Re: C# programmer wants to learn assembly?? plz help


//\\\\o//\\\\annabee wrote:

Of course, one must take such counts with a grain of salt. 'Bots and
other web automata tend to inflate these numbers greatly. HLA, for
example, has been consistently getting 5,000-10,000 downloads a month
for the past couple of years. I estimate, in reality, that there are
probably 100-200 actual downloads that people are using each month.

Why do you need to estimate?

Because the numbers I read around here, and the numbers I see for HLA
downloads, are completely bogus.

My webspace provider gives me automatic
statitics containing infoes as spesific as how many unique downloads,
exactly the number of downloads, what pages are referenced from which
homepage, which page is more looked at, who downloaded what, from which
country, what page the user came from, where he went to next, what browser
he uses, and a whole lot of other statistics. I can look at each month,
the whole year, last year, each day, and the hour of the day that things
took place and whatsoever I want to know. And bots are seperated from
other statistic, with the name of the bot, its last visit and etc. For
bots, they do not visit twice unless something has changed. So extracting
bot traffic from other traffic is no problem at all.

That's wonderful.
Apparantly, people providing assemblers for download don't use your
ISP. Because they're all claiming to get (within an order of magnitude)
all the same download rates. If all of these downloads were legitimate,
even if we allow for the fact that the same person downloads *all* the
assemblers out there, the number of posts in a newsgroup like this one
would be increasing radically with each new month. Even if only 1% of
the (claimed) people who downloaded these products wound up posting a
message here, we'd be seeing something like 100 new posters every
month. Also, I know from personal support issues (email, book
purchases, posts to the AoA/HLA mailing list, etc.) that HLA is not
getting 10,000 new users each month. Obviously, I cannot speak for the
other assemblers on this matter, but given that they are claiming
similar download numbers, I *really* suspect that we're all seeing the
same automata accessing the files.

Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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