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I did a scientific simulation to determine the loser in this scenario. China loses by 100%

Duh. There's an easy way to figure this one out: http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=google&word2=china

Allah vs. Jesus.

Do I win the interweb?

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Taliban+&word2=Amish

It actually has come to the point where botnets are actively removing other malware from the infected computer, much like a parasite killing off other parasites so that it has sole possession of the host.

I'm waiting for the visualization software that will display the fight. Maybe you could place bets...

Then you need to look no further, my friend. May be available in HD in selected areas.

Google says that it is.

Google Fight!

"Bubble up" is the winner. Plus it reminds me of Sir Mix-A-Lot.

UH! Bubble up! UH! UH!

Clearly superior to "going bubble" in every way.

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=tabs&word2=spaces

Actually, it looks like Oracle won by over 2m results...

That's clever :). Of course, it's going to account for a heck of a lot of articles that merely mention US-based companies being the victim of IP theft in China. Let's have another Google Fight.

I'd really like to see a bar graph with two values on it, one for the amount of IP theft perpetrated by US-based companies, and one for IP theft perpetrated by Chinese firms

Ask and you shall receive. ;-)

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=adolf+hitler&word2=juden

"adolf hitler" wins versus "juden" by just over 6,000,000. this is empirical evidence that googlefight knows all and that 9/11 > holocaust.

And 9/11 loses to douche. Sorry, guess I missed your point.
(not that I agree or disagree with anything in this thread, I'm just wondering wtf your link shows that is relevant)

Yet strangely Googlefight shows Holocaust losing to 9/11.

Google proves it

Maybe it's your locale settings? Google fight report disagrees with your numbers: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=fourth+of+july&word2=july+fourth

Linux is used by over 10 million people worldwide and is widely known among technical types (the demographic Slashdot attracts). Theora is much less known. (source).

Ummmm.....have you looked out the window lately, I don't really see much of the JAVA run stuff

You know, I love Ruby. I use it almost exclusively now. But if you think Java is "stagnating", try looking for a job.

Indeed, one of the recent major improvements of Ruby was version 1.9. One of the large improvements this brought was a 2x improvement in speed. That doesn't tell me that Ruby is evolving so much faster than Java, it tells me that even when Ruby doubles in speed, it's still far slower than Java -- it tells me that there's far less that can be done to squeeze every drop of performance out of Java, mostly because Java is actually pretty optimized already.

In fact, JRuby has been one of the best and fastest implementations of Ruby for awhile now.

.NET is 4.0 already,

Because version numbers mean so much. You know what? Java is on version 6 already, and depending on how you're counting, version 7 is due soon.

Regardless, as much as you seem willing to spew meaningless hate -- there are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate Java, yet you haven't cited one -- you also didn't address the actual point. That is: You claimed "cross-platform" was a scam. I called bullshit. And indeed, Java is cross-platform -- every phone except the iPhone, every Blu-Ray player, and every major OS on every major architecture used on the server.

And, you didn't learn your lesson. It's Java, not JAVA. It's not an acronym. I noticed you didn't apply the same treatment to PYTHON or RUBY -- why is that?

Wrong, but even if you were right, Kaizen is spelled with a K . So if you don't get a choice, you spell it with a fucking K. Not a C.

Why does windows Suck? => Windows and microsoft results, no macs in sight
Why is windows insecure? => Windows and Microsoft results, no macs in sight.

Put quotes around the question, i.e. "Why is windows so expensive?", and Bing only returns Windows results. But looking at these results, they are not big hitter sites. I am no big Windows fan (using Linux anytime I have a choice) but I just don't think there is that much discussion about how expensive Windows is out there. The expense of Macs is always discussed.

Check out the Google fights if you don't believe me:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22Why+is+windows+so+expensive%22&word2=%22Why+are+macs+so+expensive%22

I don't know what algorithm is used to rank results by Bing, but it doesn't seem to be pro Windows in general, only with that particular search.

Nothing to see here, move along....

That doesn't answer the question though. Try this instead.

Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's to blame?

This and many other questions can be settled with a simple googlefight.

PS: That's also how I resolve all my spelling issues.

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=google&word2=bing

google: 2,130,000,000 results
bing: 10,800,000 results
winner: google

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=google&word2=yahoo

google: 2,130,000,000 results
yahoo: 2,310,000,000 results
winner: yahoo

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=google&word2=bing

google: 2,130,000,000 results
bing: 10,800,000 results
winner: google

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=google&word2=yahoo

google: 2,130,000,000 results
yahoo: 2,310,000,000 results
winner: yahoo

Ah, I see you're a moron. You still lose.

