Monday, August 8, 2011

Study Shows Internet Explorer Users Have Lower IQ


If you’re reading this using IE, don’t try to close it and read this on Safari or Firefox we won’t judge you by that, but unfortunately you might be part of this claim. As a Canadian firm AptiQuant have discovered under their study called “Intelligent Quotient and Browser Usage” that users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser have a lower IQ level than users of other browsers.
AptiQuant have participants around 101,326 with age above 16 for the browser usage IQ test. The participants is grouped based from the browser they use. Ultimately results shows that Internet Explorer users have an average IQ score of just above 80, making it the least quotient compared to Firefox/Chrome and Safari/Camino users who have IQ score of 110 and above 120, respectively.
The study also added a very interesting fact that shows that the older versions of IE users have even lower level of IQ. This really corresponds to the poor rating of the browser’s versions such IE6 who’ve been developer’s enemy for non-compliance to web standards and security issues. Now you have to guess why Microsoft have started banning the use of IE6 earlier this year.
In the end, it shows results: “Individuals on the lower side of the IQ scale tend to resist a change/upgrade of their browsers. Now that we have a statistical pattern on the continuous usage of incompatible browsers, better steps can be taken to eradicate this nuisance.”
It looks like anyone claims that even without study they could have told this story.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid.

Cloud computing is a natural evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, Service-oriented architecture and utility computing. Details are abstracted from consumers, who no longer have need for expertise in, or control over, the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them.Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves over-the-Internet provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources. It is a byproduct and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote computing sites provided by the Internet.This frequently takes the form of web-based tools or applications that users can access and use through a web browser as if it were a program installed locally on their own computer.NIST provides a somewhat more objective and specific definition here.The term "cloud" is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used in the past to represent the telephone network, and later to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents.Typical cloud computing providers deliver common business applications online that are accessed from another Web service or software like a Web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers.



Most cloud computing infrastructures consist of services delivered through common centers and built on servers. Clouds often appear as single points of access for consumers' computing needs. Commercial offerings are generally expected to meet quality of service (QoS) requirements of customers, and typically include service level agreements (SLAs).The major cloud service providers include Amazon, Salesforce and Google. Some of the larger IT firms that are actively involved in cloud computing are Fujitsu, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, IBM,VMware, HCL, NetApp and Dell.