Ok, motorbike is different, and maybe Swiss traffic is not as bad as some other parts of Europe (I've not driven there since the 1970s, recently it's all been UK, Netherlands, France and Germany. Oh, and Corfu and Cyprus, but they don't count because you can't go far without running off the end.
It's about 3 hours in UK traffic, and would cost me about £15 in fuel; I don't think Swizerland is that different. But don't forget, that's each way, so it's 6 hours and £30 (almost doubling the likely cost of the game). If I left after work then the store would be closed by the time I got there, so it's a big chunk out of the weekend. So sure, gamers will still be able to get the games, but they won't have any time left to play them. Result! (For the censors, anyway).
"Relatively short drive"? If you live in Berne, Multimap is giving me over 100 miles each way to get to a likely town outside Swizerland. Man, you've got to really want that game!
Really. I can see a news report of a promise two years ago to make that available within a year for people with school age children, but I can't see any sign of it actually being available.
And you end up with a cluster of devices, because it ends up with the books you want not all being available on the same device. Another triumph for market forces.
YES! Where he used caps implies emphasis in speech. People who complain about this don't know how to read. They can't read something and HEAR the speech emphasis in their mind. So they complain and look stupid.
People who write like that don't know how to format stuff here, so they look stupid.
There may also be a somewhat desirable precedent to be set: specifically, that society, of which businesses are a part, simply shouldn't get itself tied up with draconian dress and style codes. Sometimes, rules are in place due to legitimate health and safety concerns; sometimes, security concerns apply. Hoods may seem silly to some, but what about long hair (on men), beards, or bare feet?
And it's security concerns here. Job Centre staff are a target of violence, and a job centre is one of those place where I think security cameras are justified and face-covering garments should be banned. The problem isn't that a Jedi was asked to remove his hood, it's that others, such as those wearing the niqab, are not asked to remove them.
That was the alleged response of the Tesco supermarket when faced with a similar situation. 'A Tesco spokesman said: "We would ask Jedis to remove hoods. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all went hoodless without going to the Dark Side."'
A much better, not to mention more informed, response than the Job Centre's. I know it's reported in The Sun, but I do hope it was true.
"ZOOGBERGER", caps and all, is not an English word no matter how much I tell you it is. It could theoretically eventually become part of the language, but it isn't now.
With my linguists hat on I feel that I have to point out that it is an English word, specifically an English nonce word (nothing to do with the prison slang meaning of "nonce") by virtue of you using it in the context that you did. But that's a technicality and doesn't detract from the point you were making.
What's a "recognized religion"? Here in the UK, the only religion afforded any kind of official status is Anglican Christianity. The only thing (AFAIS) differentiating Islam from Jediism is the number of people who claim to follow said religion.
Not even close to true.
Firstly, the Church of England (Episcopalian) is only the state church of England. The Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) and the Church in Wales (Episcopalian) have "official status" as the national (not state) churches of Scotland and Wales. I'm not sure whether the Church of Ireland (Episcopalian) has "official status".
Secondly, and more significantly, many religions and denominations get UK tax breaks by virtue of their religious status, which is the sort of "official status" that really matters to them (although it may be under threat at the moment). That is a very significant thing separating Islam (which I understand does get the tax breaks) and Jedism (which doesn't).
I have been utterly scathing of the ribbon interface here in the past, but I appreciate that most of us don't get our names recognised so you weren't to know that.
You need to remove or conceal the features that are rarely used.
Goodness, where have you been? If you conceal features then you get pestered with tech support calls and requests to implement stuff that's already there! What you should do is dump everything on the UI all the time in a ribbon across the top (remembering to license it from MS). The user sucks bigtime, but users can't complain about not being able to find anything because it's all there in plain view, so they know they'll be made to feel stupid if they query your design.
Human-Computer interaction was an option (which I took) on my postgrad CS course. What I think we're showing is that some programmers do know a bit about UI -- although what I think I know is "enough to talk intelligently to a human-factors expert", not to do it myself.
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Ok, motorbike is different, and maybe Swiss traffic is not as bad as some other parts of Europe (I've not driven there since the 1970s, recently it's all been UK, Netherlands, France and Germany. Oh, and Corfu and Cyprus, but they don't count because you can't go far without running off the end.
It's about 3 hours in UK traffic, and would cost me about £15 in fuel; I don't think Swizerland is that different. But don't forget, that's each way, so it's 6 hours and £30 (almost doubling the likely cost of the game). If I left after work then the store would be closed by the time I got there, so it's a big chunk out of the weekend. So sure, gamers will still be able to get the games, but they won't have any time left to play them. Result! (For the censors, anyway).
