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Check the last parameter of this constructor:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9ah41zs(VS.80).aspx
Two major problems:
1) A billionth of a second already has a well-established name: Nanosecond.
2) In reality that parameter represents microseconds.
So yeah.
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- Warp
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Warp schrieb:
> Check the last parameter of this constructor:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9ah41zs(VS.80).aspx
>
> Two major problems:
>
> 1) A billionth of a second already has a well-established name: Nanosecond.
> 2) In reality that parameter represents microseconds.
1.5) In various non-English speaking cultures, "billion" may lead to
confusion (see "Long and short scales" on Wikipedia). Nanoseconds, on
the other hand, would be pretty clear for everyone.
Whichever programmer drafted up this interface, and whichever person had
inspected it (if any), they obviously didn't have their brightest of
days :-) (OTOH, you'd /hope/ so...)
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"Warp" <war### [at] tag povrayorg> wrote in message
news:4af6189c@news.povray.org...
> Check the last parameter of this constructor:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9ah41zs(VS.80).aspx
>
> Two major problems:
>
> 1) A billionth of a second already has a well-established name:
> Nanosecond.
> 2) In reality that parameter represents microseconds.
>
> So yeah.
>
> --
> - Warp
Please... take a deep, cleansing breath... relax... there are many more
changes coming... you must let go... you will be absorbed into the Microsoft
collective... don't struggle, it'll only hurt more... there is peace and
tranquility inside... it's all so clear to me, now...
--
Jack
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clipka a écrit :
> Warp schrieb:
>> Check the last parameter of this constructor:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9ah41zs(VS.80).aspx
>>
>> Two major problems:
>>
>> 1) A billionth of a second already has a well-established name:
>> Nanosecond.
>> 2) In reality that parameter represents microseconds.
>
> 1.5) In various non-English speaking cultures, "billion" may lead to
> confusion (see "Long and short scales" on Wikipedia). Nanoseconds, on
> the other hand, would be pretty clear for everyone.
>
That's on purpose: MS values the american users more.
Their 1 bilisecondth is just the same as 1000 of mine!
On the other hand, I would be glad to report my time with a precision of
picosecond (excepted a 32 bits would make some time value unreachable, a
42 bits value would be fine... answering THE question: with which
precision, as a power of 1/2 of the second unit, should workers/slaves
report their time to their master ?)
Regarding that bilisecond being in fact microsecond, that's logical (for
US-MS !):
million, then billion, 10^3 more
milisecond, then bilisecond, 10^3 more too ( s/mil/bil/, same rule,
logical, therefore true! )
of course, realname of nanosecond should be trilisecond (like US
trillion is 10^3 billion)
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A: Top-posting.<br/>
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Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Their 1 bilisecondth is just the same as 1000 of mine!
That's because Bill is 1000x times as awesome as you. ;-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Le_Forgeron schrieb:
> That's on purpose: MS values the american users more.
>
> Their 1 bilisecondth is just the same as 1000 of mine!
LOL!
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Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] freefr> wrote:
> million, then billion, 10^3 more
> milisecond, then bilisecond, 10^3 more too ( s/mil/bil/, same rule,
> logical, therefore true! )
But if millisecond is one millionth of a second, how do they name one
thousandth of a second?
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Captain Jack <Cap### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> Please... take a deep, cleansing breath... relax... there are many more
> changes coming... you must let go... you will be absorbed into the Microsoft
> collective... don't struggle, it'll only hurt more... there is peace and
> tranquility inside... it's all so clear to me, now...
You will be assimilated. Sarcasm is futile.
--
- Warp
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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:4af86969@news.povray.org...
>
> You will be assimilated. Sarcasm is futile.
But... but... sarcasm is my whole way of life! It's the language of my
people... are they mad enough to swallow up an entire culture?
Aw, who am I kidding-- of course they are...
--
Jack
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Le 09/11/2009 20:11, Warp nous fit lire :
> Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] freefr> wrote:
>> million, then billion, 10^3 more
>> milisecond, then bilisecond, 10^3 more too ( s/mil/bil/, same rule,
>> logical, therefore true! )
>
> But if millisecond is one millionth of a second, how do they name one
> thousandth of a second?
>
milisecond is thousandth of second (notice the single l).
a lion is 10^3, so million is 10^6, billion 10^9 (for MS/US)
a isecond is 1 Hz (for other), so 1 milisecond is just 10^3 Hz... works
fine. No problem. Just be loony.
1 bilisecond = 1 bil-isecond = 10^6 Hz... see! I want to claim a patent now!
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Warp wrote:
> You will be assimilated. Sarcasm is futile.
"Do you *have* a sarcasm sign?"
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Le_Forgeron schrieb:
> 1 bilisecond = 1 bil-isecond = 10^6 Hz... see! I want to claim a patent now!
Is madness patentable? :-)
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>> That's on purpose: MS values the american users more.
>>
>> Their 1 bilisecondth is just the same as 1000 of mine!
