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  1. Re:Visual Basic at #3? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 1 · on Are C and C++ Losing Ground?

    Anyway it may just be a statistical bump...Last year was a huge year, maybe this year is seeing a fall off.

    Delphi or Javascript? Delphi I could see. Javascript, not so much. They should not be recording a reduction of interest in Javascript when more frameworks appeared in the last year than ever before. I have seen no signs of the Javascript engine waning. In fact, it's continuing to pick up speed as customers demand web applications with greater interactivity and responsiveness.

    What seems to be true to me is that their methodology is flawed. What they are doing is effectively a Google Fight on a professional scale. Which can lead to all sorts of problems due to the way the english language works. For example, take these two Google Fights:

    Delphi vs. Javascript - 6.62:1 in favor of Javascript
    Delphi programming vs. Javascript programming - 2:1 in favor of Javascript

    Yet if we follow their methodology and search Google with +"Delphi programming" and +"Javascript programming" we get 260,000 vs. 341,000 results, respectively. Does that mean that Javascript is only slightly more popular for programming than Delphi? No, it means that people don't use the term "Javascript programming" a whole lot. (Or the search engine doesn't find that combination of words very appetizing. Either way.)

    A more interesting search is to check Sourceforge. 1842 results for Javascript, 1359 results for AJAX, and 889 results for Delphi. That tells me that Javascript is WAY more popular than Delphi.
  2. Re:Visual Basic at #3? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 1 · on Are C and C++ Losing Ground?

    Anyway it may just be a statistical bump...Last year was a huge year, maybe this year is seeing a fall off.

    Delphi or Javascript? Delphi I could see. Javascript, not so much. They should not be recording a reduction of interest in Javascript when more frameworks appeared in the last year than ever before. I have seen no signs of the Javascript engine waning. In fact, it's continuing to pick up speed as customers demand web applications with greater interactivity and responsiveness.

    What seems to be true to me is that their methodology is flawed. What they are doing is effectively a Google Fight on a professional scale. Which can lead to all sorts of problems due to the way the english language works. For example, take these two Google Fights:

    Delphi vs. Javascript - 6.62:1 in favor of Javascript
    Delphi programming vs. Javascript programming - 2:1 in favor of Javascript

    Yet if we follow their methodology and search Google with +"Delphi programming" and +"Javascript programming" we get 260,000 vs. 341,000 results, respectively. Does that mean that Javascript is only slightly more popular for programming than Delphi? No, it means that people don't use the term "Javascript programming" a whole lot. (Or the search engine doesn't find that combination of words very appetizing. Either way.)

    A more interesting search is to check Sourceforge. 1842 results for Javascript, 1359 results for AJAX, and 889 results for Delphi. That tells me that Javascript is WAY more popular than Delphi.
  3. Re:Visual Basic at #3? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 1 · on Are C and C++ Losing Ground?

    Anyway it may just be a statistical bump...Last year was a huge year, maybe this year is seeing a fall off.

    Delphi or Javascript? Delphi I could see. Javascript, not so much. They should not be recording a reduction of interest in Javascript when more frameworks appeared in the last year than ever before. I have seen no signs of the Javascript engine waning. In fact, it's continuing to pick up speed as customers demand web applications with greater interactivity and responsiveness.

    What seems to be true to me is that their methodology is flawed. What they are doing is effectively a Google Fight on a professional scale. Which can lead to all sorts of problems due to the way the english language works. For example, take these two Google Fights:

    Delphi vs. Javascript - 6.62:1 in favor of Javascript
    Delphi programming vs. Javascript programming - 2:1 in favor of Javascript

    Yet if we follow their methodology and search Google with +"Delphi programming" and +"Javascript programming" we get 260,000 vs. 341,000 results, respectively. Does that mean that Javascript is only slightly more popular for programming than Delphi? No, it means that people don't use the term "Javascript programming" a whole lot. (Or the search engine doesn't find that combination of words very appetizing. Either way.)

