hey, who said there was anything wrong with being a geek. besides if praxis
bothers to wait for hd, they're hardly not at least slightly "geeky" themselves.
and further to the point, since when did calling someone a geek become an insult
-- geek simply suggests someone with an affinity toward technology.
'should have' said. no such thing as "should of". 😉
anyway, enough of the silliness and name-calling. back to discussion at hand.
the hdtv last week came out only about an hour after the pdtv - for some reason
this week the hdtv is very much delayed. no way for us to know why, but when it
didn't come out for a while we released the pdtv instead. strange that the hdtv
(and hr, 720 etc) still haven't come out, it's possible there were glitches in
the hdtv feed and the groups are waiting for a re-air or something.
"and further to the point, since when did calling someone a geek become an
insult
-- geek simply suggests someone with an affinity toward technology."
since when?..... since always....
from wordorigins[dot]org.....
it is commonly touted that geek originally meant a sideshow performer who
bites the heads off chickens or snakes. while this is a sense of the word, it
is not the original one.
geek is actually a very old word. it is a variant of geck, a term of low
german/dutch origin that dates in english to 1511. it means a fool, simpleton,
or dupe. geck is even used by shakespeare in twelfth night, v.i.:
why haue you suffer'd me to be imprison'd. and made the most notorious
gecke and gull that ere inuention plaid on?
the geek spelling is an american variation, even though shakespeare uses the
spelling geeke in cymbeline v.iv., but this is probably just a misspelling.
geek first appears (outside the single shakespearean usage) in 1876 america.
american usage adds the connotation of offensive or undesirable to the
original foolish and stupid sense. the carnival sideshow sense appears in 1928.
"and further to the point, since when did calling someone a
geek become an
insult
-- geek simply suggests someone with an affinity toward technology."
since when?..... since always....
from wordorigins[dot]org.....
it is commonly touted that geek originally meant a sideshow performer who
bites the heads off chickens or snakes. while this is a sense of the word, it
is not the original one.
geek is actually a very old word. it is a variant of geck, a term of low
german/dutch origin that dates in english to 1511. it means a fool, simpleton,
or dupe. geck is even used by shakespeare in twelfth night, v.i.:
why haue you suffer'd me to be imprison'd. and made the most notorious
gecke and gull that ere inuention plaid on?
the geek spelling is an american variation, even though shakespeare uses the
spelling geeke in cymbeline v.iv., but this is probably just a misspelling.
geek first appears (outside the single shakespearean usage) in 1876 america.
american usage adds the connotation of offensive or undesirable to the
original foolish and stupid sense. the carnival sideshow sense appears in 1928.
what the fuck have you been smoking??? thx for the history lesson anyway
looks like the chances of any hdtv from uk may be going down.
seems river (or someone) has gone along nuking all the hdtv releases of gothic
and bia that were released after the pdtv because *apparently* scene tv rules
consider them the same and if the hdtv isn't out first it's considered a dupe -
at least that's the reason given for the nuke.
there seems to be some disagreement over it but whether it means the end of
gothic and bia doing hdtv releases (unless they can get them out before the
pdtv) is anyones guess - depends whether the rules will be changed or if bia and
gothic follow the rules.
scene "rules" have never been sane, this just seals the deal. but gothic/bia
could just tag their releases internal and presto, problem solved. if they
still want to race, they can race to get on eztv :-)