Quoteworthy

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John Carmack tweets: "from aRocket: Engineers have more words for screwing up then the Inuit have words for snow."

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Oct 27, 2011, 20:56

Pankin

foot wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 05:21: Wow, I can't believe even the great Carmack doesn't know the difference between then and than. Apparently, using the correct word isn't much of a priority. Then, than; your, you're; there, their, they're; to, too, two; effect, affect...it's all irrelevant on the infrawebs.

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Oct 27, 2011, 05:21

foot

Wow, I can't believe even the great Carmack doesn't know the difference between then and than.

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Oct 26, 2011, 21:14

Fibrocyte

yuastnav wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 15:33: Overon wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 14:52: PHJF wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 14:48: Congratulations, eight posts and you couldn't be bothered to read any of them. Congratulations, but I linked to a source as well. ... m( Are you seriously calling an encyclopedia a source? Also: http://www.michigandaily.com/node/62329/talk [...] Even Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales agrees that the online encyclopedia is not a citable source. He said in a 2005 interview with Business Week that "people shouldn't be citing encyclopedias in the first place." [...] So you're saying the wikipedia article is wrong?

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Oct 26, 2011, 19:24

Burrito of Peace

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Oct 26, 2011, 18:10

Overon

yuastnav wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 15:33: Overon wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 14:52: PHJF wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 14:48: Congratulations, eight posts and you couldn't be bothered to read any of them. Congratulations, but I linked to a source as well. ... m( Are you seriously calling an encyclopedia a source? Also: http://www.michigandaily.com/node/62329/talk [...] Even Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales agrees that the online encyclopedia is not a citable source. He said in a 2005 interview with Business Week that "people shouldn't be citing encyclopedias in the first place." [...] I cited where I got my information. That's why it's a source. It may not be the best or even a good source or an authority but it is a source of my information.

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Oct 26, 2011, 17:50

Prez

This is a very odd thread.




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Re: Quoteworthy

Oct 26, 2011, 17:39

space captain

maybe you havent heard that macs run on intel chips now




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Oct 26, 2011, 17:00

yuastnav

TurdFergasun wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 15:50: are you seriously refuting a source with source material from a paper owned by the oligarchy? ignorance begets itself. Don't hurt yourself with those big words.

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Oct 26, 2011, 16:12

Creston

Do the Inuit have a word for "Textures that don't look like fucking ass?" Creston

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Oct 26, 2011, 15:50

TurdFergasun

are you seriously refuting a source with source material from a paper owned by the oligarchy? ignorance begets itself.

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Oct 26, 2011, 15:33

yuastnav

Overon wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 14:52: PHJF wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 14:48: Congratulations, eight posts and you couldn't be bothered to read any of them. Congratulations, but I linked to a source as well. ... m( Are you seriously calling an encyclopedia a source? Also: http://www.michigandaily.com/node/62329/talk [...] Even Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales agrees that the online encyclopedia is not a citable source. He said in a 2005 interview with Business Week that "people shouldn't be citing encyclopedias in the first place." [...]

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Oct 26, 2011, 14:52

Overon

PHJF wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 14:48: Congratulations, eight posts and you couldn't be bothered to read any of them. Congratulations, but I linked to a source as well.

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Oct 26, 2011, 14:48

PHJF

Congratulations, eight posts and you couldn't be bothered to read any of them.




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Re: Quoteworthy

Oct 26, 2011, 14:07

Overon

I wish to point out that Eskimos don't have more words for snow than we do in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow This is a common misconception.

Re: Quoteworthy

Oct 26, 2011, 13:42

Acleacius

Just one CarmackHeadUpAssitis.




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Re: Quoteworthy

Oct 26, 2011, 13:31

ASeven

Engineers have more words for screwing up then the Inuit have words for snow. And they all apply to Rage.

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Oct 26, 2011, 12:56

Spektr

How many expressions for texture popping in the inuit language? :p

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Oct 26, 2011, 12:23

space captain

The optimist thinks the glass is half full. The pessimist thinks the glass is half empty. The engineer thinks the glass is twice as big it should be.




Go forth, and kill!

"Engineers have more words for screwing up then the Inuit have words for snow."

Oct 26, 2011, 12:23

TangoBaker

Thanks to id, we now have one more. "Rage".

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Oct 26, 2011, 11:43

Enahs

Pfft, QI. Perhaps you guys should go listen to all the fact core sayings from Portal 2....




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