{"id":48,"date":"2006-03-18T21:14:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T03:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2006-03-18T21:21:41","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T03:21:41","slug":"time-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Time Flows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past week has gone by without much of anything interesting happening.  I have been keeping a close tab on the World Junior Curling championships in Jeonju Korea.  Go Team Canada!!  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjcc2006.com\">official webpage<\/a> for the championship hasn&#8217;t been that great and I seemed to have better luck with live results at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcurlingfederation.org\/Curlhome\/Statistics\/tournament.asp?tid=240&#038;details=yes\">another webpage<\/a>.  I sure hope they are having fun on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n<p>In school news, I have a CS306 assignment due on Monday.  That brings up another interesting fact; I raised the mark of my midterm by 10% by argueing with the prof about bits and bytes. . . He had given me 0 marks out of 10 on a question about the data rate of a T1 line.  He told us about how there are 24 &#8211; 8 bit characters with 1 additional bit for framing.  I did the calculation by using bytes not bits.  I even made sure to point out that 8 bits = 1 byte.  My final answer was 193KBps.  So when I get it back with a zero I wasn&#8217;t sure what I did wrong.  He even wrote a line &#8220;I don&#8217;t follow&#8221;.  Needless to say, I argued this and explained it to him.  In the end I got 8\/10 , since he said my units were wrong.  Don&#8217;t ask me how it was wrong since he didn&#8217;t specify he wanted it in bits. So since the test was out of 75, the arguement paid off.<\/p>\n<p>8 bits = 1 byte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past week has gone by without much of anything interesting happening. I have been keeping a close tab on the World Junior Curling championships in Jeonju Korea. Go Team Canada!! The official webpage for the championship hasn&#8217;t been that great and I seemed to have better luck with live results at another webpage. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time Flows<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-general","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}