    A more interesting search is to check Sourceforge. 1842 results for Javascript, 1359 results for AJAX, and 889 results for Delphi. That tells me that Javascript is WAY more popular than Delphi.
  4. Re:A serious rethink of ExtJS by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1 · on ExtJS 2.1 AJAX Library Switches To GPL

    any top-level application code must be GPL'd due to the distributed nature of web applications. The inherent act of pulling the client-side code down to the browser categorizes this as distribution...

    Of the client-side code, yes.

    What I don't get is how he thinks that also applies to the server-side code. Tightly coupled or not, the GPL traditionally refers to things which are actually linked against each other -- for example, it is entirely possible to have a non-GPL'd program depend on, say, a GPL'd bash. And then there are things like Second Life, where the client is GPL'd, but the server isn't available under any license -- sure, they are tightly coupled, but there's still a network in the way.

    Whether or not you think the GPL should apply to the other end of the connection, I'm pretty sure it legally doesn't, and I can't see how you could enforce that, anyhow. Does that mean that if I write a GPL'd client for Google Search (for things like Google Fight, say), could I then demand Google to give me their PageRank algorithm? You could say it only applies to apps in which client and server are developed together, but how the hell do you define that clearly enough to work? And again, how does it protect you against a third party using your API?

    Now I'm very much concerned whether I should be using this package at all - not based on the quality of the software - but based on the leadership instability and capricious nature of this licensing switch.

    Is the leadership unstable?

    I can see both sides on the switch, though. I can see why it seems kind of sneaky and underhanded that they'd change the license out from under you, with no notice. But at the same time, I really don't see this changing many apps -- I suspect most of them will have a backend that ext can't touch. And, as you say, you were planning to pay the commercial license anyway -- so the only thing this changes is your perception of the guy.

  5. Re:Methodology and Implications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Internet Sites Biased Towards Supporting Suicide

    Look, a google fight does not constitute research..

  6. Re:2 SPs in, 1 SP out, WINDOWS CAGE MATCH '08 by neverbeeninariot · · Score: 1 · on Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing

    Saw that contest already...

    XPSP3 vs VSP1

    A somewhat surprising result...

    nbiar

  7. Re:Is Yahoo the #1 destination? by catxk · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo

    No. http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Google+is+the+no+1+internet+destination&word2=Yahoo+is+the+no+1+internet+destination

  8. Re:GoogleFight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google Products You Forgot All About

    If you google "internet" you get approx. 2,690,000,000 results. That seems to overflow the variable in googlefight.com.

  9. Re:GoogleFight by aussie_a · · Score: 1 · on Google Products You Forgot All About

    Easy to reverse the outcome.

  10. GoogleFight by 10e6Steve · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on Google Products You Forgot All About

    I liked GoogleFight.

  11. Google Trial! by sam_handelman · · Score: 1 · on Google Conducts Trial on User-Voted Search Results

    This is obviously a precursor to Google's plan to replace the entire jury system.... with Google Trial! (they'd call it gtrial but that's already trademarked in the Netherlands).

    O.J. Simpson? GUILTY!

    Mumia? INNOCENT BY A HAIR!

    Slobodan Milosevic, a war criminal? YES INDEED.

    And so is President Bush.

  12. Google Trial! by sam_handelman · · Score: 1 · on Google Conducts Trial on User-Voted Search Results

    This is obviously a precursor to Google's plan to replace the entire jury system.... with Google Trial! (they'd call it gtrial but that's already trademarked in the Netherlands).

    O.J. Simpson? GUILTY!

    Mumia? INNOCENT BY A HAIR!

    Slobodan Milosevic, a war criminal? YES INDEED.

    And so is President Bush.

  13. Google Trial! by sam_handelman · · Score: 1 · on Google Conducts Trial on User-Voted Search Results

    This is obviously a precursor to Google's plan to replace the entire jury system.... with Google Trial! (they'd call it gtrial but that's already trademarked in the Netherlands).

