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ModernMajorGeneral posted:I think this makes sense for most situations but I'm not sure how Stockholm, Manila and Kuala Lumpur (and maybe Tokyo and Kiev) missed out on primate city status on that map, by this definition. Kassad posted:But in some cases, the urban area is larger than the city's administrative limits. Paris is 2 million people, but the actual urban area is more like 10 million because the suburbs are still independent cities.
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Internet Explorer: countries where people are scared of new things, or are very conservative, or the official websites only work with IE. Firefox: countries where people that want something new with a lot of freedom and potential, despite being somewhat a lovely option Opera: I got this phone, and is still working, but I have found this browser that is much faster. Countries where people is smart and can find new options, but once they have something better, they stop searching. They don't value freedom has much. Chrome: countries where people have many moneybags to buy a lot of ram, that want flexibility and power (like firefox) but they want it to be cool. Why is switzerland blue? is a very conservative country? do the government mandate IE for websites? Germany is insteresting. They have not jumped to chrome, why? they probably already have the ram chrome needs and they will retain most of the freedom firefox give them. Maybe they don't want to jump to chrome because is a downgrade in some particular way that is important to them. Perhaps they will lose some extensions, or the chrome extensions in german language are not has solid. Too bad we don't have this graphic divide between desktop and browser. 2014: the year a group of scientist with Apple machines visited greenland. I guest scientist in greenland must use governement or universities that require IE. It has to be another thing they count in the harsh things you have to do to live in greenland. Most counties have evolved IE => Firefox => Chrome. I guest on these countries where the evolution has been IE => Chrome, freedom is not has important, but being cool is important. Japan needs to kill all elderly people to become a dynamic country again. Iran going back to IE is interesting. Maybe they had a period of freedom but on the current state theres way less freedom?, or it could be a effect of Windows 10. When the default option is good enough Why change?. Is still weird that after voting for Firefox they would vote for IE. Maybe they don't have the ram for chrome? so It could be a combination of economic and freedom problems. The china thing. Maybe a lot of chinese are browsing trough tablets and smartphones. None of these are going to use Internet Explorer. Most of them are going to be equiped with Android and be reported with the WebKit engine, so Chrome-like. The clone browsers like that Baidu that has been mentiones, is probably build using chromium, the open source chrome. So is chrome too. China using chrome, means they have a lot of moneybags to buy the ram required. Tei fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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HookShot posted:Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver, to be more accurate. The Greater Toronto Area has like 6 million people out of a total of 35-ish million in all of Canada. Well yes, but Toronto would be the primate one, with 9.5m in the metro area according to wiki.
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Doesn't most of Africa usually run Opera in these maps?
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Antti posted:I know Finland is a made-up country as part of a complicated scheme to secure Japanese fishing rights, but what's the story with Belgium? It's an insult with an army and some territory.
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Antti posted:I know Finland is a made-up country as part of a complicated scheme to secure Japanese fishing rights, but what's the story with Belgium? Look, Germany and France needed a place to fight their wars.
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Tei posted:Germany is insteresting. They have not jumped to chrome, why? they probably already have the ram chrome needs and they will retain most of the freedom firefox give them. Maybe they don't want to jump to chrome because is a downgrade in some particular way that is important to them. Perhaps they will lose some extensions, or the chrome extensions in german language are not has solid. It's because they're more concerned about being spied on.
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Tei posted:Opera: I got this phone, and is still working, but I have found this browser that is much faster. Countries where people is smart and can find new options, but once they have something better, they stop searching. They don't value freedom has much.
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Private Speech posted:Well yes, but Toronto would be the primate one, with 9.5m in the metro area according to wiki. The GTA has 6 million, the greater Montreal area has 4 million. Therefore, not a primate city.
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I'm diehard Internet Explorer fans Japan, South Korea, and Kosovo.
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Private Speech posted:Well yes, but Toronto would be the primate one, with 9.5m in the metro area according to wiki. Toronto only hits 9.5 if you include the whole Golden Horseshoe which includes a lot of cities and towns that are definitely outside the Toronto metro area, including another major city, Hamilton (metro population 1.3 million, people from there will get upset if you tell them they're from Toronto).
