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Posted by Scott Marquardt on 10/01/38 11:25
Ross Presser opined thusly on Aug 30:
> On 30 Aug 2005 13:28:36 -0700, --CELKO-- wrote:
>
>> Basics: Time comes in durations, so evetns have a start and stop time.
>> The really good stuff can be found at the University of Arizona
>> website where they have a PDF copy of the Rick Snodgrass book and his
>> research paper.
>
> Joe, without passing judgement on your basic assertion "Time comes in
> durations", you must be aware that web requests, like most other events in
> computing, are not ever logged as durations, but as instants. Unless you
> intend to win over the writers and administrators of every web server on
> the planet, we're going to have to damn well DEAL with them as events, not
> durations.
Well, OTOH the telos of the click is to digest content, which consumes time
(duration). But we don't have eyeball trackers on our desktops yet, so
we're left to infer from events that there's subsequent eyeball activity --
users don't do http GETs for no reason.
But that's an abstraction -- a problematic one -- whereas indeed these are
events. Still, like vertices on a triangle, to get from one to another of
these moments you have to traverse the length of a side.
Grats to Joe for the sensible reply. I'm always slapping my forehead. Just
now I'm having trouble even with that simplicity. :-/
--
Scott
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