Mozilla Sets New Guinness World Record with Firefox 3 Downloads
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I call BS. How many were unique IP's and not just the same people downloading it over and over again to give them the record? I bet that they even had the Mozilla servers and people downloading this software just to pad their numbers.
This is just total downloads. This is not downlaods that are unique to a IP. Meaning that if i downloaded it 5 times that was 5 downloads. Not jsut 1 download cause it went to teh same spot.
All bogus in order for Mozilla to pad their numbers.
This is just total downloads. This is not downlaods that are unique to a IP. Meaning that if i downloaded it 5 times that was 5 downloads. Not jsut 1 download cause it went to teh same spot.
All bogus in order for Mozilla to pad their numbers.
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LOL geez mak, you look upset! Why so quick to be on the hateful defensive?
Its almost like you are assuming the worst without all of the facts. This isn't like you...
Oh wait...
http://www.techist.com/forums/f44/wireless-lan-connection-problem-no-wireless-found-178266/
Discuss....
Its almost like you are assuming the worst without all of the facts. This isn't like you...
Oh wait...
http://www.techist.com/forums/f44/wireless-lan-connection-problem-no-wireless-found-178266/
Discuss....
Hello Doc,
I have seen Mozilla do this before with their numbers. I know that they do not count unique downloads just count the number of downloads. Which to me is not a fair count of how many times the software is downloaded. It is just a count of how many times the file was downloaded. Which to me can be padded since someone can write a batch script file to download teh file, delete it and then download it again.
Which will pad the numbers and not give a accurate count of how many different people downloaded the software which would give us a real count of how many different people downloaded it and not how many people downloded it to the same machine or to the same IP address. I know i have several machines here and if i had downloaded it to each machien that would ahve padded the stats to say that there was 5 downloaded here alone instead of 1.
Instead i downloaded it and just transfered it so that i did not pad the stats with a influx number of downloads. to me to count each download itself is not accurate as it doesnt bring into effect how many different times the same people downloaded the software.
As for that thread it has been discussed among us Mods before that anything to do with trying to "jack" or use someone else's WiFi can be used for any purpose as you are not on your own IP and therefor you can do whatever you wish with no consequence to yourself.
So by him saying that he is just trying to get onto someone else's wifi network we can not assume anything and have made it a point to make sure that we do not help them. If it was a local hotspot that would be different. But from a home to try and use someone else's WiFi is not what we are looking to do.
I will see if i can find the info on this to give you a better description of what we had said. I am not sure if it was in the network area or the browser area where the topic came up before but i know that last time we had done the same thing. Closed out the thread cause we can only say for sure that it isnt legal to use someone else's wifi.
It isnt hatred per say as i do have Firefox installed and i do use it. I just dont like their practice of how they count the number of downloads. I remember a few topics before where they had said that they had like 20 million downloads of firefox 2 before. That doesnt mean 20 million people are using Firefox. Jsut that 20 million had downloded it. I know that i, myself had counted for at least 50 or more of those downloads cause of all the reinstalls i do and the number of times i had to download a new version.
When i get the rest of the info on the WiFi situation i will either post it up or link it.
Cheers,
Mak
I have seen Mozilla do this before with their numbers. I know that they do not count unique downloads just count the number of downloads. Which to me is not a fair count of how many times the software is downloaded. It is just a count of how many times the file was downloaded. Which to me can be padded since someone can write a batch script file to download teh file, delete it and then download it again.
Which will pad the numbers and not give a accurate count of how many different people downloaded the software which would give us a real count of how many different people downloaded it and not how many people downloded it to the same machine or to the same IP address. I know i have several machines here and if i had downloaded it to each machien that would ahve padded the stats to say that there was 5 downloaded here alone instead of 1.
Instead i downloaded it and just transfered it so that i did not pad the stats with a influx number of downloads. to me to count each download itself is not accurate as it doesnt bring into effect how many different times the same people downloaded the software.
As for that thread it has been discussed among us Mods before that anything to do with trying to "jack" or use someone else's WiFi can be used for any purpose as you are not on your own IP and therefor you can do whatever you wish with no consequence to yourself.
So by him saying that he is just trying to get onto someone else's wifi network we can not assume anything and have made it a point to make sure that we do not help them. If it was a local hotspot that would be different. But from a home to try and use someone else's WiFi is not what we are looking to do.
I will see if i can find the info on this to give you a better description of what we had said. I am not sure if it was in the network area or the browser area where the topic came up before but i know that last time we had done the same thing. Closed out the thread cause we can only say for sure that it isnt legal to use someone else's wifi.
It isnt hatred per say as i do have Firefox installed and i do use it. I just dont like their practice of how they count the number of downloads. I remember a few topics before where they had said that they had like 20 million downloads of firefox 2 before. That doesnt mean 20 million people are using Firefox. Jsut that 20 million had downloded it. I know that i, myself had counted for at least 50 or more of those downloads cause of all the reinstalls i do and the number of times i had to download a new version.
When i get the rest of the info on the WiFi situation i will either post it up or link it.
Cheers,
Mak
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It was a non-existant world record anyway. Any number of downloads could have counted as a "world record".
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