Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?

2015-02-06 Thread Mario Schulz
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 infor

Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?

2015-02-06 Thread Brian
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

Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?

2015-02-06 Thread 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 Searching isn't an achievement (or whatever you mean), it's part of the skipping process. You `search` (aka look for) the timesta

Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?

2015-02-06 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
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'

Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?

2015-02-06 Thread fnu
Hi Klaus, yes, very good ... :) === Kind regards Frank -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- 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 need