One in 10 Firefox users are running Windows XP

at least maybe XP users shouldn't be on the web now but a lotta fools play that Windows XP roulette now
XP with security software is just fine for the web. I will qualify that by saying I don't do my banking with it though.

I'm not going to capitulate to M$ master plan with this crap Windows 10 either. Now you can't even update Windows 7 without getting telemetry bundled in either. (That's a guess, but a pretty damned good one, if I do say so myself).

Win 7 isn't all that secure anymore either..... I'm windows 10 x64 on all 4 PC here and never looked back but I have a 2015 Sony XBR 55" 4K HDR TV and Sony ES AVR and 5.1 speakers and this 2016 Haswell core i5 -SSD desktop in this bdrm- office that never works hard beyond transcoding some media rips now and then but at my point and retirement now all that ain't any money anyway and there is always something better out there:)
How does publishing a laundry list of your "toys", contribute to this discussion?

But much more importantly, I hope you're not one of these people who think our ICBM computer hardware needs to be updated and connected to the web. Because that's simply plain beyond absurdly foolish.
 
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I just had a funeral service for my Asus Commando motherboard. It gave good service since 2007. It was only for surfing the net, downloding tv shows and movies and playing UNREAL. Windows XP 64 bit with 4GB ram. This machine was always on. Power supply lasted 5 years and was replaced. For what it was it was state of the art in its day. Like I used to say to my car customers when I was younger: "All that horsepower is useless if you can't get traction". The same can be said about computers: "A super computer won't help you download any faster if your using dial up."
 
LMAO. Thanks for the laugh. I was feeling a little down and this was the last place I expected to find joy.

"Yeah..you're probably better off not knowing that the fact that 10% of the PC population still runs it is a testament to the strength and durability of XP and that you're opinion is really not applicable to a world outside your grandmother's basement."

That logic was the icing on the cake. I mean, people are still using it, so it must be good. The paragraph where you bragged about much more the average american makes REALLY goes against your argument to hold onto an aging and infectious operating system.

Now excuse me while I tuck my Nanna into bed before I retire to my cot in her basement next to the hot water heater. I have to be up early to perform my crossing guard duties.

Thanks again for the laugh!

Of course, out of all that I said, you can only see the grandmother's basement. It is the hallmark of the poorly educated that the rest of the world or the arguments don't matter, only the part where they can retort matters, whatever the level of the retort. I should tell you about my daughter's college graduate friends, their quarter milliion dollar college loans; a couple of which have moved back home twice after being unable to pay the loan and still rent an apartment, but you wouldn't understand the reference.
I am happy you got a laugh. Since you're so chuckly now, maybe you can rethink the sheer slackjawed stupidity of your first statements about XP in a world that's larger than granny's house.
Oh, and btw, crossing guards are vetted by the police (at least in the 18 places around military bases I've lived) and require a background check. They generally require an interview or two also. I believe there is a general acceptance/rejection line that reads "Would you hire this person to watch your children?" In your case, that would be no. Please don't try to use examples where you can't qualify for the job because your shallowness doesn't understand why you were rejected.
Should some woman actually choose you when she states who is the father of her children, you might ask her opinion of the importance of crossing guards and whether they are or should be properly trained as her children go to school. That would give you some idea that there are other people's knowledge and decisions about what works and what doesn't instead of just your fapping online.
Like your comments about XP, your real world knowledge about the dangers of the world and their amelioration, are woefully inadequate. Read a bit. You'll catch up to the rest of us. Everyone does eventually. It's why Microsoft went to forced assimilation.
 
yea but guys and girls ........ we still run COBOL in rickety Nuclear ICBM SILO HDWE on 5.25 floppy in HDWE from 1961 or so but does that all mean should we still be doing all that in 2016 ?

Most COBOL de buggers (that they can still find ) for all that are geriatric now anyway COBOL was never part of cool in school but those old geezers are geting PAID now :)

..........Maybe it' 8" floppy's or both :)

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2537042/it-careers/confessions-of-a-cobol-programmer.html
Computerworld | Feb 20, 2008 12:00 AM PT
...Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career.
... He now spends 30% of his time working in Cobol, and he expects that to stay the same or even increase.