Boeing wins :-)

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=nvidia+problem&word2=ati+problem

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=nvidia+problem&word2=ati+problem

Pay more attention to nature?! You should try google fighting it before making those kinds of statements.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Flash wins, though I imagine its biased because googlefights is Flash based :P

But at least they didn't spell it "compatable".

who thinks hes Obama

Strange that you get this from Dion. I would think this description applies more to Layton, and Googlefight agrees.

http://election.globaltv.com/topstorydetail.aspx?sectionid=223&postid=49412

Bush third term? Blatant Obama ripoff. Never mind that the GOP considers Canadian conservatives to be too liberal for their taste.

What is stupid about putting a cost on emitting CO2? Currently the emitters benefit from being able to emit CO2 but the costs are felt by everyone. This is privatized gain with socialized risk. Putting a cost on emitting CO2 helps to eliminate this moral hazard.

Well first off as it's presented it's taking from corporations on one hand and giving it back as personal tax cuts.. basically raising corporate taxes via the back door. Who will end up paying for the higher corporate taxes? The consumers.

Second: Taxes on gasoline and heating oil are already carefully balanced so that people pay more to drive but less to heat their homes. Messing with that balance is dangerous.

Third: punishing carbon emitters is a bad idea. That's all stick and no carrot. Energy consumption is already expensive and a motivator to cut costs. What happens if you can't afford to make the needed improvements? Take my landlord for instance. He and his wife both work full time to pay for his house. We have talked several times about how he could save money by replacing his ancient heating oil system and replacing it with a new one. Want to know why he hasn't yet? He can't afford the $15 000 it would cost him. He just doesn't have that money laying around. Same goes for some of the homeowners around the corner who can't afford the major renovations needed to properly insulate their houses. My old apartment wasn't insulated properly either but my landlord didn't feel the need to insulate the place. Why not? Because I had to pay for the heating. Guess who would pay the increased carbon tax too? What obscure corner of Canada does this all happen in? St-Laurent, Dion's own riding. All he had to do was talk to some of his own constituents to find out what the problems with his plans are.

Dion is an idiot

I haven't seen anything that suggests to me that any of the major party leaders are idiots. Some of them may have some unintelligent candidates in some ridings, but I get the impression that the leaders are all fairly intelligent.

who thinks hes Obama

Strange that you get this from Dion. I would think this description applies more to Layton, and Googlefight agrees.

and wants to rearrange the tax system in a really stupid way

What is stupid about putting a cost on emitting CO2? Currently the emitters benefit from being able to emit CO2 but the costs are felt by everyone. This is privatized gain with socialized risk. Putting a cost on emitting CO2 helps to eliminate this moral hazard.

Heaven or Hell, Duel One, Let's Rock!

Next on Fox: When memes collide!

You could argue he achieved less than he might have, but to say he achieved nothing is idiotic.

Let's compare

It is pretty clear that the Tibet issue and the Free Tibet movement is much bigger and well-known than this guy's activism. Yes, a drop of water in the ocean adds to the total amount, but on the whole not so much.

how can MS make a web-based OS if there's no such thing as the web?

Whenever I think of female librarians, there's nothing "mild" about them. Rwa-oh!

How do you pronounce that? Ruh-wah-oh? Or did you mean Rowrrr?

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=rwah-oh&word2=rowrrr
 

? Why is making TLA fight TLA relevent? Better googlefight. Though it would probably be more accurate if it were "Session Initiation Protocol" +SIP vs. "Software Isolated Processes" +SIP. But googlefight does not, aparently, like "" or +, just treats them as part of the search terms.

Perhaps some kind of fight to the death will resolve this.

Meh, it's a tie.

According to the current Googlefight figures, Viacom has a long way to go.

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=youtube&word2=viacom

-Stor

Sorry, but you're wrong!

Nice try, but let's ask the Cloud: Nope, Googlefight definitely says that quantum theory is the correct one.

Yes, it seems there is still the occasional glitch in the Matrix:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Microsoft+Windows&word2=Linux

(Okay, so maybe I'm looking a little too hard.)

As for Hg, it's lost the war. Git has won. If you want proof, try some searches for "git tutorial" and "mercurial tutorial" and see who's winning.

Also, Google Code now provides Git repos for almost ALL of the projects.

Git didn't have windows support very early on but very soon you could compile it with Cygwin.

Target audience were Linux hackers so having support for various other systems wouldn't have done much at all.

The DVD has the text?

Googlefight suggests that it should be Tasticles:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Tastecicles&word2=Tasticles

Note that a good number of the results for Tastecicles are posts by a certain /. user.

I also found a transcription that showed tasticles. Everything2 has Tastecicles. It's probably just a different interpretation of the pronunciation that comes out of Bender in the episode, but tasticles is certainly more reminiscent of testicles when written as text.

GTA IV vs MADD

An even bigger ass-kicking.

Grand Theft Auto IV = 11,800,000, Polio = 4,890,000.

grand theft auto iv versus polio

It appears one of them gets their ass handed to them.