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What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
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#62Why doesn't it return on the first match?
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#63What is amazing is the amount of consideration given to an issue which would escape the majority of users. It is surprising how complex an apparently easy process turns out when considering certain special cases.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a matter of taste, but for many it was the Windows they used first and/or spend the most time on and there's a lot of love for that reason alone. I never used XP all that much, but I always changed the theme to the Windows 2000 look. I really didn't like the default, it looked unprofessional and clunky in my eyes. Upon release XP was also pretty universally mocked as a Fisher Price-like UI. To me Windows 95/NT…
Took me years to like Windows XP. Hated the new start menu. I always kept installing Windows 2000 (or ME, probably because it could use Windows 98 drivers but look like Windows 2000). I eventually got used to it and ended up liking it.
I always ran it with the 2000 style theme. That said XP offered me nothing over 2000 so 2000 is what I ran on my main machine since it used less ram but did all the same things, often a bit faster.
For awhile I ran XP 64-bit though, that did do one thing 2000 couldn't do.
Re: What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
#68Why doesn't it return on the first match?
exactly. There is something wrong with the code snippet.
Re: What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
#69Why doesn't it return on the first match?
Because it would always return the first match in that case.
You still need to see all of the items once.
Imagine you have 2 items.
First one has 100% chance to be selected. So it does. Then the second has 50% chance to be selected. If it isn’t you effectively chosen the first one and have 50/50 chance to return either.
Now you add a third item. There is 50/50 chance of having either selected. And 1/3 chance of replacing the selection with the new one. Resulting in a 1/3 chance of selecting any of the three. (Because 1/2-1/6 = 1/3) 1/6 because there is 50% chance you will “steal” the selection.
Re: What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
#70Does it also check existing users so you don't match one?