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- colincornaby, on 10/12/2007, -10/+62"Why in the world is check being spelled "cheque"? Even diggs spell check things its wrong lol."
There is this exotic place in the world called "Europe". You may have heard of this place. It is a little known fact, but there is a country there that does speak English. And they are known to spell "check" as "cheque".
Edit: Awww, you took off your post. :) - knowall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38This is misreported back then. Apple never tried to force anyone not to use "podcast". Here's the original cease and desist:
http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/09/apples_letter_t.html?entry_id=1562695
"Apple, of course, has no general objection to proper use of the descriptive term 'podcast' as part of a trademark for goods and services offered in the podcasting field"
Apple C&D'd the use of "mypodder", not "podcast" -- which they explicitly allowed. - RedBear, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27Not just Europe...I'm Canadian, and that's how I'd spell cheque too...although we tend to use the British spellings over the American versions anyway....
- UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29Yay. Now Leo can shut up.
Now if there was a way to make Steve Gibson stop referring to the day Microsoft turned on the firewall in XP in SP2 as the "golden day" or "best day for Windows ever " in EVERY FREKING SECURITY NOW EPISODE I would be happy. - sendakseuss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21You better cheque yourself before you wreque yourself!
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15they also need to drop the "netcasts you love, from people you trust" line. That just makes me want to puke.
Since when does the "edutainment" the various TWiTs provide require a trust relationship?
Especially since they often make mistakes just like the rest of us? - imikedaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Wow, he just paid off Steve's salary for the year.
- MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13'they also need to drop the "netcasts you love, from people you trust" line. That just makes me want to puke.'
I agree completely. Trust is earned, not granted just because you say so.
I trust most of the group, but my trust for Leo shrinks every day. He really needs to stop the jokes about pay and money and such since all it does is make him look like he is just doing it all FOR the money and gives a rat ass about the listeners. - tdhurst, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Who gives ***** about how someone spells cheque? It's technically correct and better than someone spelling it chekc, chek, or cheq.
I can see someone ranting about misspelled words, but bitching about differently spelled (but correct) words is a little too much. - UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I also hate the "trust" line. It takes up way too much time.. you don't even find out what show you're listening to (twit, net@night, etc) until 14 seconds in.
- inkhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The best part is apple returned his check for $1.
- monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Apple didn't authorize "Podcast", they just said it's a generic term that doesn't require licensing.
- sshuit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Prepare to be bored by my knowledge of word etymology!
Cheque
from Persian 'chek' (چك). Iranian invented cheque 1st . Sassanid Empire. During the first century A.D., banks in Persia and other territories in the Persian empire under Sassanid Empire issued letters of credit known as 'chek'. They are considered the basis for the modern cheque.
Also of note... the exchequer of the court of england was named for the large cloth which resembled a checkerboard on which he would record the kingdom's debts and assets
At an early stage in England (certainly by 1190) it split into a purely administrative part, the Exchequer of Receipt, which collected revenue, and a judicial part, the Exchequer of Pleas, which was a court concerned with the King's revenue.
Originally the Exchequer referred to the cloth laid over a large table, 10 feet by 5, on which counters were placed representing various values. According to the Dialogue concerning the Exchequer, an early Medieval work describing the practice of the Exchequer, the name referred to the resemblance of the table with that of a chess board.
/end boring history lesson - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12On the wall: http://www.duggmirror.com
- pixelsoup, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9All English speaking countries spell "cheque" like this. Except USA. They also pronounce the last letter of the alphabet "zed". Lame because "zed" ruins the alphabet song because it doesn't rhyme.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Direct link to the letter:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=309396084&size=l - Knightwise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Should the site be down HERE is the same story on Dave's personal Blog : http://roostersrail.wordpress.com/2006/11/29/apple-authorize-the-term-podcast/
- pero69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5when you get "payed"?
sealed with tar to prevent leakage?
unfortunately, spell check doesn't work if it's a real word like payed. - EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree with the "trust" line. But I don't recall ever hearing Gibson (who I trust with my life) say "golden day."
- owine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4leo laporte suck on this.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7""zed""
Also makes things like La-Z-boy and anything supposedly EZ make no sense. - Knightwise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good , now we are finally past the semantics of spelling Cheque and the whole usa vs Canada , I'm happy to discover the site is back up and both the original article, the cheque, and the letter can be accessed online.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Not good for the remake...
"Open the.. umm... unit-bay doors, HAL." - SCMacUser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3RTFA Noob. They gave him his money back.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Most commonly linked page on digg: "Wordpress Error"
- SCMacUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They'll see if he wants some more of that stationary
- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Too bad digg doesn't do the same sort of thing.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There's lots of things you don't do in Jersy... like bathe
- DDRRE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Whoops. Doesn't belong to this article. Digg down my last comment.
DuggMirror:
http://duggmirror.com/apple/Apple_Writes_Podcaster_A_Letter_Authorizing_Podcast - UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"There's also a not-so-exotic place called Canada, that spells it "Cheque" when you get payed and "Check" when you examine something for accuracy."
Wow that makes sense. No wonder why we dont do it here in New Jersey. - Hardcase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If Wikipedia defines knowledge, then I guess everybody is a freakin' genius.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1stupid patents and copyrights. they'll be the end of free market in excessiveness, and will signify the beginning of the age of the rule of monopoly. then the system will collapse and we'll all use linux.
- cameronreilly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2thanks for crashing our site! which is back up now btw. :-)
cheers
Cameron Reilly
CEO, The Podcast Network
http://www.whooiz.com/ProfileDetails.aspx?Id=5 - DarkDakota, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Have you added this to the needed Wiki site? or did you gleen it from said site?
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Good times.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7@DogmaticAtheism - Yeeees oh mighty keeper of podcast history and all things non-Apple cause Jobs is an evil brainwashing genius.
- haggie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2digg down
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- capran, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Heh. They'll find a way to get more money out of him another time using Jobs's RDF.
- TheRooster1972, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7yup, we have it writing now so I guess we can all rest easy.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3After six minutes?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4wow that was weird, did you and aule have like a cosmic brain meld or something?
- aule, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8Contrary to the belief of many, the world does not revolve around the US. The US way of doing things is thankfully, not the only way of doing things. Up here in the beautiful north we crazy canucks also spell it as "cheque".
Edit: damn, supposed to be a child to the original post - killn00bz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0this is a good move by apple because people wont hate them bcuz of a stupid copyrighted word.
- secretmidnight, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Apple think 'podcast' is a generic term that's free for use by anyone? But they'll sue everything that uses the word 'pod' like it's some kind of magical word? Personally, I hated the word from the start.
Speaking of words..
'cheque' is original English, more commonly referred to as 'International English'.
'check' is American English. America thought they'd be "unique" and change the spelling of a few words, like taking the 'u' out of colour, and changing 's' in words like analyse to 'z'. - ggudggid, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I like to tell my friend in Toronto that Canada is just the 51st state. Always gets a rise out of him!
- nandes, on 10/12/2007, -11/+7There's also a not-so-exotic place called Canada, that spells it "Cheque" when you get payed and "Check" when you examine something for accuracy.
---aule just beat me to it - KnightMareInc, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4how many worms was xp hit with after sp2?
- treocast, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Speaking from first hand experience, Apple does claim a common-law right to "all things pod" and is demanding that Podcast Ready, Inc. stop using the word in all its forms (both "myPodder" as well as "Podcast Ready") as it pertains to downloaded media and portable media devices.
- mollyfud, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0I told you so at the time!
Molly
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