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Earlier this morning accessing WS, selecting a forum, and picking up specific thread, took forever; The problem didn't happen invoking other sites and so I am wondering if anyone else had the same experience
If so it was no doubt attributable to a software glitch entailing exquisite timing, eg, in which a specific instruction propagated on the Web travels in circles until it finally reaches its destination. Typically it may take as long as 5 minutes to get a single response while a couple of the little green rectangles languish in the box at the bottom of the screen
I have long suspected the phenom was created by our White Knight in order to torment us from time to time so we thereby come to better appreciate His works
So I have coined the term "Gates Loop" to describe it. Do you have a better term
But it has to include "Gates." Another example of the Gates Loop, of which there are hundreds, if not thousands, is the deletion of your followup--while you are actually in the process of composing it--but pause a couple of minutes for instance to go look up a word
Perhaps the Gates Loop is also responsible for the continual and repeated appearance of "Warning: Page has Expired" message again and again, over and over, that so very much slows our navigation through a board
More such examples welcome
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I've seen this board be extremely slow quite frequently. Don't see that any Gate has anything to do with it.
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Fal: Sorry if my inference wasn't immediately obvious. I use "Gates" as a kind of symbol standing for everything wrong in the world of software
Its just persiflage
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yes dale we know, you have a single minded obsession with mr gates.
and no, most of us don't share it, nor do we want to.
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FTR, I had trouble both getting here and changing pages yesterday morning, too.
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From Arnie, a true expert upon matters technical, at a board that must remain nameless for reasons of porotocol:
Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet, not Bill Gates.
There are all sorts of reasons why a particular site is temporarily slow, but the most common is that one (sometimes more) server on your route to the site is having problems. Your message to the site's server goes through a number of 'hops' to reach it and return, and if there are any problems on the way the site will be slow. Somebody else using a different ISP will take a different route and not have any problems. Usually the operators of the malfunctioning router will quickly discover the problem and it'll be taken out of service or fixed fairly quickly, but sometimes the problem can go on for several hours or even days.
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet, not Bill Gates.
Now there you go again, Dale, spreading dysinformation about the Web, the Net, and all things IT. As I said on the Board that dare not speak its name because of the Imaginary Hileman Protocol, Mr Berners-Lee did not invent the Internet. He invented the Web in 1991. You may want to read a book by M Mitchell Waldrop, Dream Machines: J C R Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, 2001. It's available in paperback and is a fun and compelling read. It might help to set you straight on the history of personal computing.
[Fixed title of book.]
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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zm: Thank you for that
But the protocol isn't imaginary. I've been raked over the coals in more than one instance at more than one board for mentioning or even providing a link to another such board. Each has its own protocol or sensitivities while raillery is often misinterpreted as hostility
For instance, one banned me for using the term "offshore" referring to the Continent; another accused me in no uncertain terms of "persiflage" (encouraged at one site but despised at another). I was suspended from a third for using the term "Muslim" in connection with terrorism. Board A encourages the use of the tilde (~ as in all the dictionaries) while Board B decries it, threatening banishment
In still another instance I was resoundingly berated for starting a thread but then not participating in its subsequent progress. Heavens, but I had no idea it was required
As I subscribe to a half-dozen such boards, I have six sets of rules to observe, and admittedly I get them mixed up. Worse yet, somestimes two different administrators at a single site will have conflicting rules, esp in the case of two boards which for reasons of protocol and mutual antagonism I cannot specify
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Since the others have already taken care of Gates, I was considering taking on loop, but I've decided that I'm just so glad that you didn't say algorithm that I'm going to leave it alone. ;-)
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