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According to the CIA World Factbook....

Those figures are quite dated, actually. According to Global Reach the Internet has over 800 million users. The CIA factbook shows only 600 million which puts their data at about two years old.

--Asa

US researchers estimate that every year 800MB of information is produced for every person on the planet.

Has anyone actually tried to interpret the SQL Server license agreement?

In court:

Judge: "So can the court see the software license for this software?"

(shuffling of paper)

"Ah we see from this that you have 10 user licenses for your SQL server."

"Yes your honour"

"...yet your server was connected to the Internet - correct?"

"Correct your honour"

"But according to this license agreement, you must acquire a separate CAL for each Device that ... accesses or otherwise utilizes the services of the Server Software (which techically includes every worm infected machine) and seeing as the server was behind a website, that would come under Hardware or software that reduces the number of Devices directly accessing or using the Server Software does not reduce the number of required CALs. The number you need is based on the number of distinct inputs to the hardware or software "front end." ...so therefore you would theoretically need a license for anyone who could access your site, which right now is a total of around 619 Million people if it is connected to the Internet.

*thud*

Judge:"...and then we have the Windows 2000 server CAL's..."

You know, of course, that the web was invented in Switzerland

Yes and it's completely irrellevant. the Internet sprang out from ARPANET. Read a little history. As you say http was developed at CERN an international laboratory located in switzerland. Does that mean that the swiss has the best web infrastructure in the world and the highest usage among it's population? And that the US r0olz when it comes to serving every other protocol? And how does that affect the french? The fact that someone (not a swiss afaik was in switzerland at the time he invented something vaguely like what we know as the web doesn't prove anything

And still no matter who invented the Internet doesn't matter in this context. Someone (possibly you, but you never know with ACs) made the claim that since the newspaper was japanese it was likely to get slashdotted. And the argument was that french newspaper wouldn't stand up to slashdotting. I made the point that france and japan are very different countries (culturally at least) and that what is (perhaps) true for france has nothing to do with japan.

Look at some statistics
There are 61.4 M japanese speaking internet users, compared to 230.6 M english speaking and 22.0 M french speakin
I think we can expect that one of Japan's biggest newspapers should withstand a little slashdotting if it can cope with any significant market share of 61.4 M potential visitors

Don't even know why I care to answer your stupid troll post.

Thank you and the same to you, if you have problems with me (or anyone) making a point about a stupid post you shouldn't be reading slashdot

Amount of pages in different languages, users, etc: http://www.glreach.com/globstats/ind ex. php3

According to this, English is 49.6% of the internet population.

I pity you, o poor american cripples who are dependent on someone's translation to read german article... According to the statistics here only 5.9% of the internet population's native language is German. Do you mean to say with your above quote that everyone in the world should be able to speak every language in existance just so we can read everything in the world without a translator? I think we all know that's a pretty ridiculous proposal.

Not that I defend the American tendency to be monolingual and proud of it, but I believe CmdrTaco made the following assumptions:
2) The people reading slashdot speak English, or else they'd have a pretty hard time understanding what all the news was about, unless of course, they were using babelfish to translate English in to their native language... maybe even German?

Given those two assumptions, it would be completely logical to conclude that most of the slashdot crowd will need a translation of some sort, one which babelfish can provide.

Global Internet Stats by language says that Japanese is #2

Perhaps more interesting is their predictions for..the future.....Hello China!!!!!!

Global Internet Stats by language says that Japanese is #2

Perhaps more interesting is their predictions for..the future.....Hello China!!!!!!

So we're all in a rush to buy up every last word and phrase in the English language, for later resale to highest bidders. Gag me with snake-oil! Are we forever stuck with ASCII-ONLY DNS?

The fastest growth on the web now, finally, is non-English . Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the HTTP:// protocol works only with ASCII-ONLY URL's. When will the web outgrow ascii and into UniCode? We need URL's in Czech, Chinese, Cyrillic. etc. Anybody know of specific initiatives?

ask slashdot: are any MultiLingual URL Protocols being developed to allow us to record and browse the world in more of its many languages? Where are they?

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