My hobby is nagging iDevice developers to include colourblind-friendly options in their colour matching games. Sometimes, like with the wonderful Marblenauts, the developer will actually work with you to sort the problem out. I like those kind of developers. The Trism guy also took steps to sort it out. Sadly, some developers don't care. (Face, meet this knife - it'll be cutting your nose off shortly, but the spite will be wonderful.)
You see, what we do is we try to think without the safety net. You use logic and intelligence rather than gut feeling and instinct. You can think like a criminal and not be one. You can think like a murderer and not be one. Read a Thomas Harris novel and shut the 'uck up.
Actually, that's why I said it's clumsy. If you want to browse through Earnest Gowers' 'The Complete Plain Words' you'll find he's quite unworried about the use of apostrophes for contractions, and goes so far as to only list three cases where one needs to worry unduly about apostrophes. He does, however, go to great pains to explain that the whole point of writing is to communicate without ambiguity, and in the case quoted above there's clearly ambiguity - is it an unconventional contraction of 'assistant has' or is it a possessive apostrophe? Both acceptable, but arguably ambiguous, hence my opinion of it as clumsy.
You wouldn't happen to have a Strunk and White handy, would you? My own library only extends as far as Sir Earnest Gowers on the grammatical front, and it would be interesting to see what an American guide has to say on the matter.
A few things about me: I originally pirated World Of Goo as someone had ported it to the Mac before 2D Boy got round to it. When the Mac version appeared, I bought it. In fact, I own four copies now - I purchased it, and it was also featured in three separate bundles of software I've bought, and a friend also sent me a download for World Of Goo as they didn't want it in their bundle. Also, I don't have a fixed IP address, so every time I play World Of Goo it looks as though another (and why not assume it's pirated?) copy has been stolen...
Is it so unthinkable that other people may be in a similar situation - how are these developers so sure of their figures that they can proudly spurt that only 10% of their users are honest? This is nonsense...
I love the 'So I gave it to my nephews and they'll never get their subsidy back Buwahahaha!' bit. Rest assured that any and all involved grannies will be instructed in no uncertain terms what games to purchase for Christmas, Easter, Rosh Hashanah and Imbolc, and they'll cough up cold, hard pension cash in the process, undoubtedly ignoring the advisory warnings in the process. All you've done is help the evil console makers and the people who want to corrupt our American youth!
Giving a console to your nephews and rambling about it in public isn't just saying 'I have so much money I use a dollar bill to mop up after a wank', it's actually *helping* the terrorists. Aaargh!
This links to the old philosophical trolley argument. You know - the one where you have the choice of *allowing* five people to die, or *choosing* to kill one person, with the aim of saving five. If we apply your argument correctly, you can turn your back, allow the five people to die and smugly claim you've saved a life. After all, a death you could have prevented isn't actually a death.
Mod him down? Naahh... he's as insightful as all hell at the moment.
I, on the other hand, add nothing to the discussion. Mark me as -1, with immediate effect. I only ever post on here when the UK pubs have tipped out, anyway.
Have they tried educating rather than penalising? Strange as it may see, most of us respond positively to scientific fact rather than an impersonal fine. Who can say why this takes place?
I read what you said, and I thought about it, and I realised that my mother needs Chromium OS. You're right. No sarcasm, no jerking about - you are right. Chromium OS isn't really aimed at us, it's aimed at our mothers.
My mum's gonna love it. I'm gonna love it, too, because she can log on to familytree.net or whatever the hell else it is she does, and the cursor won't magically (I haven't installed anything I swear) change into a butterfly, or any of the many hundred million toolbar-related problems won't occur.
I jailbroke, played with it for a while, then reinstalled and went back to my comfort zone. I find it hard to believe that the majority of my fellow iPhone users didn't do the same. We like it Apple, and we like it simple. We don't pirate, and we all have fresh breath. Right?
Perhaps as technology allows us to modify our bodies further, even down to a genetic level, such views will be considered as narrow, and even the idea of splitting athletic achievements into such primitive divisions as 'male' or 'female' will start to look silly.
Some questions: Can men race against women? Are effeminate men allowed to race against burly men's men? What about butch women, with gruff voices and hairy legs - can they compete against delicate, perfumed counterparts? Can homosexuals race alongside straight men, and would they both refuse to try to out-race a bisexual? Does skin colour affect your ability to jump, and is it really possible to be pretty fly for a white guy? Why, finally getting to the point, do some of those questions seem ridiculous, but others don't?
You're right - of course no one would intentionally choose to increase the background noise, impart channel crosstalk and bleedthrough between L and R channels, add IMD and THD (distortion), and add wow and flutter to a digitally clean CD mix. They don't *need* to.
I tend to agree with you. I've been to plenty of websites that have nothing on but a counter. Never mind 'Ask Slashdot'; I'd like to ask the guy: 'If you're sending people to a website in your email signature, at least send them to something useful. If you don't know what that is, why are you sending people there?'
In all honesty, no. Something's borked, and it's either you or your computer. Are you running Windoze?
Poor Review - Time to do some research.
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Perhaps the reviewer may also wish to check out the Home Office Research Study 292, 'Assessing the impact of CCTV cameras' (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hors292.pdf) before attempting to explain how useful they are to us, and maybe also have a read of Database State (http://www.jrrt.org.uk/uploads/Database State.pdf) to check the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust's report. Then there's the recent House Of Lords publication Surveillance, Citizens And The State (http://publications.parliament.uk).
I kind of wished umm already that like you used grammar or what english is to be understood? It's just that other lines, and yes you're in the minds of the moderators, already and so on. But run on and something sentences are like in the understanding my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. And you are my boy, oh yes... taste my milkshake, for I have already won.