For Vu, working in Cobol feels a bit like discovering a lost art. "The shocker for me was that Cobol is still heavily in use, even when my client is using the latest in enterprise Java, C+ and Visual Basic technologies," Vu says.
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... " I know it's an old man's game, [but] I like the position of being the younger individual in the market." "
Brian Vance, age 30, Grange Insurance

Sorry, you were saying something typically ignorant. This was 2008. Did you think the opportunity and number of younger people went down? You did notice neither of them works in a nuclear silo? For me, this error indicates you read something once, extrapolated poorly, and based your worldview on the extrapolation. Does explain the comment about XP though. That type of poor extrapolation and real world error projection epitomizes the politcal projections of the last election. With some effort, you can get a job saying Hillary will win. People are still being paid for that.
 
Like your comments about XP, your real world knowledge about the dangers of the world and their amelioration, are woefully inadequate. Read a bit. You'll catch up to the rest of us. Everyone does eventually. It's why Microsoft went to forced assimilation.

There is a reason only 10.9% of people are using XP. It's you that needs to read up on security.

In the meantime, get help with your social issues, okay? I wish you good luck. :)
 
There is a reason only 10.9% of people are using XP. It's you that needs to read up on security.

In the meantime, get help with your social issues, okay? I wish you good luck. :)
Again, your total inability to see outside what little you've read shows itself. If you follow security and I receive the CERT, along with several other publications showing the vulnerabilities and the ways they are ameliorated, you would know, XP has them, but it's not remotely alone. If you read Hacker News, or arstechnica, and especially if you read here, you know that the current 'favorite' is vulnerabilities in Linux. Those give you access to the servers, not some podunk XP machine. If you remotely knew any security, you would understand why the government didn't respond properly to the GAO recommendations before the OPM penetration. I could go on. It's pretty useless. You're vastly vastly ignorant. Worse yet, you won't admit to it and learn there's other stuff you have to pay attention to in security and cost is the least of them. Organization Development teaches that the hurdles are in the gatekeepers. You are an example. You know what you know, nothing else matters, not facts, not research, nothing but what little you know. Like the blind men and the elephant all the world is defined by what you're touching right now and not what everyone else see's. Learn something then come back here.
I do notice you have not contradicted anything I've said as being wrong. You've only tried to bring up other ignorances you have. You've not said XP shouldn't be used in a dirt floored school because 'oh the security risk'. You've not said XP shouldn't be used in company employing hundreds or thousands and requiring millions to redevelop software and retrain staff and people would have to be let go as a result because 'oh the security'. You've not replied to younger people getting into COBOL or even getting a job saying Hillary won. In short, you've done nothing to prove your point except try to point somewhere else. This shows you and clearly.
As for social issues, did you think XP and dirt floor school before I mentioned it? did you know crossing guards are vetted and trained and tested annually? did you remotely follow Cobol or even, and I really loved this one, what went on in an ICBM silo and how 'rickety' it was. I used to be in SAC in my military time. Hated those years. My father was SAC and a buff flight engineer before that. In short, I kinda have a better handle on 'social issues' and basically, every other subject you've said here. And, I don't remotely consider myself an expert. I just pay attention to everything and not just put my hand on the trunk and say it's very like a snake as you have. Seriously, go out in the world and see something outside yourself. Read outside your comfort zone. Listen to people you disagree with and try to bring facts to the table. They're much more acceptable than the byte bites you've tried to push so far.
This forum generally has thoughtful posters with education, experience and training. You should try to be at least one of them.
 
I still have a PC that runs XP. It runs a dual core Opteron 1220 and an 8800 GT. It boots far faster than my Xeon 1650 v2 with a GTX 580 that is running Windows 10 bloatware. In addition, since updates are basically over for XP, I don't have to worry that it will crash after the latest ill tested Windows 10 update.
 
That kind of overrepresentation is exactly what I'd expect to see. Even before Chrome dropped support for XP, FIrefox was running much more smoothly on those older machines, especially the ones with only 1 or 2 cores, regardless of OS version. Chrome's multiple process approach just isn't kind to older hardware.
 
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