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Submission + - Linux Mint passes Ubuntu on DistroWatch.com (muktware.com)

leifbork writes: Linux Mint has replaced Ubuntu as the most popular distribution for the past 6 months on DistroWatch.com.

You may choose to answer this question:
- Why?
or this one:
- Another question that you would like me to have asked instead, resembling questions that often conclude stories here and that is relating to the subject in the same way.

Thank you, and God bless our soft, neardy guts.

Comment Re:This is a lot more complicated... (Score 1) 153

Actually, no. In this case, I don't think it's about 'good enough', in that way!

I spoke to an associate professor that work with cognition some, and she talked about that humans are likely not meant to have very good memory.
Humans process a lot of the stimuli they take in for a long time (don't know if that's the same as low latent inhibition, but maybe), and often, when eidetic memory is present in a person, they are pretty much screwed up somewhere else, she said.

Look at this if you haven't seen it; chimps out-performing humans in memory tests:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC1nJ61l-h4

I believe it is likely that we might have had a it, or had a very good opportunity to have it, and might have lost it, or never got it, for an evolutionary reason.

(If it's related to latent inhibition, then I may inform you that the mighty Wikipedia speaks about latent inhibition some. There are theories basically about that latent inhibition works like a filter for stimuli in animals and that humans with low latent inhibition either get very creative, or crazy, or both, depending on how their brain processes all the information given to them.

It is also related to explanations for the existence of mental illnesses. People with e.g. bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, Asperger's, usually have lower latent inhibition. So, a little bit of that might produce more creative people, while too much of such traits make people ill. And that might be why people with mental illness keep popping up everywhere. I would put more emphasis on optimization than 'good enough', in this case.)

Comment Use Levenshtein distance + dictionary (Score 1) 105

From the code, it looks like you use a dictionary containing spelling errors. Is there a good reason why a large dictionary and Levenshtein distance wasn't used instead? I think this might be a good idea. You can also put a smaller penalty on characters close to each other on the keyboard and easily confused characters, than other characters.

Best regards,
Bernard Hoffman IV,
Computer store salesman, and proud beach house owner.

Comment Slashdot probably dragged it down well! (Score 1) 659

Regarding Test 1 (posted test of the article)
My result was: 56 of 70
Which is about higher empathy than 70% of the participants.

Regarding Test 2
Here, http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/EmpathyQuotient/EmpathyQuotient.aspx
My result was: 25 of 80

Which makes me about empathetically retarded, or something, nearly autistic.

- So, yeah, if the first test is any good;
Slashdot probably dragged it down humungously well.

Comment Re:What if they cut the finger and heat it (Score 1) 223

The temperature of limbs, like fingers, are usually lower than the rest of the body, depending on the environment temperature.
At twenty degrees Celsius, I think the temperature of the fingertips are about 28 degrees or something.

If the device requires believable finger heat, it probably would have to measure the environment temperature as well, or else it probably wouldn't be able to function properly in different conceivable environments.

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