c'mon joey.  time after time i try to have a decent conversation
with you, and time after time you end up making me regret it...

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joey said:
>   So, your evidence that "no one" was using Opera
>   is that some handful of blogs which you've personally polled
>   indicated that Opera was less than 0.01% of their traffic?
>   Exactly which sites did you include in your survey?
>   What was the standard deviation?

dude.  don't be stupid.  there are organizations that
track browser statistics on a world-wide basis, and
they post their results for everyone to see.  this ain't
rocket-science.  it's easy enough to google the results.


>   Perhaps you mean that, in general, Opera is considered
>   to only hold ~2% of the overall browser market?
>   But that's a meaningless comparison in this context
>   - the mobile browser market, even with
>   your beloved iPhones out there in the wild for 2+ years,
>   the best numbers I can find indicate that iPhone browsing
>   is estimated a only 0.08 percent of all browsing activity worldwide.
>   What a sea-change indeed!

at&t has come out and said that iphone browsing is bursting
the seams of their network.  what more evidence do we need?

do you guys live in a box?


>   Or is it perhaps simply that YOUR social group
>   (assuming anyone willing socializes with you)

i see.  now we start the direct ad hominem process.


>   has finally joined the rest of the world and
>   started using a computer more modern
>   than your ancient Macintosh

my ancient macintosh?  i'm running a nice macbook,
mac os 10.5, with a 24-inch cinema screen, dude...
i'm not sure who's feeding you your information, but
you might want to do some fact-checking before you
embarrass yourself...


>   that you're using to build the vaporware ZML viewer/editor?

oops...  too late...  you already embarrassed yourself...
that "vaporware" you're talking about was up years ago.
nobody seemed to care.  do you think i should push it?

whatever the case, you're on notice.  make the conversation
worthwhile, joey, or i'm gonna stop talking to you...  again...

-bowerbird