does anyone know if an ipod shuffle comes with the same earbuds as iphone's earbuds?
My iPhone's gone bad yesterday. I really liked it, and just for $20 more I could get an earbuds and an ipod shuffle. I was thinking to get that since I jog quite a bit and has been using an iphone all this time (kinda scary)
iPhone headphones include the 3 button inline controls, and I am not sure these come with other iPods. The Shuffle from a while ago had them, the one with voice control, but since they retracted from that idea I'm not sure they include the same headphones. I think they are likely to be the same as iPod touch headphones, with just volume controls, and no ability to stop/start/next/back etc
When writing in Applesoft Basic on my Apple ][GS, a crashed program occasionally dumps me not at the Applesoft Basic prompt (]), but at the assembler prompt instead (*). How can I get out of the Assembler and back to Basic (no pun intended)?
@daviesgeek you have edited the titles of my posts more than once, but not that particular post. I've said before I don't think changing "How to" titles to "How do I" titles is a helpful exercise. I do understand the appeal of complete sentences, but "how to" is more concise, easier to read, and, I'd argue, sounds less personalized ("how do I" invites uber-localized answers, but "how to" is universal).
@daviesgeek I'm not going around the site reverting your edits because we have different style standards. I'm not discouraging you from improving posts through editing, and if in the course of improving a post you change the grammar of the title, more power to you. But it's the OP's prerogative to revert edits to his/her question that the OP doesn't find constructive, and for my post, I am exercising that prerogative.
I'm a huge fan of complete sentences, btw. I'm about to go give a lecture to my students about why they're important. But I think titles are different than body text.
And I'm of the belief that not dredging up old posts to change characters that don't change the meaning of the post gives the site a better look. But I'm fine with agreeing to disagree.
I'm with Daniel on this. If a question doesn't have a title that reads like a sentence, anyone is free to edit the title into a more complete sentence. I would say that editing a question that says "How to back up my iPhone" into "How do I back up my iPhone" would be guilty of violating the "Tiny, trivial edits are discouraged." part of the editing mandate.
I prefer how to as opposed to how do I for most shorter questions for many reasons. I'm not saying it's wrong either way - and I would be far less likely to switch up an OP's wording on that even though I've use both plenty of times.
When I'm editing I try to mix it up and see which makes it better - but not change what was there if that makes any sense.
For that reason I avoid changing a title unless it DEMANDS action due to major problems. I just don't see "How to" -> "How do I" being a reason to edit something as big as the title. Sure - edit away in the body, but leave the handle alone unless it reads like a train wreck and you can make it substantially better.
well in this case, "to" is functioning as part of an infinitive (not as a preposition), do is a helping verb, I is a pronoun, and how is a... subbordinating conjunction?
I don't mind either, but in support of "How to" I would merely state that the title of the question is also the title of the page, and as such also effectively the title of the topic.
The question might be How Do I, but the page encompasses the answers as well as the questions, and as such "how to" is a better fit for the page as a whole
If I google a page and receive "How to" hits, I am more inclined to try them then "How do I", as the implication is that there are answers, which is clearly the reason this site exists
That's all :)
(not quite all), however I think the distinction is moot for the majority of readers, and I would suggest using either is fine, editing one to another is trivial if it's the only edit
and with regard to the conversation about "how to" vs "how do I", for me it's not so much a matter of SEO or anything like that, but of giving a sense of consistency across the site. I highly encourage people to phrase the title as a complete questions.
And I don't think that there's anything wrong in daviesgeek editing questions to get them in this format, though I hope that perhaps he's choosing questions that already have a bad body/title and both improving them and changing them to a question
that said, it is the prerogative of the post owner to revert edits they don't like or want (for the most part)
I agree that such edits are often fine, and it's not the change that it makes that I have most issue with, it's the fact that so many are made in a row that it materially affects the current front page with dozens of edits by the same person bringing old questions to the fore that are not made more answerable through their changes, and resulting in the questions that did not need such an edit sliding off the bottom.
Maybe a timer, like you can't make more than 1 edit every x minutes, a bit like the ones on regular chat forums. I honestly thought 'SPAM!' when I saw the top 20 posts all within a couple of minutes being updated by 1 person.
@stuffe The added bonus here would be that if a user is making substantive edits (i.e. more than a few characters) it would not be possible to run into the timer's constraints. I find that good edits take more time and thought than many good original answers, because I'm trying both to write well and to be true to the OP's intent.
@JasonSalaz So Kyle seems to agree with daviesgeek, but we already established that they're really the same person, so no surprises there :-)
@stuffe As I commented, thanks for posting that question!
