[Gllug] Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

Lord Calvin mail at lordcalvin.co.uk
Fri Nov 2 21:21:33 UTC 2007


We've all misplaced a double for an int.
Can't blame the BBC ^_^

On 11/2/07, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Caroline Ford wrote:
> [snip]
> > I note that Highfield had gone back on his figures..
> >
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html
>
> You've got to love that kind of statement from a corporate
> marketing-droid:-
>
> "It depends on how exactly we count the users.  If we count them one way
> we get 400 but if we count them another way we get 97,600."
>
> Yes, I'm sure we can all understand a teensy little discrepancy like
> that.  It's probably down to a rounding error or something.  Oh for a
> little bit of honesty.
>
> John
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