    O.J. Simpson? GUILTY!

    Mumia? INNOCENT BY A HAIR!

    Slobodan Milosevic, a war criminal? YES INDEED.

    And so is President Bush.

  14. Google Trial! by sam_handelman · · Score: 1 · on Google Conducts Trial on User-Voted Search Results

    This is obviously a precursor to Google's plan to replace the entire jury system.... with Google Trial! (they'd call it gtrial but that's already trademarked in the Netherlands).

    O.J. Simpson? GUILTY!

    Mumia? INNOCENT BY A HAIR!

    Slobodan Milosevic, a war criminal? YES INDEED.

    And so is President Bush.

  15. Re:Apple software not secure. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Firefox Susceptible To QuickTime Security Flaw

    What rock have you been living under? http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=quicktime+exploit&word2=%22windows+media+player%22+exploit

  16. Re:Quick Erase? by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 0 · on TB-Sized Solid State Drives Announced

    Depends on your definition of "commonly used"

    http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=rubber-hose+cryptography&word2=rubber-hose+cryptanalysis
    (needs javascript)

  17. Re:Would've been nicer if you said... by illeism · · Score: 1 · on A New Theory of Everything?

    Who knew that Madonna was such a badass?!

  18. Re:Would've been nicer if you said... by bob.appleyard · · Score: 1 · on A New Theory of Everything?

    What the guys above said.

    Aaaannd... Google's on Einstein's side.

    ** Ducks

  19. Re:Under Fire? by ultranova · · Score: 1 · on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally

    They should just stick to those two rules or else we would see a different Google logo everyday.

    That's nothing. The shit will really hit the fan when two groups both decide their particular holidays deserve the logo and happen to be on the same day. To make the shit radiactive, have one of the groups be muslims. To make it supercritical, make the other group be of any other religion.

    Now that's a Googlefight from Hell ;).

  20. Re:I let google answer by Eat+COBOL+And+Die · · Score: 1 · on Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps?

    Actually we can have a bit more fair decision. http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Google+Maps+API&word2=Microsoft+Live+Maps Well, comparing "Google Maps API" with "Microsoft Live Maps" (more hits to Microsoft) isn't really fair... We should either In both cases, Google Maps wins.
  21. Re:I let google answer by Eat+COBOL+And+Die · · Score: 1 · on Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps?

    Actually we can have a bit more fair decision. http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Google+Maps+API&word2=Microsoft+Live+Maps Well, comparing "Google Maps API" with "Microsoft Live Maps" (more hits to Microsoft) isn't really fair... We should either In both cases, Google Maps wins.
  22. Re:I let google answer by Eat+COBOL+And+Die · · Score: 1 · on Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps?

    Actually we can have a bit more fair decision. http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Google+Maps+API&word2=Microsoft+Live+Maps Well, comparing "Google Maps API" with "Microsoft Live Maps" (more hits to Microsoft) isn't really fair... We should either In both cases, Google Maps wins.
  23. Re:I let google answer by alien9 · · Score: 1 · on Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps?

    Actually we can have a bit more fair decision. http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Google+Maps+API&word2=Microsoft+Live+Maps

  24. Re:At least by zippthorne · · Score: 1 · on Know How To Use a Slide Rule?

    You just don't know how to ask the right question.

  25. Re:At least by zippthorne · · Score: 1 · on Know How To Use a Slide Rule?

    You just don't know how to ask the right question.

  26. Re:At least by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 1 · on Know How To Use a Slide Rule?

    At least a slide rule is more accurate than excel 2007.

    Googlefight does not agree. I wonder what Netcraft thinks?

  27. Furries have already won where it matters by greenreaper · · Score: 2, Informative · on Klingons to Take on Furries in Bowling Match

    Klingons vs. Furries. They have a bigger wiki than ours, but we're working on it.

