Much ballyhoo has been made (and rightfully so) about the DRM issues with the Kindle – Amazon's new media reader. If you haven't been following along they sold the ebook of 1984, then upon discovering that they didn't actually have the rights to sell it, retroactively pulled it from every machine. That it happened with 1984 is unresistingly ironic, and gets to the nuts of the DRM issues.
All the big hitters – EFF , Lessig, Doctorow are all raising the appropriate stinks about this.
But I find I get creeped out more by the little things.
The iphone (yes I have an Iphone, shut up) has a very awkward keyboard. Because there are no actual buttons it is hard to know if you're pressing the correct letter. To aid in this apple build a fairly clever program that guesses at the word and auto fills as you go. This is great when it works as annoying as hell when it doesn't.
Or should I say annoying as he'll.
Yes, the auto fill doesn’t know the word "hell" and puts "he'll" instead. Doesn't mean you can't spell hell, just makes it more difficult every time you want to do it (there's no "learn" feature for auto fill, and no way to turn it off). I could see the argument that "he'll" is a more common word, and the ' is tricky to produce so they are actually doing you a service – but they let you spell "shell" just fine. No, someone at apple made a conscious decision to make it hard to spell hell.
I bet you know some guy who'll be really annoyed when he find this out. I bet he'll hath no fury like a woman scorned. Damn, doesn't quite make sense.
Also, if you're keeping score, Fucked = Ducked and Fucker = Ducker. Somehow I can live with saying that our culture is ducked because of all the Duckers. Makes me happy.
Update: the iphone auto fills fuckers as duckers, but the mac spellchecker knows fuckers but not duckers. So the iphone auto fills a word that the mac doesn't even acknowledge the existence of. Confused yet? To he'll with all the duckers!
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All the big hitters – EFF , Lessig, Doctorow are all raising the appropriate stinks about this.
But I find I get creeped out more by the little things.
The iphone (yes I have an Iphone, shut up) has a very awkward keyboard. Because there are no actual buttons it is hard to know if you're pressing the correct letter. To aid in this apple build a fairly clever program that guesses at the word and auto fills as you go. This is great when it works as annoying as hell when it doesn't. Or should I say annoying as he'll.
Yes, the auto fill doesn’t know the word "hell" and puts "he'll" instead. Doesn't mean you can't spell hell, just makes it more difficult every time you want to do it (there's no "learn" feature for auto fill, and no way to turn it off). I could see the argument that "he'll" is a more common word, and the ' is tricky to produce so they are actually doing you a service – but they let you spell "shell" just fine. No, someone at apple made a conscious decision to make it hard to spell hell.
I bet you know some guy who'll be really annoyed when he find this out. I bet he'll hath no fury like a woman scorned. Damn, doesn't quite make sense.
Also, if you're keeping score, Fucked = Ducked and Fucker = Ducker. Somehow I can live with saying that our culture is ducked because of all the Duckers. Makes me happy.
Update: the iphone auto fills fuckers as duckers, but the mac spellchecker knows fuckers but not duckers. So the iphone auto fills a word that the mac doesn't even acknowledge the existence of. Confused yet? To he'll with all the duckers!
Joester posting
- sally mckay 8-07-2009 9:36 pm