Ian Betteridge

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• Charlie Stross commented on The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
  I enjoyed the article, but your use of plural verbs where singular ones were needed was distracting. You're American. Standard English usage is to refer to corporations -- collective groups of people -- as plurals. Consider your deviant colonial usage sneered at ;-)...
• Charlie Stross commented on The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
  While your analysis of the Apple/Flash situation may (or may not) be correct, your grammatical use of possessive nouns is highly unusual and personally I would say highly annoying. No it's not: you're American, I'm British, and you're in the wrong (British usage wins, on this blog)....
• Charlie Stross commented on The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
  Next, I suppose you'll be telling me you drive on the "right" side of the road even though most of the world's population drives on the RIGHT side rather than the LEFT. Nope, I drive on the CORRECT side of the road. Here's a hint: this is MY blog. I set the grammar rules, in accordance with English usage. You are a guest here. Read the moderation policy before posting again, lest I consider you to be a troll and ban your sorry ass....
• Charlie Stross commented on The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
  Newer in the history any new technology has been successful without keeping backwards compatibility. Tell that to Steve Jobs -- specifically, explain why the Macintosh was a complete failure (zero backward compatability, remember). Does he really think he has the power to ignore millions of creative Flash developers and millions of their customers in communication departments who do work using his Apple products? Yep, apparently he does. And yep, YouTube have recoded all their videos to H.264; according to a recent study, 60% of videos on the web are already iPad compatible, and the proportion is rising fast....
• Charlie Stross commented on The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
  Ah am I the only one a bit scared that 'cloud computing' - as nice and environmentally friendly as it appears, is just another abstraction layer that lets us happily dismantle the planet beneath us before we have a clue on how to live on it sustainably? That is a topic for an entirely different discussion. (And as we're dropping back to one legit comment a day -- and a dozen spams -- I'm closing the comment thread herewith.)...