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iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting To 'I.T' On iOS 11 and Later (macrumors.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: At least a few hundred iPhone users and counting have complained about the word "it" autocorrecting to "I.T" on iOS 11 and later. When affected users type the word "it" into a text field, the keyboard first shows "I.T" as a QuickType suggestion. After tapping the space key, the word "it" automatically changes to "I.T" without actually tapping the predictive suggestion. A growing number of iPhone users have voiced their frustrations about the issue on the MacRumors discussion forums, Twitter, and other discussion platforms on the web since shortly after iOS 11 was released in late September. Many users claim the apparent autocorrect bug persists even after rebooting the device and performing other basic troubleshooting. A temporary workaround is to tap Settings: General: Keyboard: Text Replacement and enter "it" as both the phrase and shortcut, but some users insist this solution does not solve the problem. A less ideal workaround is to toggle off auto-correction and/or predictive suggestions completely under Settings: General: Keyboard. MacRumors reader Tim shared a video that highlights the issue.
Capitalization is screwed in iOS 11, too. It's constantly capitalizing things in the middle of a sentence, which appear as though they may have been things that were capitalized at the beginning of a sentence at some point in the past. It's pretty annoying to have to constantly fix You or Work in the middle of sentences practically every time it is typed.
Apple adherents need to recognize that their beloved brand is becoming shite, and this is because of the love.
A corporation is not a person, it has no feelings, it is an automaton with a beowulf cluster of organic components.
Quality comes from pressure, without pressure you just get a loose hot mess. The love fest needs to end and rigorous feedback about sillyness like removing headphone jacks, software bugs, privacy violation etc etc must enter the forefront and be backed up by people NOT purchasing a sub par product based on brand name alone.
This issue affects far more than apple though, it is a symptom of a greater disease of apathy which currently affects vehicle manufacture (john deer tractors to farmers who need to repair their vehicles "fuck you"), pharmaceutical industries (Purdue Pharma to patients about the opiod crisis "fuck you"), chemical industries (Scotts Miracle Grow Company to farmers about their products causing cancer "fuck you"), entertainment industry (Sony to the public about root kits on their cds "fuck you").
Most properly our governmental bodies should be protecting us, but they are not, and in many cases are either funded by or hold stock in these same corporations. This leaves only us to respond to these companies with a very large "FUCK YOU" by avoiding their products into oblivion and being vocal about their failings.
Good thing you weren't expecting a smart phone for your money.
they should call someone in it to look into that. Sorry, i mean it. It. IT. DammI.T.
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If anything, apathy is only affecting manufacturers in that they can be lazy and still sell product. Those that are infected by apathy are actually we, as consumers, who simply live with this shit, eat it, and are all too happy to buy more of it. We as consumers need to me more discerning and choose better.
It is amazing how many poorly designed products people are willing to live with. As an example I give you the clock radio, they used to be simple to use with enough buttons to easily do anything you wanted while still half asleep in the dark. Today the options all mostly suck, every single one has reduced the button count to about five, of which half you have to know what mode the thing is in, or sub function you happen to be in to operate the thing. The remaining buttons are usually tap to do this or press and hold to do that - so much fun when half asleep. The one I wound up with if you press the snooze button more than once you start adjusting the brightness - wtf. Feature-itis is killing what was once good designs, and we are simply living with it.
Oh my God, iPhone twits can't type "it" and this is Slashdot news?
It's Slashdot news that Apple, once known as a company that thrived on details under Steve Jobs, is now only known as the company with a big pile of cash and products that do not live up to their cost.
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Wow. Slashdot seriously canÃ(TM)t handle posting from a phone?! It totally mangled my apostrophes.
It's not slashdot's fault that your "smart" phone cannot produce a simple ASCII apostrophe and thinks it needs to produce Unicode for that simple, standard, common glyph.
Perfectly fine...except for the fact it insists on stupidly replacing perfectly fine ASCII apostrophes with fancy Unicode ones.
It's because iOS 11 has "Smart Punctuation" enabled by default. That replaces ' and " with the curly versions. Since the curly versions are unicode chars above U+0080 Slashdot displays them incorrectly.
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echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
That made me laugh, and made me curious, "what's up with the capitalization of the Constitution? I looked it up.
In the 1700s, it was common / correct to capitalize nouns in English. It still is in other languages, such as German. The practice was fading in the late 1700s, so like the Oxford comma today, it was arguable. Morris, who wrote the Constitution itself, chose to capitalize nouns. Two years later, they decided on the newer style for the Bill of Rights and used lower case. Just as today a document that isn't supposed to used Oxford comma may have one slip in accidentally, there are some inconsistencies in capitalizing nouns in the Constitution.
On the Oxford comma - sometimes it's needed for clarity. Sometimes it needs to be avoided for clarity. Just make the sentence clear.