Mountain Lion's cost

Based on the cost of Snow Leopard and of Lion, and the degree of change
from Leopard to Snow Leopard or Snow Leopard to Lion, I can't see Apple
charging more than $10 or $15 for Mountain Lion if you have Lion already.
And for those who are still running Snow Leopard, I see a price of $39 or
so, which would be the cost of Lion and Mountain Lion combined.

I think those prices would be reasonable, but ML will probably be the same
$39.99 that Lion was.

On a related subject, my iMac is almost six years old as a model (but the
machine itself is about five years old), so I was planning to buy the next
model of iMac, which I expect to be released in April or May. Maybe I'll
wait until ML is released, though, so I can buy the iMac with ML already
installed and save the few bucks for the upgrade. Indications are that my
computer (late 2006 iMac) won't run ML.

 

I'd wait unless you have some pressing need.

As to price, sheesh, Lion just came out. The update should be no more
than $4.99.

Maybe Apple should just lease us the OS at so much per year.

 

shhhhhh

 

I'd wait unless you have some pressing need.[/QUOTE]

My advise to others is to wait until you can't wait any longer. That way,
if a new machine comes out the next day, you'll know that you couldn't have
waited even one more day.

But sometimes, wants supersede needs.

 

Don't you mean "advice?" Advise is a verb, advice is a noun.

 

Don't you mean "advice?" Advise is a verb, advice is a noun.[/QUOTE]

Can't you recognize a typographical error when you see one? BTW, you should
have used a semicolon instead of a comma in the second sentence.

 

Can't you recognize a typographical error when you see one? BTW, you should
have used a semicolon instead of a comma in the second sentence.[/QUOTE]

Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! Comma fight! Comma fight!

In addition to the semicolon error, I would also argue that Mr.
Furlong's question mark is misplaced. It should be outside the quotes.

LET THE PUNCTUATION WARS RESUME!

 

Can't you recognize a typographical error when you see one? BTW, you should
have used a semicolon instead of a comma in the second sentence.[/QUOTE]

"OUCH! And Steiner, with a Left Grammar Hook, flattens the challenger!!!"

 

You are entirely correct.

And the winner, by 40 rods, is Fred Moore.

 

My iMac won't run Lion. It's on SL and is still behaving pretty well,
but I'm ready to upgrade. My inclination right now is to wait until
they introduce a new iMac and get one of the current-generation ones on
clearance. The bottom-of-the-line current one as a refurb has been
seen at $1000 - a couple of hundred bucks off. It's awfully tempting.
I'm not quite ready to move from SL on my desktop yet, so I'm hesitant
to get the next-gen iMac which will almost certainly not run SL. The
current one, of course, still does, as it came out a few months before
Lion.

 

It depends on the context and on the punctuation mark itself. Periods
and commas always go inside. Other things, not necessarily. In
particular, in the case which started this, the ? should be on the
outside since the entire question is not in the quote.

This is a pretty nice guide:

http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp

Maybe if we all ask nicely, TheOatmeal will help us out with this in
his signature humorous style.

 

That is an archaic custom, resulting from typesetting. Periods and commas
were delicate pieces of type, so needed the protection of the quotation
mark to keep them from being damaged when next to a blank (space) slug.

Periods and commas should now follow the same rules as all other
punctuation marks, placing them inside or outside the quotation, depending
on context.

-- Michelle

 

I agree with the logic of "pertains to the quoted material". But after
using the old standard for so long, it always looks a little funny to
me.

I'm not sure about Michelle's assertion that the old rule was a
holdover from typesetting. It was taught to me many years ago and not
in the context of typesetting, and reinforced in a typing class
(although rules from typing are not all as sensible now as they may
have once been, such as the double space after a sentence).

 

The period should go inside because the quote is an entire sentence.

-- Michelle

 

Once the rule became established and applied everywhere, no one bothered to
explain where the rule came from.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Punctuation>

 

Then the containing sentence has no punctuation. No thanks. I'll keep it
like it is.[/QUOTE]

It's no different from he following:

Just before leaving, she asked, "Should I install those updates on my
computer?"

The containing sentence has no punctuation.

 

I don't know of any style manual that recommends that.

-- Michelle

 

Can't you recognize a typographical error when you see one?[/QUOTE]

Not so fast. If it had been 'advixe', 'adviwe' or 'advide', I think we
would all agree to call it a typo. But in this case the mistake
represents one of the classic examples of confused usage (along with
things such as you're / your, discrete / discreet, etc.). However, the
fact that 's' and 'c' are quite close together on a standard
English-language keyboard (which you are presumably using) does stand in
mitigation. Reasonable doubt? Yeah, all right -- you can have your
'typographical' error.

cheers,

Henry

 

Dude I can hit the L key when typing the Q key...

But, there is also how people "spell". Some are deliberately thinking
of the word and whether it is a noun, verb, adverb whatever. Some are
more phonetic (me) and tend to make silly errors of the "there"
"they're" type. I don't always read what I wrote before posting.

Not sure 'type' what Michelle is but I'd tend to believe former rather
than later.

 

Gee, thanks.