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Examining Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight

Posted by michael on from the seek-and-ye-shall-find dept.

Ton writes "Apple has published a discussion of Spotlight, the radical systemwide search technology that will be part of Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'. The really interesting part is that metadata will be playing a big role in Spotlight while just a few years ago people were afraid metadata in Mac OS X was going the way of the dodo."

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  1. Re:she/her ??? by pchan- · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What if I want to find files from male colleagues?

    modded funny, but very much true. the method of generically referring to an individual in a gender neutral way is using the male form ("he", "his"). this is true for many other languages as well. in fact, in languages that are more particular about genders of objects, a group of a thousand females and one male is still referred to in the masculine form. using the feminine form implies the exclusion of males from discussion (as the parent suggested). the author merely shows his (or her, i haven't bothered to check, thus i can safely use "his") ignorance of the language by an assinine attempt at 'equality'. having used a female as the subject of an example would have been just fine and would have satisfied the author's pc boner. having the female form in a neutral sentence is just foolish.

    p.s.
    no, you are not clever in pointing out that i did not properly capitalize anything in this post.