  28. And the winner is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code

    http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Theo+de+Raadt&word2=Richard+Stallman

  29. Re:Prepare for cranial explosions! by bigsam411 · · Score: 0 · on Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush

    Jack Thompson vs. George Bush - whatever are slashdotters to do?
    I for one just simulated what would happen!!!
  30. Re:Will Google declare the Pope Evil? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Will the Pope Declare Google Evil?

    I'd say it's currently a tie:
    googlefight

  31. Re:Is a web count really the best metric? by tsa · · Score: 1 · on ODF Vs. OOXML File Counts On the Web

    You're right. This is more reliable.

  32. Re:Showdown by dgatwood · · Score: 1 · on AT&T Slams Google Over Open-Access Wireless

    Bug in googlefight. Everything from the ampersand onwards is getting dropped. Write the maintainers an email.

    Anyway, if you work around the problem by preencoding it with a URL syntax (at%26t), you get a very different answer.

  33. Re:Showdown by corbettw · · Score: 1 · on AT&T Slams Google Over Open-Access Wireless

    Uh oh, this does not bode well.

  34. Re:Showdown by hxnwix · · Score: 1 · on AT&T Slams Google Over Open-Access Wireless

    Capitalism rocks. Google senses that.... you are correct! Ding ding ding! Dweet dweet! Win win win win!!!111
  35. Re:More Java growth? by aled · · Score: 1 · on Draft Review of Java 7 "Measures and Units"

    Oh yeah:

    java/.Net crashes

  36. Re:More Java growth? by iDaZe · · Score: 3, Funny · on Draft Review of Java 7 "Measures and Units"

    Your statistics are almost as good as mine:

    Java sucks
    .NET more popular

  37. Re:More Java growth? by iDaZe · · Score: 3, Funny · on Draft Review of Java 7 "Measures and Units"

    Your statistics are almost as good as mine:

    Java sucks
    .NET more popular

  38. Re:why is service fee unknown? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on AT&T Gears Up for the iPhone

    http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=CowboyNeal&word2=Cmdr+Taco

    fatality

  39. Re:Why was the altitude changed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on First Ever Scramjet Reaches Mach 10

    From my experiences they are very bad at converting anything.

    If you're so superior at converting, convert the miles to kilometers in your head and you have nothing to complain about.

    Personally, I convert just fine, and thus usually don't give it a passing thought when something is miles or kilometers.

    While I prefer the kilometer for its conversion ability, it is naive to pretend that the mile is an eccentric unit. This is the internet, and we are speaking in English. A quick check of googlefight shows that "miles" is written 10 times more often than "kilometers". So use your intellect and convert.
  40. Re:Let's see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Flawed Survey Suggests XP More Secure Than Vista

    Proper way would be to add ""s
    googlefight

  41. Re:Let's see by bytesex · · Score: 1 · on Flawed Survey Suggests XP More Secure Than Vista

    Oh no you're wrong.

  42. Re:Let's see by dgatwood · · Score: 2, Funny · on Flawed Survey Suggests XP More Secure Than Vista

    XP more secure than Vista, apparently.

    Google fight

  43. Re:An important debating point by beadfulthings · · Score: 2, Funny · on Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

    You may have a point. I just took it to Google Fight, where I entered the terms "Global Warming" and "Britney Spears." Global Warming seems to have won by 67,800,000 results to Britney's 31,500,000. It also beats out Paris Hilton by a somewhat smaller margin and Lindsay Lohan by a huge margin.

  44. Re:GoogleFIGHT is your friend... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills

    1. C:2,790,000,000 results
    2. cobol: 9,260,000 results

    Round 2: assembly vs fortran http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=assembly&word2=fortran

    1. assembly:188,000,000 results
    2. fortran:17,200,000 results

    Round 3:goat.cx vs tubgirl ... http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=goat.cx&word2=tubgirl

    1. goat.cx:10,900 results
    2. tubgirl:137,000 results

    Round 4: porn vs. spam http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=porn&word2=spam

    1. porn: 101,000,000 results
    2. spam: 231,000,000 results

    Round 5: windows vs open source: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=windows&word2=open+source

    1. windows: 561,000,000 results
    2. open source: 713,000,000 results

    There - everything you need to know about the intarweb!

