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Comment Re:Is the same true for the Nexus 4? (Score 1) 413

Re: your sig:

[quote]Sometimes it's fun to feed the trolls - it's a pleasure knowing there's someone out there who's stupider than you.[/quote]

A troll's goal is to goad you into replying to his comments. Feeding a troll means the troll has bested you. If the trolls convince you to to reply, for whatever reason, he has outsmarted you.

Comment Re:Clip (Score 1) 1862

used to be a building, and now it's

So... the meaning changed?

Look, if you want to play the 'mess with the wording rather than address the issues' game, we can:

"A clip has always meant a a device that is used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a unit, ready for insertion into a gun. It's just that it used to be non-mechanical, and now it's got a feed mechanism."

You are just going to have to deal with the fact that a removeable magazine can also be called a clip, even though the meanings used to be subtley different.

Comment Re:Clip (Score 1, Informative) 1862

I regret to inform you that language usage changes. If it didn't, when you said 'magazine' you would have linked to this instead:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine_(artillery)

Sadly, you need to move with the time.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gun+magazine%2Cartillery+magazine%2Cammunition+clip&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

Comment Re:missing option (Score 1) 105

As an example, if something happens once every thirty years, but you have only been alive for twenty-nine years, would you conclude that the even happens rarely or never?

Similarly, if you have never been to a trade show, does that mean you will never be able to go to a trade show?

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