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mobby_6kl posted:Actually Opera in Eastern Europe was mostly the real desktop Opera, it was super popular as an alternative to IE before Firefox really took off. It's dead now of course since they ditched the Presto engine for webkit like every other rear end in a top hat. I don't know the real reason for initial popularity, but would guess that people din't mind using the cracked versions without ads. Opera the company initially did most of their marketing in Europe, especially Eastern Europe. Netscape also barely marketed or was available there and Microsoft didn't bother to push IE too much there specifically. So Opera was kind of the default other browser that might come with a computer or which you would get on your own. I've got no explanation for why it was still sticking around there into the late 2000s once Firefox came out though, I guess it could have been plain inertia. Worth noting that as a whole, in the early years of browsers Opera never really took off globally:
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fishmech posted:Opera the company initially did most of their marketing in Europe, especially Eastern Europe. Netscape also barely marketed or was available there and Microsoft didn't bother to push IE too much there specifically. So Opera was kind of the default other browser that might come with a computer or which you would get on your own. I thought Opera was pretty cool in the later 2000s, it was one of the first modern browsers to have tabs and individual history and gestures and such. I think I found out about it from SA cca 2008? actually, long before I registered my account here. One feature I still miss is using shift+scrollwheel to scroll through tabs in this list that would pop up. Bit hard to describe but it was really handy and I still can't find anything like that in Chrome (though FF has it I think). Private Speech fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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The dangers of vaping: most of Scotland disappears.
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HookShot posted:The GTA has 6 million, the greater Montreal area has 4 million. Therefore, not a primate city. Irregardless, the capital is in Ottawa, which is definitely a different city than Toronto.
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TinTower posted:The dangers of vaping: most of Scotland disappears. Is this a UKIP campaign map? "Allow smoking in pubs again or Britain will become part of Continental Europe"
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TinTower posted:The dangers of vaping: most of Scotland disappears. Excuse me, but I believe your Dover is in my Waddenzee
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fishmech posted:Opera the company initially did most of their marketing in Europe, especially Eastern Europe. Netscape also barely marketed or was available there and Microsoft didn't bother to push IE too much there specifically. So Opera was kind of the default other browser that might come with a computer or which you would get on your own.
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I still use Opera for a few things that Safari disagrees with because Chrome is hot dog poo poo on MacOS.
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I'm using Opera to browse the forum right now, works great. Only thing I miss from Firefox is the ability to delete webpages from my history, like if I've had lots of porn tabs open or something. No ads.
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icantfindaname posted:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/19/empire-20-is-dangerous-nostalgia-for-something-that-never-existed A victory for the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality. (Is it Big Block of Cheese Day again already? Time flies...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA0BLrLW0PE
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The Peters Projection is terrible for several reasons, but most notable here is that, by design, Peters minimises the distortion of shapes at the forty‐fifth parallels. The tropics get shafted in favour of temperate regions yet again. At least Mercator isn’t deliberately Euro‐biased.
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icantfindaname posted:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/19/empire-20-is-dangerous-nostalgia-for-something-that-never-existed I grew up with this map, and wasn't scarred. It got me thinking about different projections earlier than I otherwise would have, which isn't a harm.
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I'm the Christian Tang dynasty of China.
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Ofaloaf posted:I'm the Christian Tang dynasty of China. Didn't they have the Nestorians or w/e
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The three major religions of the modern day, Christianity, Islam, and Communism.
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That's a neat map, but strange choices of... things to represent. You've got two empires, two religions, and a political ideology. Why these and not others?
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Angepain posted:The three major religions of the modern day, Christianity, Islam, and Communism. 
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I love the way Christianity inexplicably recedes from the far end of Siberia.
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I think my favourite part is how the map used like 4 colours and two of them were exactly the same.
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Badger of Basra posted:Didn't they have the Nestorians or w/e Yeah, the Nestorian Christians were pretty active in China for about two hundred years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_East_in_China
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I am pretty sure that map is saying "Christianity is currently practiced here" rather than "Christianity is the majority religion here." Note Egypt remains a Christian hue under its Muslim hue even as most of the rest of the Islamic world slowly loses their Christian hue.
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Patter Song posted:I am pretty sure that map is saying "Christianity is currently practiced here" rather than "Christianity is the majority religion here." Note Egypt remains a Christian hue under its Muslim hue even as most of the rest of the Islamic world slowly loses their Christian hue. They're using different standards for Christianity and Islam then. Islam doesn't extend far enough into India (basically all of it has at least some Muslims).
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I am the inexplicably christian Zoroastrian Persia.
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Jack2142 posted:I am the inexplicably christian Zoroastrian Persia. Again, that's the Church of the East. "The Church of the East, also known as the Nestorian Church, is a Christian church within the Syriac tradition of Eastern Christianity. It was the Christian church of the Sassanian Empire, and quickly spread widely through Asia. Between the 9th and 14th centuries, the Church represented the world's largest Christian church in terms of geographical extent, with dioceses stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to China and India" It split from the rest of Christianity, partly over theological minutae, but also to avoid being seen as a Roman tool inside Persia.
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Tei posted:Firefox: countries where people that want something new with a lot of freedom and potential, despite being somewhat a lovely option In 2008 Firefox was the only viable option. IE was really bad so people switched and never looked back. e: I mean OK yeah Opera too but 
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