  45. Re:GoogleFIGHT is your friend... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills

    1. C:2,790,000,000 results
    2. cobol: 9,260,000 results

    Round 2: assembly vs fortran http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=assembly&word2=fortran

    1. assembly:188,000,000 results
    2. fortran:17,200,000 results

    Round 3:goat.cx vs tubgirl ... http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=goat.cx&word2=tubgirl

    1. goat.cx:10,900 results
    2. tubgirl:137,000 results

    Round 4: porn vs. spam http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=porn&word2=spam

    1. porn: 101,000,000 results
    2. spam: 231,000,000 results

    Round 5: windows vs open source: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=windows&word2=open+source

    1. windows: 561,000,000 results
    2. open source: 713,000,000 results

    There - everything you need to know about the intarweb!

  46. Re:GoogleFIGHT is your friend... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills

    1. C:2,790,000,000 results
    2. cobol: 9,260,000 results

    Round 2: assembly vs fortran http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=assembly&word2=fortran

    1. assembly:188,000,000 results
    2. fortran:17,200,000 results

    Round 3:goat.cx vs tubgirl ... http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=goat.cx&word2=tubgirl

    1. goat.cx:10,900 results
    2. tubgirl:137,000 results

    Round 4: porn vs. spam http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=porn&word2=spam

    1. porn: 101,000,000 results
    2. spam: 231,000,000 results

    Round 5: windows vs open source: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=windows&word2=open+source

    1. windows: 561,000,000 results
    2. open source: 713,000,000 results

    There - everything you need to know about the intarweb!

  47. Re:GoogleFIGHT is your friend... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills

    1. C:2,790,000,000 results
    2. cobol: 9,260,000 results

    Round 2: assembly vs fortran http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=assembly&word2=fortran

    1. assembly:188,000,000 results
    2. fortran:17,200,000 results

    Round 3:goat.cx vs tubgirl ... http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=goat.cx&word2=tubgirl

    1. goat.cx:10,900 results
    2. tubgirl:137,000 results

    Round 4: porn vs. spam http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=porn&word2=spam

    1. porn: 101,000,000 results
    2. spam: 231,000,000 results

    Round 5: windows vs open source: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=windows&word2=open+source

    1. windows: 561,000,000 results
    2. open source: 713,000,000 results

    There - everything you need to know about the intarweb!

  48. PlusNet V Spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on ISP Closes Webmail After Spammers Get Addresses

    Time for a Googlefight...

    http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=plusnet&word2=spam

  49. Re:Unix receives more attack attempts than windows by StikyPad · · Score: 1 · on The Clueless Newbie Rides Again

    Tons of break-in attempts everyday, and my Slackware just resists all of them.

    I'm glad you think so; I take that as a compliment! ;)

    Unix is a far more secure platform than Windows; and it has been proved since it's more exposed to heavy attacks all the time.

    No, all you've established, if we can call "stating something" to be establishing it, is that servers with "well known open ports" are more secure than desktops with users installing software, visiting potentially malicious sites, etc. And frankly it doesn't matter what ports are open; what matters is that you know what ports are open, and why. It should go without saying that this knowledge is much more common in serverland than in userland (and it could be argued that it's more common among Unix administrators than Windows, at least historically).

    I don't really care (nor am I qualified) enough to do my own proper research, but I compared search results for Linux and Windows privilege escalation. A search on SecurityFocus returned results in similar proportions: Linux and Windows.

    Of course this is not evidence of anything other than more discovered bugs returning those particular keywords, and I'm not going to argue that one OS is more secure than another -- I only assert that your comparison is inadequate.

  50. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Bungie Vs. Miyamoto - Fight!

    again.. Compare apples to fucking apples.

    http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=Halo&word2=Zelda

    Or would you rather see Master Chief vs Link?