Joy of Tech with marketing advise for Microsoft's 'iPod Killer'

I'm going to keep my iPod, skip the Killer, and save my money for that toaster. I'm also going to be very careful not to piss off the 'vice squad.

A Microsoft "iPod killer." Let me guess- it'll be called the ME2, and be about as earth-shattering as a 3-slot toaster.

People please, it's a blog.

Sure, if the misspellings are so bad that you can't read or understand the article, then maybe a comment by a reader every 2 minutes is warranted.

This situation is far from that. Sheesh.

It's amusing watching US citizens argue over inappropriate "c" and "s" noun and verb forms.

In countries where English wasn't Webster-ized, there are still separate forms for words like "practice" and "practise".

(And punctuation outside quote marks!)

But that doesn't change the the fact that TUAW is a US-based blog, so should use correct grammar for that location.

History repeats itself:

1912 "Unsinkable Titanic"
2006 "iPod Killer"

I am extremely entertained by anal retenetive people flipping the fuck out over a simple mispelling and then making themself feel intelligent by correcting the author after 6 other people in the course of the last hour have already stated the correction. ... Let me try real quick.

HEY ITS ADVICE NOT ADVISE JESUS H CHRIST!

Still dont get it, but I am still very entertained. You're all pathetic.

"Hello, I'm a Mac."
"And I'm a PC."
"I know that 'advice' is a noun and 'advise' is a verb and that makes me smarter and more tasteful than a PC."
"I can spell everything correctly accept 'advice' and 'advise.'"
"Uh......"

You Fool, If you knew anything the Microsoft Ipod killer is named: ZUNE. Its even on your sister site, Engadget for godsakes.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/microsofts-media-player-dubbed-zune/

I don't think this iPod Killer is going to go anywhere. Unless this can offer features that are generations ahead of the latest iPod, then this is pretty much a benign attempt and pseduothreat on microsoft's part.

It's spelled "advice" because it's a noun, you're using it wrong.