Re: Let the extolling begin!
- From: Edwin <thorne25@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 03:58:22 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 30, 10:42 am, Tim Smith <reply_in_gr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <cd8a0$48907ddb$8...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Crab Apple" <c...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Someone who has made errors of 3 orders of magnitude (you) probably
shouldn't be picky over his factor of 3 error.
Which errors are you alluding to?
Edwin was 3 orders of magnitude off on the size of the workstation
market.
I was never off on the size of the workstation market. The article I
quoted was off.
The amazing thing is that he stuck with that obvious error,
I never did any such thing. I simply disregarded those who thought
they could disprove it just because they said it was wrong.
even though the news site he got it from was the only one reporting that
number--all the others reported 3 orders of magnitude lower.
Nobody reported any numbers. They all offered up opinions and their
own reasoning of why the figure had to be wrong.
Furthermore, the company the produced the report had a summary on their
site, which also listed the lower number--but even that wasn't good
enough for Edwin. Given the lower number from the authors of the
reports and dozens of news sites summarizing the report, and a *single*
news site that cited the report as its source but gave a number 3 orders
of magnitude higher, Edwin actually claimed that it was just as likely
that the latter site was right and all the others were wrong!
You and others have been lying about this, and embellishing your lies,
as above, for years now.
(Even more astounding, if you took the number Edwin championed,
Your lies go on. I never championed any number, I merely called on
those who argued against what I quoted to document the real number,
something they never did, your lies in this post notwithstanding.
and
compared to related numbers from all other sources, such as the total
dollar value of the workstation market, you could calculate things like
the average price of a workstation, and you'd get something like $2.
Edwin didn't see that as indicating a problem...)
I didn't accept your bogus calculations as proof of anything.
It just shows how desperate your need to vilify me is, that you dig up
this one argument as 'proof' of how 'wrong' I am.
.
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