From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40C83999.6040602@9fs.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:36:09 +0100 From: Nigel Roles User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A prick into the wasps' nest ;-) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b22f558-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Andrew Simmons wrote: >Surely a shade harsh? And a pedant might claim that PAL, NTSC, and SECAM are >colour encoding systems, and as such independent of frame rate. Not to > > Yes, I think you'd have to be a pedant to claim that they weren't video standards. Sorry if I appeared harsh; It was the preceding sequence of gun related stuff that got me going; I was about to moan about it anyway, and then hit this email. >mention the fact that Fowler prefers "recognize" to "recognise", and claims >that "synthetize", not "synthesize" is the correct formation. > > > I have to admit that synthetize was a new one on me; I can now bore at parties with that one. Looking back I see that 'interpolate' would have been a more accurate word in the first place. >Oh right, so you have to know what you're talking about if you're going to >post to 9fans? If that were the case, then I'd certainly never ... ah, I see >what you mean. Better shut up now. > > > With a chap from Snell & Wilcox on the list I thought through what I posted, yes!