Where have you seen it said that plurals of standalone letters need an apostrophe? I've always used things like "ISPs" because there are no letters missing, or is anything being possessed.
But now the replacement Oxford Dictionaries Online firmly suggests to avoid the apostrophe except in a few special cases:
Apostrophes and plural forms
The general rule is that you should not use an apostrophe to form the plurals of nouns, abbreviations, or dates made up of numbers: just add -s (or -es, if the noun in question forms its plural with - es). For example: ... MP MPs (e.g. Local MPs are divided on this issue.)
1990 1990s (e.g. The situation was different in the 1990s.)
It's very important to remember this grammatical rule.
There are one or two cases in which it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to form a plural, purely for the sake of clarity: * you can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single letters: I've dotted the i's and crossed the t's. Find all the p's in appear. * you can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single numbers: Find all the number 7's.
So you're correct about single letters, but you don't use the same rule for single letters and multiple letters.
That said, it's all just a matter of style. Find a style you like and pick a guide that supports it.:-) I'm sure another guide (CMOS, AP, etc.) does it your way.
But no matter what, it fucking well ain't "ISPS".:-|
Main issue is being forced to do non-essential work you hate. As a kid, I could sit in an empty room and stare at the walls and daydream for hours instead of doing homework.
The only thing that keeps me doing actual work at my job is knowing that I like living in a house and eating food.
If you are a publisher and your web pages don't load fast, the sane solution is to fix your fucking website so that pages load fast, not to throw your hands up in the air and implement AMP.
He has written more about it in the past -- links are in that piece.
My kid watches tons of youtube (and I watch a fair amount) and I had been thinking about getting Red for a while so he won't see so many ads, and lucky me -- you get a free 3 months to start if you sign up now.
Parents, if your kids are going to watch youtube all summer anyway, at least you can prevent them from seeing quite so many ads.
Not a shill, just a happy customer.:-) youtube.com/red (See? A shill would have made that a clickable link.:D )
Fun fact: you are NOT a printed newspaper, where every inch is precious. You can use things like pronouns, articles, the word "is", etc. (Oh look, sometimes you do -- the very next post is "Stephen Hawking Says He Is Convinced That Humans Need To Leave Earth".)
Also, try to avoid slang. I'm not sure what is meant by "Apple Row Bites". I *think* it means they were hurt (bitten) by a fight (row) with Apple?
OK, now I see that you simply copied the headline from the source -- But You Capitalized Every Word And Made It Worse. Can you see how much easier this is to read? "Fallen tech star Imagination Technologies up for sale after Apple row bites" It's arguable if you should use title case or not, but it's DEFINITELY wrong to capitalize every word. When I first read the headline, I thought it meant that technologies belonging to Tech Star Imagination were up for sale.
> That my friend is the difference between you, and I (the peons) and the > CEOs of the world. The driven continue to be driven, not just by money, > but by their desire to create, innovate, and sometimes destroy.
BULL FUCKING SHIT. I *might* believe that for a *second* if they didn't ALSO get paid RIDICULOUS sums, REGARDLESS of their performance. Or did you miss the news that she will walk away with $186 million?
Show me an America CEO who makes within TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE what the average employee earns and I *might* believe that they're doing it for anything other than the money.
Think she doesn't like money? Maybe she'll share her newfound wealth with the 2,100 who were laid off last week. $186 million divided by 2,100 = $88,571 per employee.
Don't you fucking DARE tell me that she is more driven by a desire to create or innovate than any of those THOUSANDS of people -- that THEY were only driven by money. Becoming CEO is basically like winning the lottery.
By the way, she was already worth $540M last week.
Marissa Mayer CEO, Yahoo! 2017 AMERICA'S SELF-MADE WOMEN NET WORTH â" as of 6/8/17 $540 M
Add today's $186M and she's now around $720M. She's three-quarters of a BILLIONAIRE. But she's not driven by money -- just her desire to create and innovate. Gotcha. Too bad for the thousands of shallow, selfish former Yahoo employees who were only driven by money.
