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Comment Re:color or couleur? (Score 1) 90

In fact, the British English word colour comes from the Old French word with the same spelling : colour (circa 1050-1100 A.D.). It's in French that the spelling changed for couleur!

A similar situation is with the English word connoisseur (borrowed form Old French), which is now spelt connaisseur in modern French.

Comment Perfect for demoing (Score 1) 121

Reading the comments already posted, I understand that some persons think that the service will be used to play games in whole (i.e. replace completly your PC or your console)... But if they'd RTFA, these persons would understand that Gaikai is mainly intented to demo games before getting them (now IMHO, that's a promising idea).

Comment Re:what about melanesians? (Score 1) 459

In his book Guns, Germs and Steel, the author Jared Diamond explains quite in details how "black" Asians (Papua, Negrito, etc.) really came from Southeastern Asia, and how their ancestors have nearly all been elimated from the asian continent (in fact, some remain, like the Pygmies from Thailand and Malaysia, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy).

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