RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-13 Thread Brian Butterworth
rom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Christopher Woods > Sent: 11 April 2007 16:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me > > I always liked my Acorn OS (RISC OS) - booted in about five > seconds f

Re: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-12 Thread Gordon Joly
At 01:50 +0100 12/4/07, Mr I Forrester wrote: Obviously I would need to stick up for the Atari. Booted in 4 seconds flat, Midi built in as standard, GEM desktop and memory up to 4 meg. My phone takes about minute to boot (Windows Mobile) Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Bowden
> Obviously I would need to stick up for the Atari. > Booted in 4 seconds flat, Midi built in as standard, GEM > desktop and memory up to 4 meg. I was sad enough to buy 4meg > of memory, 110meg hard drive and believe it or not a 14.4k > zoom modem (because 9.6k was too slow). And frankly the be

Re: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-11 Thread Mr I Forrester
n my heart :) -Original Message- From: Mark Hewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 April 2007 15:39 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me It has generally all been downhill since AmigaOS and WorkBench 2.0 Hasn't been any fun operating syst

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-11 Thread Christopher Woods
rk Hewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 April 2007 15:39 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me > > It has generally all been downhill since AmigaOS and WorkBench 2.0 > > Hasn't been any fun operating systems fo

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-11 Thread Mark Hewis
M > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me > > I thought it was 84.3% of stats that were made up? > > Someone is clearly skewing the market against made up > statistics. I suspect it is more Microsoft FUD myself. >

Re: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-11 Thread Martin Belam
ons such as these, particularly when over 74.3% of all statistics are made up anyway. > -Original Message- > From: Brian Butterworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 April 2007 16:53 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u &

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-10 Thread Christopher Woods
; > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 10 April 2007 14:47 > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > > Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me > > > > I realised the error afte

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-10 Thread Brian Butterworth
pril 2007 14:47 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me > > I realised the error after sending the message ;-( > > Still, a significant rise for the Macs and a further > indication that the OS ground does appear to be shif

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-10 Thread Brian Butterworth
rom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Bowyer > Sent: 10 April 2007 14:27 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me > > But Brian - you've assumed in turn that the user community > represen

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-10 Thread zen16083
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:31 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me It would be for one month, but it's actually for sixteen... Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv > -Orig

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-10 Thread Brian Butterworth
bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me > > > Seems like a lot of Mac growth in a single month.. > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Butterworth > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2

Re: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-10 Thread Peter Bowyer
But Brian - you've assumed in turn that the user community represented by those two figures 6 months apart is the same people. Only then are these hard evidence. What adjustment would need to be made to take account of a change in virginradio's demographic, nature of any promotions running, chang

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-10 Thread zen16083
Seems like a lot of Mac growth in a single month.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:04 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me Isn't

RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-10 Thread Brian Butterworth
Isn't the first, great mistake that people make with statistics to believe that everyone else does what they do? Assume makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me"... Can I refer people to this message, just posted which shows a 64% increase in Mac usage (to 2.87%), and a 1% drop in Windows usage (to 96.