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For those of you who haven't bought QuickTime Pro, here's how to remove the 'Pro' icon from the Player's menu items. [more]

[d9c9]

Haha I just changed my one to "Pay US" in Photoshop.

[HumanJHawkins]

I just put a larger picture in there and it displayed full size... This will be great fun.

[rlavere]

God, I hate to be persnickety, but you've hit on one of my pet peeves. The story should read, "what if you COULDN'T care less" (emphasis mine).
It's like nails on a chalkboard...

[kimbarator]

And I happen to experience a fingernails-on-the-chalkboard reaction to hearing and seeing God's name tossed around as an empty expletive. So we've all got our concerns!

[durandal343]

I agree. If you could care less then you must care at least some. If you couldn't care less, well then, you couldn't and do not care at all. Saying "I could care less" is meaningless and sounds downright silly if what you mean is that you don't care at all.

[lkalliance]

Oh, I agree. I get way too upset when idioms get popularly memorized in nonsensical forms, like "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Its original form, as I understand it, is "You can't eat your cake and have it too"...which makes more sense: you can't have the best of both worlds, eating the cake (thus experiencing the pleasure of the taste) and also still having it (thus experiencing the pleasure of anticipating the eating).
Also the pronouciation of the word "forte." It's actually pronouced "fort," not "fortay."
And nothing can be "kind of unique" or "sort of unique." Something is either unique (there's one of them) or not (there's more than one of them). There is no in between.
On the other hand, there is one grammar rule that irks me no end: the inclusion of sentence punctuation inside of quotation marks. In American English, "this is correct." In Anglican English, "this is correct". I prefer the Anglican way...for one thing, in my line of work I'm often giving instructions for page content, and keeping the sentence punctuation outside of the quotes to leave no doubt whether or not I intend the punctuation to be on the page. So over time I've started to do it the Anglican way, even though it's "incorrect" in my own country.
Oh, wait, there's one more thing, and this one is something my local government agency paid some of my tax dollars for. I see these signs many places on the road:
"Buckle up for safety sake"
It's "for safety's sake"...the sake belongs to the safety. The signs as written suggest that if I buckle up I'm going to be rewarded with an off-brand of Japanese rice wine.

[aestival]

God, I could care less! -- may we all be saved from the grammar police -- anyone who actually cares about this stuff already knows it, after all, so this garbage is both annoying and pointless.

[durandal343]

God, I could care less! -- may we all be saved from the grammar police -- anyone who actually cares about this stuff already knows it, after all, so this garbage is both annoying and pointless.
You are quoting someone else and responding to me. Maybe those of us who don't care about this stuff should learn it. I am, by no means, perfect and make many mistakes. I do, however, continue to learn. This "garbage" is important. Language is a beautiful thing. In many cases it is by how you speak/write that people will judge you.

[spimster]

I'll have to agree with the above -- 110%.
sorry .. one of my own favorites
I'm of the opinion that the Language doesn't necessarily have to be defined by the morons in a society (such as marketers, who tell us to "dial direct" and give us "fat free" dressing).

[corman922]

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...the word "forte." It's actually pronouced "fort," not "fortay."

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Huh? I'm a professional musician and not once have I heard the word forte (a very common term to denote loud) pronounced "fort". The Italian pronounciation is "for'-tay". Look it up here if you'd like:

http://www.music.vt....usicdictionary/

[leroybrown]

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...the word "forte." It's actually pronouced "fort," not "fortay."

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Huh? I'm a professional musician and not once have I heard the word forte (a very common term to denote loud) pronounced "fort". The Italian pronounciation is "for'-tay". Look it up here if you'd like:
http://www.music.vt....usicdictionary/

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You're right, because it is Italian, but also partially incorrect, because it's also French. The first guy is being a proscriptive grammar nut. The funny thing is that if you're using Forte to mean "the part of a sword or foil blade that is between the middle and the hilt and that is the strongest part of the blade" then it is derived from the French, but then if you use it to mean "one's strong point," then that is derived from the Italian... as is the musical notation. Heck, anyone you ask will tell you that forte means "strong point." I haven't met a soul that knows that term can refer to blades, let alone the strongest part thereof. I'd argue that the preferred definition should probably be switched in common usage, but then I don't have a huge corpus of texts/speech to systematically analyze usage patterns.
From Merriam-Webster: In forte we have a word derived from French that in its "strong point" sense has no entirely satisfactory pronunciation. Usage writers have denigrated 'for-"tA and 'for-tE because they reflect the influence of the Italian-derived 2forte. Their recommended pronunciation 'fort, however, does not exactly reflect French either: the French would write the word le fort and would rhyme it with English for. So you can take your choice, knowing that someone somewhere will dislike whichever variant you choose. All are standard, however. In British English 'fo-"tA and 'fot predominate; 'for-"tA and for-'tA are probably the most frequent pronunciations in American English.
Man this is just too good - I get to use Merriam Webster's new usage guide twice in a day :-P And it's nice to see that the crowd who insist that 'for-tay' is wrong are themselves pronouncing the French wrong. Neener neener.

[Tivor]

When used in musical context (as in "play it loud"), it is pronounced 'for-tay.'
When used in context such as "that's his strength," then it is pronounced 'fort.'
It's like when you use the word 'invalid' to mean 'not valid,' you pronounce it 'in-VAL-id.'
But when you use the word to describe a wheelchair-bound person, you pronounce it 'IN-val-id.'

[prajna]

Interesting discussion on grammer and pronunciation. Now back to Quicktime (if its not too late). Does anyone have any information on continuing to run QT 6 Pro and QT 7 Standard on the same machine? Much appreciated if anyone has any links or information...