking at the back cover. So he flipped it again, top for bottom. Now the binding was "properly" in his left hand, and the front cover facing up; but he realized that the image was inverted. So he inverted the book again, bringing it back to the original orientation, as I had handed it to him. Once again, he unsuccessfully attempted to flip the pages from the bound side. Shaking his head, he handed the comic back to me, saying as he did, "I will never understand this". I am fairly certain he was referring to the fact that it was bound the "wrong" way, not that it was printed in Japanese. Also, some of the earliest attempts at translation of Japanese comics preserved the Japanese orientation, and met resistance to sales from Yankees, who were positive that there was only one way to publish a book, and those were bound "backwards". So, yes, familiarity will have a lot to do with it; more than technical superiority. -- Norman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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"N. Miller" wrote in
: On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:33:58 -0400, webster72n wrote: OTOH, maybe I grew up with IE has something to do with it? g. snip So, yes, familiarity will have a lot to do with it; more than technical superiority. Like most people who didn't get into computers until about 1990, I started with IE3 as well. It ALWAYS sucked. I suffered with it for a few years, and then discovered Opera. It had tabs at version 5 from , IIRC. BTW, I find it astonishing that no one has managed to write a really good browser for Windows. There IS good software for Windows (NOT written by MS), so it SHOULD be possible. Never mind a decent OS. The current Apple OSs and Linux being based on Unix are almost hard to believe. But I guess that's how technically advanced we really are. |
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Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ'
thanatoid wrote in
: Lostgallifreyan wrote in : snip You know what's REALLY dumb? We scorn the age of medicine where getting your bumps felt seemed like a really neat idea, but now we're supposed to get our browsers felt? Can you explain what you mean? Duh... (Where my IE?) Bumps = phrenology. Cue Shirley Bassey and a nice dose of Propellerheads: It's all just a little bit of history repeating! That is a great song. Some genius manager got the good lyrics, got Bassey (great as ever) and had a minor super-hit ready to go. I am surprised you even remember the "band's" name! I had to. It's all so good it didn't seem right not to. Their OHMSS is great too. And the tritone-heavy bit of Matriculation that accompanies a lot of seriously shot-up corporate hallway. |
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