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Re: Polaroid Cube

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Post by baddox »

rm445 wrote: post #73
Mandatum wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's = Shortended "it is" "It is wide angle lens" doesn't work.

Parent poster understood that, and suggests the incorrect usage is becoming standard, as people apply a simplified form of the rule. In the same way, one might expect "whose" to be phased out in favour of an incorrect "who's". I'm not convinced they are correct (note deliberate use of the ungrammatical but popular singular 'they'), because hyper-correctism seems to be increasing as well. The population seems to be sp…

Indeed, I understand that fully. My point is that the English language is not prescriptive in practice. In fact, even if you're a prescriptivist, you could easily argue that "its" is a special case, since most English possessives are formed with apostrophe s.

Re: Polaroid Cube

#82

Post by baddox »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #44
baddox wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't mean no one proofread it. These days I think it's more common to have the apostrophe in the possessive pronoun can to omit it. I've even seen people defend their usage as deliberate. I suspect we're near the end of it even being considered a "rule."

I don't think that's true - I've not seen a single style guide that suggests that!

I made no claim about what style guides suggest. I merely claimed that deliberately using "it's" for both forms is increasingly common in written English.

Re: Polaroid Cube

#83

Post by guelo »

stfu wrote: post #62
msandford wrote: post #6

Finally someone else is stepping into the GoPro market. Good to see competition here. I know the feature sets aren't identical but sometimes worse is better.

Some of you seems to know the market quite well - here is my question: I would like to have a GoPro alike Cam for mostly indoor usage (low light) with exchangeable lenses (for interviews). I have used a GoPro3+B in the past and like its size and app based control. But for low light indoor settings it delivers sub par quality. What would be a better camera for such a setting?

You're seriously wearing a head-mounted camera during interviews? That would creep me out. I'd probably cut the interview short.

Re: Polaroid Cube

#84

Post by stfu »

MBCook wrote: post #72
stfu wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of you seems to know the market quite well - here is my question: I would like to have a GoPro alike Cam for mostly indoor usage (low light) with exchangeable lenses (for interviews). I have used a GoPro3+B in the past and like its size and app based control. But for low light indoor settings it delivers sub par quality. What would be a better camera for such a setting?

That doesn't sound like the GoPro's domain to me. I see them as rough-and-tumble sports or action cameras. But low light performance and interchangeable lenses are almost diametrically opposed to what what they're doing. You need a large sensor and lens to get good low light performance (which makes it bigger) and so would the mechanism on an interchangeable lens. Further the interchangeable lenses are just additiona…

I saw GoPro offering a "music" edition of their cameras making me assume they would deliver some decent quality in low light, indoor, close-up situations. The concept is absolutely genius but it seems the market is all going for the same action/sports segment.

Re: Polaroid Cube

#85

Post by wf »

msandford wrote: post #6

Finally someone else is stepping into the GoPro market. Good to see competition here. I know the feature sets aren't identical but sometimes worse is better.

Garmin has been competing with GoPro with the Virb action camera for a while, which in my experience has been really fun to use and produced really nice quality videos.

(I work for Garmin, but not on anything related to this.)

Re: Polaroid Cube

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Post by Yver »

0x0 wrote: post #69
gk1 wrote: post #25

> It’s wide angle lens... You'd think they'd have someone proofread a product announcement.

Maybe that's supposed to be read in the same way as "it is 5 megapixels"...

It would have taken you 5 second to verify that no, it's not supposed to be read that way.

> It’s wide angle lens provides 124° of coverage so you can get the big shot.

Re: Polaroid Cube

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Post by baddox »

jerhinesmith wrote: post #66
jjw1414 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that true? A statement like, "Drive Tom's car" is grammatically correct, but I don't think it is expanded to "Drive Tom is car".

That's because "Tom's" is possessive in this case. The possessive form of "it" is "its" (no apostrophe). The way I remember it: if you can substitute "his" or "hers" for "its", then don't use an apostrophe.

This is precisely why I think usage is changing and will continue to change. The current "rule" (which isn't really a rule, since there is no official governing body of the English language) is an unnecessary and arbitrary special case. The meaning can nearly always be easily understood from context.

Re: Polaroid Cube

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Post by baddox »

qu4z-2 wrote: post #55
baddox wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't mean no one proofread it. These days I think it's more common to have the apostrophe in the possessive pronoun can to omit it. I've even seen people defend their usage as deliberate. I suspect we're near the end of it even being considered a "rule."

In that case I'm looking forward to the days of he's and her's!

The difference there is that the pronunciation of those special possessive forms is clearly different than the corresponding contraction (e.g. "he" vs. "his"), so you're much less likely to make the mistake in written English.

Re: Polaroid Cube

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Post by celticninja »

coldtea wrote: post #54
kin wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it's in the same consumer market as GoPro, remember that GoPro is more than a camera company in the same way that Red Bull is more than just an energy drink. GoPro is headed in the direction of lifestyle branding. Original content, sponsored professional sports, brand collaboration, etc. So while Polaroid and Sony are welcoming competition in the space, GoPro's market IMO seems more focused elsewhere.

> GoPro is headed in the direction of lifestyle branding. Original content, sponsored professional sports, brand collaboration, etc. That's still just a camera company. All those are marketing/promotionals moves, no money makers or markets. Same for Red Bull I'd say. How much Red Bull makes for selling the drink vs any other endeavour (if it not actually loses money on them).

they make a nice sum on their formula one team, that alone is a difficult feat so i reckon they are pretty business savvy.

Re: Polaroid Cube

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Post by anigbrowl »

baddox wrote: post #81
rm445 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent poster understood that, and suggests the incorrect usage is becoming standard, as people apply a simplified form of the rule. In the same way, one might expect "whose" to be phased out in favour of an incorrect "who's". I'm not convinced they are correct (note deliberate use of the ungrammatical but popular singular 'they'), because hyper-correctism seems to be increasing as well. The population seems to be sp…

Indeed, I understand that fully. My point is that the English language is not prescriptive in practice. In fact, even if you're a prescriptivist, you could easily argue that "its" is a special case, since most English possessives are formed with apostrophe s.

Please stop making excuses for illiteracy. It's nonsense like this that contributes to the decline of educational standards.
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