Hi Klaus,
yes, very good ... :)
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Kind regards
Frank
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Von: vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org] Im Auftrag von
Klaus Schmidinger
Gesendet: Freitag, 6. Februar 2015 18:22
An: vdr@linuxtv.org
Betreff: Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers
Am 05.02.2015 um 20:55 schrieb VDR User:
adaptive skipping
The action is skipping, the achievement is searching.
So we do
Binary Search
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm
or
Binäre Suche
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin%C3%A4re_Suche
Ok, this may be considered informatics
On 2/5/2015 8:55 PM, VDR User wrote:
The question now is: is bisect the right word here, which a native English
speaker would use? Or should it rather be halve? Or something completely
different?
Bisect isn't correct. Bisecting means to cut something into 2 parts.
Using halve doesn't make
adaptive skipping
The action is skipping, the achievement is searching.
So we do
Binary Search
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm
Searching isn't an achievement (or whatever you mean), it's part of
the skipping process. You `search` (aka look for) the timestamp in
which
Thanks for all the helpful responses.
The final verdict is:
Initial duration for adaptive skipping (s) = 120
Defines the number of seconds to jump from the current
replay
position in either direction, when pressing the '1' or
'3'
Hi Klaus,
On 02/05/15 16:56, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
The question now is: is bisect the right word here, which a native
English
speaker would use? Or should it rather be halve? Or something
completely
different?
IMHO all these fancy words are a bit overblown.
I am not a native
The question now is: is bisect the right word here, which a native English
speaker would use? Or should it rather be halve? Or something completely
different?
Bisect isn't correct. Bisecting means to cut something into 2 parts.
Using halve doesn't make sense. Binary doesn't either for that
