Re: UKNM: RE: DIXONS - FREE SHARE

[Danny O'Brien]

On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 06:18:41PM +0100, Stefan Magdalinski wrote:

> Leigh Blue Caldwell wrote:

> > I didn't read NTK last week, but my trusty Mental Arithmetic Device

> > (not trademarked, patent not pending) indicates the following:

> >   10 per second * 86,400 seconds per day = 864,000 users per day

> > By 9 am Friday, this would be already 3.5 times the "by Christmas"

> > figure.  By now, there would be 3.75 million users and the UK Internet

> > population would either be about doubled, or every one of them in

> > possession of a spare account.

> > 

> > Is it at all possible that this NTK item, unlike all the others, was

> > intended in a vaguely humorous, ironic, exaggerated or tongue-in-cheek

> > manner?  No, silly idea.

> 

> 10/sec = peak, not average, probably.

> 

> and Danny, I think this young lovely is calling you a liar. 


I think they're (fairly) pointing out that the "tenner-a-second" figure is

unsustainable.  Wish I'd have been bothered to do the mathematics on it - it

would have made for a much better punchline. 


d.


Now, if I'd been told the figures were doubling every day, then we could have

had some real fun...