It is confusing because while it makes sense from point of view of the X protocol, from the point of view of the user, the "server" appears to be the client and the "client" appears to be the server. If I connect to server and request an image - in the http protocol, I connect to a server(apache), and it shows content on the client(browser). However if I am doing the same thing using X, it appears as if I connect to server(remote system), and request to show an image, and it shows content on client(my display or X-Server). What is actually happening is that the remote server's program is the client that requests to display things on the server - but that is not what the user sees. Thus the confusion of so many people, which is understandable as it is not the most logical thing unless you understand the X protocol.

-Em

That is my thought as well. The best way to silence WikiLeaks is to leak tons of false data that seems right, let it make a lot of noise, then prove that it is all fake. No one will trust them again - so hearing another major leak right after the pentagon one - makes me wonder just how real is this...

-Em

Yeah, exactly, which is why those contracts are generally unenforceable. Look up legal term "Contract of adhesion".

-Em

Thanks, it amused me :-)

Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away; Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air...

It is called communication. You see, the point is not to be "original" or even to entertain people, but to get a concept across - and judging by your reaction it clearly did - as you clearly knew exactly what I was talking about - you even mentioned the word "sheeple" to underscore my point (and, if I may say, make yourself a bit of a hypocrite)

So, you see, "sheep" is the perfect choice of a herd animal exactly because everyone else uses this word in that context.

HTH,

-Em

And thats, my friends, is how you boil frogs... (erm, make that sheep)

Please turn in your geek card on the way out because simply not reading the article does not qualify you.

Oracle, after buying Sun (and thus Java) is currently suing Google over its use of Java clone in Android.

-Em

Surprisingly close to accurate.

Actual translation:

"Sometimes impossible is possible. You would think that an abandoned spaceship lying on the streets of Moscow is something out of science fiction, but unfortunately this is reality. A Correspondent of "MK" discovered a soviet orbiter "Buran" lying like trash in the capital's suburbs. Nobody cares about what once was a symbol of the space might of our country"

(And yes, "Buran" is not a name of a ship, its a type of ship.)

Not exactly. It is manufactured by HTC for Google. You think Apple manufactures iPhones??

I think that is by far not the only problem these bozos have.

Not as far as Yankee Group is concerned. From their response:

So its pretty much just Nexus One.

Guess its not as simple as you thought. Actual stats they are claiming them now are:

  20% of ALL smartphone users would buy Android,
  34% of ALL smartphone users would buy iPhone,

  77% of iPhone users would buy another iPhone , and
  32% of users of phones manufactured by "Google" (NexusOne) users would buy another phone manufactured by "Google" (not same thing as Android or "with Google" labeled phone !!!)

Hope this helps people to understand this mess of misinformation.

-Em

If you read the links, "Google Branded" only includes phones manufactured under Google name (i.e. Nexus One) - does not include the "Google Inside" stickers on some Android phones. They only collected data on manufacturer name of the phone, not os - so they have no idea on Android stats as same manufacturers would manufacture non-Android phones.

-Em

Its 20% of ALL users with smartphones (including iPhones) say they would buy an Android phone next. The comparable number for that from same study is 34% of all users with smarphones (including iPhones) would buy iPhone (if you do math, that means 12% of non-Apple smartphone users). From same study 77% of iPhone users would buy another iPhone, while 32% of Google Brand phone users (meaning pretty much G1 or NexusOne only, not Android in general) would buy another Google Branded phone( which is insane, considering Google already exited the market, so their only option would be another NexusOne??)

-Em

It is at least as "correct" as their way. But if you read carefully, they include the iPhone users in the "smartphone" category. Two can play this game -- we can do some "math" too.

Assuming iPhone in the study is represented roughly same as the market share (28%), this would really skew the numbers in its favor. Lets un-skew. This means that of 34% Smartphone users that would buy iPhone as their next phone, 22% (28%*0.77) are already iPhone users - meaning that only 12% (34%-22%) of the users would switch to iPhone from another Smartphone while 23% (100%-77%) of existing iPhone users that would switch away from iPhone.

So, the real story - almost twice as many people would switch away from iPhone as would switch to it. ;-)

-Em