20 Jan
2007
20 Jan
'07
6:38 p.m.
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
Marshall wrote: Those sorts of percentages are common in Pareto distributions (AKA
Zipf's law AKA "the 80-20 rule"). With the Zipf's exponent typical of web usage and video watching, I would predict something closer to 10% of the users consuming 50% of the usage, but this estimate is not that unrealistic.
I would predict that these sorts of distributions will continue as long as humans are the primary consumers of bandwidth.
Regards Marshall
That's until the spambots inherit the world, right?
That is if you see a distinction, metaphorical or physical, between spambots and real users.