[LINK] Microsoft is dead

[Antony Barry]

On 10/04/2007, at 12:21 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> Just because marketing droids overuse and kill off perfectly
> good words does not mean we have to eschew their proper use.

Although it can destroy their use in general conversation. Take  
"exponential" which now seem to mean "very rapid" rather describing  
growth rate proportional to size.

Describing a growth rate as exponential should ring alarm bells  
whenever it occurs in a finite system - even a planet.

tony

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