As MacDailyNews reported this weekend (please see related articles below), Aliso Viejo, CA-based Net Applications announced November 2007 Operating System (and Browser) usage stats. With a new, enhanced marketshare site, Net Applications is now able to analyze global marketshare trends in much greater depth.
Net Applications now tracks more trends, summarizes OS versions better, and are now able to view market share by continent, country and even by state/province. Their new Mac OS usage map for the US provided “an immediate visual impact,” Net Applications ask in their December 1st Newsletter.
Net Applications writes, “Higher percentage Mac usage states almost perfectly match up with states that typically vote for Democrats. So, do Democrats prefer Macs? The correlation is striking.”
2004 US presidential election results by state:
(red=Republican, blue=Democrat)
2004 US presidential election results by county:
(red=Republican, blue=Democrat)
Meanwhile, the Mac continues to gain ground in Net Applications measurements of online share. November 2007 usage statistics show that globally, 6.8% of all computers online are Macs. That is the highest percentage Net Applications has seen to date.
More info via Net Applications’ report – “Democrats Vote for the Mac?” – here.
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Also, via Wikipedia:
Prior to the 2000 presidential election, there was no universally recognized color scheme to represent political parties in the USA. The practice of using colors to represent parties on electoral maps dates back at least as far as the 1950s, when such a format was employed within the Hammond series of historical atlases. Color-based schemes became more widespread with the adoption of color television in the 1960s and nearly ubiquitous with the advent of color in newspapers. A three-color scheme — red, white and blue, the colors of the U.S. flag — makes sense, and the third color, white, is useful in depicting maps showing states that are “undecided” in the polls and in election-night television coverage.
Early on, the most common—though again, not universal—color scheme was to use red for Democrats and blue for Republicans. This was the color scheme employed by NBC—David Brinkley famously referred to the 1984 map showing Reagan’s 49-state landslide as a “sea of blue”, but this color scheme was also employed by most newsmagazines. CBS during this same period, however, used the opposite scheme—blue for Democrats, red for Republicans. ABC was less consistent than its elder network brothers; in at least two presidential elections during this time before the emergence of cable news outlets, ABC used yellow for one major party and blue for the other. As late as 1996, there was still no universal association of one color with one party. If anything, the majority of outlets in 1996 were using blue for the GOP and red for the Democrats.[citation needed]
But in 2000, for the first time, all major electronic media outlets used the same colors for each party: Red for Republicans, blue for Democrats. Partly as a result of this near-universal color-coding, the terms Red States and Blue States entered popular usage in the weeks following the 2000 presidential election…
The choice of colors in this divide is counter-intuitive to many international observers, as throughout the world, red is commonly the designated color for parties representing labor, socialist, and/or liberal interests, which in the United States would be more closely correlated with the Democratic Party. Similarly, blue is used in these countries to depict conservative parties which in the case of the United States would be a color more suitable for the Republicans.
More here.
An why o why, dear TowerTone, would you want that? Hm? What does it matter to you? Aren’t there more important things to think about, such as how your government is hoodwinking you into killing hundreds of thousands across the world? All your politicians have to do is spout the word “Freedom” and you lap it up. No, you don’t care about that, because you don’t have to care. To you, it’s just some weird looking, weird talking, foreigners getting killed, some subhumans who just were too stupid or unfortunate to stay in their own country, instead of enjoying the “freeness” of the USofA. Deny it all you want, but you know it’s true. Tell me where you’ve been around the world. We both know you’ve stayed in your insular USA, not bothering to step outside and see the world for what it really is. To you, anything to know about the outside world is what Fox News or CNN is for. You know jack shit about the world, yet it’s because of people like you you’re government is ruining it. And yet, again, you don’t care because you don’t have to.
And what are you and your government doing to improve the world, Frank?
Tell me why you are unique in your ability to solve these problems, if only the world would listen…..
@Frank’s beans:
“What a stupid response. Are you so glib about your country’s vicious . . . “
How do you know where I live? Are you stalking again?
