Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:21 am
Question about how to interpret the question: Does "where are you from" ask a) "where were you born", b) "which citizenship do you have", or c) "where do you currently live"?
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Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:11 am
"Where do you currently live?" is the way I'd interpret it..
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:36 pm
Diziet Sma wrote:Tasmania is actually considered part of Australia..
Thanks Diziet - I've learnt some thing new today.Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:40 pm
I learned that from the film Young Einstein.
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:42 pm
This poll has the most bizarre geographical breakdown of the world I have ever seen!
The breakdown of Europe in the weirdest of all. What is, for example, so special about Poland (in terms of [E|Oo]lite, no insult intended to the Polish)? What is the similarity between Italy, Greece and Cyprus - in a such a way that it is different from Spain, Portugal or Turkey?
The largest continent, Asia, is completely missing.
"Mexico/Brazil/Argentina" - is that shorthand for "South and Middle America"?
"Elsewhere" is from Norway over Antarctica to Japan.
It seems the Riedquatians have a very weird idea of the planet Earth.
The breakdown of Europe in the weirdest of all. What is, for example, so special about Poland (in terms of [E|Oo]lite, no insult intended to the Polish)? What is the similarity between Italy, Greece and Cyprus - in a such a way that it is different from Spain, Portugal or Turkey?
The largest continent, Asia, is completely missing.
"Mexico/Brazil/Argentina" - is that shorthand for "South and Middle America"?
"Elsewhere" is from Norway over Antarctica to Japan.
It seems the Riedquatians have a very weird idea of the planet Earth.
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:47 pm
<chuckles> almost like you're reading my mind..
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:51 pm
Maybe it's because the near-mythical 'Old Earth' is such a faint memory...nobody can be sure of anything about it. If anybody knows, it will be Jack so if you see him on your travels, he's the man to ask.Gimbal Locke wrote:This poll has the most bizarre geographical breakdown of the world I have ever seen!
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:58 pm
I'm from elsewhere. So is our "current" project lead next door to me (allmost).
UK
Germany
Nordic Countries (Scandinavia, Iceland, Finland)
Russia
Europe
Oceania
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Would be my take on it after having looked at the download map. But this is a nice bit of fun, and you ask the questions that gives you the answers you want/need.
UK
Germany
Nordic Countries (Scandinavia, Iceland, Finland)
Russia
Europe
Oceania
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Would be my take on it after having looked at the download map. But this is a nice bit of fun, and you ask the questions that gives you the answers you want/need.
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:01 pm
We don't have a download/view map for ordinary Oolite though - only for trunk, it seems.
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:15 pm
Oh, well fair enough. My list is quite possibly far off the mark then.El Viejo wrote:We don't have a download/view map for ordinary Oolite though - only for trunk, it seems.
Does anyone track the number of downloads of Oolite 1.76.1. Just wondering how the numbers work out before and after the Elite: Dangerous campaign.
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:22 pm
There was a spike of page views about then, yes - but I don't know about downloads (though Russia seems to be the top downloading country).
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:43 pm
Maybe it's all those spammers - they spam us then realise that this is actually quite a good game.El Viejo wrote:...though Russia seems to be the top downloading country.
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 5:05 pm
Inside a spammer's mind whilst spamming the bb...
"accident claims, free shopping, insurance claims, badly spelled stuff, oh, free game, i'll install that as i spam, viagra, xanax, random words, hey this game's not bad, tax refunds, missold PPI, lave, other medications, random characters, cobra, green coffee beans, health insurance, diso's quite close, fraud investigations, hyperspace, nigerian consulate, being attacked, lasers, missile, eek, string some random words together, sidewinder, lasers again, shot him, ha destroyed him, back to torus drive, ppi no i've done that already, getting close to diso, where's the station, ah there it is, lining up, ibuprofen, docking oops, back to lave, try that again, buy some cargo, get some more missiles just in case, launch, hyperspace, torus, attack, krait, missile launch, ha got im, torus, ooh, python, attack, win, torus, diso, mass lock, station, dock yay, sell, ooh, profit, buy more stuff, go to leesti this time, launch, hyperspace, torus, masslock, station, dock, sell, save, exit, what was that web site again, read, read, use registered username to post with, ask about game, find out about oxps, spend rest of life writing oxps, get programming job, can't remember how i found this game but it's awesome..."
Oolite: converting spammers since 2003.
"accident claims, free shopping, insurance claims, badly spelled stuff, oh, free game, i'll install that as i spam, viagra, xanax, random words, hey this game's not bad, tax refunds, missold PPI, lave, other medications, random characters, cobra, green coffee beans, health insurance, diso's quite close, fraud investigations, hyperspace, nigerian consulate, being attacked, lasers, missile, eek, string some random words together, sidewinder, lasers again, shot him, ha destroyed him, back to torus drive, ppi no i've done that already, getting close to diso, where's the station, ah there it is, lining up, ibuprofen, docking oops, back to lave, try that again, buy some cargo, get some more missiles just in case, launch, hyperspace, torus, attack, krait, missile launch, ha got im, torus, ooh, python, attack, win, torus, diso, mass lock, station, dock yay, sell, ooh, profit, buy more stuff, go to leesti this time, launch, hyperspace, torus, masslock, station, dock, sell, save, exit, what was that web site again, read, read, use registered username to post with, ask about game, find out about oxps, spend rest of life writing oxps, get programming job, can't remember how i found this game but it's awesome..."
Oolite: converting spammers since 2003.
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 5:09 pm
<howls> Brilliant!Selezen wrote:Inside a spammer's mind whilst spamming the bb... [snip] Oolite: converting spammers since 2003.
Some spammers seem almost human - one I deleted a couple of years ago posted simply 'Please delete me' - I duly obliged, whilst laughing.
Re: Where in the world
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:53 pm
El Viejo wrote:Selezen wrote:Inside a spammer's mind whilst spamming the bb... [snip] Oolite: converting spammers since 2003.
Love it! El Viejo wrote:Some spammers seem almost human - one I deleted a couple of years ago posted simply 'Please delete me' - I duly obliged, whilst laughing.
That must have given you some chuckles for a few days, I'd imagine.