Try driving 100 miles in European traffic and you'll see why.
Not everything. Not cheese or chocolate.
"Relatively short drive"? If you live in Berne, Multimap is giving me over 100 miles each way to get to a likely town outside Swizerland. Man, you've got to really want that game!
The cuckoo clock is German, not Swiss.
It's democracy in action. Don't like democracy when the vote doesn't go the way you like, then?
I didn't write a "citation needed" comment. See that line that says "by"? There's something there called a "usename" which might give you a clue.
Really. I can see a news report of a promise two years ago to make that available within a year for people with school age children, but I can't see any sign of it actually being available.
Ebooks have been around for a while now, and the selection is still poor and overpriced. How long is this going to take?
And you end up with a cluster of devices, because it ends up with the books you want not all being available on the same device. Another triumph for market forces.
Competition from a new contender that is known to be a strong player causes the strongest early market entrant to throw a hissy fit, news at a 11.
Until I can actually BUY an e-book, not rent them for life, the entire market will remain irrelevant to me.
There are plenty of DRM-free epub titles out there. Just none that I want.
YES! Where he used caps implies emphasis in speech. People who complain about this don't know how to read. They can't read something and HEAR the speech emphasis in their mind. So they complain and look stupid.
People who write like that don't know how to format stuff here, so they look stupid.
my religion believes that nudity is proof of god.
I suspect you're not alone.
There may also be a somewhat desirable precedent to be set: specifically, that society, of which businesses are a part, simply shouldn't get itself tied up with draconian dress and style codes. Sometimes, rules are in place due to legitimate health and safety concerns; sometimes, security concerns apply. Hoods may seem silly to some, but what about long hair (on men), beards, or bare feet?
And it's security concerns here. Job Centre staff are a target of violence, and a job centre is one of those place where I think security cameras are justified and face-covering garments should be banned. The problem isn't that a Jedi was asked to remove his hood, it's that others, such as those wearing the niqab, are not asked to remove them.
That would be why the word "similarity" was used.
That was the alleged response of the Tesco supermarket when faced with a similar situation. 'A Tesco spokesman said: "We would ask Jedis to remove hoods. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all went hoodless without going to the Dark Side."'
A much better, not to mention more informed, response than the Job Centre's. I know it's reported in The Sun, but I do hope it was true.
"ZOOGBERGER", caps and all, is not an English word no matter how much I tell you it is. It could theoretically eventually become part of the language, but it isn't now.
With my linguists hat on I feel that I have to point out that it is an English word, specifically an English nonce word (nothing to do with the prison slang meaning of "nonce") by virtue of you using it in the context that you did. But that's a technicality and doesn't detract from the point you were making.
What's a "recognized religion"? Here in the UK, the only religion afforded any kind of official status is Anglican Christianity. The only thing (AFAIS) differentiating Islam from Jediism is the number of people who claim to follow said religion.
Not even close to true.
Firstly, the Church of England (Episcopalian) is only the state church of England. The Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) and the Church in Wales (Episcopalian) have "official status" as the national (not state) churches of Scotland and Wales. I'm not sure whether the Church of Ireland (Episcopalian) has "official status".
Secondly, and more significantly, many religions and denominations get UK tax breaks by virtue of their religious status, which is the sort of "official status" that really matters to them (although it may be under threat at the moment). That is a very significant thing separating Islam (which I understand does get the tax breaks) and Jedism (which doesn't).
I don't think you understand the word "average".
I have been utterly scathing of the ribbon interface here in the past, but I appreciate that most of us don't get our names recognised so you weren't to know that.
Whoosh!
You need to remove or conceal the features that are rarely used.
Goodness, where have you been? If you conceal features then you get pestered with tech support calls and requests to implement stuff that's already there! What you should do is dump everything on the UI all the time in a ribbon across the top (remembering to license it from MS). The user sucks bigtime, but users can't complain about not being able to find anything because it's all there in plain view, so they know they'll be made to feel stupid if they query your design.
Human-Computer interaction was an option (which I took) on my postgrad CS course. What I think we're showing is that some programmers do know a bit about UI -- although what I think I know is "enough to talk intelligently to a human-factors expert", not to do it myself.
they'll always go on a 30 minute odyssey to go 20 blocks.
Yes, London traffic is like that too.