Perhaps a lot of salesmen use sales figures to tally the number of users of each OS out there?
Typical bistromathematics from a salesman: "Let me see... 2000 seats of Win2k3 at AUD$139 and 2000 seats of (downloaded for free) Mandrake Linux equals 2000 MS-Windows users and zero Linux users. Microsoft is steamrolling the market. Job well done." <thwack!>
Sites that require IE and then say, Napoleon-style, "what Konqueror-on-Linux users?" are another classic statistical blunder. Of course the Konqueror (Mozilla, Opera, yadda yadda) users are either going to up-stakes or set their browser ID to MSIE-in-WinXX! <thwack!> (and <thwack!> again, that was really stupid!)
...are for my own (highly Linux-centric) pages. Amongst the funnies in the weblogs, we have:
Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
Nutscrape/9.0 (CP/M; 8-bit) Squid (Our anonymous proxy) AnyBrowser/0.92 [fu] (LinWin; Z; BO) Nintendo/1.0 (Gameboy Advanced) Not Internet Exploiter and not a Micro$hit OS SHARP-TQ-GX30
That last is a cellular 'phone. So obviously I attract a lot of maniacs. (-:
You also need to delete about 4.5% for automated hits from Lynx.
However, MSIE only gets 16.3% of overall hits (roughly 24% if you ignore my pages), Mozilla-ishes get the lion's share at 18.5%, Konqueror next at 4.3%, assorted known bots at 4%, Opera at 0.6% plus zillions of miscellanea at a fraction of a percent each. This is out of 383,000 hits for August.
The top two are steadily changing at about 1% per month each (MSIE is losing about 1%, Mozilla-ishes are gaining about 1%, which is a pretty hefty swing over a year or two), the others are wobbling around their figures, except that Konqueror and related are steadily gaining about 0.1-0.2% each month. June was the last month (hopefully forever) that MSIE was top scorer. That the top search string entering the server is "putty tunnel" and the next commonest entry is only 1/8th as common hints that the vast majority of users hitting the server are hitting it from MS-Windows based machines, but I haven't asked the stats program to itemise those.
Or do some things work in MSIE but not in other browsers? Or will some things work better if they're told that the visitor is MSIE, even if it's really links or w3m?
I did something like this for 10.0 (I wanted the patch indexes to be incremental) but my lone voice wasn't enough. If other people join Cooker, link to the article, and express themselves it may come to pass for 10.2 (10.1 is too far down the pipe already).
It's not as simple as it seems, 'coz those RPMs are bzip2-compressed internally, so a simple binary diff isn't likely to help much; they'll need to do a special stream of RPMs that are binary diffed before compression, which will probably require (more) surgery to RPM as well.
They also drag in a trainload of dependencies. I use both, load all the libraries and be damned with the overhead. That's what having a multi-GHz processor and gigabyte-range RAM is all about. Contrary to MS-Windows, KDE is getting noticeably slimmer and faster these days, and thanks to constant whining from (forex) Mandrake Cooker denizens, the apps are becoming more modular as well (with the notable exception of Kontact and friends).
as an Asian-American, I tire of regularly being asked, "So what's your background?" when my white peers are rarely asked the same question
As a Caucasian (Canadian born of Australian parents, mostly British ancestry but a mixture including 25% Austrian via paternal grandmother, living in Australia), I usually ask people about their background regardless of skin tones etc. And I get specific. Forex, an accommodations manager I met recently, "Medium" Dave, flatly refuses to specify whether he's from the red or the orange bits of Ireland. We get on fine. Likewise, I have a collection of Rhodesian/Zambian and South African acquaintances on both sides of the melanin question.
I have Asian, African, Indonesian, Khazar, Indian, Aboriginal, Spanish, American Negro and other friends mixed in with the usual dose of Caucasia. Yet I still don't feel comfortable that I'm treating everyone equally, again forex, I met an Asian girl about two years ago who has totally full-on blue eyes and didn't do very well at helping her to feel like just another part of the crowd. One of the reasons I'd like to travel the world is to truly first-hand understand what it feel like to be the only white guy in a crowd of something else, ditto the only English speaker in earshot. Easier targets like "the only bloke" and "the only straight" (ie non-homosexual) have already been met, but these still don't provide the ambiance of being genuinely unusual.
