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There are rumors about the possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft, both company's CEOs have been talking about an alliance to face Apple. ...the NY Times said. " ...The meeting, which lasted more than an hour, covered a number of topics, but one of the main thrusts of the discussion was Apple and its control of the mobile phone market and how the two companies could team up in the battle against Apple. A possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft were among the options.... " ....how could this ever affect Linux?
You do realise that this makes the words practically unreadable, right? Adobe and Microsoft are both money making entities - you really need to get over that fact.
I wonder if Jeremy can create a word-filter for that sort of thing?...
That would be a nice improvement to LQ! Of course the downside is that it would only encourage the evolution of even more idiotic spellings of company names. Kenny seems to be fairly creative in this regard.
Wouldn't parsing all the words in all the posts also add an unnecessary load to the server(s)? I honestly don't know what kind of volume of data LQ has to cope with every day.
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Originally Posted by Hangdog42
Of course the downside is that it would only encourage the evolution of even more idiotic spellings of company names. Kenny seems to be fairly creative in this regard.
Yeah, like how spammers defeated the old dictionary-based email filters.
We don't know anything about it? Yet it has been around longer than you (or even I), and I have seen satirical misspellings long before you even touched a computer and web surfed for the very first time.
The problem I have with it, is that in a conversation in a forum or any other text medium (chatroom, instant message), is that it can get more time consuming deciphering the misspellings especially when an entire word or now even worse, sentences are replaced with characters for those trying to read it.
It is tolerable when used sparingly, and we are already aware of many people's distaste for Microsoft, etc, but in the long run, it is just annoying.
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