“because you’re ignorant or because you just don’t have to care?”
And have you stopped beating your wife?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_many_questions)
“I imagine it’s a bit of both.”
I imagine you’re too frightened to look in a mirror.
Now go away. The adults want to talk.
So, you deflect my questions instead of answering them, eh, TowerTone? Or is that famous American critical thought, where fair and balanced means one position vs. another position, instead of real analysis?
Well, the biggest problem in this world is the fact that the USA is out of control and using violence to retain control. That’s the biggest problem in this world. And it perpetuates because people like you let it. There’s very little my people can do to stop it other than confront the only people who can effect change: the American population.
So, you ask me what my country is doing, and I answer you that it’s NOT going around invading countries, lying about it, trying to destabilise other parts of the world.
Steve Jobs made a very interesting point when asked about the current warring going on in the world and how it affects Apple. Jobs mostly avoided the question, but he did state that industry depends quite a bit on stability, and wars get in the way of that. He also suggested to people to think about that.
Thinking about that, if you consider the amount of instability the US government bring to the rest of the world, especially places with growing economies, there might be another reason for all this warring. How is another country going to compete, if it’s geopolitical area is constantly under threat, destabilised? Answer: they won’t be able to compete, and that’s exactly what your country wants. The US government is not out to bring freedom to the world, it’s out to bring chaos to the world. Your government is dedicated to disrupt the development of any other competitor. And why would the good ol’ USA do such a thing? I think it’s pretty obvious: to make sure the USA has the strongest economy and thus the strongest military, and thus retain their monopoly on violence.
In sum, don’t bother asking me what I and my country are doing to prevent the USA from destroying the world for other people when it’s YOUR responsibility as one of its citizens to be responsible and accountable for it. My country is not engaging in espionage and bombing people into chaos.
@Ampar.
You ignore the questions, deliberately. Fine, keep your head in the sand. Of course, this is because you’re not the one getting the shit bombed out of your neighbourhood. You don’t have to care either, so you don’t.
Then I will rephrase the question.
What do you and your country do for mankind at all?
You are playing a game, Frank. And you are horrible at it.
“You don’t have to care either, so you don’t.”
Actually, I think you’re a pompous little prick who assumes to know what I think and what I care about. You don’t. Your first reply was ad hominem so I’ll return the favor. You have invalidated any chance of reasonable arguments of your own with fallacies and knee jerk responses.
P.S. Thanks for four pages. And bite me.
We never bombed Chaos. I think you’re thinking of Laos.
TowerTone, I’m not sure what game you’re referring to, but asking me what my country does is ignoring the problem. This isn’t some pissing match between countries and populations, comparing lists of good and bad deeds. If someone breaks into a neighbour’s house and kills that person, does it make a good defense for that killer to question the neighbour’s family about their good deeds?
This is about your government, your military, your actions that cause immense grief and suffering around the world. There is not other nation causing as much violence and suffering around the world as the USA. My country certainly does not. The USA is the instigator of a series of crimes against real people. Will you answer to that or not, is the real question.
@ Ampar: Okay, tell me you care, tell me you’re conscious about what’s going on, and then tell me what you’re doing about it. And I don’t believe my arguments were that ad hominen at all. Perhaps I was suggestive, but you can easily counter that if it’s not true.
@ Chrissyone: I’m not really sure what you’re referring to, but I meant the USA bombs in order to destabilise other nations and cause chaos.
It was a joke, dude.
“And I don’t believe my arguments were that ad hominen at all.”
“@Ampar What a stupid response.”
“An ad hominem fallacy consists of asserting that someone’s argument is wrong and/or he is wrong to argue at all purely because of something discreditable/not-authoritative about the person or those persons cited by him rather than addressing the soundness of the argument itself.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
C1: “I think you’re thinking of Laos.”
Or we could get smart and bomb KAOS.
We tried, but we missed it by that much.
