As a Canadian, I'm not sure there's that much difference between American and British "mad".
Longman's seems to lean to "crazy" for Brits, "angry" for Americans; as Canadians, we get our meaning from context; that comes from having to live in between England and the U.S.; George Bernard Shaw is one of several people who have uttered phrases
such as "England and America, two peoples separated by a common language".
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As a Canadian, I'm not sure there's that much difference between American and British "mad".
Longman's seems to lean to "crazy" for Brits, "angry" for Americans; as Canadians, we get our meaning from context; that comes from having to live in between England and the U.S.; George Bernard Shaw is one of several people who have uttered phrases
such as "England and America, two peoples separated by a common language".
In the UK we do use it contextually, and sometimes say "His wife is mad at him", but generally (I've found) if there isn't that "emotive-direction" specified we take it to mean "crazy", whereas US folks take it to mean "angry" - e.g. "Are you mad?" has caused
some confusion when my mate IMed it to his US girlfriend.....
( From one of those links)
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some would say this would definitely be the correct definition to apply to me......
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Are you sure the problem is in the .NET code? What about the database? Is it correctly indexed?
I had a site with a not so great indexed database. The pages could take upp to two minutes to load, and after the indexing it took about 0,5 seconds.. :-)
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I don't know about the rest of the members around but I found the speed of the forums pretty good to fast in the weekend. I guess the slaying of the gremlins was a good thing [cool].
As most people were complaining about the slowness, including myself in some occasions, I thought that it would be the decent thing to do to also give a [Yes] to the people of Neudesic for doing their best to make our experience around here better.
Grz, Kris.
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Eastern DST, 09:27, for the last hour, it's getting slower, and slower, and slower.
The only reason I have not given up already is because I'm a masochist.
B-(
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Gerry (Lowry)
B-) Please help me by completing my school survey about computer programmers on my website. Thank you!!! Gerry Lowry +1 705-429-7550 wasaga beach, ontario, canada
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Re: Site Speed
May 15, 2009 02:33 PM|LINK
lol nice
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May 15, 2009 03:46 PM|LINK
@ Terri, still loading slowly today; not as bad as yesterday, but it should load much faster than it did.
Specifically, it should load fast enough that it's not obvious that the messages of a thread are loading one at a time.
QUESTION: what's scarier than a gremlin?
ANSWER: not knowing the cause of the slow downs.
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As a Canadian, I'm not sure there's that much difference between American and British "mad".
Longman's seems to lean to "crazy" for Brits, "angry" for Americans; as Canadians, we get our meaning from context; that comes from having to live in between England and the U.S.; George Bernard Shaw is one of several people who have uttered phrases such as "England and America, two peoples separated by a common language".
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Re: Site Speed
May 15, 2009 03:58 PM|LINK
In the UK we do use it contextually, and sometimes say "His wife is mad at him", but generally (I've found) if there isn't that "emotive-direction" specified we take it to mean "crazy", whereas US folks take it to mean "angry" - e.g. "Are you mad?" has caused some confusion when my mate IMed it to his US girlfriend.....
( From one of those links)
some would say this would definitely be the correct definition to apply to me......
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Re: Site Speed
May 15, 2009 03:58 PM|LINK
Agreed completely. We are continuing to work on the long-standing issues this site has with performance, and there is no single silver bullet.
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Re: Site Speed
May 18, 2009 10:15 AM|LINK
Are you sure the problem is in the .NET code? What about the database? Is it correctly indexed?
I had a site with a not so great indexed database. The pages could take upp to two minutes to load, and after the indexing it took about 0,5 seconds.. :-)
http://weblogs.asp.net/mikaelsoderstrom
http://www.twitter.com/vimpyboy
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Re: Site Speed
May 18, 2009 03:06 PM|LINK
True, proper indexing is critical for performance.
But, if indexing was the problem, the site would be slow all the time...not intermittently.
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Re: Site Speed
May 18, 2009 07:14 PM|LINK
I don't know about the rest of the members around but I found the speed of the forums pretty good to fast in the weekend. I guess the slaying of the gremlins was a good thing [cool].
As most people were complaining about the slowness, including myself in some occasions, I thought that it would be the decent thing to do to also give a [Yes] to the people of Neudesic for doing their best to make our experience around here better.
Grz, Kris.
Interested in Azure, ASP.NET (MVC), jQuery, WCF, EF, MS SQL, ...
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Re: Site Speed
May 19, 2009 01:16 PM|LINK
It is extremelly slow right now again :(
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May 19, 2009 01:28 PM|LINK
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Re: Site Speed
May 19, 2009 01:29 PM|LINK
Eastern DST, 09:27, for the last hour, it's getting slower, and slower, and slower.
The only reason I have not given up already is because I'm a masochist.
B-(
Regards,
Gerry (Lowry)