@gp

Oh thats sharp. 'The lowest form of wit is yours' haha did you think all day to come up with that zinger dude? ;)

Again, thank's for helping me out in showing what an idiot you are. You admit that you use the dictionary to get the definition of 'words' yet rely on it to tell you what a 'concept' such as a decade is. I think you need an encyclopedia for that. Maybe you got mixed up somewhere so I'll let it slide.

Human thinking and communication is rife with ingrained errors and they usually stay ingrained because lazy thinkers like you are happy to live with the errors rather than switch your brain on and correct and train them out. That's the reason that as well as my pudding example, 99% of people say 'pronounciation' when they should be saying 'pronunciation'. There are thousands of examples of messed up thinking from the trivial to the deadly serious. It's losers like you the waste billions of dollars and man years as space probes overshoot other planets beause 'hey, cm or inches it's all the same'.
Ok so most people threw a party a year early thinking they were actually in the new millenium on Jan 1st 2000, so most people get the decade thing wrong too and dictionary staff who's job is to define words not intangibles such as concepts just go along with the error of the masses and thats good enough for you isn't it. If most people think something it must be correct eh.

Dude you are a smug, mental midget. You are practiced in nothing except the use of disdainful tone in service of reinforcing your sense of self importance. I guess i can keep expaining this elementary stuff to you but you are gonna have to take a brave step. You are gonna have to engage your dusty brain rather than just scouring the net for quotes that fail to make your point.

@gp

decade definition dec·ade (dek′ād′; also, and for 3 usually, dek′əd, -id; Brit also di kād′, də-)

noun

1.a group of ten
2.a period of ten years; esp., in the Gregorian calendar
a.officially a ten-year period beginning with the year 1, as 1921-1930, 1931-1940, etc.
b.in common usage, a ten-year period beginning with a year 0, as 1920-1929, 1930-1939, etc.


b. is to 'the proof is in the pudding' what a. is to 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'.

gp: I'm not a believer that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit as it's actualy the second lowest, cliches that are the lowest form. Your reply though somehow manages to combine both. Ooooo a dictionary quote with a made up sarcastic dictionary quote also. Gosh, you really zinged that one didn't you?
Talk about 'dim witted'. You can't even read. You are so blinded by vacuous thinking and dictionary clinging that you just assume that if something is in the dictionary it must be supporting your point. You kind of missed the phrase 'such as'. It coud easily say 'such as 1994 to 2003'. Those dictionary quotes 'only' establish the meaning of the length of a decade and in no way seek to assert the true beginning and end point of a decade. Weak minded fool that you are though you see what you want to see in them.
Dude, as with many fools you mistake data retention for intelligence and cliche for wit.
You need to learn to think rather than compute.

@jupigare

You are wrong.

If society wants to choose another messurment system then they can but so far, and despite it probably being off by a number of years, we date things from the 'percieved' birth of Jesus. Jesus maybe have been called 'one year old' 'after' a year but from the moment of his birth we recon it as year one.
Don't bother getting into a debate about whetehr he exited or not, that's tedius.
You messure a dacade from year 1 to year 10 then you start again with the next decade and guess what; 201 decades later nothing has changed. We don't deviate in this for naming millenia, centuries, months or days so why should we do it for decades. You are just adjusting logic to fit people's mental confusion.

jeez are we still suffering from 'cantcalculatedecadestartandendpointitus' ????

Or . . . is this the last engadget show until january 1st 2011?

The decade ends on December 31st 2010.

You can say 'the last show of the '0' if you want.

As recap. We wait until a year is up before we clock a number onto our age. When it comes to years we clock the number from the first day/hour,minute/second so Jan 1st 2010 is the first day of the last year of 'this' decade'.

Change it to 'the last show of the penultimate year of this decade'.

You are all joking around about this but it has massive potential as the gamegun redneck guys set up does.

Imagine a wrap around cheap white/reflective screen in your room or garage. Then a wide screen pico set up on your 'light weight' gun. Then turn off the gun image on the screen. Then project it in stereo as you wear simple goggles similar to the big assed sunglasses type i wore a the 'A Christmas Carol' screening recently. Man, the imersion will be amazing.
I'd also go for the swivel chair too thought.

A few years ago i never imagined that such a thing would be possible in 2009. Ok you have to be in total darkness to get a decent wall picture and it's a bit bulky but damn, in five or ten years will we even need desktops and monitors any more? Power users yeah but the average user?

er, wher'es my post from yesterday?

What with your recent nasty comments about the livescribe pen and now this whats the deal. You should be selectivly nasty not indescriminatly nasty. Any more of this NY tude and some evil ectoplasm is gonna rear up and tear you a new one.

I also think that the stability of the images is suspect.

So every single customer logs on and gets involved in the forums?

So Engadget only has couple of hundred readers?

Do you have some reason to crap all over the product in your feature?
Im all for riping products and companies to pieces when they have a lame product or service but it seems to me that the pen is pretty cool and quite useful for some. Does it have some egregiously horrible design or lack of function that causes you to slander it's image and 'imply' that it's a failed product as far as user base is concered (which could negativly impact future sales some potential customers might be swayed against getting one due to the impression that you create that it is not poppular, there fore creating a worry that the product/company might fold and have no further support for it: which, in some courts could see you with a ruling against you for groundless defamation of product).
I don't work for them and i dont even have a smartpen. I just don't like the media crapping all over a perfectly good product.