fun with statistics

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:36 pm

Oh. I get it. I was curious about the, uh, oddly arch tone of those last comments, and narrowly missed making an idiot of myself (as usual) by asking what that was all about; I did a search--had missed the whole thing since I don't read the flute forum, or maybe I was on another planet at the time. Whew; that was a close one. Right. Never mind the "fluff" remark. Carry on. :roll:

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:42 pm

scottielvr wrote:Oh. I get it.

ya, amongst the fluff was some humo(u)r...

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:29 am

3064 posted five times or less

That seems like a lot of wasted bytes. How many characters are allowed per user name and does the database allocate all allowed bytes regardless of the actual length? Plus each user record is going to have space allocated for profile information.

Why not delete accounts with less then X posts that haven't posted in a year or more?

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:21 am

On my post number, does the censored one get counted?

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:06 am

The Weekenders wrote:I hit 4000 today, but owing to my fabulous popularity, there was nary a peep from the usual suspects...hmmm....could it be because of..............SATAN?

Nah, mostly these days there is so much going on in here, that the person reaching a milestone has to bring it to our attention.

Happy 4K

HIP!

Tom

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:46 pm

NicoMoreno wrote:There are three kinds of liars:
1) Liars
2) Damned Liars
3) Statisticians
--Mark Twain (I think)

There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.

Steve

Post by **Dale** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:36 pm

SteveShaw wrote:
NicoMoreno wrote:There are three kinds of liars:
1) Liars
2) Damned Liars
3) Statisticians
--Mark Twain (I think)
There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.

Steve

Actually, there are two kinds of people: Those who would divide people into groups and those who won't.

--Oscar Wilde, I think.

norseman · Post by **norseman** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:45 pm

Probably only the engineers will get this one:

There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Bob

NicoMoreno · Post by **NicoMoreno** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:50 pm

Why engineers and not mathematicians or software types?

I do get it. It's just not funny. (Kidding, I have an exam tomorrow, so anything to do with digital computers isn't funny right now.)

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:51 pm

norseman wrote:Probably only the engineers will get this one:

There are 10 kind of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Bob

Is this a rule of thumb?

Steve

NicoMoreno · Post by **NicoMoreno** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:58 pm

SteveShaw wrote: Is this a rule of thumb?

I think a rule of thumb is when you can only beat your donkey with a branch of a diameter smaller than your thumb.

That'd would be a rule of 10 (2).

norseman · Post by **norseman** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:32 pm

NicoMoreno wrote:Why engineers and not mathematicians or software types?

I do get it. It's just not funny. (Kidding, I have an exam tomorrow, so anything to do with digital computers isn't funny right now.)

Yes, but in my job, almost all engineers are software engineers, so I'm just used to saying engineer.

I never guaranteed it would be funny.

Bob

Lark · Post by **Lark** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:28 pm

norseman wrote:Probably only the engineers will get this one:

There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Bob

I thought this was hilarious:-)