C1:
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(Who could forget Bernie Kopell as Siegfried?)
This guy is so ashamed of who he is and where he lives that he will not enter a debate with any good faith.
He has no desire to discuss events rationally.
He is as boring and overbearing with his prejudices as always.
Frank, please move to Baghdad so Blackwater can take you out…..
“Catfish are jumpin’
That paddle wheel thumpin’
Blackwater keeps rollin’ on past just the same . . .”
– From the other kind of Doobie.
“From the other kind of Doobie.”
that ties into the fact that Frank is on a ‘high-horse’…
(and maybe a ‘horse’ high. That would explain the delusions)
@ Ampar. Okay, re-read that Wikipedia entry again. You’re not fully understanding it. Sure, I called your response stupid, and it was. We can go over that, but I think it’s self-evident.
An ad hominen attack would be if I argued your argument is “wrong” because you’re stupid.
Incidentally, that seems to be the way you counter all my claims: by insulting me. I.e. According to you I’m wrong because I’m a “pompous little prick”.
Let me repeat, I say the citizens of the USA have an obligation to end their government’s violent and immoral suppression of other nations.
TowerTone’s only approach has been ad hominem – he’s arguing against my claims by trying to find out what country I’m from, as if that has anything to do with it. He doesn’t even realise his entire mode of thinking is ad hominem. He tries to discredit my statements by finding out something about me.
THAT’S ad hominem, folks. And it seems that is the mode of reasoning being pushed on American citizens; and unfortunately for the millions killed by the USA, it is working.
TowerTone: “that ties into the fact that Frank is on a ‘high-horse’…”
In case it’s still not clear, THAT is an ad hominem argument. According to TowerTone, my arguments are wrong because I’m on my “high horse”. He doesn’t even answer the question, he just deflects it with an insult.
Meanwhile, your government is destroying the lives of thousands of innocent civilians around the word and the only people capable of stopping them — the American public — sit by and ignore it.
To TT: That has to be the most annoying buzzing sound I’ve heard in a looooooooooong time. Know what I mean?
I got sad news for you Reds and Blues, there isn’t a spits worth of difference between the DNC and GOP anymore. They both spend like drunken sailors, they both expand entitlement programs, they both take marching orders from special interest groups, and they both work very hard to take away our liberties under the guise of protectionism or humanitarianism. It’s all B.S., all the time.
What happened to limited Federal government? What happened to fiscal responsibility? What happened to sound monetary policy? What happened to spreading liberty by example instead of by the business end of a gun?
I love this country as much as any of you but Frank has a valid point. Our CIA has been actively working to destabilize foreign governments, since it’s inception, for our economic gain. It’s a fact. Until we (as a nation) quit acting like we have some moral authority to police the world, we’re going to bankrupt ourselves financially, spiritually and morally.
The good news is there is a choice this election season. Google Ron Paul and find out for yourselves. Listen to the message and ask yourself, if we continue down the path we’re on, will the country be better for our children and their children? The two ruling parties have ruled us into disaster. This didn’t start 4 or 8 or even 20 years ago. This has been more than thirty years coming. It’s time to reflect on the Constitution. Read what the founders said, what they warned us against and see how far we’ve fallen.
Thanks for reading this.
MDN MW: “true” – Yes it is.
@ Ampar:
So, I point out your misinterpretation of ad hominem attacks, the fact that your country is destroying peoples all across the world, and you accuse me of ad hominen attacks, and then with your own ad hominem attacks refer to me as annoying buzzing. You know what, there’s a word for that: hypocrisy.
Your silence on your governments actions across the world speaks volumes. It is deafening. It is exactly what I’ve been trying to point out. You have validated everything I have claimed.
To the spoiled and the morally lazy, truth is an annoyance.
you mean this sound?
@ OBill-Wan Kenobi
Wow, that’s refreshing, and welcoming. Someone has guts to figure it out and admit it. Maybe there is hope. Thank you.