@JasonSalaz Ok, I will try to make more changes than just the title
@KyleCronin I personally think that there should be a little checkbox that says something to the effect of "Float question/answer to the top/main page"
Then, minor cleanup edits such as the ones that I do don't get pushed up to the top of the main site
However, based on everyone's suggestions, I will try to restrain myself from going on major editing sprees.
I'm only going to do major editing sprees every once in a while, and I will do them at night (or whatever time you guys suggest that would be better) and in the middle of the week, so that the site isn't messed up on the weekend
However, stuff that I see on the front page of the site, I will edit.
I would certainly support a "minor edit" checkbox or similar that would prevent automatic promotion to the top, mainly as I am a serial editor of my own posts and it looks really bad when you send your own stuff to the top 5 times in an hour!
I'm not sure if it's a technically feasible request, the algorithms may be automated on timestamps to produce the sort order and it may be unavoidable by design tho :/
This is an extension of Should making edits bump a question to the top of the list?, which was asked yesterday. I have a tendency to edit a lot of question and answers, which bumps them to the top of the main page of Ask Different. Is it possible to add a "Minor edit" checkbox to the edit page, w...
The Mac mini I use at work has a firmware update out I need to apply, now I have to 10.7.3-up all my systems, and there's at least 1 or 2 other non-app stragglers I have.
@stuffe On the contrary, I read my watchlist sequentially, which is quite large.
The giant chatroom war that erupts during the nomination phase, including no less than three mod candidates, one current mod, and one person who announced on chat his probable intent to run, but hasn't declared yet. Maybe we're just auditioning to see if any of us lose our temper and shouldn't be mods.
(And I think we're all handling civil disagreement pretty well. I love this community!)
@KyleCronin I'm quite happy that there are many languages. People who want that can get it, and if I want the same variable to function as a float, string, integer, and boolean depending on context and have it Do What I Mean, I'll use perl.
@stuffe Wouldn't a minor edit run counter to the idea that no edits should be minor? Just leave it be seems to be the plan of action for a post that only requires minor edits. You are respecting the tone and phrasing of the OP in all cases unless it needs a substantial change...
but it does just enough of what I mean for it to work for me. Kyle might want more explicit type casting. You might want more agressive interpolation. I've used so little else but perl for the past 15 years that it just seems like the right blend for me, but I wouldn't want to push it on anyone else.
@bmike to use an example from one of my answers earlier. Good old lion interpreted some finger trouble that should have spelled "passing" as "passion". I didn't spot it until much later, and when I edited it (and it did warrant an edit, even though it was just a typo and the intended meaning was just about there to see) it went to the top, made it look like I had promoted my answer again
@stuffe Aah - this is a non-issue. As you gain reputation, your edit window will grow and each change gets coalesced into one edit. Also, that question was already bumped with the first edit, so you're not really doing much to bump it again in 5 minutes. (unless I totally misunderstood the timing you are proposing )
@bmike it was a couple of hours. I don't actually agree that no edit should be minor. Just correcting an accepted answer for example, which can be seen to reflect on the site as a whole as an example of what we strive to achieve to capitalise the word "i" is a worthwhile task if someone is prepared to invest the time to do it, but it's not worthy of having the answer propelled to the top slot again
@JasonSalaz Sorry, I forgot you were using a constant. They're weird (which is to say that I don't use them often, so I can't recall what the right answer is).
they are weird. a buddy told me that the expanded form of a constant is, use constant VERSION => '3.14'; -> sub VERSION { 3.14 }
which honestly, I don't even understand. I know in Ruby the last assignment / returned value / whatever will be the default method return value, but I've never seen that in perl.
@bmike editing Q & As that are still active in this way and having them bump is more acceptable, than finding what would be a really great answer that you found on a search that is full of really trivial errors like 'i' which nonetheless reduce the perceived quality of the answer and have it promoted as if it were active just because you fixed them
@stuffe I guess I'm really fine with things popping up. I take a how will this look in three weeks / three months point of view for edits. How will this read far down the road and edit as much as needed with that viewpoint in mind. I think it's great that anyone doing editing is conscious of the prominent placement that all edits get alongside with all answers to avoid flooding the queue.
@Daniel agreed, to an extent, but the average demographic is coming here to either ask, or help, and the only people who gain from such a bump are the curious ever present knowledge magpies. And, unfortunately, Ask Different is sufficiently low traffic to make flooding a more regular occcurance
When writing in Applesoft Basic on my Apple ][GS, a crashed program occasionally dumps me not at the Applesoft Basic prompt (]), but at the assembler prompt instead (*). How can I get out of the Assembler and back to Basic (no pun intended)?
I want to connect my iPad wirelessly with iTunes. Can it be done?
If it can be done, please explain on how it can be done.