...and 0.02 cents will NEVER equal 0.02 dollars!
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Warp wrote:
> You will be assimilated. Sarcasm is futile.
Ah, sarcasm. Something America will apparently never understand...
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clipka wrote:
> Le_Forgeron schrieb:
>
>> 1 bilisecond = 1 bil-isecond = 10^6 Hz... see! I want to claim a
>> patent now!
>
> Is madness patentable? :-)
only if it produces a tangible result
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>>> 1 bilisecond = 1 bil-isecond = 10^6 Hz... see! I want to claim a
>>> patent now!
>>
>> Is madness patentable? :-)
>
> only if it produces a tangible result
Madness?
THIS...
...IS...
SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:4af93f1a$1@news.povray.org...
> Warp wrote:
>
>> You will be assimilated. Sarcasm is futile.
>
> Ah, sarcasm. Something America will apparently never understand...
I dunno... I think we get sarcasm pretty well. The subtleties of satire seem
to be lost on us for the most part, though.
For most of my compatriots, it seems like we want our entertainment to be
visceral, mostly consisting of explosions, cute young lasses, and beer.
Not necessarily on that order, mind...
:D
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>> Ah, sarcasm. Something America will apparently never understand...
>
> I dunno... I think we get sarcasm pretty well.
It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very
funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally
interacted with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.
Like, they literally can't comprehend jokes. They think you're being
completely serious. It's really weird...
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:4af986d4@news.povray.org...
>>> Ah, sarcasm. Something America will apparently never understand...
>>
>> I dunno... I think we get sarcasm pretty well.
>
> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very
> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally interacted
> with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is. Like, they
> literally can't comprehend jokes. They think you're being completely
> serious. It's really weird...
My guess is that the problem's root is xenophobia coupled with
provincialism, in a lot of cases. Culturally, we've got both pretty bad over
here. I'm not sure what it stems from, since so many people come and go
through here from everwhere.
The picture of the American tourist in another country speaking English
(okay, well, what we call English, anyway) veeeeeeeery slowly so the other
fella will understand him is, sadly, not a complete cartoon.
--
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Captain Jack <Cap### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> The picture of the American tourist in another country speaking English
> (okay, well, what we call English, anyway) veeeeeeeery slowly so the other
> fella will understand him is, sadly, not a complete cartoon.
When I lived in Spain (long story), there was one store where the owner
always switched to an awkward form of speaking, using only infinitives and
simplifying to ridiculous levels, when she was speaking to me. This regardless
of me speaking back in perfect Spanish (at that point my Spanish was probably
better than the best she could ever speak).
This was a source of amusement among my friends.
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Check the last parameter of this constructor:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9ah41zs(VS.80).aspx
>
> Two major problems:
>
> 1) A billionth of a second already has a well-established name: Nanosecond.
> 2) In reality that parameter represents microseconds.
>
> So yeah.
>
Hmm. This explain why MS thinks that every OS they make is "faster",
they are using something like the creationist argument that, "1,000
years = 1 day", and applying it to computing time?
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If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very
> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally interacted
> with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.
If you start trying to joke with the head of IT after shouting at him for
breaking all your servers then no wonder he wasn't laughing :-)
Seriously though, how big a sample of the USA population do you have? How
random was it?
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>> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very
>> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally
>> interacted with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.
>
> If you start trying to joke with the head of IT after shouting at him
> for breaking all your servers then no wonder he wasn't laughing :-)
Just stuff like you suggest that maybe instead of spending £35,000 a
year on our Internet access, we should just use a piece of wet string.
And the director of IT is like "what, how do you send IP data using wet
string? I'm not sure I understand". (Whereas any intellligent person can
see that I obviously wasn't serious about that...)
> Seriously though, how big a sample of the USA population do you have?
> How random was it?
Some of our employees are apparently very, very random people.
Different kind of random though... Not the good kind.
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>>> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very
>>> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally
>>> interacted with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.
>>
>> If you start trying to joke with the head of IT after shouting at him for
>> breaking all your servers then no wonder he wasn't laughing :-)
>
> Just stuff like you suggest that maybe instead of spending £35,000 a year
> on our Internet access, we should just use a piece of wet string. And the
> director of IT is like
I suspect that's more because he is DIRECTOR OF IT, and not because he is
American.
Imagine picking 10 Directors of IT from 10 different countries, then picking
10 completely random people from one country, which group is going to have
the biggest variety?
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>> Just stuff like you suggest that maybe instead of spending £35,000 a
>> year on our Internet access, we should just use a piece of wet string.
>> And the director of IT is like
>
> I suspect that's more because he is DIRECTOR OF IT, and not because he
> is American.
>
> Imagine picking 10 Directors of IT from 10 different countries, then
> picking 10 completely random people from one country, which group is
> going to have the biggest variety?
Well, I guess the only Americans I am forced to interact with happen to
be in upper management, so maybe it's that upper management has no sense
of humour...
(Certainly not a problem I've seen with management in the UK though.)
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