From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:43:21 +1200 Subject: RE: [9fans] A prick into the wasps' nest ;-) From: Andrew Simmons To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b1d98c4-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > Even if I softly drop a few words here and there, this is still > recognisably rubbish. > > The frame rate is 25Hz for PAL, or 30Hz for NTSC (29.97 for pedants). > SECAM is also 25 Hz. 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 mention the fact that Fowler prefers "recognize" to "recognise", and claims that "synthetize", not "synthesize" is the correct formation. > Stick to what you know, Boyd. 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.