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[QUOTE=xilman].. it's because he seems to be too lazy to produce comprehensible text more of the time[/QUOTE]

Paul,
One of the many things I respect about you is the number of times you have stepped into a thread in which experts were ridiculing a poorly posed question with the injunction to “answer the question as asked”. It surprises me, therefore, to see you taking this stance, especially as your [B]seems[/B] indicates that you are aware of other possibilities.

Moo might, and I plead no special knowledge of him, be handicapped in some way that means that typing is not as trivial a task as it is for you and I. This would mean that those occasions when he has posted cogent grammatical sentences represent a supreme effort on his part out of all proportion to their contribution to the thread.

Or then again he might just be lazy. But I’m afraid I don’t understand why people who cannot be bothered or don’t have the time / inclination / interest or facility [insert your own reasons] to decode the message he sent can’t just leave it alone rather than risk offending someone whose world might, for all we know, be very different from yours.

NOI

[QUOTE=JHagerson](Insert elided "bad quality of US public education" rant here.)
An escapee from the US public education system.[/QUOTE]

Writing in coherent sentences and spelling are a LD as classified by the public school districts in my area. Unfortunately my writing motor skills are sufficiently lacking so is my grammar. Hence you will not see commas but I have come to the terms that I have misstated my question. So I will restate it.

I would like to make a request for a feature were prime95 writes results to a ram file and once after so many results are written to this file that prime95 will then write them to the results.txt this would cut down on the number of disk writes and if the option is not set then it will be disabled by default. This was mainly focused on cutting down on the wasted cycles that prime95 uses to write each and every results to the results file.

Moo, if it truly is a learning disability as you say, then I apologize. I still don't understand how some of your posts can be coherent and well-written, but others well-nigh impenetrable. If it is a matter of simply taking a little extra time, then, as this forum is a purely written medium, I suggest you do so - not so differently from our many members for whom English is not a first language.

[QUOTE=Numbers]Paul,
One of the many things I respect about you is the number of times you have stepped into a thread in which experts were ridiculing a poorly posed question with the injunction to “answer the question as asked”. It surprises me, therefore, to see you taking this stance, especially as your [B]seems[/B] indicates that you are aware of other possibilities.

Moo might, and I plead no special knowledge of him, be handicapped in some way that means that typing is not as trivial a task as it is for you and I. This would mean that those occasions when he has posted cogent grammatical sentences represent a supreme effort on his part out of all proportion to their contribution to the thread.

Or then again he might just be lazy. But I’m afraid I don’t understand why people who cannot be bothered or don’t have the time / inclination / interest or facility [insert your own reasons] to decode the message he sent can’t just leave it alone rather than risk offending someone whose world might, for all we know, be very different from yours.

NOI[/QUOTE]
If you are going to quote me, please do not quote me out of context. I wrote: "If we are picking on him at all, it's because he seems to be too lazy to produce comprehensible text more of the time.".

You omitted the all important conditional "If we are picking on him at all". I was not and am not picking on him.

I observed that moo has posted coherent and cogent text here before. Shortly afterwards he wrote a followup posting that was, again, coherent and cogent. There is no doubt at all that he is capable of doing so.

As to the use of the word "seems", of course there are other possibilities. He may, for instance, be challenging us to decipher his meaning. Alternatively, he may be using a form of communication which is fully appropriate and comprehensible to another section of his cohorts --- in much the same way that bilingual speakers will use different languages according to whom they are speaking.

I reminded him, successfully as it turned out, that communication has at least two parties and that if he wishes to communicate he should endeavour to use mutually intelligible language.

As for "leaving alone" I believe in these two things: I want to be informed of errors I make so that I am less likely to make them in future; that correcting significant errors in others, though often an irritation to them, helps their development and helps them become more effective in future. In this case, the "correction" was more in the nature of a reminder.

At age 16, someone should surely be realising that being able to communicate effectively gives them great power and that it is to their own personal benefit, financially and otherwise, if they improve the clarity of their communications.

Mally: Personally, I find the term "boy" demeaning when applied to a 16-year old male, other than in contexts where it could equally well be applied to , say, a 46-year old. In many places, such a "boy" can legally marry a "girl" of at least the same age, can be imprisoned for years or decades if found guilty of committing certain crimes and can serve in his country's armed forces with the risk to life and bodily integrity that implies.

That said, I apologize if I offended anyone with my posting.

Paul

Moo, have you tried "WellBehavedWork=1" in prime.ini?

This would be something for the results.txt file.

You can reduce the number of times worktodo.ini is read and written by
setting in prime.ini:
WellBehavedWork=1
This only works for worktodo.ini files that contain only Factor= lines.
Only turn this on if you have BIG worktodo.ini files and each Factor=
operation does not take much time. You must stop prime95 before manually
editing the worktodo.ini file.

Mally: Personally, I find the term "boy" demeaning when applied to a 16-year old male, other than in contexts where it could equally well be applied to , say, a 46-year old. In many places, such a "boy" can legally marry a "girl" of at least the same age, can be imprisoned for years or decades if found guilty of committing certain crimes and can serve in his country's armed forces with the risk to life and bodily integrity that implies.

That said, I apologize if I offended anyone with my posting.

Paul[/QUOTE]
:redface: O.K. Old boy, but I dont agree with your definition of a boy.
This is the age of adolescence which is the age ending in 'teen' and 16 qualifies. I dont consider it demeaning at that age and as a matter of fact its a term of endearment for that age and more.
I also insinuated the difference of age between Moo and the others by emphasising it thereby calling him a boy.
I did not mean to degrade him as perhaps you have done; hence your apology.
Im beginning to agree with Numbers first para in post #12. Please dont get touchy on small matters which only emanate from small minds,
In India we have a saying 'Those who point a finger at others have 4 fingers pointing back at them!'
Given in good faith. No offence met.
For a man of your calibre blessed with a brilliant mind please exercise more patience and the forum will be better off by you giving the example first.
Cheers! :innocent:Pl. Click on [url]http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/academic/writing/1adoles08/adolescencehomepage.html[/url]
Mally. :coffee:

Make a little bit of noise if a FACTOR is found.

moo,

I wish to apologize for having, a few months ago in some thread, once commented to you about capitalization and punctuation, after having refrained from doing so earlier in my forum-acquaintance with you.

I decided early in my Internet experience that commenting on others' spelling, punctuation, grammar, and so on wasn't worth doing for any purpose other than strictly clarification of meaning. Furthermore, I know from my own life that I, or anyone else, can have perfectly good reasons for doing something that appears odd to other people (which is why there are more eccentric oldsters than eccentric youngsters -- we gain courage to be different as we age).

But somehow I (a) developed a theory that you were deliberately disregarding some of the "rules" for the purpose of demonstrating that communication of the Web didn't need to abide by them (I had, alas, stereotyped you as "rebellious teenager" once I learned your age), (b) forgot to make any attempt to test whether that theory was correct, and (c) forgot my earlier resolution, when I saw others posting such comments about spelling and so forth in that months-ago thread.

You've taught me not to do that again (though I may forget the lesson sometime). Thank you for that, and for all your contributions to this forum.

Sincerely,
Richard ("cheesehead") Woods

[QUOTE=mfgoode]In India we have a saying 'Those who point a finger at others have 4 fingers pointing back at them![/QUOTE]

Do Indians have remarkably flexible thumbs? Here in the States, I've heard "Those who point a finger at others have 3 fingers pointing back"