In a message dated 12/5/2001 10:50:19 PM Central Standard Time, jay.kominek@colorado.edu writes:MSIE 5.0 and 5.5 are about tied for number of users, and the both of them Thanks for the new stats. The remarkable turn in six months or so suggests that, in fact, the stats are on different properties. As far as I can remember (I don't have the source in front of me -- indeed don't remember where I read it: general publication I suppose) the ones I cited were for sales (including bundles), yours look like actual use. (lots of stuff in packages don't get used). <(And of course, we all know that Microsoft is the end all and be all of computing, and as such, we shouldn't even be considering the use of non-Microsoft software in the first place... right?)> God, I hope not. But it is what most people -- for better or worse -- get at the beginning of their computing life and what many never go beyond (it keeps coming with each new machine). So it needs to be taken into consideration and dealt with if Lojban is to appeal beyond the small group of high-end fanatics -- who, by the way, never seem to be able to make a product that seriously competes on any level with the MS ones, thereby giving MS the field by default. <A dissenting party would of course, need to provide references for their claims, or else be disregarded as an uninformed crank. (Rather reminiscent of academia, don't you think?)> Nope. In academia uninformed cranks are made first full professors and then administrators at triple salary, total control and zero responsibility for the chaos they create. |