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Re: Wow yet another biased news story My first thought was the same--resetting the clock seems bogus. But if they reset their download count to 0 at the same time, no problem.  (Their blog entry seemed to suggest that was their plan, but it was not clearly worded. They probably left it somewhat ambiguous to give the conspiracy theorists something to talk about.  ) |
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said by djrobx:said by Rombus:Then why is it news on the front page? To me, that's biased reporting. When Karl reported that the Firefox team was attempting to set a record yesterday, the very first question that popped into my mind was, "but can the servers handle it?" So, for him to report that the servers buckled under the load answers my question. It's overall a positive thing; that means they had even more traffic than they were expecting. It's a perfectly factual and reportable event, and I would absolutely expect to read about it here. Frankly, these "biased news story" comments are getting tiresome. If you don't like the way Karl reports and interprets news, go somewhere else to read the news. Or complain about it to the site's owners in an appropriate forum. Exactly...Also submit your own stories for review. |
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Latest number of downloads of FF3 - Noon Wed EDT Up over 7 million from the original start time.
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Re: Wow yet another biased news story said by Rombus:said by ptrowski:Again, kudos to them for doing it, but I don't see the slant you do. You yourself said there is going to be hiccups and that is what Karl reported. Then why is it news on the front page? To me, that's biased reporting. Get real. Don't like the front page? Don't visit it. |
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Suffern, NY | reply to ptrowski
said by ptrowski:As for the reset point, I just feel that 24 hours is 24 hours, not 24 hours of uptime per se. If you ignore the original 1PM PST start time and start the count as of the restart time the number of downloads at the end of original 24 hour point could be used (modified by the number done either from the original start time to the reset time or from the 1PM PST Wednesday until the end of the 24 hour period that started at the reset time). Both can be listed (with footnotes) or Guinness can select which number to use. This will not be the first time a record was left with two values when the conditions changed. The Home Run Record is still held by Babe Ruth for the shortened season while there is another record for the current longer season. Ruth's record would only be bested IF someone can do it after the number of games that a season was when he set the record. |
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| said by RARPSL:said by ptrowski:As for the reset point, I just feel that 24 hours is 24 hours, not 24 hours of uptime per se. If you ignore the original 1PM PST start time and start the count as of the restart time the number of downloads at the end of original 24 hour point could be used (modified by the number done either from the original start time to the reset time or from the 1PM PST Wednesday until the end of the 24 hour period that started at the reset time). Both can be listed (with footnotes) or Guinness can select which number to use. This will not be the first time a record was left with two values when the conditions changed. The Home Run Record is still held by Babe Ruth for the shortened season while there is another record for the current longer season. Ruth's record would only be bested IF someone can do it after the number of games that a season was when he set the record. Very true. Althought I do hold Ruth's record in a bit higher status.  |
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RARPSL
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Suffern, NY | said by ptrowski:said by RARPSL:said by ptrowski:As for the reset point, I just feel that 24 hours is 24 hours, not 24 hours of uptime per se. If you ignore the original 1PM PST start time and start the count as of the restart time the number of downloads at the end of original 24 hour point could be used (modified by the number done either from the original start time to the reset time or from the 1PM PST Wednesday until the end of the 24 hour period that started at the reset time). Both can be listed (with footnotes) or Guinness can select which number to use. This will not be the first time a record was left with two values when the conditions changed. The Home Run Record is still held by Babe Ruth for the shortened season while there is another record for the current longer season. Ruth's record would only be bested IF someone can do it after the number of games that a season was when he set the record. Very true. Althought I do hold Ruth's record in a bit higher status. I was just pointing out that the time period for the record can be measured two separate ways and the major point is that even the period from the reset point to 1PM PST Wednesday is enough (without counting the 1PM PST to Reset or the 1PM PST Wednesday to Reset+24 Hours [choose one] numbers).
As to beating Ruth's Record in a designated number of games (equal to the number Ruth played when he set his record) there is the question of are the conditions the same? If it was me, I'd allow it since while the ball is springier and the bats better (I'm not sure on this later point) the distance to the fences are longer so I'd say they even out and thus the conditions balance out.
In some cases the conditions change so much that the old record must be left as "The Record" and a new equivalent one started. Such a case is the Pole Vault Record when the Pole was changed from Bamboo to Fiber Glass. If someone wanted to try to beat the Bamboo Record they could (at least in theory) but it would not be in normal competition but as a staged attempt (since anyone trying to use a Bamboo Pole in normal competition would be out of the running to win the event). |
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