Re: Atheists: America's most distrusted minority

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:09:35 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
(in article <ipjd82djbtbbsovf987e947srn8a1tticp@xxxxxxx>):

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 03:52:51 +0000 (UTC), "Carl" <cengman7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


The interesting thing about PCs is that you accumulate things. Very few
people
use a PC and keep only the same software they first installed. It was much
more
common before people got connected to the internet, but now a lot of people
get different software from all over the place.

Well, no, but when MS includes something like a free browser most
people /do/ keep it, as witness the fact that even today the vast
majority of people use IE rather than the probably superior Firefox.<<

This is absolutely correct. As a web designer, I work with the most
extremely average of users every day, and nobody, but nobody - nobody who
isn't a programmer - ever uses anything but the browser that comes installed
with their system.

My favorite illustrative story is when I was trying to help a customer with
something dumb - it was probably how to do a hard refresh, as 90% of the time
the problem is that my customers say they can't see the changes I've made to
their site <g> - over the phone, and what I was telling them to do wasn't
working. So I asked again, "Uh, you _did_ say you were using IE, right?"
And the customer said yes. So we went around a few more times, and it
_still_ didn't work. So finally I told them to look at the top of their
screen, to the right of the blue apple, and to tell me what it said. Yup,
you guessed it: Safari.

But she was so used to having IE that she just called _any_ browser "Internet
Explorer." (Then there's the AOL users and _their_ browser problems, and the
fact that they can't receive .jpg attachments from Mail.app...)

Of course, this was in the early days of Safari when many of my customers
still didn't have new Macs that came with it installed, so I couldn't just
_assume_ that Mac users were using Safari. Now, it's much easier: anyone
running OS X and a modern Mac is using Safari (unless they're programmers and
then they're probably running several things, like me: Safara, Mozilla, IE,
Firefox, Opera).

Amy

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