Remind me again. I enter my name and Email what precisely? 
Only if you want to make a post. Otherwise, just choose KDE or Gnome and push vote. 
is this a ‘scientific’ poll?
are you inviting all linux forum, mail list, and IRC users to participate?
or only a subset of ‘all’??
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DenverD
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“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
On 02/02/2011 06:45 PM, DenverD wrote:
> is this a ‘scientific’ poll?
obviously it is not…since the page doesn’t set a cookie or otherwise
check to see if i have voted before, i voted SEVERAL times…
and, a short script would allow me to vote thousands of times…
so, what is the point of this “poll”?
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DenverD
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“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Oh, I see. There is actually a poll, that I just didn’t see what with my no-nonsense (yet likely hopelessly inconsistent) Java-Script policy.:shame:
Okay. I just let him know. It’s not scientific but what I wanted to see was what the outcome would be since the Community Cafe in the Ubuntu forums has been closed. They always skew results. It would be nice to see a 100% purely scientific poll but is that really possible?
On 02/02/2011 08:06 PM, Neopolo wrote:
> It would be nice to see a 100% purely scientific poll but is that really possible?
until someone takes a scientifically selected, and totally random
sample of all linux desktop users…NOT just those who
“self-select” to participate…and completely excludes those outside
of the sample group, AND ensures none of those sampled have more than
one vote–no, it won’t be a poll with any level of assured validity or
worth…
just like the distribution ranking system at Distro Watch…which has
nothing to do with anything other than “the average number of hits
per day for the specified period”…cite:
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
that is, their ‘ranking’ has nothing to whatsoever to do with the
popularity of a distro, the number of machines running a distro, the
number of people who wish their machine was running the distro, the
number of people who have heard of the distro or anything other
than “the average number of hits per day for the specified period”.
period…
and, THAT we all know is so easy to manipulate it makes any so-called
popularity ranking totally useless…
unless, of course someone is interested in the average number of hits
per day for the specified period…
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DenverD
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“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
That was a rhetorical question but thanks for the reply. 