It's a military tactic...
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...based on the principle that it is easier to apologise if you exceed your authority than to get permission in the first place.
Once upon a time, telling lies for commercial gain was called "fraud" and punished accordingly. These days it's called "marketing" and proponents of it are rewarded with high-paying jobs.
Now tell me, why do we have a problem with being constantly buried in bull?
And roughly 2/3 as many defacements of them are logged. The obvious conclusion is that IIS is three times as insecure.
From the few obsolete surveys that exist, FOSS mail servers are likely to have a closer to 80% "market share", at least facing the internet. We don't have "defacement" stats, but I'd be shocked if a serious number of PostFix, Exim or QMail services were being broken. None of mine ever have. Unlike Exchange, security issues for these services were a priority from Day One.
...was the screen/behind-the-door moment in Flying High 2 / Airplane 2. Other than that he was generally fairly boring (although his analogue in Star Trekkin' got some good lines).
"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft"
"Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2."
"I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes. The reasons for updates are to present more new features."
"Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under it's own name [...] without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art." - presumably he was foreshadowing Windows 3, which was a clone of Apple's Mac (well, Lisa) interface, which was a clone of Xerox's original "Palo Alto" WIMP interface. If that statement had been more ironic, you could pick it up with a magnet.
"If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?"
We've decided, Bill, now stop hogging The Road Ahead, OK? (-:
Key phrase: "As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
You can't copy the data as you send it, but you can impose a copy of existing data onto the qubits you're sending? Where "sending" is an approximation what's actually happening, ie, the state is being transferred, not the particles. More or less.
In short, you can copy the data and move that copy to the other end, destroying the copy in the process.
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Also, some of the big stats sites have made announcements along those lines in the last few weeks.
Perhaps a lot of salesmen use sales figures to tally the number of users of each OS out there?
Typical bistromathematics from a salesman: "Let me see... 2000 seats of Win2k3 at AUD$139 and 2000 seats of (downloaded for free) Mandrake Linux equals 2000 MS-Windows users and zero Linux users. Microsoft is steamrolling the market. Job well done." <thwack!>
Sites that require IE and then say, Napoleon-style, "what Konqueror-on-Linux users?" are another classic statistical blunder. Of course the Konqueror (Mozilla, Opera, yadda yadda) users are either going to up-stakes or set their browser ID to MSIE-in-WinXX! <thwack!> (and <thwack!> again, that was really stupid!)
...your tagline ("The scientific view of religion is not atheism") is precisely correct.
...they haven't discovered aalib yet, so they can't see their pr0n.
Oddly enough, you can get versions of Lynx (and Links) which will display the graphics if they're run under X.
That last is a cellular 'phone. So obviously I attract a lot of maniacs. (-:
You also need to delete about 4.5% for automated hits from Lynx.
However, MSIE only gets 16.3% of overall hits (roughly 24% if you ignore my pages), Mozilla-ishes get the lion's share at 18.5%, Konqueror next at 4.3%, assorted known bots at 4%, Opera at 0.6% plus zillions of miscellanea at a fraction of a percent each. This is out of 383,000 hits for August.
The top two are steadily changing at about 1% per month each (MSIE is losing about 1%, Mozilla-ishes are gaining about 1%, which is a pretty hefty swing over a year or two), the others are wobbling around their figures, except that Konqueror and related are steadily gaining about 0.1-0.2% each month. June was the last month (hopefully forever) that MSIE was top scorer. That the top search string entering the server is "putty tunnel" and the next commonest entry is only 1/8th as common hints that the vast majority of users hitting the server are hitting it from MS-Windows based machines, but I haven't asked the stats program to itemise those.
Or do some things work in MSIE but not in other browsers? Or will some things work better if they're told that the visitor is MSIE, even if it's really links or w3m?
Any of this would slant the stats.
