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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by Agathos on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:03PM (#9222561)
I can survive on milliseconds of sleep every night. Preferably 27 to 28 million milliseconds, if you have to be so picky.
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by mryan on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:02AM (#9224021)
Exactly, that's the point minitech was making. Your statement is accurate. Saying you survive on a single millisecond of sleep each night would be clearly impossible - as is noticing single-millisecond differences in page rendering times.

You might dismiss it as pedantry, but there is a clear linguistic difference between "I notice millisecond differences" and "I notice differences of 300ms".

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by piyush_soni on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @10:58AM (#9225931)
That's one of those places where common sense should take over literal English. When someone says 'millisecond differences', there are high chances that they mean 'milliseconds differences', and not exactly ONE millisecond difference.
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by lylejohnson on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @07:11AM (#9224669)
Whoosh.
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