Guys, guys. This is not "Funny". This is scary and insightful. Corporations use this exact line to protect their precious patents, RIAA use it to protect their precious copyrights.

Do you really think people would stop making music and invent things? Just as with APIs, it's done because there's a need and a demand.

If you fear for your life, delaying is what you would do too.

Assange and his lawyers are probably not that scared of the crimes he could potentially be charged with in Sweden. It is more likely that he is afraid that Sweden will in turn find a way to export him to the U.S., where he could be accused of being some sort of terrorist. We have recently seen somewhat too close ties between the U.S. embassy and the judges here, when the case about The Pirate Bay took place, so I don't think one has to be too paranoid to fear such a chain of events.

He's actually not charged with any crimes. As far as I know, he's to be questioned by the police as a suspect.

Note that I'm Swedish, meaning that a) I can read and understand what the Swedish prosecutor says, and b) I can not necessarily translate that to correct British or U.S. lawyerspeek.

Might be more interesting and relevant to compare Windows, Linux, OSX and BSD...

And of course Amiga, but that would be cheating.

That's why they used 111000 articles, you will of course get an amount of statistical noise and articles that doesn't make much sense. That doesn't mean the conclusion is wrong, it just means it's not exact. I'm sure you are aware of that though, judging from even knowing about stuff like "word frequency analysis". :)

I haven't RTFA but it's very likely that they checked a random sample manually, and used the results from that to weigh the results from the larger set.

Actually, last time I checked, the price of ThinkPads are comparable with Macs with similar specs. Also a great machine to get used, because the good ones simply don't break.

(good ones as in, not the new lenovo consumer crap)

Bullshit. Assuming enough resources (computational time and storage), any 4-bit computer can implement an ideal digital filter with as high resolution and steepness as you wish. Something you can not simply get with an analogue filter due to laws of physics.

In practice, you have limited resources, usually time because you're realtime-constrained, and then you must cheat. If you must cheat, a higher sample rate may or may not benefit you.