It's not a "misspelling," it's a recognized and widely accepted shortened form and has been around (so the Merriam-Webster people say) since at least 1824.
And frankly, the word "perk" is what most people would see or hear; I see "perk" (meaning a boon) in all sorts of formal (legal, business) and journalistic writing, far more often than even "perquisite." Perhaps the most obvious being The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Welcome to English, where word origins are not necessarily reflected in spelling.
It can be true without being either "news" or "a scoop" in Apple's eyes. Apple may just consider it to be a normal artist debut on iTunes, something that, in Apple's eyes, happens several times a day.
In Microsoft's case, the goal of keeping "secret" APIs was pretty clear: whoever controls the Windows browser market, controls the browser market, period.
I can just see Steve Jobs rubbing his hands and gloating to his minions..."Yes, and with Firefox handicapped, we will have five percent of the browser market all to ourselves! Ours...all ours! Muahahahaha!"
..how, whenever Apple fucks something up, Slashdot fills up with comments taking shots at the "Apple Fanboys" and their supposed zealous defense of Apple.
"Just wait, the Apple Fanboys will blame this all on Microsoft" "But all the fanboys said this was unpossible!" "Ooh, the fanboys will be crying over this one!"
Although airborne transmission between monkeys has been demonstrated by an accidental outbreak in a laboratory located in Virginia, USA, there is very limited evidence for human-to-human airborne transmission in any reported epidemics. Nurse Mayinga might represent the only possible case. The means by which she contracted the virus remains uncertain.
No citations, but it's about what I remember from reading The Hot Zone.
In early '93 IBM Germany started a big campaign to get OS/2 to the public. You could get OS/2 2.0 for a more or less symbolic sum (I don't remember how much it was, but quite inexpensive), with a cheap upgrade to OS/2 2.1 coming out shortly after it. And it really rocked. Then Warp (3.0) came, even better. But then the Internet came. For Windows (3.x) at the time you had to use Trumpet Winsock, which sucked but at least was there. Warp had a dial-up client, but no real LAN TCP/IP functionality. The TCP/IP stack had to be purchased separately. Expensively. But even if you wanted to, there was no way to get it: IBM sold its OS/2 add-ons only through their local partners, which just were not interested to send some guy who didn't want to purchase an entire network from them a quote over a one software package for a measly 300 EUR.
I suspect that OS/2 failed was that resellers apparently priced it in a currency that was not in circulation at the time...
Or, at least, it's going to be such a huge amount of work to bring it natively to Intel that it's not worth it to MS.
At one time in the past, Microsoft considered it worthwhile to port VBA from Intel and Win32 to PowerPC and the Classic Mac Toolbox.
Today, it's too much effort to either 1) update the existing VBA engine or 2. Replicate the previous clean-sheet effort. Despite the fact that the Mac is growing in market share, and Office sales are very healthy--something that could hardly be said back in the late '90s when VBA was brought over.
I assure you, moving VBA from Win32+x86 to Classic Toolbox + PPC was a much bigger technical challenge than it would be to do the same on the modern Mac architecture. There is only one reason why Microsoft is no longer willing to do so. VBA is established and is ready to serve its purpose as a mechanism of lock-in.
Before this law, cablecos & telcos who wanted to provide service would have to negotiate (and pay kickbacks) to each and every locality. Now, they can do it all at once.
This way, there's only one big authorization (and one big kickback!) and a competitor can start rolling out service in the entire state. No seperate deals required for Cleveland and Canton and--whoops, Cincinnati has signed an exclusive agreement with another provider, so we can't roll it out there...
Now, this doesn't change the fact that there are all sorts of other barriers to entry...but it does help with some of the red tape.
How would you like it if your cellular carrier did things this way?
"Hi Bob! Hi, Christine! It's me, Sameer, with AT&T. I hate to drop in like this, but Bob's about to run out of minutes for this month. So you two love birds had better wrap it up, or Bob'll be paying our standard $0.45-per-minute rate!"
...In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies. For example, "the team is in the dressing room" (formal agreement) refers to the team as an ensemble, whilst "the team are fighting among themselves" (notional agreement) refers to the team as individuals.
In American English, collective nouns usually take singular verb forms (formal agreement). In cases where a metonymic shift would be otherwise revealed nearby, the whole sentence may be recast to avoid the metonymy. (For example, "the team are fighting among themselves" may become "the team members are fighting among themselves" or "the team is fighting [period]".) See American and British English differences - Formal and notional agreement.
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go to business school, or pursue higher education.
I love the implied dichotomy there.
On the contrary, if we give them less money, they will have less power
Oh, yeah, sure. After all, the government can't spend money it doesn't have.
The original Enterprise was always supposedly built in San Francisco. Why they picked that city, I don't know.
