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  1. Re:unreplaceable? on Can New Game Control Schemes Hope To Match the PC Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    "Dictionaries base their usage data on much broader sources than that." I believe some documentary mentioned the news thing, they must of made a mistake.

    It seems to me anyone that waits for a word to be official to use is just behind on the times as many people had to use it first for it to be noticed.

    "Of course. And no "committee" made "irreplaceable" in preference to "unreplaceable". It was the "culture". You have it exactly backwards."
    That is exactly what i said/meant by the statement that it is aimed at.

  2. Re:unreplaceable? on Can New Game Control Schemes Hope To Match the PC Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I believe it is deduced by how often it occurs in the news.
    Which while a moderately good measure is not a perfect measure of how most of us talk.
    "Go ahead and make up your own rules."
    But that is how languages evolve and are made in the first place. The Words that make it into the dictionary are not brand new word made up by some language committee but words that are already in the culture.
    One could go as far as to say people unwilling to use non official words are just stunting cultural growth.
    Either way languages will continue to change regardless of how many people decide to base their opinions of others on their vocabulary.

  3. Re:unreplaceable? on Can New Game Control Schemes Hope To Match the PC Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Well it seems pretty arbitrary to just allow some group of people to decide what strings of characters are words and which are not. and irreplaceable really just make the language more complicated while the combining of the un prefix to the word just makes logical scene.

  4. Re:unreplaceable? on Can New Game Control Schemes Hope To Match the PC Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    It is in many online dictionaries:
    For example: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/unreplaceable
    now it very well might be technically not a word, but I see no reason to care about that.

  5. Re:IANARS but... on Early Abort of Ares I Rocket Would Kill Crew · · Score: 1

    Well one could say every death is a tragedy but if their deaths were added to a daily total of accidental deaths and then compared to all other days it would not show any meaningful deviance from the norm.

    I am sure someone could make a case for not donating as much blood as possible in a lifetime as being more "horrible" then a rocket crash with 100% casualties as the lack of blood killed more people then the crash.
    Note: I do not know (blood donation)/(lives saved) stats but the general idea is still apt in my opinion if the object donated changes.

  6. Re:Oh Lord! on Typography On the Web Gets Different · · Score: 2, Interesting

    looked horrible on mine to.
    Now not only will we have to worry about horrible colors and sizes but styles as well.
    Not that this is a bad feature to have, but it will probably cause more bad then good.

  7. Competition on Microsoft vs. Google — Mutually Assured Destruction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is competition between brands not good for the customer?

  8. Sign Language on Monkeys Show Language Recognition · · Score: 1

    Dont they already have monkeys communicating in sign language? and i can get a dog/cat/cow to come when its name is called so why not a monkey?

  9. Re:Meh on The Mathletes and the Miley Photoshop · · Score: 1

    But it is not that the law is is written vaguely, it is that the law clearly states (when you use the strict meanings of the words making up the law) that the minor must be engaged in "simulated sexual activity". and wearing no cloths has never constituted "simulated sexual activity" in any stretch of the imagination.

  10. Re:ARE YOU LISTENING, MICROSOFT? on One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    I even used a xp 64-bit edition for a work comp on one of my jobs, no end of troubles. the printer not working, oh i need special 64-bit drivers, works for a few days then never again. installing 64-bit java, oh java phone emulation does not work with 64-bit java. installing rim emulators, oh does not configure correctly because it is not in program files, but program files(x86). The list goes on. yes it works for all popular apps that have made sure they work in win 64-bit, but everything else fails in my experience.

  11. Re:ARE YOU LISTENING, MICROSOFT? on One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    that might be so, but when you are petty much dependent on 32-bit windows applications that do not work on any windows 64-bit edition.... I have installed xp 64-bit a few times, and could never get any of the apps i use to work on it, worst emulation ever.

  12. Re:WTF on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 1

    and why are they not also asking for the person`s diary?

  13. Re:Give me a break on Does the Wii Provide A "Watered-Down" Game Experience? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But how many of its games are actually fun? Super Smash Bro Brawl, Mario cart, and a small few others?

  14. Re:FF13? on FF XIII Timeframe Set, FF XIV Confirmed · · Score: 1

    and i could give you a long list of great ratings and best of lists that include it. It is OK to not like a game, that other have said it a good game. But you cannot just pretend that everyone agrees with you.

  15. Re:FF13? on FF XIII Timeframe Set, FF XIV Confirmed · · Score: 1

    regardless where you get the quote everyone that has heard of Chrono C knows it is the sequel to CT.

  16. Re:FF13? on FF XIII Timeframe Set, FF XIV Confirmed · · Score: 1

    "On the series level, events may fall under Discontinuity because the show is perceived to suck at that point. Events also get "discontinued" for particularly screwing up the characters or setting" CC is not considered a bad game, and unless it screws up some characters then according to your article Dis Continuity does not apply. And besides a single fan cannot decide for everyone if CC is not part of the series, i have never heard of it not being considered not cannon, give me a link to a site featuring a large group of fans stating it should not be considered cannon and then you might have a case.

  17. Re:FF13? on FF XIII Timeframe Set, FF XIV Confirmed · · Score: 1

    No, but what does one persons opinion matter when as far as i can tell the majority say it is a very good game and is officially a sequel to CT. Maybe they should make another sequel to CT, that is more sequely, but that does not change the fact that technically their is already a sequel.

  18. Re:FF13? on FF XIII Timeframe Set, FF XIV Confirmed · · Score: 1

    And I have never seen a bad review for it. It is supposed to be a very good game.

  19. Re:FF13? on FF XIII Timeframe Set, FF XIV Confirmed · · Score: 1

    "It is the sequel to Chrono Trigger"(wikipedia)

  20. Re:FF13? on FF XIII Timeframe Set, FF XIV Confirmed · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is called Chrono Cross, it was released in 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Cross

  21. Re:The War on (some) Drugs on Cocaine Test Prompts Red Bull Removal In Germany · · Score: 1

    No one is trying it get hi off of red bull. that is not to say small amounts could not make it less healthy of a drink and more addictive. this is not a drug issue it is a heath issue, and moral if you believe it is wrong to secretly put highly addictive substances into food.

  22. Re:First post? on Breaking Down the Demigod Launch · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am pretty sure the peer to peer nature of torrents, that require connections to multiple people to get good speed, makes multiple sockets mandatory.

  23. Heard it before on Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? · · Score: 1

    I am 99% sure i have watched documentaries, 10 years ago, that had the same findings for actual cannibalism back then.

  24. Re:I can see it now on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 1
    Tree style, never used it but might work.

    when i have 20-30 tabs normal it is because i am opening tones of links from 1 web page.

    but it sounds similar to the windows grouping, which i hate, so not sure.

  25. Re:I can see it now on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 1

    Note to the Mozilla devs: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

    Agreed, never had a problem with tabs, even 20-30 tabs at once.

    Aza Raskin does not know what he is talking about.