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and half an hour later four sledges with bells drove up to the steps, their runners crunching, with a clanging sound, over the frozen snow.

To many who would discredit American capitalism, this sort of cold-hearted number-crunching is beside the point.

He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.

They sailed into a patch of yellowing lotus leaves, the large green plates crunching noisily against the boat.

It was the winter of 1979 and a few days later, Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan, across the palace, crunching what was left.

As the number crunching began to be handled by digital machines, human labor, rather than being eliminated, shifted to other tasks.

I've seen many projects where the team thinks they are going to crunch for just a month and then ends up crunching for close to a year.

One minute, it would be optimized for database access, the next for transaction processing and the next for scientific number-crunching.

From this point on , it really could be, would be, a number -crunching game .

I stepped onto the dirt at the bottom of the stairs and was then greeted by a crunching sound.

and he ate them ravenously, thrusting them alive into his mouth and crunching them like eggshells between his teeth.

It was a crunching of heavy feet, punctuated now and again by the clattering of a displaced stone.

"They've done an enormous amount of number-crunching with stupefying amounts of detail, " he said.

Crunching the numbers, I realized that foreigners have been psyching themselves out about writing about China for at least 122 years.

all of those features are far more important to me , for a laptop , than raw number - crunching.

You have to do a bit of number crunching to realize exactly how high a $5. 5 billion annual deficit seemed then.

Advertisements for PCs already tout their meagre energy consumption just as prominently as their number-crunching prowess.

Universal, the world's biggest music company, is developing its own data-crunching tool, known as the Artist Portal.

What is missing amid all this number crunching and modeling is any sense of which methods are most useful when.

In ZhengChong sunset night color, opposite walk through a bone-crunching tall man, in a flash, daydreaming gently cover my.

International Living uses statistics from a number of official government, non-profit, and media sources for much of the number crunching.

It has reduced customer defections from one-fifth of subscribers a year to under 5% by crunching its numbers.

In the case of hiring American workers who toil by the hour, number-crunching has uncovered some surprising correlations.

So, in recent years, the group has spent some of that $2bn on expanding the frontiers of number-crunching.

In some cases, number-crunching programs made it possible to do things that would have been impossible without the aid of computers.

Britain, whose number-crunching systems have provided a model for many other countries, is now a crucial battleground for two reasons.

Some, like tyrannosaurus rex with its bone-crunching teeth, are obviously predators.

A long-running job -- say, number crunching or a large compilation -- is perfect to place in the background.

Deep Blue won at chess by crunching millions of mathematical possibilities to determine the best possible move.

The best of them still spent their days writing papers, crunching numbers, applying their academic expertise to the world of business.

This year, as with the past three years, all our number- crunching , rating, and ranking landed France at the top of our Index.

She got her start number-crunching nature with her PhD thesis, a DNA analysis of river dolphins.

You might have heard a crunching noise in your family car if ever your parents have tried to change gear without using the clutch properly.

But with a site as complex and sprawling as Wikipedia, simply crunching the numbers proved a major task in itself.

nikolay looked behind . the other sledges , with crunching runners , with shouts , and cracking of whips , were hurrying after them.

The energy team at Google has been crunching the numbers to see how we could greatly reduce fossil fuel use by 2030.

by the S American Plate crunching up against the N American Plate will compress the water in the Gulf, which will rush up over Texas.

The son of Robert K. Merton, a prominent social scientist, he apparently displayed an interest in number crunching from a young age.

Analysts have been crunching these data to estimate how fast consumer subscribers are increasing.

As for taking a day and just crunching down on one server alone, I wish I could.

I realized that the funny, crunching noise I heard each night as I climbed the stairs was really my knees.

The only roads out here right now are spine-crunching gravel tracks.

Instead, the crash has exposed hubris, incompetence and corruption in a single, tragic crunching of metal.

That requires more number-crunching to adjust for seasonal differences but quickly reveals changes in performance.

We're pulling on the skeptic hat here at Deal Journal Central. The topic du jour: the crunching slowdown of computer sales to consumers.

