I think it was meant the other way around; data-mining Twitter is rather easier than convincing travel companies to let you data-mine their flight information.
I was thinking this myself at first, but apparently something goes wrong with it, because (per TFA) the distribution actually moves away from Benford's Law weighting and toward uniformity as the sample size grows larger. The specific rate of this movement is somehow described by a generalization of Benford's Law; while BL at one point uses 1/x, GBL uses 1/(x^a), with BL as the special case where a = 1.
Drepper's complaint was that the fix would slow things down on other architectures. The counterarguments were (1) he was relying on an assumption that could be broken under other circumstances as well, and (2) a different version of the fix that would actually speed things up on all architectures. (I assume these things are correct because some version of the fix was eventually accepted.)
I thought "wtf?" until I got to this comment - basically the Digg frame was interfering with the site getting proper credit for the ads it loads from off-site.
what would be more accurate, but you will never see them do it, is to tell us who will die a PREMATURE death due to heart disease.
They sorta do. From TFA:
Scientists express this genetic risk as an odds ratio, where 1.2 would be a small effect and 2.0 a large one. For the MYBPC3 mutation, the odds ratio is almost off-scale, a staggering 7.0. Carriers usually show few symptoms until middle age, but after that age most are symptomatic and suffer from a range of effects, at worst sudden cardiac death.
Here's how this was shot down last time I saw it brought up:
"I say the richest 1 percent of the population should pay all their money to the rest of us. Passes, 297 million to 3 million!"
Palin has been at odds with Stevens for a while now, at least in some respects (as usual, Wikipedia is a decent starting point for more detail). IIRC McCain is in the same boat, and Palin's nomination was said to be partly motivated as a swipe at Stevens.
Either you mis-quoted, or they fixed the article after you posted. It currently reads:
Sleep in Vista and Standby mode in XP save the state of the system to RAM and then maintains the RAM image even though the rest of the system is powered down. Hibernate saves the state of the system to hard disk, which reduces the boot time greatly and allows the system to be shut down.
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I think it was meant the other way around; data-mining Twitter is rather easier than convincing travel companies to let you data-mine their flight information.
http://www.ibexpc.com/ (but I only bought one computer from them, and that was six years ago, so YMMV)
I was thinking this myself at first, but apparently something goes wrong with it, because (per TFA) the distribution actually moves away from Benford's Law weighting and toward uniformity as the sample size grows larger. The specific rate of this movement is somehow described by a generalization of Benford's Law; while BL at one point uses 1/x, GBL uses 1/(x^a), with BL as the special case where a = 1.
Umpteen million retarded posts on the Internet are evidence that many people can't.
Drepper's complaint was that the fix would slow things down on other architectures. The counterarguments were (1) he was relying on an assumption that could be broken under other circumstances as well, and (2) a different version of the fix that would actually speed things up on all architectures. (I assume these things are correct because some version of the fix was eventually accepted.)
Whatever it is, it's confusing. Can we at least get a link to a FAQ near the "green" button in the upper right corner?
I thought "wtf?" until I got to this comment - basically the Digg frame was interfering with the site getting proper credit for the ads it loads from off-site.
As of this writing, the counts are at 44% for Tanuki, 11% for King Kilauea, 45% for Cadabra.
Now if only Jabbrwokk's comment had mentioned tubgirl in the same sentence as goatse...
Why do you hate canine freedom? :)
*looks up*
Without a Clue
That was mentioned on The Daily WTF, wasn't it? *googles* Yup, here we go:
http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/9204/172301.aspx
http://www.careercc.com/
Second point granted. First point? Um, you might sometimes need to treat more people at once than a standard bridge complement.
Paradox's query-by-example
*looks up* GUI query builder? Highly appropriate for simple things (e.g. Crystal Reports), but absolutely terrible for more complex things.
Who the hell modded this funny? I was vaguely expecting to find out that GCM was a DHMO-type gag, but nope, looks to be real.
They sorta do. From TFA:
Your comment was true when I first read it yesterday, but they've added a lot more good ones since then.
ROM Check Fail
Here's how this was shot down last time I saw it brought up: "I say the richest 1 percent of the population should pay all their money to the rest of us. Passes, 297 million to 3 million!"
Palin has been at odds with Stevens for a while now, at least in some respects (as usual, Wikipedia is a decent starting point for more detail). IIRC McCain is in the same boat, and Palin's nomination was said to be partly motivated as a swipe at Stevens.
Is tomorrow soon enough for you?
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"Plasmoid" is KDE's name for "applet". See also Wikipedia's article on Plasma
No, but...