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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross A typo is an error. I usually catch them, but when I'm in a hurry, sometimes they slip by. Call it what you want. But you're the one being snarky here, Mr. Arthur with Ascii in your screen name. I can…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism So it's not possible to type an extra character by mistake without it being an error, it's only possible to type a character ahead of another when typing quickly? How about omitting punctuation. Doubtful, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I never comment on people's typos. We all make them. On reflection, and since you're being so snarky and defensive about this, I feel it is my grave responsibility to point out that it wasn't a typo, but a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Now, you're a wiseass. Yes, we do make a typo now and again. That doesn't change the facts of the argument. I'm sorry if you thought I was being a wiseass, but the argument was about typographical style. Th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross That was true forever—for typographically done work. But for typed pages, such as memo's, two spaces is still considered to be the norm. Plurals never take apostrophes (it's memos, not memo's). Sorry,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cameronj So what you're saying is, downloading that pr0n in 12 seconds instead of 45 seconds is worth not having a couple acres of land behind your house, and forcing your kids to deal with gritty urban issues (poverty…
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Over the long term, I don't expect Apple to stay in the music retail business: it's not where their strengths lie. However, they have a bright future in the music playback and distribution business, through iPod+iTunes. In some ways it's good ne…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 I think there are very interesting ideas here but at the end of the day, the "getting paid" part is something Apple + "evil media industry" would have to be interested in first. Here are three ways, buil…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alonso Perez Well, I've been around for a long time, as I said, and I work in the software industry. If you take the term "social networking" in a generic sense, you are right of course. This is a form of social networ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Amorph The major obstacle is of course the music industry, which does not want its IP to be the basis of a social network of any kind. And to be fair, it's hard to see how they could get paid through the iTunes sh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aresee Say more. At the simplest level, it's about having finer-grained control over the service that I'm sharing - streaming access to my iTunes Library. It's common courtesy that iTunes should tell me WHAT is bein…
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Here's a concrete example of how Apple could make their existing products more socialistic - iTunes sharing. Although crippled at the behest of the RIAA, it's still an amazing way to find music. Sitting in a large university library, I can pick up a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alonso Perez Absolutely not. I don't want anybody but me messing with information on my machine. Full stop. auxio understood where I'm coming from, but given his (like mine) 25 year experience with computers we are …
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Quote: Originally Posted by internetworld7 Oops, my bad. You're posting from Hong Kong, a People's Republic of China Special Administrative Region. So you're an expert on Human Rights, Freedom of Speech and all things Democracy. All of us America…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Booga Apple's been like this since long before Steve Jobs came back. Why didn't Apple absorb AOL when it was still essentially "AppleLink Personal Edition"? Why did Apple take so long to embrace TCP/IP and the web wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by auxio Yup, I'm in the same boat. Been using computers for over 25 years now and I have no interest in putting my life on display for the world. Not to mention that I just don't have time to maintain a virtual persona…
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Jobs in fact twice sold up his stake in Apple. The first time, as has been noted, was after he left/was fired by Scully. The second occasion was while Amelio was in charge, and is described here. Amelio later claimed in his book that Jobs …