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You don’t need your own satellite to broadcast on one, you can just rent access.
From whom?
A Japanese satellite radio company called 'St.GIGA'.
Slack on a SNES
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Re: Slack on a SNES
#22An SNES.
Re: Slack on a SNES
#23An SNES.
I wonder if this is a continental thing? I grew up in Europe and everybody always pronounced SNES as "snes", then recently visiting America and chatting to a bunch of geeks, I was surprised that they all called it the "ess enn ee ess"
Re: Slack on a SNES
#24I got all excited and thought it was about running Slack(ware) Linux on a SNES, then its this crap sobs ( ;) )
This is such a common comment on HN that it makes me believe that a small portion of the population doesn't realize that "hey, that word can mean multiple things" is a thought everyone has all the time without considering it particularly noteworthy. Of course, it's really just an opportunity for some weak posturing like "heh, I thought you meant floppy as in the floppy disk, something us grey beards had back in our d…
> "hey, that word can mean multiple things" is a thought everyone has all the time
Oh how I wish this were true; but from what I've seen, the vast majority of arguments in the world today boil down to people assuming that their own definition of a word is the only valid definition of that word :(
(As an example, person A might say "feminism [meaning man-hating] is bad", and person B might say "no you're wrong, feminism [meaning equality] is good!"; and then even though they both actually agree 100% about the fundamental ideas, they end up as bitter enemies, deeply offended by each other, because they can't see that they're actually talking about different things...)
Re: Slack on a SNES
#25Re: Slack on a SNES
#26An SNES.
I wonder if this is a continental thing? I grew up in Europe and everybody always pronounced SNES as "snes", then recently visiting America and chatting to a bunch of geeks, I was surprised that they all called it the "ess enn ee ess"
I rarely have an excuse to say it out loud, but my default would be 'Super Nintendo'. Not sure if that's standard here (Australia), but it's what I remember hearing as a kid.
Re: Slack on a SNES
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if this is a continental thing? I grew up in Europe and everybody always pronounced SNES as "snes", then recently visiting America and chatting to a bunch of geeks, I was surprised that they all called it the "ess enn ee ess"
I rarely have an excuse to say it out loud, but my default would be 'Super Nintendo'. Not sure if that's standard here (Australia), but it's what I remember hearing as a kid.
I remember the same growing up in Australia, though nowadays I tend to say “snes” for some reason
Re: Slack on a SNES
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I rarely have an excuse to say it out loud, but my default would be 'Super Nintendo'. Not sure if that's standard here (Australia), but it's what I remember hearing as a kid.
I remember the same growing up in Australia, though nowadays I tend to say “snes” for some reason
Germany here. "Super Nintendo" or "ess enn eh ess". Precursor was the "enn eh ess" (eh as in less, not as in tea)