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OK, that doesn't rhyme as much as I hoped it might.
Anyway, it was a slow news day yesterday (as anyone looking at the newsletter could tell), so I decided to look back on my posts to see just how nasty I am to our various friends. For all of the Daily News posts from Feb 1 to March 21, I encoded them as either neutral, positive, or negative (either based on the news story itself, or my blurb, and I think I took any even slightly snarky comment as negative).
For those as curious as myself:
| Company | Count | %Positive | %Neutral | %Negative |
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| Microsoft | 133 | 15% | 58% | 27% | | Apple | 14 | 7% | 36% | 57% | | Google | 36 | 6% | 56% | 39% | | Adobe | 2 | 0% | 0% | 100% | | Oracle/Java | 8 | 13% | 38% | 50% | | Linux/OSS | 13 | 23% | 38% | 38% | | Mozilla | 7 | 29% | 29% | 43% | | Facebook | 6 | 17% | 67% | 17% | | JavaScript | 7 | 14% | 43% | 43% |
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: OK, that doesn't rhyme as much as I hoped it might.
Depends on what part of the world you are from, as I reluctantly proved earlier. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Apart from the overly positive bias towards Adobe, it shows a healthy mistrust of them all.
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That's definitely one of the conclusions I was hoping people would notice. Well, maybe not the Adobe bit.
Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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If you bother to look even slightly closely, Faceache is top at even opinion and none of them get positive. Though I still say you should temper your enthusiasm for Adobe.
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Thank you for not including the column "Pitying" with the single entry for Blackberry.
That just would have made me sad.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Were you one of the early users ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Interesting stats. So you are telling us that 'Microsoft and Linux are good but Facebook is even better while Adobe still sucks'... hmm alright, but are you sure about the Facebook part? 
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I think it got weighted by some (one) good news item. The book of face is definitely on my "ignore most of the time" posts, but they sneak in occasionally due to their open sourcing chunks of code.
The main message (other than I'm negative across the board) is that I'm actually less negative towards one company than the other biggish companies. And it's that company that people have complained about me being harsh towards.
TTFN - Kent
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I'm right with there with Adobe.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Here[^]
Not sure which one is the girl as they both appear to be wearing skirts.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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It's a pity she isn't an actress... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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not an actress? look at the shoes!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587652/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-Archbishop-Welby-marries-daughter.html
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There is a very, very old series of jokes that all end "as the actress said to the Bishop" (or vice versa) and are invariably smutty.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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 too much!
in this context this fit well... "That’s What She Said”
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I don't know that one, but we're having Chicken and Apricot tonight.
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I'm sorry, having a bad day! That so looked like the set up for a joke, religion argument, it was my go to response. 
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No set-up, just as play on duck/chicken.
Jeez, I need a drink. 
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You're a braver man than I am, Gunga Din!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Supper is supped and wine was sipped. Now for a night cap.
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I'm sitting comfortably, with a small Famous Grouse, and trying to get 2048 past 14308/1024.
Unsuccessfully... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The tartan for the groom's kilt looks very much like mine; similar colour scheme.
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A better headline would have been Archbishop of Canterbury has just married his own son. (One month ago).
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