It's technically correct (the best kind of correct) that you can show possession with simply an apostrophe for singular nouns ending in an 'ess' sound.
The trick is you have to be consistent about it. (You can't start with "Daily Kos' pollster" and later use "Daily Kos's editor".)
It's more of a guideline than a rule to use the succeeding 's.'
However, I will say that leaving the 's' off would likely be a depreciated style if this was a standards documentation.
I don't get that. "Daily Kos Pollster" is the pollster used by the website "Daily Kos". If you read the story, Kos was defrauded by the pollster.
But it doesn't emphasise the pollster was a third party. Replace 'Daily Kos' with 'Fox News' or 'MSNBC' and see how it can be (mis)interpreted.
If you need the DK reference, then 'Pollster for Daily Kos...' is better as it implies more a working relationship rather than part of the organization.
Or they could have just said 'Research 2000 Makes Up Poll Numbers' Don't know who R2K is? RTFS.
I am arguing that they should leave homebrew alone because they should pay their engineers to ADD features to the Wii instead of wasting their time trying to stop the unstoppable.
Course, we don't know what happens behind the scenes. Perhaps they have to show token attempts to stop homebrew to make other publishers and developers happy, and perhaps that's why, when they do these updates, they make the attacks targeted and weak.
Face the facts, the hackers have done more to empower the Wii than Nintendo's own engineers. And that's just sad.
In your opinion.
I'm perfectly happy letting my Wii just play the games I get for it.
*and the reason it's a Netflix disc is to get around Netflix's contract with Microsoft. The PS3 needs a disc as well. I've used it, but I'd be fine without it. It still doesn't feel like a media center.
It's only a burning passion for about 3 days, then all the homebrew community gets their updates and everything's hunky dory for another 5+ months before the next menu update.
Seriously. Look at the frequency of Wii Menu updates. 8 over 3 years.
Homebrew's practically ignored as it is. Since the Wii came out there have been EIGHT Menu updates.
Eight.
Let's think about this: 3 years, 8 updates.
With an always on connection, you'd think (if Nintendo was venemently anti-homebrew) they'd push patches out every time there was a new crack. They clearly have not. It almost seems more like token breaking: "Oh, well, we broke it now. See? We're doing our part, other publishers. We'll come back in another 5 months and break it again in an utterly trivial matter like last time."
Microsoft is actually the least oppressive console maker this generation. It's easiest to get indie games onto the platform (XNA) and they haven't taken away any functionality with dashboard updates at all.
What advertised functionality has Nintendo removed with menu updates?
None of that is compelling, especially compared to streaming media over WiFi and USB, playing DVDs, running apps that can apply patches on-the-fly so that you can add your own textures to the game...
So I have to ask...why do you want the Wii to do that?
It's like asking why can't my toaster also make my coffee? Sure, the toaster was never advertized as a coffee maker, but it should do that because I want it to.
It sounds to me like you want an HTPC, which the Wii was most definatly not marketed as.
I want my toaster to make coffee as well, and I don't want to get another piece of kit because I already have a toaster and it should do everything I want it to.
Or you can accept the fact that sometimes hardware has limitations and you need to get another piece of kit.
It's not like these updates are regular though. Over the past 3.5 years there have been 8 menu updates. I wouldn't exactly call that "repeatedly failing" or giving the impression that there's engineers at work pushing updates out every instant there's a new crack. In fact, it practically demonstrates the opposite.
Nintendo apparently views the Wii as a game console. Not a media center (or, as Phil Harrison called the PS3, a replacement for the PC.) That keeps their focus small. They don't have to worry about media playback reliability because they don't advertise it. They don't have to worry about alternate OSes because they don't support it. They don't have to licence DVD playback because they don't advertise it.
If you want a media center, get one. Nintendo's perfectly happy to let you go elsewhere for your media center needs. Who are you to question their business model?
What's really amazing is how quickly the Republican bullet point reversed after Barton's gaffe.
Even Michelle Bachmann came out in favor of the "government shakedown" (quotes per Barton) not three days after saying it was an unconstitutional abuse of power.
Slashdot Mirror
If you took your car in to get an oil change and your mechanic mucked it up, are you to blame for the damage?
On matters of opinion and ideology, well, it's a political blog. What exactly is an "accurate" opinion?
"Mine."
It's technically correct (the best kind of correct) that you can show possession with simply an apostrophe for singular nouns ending in an 'ess' sound.
The trick is you have to be consistent about it. (You can't start with "Daily Kos' pollster" and later use "Daily Kos's editor".)
It's more of a guideline than a rule to use the succeeding 's.'
However, I will say that leaving the 's' off would likely be a depreciated style if this was a standards documentation.
