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(via Michael Hanscom)
An open letter to the Internet in general.
Dear Internet,
I’ve been on a number of different websites today, and I’ve noticed that the Internet, in general, cannot properly spell, capitalize, or recognize a brand name. Here’s just a few of the things that have jumped out at me repeatedly today:
- Lo and behold, not low and behold.
- iPod, not I-Pod, i-pod, or IPOD. Similarly, iTunes - not I-Tunes, i-tunes, or ITUNES.
- While we’re on it: it’s a brand name. Your SanDisk Sansa is not an iPod. It is an MP3 player (or, since most of them support more than one format, an audio player). So is your iPod. An iPod is a type of audio player; it is not something in a separate category all its own (i.e., ‘audio players’ and ‘iPods’).
- Mac, not MAC, unless you are referring to a MAC address, which has nothing to do with being a Mac, but which a Mac does have.
- Voilà, not walah or viola.
- Java, not JAVA. It is not an acronym.
- Websites or sites, not websights or sights.
- Brakes = car. Breaks = bones. Breaking your brakes = get new brakes. Slamming on the brakes = stopping the car. Slamming on the breaks = painful.
- Harmless cartoons, not terrorism (are you paying attention, Boston?).
- Don’t get me started on apostrophes. The entire Internet has forgotten how to use apostrophes. Fuck you, Internet.
Sometimes I really wish I had never been taught how to properly spell, punctuate, or capitalize. Maybe I could live in blissful ignorance like most of the rest of my country, being led by a man who can’t fucking pronounce ‘nuclear.’ NU. KLEE. UR. IT IS NOT THAT HARD.
Sincerely,
Phil
P.S. Don’t be this guy.
Ngh
Next person to try to convince me snow is a good thing and a great idea is going to get popped in the nose.
“the longest suicide note in history”
You owe it to yourself to read A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection if you ever even remotely considered upgrading to this lackluster joke of an operating system.
Executive Summary
—————–Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it’s not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista’s content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry.
Executive Executive Summary
—————————The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.
Just more proof that money > you in Microsoftland.
Annoyance of the day
Why, in this day and age, can Barnes & Noble still only take one gift card per order on an online order? I don’t particularly want to traipse down to a store, have them order a book for me, wait for it to come in (because you know that this book isn’t available around here [and yes, I do know; I looked at the B&N in Florence for it, and Newport's B&N recently suffered a technology book spasm and lost about 3/4 of their section]), then come back down to get it… or pay the extra to get it sent to me. Nein, I say, nein! Why can I not just spend these two (TWO!) gift cards on the Internets?
Isn’t that what the future’s about?
Fuck flying cars, where’s my ability to spend two gift cards at once on the Internet?
Dear Internet:
Addicting is a verb, the present tense of the verb addict. As in, this game is addicting me.
Addictive is an adjective. As in, this game is addictive.
Figure it out.
Thank you.
–Phil
Pet peeve of the day
Okay, so I have an account on Facebook and MySpace. Both have nice little message systems (well, if anything about MySpace can be said to be nice, anyway…). MySpace’s is given over mostly to webcam porn pam, while Facebook tends to be spam from groups I’ve joined (such as Apple Students and Mad Hatter Productions… though Mad Hatter’s been fairly light of late). Thus, most of the time, I know right away if I want to save a message or delete it without bothering to read it.
Attention MySpace and Facebook: please, please, please give me a fricking option I can turn on that will stop asking me if I’m sure I want to delete a message. Yes, goddamnit, I’m sure! I clicked Delete, didn’t I?!
And, because I know people are going to say ‘how unreasonable, that doesn’t protect people whose lack of motor skills make them hit delete’: I said make it an option. Give me a little checkbox somewhere that I can turn on or off that makes them not request confirmation for deletion of a message.
I don’t ask for much, do I?
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