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It's unconscionable that none of those 3 devices can multitask ...

Do you consider it unconscionable that your home wifi access point can't host host multiple web sites and a few cloud applications? (It's very likely a bsd or linux server running on an ARM or MIPS chip.) Why can't your kids be allowed to reprogram your car's antilock brake computer to also simultaneously play some fun interactive games? Would you like your iPhone/iPad to also be multitasking as much malware as 10% of the worlds PC's already do?

I run multitasking systems (hosted on multi-core servers in racks with large power supplies). Last thing I also need is a UPS and firewall for my wrist watch (et.al.).
 
lol @ all the morons in this thread trying to justify the lack of multitasking as a good thing with the most ludicrous examples

^^^
 
There's a difference between "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less", and I think you've confused them as meaning the same. I think you meant the latter. *Trying his best not to make the correction in a douchey way* :)

Actually they are idiomatic expressions which do mean the same thing and are used as such - they differ only if you parse them pedantically and completely out of use and context (like flammable and inflammable). I can link you to some linguists for some authority on the subject if you like.
 
Actually they are idiomatic expressions which do mean the same thing and are used as such - they differ only if you parse them pedantically and completely out of use and context (like flammable and inflammable). I can link you to some linguists for some authority on the subject if you like.

Don't be part of the problem. Just because while developing the English language we all got lazy and took a phrase and mangled how to say it doesn't make it right. (I know it's going to be accepted, but still, if you know that much about grammar, then you should know enough not to use ill-phrasing.)

Anyway, Multi-tasking, ehh. There will be a solution, and it will work in a very Appley way.
 
Okay, I wasn't going to jump in and further derail the thread, but I just can't stand quietly by while the grammar nazi's come goose stepping in.

Here is a short sensible explanation of the evolution of this expression.

In these cases people have tried to apply logic, and it has failed them. Attempts to be logical about I could care less also fail. Taken literally, if one could care less, then one must care at least a little, which is obviously the opposite of what is meant. It is so clearly logical nonsense that to condemn it for being so (as some commentators have done) misses the point. The intent is obviously sarcastic — the speaker is really saying, “As if there was something in the world that I care less about”.
 
the iphone defo needs basic multitasking...

listening to last fm while checking emails shouldnt be that difficult!!!

allowing but limiting apps is surely a solution for OS4?
 
the iphone defo needs basic multitasking...

listening to last fm while checking emails shouldnt be that difficult!!!

allowing but limiting apps is surely a solution for OS4?

Some sort of plugin system could sort of solve that. By that I mean letting apps use let's say the native iTunes app to do different things (like playing Last.fm stuff).
 
Actually they are idiomatic expressions which do mean the same thing and are used as such - they differ only if you parse them pedantically and completely out of use and context (like flammable and inflammable). I can link you to some linguists for some authority on the subject if you like.

+1

The phrase "I could care less" is along the same lines as other ironic phrases that mean the opposite of what is said:

"Yeah, right"
"Sure"
"Great"
.etc

I'm much more appalled at the ignorance or laziness of so many native English posters here to differentiate between "you're", "your" and "they're" and "their" and "there".
 
Actually they are idiomatic expressions which do mean the same thing and are used as such - they differ only if you parse them pedantically and completely out of use and context (like flammable and inflammable). I can link you to some linguists for some authority on the subject if you like.
Okay, I wasn't going to jump in and further derail the thread, but I just can't stand quietly by while the grammar nazi's come goose stepping in.

Here is a short sensible explanation of the evolution of this expression.

I don't understand what's so difficult about it…

— "Couldn't care less" = Impossible for them to care any less / Don't care at all

— "Could care less" = Care too much / Care more than average

For example, if I saw a volunteer nurse in a retirement home who was extremely hard working and was overly courteous to the retirees, I could say, "She could care less" - meaning it as a compliment. But if you've confused the two expressions, you might incorrectly believe I was making an insult toward her.
 
Sorry for the derail, but hey it's educational

I don't understand what's so difficult about it…

— "Couldn't care less" = Impossible for them to care any less / Don't care at all

— "Could care less" = Care too much / Care more than average

I guess you've ignored the links in the thread and the explanations as to why you are wrong :)

They are idiomatic expressions. . . . - they differ only if you parse them pedantically and completely out of use and context

But since you want to push the issue, here's the full explanation; see also here for the context, and here for some other discussio:

Like could care less, give a damn is a Negative Polarity Item, that is, a phrase that is ordinarily used only within the scope of semantic negation of some kind (not, never, only, rarely, few, etc.). Hence the perceived strangeness of They could give a damn, which has no overt negative, but means the same thing as the same phrase with a negative. I.e, the business manager was saying that his members couldn't give a damn.

Give a damn is a member of the open Minimal Direct Object class of NPI's, like lift a finger, drink a drop, do a thing, eat a bite, etc. The implication of all of them is that, if one can't even Verb a Minimal Direct Object, why, then, one couldn't Verb any Direct Object at all. Thus it's an idiomatic intensification of a negative. But it does usually require a negative to intensify.

However, there apparently is such a thing as negation by association. Like what happened to French pas from ne...pas, which is now usable as a negative in its own right, from long association in the discontinuous morpheme with the overt negative ne, give a damn and could care less have, in American usage at least, come to have their own quasi-independent negative force.

Give a damn has been used independently of negatives for at least 25 years in America. I published a paper (J. Lawler, Ample Negatives, in Papers from the Tenth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 10)) in 1974 that remarked on this topic, among other negative phenomena.
 
There's a difference between "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less", and I think you've confused them as meaning the same. I think you meant the latter. *Trying his best not to make the correction in a douchey way* :)

You sound like my wife when she corrects my grammar. :D

Whatever it is, you knew what I meant. ;)
 
Read some of the stories coming from the Android camp about applications crashing phones by hanging in the background, or keeping the phone from making calls, crashing during a call, etc.

Any audio app worth anything on the iPhone platform can send their audio stream through the browser and thus allow it to run in the background.

You're right, 100%. Android gives you the ability to run many apps at once, but you're also open to the same problems of buggy interactions, ect, that cause crashes. Considering one of the most popular Android apps lets you kill other apps and services that have locked up, you see the problem.
 
Apple is probably perfecting it before releasing it to public. Same went for cut, copy and paste.
 
Lol its funny how the topic of threads on this forum wander from the topic so much:rolleyes: It turns from an iPad thread to a discussion about phrases and grammar because someone says a phrase wrong :D:D:D
 
I'd like to see you perfect something like that. I knew one of the team that made the cut n' paste feature. They slaved away for hours on end with no breaks to bring cut n' paste to computers...:mad:

Na, just kidding, 2 years is a long time :D

and the two years was AFTER the release. they could have started far earlier, had they been told to, by Jobs. And now he holds out on Flash. and multitasking. Is it any wonder I don't like him very much?? All of Apple's products could have a much larger and happier customer base if he would just stop being so damned controlling and stubborn. He just has to have everything his way, the customers be damned.
 
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