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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:35 am Post subject: My Total Share article is up!

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars

Go read it! And tell your friends! And tell your friends to tell their friends! Very Happy

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OscarWilde · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:03 am Post subject:

Where are the hooters?
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OscarWilde · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:07 am Post subject:

Oh, you said, 'wooters'
Oops... Embarassed

edit: am reading the article now.
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OscarWilde · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:36 am Post subject:

Interesting article indeed. Brings back memories (well, the stuff from the early 80's on). However, I'm a little lost at the methods of your graphs, but not enough to really nit pick. Wink

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Jay · **Ex OSYer** Captain Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 1589

Very good article JR. It was very informative Very Happy

HitScan · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:43 pm Post subject:

Excellent. Of course, now that you've kicked everyone squarely in the nostalgia, I have to go dig out some of my 8/16 bit toys, as I'm home today for my birthday. Very Happy

I've been thinking of what kinds of slick toys I can put together with either a gumstix computer, or a cheap microcontroller, and reading about the Old Machines that were barely more than microcontrollers with keybaords really gets one in the mood to build. Smile

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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject:

Oh, and if anyone wants to submit the article to Slashdot, I'd be super grateful to them forever. It means waaaay more clicky and thus more Chrismas money for the Reimer household. Smile

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-- Carl Sagan

"Its not a rule. Its just something I noticed. Several of us have more than one sig." - Mord

"No, you are a troll, and I should have never let you back to Ars in after the first 16,000 bannings." - Caesar, to He Who Shall Not Be Named

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject:

Alternatively, you can "digg" it at this link:

http://digg.com/technology/30_years_of_personal_computer_market_share

Apparently digg.com is the new Slashdot in terms of driving traffic (not in terms of zealotry) Dance!

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-- Carl Sagan

"Its not a rule. Its just something I noticed. Several of us have more than one sig." - Mord

"No, you are a troll, and I should have never let you back to Ars in after the first 16,000 bannings." - Caesar, to He Who Shall Not Be Named

Feign · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject:

Nicely done! Smile

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PaoloM · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:18 am Post subject:

Cool stuff, Jeremy!
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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:05 pm Post subject:

Wooters^2! CowboyNeal linked to the article on Slashdot! Yeah baby!
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-- Carl Sagan

"Its not a rule. Its just something I noticed. Several of us have more than one sig." - Mord

"No, you are a troll, and I should have never let you back to Ars in after the first 16,000 bannings." - Caesar, to He Who Shall Not Be Named

the twinkster · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:08 pm Post subject:

Finally had time to read it today. Cool stuff. Very Happy

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Mord · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:54 pm Post subject:

Got about halfway through it so far. Like what I've read.
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AllYorBaseRBelong2Us · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject:

Very informative. You have found a very nice niche as a smammy writer Jeremy

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Mord · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:27 pm Post subject:

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:51 pm Post subject:

Actually that part got the least flames of anything I wrote. Kind of funny, really...

AND I'M GETTING MY AMIGAONE BOARD BACK SOON!!!!

Oh, and NOBODY noticed that I did the graphs in the Macintosh version of Excel, because it supports transparency in-graph and the Windows version doesn't. I thought that was a nice bit of irony myself, but everyone completely missed it. Tee hee!
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-- Carl Sagan

"Its not a rule. Its just something I noticed. Several of us have more than one sig." - Mord

"No, you are a troll, and I should have never let you back to Ars in after the first 16,000 bannings." - Caesar, to He Who Shall Not Be Named

Harbinger · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:22 am Post subject:

Hmmm... the article needs more graphs. Very Happy

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