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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
In France, we use "Word" of Microsoft, and quite never type "word". The name of the software doesn't mean everything... You don't type "word", but you do type words  | | | | -- Enry |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
In France, we use "Word" of Microsoft, and quite never type "word". The name of the software doesn't mean everything... No, but it does mean something.  | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
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You did move south of the Mason Dixon Line as I recall. 
I don't believe that Maryland is considered "south of the Mason Dixon line".
Not to mention that your stereotyping of southerners is not terribly funny. I take from your comment, Hal, that you went to school in the south. You have unintentially proved my point. From Wikipedia Quote:
The Mason–Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") is a demarcation line between four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia). Sorry, if you don't think "stereotyping" is funny, but as a resident of Maryland since 1970 I am familiar with the current state of our educational system, so it IS funny to me. Don't be so thin skinned. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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DVD Profiler user since June 15, 2001 | | | | Last edited: by kdh1949 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,328 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
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This rule is the main reason for which I don't contribute any more. I really can't understand something so much stupid...
It is only 'stupid' if you believe the field serves a purpose other than the one Dr. Killpatient mentioned. In that context, it is perfectly reasonable to include all typos. We have a scanned image of the back cover that includes all "mistakes", so I don't quite understand what including typos in overview field actually adds. Do you go around and search for "typo"s? Sometimes I think we should have screen capture fields just for those "on screen" controversies we have. Screen captures of title and credits would eliminate all those "needs" for accuracy and then we can return DVDP fields to what they were meant for in the first place, a useful, searchable data base. | | | | My Home Theater |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
I do not collect discs of plastic inside plastics box with paper cover. I collect movies, on DVDs.
When I write an overview, it's about a movie, which is the only reason I have the dvd, and I find it stupid to reproduce an error which has nothing to do with the movie. [...] Are you also going to correct factual errors in the overview? For instance, on the back cover of my copy of The Hunted, it reads that Tommy Lee Jones plays an FBI agent, but in the movie the FBI agent is a woman. Quote:
Anyway, I cannot write voluntarily a spelling mistake. I can make ones, as every people, but reproduce it knowing it's an error, I can't. Sometimes an "obvious mistake" is not a mistake at all if you ask other people. There are linguistic forums with endless discussions on what is considered good usage or bad usage. Do we really want that? | | | | -- Enry |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,595 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
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This part of your statement confuses me  : "I would definitely not enter the overview according the rules for contribution only to be overwritten and locked locally". After submitting, how could it be overwritten if you locked it locally?
I think he wanted to say, that he would not enter the original overview and contribute it just to overwrite it afterwards with an overview of his own. He would just write his own overview and lock it. Ahhh...I see! said the blind man  . Thanks...guess I missread. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting AESP_pres: Quote:
I don't understand why some users jump on Surfeur because he don't contribute anymore. Nobody his oblige to contribute if he don't want too. The software is a personnal DVD cataloguer at first, the online database is just an extra, usefull but not something that make DVDP useless. Last year the datase didn't work (everyone know why) and nobody died or stopped buying DVD. The only problems I have with Surfeur are (1) that he complains about why he dislikes the Rules too often (IMO) and (2) that after saying he doesn't contribute anymore (which is clearly his right) he is disappointed that there aren't more French profiles available. If someone doesn't contribute, for WHATEVER reason, he shouldn't be upset that there aren't may profiles to download. Surfeur hasn't made this complaint in a long while, though. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | totally off topic, but found this site with info on the Mason-Dixon line more info than you probably care for  -Agrare |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
This part of your statement confuses me : "I would definitely not enter the overview according the rules for contribution only to be overwritten and locked locally". After submitting, how could it be overwritten if you locked it locally? I would have to overwrite it myself before locking. I would not do the work twice. Once for contribution and once for my local database. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,738 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
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You did move south of the Mason Dixon Line as I recall.
I don't believe that Maryland is considered "south of the Mason Dixon line".  Quoting hal9g: Quote:
Not to mention that your stereotyping of southerners is not terribly funny. Quoting hal9g: Quote:
On the second point, she likes being called stupid? To each their own! Could someone fill my knowledge gap? Why are "Southeners" stupid? | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | The main reason I agree with the rule to enter the overview "as is" is that it levels the playing field among all the users. You don't need to be able to spell well or have good grammar, as long as you can copy what's on the back cover, you are able to contribute an overview.
That, to me, is far more important than recording errors for collectible purposes. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
Could someone fill my knowledge gap? Why are "Southeners" stupid? To say "because they're American" would be incredibly rude and offensive, so I won't.  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,738 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can agree on the fact that Southeners are a strange people, it's no different in Germany. They only become a problem when they are embossing an image. Every american seems to believe that all Germans live and look like Bavarians. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
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On the second point, she likes being called stupid? To each their own!
Could someone fill my knowledge gap? Why are "Southeners" stupid? I never called Southerners stupid -- poorly educated, maybe, but not stupid. Grammar Lady comment: It should be to each "his/her: own, not "their" own. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: April 17, 2007 |  Posts: 1,091 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
The main reason I agree with the rule to enter the overview "as is" is that it levels the playing field among all the users. You don't need to be able to spell well or have good grammar, as long as you can copy what's on the back cover, you are able to contribute an overview.
... Or have any understanding of the language involved, provided it's based on the same alphabet we're using here. I can contribute French, Italian, Polish, etc. profiles (and own at least one profile of each) without understanding a word I've typed, much less knowing if it's "correct". | | | | Adelaide Movie Buffs (info on special screenings, contests, bargains, etc. relevant to Adelaideans... and contests/bargains for other Aussies too!) |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,366 |
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