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Apparently it takes one . . .

"It's" = "it is." "Its" = the possessive pronoun. As in:

"Apple's Mac operating system market share continues it's upward move . . . ."

What the hell are the English teachers of the world DOING with their time?

Apparently all the English teachers are studying Mac's upward market share trend and investing in Apple stock. Oh? Should they be helping kids? Nah...more important things to do.

Sigh.....(and my apologies to those few teachers out there who are true gems. I am sad their numbers are dwndling).

Someone's in for a world of hurt.

My boys'll take care of them, after they're through pummeling Towertone.

All the way up to 5.39%. Wow.

Children, let's not forget that data are plural!

Ooooooohhhhh, charts!

"What the hell are the English teachers of the world DOING with their time?"

Teaching multicultural tolerance seminars and leading self-esteem exercises. The kids are ignorant, but they feel good about themselves.

I can hear the chairs flying in Redmond already!

Welcome to the Social.. err. chairfight.

BMW's market share hovers right around 5% too.

As long as the Grammar Police are out...

Data can be either singlular or plural. Both are acceptable. Check it out.

"What the hell are the English teachers of the world DOING with their time?"

Well, since it's impossible to make any money with an English Lit degree, English teachers have been largely delegated as "surplus employees" and so, when not just fired out-of-hand, they are assigned essential positions in W's "No Child Left Behind" initiative. They check buses, bathrooms, locker rooms and the like to make sure that at the end of the day, no child is left behind and all return home safely. Some are even sent on field trips to make sure the head count when the kids get back on the bus matches the head count when they first arrived at the field trip site.

It's a well-known fact that all the obligations of the No Child Left Behind Act fall squarely on the shoulders of our English teachers -- if you didn't know that, you gotta stop reading MDN and check the newspapers sometime.

Rocket Scientist, et al:

I'm very happy for you and your correctness. It must feel very good.

You bitch about the teacher when the student gets it wrong, then turn right around and preach personal resposibility.

You think that because you've flown in an airplane many times that you're qualified to redesign the national air traffic control systems.

That is why our numbers are dwindling.

Sheesh. I miss Ampar.

btw, I like the BMW analogy--I use it a lot (and Porsche as well).

"Data can be either singlular or plural. Both are acceptable. Check it out."

Yeah, but that's only because Data's brother was named Lore. If they had both been named "Data", then one of them would have been named "Datum" and the other "Datum".

Zune,
Been meaning to ask you: wouldn't it have been cooler if it was "\/\/31c0m3 2 teh 50zhu11!!11!eleventy!1!1!" or something like that? What is up with MSFT marketing?

"Yeah, but that's only because Data's brother was named Lore."

AAAAHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHA!



That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! Finelinebob's da man!

I will pummel, with stinging rhetoric, the first person to correct the spelling of "Lore!"

Bond:

"You think that because you've flown in an airplane many times that you're qualified to redesign the national air traffic control systems.
That is why our numbers are dwindling."

We're experiencing massive population losses from airline crashes due to air traffic control systems designed by das Grammar Gestapo? I guess I need to read the newspapers, too.

MW: Seriously, more effort is needed by students, not teachers, if you expect our populace to be literate.

It's amazing that there was a report put out in the news media just last month that claimed students were stressed out (oooh, so bad!) because they had too much homework and didn't have enough time to do it all.

Bad teachers! Bad schools!

This comes on the heels of a report that the average American school kid spends 5 hours a day watching TV or playing video games.

(tapping his club)

Heeerre Towetone... Heeeerrre boy!
Where could you be... ?
Come on out, little Towertone Tone
with your sweet little grammatical errors ....

Re: Buster.

The singular of data is datum.

Only slackers use data as both singular and plural.

Zune Tang, Sputnik, Reality Check:

Care to comment on this article?...

What is being described is not "market share" but is rather "installed base." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installed_base

The data presented is not about market share. "Market share" is only about sales. You do remember that Apple doesn't currently sell any Macs that aren't Intel-based. You cannot possibly have data about market share of non-Intel Macs unless you're talking about previously-owned Macs that were resold--an atypical topic to write an article about. Additionally, how can you provide any data about current sales by analyzing web traffic?

Ha ha! Buster incorrectly spelled dwindling! Ha ha ha ha!

Ha ha! Buster said Mac's upward market share. He should have said Apple's! Ha ha ha ha!

The data are in: Data is plural. Datum is singular.