2 billion / 20 years = 100,000,000. Given that there are ~300M people in just the US alone, if 1/3 of them played 1 game per year, you'd hit that number in a reasonable time. On the one hand, I don't think 1/3 of people play chess; on the other hand, there are several billion people living elsewhere on Earth (I'm told) and I'm sure that many of the people who would bother to sign up to play online would play more than one game per year.
tl;dr 2 billion is not a lot if you're looking at usage by the whole planet for many years.
> The info on the worksheet was the production database > with an account containing full write access.
Then whoever wrote the docs should be fired. You should NEVER write docs with actual credentials. Not only should they be fake, they should be DESCRIPTIVE and fake, like YOUR_NAME_HERE and YOUR_PASSWORD.
I was looking forward to blowing through my 5GB monthly data cap in 40 seconds. Now I'll have to wait a whole additional year for Apple to deliver gigabit chips. (Oh, and then EIGHT years for carriers to ACTUALLY DELIVER speeds that high in more than just 2 cities in the country.)
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"Silicon Valley is on the decline..."
Citation needed. AFAIK everything in the Bay Area continues to get more expensive, not less. That is not a typical indication of "on the decline."
Call me when shit ACTUALLY goes down. Until then, it's like the old joke, "No one goes there anymore -- it's always too crowded."
In other news, why the fuck are all the tables in that article images?!?
"Do you have a large room that's practically empty? Targeted furniture ads might be quite effective."
Yeah, those will be super-effective, because all those people with giant, empty rooms probably aren't aware that a thing called "furniture" exists.
Fuckheads.
Makers is available to read online, in its entirety, free, from the author.
http://craphound.com/makers/Co...
https://gizmodo.com/check-out-...
Morons.
Where have you seen it said that plurals of standalone letters need an apostrophe? I've always used things like "ISPs" because there are no letters missing, or is anything being possessed.
https://english.stackexchange....
But now the replacement Oxford Dictionaries Online firmly suggests to avoid the apostrophe except in a few special cases:
Apostrophes and plural forms
The general rule is that you should not use an apostrophe to form the plurals of nouns, abbreviations, or dates made up of numbers: just add -s (or -es, if the noun in question forms its plural with - es). For example:
...
MP MPs (e.g. Local MPs are divided on this issue.)
1990 1990s (e.g. The situation was different in the 1990s.)
It's very important to remember this grammatical rule.
There are one or two cases in which it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to form a plural, purely for the sake of clarity:
* you can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single letters:
I've dotted the i's and crossed the t's. Find all the p's in appear.
* you can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single numbers:
Find all the number 7's.
So you're correct about single letters, but you don't use the same rule for single letters and multiple letters.
That said, it's all just a matter of style. Find a style you like and pick a guide that supports it. :-) I'm sure another guide (CMOS, AP, etc.) does it your way.
But no matter what, it fucking well ain't "ISPS". :-|
"What are the lesser-known roles of the IT department?"
Easy. If it runs on electricity and it isn't a lightbulb, toaster, microwave, or HVAC, it's IT.
Wait, let me roll that back -- I did have to tell someone once how the microwave works.
... because the plural of "ISP" is ISPs.
Score one for correlation vs. causation.
https://xkcd.com/552/
Donations to the EFF are (U.S.) tax-deductible and, if you work for a big company, probably eligible for donation matching.
Main issue is being forced to do non-essential work you hate. As a kid, I could sit in an empty room and stare at the walls and daydream for hours instead of doing homework.
The only thing that keeps me doing actual work at my job is knowing that I like living in a house and eating food.
It's Google -- they'll change it again in a couple years.
... Gruber has written specifically about AMP. https://daringfireball.net/lin...
If you are a publisher and your web pages don't load fast, the sane solution is to fix your fucking website so that pages load fast, not to throw your hands up in the air and implement AMP.
He has written more about it in the past -- links are in that piece.
My kid watches tons of youtube (and I watch a fair amount) and I had been thinking about getting Red for a while so he won't see so many ads, and lucky me -- you get a free 3 months to start if you sign up now.
Parents, if your kids are going to watch youtube all summer anyway, at least you can prevent them from seeing quite so many ads.
