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Comment Re:This time round, this might even work (Score 1) 231

Except that we modern folk call them "windmills" today, just as we'll call them "windmills" tomorrow, and no amount of shouts from the micro-percentile of the populace of, "That's not correct! It's the longer, awkward, unfluid dual-word "wind turbine"", will ever change that.

Citation? See "hacker".

cheers,

Comment Re:Regulation is problematic (Score 1) 129

...In my experience analogies are like fauly watches, they are seldom correct and most of the times gives a sense of undestandning something but in reality just complicates things.

I'm confused with your particular analogy, though. Instead of a fauly watch, could you try again using a car with fauly brakes?

chores,

Comment Re:If all you need are anectodes (Score 4, Interesting) 391

...and, the one-star comment from your link:

By stop hiring guns to artificially boost up your phone ratings at Amazon. Lumia 900 was a show case of robot reviews. When I am writing this, Lumia 920 has already received five reviews, all of them 5-star. All but one has written a review of another product other than Lumia 920.

DBLA (1 review in total) http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1S7GEDIIDVLKG/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp
jthom (2 reviews) http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2A941MKMDREPG/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp
Sup Karma (1 review) http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A4SUJVO0D8DM9/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp
Ramiro Watson (4 reviews, ALL on different colors of Lumia 920 with different titles) http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1GU6PSZG155ND/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp
joseasilvestre (1 review) http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3RR13YM1XGXNU/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp

...the nokia/ms adulation in those reviews makes the apple/droid camps here appear subdued.

cheers,

Comment Re:I don't get it. (Score 1) 391

...just type %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs into the new toolbar dialog box to fill it back in.

B-b-but..isn't that like a c-c-command line? That's sooo Linux, and despite millions of people proving otherwise, Linux will n-n-never be ready for the desktop. ...and why are there hashes on your command line?

chains,

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