Re: Fun with proof by analogy, was Re: Mojibake on my Web pages

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 19:43:51 EDT

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    Michael Everson scripsit:
    > At 08:33 -0400 2003-09-26, John Cowan wrote:
    >
    > >Alas, we are in a cleft stick: almost all users are now using a
    > >browser that is not going to be upgraded, short of replacing their
    > >operating system.
    >
    > Which they all surely will, at some stage. I mean, who's really still
    > running a Mac Plus with Mac OS 3.1 on it?

    Granted. But it's a long, long time to Longhorn (the next release of
    Windows, which will presumably have IE 7.0 in it). 

    -- 
John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of
resources is the purpose of markets.  Efficiency is a byproduct of market
systems, not their goal.  The reasons markets work are not because users
have embraced efficiency but because markets are the best place to allow
users to maximize their preferences, and very often their preferences are
not for conservation of cheap resources.  --Clay Shirkey

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