I know, I know, sarcasm, but I just couldn't help think of this:
http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2009/12/fox-news-120-have-opinion-on-climate-research-pic.html
And if Diebold scored it:
24% Funny
10% Insightful
15% Interesting
51% Republican
The British Civil Service under Sir Humphrey Appleby.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gMcZic1d4U
I don't get that. "Daily Kos Pollster" is the pollster used by the website "Daily Kos". If you read the story, Kos was defrauded by the pollster.
But it doesn't emphasise the pollster was a third party. Replace 'Daily Kos' with 'Fox News' or 'MSNBC' and see how it can be (mis)interpreted.
If you need the DK reference, then 'Pollster for Daily Kos...' is better as it implies more a working relationship rather than part of the organization.
Or they could have just said 'Research 2000 Makes Up Poll Numbers' Don't know who R2K is? RTFS.
I googled that for you:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/use-of-likely-voter-model-does-not.html
First one, then the other.
On the other hand, equaling it to zero gives you the binary numbers.
Personally, though, it really boils down to my dislike of the "= -" bit. Just looks cluttered.
While factually correct, there's a certain elegance making it equate to zero.
I believe GP was referring to the missing close parenthesis...
Except this isn't an article, this is a paragraph summary.
Do we also need US Supreme Court defined? Patent? Why it's a Supreme Court case?
The key point here is "Bilski decided by Supreme Court." Anything else is superfluous in the paragraph because this is not about 'what Bilski is.'
I am arguing that they should leave homebrew alone because they should pay their engineers to ADD features to the Wii instead of wasting their time trying to stop the unstoppable.
Course, we don't know what happens behind the scenes. Perhaps they have to show token attempts to stop homebrew to make other publishers and developers happy, and perhaps that's why, when they do these updates, they make the attacks targeted and weak.
Face the facts, the hackers have done more to empower the Wii than Nintendo's own engineers. And that's just sad.
In your opinion.
I'm perfectly happy letting my Wii just play the games I get for it.
*and the reason it's a Netflix disc is to get around Netflix's contract with Microsoft. The PS3 needs a disc as well. I've used it, but I'd be fine without it. It still doesn't feel like a media center.
By Odin's beard, the world scares me sometimes.
Fine, add a blender or a rotary sander to that...
It's only a burning passion for about 3 days, then all the homebrew community gets their updates and everything's hunky dory for another 5+ months before the next menu update.
Seriously. Look at the frequency of Wii Menu updates. 8 over 3 years.
Homebrew's practically ignored as it is. Since the Wii came out there have been EIGHT Menu updates.
Eight.
Let's think about this: 3 years, 8 updates.
With an always on connection, you'd think (if Nintendo was venemently anti-homebrew) they'd push patches out every time there was a new crack. They clearly have not. It almost seems more like token breaking: "Oh, well, we broke it now. See? We're doing our part, other publishers. We'll come back in another 5 months and break it again in an utterly trivial matter like last time."
Microsoft is actually the least oppressive console maker this generation. It's easiest to get indie games onto the platform (XNA) and they haven't taken away any functionality with dashboard updates at all.
What advertised functionality has Nintendo removed with menu updates?
I'd say Nintendo is up there with Sony when it comes to screwing people over.
How do you figure, sports fan?
None of that is compelling, especially compared to streaming media over WiFi and USB, playing DVDs, running apps that can apply patches on-the-fly so that you can add your own textures to the game...
So I have to ask...why do you want the Wii to do that?
It's like asking why can't my toaster also make my coffee? Sure, the toaster was never advertized as a coffee maker, but it should do that because I want it to.
It sounds to me like you want an HTPC, which the Wii was most definatly not marketed as.
...or when it is the only device you have.
I want my toaster to make coffee as well, and I don't want to get another piece of kit because I already have a toaster and it should do everything I want it to.
Or you can accept the fact that sometimes hardware has limitations and you need to get another piece of kit.
It's not like these updates are regular though. Over the past 3.5 years there have been 8 menu updates. I wouldn't exactly call that "repeatedly failing" or giving the impression that there's engineers at work pushing updates out every instant there's a new crack. In fact, it practically demonstrates the opposite.
Nintendo apparently views the Wii as a game console. Not a media center (or, as Phil Harrison called the PS3, a replacement for the PC.) That keeps their focus small. They don't have to worry about media playback reliability because they don't advertise it. They don't have to worry about alternate OSes because they don't support it. They don't have to licence DVD playback because they don't advertise it.
If you want a media center, get one. Nintendo's perfectly happy to let you go elsewhere for your media center needs. Who are you to question their business model?
Digital clocks aren't right twice a day if they're broken.
What's really amazing is how quickly the Republican bullet point reversed after Barton's gaffe.
Even Michelle Bachmann came out in favor of the "government shakedown" (quotes per Barton) not three days after saying it was an unconstitutional abuse of power.
Our rules got us into this mess.
Maybe if we required redundant BOPs with an acoustic shutoff...course, if that was the case we likely wouldn't be having this discussion.