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And now they give us something that alludes Intel, a reliable CPU.

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In this case the general agreement is that you just use a single full-stop.

http://www.grammar-monster.com...

Good question, so I spent a little while looking for the rule that applies. There are so many rules for using commas, some of which don't seem to always be included in purported lists of comma uses. This one, in particular, seems to be the one that applies to your case: http://www.grammar-monster.com...

Separate the name of the person (or thing) you are addressing from the rest of the sentence with a comma.

I hope this helps. It helped me get a more solid understanding of one comma use-case.

I think you misunderstand what I'm trying to say and focused on a facile reading of the words. I'm saying that it's unrealistic to expect all my employees to be at the same level of excellence of skill and competence. Therefore it makes sense to set up my environment so that I don't rely upon that unrealistic expectation and can still get good performance out of my team even if they're not all perfect. Please think a little deeper about what people have to say.

Dude, I second you entirely on this. Please re-read what I said in light of this. Expectations have to be realistic as much for a private company or for the army. Fact is, it is easier for private companies to be very selective with high expectations in a competitive environment as developers and software engineering. Every company wants the best candidate. Maybe they will get the pearl pristine one treasure. But most likely they will get someone more average in capabilities. And you are absolutely right, that managers have to set the bar at reality to begin with. My point was, that Army may not have as much choice and have to invest much more in education. Also because the kind of education army needs, is not taught in schools or universities. And I am pretty sure an army has more realistic expectations than any coding shop riding technology hypes and expecting junior developers to have unrealistic experience and abilities levels.

I think you misunderstand what I'm trying to say and focused on a facile reading of the words.

I'm saying that it's unrealistic to expect all my employees to be at the same level of excellence of skill and competence.
Therefore it makes sense to set up my environment so that I don't rely upon that unrealistic expectation and can still get good performance out of my team even if they're not all perfect.

Please think a little deeper about what people have to say.

With a block of voters, the voters would be grouped according to a common factor (e.g., the way they voted, their age, their class).
With a bloc of voters, the voters would have actively grouped themselves in order to have an effect towards a common interest.

Source:
http://grammar-monster.com/eas...

Yeah, I was curious too. I wasn't sure. I think they'd be a block in this case. That is, they'd be a block unless they actively grouped themselves together in order to get elect a certain candidate or similar. If they group intentionally, they're a bloc but, by default, they'd just be a block.

No. http://www.grammar-monster.com...

That's generally an American regionalism, that comes about mainly because it's not easy to do what we did in the pre-print era and stick both the quote superscript and the punctuation subscript in the same "slot".

So the weather will be raining, with clouds, and clear skies, snowing and dry the maximum temperature will be 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 etc degrees C and maximum wind speed will be 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 etc. Nuances in your version of English is quite simply bullshit. The definition was quite clear cut. http://www.grammar-monster.com... so five weather forecasts, five historical weather reports, want higher numbers, counting is going fine so far "Make the non-countable noun an adjective to a countable noun. For example:"

That really depends on where you live: http://www.grammar-monster.com...

I assume you're from the USA.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/looselose.html
http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/loose_lose.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Know-the-Difference-Between-Lose-and-Loose

It's is short for it is or it has. This is a 100% rule. It cannot be used for anything else. If you cannot expand it's to it is or it has, then it is wrong.

Its
Its is like his and her.

Read more at http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/its_its.htm#ofYKtpWvWVT8w4VO.99

Receiving Windows 8 as a Christmas gift should illicit a reaction like Chris Farley had

Plenty of things that Chris Farley did were illicit, but that word doesn't mean what you think it does..

In a list like this the writer upgrades the commas in the names to semicolons. You do respect the comma and use them in their more important role as list separators. It's not pretty, but it's right. It's not easy being an English Major.

I call shenanigans. Yeah, I have a writing degree too, and what you're saying contradicts Strunk and White, and just about every other style guide I've ever read. And it contradicts every English textbook I've ever read. I can't find a decent copy of The Elements of Style online -- the only versions I can find are the original written by William Strunk, before E. B. White jumped in and expanded the book. However, I found plenty of other grammar-related sites online that agree with me:

• Wikipedia (yes, I know, but bear with me): Use a semicolon between items in a series containing internal punctuation: "There are several Waffle Houses in Atlanta, Georgia; Greenville, South Carolina; Gainesville, Florida; and Mobile, Alabama."
• From Grammar Monster's English Grammar Lessons: "Items in lists are usually separated with commas (as in the first example below). However, if the list items themselves contain commas, then semicolons can be used as separators."
  Interestingly enough, this article does discuss "promoting" commas to semicolons, but indicates clearly that the commas being promoted are the ones in between the list items and not the ones inside the list items themselves.
• Grammar Girl's blog: "I don't want to confuse you, but there is one situation where you use semicolons with coordinating conjunctions, and that's when you are writing a list of items and commas just don't do the job of separating them all. Here's an example: 'This week's book winners are Herbie in Milligan College, Tennessee; Matt in Irvine, California; and Jan in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.' Those are the real winners in this week's special Scott Sigler book giveaway, and they've each won a copy of his novel Earthcore, but the list also provides a great example of using semicolons in a list. Because each item in the list requires a comma to separate the city from the state, you have to use a semicolon to separate the items themselves."
• How to use the semicolon properly: "When you have a series of three or more items that normally would be separated by commas except that each individual item already has a comma in it, you use the semicolon between items."
• The University Writing Center at UCF: "Semicolons also separate elements of a list, if those elements contain internal commas. Semicolons replace commas in a list if using commas would make the list more ambiguous."
• And finally, this terse guide from LEO at St. Cloud State University.

So since you're hiding behind Anonymous Coward, either (a) you're not really an English Major, or (b) you are one, but apparently lack the conviction of certitude in your answer to sign your "name" to it. And that list I gave above isn't even comprehensive, it's just what I managed to find after a few minutes of searching with Google. I will, however, point out that at least two of the citations I gave are from respected educational institutions.

You, on the other hand, indirectly claim to be an authority when it's not at all clear whether you're truly an expert or not.

Yes it is, o non compos mentis.

No it's not.

Nice Latin by the way. :-)