From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 9 21:30:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B4016A400 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:30:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2E713C455 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:30:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so1781762ana for ; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:30:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Md5eSYlec29627LQ7BqQeEv3o64OkmflpNANQ1RLcVdXYgaX+VvDMOzvviHrPcpRsz41MPMsni3UgkR3gPnaJVi6LNIUIA1RnWVLNU2A1ADWw91SMfbkWxJuNmUfqvQx7XqKIqD7RehBhCtwJoJAuMNzwSMHrGoaO9vVDOE6hyY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fiCc9LaOPVMfXhYoY7Sipc5n0NUY3UPEolJPMLgEnb1ubmAkA0Ew8YcuX/SOGFjZv6N3poXL8D3vbRkjqbmnOJ3Ue8gH053HPKw10TEIaFaGLRPRKAmX7PqMh/lzSgy2BVrsPF7zQCon6T1NlN7D1Gv2KDbQRVjgauQ+2UCnIiE= Received: by 10.100.57.14 with SMTP id f14mr4346662ana.1176152600126; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.250.9 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db43990704091403y6101de73pbfdccff003d804aa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:03:19 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" To: "Nikolas Britton" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070405180711.GA60539@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:30:32 -0000 On 4/6/07, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 4/5/07, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > > > > 98.83% of us have at least a i686 and 62.6% of us have at least a i786 > > > (SSE2) processor. > > > > And 73.45% of all statistics are mainly made up of hot air. > > > ... > > > > What makes you think those stats are even half-way accurate or > > useful. It is probably a highly biased sample. > > > > I don't appreciate being called a lier. Maybe you should step up to > the plate if you don't believe my statistics. > So you aren't a liar. We'll just assume you don't know much about statistics. [...] > > Data source: http://www.bsdstats.org/cpus.php Self-selecting samples are always biased, and statistics generated from them tend to be meaningless. The numbers at bsdstats.org can only provide minimums, not maximums (i.e. "there are at least N 486 systems in the world running FreeBSD", not "there are no more than N 486 systems in the world running FreeBSD"), and are useless for this sort of argument. - Bob