Comments on: Toolbars and Java, Happy Meals and Lego http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/05/toolbars-and-java-happy-meals-and-legos It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:37:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-hemorrhage hourly 1 By: Danny Ayers, Raw Blog : » LEGO, naming http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/05/toolbars-and-java-happy-meals-and-legos#comment-2218 Danny Ayers, Raw Blog : » LEGO, naming Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:06:42 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=718#comment-2218 <p>[...] Through Les, I find the answer to something that has puzzled me for a while: was the “LEGO” I knew as a kid just local dialect? Turns out “Legos” is an Americanism. It’s strange, “Legos” does jar with my eye/ear, as does “Math” (rather than UK “Maths”). There are 50 comments on this post: LEGO Gets Pissy About Brand Name. [...]</p> [...] Through Les, I find the answer to something that has puzzled me for a while: was the “LEGO” I knew as a kid just local dialect? Turns out “Legos” is an Americanism. It’s strange, “Legos” does jar with my eye/ear, as does “Math” (rather than UK “Maths”). There are 50 comments on this post: LEGO Gets Pissy About Brand Name. [...]

]]> By: l.m.orchard http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/05/toolbars-and-java-happy-meals-and-legos#comment-2216 l.m.orchard Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:50:23 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=718#comment-2216 <p>Heh, I think I'd just read a "Letter to the Editor" piece in an Xbox magazine from someone at the Lego company with a laundry list of points where they'd abused the Lego brand like I did—i.e. Lego is plural; Lego <em>must</em> be followed by a trademark symbol; LEGO must be in caps... I forget all the stipulations.</p> Heh, I think I’d just read a “Letter to the Editor” piece in an Xbox magazine from someone at the Lego company with a laundry list of points where they’d abused the Lego brand like I did—i.e. Lego is plural; Lego must be followed by a trademark symbol; LEGO must be in caps… I forget all the stipulations.

]]> By: Simon Brunning http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/05/toolbars-and-java-happy-meals-and-legos#comment-2215 Simon Brunning Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:04:42 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=718#comment-2215 <p>Arrrghh! It';s <em>Lego</em>, not legos!</p> Arrrghh! It’;s Lego, not legos!

]]> By: Eby http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/05/toolbars-and-java-happy-meals-and-legos#comment-2213 Eby Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:08:16 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=718#comment-2213 <p>Actually there was quite a hooplah about the parts of OpenOffice that are now written in Java (and require JRE). The licensing has caused some concern with some distros. I'm not sure what all came out of it but the article I read is below. I wouldn't say it's "based on java" but parts are heading there.</p> <p>http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/22/204244</p> Actually there was quite a hooplah about the parts of OpenOffice that are now written in Java (and require JRE). The licensing has caused some concern with some distros. I’m not sure what all came out of it but the article I read is below. I wouldn’t say it’s “based on java” but parts are heading there.

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/22/204244

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