This just in: I like Macs, carn't spel

[sigma7]

Collegian headline of the day: "Mac systems provide integraded software, protection from spyware"

And this is without reading the...story? Ad? Column? It's none of these. It's...I don't know what it is, really.

For the love of Christ, people.

Edit: no, it gets better -- "Apple computers steal programs from Microsoft, offer few options"

With Windows' system is Microsoft's Internet Explorer, an Internet browser. The Internet browser is free from the Microsoft Web site. After Microsoft decided to develop this browser, Apple came up with its own browser, Safari. Please keep in mind the key words here: after Microsoft. Apple is really not original at all.

Oh my God, there's not enough ink in the world to cover this much concentrated stupidity.

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[rewil.livejournal.com]

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Firebombing a certain section of Kedzie would be bad, right? RIGHT?

But fire cleanses!

[mindset]

This is like the pro/con columns from the Onion, right? Tell me it's a parody. (If they're lucky, they'll be able to excuse the columns as parody. Oh god.)

I'm really tempted to email the sophomore in communications and ask her if she's ever heard of checking her sources. Even Wikipedia would have straightened her out on the history of browsers. Good grief.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I checked it out in the print version and, no, not a parody. If it were, it would be amusing. As it is, it's just...depressing.

There was a time when they would do the "clash of the columnists," the artificial conflict where they make columnists take opposing viewpoints on a particular topic and occasionally the editors would inflict stances on writers who didn't necessarily hold that stance. It was undeniably idiotic. I wish I could be surprised that (a) it's one of the few pieces of the Collegian legacy it retains and (b) it's now migrated to the "Edge" (the oh-so-precious name for the arts & entertainment section)....

[endersgame3.livejournal.com]

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[phrogg.livejournal.com]

Want to talk about Apple stealing from Microsoft? Let's start with the GUI, then.

Apple was the first to bring out a successful GUI, with the Apple Lisa and the Mac OS. In fact, there was a rather large lawsuit over Microsoft using elements seen in Apple's OSes (cir. 1988? Case wasn't resolved until 1994.), when Microsoft got around to the first Windows GUIs.

Do these students get credit for their work for the paper? Because if so, she needs to have major points docked for proper research.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that she was attempting some transcendental sort of state, there -- like a singularity of hypocrisy in defending Microsoft against intellectual thievery. It's really the only defense.

There used to be very close co-operation between the J-school and the student newspaper. The school is now putting significant distance between itself and the publications, and this is one of the reasons why. It's a compelling argument against the First Amendment.

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

It's a shame. Maybe if they were more closely involved, they could screen things, maybe reign in things like this.

As for that first link, typos, grammatical errors, and other gaffs seem increasingly common in publications these days. i don't think there has been a magazine or newspaper i've picked up in the past year that hasn't had something in it that's set my teeth on edge.

They're not really rags, either. Even some of the higher-profile pubs seem to be infected.

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, many publications think they can cut down on copy editors. We've lost five people from the desk in the four years I've been at my paper. Fewer people doing more stuff just means more mistakes. We know it's happening, but there's nothing we can do about it if we're going to get the paper out.