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| This month's Linux Journal has an awesome Lego-based cover picture. (URL) (I'll post a bigger picture once I've got it scanned.) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Firefly Fans?
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| (...) Was I the only one who watched it the other night? Oh boy, there go the ratings. ;) No comments from anyone? Allan (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Geek Speak?
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| (...) Yeah, but they're talking about slow processes monitored over years! How can soft, fuzzy things deserve this metaphor? Try these on: "Increased sunlight seems to impact plant growth" "The volcanic eruption will impact wildlife populations" (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Geek Speak?
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| (...) What makes you think the meteorite imagery wasn't intended? In fact, it's exactly the reason the word is chosen: it implies a quick, overwhelming, and hard-to-unavoid effect. If your complaint is about excessive hyperbole, okay, you have a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Firefly Fans?
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| (...) Well.... I sat through an entire episode tonight, on purpose. :) I can't say that it made a 'fan' out of me. I'd still take Enterprise over this show anytime. However, I still love the concept, though not some of the details. 1) The Union of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS!
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| (...) Why? To make you buy a faster computer, of course. That's the whole reason that Microsoft made it "part of the operating system" - so they could slow it down just like everything else with the new version, to make you buy a new faster PC, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Geek Speak?
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| (...) One clue is they had to use an adverb to make the meaning. impact as a metaphorical verb is a new and awkward shortcut for "to make an impact". If over time everybody understands that 'to impact' means 'to place a burden on', then it will be (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Geek Speak?
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| (...) This usage is clearly metaphorical. Where's the problem? (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Geek Speak?
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| (...) Here's another pet peeve - writers who trust a spell-checker, but don't check their grammar. :) Jeff J (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Geek Speak?
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| (...) Once again, my quarrel is not with the word itself. I object to it's current trendiness and overuse, particularly by those trying really hard to sound smarter than you in their powerpoint presentations (1). (URL) used, 'methodology' refers (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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