The longest, most insightful, and least funny Soviet Russia joke I've ever seen on Slashdot.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perk
It's not a "misspelling," it's a recognized and widely accepted shortened form and has been around (so the Merriam-Webster people say) since at least 1824.
And frankly, the word "perk" is what most people would see or hear; I see "perk" (meaning a boon) in all sorts of formal (legal, business) and journalistic writing, far more often than even "perquisite." Perhaps the most obvious being The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Welcome to English, where word origins are not necessarily reflected in spelling.
It can be true without being either "news" or "a scoop" in Apple's eyes. Apple may just consider it to be a normal artist debut on iTunes, something that, in Apple's eyes, happens several times a day.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/image
In Microsoft's case, the goal of keeping "secret" APIs was pretty clear: whoever controls the Windows browser market, controls the browser market, period.
I can just see Steve Jobs rubbing his hands and gloating to his minions..."Yes, and with Firefox handicapped, we will have five percent of the browser market all to ourselves! Ours...all ours! Muahahahaha!"
Germany has ID cards, too. You don't see any people being executed here, though.
Parent is begging to be Goodwined.
Before I go on, yes, I work for IBM.
... enabler for middleware document services...
Yeah, we can tell by the way you said
Nobody else can spin out buzzwords like that!
The best software is the software that, given a reasonable choice, folks choose both choose to write and choose to use.
So, Windows, then?
Which is why I said, "A notch behind most of Europe & Oceania, but slightly ahead of France and Spain."
Where "behind" means " in a secondary or inferior position" and "ahead" means "in or toward a more advantageous position."
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A notch behind most of Europe & Oceania, but slightly ahead of France and Spain.
Oh, really? Where does it mention Apple at all?
..how, whenever Apple fucks something up, Slashdot fills up with comments taking shots at the "Apple Fanboys" and their supposed zealous defense of Apple.
"Just wait, the Apple Fanboys will blame this all on Microsoft"
"But all the fanboys said this was unpossible!"
"Ooh, the fanboys will be crying over this one!"
I've yet to actually see one of these fanboys.
No citations, but it's about what I remember from reading The Hot Zone.
In early '93 IBM Germany started a big campaign to get OS/2 to the public. You could get OS/2 2.0 for a more or less symbolic sum (I don't remember how much it was, but quite inexpensive), with a cheap upgrade to OS/2 2.1 coming out shortly after it. And it really rocked. Then Warp (3.0) came, even better. But then the Internet came. For Windows (3.x) at the time you had to use Trumpet Winsock, which sucked but at least was there. Warp had a dial-up client, but no real LAN TCP/IP functionality. The TCP/IP stack had to be purchased separately. Expensively. But even if you wanted to, there was no way to get it: IBM sold its OS/2 add-ons only through their local partners, which just were not interested to send some guy who didn't want to purchase an entire network from them a quote over a one software package for a measly 300 EUR.
I suspect that OS/2 failed was that resellers apparently priced it in a currency that was not in circulation at the time...
Or, at least, it's going to be such a huge amount of work to bring it natively to Intel that it's not worth it to MS.
At one time in the past, Microsoft considered it worthwhile to port VBA from Intel and Win32 to PowerPC and the Classic Mac Toolbox.
Today, it's too much effort to either 1) update the existing VBA engine or 2. Replicate the previous clean-sheet effort. Despite the fact that the Mac is growing in market share, and Office sales are very healthy--something that could hardly be said back in the late '90s when VBA was brought over.
I assure you, moving VBA from Win32+x86 to Classic Toolbox + PPC was a much bigger technical challenge than it would be to do the same on the modern Mac architecture. There is only one reason why Microsoft is no longer willing to do so. VBA is established and is ready to serve its purpose as a mechanism of lock-in.
You're not supposed to admit that on Slashdot!
Just a question...how do you measure murder cases? Number of victims?
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...that .Net was a clone of Java.
This is not an exclusive arrangement.
Before this law, cablecos & telcos who wanted to provide service would have to negotiate (and pay kickbacks) to each and every locality. Now, they can do it all at once.
This way, there's only one big authorization (and one big kickback!) and a competitor can start rolling out service in the entire state. No seperate deals required for Cleveland and Canton and--whoops, Cincinnati has signed an exclusive agreement with another provider, so we can't roll it out there...
Now, this doesn't change the fact that there are all sorts of other barriers to entry...but it does help with some of the red tape.
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How would you like it if your cellular carrier did things this way?
"Hi Bob! Hi, Christine! It's me, Sameer, with AT&T. I hate to drop in like this, but Bob's about to run out of minutes for this month. So you two love birds had better wrap it up, or Bob'll be paying our standard $0.45-per-minute rate!"