They would rather be doing deals, having power lunches and indulging in the whole merry-go-round, rather than crunching the numbers.

NetPBM is a wonderful test case: It uses some other libraries and has a broad variety of portable number-crunching code.

Most of it is the data computers use while crunching something else.

Some people love nothing more than digging into financial statements and crunching numbers.

Tax season may be over, but the demand for number-crunching geniuses in this field should last for years.

Those modern sharks that eat shelled animals have robust teeth for crunching through hard exteriors.

You can't beat a deal like that, since you can quickly get WEKA up and running and crunching your data in no time.

There was a nasty crunching noise.

Although the chapter title says it's about data crunching, we store our masses of data in relational databases.

My car circled around slowly, rubber tires crunching on broken glass and spent brass cartridge cases.

While computers are good at crunching numbers, people are naturally good at matching patterns.

Some danced to keep warm and drank vodka from plastic glasses, with empty bottles crunching underfoot.

But, after further number crunching, that prediction was later retracted.

But in the 1-0 win at Crewe on Saturday Paletta - nicknamed The Drill - levelled Billy Jones with a bone-crunching challenge.

While computers are good at crunching numbers, people are naturally good at matching letters.

Atlantic ran two parallel campaigns, using Buzzdeck, a data-crunching service, to evaluate how each group was responding.

This article has shown you a simple example of crunching big data with Hadoop.

It agreed to outsource the data-crunching technological side of search to Microsoft.

Presently a voice cameout of the cottage: "Munching, crunching, munching, Who's eating up my house? "

The massive data volumes for such tests is an example of how Facebook relies on Hadoop for data crunching.

wish i hadn t met that m coy fellow . he came nearer and heard a crunching of gilded oats , the gently champing teeth.

Suddenly, he hears the sound of tires crunching on grave! " Patty ! " he cries.

And that is a surprise. Those modern sharks that eat shelled animals have robust teeth for crunching through hard exteriors.

This is the chipmaker's smallest processor, designed specifically for low-cost and portable devices, not for intensive number-crunching.

I felt the crunching of teeth rattle its way through my leg, work its way up my body and slam into my brain.

A large part of Web analytics deals with number-crunching and numerical data.

That's a lot of talent and energy and potential that could be used somewhere other than crunching numbers to generate wealth.

Then there was silence, and the sound of crunching.

There are two methods for general software protection lock crunching from hardware or software.

Subsequent number-crunching revealed a statistically significant increase in bodyweight in 11 of the 24 populations.

Hours later, they heard crunching footsteps on the rubble.

So the Alfreds coaxed the department to release that data, and then they set to work crunching it.

It is a place for people who believe that gathering and crunching data can lead to good policies backed by sound laws.

The problem: You're crunching away at your desk, when suddenly you feel woozy and realize it's 3 p. m. and you still haven't eaten.

But in an industry devoted to number-crunching, is that bias borne out by the data?

You might hear a crunching or clicking sound when you bend or extend your knee.

Crunching data from satellites is much less costly.

For the past eight days, I've been stretching, crunching, yoga-posing and even running using this $90 package from Nintendo.

and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.

I help with everything that's game design, but not number crunching.

Instead, we collaborated with other researchers who knew how to do the appropriate number-crunching.

Hundreds of them were employed by big companies that needed to do a lot of number- crunching , such as aeroplane manufacturers.

(Thirty minutes of nonstop number-crunching on a personal computer's dual-core processor, for example, is equivalent to one processor hour).

With 3 days remaining, it's time to start crunching those last tasks and emptying the cache.

For now, we will concentrate on crunching data with Hadoop.

No manual blind crunching, it is estimated most people had to play smashed.

A dog was crunching on a bone.

Statistics, accounting and calculus were my favorite subjects because I am good at crunching numbers.

Then the small talk ran out and the room filled again with the sound of crunching pomegranate seeds.

Prof Sims, for example, won his gong for advancing the crunching of numbers to draw out causes and effects of economic changes or shocks.

graphics chips have to be good at rapidly crunching data in parallel streams;

To move with or make a crunching sound:

and you can hear the snow shovels outside crunching