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Combined with the fact that open-source is dominated by a culture of volunteering, the argument goes, security sometimes receives less thorough treatment than it might in an environment in which security reviews were part of someone's job description.
Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók is generally considered more reliable as a source and is probably somewhat older, but it is far less thorough.
In 2005, Hydra, a dedicated chess computer with custom hardware and sixty-four processors and also winner of the 14th IPCCC in 2005, defeated seventh-ranked Michael Adams 5½ – ½ in a six-game match ( though Adams ' preparation was far less thorough than Kramnik's for the 2002 series ).
He is, however distinguished from his predecessors, whom he so admires, in making less frequent application of Orphic, Hermetic, Chaldean, and other Theologumena of the East ; partly in proceeding carefully and modestly in the explanation and criticism of particular points, and in striving with diligence to draw from the original sources a thorough knowledge of the older Greek philosophy.
Large objects such as cookpots often cannot lie flat if stacked with other plates and dishes, resulting in less than thorough removal of baked-on food due to indirect water spray on the surfaces.
The law was independently discovered by British natural philosopher John Dalton by 1801, although Dalton's description was less thorough than Gay-Lussac's.
Given that Cosgrave had never kept minutes before, it is understandable that Cosgrave's minutes, at least early on in the government, proved less than a thorough record of government decisions.
Telemachus is therefore widely seen as the most thorough exposition of the brand of reformism in the Beauvilliers-Chevreuse circle, which hoped that following Louis XIV's death, his brand of autocracy could be replaced by a monarchy less centralized and less absolute, and with a greater role for aristocrats such as Beauvilliers and Chevreuse.
The paratroopers did the best with the explosives they had, using Gammon grenades to disable one gun and jamming shells into the muzzles of other guns, but the job was less than thorough, as at least one gun went back into action when the Germans later reoccupied the battery.
Her knowledge of poisons was not apparently so thorough as that of less well-known sorcerers, or it would be difficult to account for Louise de La Vallière's immunity.
Woodward led a group of fourteen historians and they produced a thorough 400 page report in less than four months, Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct.
He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life, and left a number of more or less witty stories dealing with it.
They reportedly targeted banks in the Midwest due to a belief that security measures there would be less thorough.
After Doneau's more thorough but less consistent Commentarii iuris civilis ( 1589 ), the Lois were the first work of this type of pan-European significance.
The object of the commission shall be a joint investigation, as thorough and extensive as possible, of the facts relating to the origin and manifold ramifications of the revolutionary plots and demagogical associations directed against the existing constitution and the internal peace both of the union and of the individual states ; of the existence of which plots more or less clear evidence is to be had already, or may be produced in the course of the investigation.
After gathering, thorough washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness.
In fact, Ransome's research was less than thorough ; the group continued to meet in some form until about 1904.
" Jim Emerson reviewed the film as well, saying that the documentary " isn't exactly a thorough or level-headed piece of reasoning or investigative journalism ; it's every bit the hot-headed political advertisement that Moore's film was, just a lot less funny.
* WorldStatesmen idem ; more cases but less thorough
Twenty labels made of ivory and ebony were found in his tomb, 18 of them were found by Flinders Petrie in the spoil heaps left by the less thorough archaeologist Émile AmélineauShaw, Ian and Nicholson, Paul.
In strongly colored diamonds the flash effect may be missed if examination is less than thorough, as the stone's body color will conceal one or more of the flash colors.
* Air superiority permits a more thorough identification and attack of enemy forces and supplies while also exposing the attacking aircraft to less risk.
The application of lighter materials and alloys combined with thorough wind tunnel testing to reduce overall drag meant the car consumed about 10 % less fuel than its predecessor.

less and survey
For example, in Ontario a survey taken throughout the province might use a larger sampling fraction in the less populated north, since the disparity in population between north and south is so great that a sampling fraction based on the provincial sample as a whole might result in the collection of only a handful of data from the north.
2007, the survey is done at more or less 4, 600 household respondents ( stratified random sampling ) in 18 cities: Jakarta, Bandung,
However, in the 1980s, German and Italian survey groups led by Dr. Michael Jansen and Dr. Maurizio Tosi used less invasive archeological techniques, such as architectural documentation, surface surveys and localized probing, to gather further information about Mohenjo-daro.
It is also probable that the intensively detailed work of the geodetic survey, with an estimated error of less than one part in 1 million, was compromised by a shift in the baseline arising from the Santa Barbara earthquake of June 29, 1925, which was an estimated magnitude of 6. 3 on the Richter scale.
According to The Vanguard Group, a well run S & P 500 index fund should have a tracking error of 5 basis points or less, but a Morningstar survey found an average of 38 basis points across all index funds.
It can be said that a very small error applied over a very large number of individuals ( that is, those who are * not affected * by the condition in the general population during their lifetime ; for example, over 95 %) produces a relevant, non-negligible number of subjects who are incorrectly classified as having the condition or any other condition which is the object of a survey study: these subjects are the so-called false positives ; such reasoning applies to the ' false positive ' but not the ' false negative ' problem where we have an error applied over a relatively very small number of individuals to begin with ( that is, those who are * affected * by the condition in the general population ; for example, less than 5 %).
The survey nominally contained 40 current listings, except for occasional weeks when it contained less current listings, usually 20, plus a special listing of greatest oldies.
Suzanne Falter-Barnes and David Wood demonstrated in a 2007 survey of 3, 000 coaches that more than 50 % are earning less than $ 10, 000 a year.
A recent survey of 1, 300 executives from 71 countries indicated that respondents believe that people who telework were less likely to get promoted.
IVR may be used by survey organizations for asking more sensitive questions where the investigators are concerned that a respondent might feel less comfortable providing these answers to a human interlocutor ( such as questions about drug use or sexual behavior ).
Slightly less than 5 % of Ridgebacks were reported to be affected with the condition in a US breed club survey.
The government was slow to survey their land ( which meant they could not settle ) and awarded them smaller grants in less convenient locations than those of white settlers.
Along survey lines, monumentation was much less elaborate, consisting primarily of only the blazing and some very simple scribing of trees directly on, or very close to, the survey line.
Another survey, conducted less than a year after the Do Not Call list was implemented, found that people who registered for the list saw a reduction in telemarketing calls from an average of 30 calls per month to an average of 6 per month.
In the Lake Ngardok wetlands of Babeldaob, a few dozen still occur, but the total number of Common Moorhens on Palau is about in the same region as the Guam population ; less than 100 adult birds ( usually less than 50 ) have been encountered in any survey.
A house-by-house survey of the old districts was made in 1979, showing that some 1000 traditional buildings still existed, though the number of structures with great historic value was far less.
According to the same survey, they represent less than 15 percent of adults who consider themselves Baptist.
For example, Griffin, Keller, Pandey, Pedersen, and Skinner in their 2003-2004 survey of North American writing centers describe a tutor as an expert providing a less expert learner with knowledge, implying a transmission approach.
A survey carried out among a sample of Jèrriais speakers in 1996 found that 18 % spoke Jèrriais more often than English, 66 % spoke Jèrriais as often as English, and 16 % spoke Jèrriais less often than English.
A strength of observation and interaction over extended periods of time is that researchers can discover discrepancies between what participants say — and often believe — should happen ( the formal system ) and what actually does happen, or between different aspects of the formal system ; in contrast, a one-time survey of people's answers to a set of questions might be quite consistent, but is less likely to show conflicts between different aspects of the social system or between conscious representations and behavior.
According to a survey commissioned by the Electoral Commission, 71 % of voters voted in less than 5 minutes and 92 % in less than 10 minutes.

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