I did something like this for 10.0 (I wanted the patch indexes to be incremental) but my lone voice wasn't enough. If other people join Cooker, link to the article, and express themselves it may come to pass for 10.2 (10.1 is too far down the pipe already).
It's not as simple as it seems, 'coz those RPMs are bzip2-compressed internally, so a simple binary diff isn't likely to help much; they'll need to do a special stream of RPMs that are binary diffed before compression, which will probably require (more) surgery to RPM as well.
They also drag in a trainload of dependencies. I use both, load all the libraries and be damned with the overhead. That's what having a multi-GHz processor and gigabyte-range RAM is all about. Contrary to MS-Windows, KDE is getting noticeably slimmer and faster these days, and thanks to constant whining from (forex) Mandrake Cooker denizens, the apps are becoming more modular as well (with the notable exception of Kontact and friends).
I have Asian, African, Indonesian, Khazar, Indian, Aboriginal, Spanish, American Negro and other friends mixed in with the usual dose of Caucasia. Yet I still don't feel comfortable that I'm treating everyone equally, again forex, I met an Asian girl about two years ago who has totally full-on blue eyes and didn't do very well at helping her to feel like just another part of the crowd. One of the reasons I'd like to travel the world is to truly first-hand understand what it feel like to be the only white guy in a crowd of something else, ditto the only English speaker in earshot. Easier targets like "the only bloke" and "the only straight" (ie non-homosexual) have already been met, but these still don't provide the ambiance of being genuinely unusual.
...based on the principle that it is easier to apologise if you exceed your authority than to get permission in the first place.
Once upon a time, telling lies for commercial gain was called "fraud" and punished accordingly. These days it's called "marketing" and proponents of it are rewarded with high-paying jobs.
Now tell me, why do we have a problem with being constantly buried in bull?
And roughly 2/3 as many defacements of them are logged. The obvious conclusion is that IIS is three times as insecure.
From the few obsolete surveys that exist, FOSS mail servers are likely to have a closer to 80% "market share", at least facing the internet. We don't have "defacement" stats, but I'd be shocked if a serious number of PostFix, Exim or QMail services were being broken. None of mine ever have. Unlike Exchange, security issues for these services were a priority from Day One.
Was that subtle enough? (-:
BTW, the case for FOSS mail servers is even more extreme (something like 80%). If anything bad were going to happen, it would have. It hasn't. QED.
I used to have a very triumphant "Yes!" as my shutdown sound back when I still used MS-Windows.
sans space
And someone else helped, too.
...one of Microsoft's most effective marketing models, then gutted it by not following through and demanding the money. (-:
Although Helsinki, Finland has a better code for them.
...was the screen/behind-the-door moment in Flying High 2 / Airplane 2. Other than that he was generally fairly boring (although his analogue in Star Trekkin' got some good lines).
Then why didn't you provide the direct link yourself? <thwack> (-:
from this list of quotes
"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince
them that our way is the way to go."
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like
PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft"
"Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is
obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive
multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2."
"I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes.
The reasons for updates are to present more new features."
"Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work
another company could come along and copy your work and market it under
it's own name [...] without legal restraints to such copying, companies like
Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art." - presumably he was foreshadowing Windows 3, which was a clone of Apple's Mac (well, Lisa) interface, which was a clone of Xerox's original "Palo Alto" WIMP interface. If that statement had been more ironic, you could pick it up with a magnet.
Jan 2000 transcript of 1980 interview
"If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?"
We've decided, Bill, now stop hogging The Road Ahead, OK? (-:
c|net interview 2 jul 1998
Key phrase: "As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
Open Letter to Hobbyists
Top line: "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?" Boy, has that one been thoroughly answered! (-:
You can't copy the data as you send it, but you can impose a copy of existing data onto the qubits you're sending? Where "sending" is an approximation what's actually happening, ie, the state is being transferred, not the particles. More or less.
In short, you can copy the data and move that copy to the other end, destroying the copy in the process.
<pluff> <-- sound of brain exploding.
...licence it as Creative Commons. The courts will have to issue jaw slings to stop the judges' brains from running out of their mouths and ears. (-: