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Nobody says it with a z sound, always an s.


...and nobody says "oz" when they mean to say "ounce". These are literal liberties, which fit either way, I think.


Voicing s as /z/ is widely variational. For example, I voice the s in "us", and "Muslim", while others don't. While I don't voice the s in Australia (/ɒ.ˈstreɪ̯.li.jə/ ~ /ə.ˈstreɪ̯.li.jə/), I do in Oslo (pronouncing it /ˈɒz.loʊ̯/).


Pronouncing 'Oslo' with a z sound doesn't mean 'Australia' is pronounced with a z sound, you're comparing the... you know, I don't care.


They do say it with a /z/ sound. That's why it gets spelled Oz.

Compare Aussie, which is also pronounced with a /z/.


I've never heard anyone pronounce 'Australia' as 'Auztralia'. 'Aussie' as 'ozzie' yes, but never Australia.


Look at Jony's designs, everything from the first iMac to the soon to be released Mac Pro can be boiled down to a rectangle with rounded corners. 20 years of the same core element has caused it to become stale.


Or maybe just maybe market decided that this was actually the best form factor for computer so far? Maybe also not unrelated to the fact that screens are rectangle...

You can’t blame Apple as it’s one of the few company that actually tried alternatives... that market rejected.

To name a few : the twentieth anniversary Mac, the "Luxo" iMac, and more recently the trashcan MacPro


I've got the CD-ROM version of that kicking around somewhere. I'm surprised they haven't made a movie of it or all the other old LucasArts properties.

If they can make a movie about The Magic 8-Ball...


Need to service the turbos on Land Rover LR3/4/First gen Range Rover Sport Diesels? Easier with the body off.


Someone should do an analysis of that pdf to see if anything is embedded in that.


"I can't believe that those ad execs really believe that people want intrusions like that."

These are probably the same people that overloaded webpages with so much junk that the adblocker came into being.


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