Forget Robot Wars/Battle Bots, They could televise it and then we could see some really good robots doing battle... Stuff robots made for $50 and we have robots made for $500,000
These are just estimates taken from round the web but are probably as accurate as any other survey done:
50% of users time is spent on 4 sites.
There are 500 Million users approx.
Lets say 75% of them surf the web, thats probably being fairly conservative too.
Lets now persume they spend, on average 5 hours per week on the web for personal reasons.
OK so 500 Million * 5 * 0.75 = 1875 Million Hours surfing time.
Now 4 companies get 50% of this time. 1875*.5 = 937.5 Million Hours on these 4 companies.
No of seconds in a week: 604800
606,350 hits per second for these four sites, persuming that each user makes one hit.
Taking the average no of hits for the front page or yahoo.com, msn.com, aol.com and napster.com 12.25.
606,350*12.25 = 7,427,788 hits per second.
Now lets persume msft gets 1/4 of this traffic:
7,427,788 *.25 = 1,849,519 hits per second
Now they must have one hell of a server farm to get IIS to serve that lot, if it actually manages to stay up long enough.. they would be far better off using apache and a *nix which would fare far better:)
Another interesting thing to note out of these 4 sites, 1 Uses IIS, 1 uses AolServer on Solaris, 1 uses apache on an unkown unix and the other runs using an unkown server (probably apache) on FreeBSD.
(Yes and I know no of hits != time spent on the site, but then again its likley to be connected in someway.)
>And to check to make sure that it is a geometic expression...
Geometric progression.. I think you mean exponential increase.. perhaps we could model the prices with something along the lines of:
Price_of_Rambus = Ae^-t/size_of_ram
(Where A is very very large..)
forget Moores law.. we have Digimax's law!!
This has even been taken to a level higher in several UK towns and Cities where you can request that the cameras follow your every move, by doing this a controler will make the cameras follow your every move and make sure your OK. A lot of CCTV cameras are monitored 24/7 this is great it has cut street crime in the UK massivly and if there is any problems the police are informed Immediatly so they can respond.
The amercians seem to have this complex about the government having too much power but you need to remember that schemes such as the CCTV work very well, DNA testing is just a step up from this I would gladly give my DNA sample AS LONG as there is proper precautions in place, even if the police did come knocking on my door saying i had commited a crime and my DNA says so there is plenty of scientific evidence DNA isnt accurate enough to convict a person.
Get over all your "Big Brother" attitudes all americans have an think about the advantages.. having said that there is no way they are getting my PGP key.
I might be whats considered a teenage computer geek, Im 17, involved with various open source projects, program and like using computers but does this imply I have no social life?? I think not, when not doing college work (which unfortunatly I have to do to get good grades) I am often chatting on IRC or programming and when not doing this Im out at the pub or a club with friends. I am quite happly a "geek" but im certainly not an introvert. Maybe im just weird:)
Although I find Comp Sci boring at college (US eqiv of senior year at high school) I find my other subjects challenging. But you need to get out once in a while and have fun,get drunk, have random sex and take drugs.. I think its important to have the self confidence to go over and talk to a girl that you like if you want to and not think shes just going to laugh at me.
Do you feel you have low self confidence or just a lack of social skills? Do you long to go out and have fun or just are not bothered? If you are not bothered cant you see that theres more to life than computers?
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Forget Robot Wars/Battle Bots, They could televise it and then we could see some really good robots doing battle... Stuff robots made for $50 and we have robots made for $500,000
Now you too can loose millions with the best of them by investing in the new media sector!!
Least these guys tell you how to do it properly.
You should PHP-DEV when it gets to release time and people want to merge unneeded patches into the release branch.. now thats a flame war :)
With this and the electrodes in your joystick Quake 2 could actually come quite a dangerous experiance :)
These are just estimates taken from round the web but are probably as accurate as any other survey done:
.25 = 1,849,519 hits per second
:)
50% of users time is spent on 4 sites.
There are 500 Million users approx.
Lets say 75% of them surf the web, thats probably being fairly conservative too.
Lets now persume they spend, on average 5 hours per week on the web for personal reasons.
OK so 500 Million * 5 * 0.75 = 1875 Million Hours surfing time.
Now 4 companies get 50% of this time. 1875*.5 = 937.5 Million Hours on these 4 companies.
No of seconds in a week: 604800
606,350 hits per second for these four sites, persuming that each user makes one hit.
Taking the average no of hits for the front page or yahoo.com, msn.com, aol.com and napster.com 12.25.
606,350*12.25 = 7,427,788 hits per second.
Now lets persume msft gets 1/4 of this traffic:
7,427,788 *
Now they must have one hell of a server farm to get IIS to serve that lot, if it actually manages to stay up long enough.. they would be far better off using apache and a *nix which would fare far better
Another interesting thing to note out of these 4 sites, 1 Uses IIS, 1 uses AolServer on Solaris, 1 uses apache on an unkown unix and the other runs using an unkown server (probably apache) on FreeBSD.
(Yes and I know no of hits != time spent on the site, but then again its likley to be connected in someway.)
>And to check to make sure that it is a geometic expression... Geometric progression.. I think you mean exponential increase.. perhaps we could model the prices with something along the lines of: Price_of_Rambus = Ae^-t/size_of_ram (Where A is very very large..) forget Moores law.. we have Digimax's law!!
Wow I no longer need my UPS.. I can just build one of these and keep my server going forever!!
This has even been taken to a level higher in several UK towns and Cities where you can request that the cameras follow your every move, by doing this a controler will make the cameras follow your every move and make sure your OK. A lot of CCTV cameras are monitored 24/7 this is great it has cut street crime in the UK massivly and if there is any problems the police are informed Immediatly so they can respond. The amercians seem to have this complex about the government having too much power but you need to remember that schemes such as the CCTV work very well, DNA testing is just a step up from this I would gladly give my DNA sample AS LONG as there is proper precautions in place, even if the police did come knocking on my door saying i had commited a crime and my DNA says so there is plenty of scientific evidence DNA isnt accurate enough to convict a person. Get over all your "Big Brother" attitudes all americans have an think about the advantages.. having said that there is no way they are getting my PGP key.
Perhaps we should start attaching the lovebug to Spam reply emails telling them to remove us from the list.. my details are attached ;)
Do you think we could test out its effectivness in Silicon Valley and do us all a favour?
I might be whats considered a teenage computer geek, Im 17, involved with various open source projects, program and like using computers but does this imply I have no social life?? I think not, when not doing college work (which unfortunatly I have to do to get good grades) I am often chatting on IRC or programming and when not doing this Im out at the pub or a club with friends. I am quite happly a "geek" but im certainly not an introvert. Maybe im just weird :)
Although I find Comp Sci boring at college (US eqiv of senior year at high school) I find my other subjects challenging. But you need to get out once in a while and have fun,get drunk, have random sex and take drugs.. I think its important to have the self confidence to go over and talk to a girl that you like if you want to and not think shes just going to laugh at me.
Do you feel you have low self confidence or just a lack of social skills? Do you long to go out and have fun or just are not bothered? If you are not bothered cant you see that theres more to life than computers?