Not a shill, just a happy customer. :-) youtube.com/red (See? A shill would have made that a clickable link. :D )
Here's a thing about Red + Music: https://www.imore.com/google-p...
please fix, kthxbye.
Fun fact: you are NOT a printed newspaper, where every inch is precious. You can use things like pronouns, articles, the word "is", etc. (Oh look, sometimes you do -- the very next post is "Stephen Hawking Says He Is Convinced That Humans Need To Leave Earth".)
Also, try to avoid slang. I'm not sure what is meant by "Apple Row Bites". I *think* it means they were hurt (bitten) by a fight (row) with Apple?
OK, now I see that you simply copied the headline from the source -- But You Capitalized Every Word And Made It Worse. Can you see how much easier this is to read? "Fallen tech star Imagination Technologies up for sale after Apple row bites" It's arguable if you should use title case or not, but it's DEFINITELY wrong to capitalize every word. When I first read the headline, I thought it meant that technologies belonging to Tech Star Imagination were up for sale.
Since "in addition to layoffs that were announced in early May; the total workforce reduction comes in at 22 percent."
I know it's hard, but next time read the WHOLE summary before posting. Remember: post from the brain, not the spinal cord.
Because "big change" and "bold thinking" never lead to projects going over budget.
But hey, there's no headlines in saying "We're encouraging our agencies to consider consolidating services over the next five years."
"It provided the model... that the computer industry spent the next 15 years catching up to."
And Xerox didn't sell it for those intervening 15 years because....?
* Favorite kind of pet
* Favorite ice cream flavor
Don't waste money on shit like this. You'll sleep better.
> That my friend is the difference between you, and I (the peons) and the
> CEOs of the world. The driven continue to be driven, not just by money,
> but by their desire to create, innovate, and sometimes destroy.
BULL FUCKING SHIT. I *might* believe that for a *second* if they didn't ALSO get paid RIDICULOUS sums, REGARDLESS of their performance. Or did you miss the news that she will walk away with $186 million?
Show me an America CEO who makes within TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE what the average employee earns and I *might* believe that they're doing it for anything other than the money.
Think she doesn't like money? Maybe she'll share her newfound wealth with the 2,100 who were laid off last week. $186 million divided by 2,100 = $88,571 per employee.
Or share some with these people. (Feb 2016)
Or these people. (April 2015)
Or these people. (June 2013)
Don't you fucking DARE tell me that she is more driven by a desire to create or innovate than any of those THOUSANDS of people -- that THEY were only driven by money. Becoming CEO is basically like winning the lottery.
By the way, she was already worth $540M last week.
Add today's $186M and she's now around $720M. She's three-quarters of a BILLIONAIRE. But she's not driven by money -- just her desire to create and innovate. Gotcha. Too bad for the thousands of shallow, selfish former Yahoo employees who were only driven by money.
$ whois chess.com
Domain Name: CHESS.COM
Creation Date: 11-aug-1994
2 billion / 20 years = 100,000,000. Given that there are ~300M people in just the US alone, if 1/3 of them played 1 game per year, you'd hit that number in a reasonable time. On the one hand, I don't think 1/3 of people play chess; on the other hand, there are several billion people living elsewhere on Earth (I'm told) and I'm sure that many of the people who would bother to sign up to play online would play more than one game per year.
tl;dr 2 billion is not a lot if you're looking at usage by the whole planet for many years.
> The info on the worksheet was the production database
> with an account containing full write access.
Then whoever wrote the docs should be fired. You should NEVER write docs with actual credentials. Not only should they be fake, they should be DESCRIPTIVE and fake, like YOUR_NAME_HERE and YOUR_PASSWORD.
I was looking forward to blowing through my 5GB monthly data cap in 40 seconds. Now I'll have to wait a whole additional year for Apple to deliver gigabit chips. (Oh, and then EIGHT years for carriers to ACTUALLY DELIVER speeds that high in more than just 2 cities in the country.)
I'm in my 40s, and I quit caring what network had what when I got my first TiVo about 15 years ago.
We're not doing your legwork for you.