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What is Godwin's Law?

From various empirical regularities at different times on the computer-formulated theme by monitoring different people, the best known, perhaps, is Moore's Law, which says the rapid growth of processor performance, and other electronic devices. However, apart from this law, there are many other interesting observations concerning not only the hardware, but also those who enjoy it. By the latter category of laws applies to Godwin's law, which is little known to the Russian-speaking audience. As you are probably not just themselves noticed in communicating groups of users online there are certain patterns that cause sooner or later to come to a dead end discussion on almost any subject, even in relatively tolerant societies. The pattern of this long ago, back in 1990, noticed Mike Godwin and formulated his law, which was later destined to become world famous (especially in English-language World Wide Web). The law is that states that as sprawl debate in the Usenet likely to use t...

New statistics Runet

Unit Internet holding "Rambler" - statistical office Rumetrika - in October-November 2008, conducted a study on audience Runet from 2004 to 2008. The study - statistics Rambler TOP100, Goskomstat RF, own data Rumetriki. According to the system Rambler TOP, total daily audience Runet sites participating in the rating is 19.5 million visitors. This figure takes into account not only the Internet users in Russia, but also visitors from abroad (in runet in 2008 these were about 38%). Community The main result: four years general audience Runet increased more than fivefold. In 2004, growth was small - 23%, but then began a considerable rise, which peaked in 2005-2006, when the audience grew by 80% and 55% respectively. But in 2007-2008 the growth rate decreased and the audience was 33% and 37% respectively. Having analyzed the development of broadband access (and especially its value in the dynamics), Rumetriki experts concluded that the price of traffic has the greatest influenc...