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Is MacNN a business? Or 2 guys in a basement?
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I ask because they sure don't take pains to look their best. I complained once to them that they do not bother to spell check their news items. They neither emailed back nor changed their slack approach.
It wouldn't hurt the Mac world's image for them give a piddle. The cute one they included today was:
"IDG's InfoWorld today officially announced the recipiants of its 2006 Technology of the Year honors..."
Honors indeed.
Plugging "recipiant" into my Mac Dictionary app I read, "No entry found. Did you mean 'recipient'?"
I dunno. Think THEY did?
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I believe in almost any news outlet you will find spelling and grammar errors. All in all, I'm not sure if its a huge issue. I don't think people contemplating a Mac will be turned off because of a spelling error at Macnn, or avoid the site for the same reason.
Mike
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Originally Posted by macsfromnowon
Is MacNN a business? Or 2 guys in a basement?
To answer your question:
Right now, MacNN is ONE hamster in a basement. That's it. Whodathunkit.
We are hoping for a second hamster (it could do spell checking, in addition to wheel cleaning routines), but no luck yet.
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 I think it's safe to say that it is two guys in a basement rubbing each other, hence the grammatical and spelling errors. At least that's my excuse(don't forget to change one of guys
for a girl in my case).
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Whoever or whatever in the basement it is... the Lounge totally rawks!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Originally Posted by turtle777
To answer your question:
Right now, MacNN is ONE hamster in a basement. That's it. Whodathunkit.
We are hoping for a second hamster (it could do spell checking, in addition to wheel cleaning routines), but no luck yet.
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Three robots and one hamster.
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Well, the hamster does a pretty good job with scanning the universe for Mac news, but I wouldn't mind a little more proofreading. (My own typos suck so back I *have* to have somebody else look over erevything. (see what I mean?)
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Originally Posted by Nick
Three robots and one hamster.
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Haha.. that Hamster is reading "Hacking Exposed" Very cute.
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Actually that's a guinea pig, no?
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They're just trying to compete with Slashdot.
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I started a couple threads over the past year about really obvious spelling errors on the news site as well.
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Last edited by Leia's Left Bun; Jan 2, 2006 at 11:56 PM.
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Speling errors drive me crazy to, but I make quiet a feew of them as wel, so I cna't complaen.
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All this talk about hamsters is ridiculous. I once spoke to one that was not even able to multiply high prime numbers, so tell me how they would be able to run a server!
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Originally Posted by andreas_g4
All this talk about hamsters is ridiculous. I once spoke to one that was not even able to multiply high prime numbers, so tell me how they would be able to run a server!
Well he certainly couldn't run it securely, that's for sure!
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Even the biggest newspapers have spelling mistakes or typos in them. Big deal.
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Ph Nooz Not Teh Spellers Erors!
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Originally Posted by Goldfinger
Even the biggest newspapers have spelling mistakes or typos in them. Big deal.
And the *good* papers used to FIRE people for making typos.
Alas, ever since the advent of word-processing, spelling and proof-reading have been in steady decline. The internet has sped things up to the point where thoroughness just isn't "done".
Professionality is very much also a question of presentation, IMO.
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It's so ironic since spell checking is so damn EASY on the Mac.
How pathetic, really.
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Originally Posted by paul w
It's so ironic since spell checking is so damn EASY on the Mac.
How pathetic, really.
Righty on, it's hampster like in two hampsters in a basement.
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Mario, I'm not sure if you're kidding, but you people *are* aware that there's no such thing as a "hampster", right?
The little furry things (that aren't guinea pigs) are called "hamsters".
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This thread is pfunny (sic!)
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Originally Posted by Xeo
Well he certainly couldn't run it securely, that's for sure!
it depends, what did he eat for breakfast?
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Originally Posted by Nick
Three robots and one hamster.
and one SUV 
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