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Motley Fool Writes Off Microsoft
The Vista disaster has caught Wall Street's attention before but I've never seen the popular press understand the issues like this argument in the Motley Fool. The opposing argument is a weak statement of faith, essentially "as it was in the beginning is now and forever shall be." "You don't need to watch the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' commercials to see that Microsoft is taking a beating. You see it in the company's financials where its online unit, incredibly, is operating at a loss; overheating Xbox 360 consoles find the company taking a huge warranty hit for a system losing market share to the Wii; and the upgrade wave of its flagship operating system has been more of a ripple than a tsunami. That last point is important. This was supposed to be Microsoft's final feast, the major last hurrah for its Windows Vista operating entry and its Office 2007 suite of applications before the inevitable embrace of cheaper open source operating systems and Web-based apps... In fact, even Microsoft will tell you that its fortunes peaked several months ago."
It's scary that I get your sig (well, part of it at least). My kids love that book! Heck, I like it too. It _is_ Dr Seuss, after all.
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In fact a remarkable row of those apostrophes, can't remember if I ever saw such an example. This spelling manie keeps astonishing me as I saw it rise in two different languages at the same time. In Germany it's nicknamed Dummenapostroph (dumm = stupid, silly) and quite common on signs and restaurant menues especially in the countryside, East Germany, parts of town with less then average concentration of higher education. A common explanation points to the heavy pressure English exercises on German, with ads, music, tv, professional idioms more and more turning to a mixed language with lots of English (or quasi-English) nouns and adjectives glued together with German grammar and particles. So the theory is that many people in Germany get less sure about what there own language is and how it should be written, mistaking the saxon genitive as the new and cool way to write the letter "s". Among my favourites of this mess was "Bab'si's Ei's-Cafe" (apparently Babsi the first name of the owner of that ice&coffe shop) but seem's ... becau'se ... pay's sort of beats that. And falsifies said theory, unless we assume that by some strange magic there is a feedback influence. Rupert Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields applied to linguistics?
605413? Yes, it's a prime.