Mike Ippolito Posted September 28, 2014 Posted September 28, 2014 Want to see that product a little faster? Vote for us! by October 17th! - > http://shar.es/1azaDe < - UDI has applied for a Chase Small Business "Mission Street" grant. If we're awarded this grant we've committed 67% to go directly to R&D of new products, and another 27% just for inventory. Little known facts about UDI: Our lean core team has fewer people than our corporate office front stoop has stairs Between 1 am and 3:30 am Pacific time you probably wouldn't find one of us working. probably Our final assembly and programming is US based We built our products from scratch: OS, Hardware, Software. ISY actually stands for: Intelligent System Anyway... we're a hard working core group that could use a boost for product development. We're not owned by some venture capital firm, we've organically grown in the past 7 years. Please forward this on to your friends and family: the more votes we get by October 17th - the better chance of realizing our goals. Thank You!!! - UDI Team
cmccartney Posted September 28, 2014 Posted September 28, 2014 I would be happy to vote for your grant, however the voting web site requires a Facebook login. I do not have a Facebook account and am not interested in getting one, thank you very much! Craig
larryllix Posted September 28, 2014 Posted September 28, 2014 I would be happy to vote for your grant, however the voting web site requires a Facebook login. I do not have a Facebook account and am not interested in getting one, thank you very much! Craig ditto here. Facebook is evil and causes job loss (like I should care ) Wanna' do a private share offering?
paulbates Posted September 28, 2014 Posted September 28, 2014 Done. Thanks Mike, we appreciate your lean and forward thinking company 5. ISY actually stands for: (sorry can't give that one away) http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/6855-isy/?p=54487 Was this a treasure hunt? Do I get an ISY hat, or something?
Apogee50 Posted September 28, 2014 Posted September 28, 2014 I'm a Facebook ex, and plan to remain so. BTW, rules for less and fewer: If it can be counted: fewer If not: less e.g. Fewer steps. Fewer employees. Fewer bottles of beer. Fewer chips. Fewer circuits. Less beer, less sand (although fewer grains of sand), less circuitry, but fewer circuits. Less trouble, but fewer troubles. So, you have fewer employees and steps on the stoop! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
ravedog Posted September 29, 2014 Posted September 29, 2014 I'm a Facebook ex, and plan to remain so. BTW, rules for less and fewer: If it can be counted: fewer If not: less e.g. Fewer steps. Fewer employees. Fewer bottles of beer. Fewer chips. Fewer circuits. Less beer, less sand (although fewer grains of sand), less circuitry, but fewer circuits. Less trouble, but fewer troubles. So, you have fewer employees and steps on the stoop! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk i was gonna mention that but I always get accused of being a grammar nazi on the interwebs. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Michel Kohanim Posted September 29, 2014 Posted September 29, 2014 Apogee50 and ravedog, I do very much understand: whenever I see/hear "revert back", I have to try very hard not to make any comments. As such, I do very much appreciate your feedback. With kind regards, Michel
Apogee50 Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 Ravedog Hahaha. I was afraid of the same thing, but I just couldn't help myself. It's one of my missions in life. I even got the local supermarket chain to change their sign to 10 packages or fewer. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
stusviews Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 Although "fewer" is often preferred by traditionalists when referring to something countable, less is idiomatic in its usage. It is linguistically correct to say, "It costs less that $10," even though dollars/money can be counted or "We have less that 5 miles to go," or "In 25 words or less ... ." Hmm, how about "up to 10 items" or "no more that 10 items."
ravedog Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 I work at an affiliate network TV station... I'm afraid that less and fewer has become interchangeable. I can't tell you how many nation spots get it wrong. I understand that language is fluid and evolving, however.... REALLY? Big sigh Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Mike Ippolito Posted September 30, 2014 Author Posted September 30, 2014 Thanks for the votes, as far as my use of fewer / less. Sigh I'm going with Wikipedia's - use it / but it's not common, so don't explanation.... (Which is more confusing!) According to prescriptive grammar, "fewer" should be used (instead of "less") with nouns for countable objects and concepts (discretely quantifiable nouns or count nouns). According to this rule, "less" should be used only with a grammatically singular noun (including mass nouns). However, descriptive grammarians (who describe language as actually used) point out that this rule does not correctly describe the most common usage of today or the past and in fact arose as an incorrect generalization of a personal preference expressed by a grammarian in 1770.[1]
larryllix Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 Thanks for the votes, as far as my use of fewer / less. Sigh I'm going with Wikipedia's - use it / but it's not common, so don't explanation.... (Which is more confusing!) According to prescriptive grammar, "fewer" should be used (instead of "less") with nouns for countable objects and concepts (discretely quantifiable nouns or count nouns). According to this rule, "less" should be used only with a grammatically singular noun (including mass nouns). However, descriptive grammarians (who describe language as actually used) point out that this rule does not correctly describe the most common usage of today or the past and in fact arose as an incorrect generalization of a personal preference expressed by a grammarian in 1770.[1] Now write that into a program than we can use in the ISY less we forget why we are here. Something even your grammar and grampar can understand.
paulbates Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 Let's check in on what UD asked us to do to help them: This thread has had 210 views and 22 votes for UD, at the time of this post. This grant will help UD help us. All Chase is looking for in the vote is how plugged in each potential recipient (UD) is to social media as a way to raise awareness.
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