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Don't call it "the tray"!
Cpilot:
Pedantic or not in the long run I doubt it'll make a difference.
Common terminology is arrived at by consensus.
Case in point, in the 80's Xerox made some noise about using it's name as a verb.
As in xeroxing to mean making a copy. It never got anywhere because it became a common term for using a copy machine.
lanux128:
Common terminology is arrived at by consensus.-Cpilot (April 23, 2007, 09:12 AM)
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exactly, words evolve as people use them.. any linguistic expert or dictionary compiler would vouch for this, even though he may not agree with the words.. btw, google is not tearing its hair off everything someone googles on the web.. :)
f0dder:
I thought google was against it's name being used as a verb...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20030620-162.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3006486.stm
lanux128:
I thought google was against it's name being used as a verb...-f0dder (April 24, 2007, 03:30 AM)
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hehe.. google has proved that it is a corporate business after all.. so much for "do no evil".. :) thanks for clarifying, f0dder.. :up:
Cavalcader:
hehe.. google has proved that it is a corporate business after all.. so much for "do no evil".. :)-lanux128 (April 24, 2007, 09:23 PM)
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I'm starting to wonder if it's even possible to run a huge business and still put out a good product over the long haul. Still, ya gotta admit, protecting their investment in the company name is one of those necessary evils. Imagine how long it took some creative people to come up with the name Kleenex, and now it's about as generic as can be...
Whoops, wandering way offtopic. How about a Kleenex dispenser in the Notification Area? :P
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