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X Prize and John Carmack
Anonymous Coward writes "ABC News is running a story ostensibly about the X Prize but in reality they only talk about John Carmack and his teams efforts to win the prize (or at least compete). Quote: 'Some people have commented that I am trying very hard to make aerospace like software, and that's the truth," he says. "If we looked at what we do in software, if we could only compile and test our program once a year, we'd never get anything done. But that's the mode of aerospace.' "
The challenges, while they evolve, they are not so novel anymore.
How about trying to plug all of Microsoft's security holes?
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I though I said it clearly enough. Apparently, at two people - the clueless moderator and you - have poor reading comprehension skills. May be a slightly more detailed explanation helps.
My mother always knew how to pronounce the plural of 'nosok' in genitive case. Then my father started testing her all the time. Very quickly she forgot the right form and now avoids the word altogether. I do the same. True story.
Same thing happened to the Centipede, when a stupid Ant asked her how she manages to walk. When she started thinking about it, she realised she doesn't have a clue. She has to use fucking wheelchair now.
The moral of the story is that if you would so kindly please leave us all alone (those of us who don't know the 'correct' spelling and those of us who still do), chances are that the situation will either improve or stay the same. But if you will pester us with your elite grammanazi skills, it will definitely worsen. Language is not something that you should think about when using. Practice helps, caustic remarks doesn't. If Blaine Hilton asks you for spelling advice, feel free to give it. Until than, may I ask you to STFU.
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Do you appreciate the beauty of other languages? Have you learned any Romance languages, for example?
These languages all evolved from a common source (Latin, or Indoeuropean depending how far back you go). It is local dialects and 'gradual erosions' that evolve the language over time. That's why Spanish, Italian, French, Portugese, etc, are all very similar yet different.
If you're so interested in keeping English uncoroded, wherefore art thou not employing Olde English of daies gone by?
It's part of the natural beauty of language. Many of the words that you probably revere because they're good ol' bona-fide English words are actually mispellings and mispronunciations of older dialects and different languages, and accepted abbreviations.
You sound more like a grumpy old man that refuses to deal with change than someone genuinely interested in preservation of languages.
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