I have a very irregular comic strip that I make, and I want my next strip to be in the spirit of XKCD's comic "f--- grapefruit", and rate operating systems instead.

I'm running a poll here, based on whether people think an operating system is better than Windows 2000 or not, which I'm going to use as a benchmark (sea-level point) for rating systems.

The rating system is on 3 axes, "usefulness", "reliability", and "security". Basically, for the poll, check which ones you think are more useful than Windows 2000 on the first poll, which ones are more reliable on the second poll, and which ones are more secure on the third poll. I'm setting the sea-level based on the number of poll entries divided by the number of options (which will always be 10).

So, for example, if 74 people vote and 3 of them choose Windows Vista, then I'll divide 3 by 7.4, take the base-(10-th root of 10) logarithm of that number, and rate it on my poll contrasted to my own opinion. If 0 people vote, I assume the number to be the reciprocal of the total vote count, so the rating never goes below -10.
Or, for another example, if 126 people vote and 94 of them choose Linux, then I'll divide 94 by 12.6, take the base-(10-th root of 10) logarithm of that, and rate it on the poll.

PLEASE VOTE! I will credit trap17.com for it! (Actual text to be included: "Based on results from ## votes on trap17.com")

(If you have any other comments, such as specific numerical ratings for any of the 2 dimensions, please include them in a post and I will incorporate them into the results.)

(To Mods: If this topic is inappropriate for anything in any way, please stick a "note" here. I read the rules another time over and couldn't find anything against them, and I don't see how this could be spam.)

This post has been edited by tricky77puzzle: Jun 16 2008, 03:17 AM