Any time I tried to copy and paste one of their URLs into an email or message to send a friend, the two hyphens would get converted to an em dash and the URL would break. For some ungodly reason, they used two hyphens in their URL structure for every article. The worst example I’ve ever run into was at an old website for which I used to write. Smart punctuation also doesn’t always work well in situations where you’re limited to a certain number of characters like SMS messages.
Go to settings> general> auto-lock> 2 minutes. If your already using it the shortest time to turn off is 2 minutes. 5:42 PM in response to wkoehne In response to wkoehne. And since it was computer engineers who built the underlying structures of the web and the character encoding that makes everything work, smart punctuation doesn’t always play nice with things like URLs. (15,837 points) iPad Speciality level out of ten: 10.
Well, unfortunately, most computer engineers don’t really care how the text in their code files looks. RELATED: What Are Character Encodings Like ANSI and Unicode, and How Do They Differ? Smart punctuation makes text look, well, smarter. It’s the same with the apostrophe in “it’s.” Also, if you enter two hyphens in a row with no space (- -) on iOS, they get converted to an actual em dash (-). See how, “when I quote this text,” the quotation marks are angled. I tell you, the foul business practices associated with marketing musical instruments are as great, if not greater than, the foul practices associated with marketing motor vehicles, new and used.In most fonts, there is a difference between the opening and closing quotation marks. It seemed to be happening here also with a top brand of saxophone, but improved a lot after I reported the state of this brand when they arrived here, in a major sax forum, to the extent that the manufacturer really would have to take notice. I consider such practices, should they exist, as foul. This latest one I worked on, IMO, definitely should not have left the factory. Some locations/players (especially those paid to endorse the brand!) may be getting the best of them, while other locations/players get the `duds`. My guess is that these flutes are highly variable.
My natural conclusion has been that that first flute got special attention from Altus`s best worker/player in order to sell the brand here and start with an excellent reputation. Altus professional models offer discerning flautists a choice of harmonically tuned and elegant sounding instruments capable of consistently executing. When I played this first instrument it played so well that I was determined to buy it immediately, but somebody else had contracted to buy it before me.Īl,though not so many recently, I have worked on a couple of dozen Altus flutes, and compared with that first reaction, I have felt reasonably to considerably disappointed. Softness of metal is of considerable concern to the technician, but can be determined only by bending some body and key metal, which I was not going to do on a test instrument.
So I expected Altus to have rather soft metal, like all the other Taiwanese instruments of the time. My understanding is that the factory later moved to Japan. When the first Altus flute arrived in NZ I believe they were made in Taiwan, related to Jupiter and Di Medici. Good question, with an interesting answer. Kara wrote, "Was that the only Altus flute that you have worked on Arak?"