Seems reasonable to me, too. Here in the UK, you can't return your mail-out DVDs to a store, anyway. Mind you, their main rival LOVEFilM is just the same, since they have no physical stores for you to return the DVDs to. Netflix hasn't made it to the UK, yes, and they'd have a hard time against LOVEFiLM if they did; aside from a few customer service issues (not to gloss over that...) they're doing pretty well...
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I'm colourblind. Welcome to my world.
My hobby is nagging iDevice developers to include colourblind-friendly options in their colour matching games. Sometimes, like with the wonderful Marblenauts, the developer will actually work with you to sort the problem out. I like those kind of developers. The Trism guy also took steps to sort it out. Sadly, some developers don't care. (Face, meet this knife - it'll be cutting your nose off shortly, but the spite will be wonderful.)
You see, what we do is we try to think without the safety net. You use logic and intelligence rather than gut feeling and instinct. You can think like a criminal and not be one. You can think like a murderer and not be one. Read a Thomas Harris novel and shut the 'uck up.
Actually, that's why I said it's clumsy. If you want to browse through Earnest Gowers' 'The Complete Plain Words' you'll find he's quite unworried about the use of apostrophes for contractions, and goes so far as to only list three cases where one needs to worry unduly about apostrophes. He does, however, go to great pains to explain that the whole point of writing is to communicate without ambiguity, and in the case quoted above there's clearly ambiguity - is it an unconventional contraction of 'assistant has' or is it a possessive apostrophe? Both acceptable, but arguably ambiguous, hence my opinion of it as clumsy.
You wouldn't happen to have a Strunk and White handy, would you? My own library only extends as far as Sir Earnest Gowers on the grammatical front, and it would be interesting to see what an American guide has to say on the matter.
You can; it's clumsy but it's quite correct, in the same way that it's is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'it has'.
A few things about me: I originally pirated World Of Goo as someone had ported it to the Mac before 2D Boy got round to it. When the Mac version appeared, I bought it. In fact, I own four copies now - I purchased it, and it was also featured in three separate bundles of software I've bought, and a friend also sent me a download for World Of Goo as they didn't want it in their bundle. Also, I don't have a fixed IP address, so every time I play World Of Goo it looks as though another (and why not assume it's pirated?) copy has been stolen...
Is it so unthinkable that other people may be in a similar situation - how are these developers so sure of their figures that they can proudly spurt that only 10% of their users are honest? This is nonsense...
I love the 'So I gave it to my nephews and they'll never get their subsidy back Buwahahaha!' bit. Rest assured that any and all involved grannies will be instructed in no uncertain terms what games to purchase for Christmas, Easter, Rosh Hashanah and Imbolc, and they'll cough up cold, hard pension cash in the process, undoubtedly ignoring the advisory warnings in the process. All you've done is help the evil console makers and the people who want to corrupt our American youth!
Giving a console to your nephews and rambling about it in public isn't just saying 'I have so much money I use a dollar bill to mop up after a wank', it's actually *helping* the terrorists. Aaargh!
This links to the old philosophical trolley argument. You know - the one where you have the choice of *allowing* five people to die, or *choosing* to kill one person, with the aim of saving five. If we apply your argument correctly, you can turn your back, allow the five people to die and smugly claim you've saved a life. After all, a death you could have prevented isn't actually a death.
Doesn't work for me at all.
Oh. People like you actually exist! Um... has anyone mentioned the words 'off', 'fuck' and 'troll' in your presence recently?
Mod parent up.
Mod him down? Naahh... he's as insightful as all hell at the moment.
I, on the other hand, add nothing to the discussion. Mark me as -1, with immediate effect. I only ever post on here when the UK pubs have tipped out, anyway.
Yes, it would. I only post this so that your comment might get extra points. It is a good comment, after all, and needs to be bumped up.
'Au'. And it's 'voila', whilst we're on; I'm guessing you're mostly responsible for that, too.
Have they tried educating rather than penalising? Strange as it may see, most of us respond positively to scientific fact rather than an impersonal fine. Who can say why this takes place?
Why?
You say what you'd do, but you give no rational explanation for it. With a diagram, please. And logic.
I read what you said, and I thought about it, and I realised that my mother needs Chromium OS. You're right. No sarcasm, no jerking about - you are right. Chromium OS isn't really aimed at us, it's aimed at our mothers.
My mum's gonna love it. I'm gonna love it, too, because she can log on to familytree.net or whatever the hell else it is she does, and the cursor won't magically (I haven't installed anything I swear) change into a butterfly, or any of the many hundred million toolbar-related problems won't occur.
Roll it on. And thank you for the epiphany.
I jailbroke, played with it for a while, then reinstalled and went back to my comfort zone. I find it hard to believe that the majority of my fellow iPhone users didn't do the same. We like it Apple, and we like it simple. We don't pirate, and we all have fresh breath. Right?
Perhaps as technology allows us to modify our bodies further, even down to a genetic level, such views will be considered as narrow, and even the idea of splitting athletic achievements into such primitive divisions as 'male' or 'female' will start to look silly.
Some questions: Can men race against women? Are effeminate men allowed to race against burly men's men? What about butch women, with gruff voices and hairy legs - can they compete against delicate, perfumed counterparts? Can homosexuals race alongside straight men, and would they both refuse to try to out-race a bisexual? Does skin colour affect your ability to jump, and is it really possible to be pretty fly for a white guy? Why, finally getting to the point, do some of those questions seem ridiculous, but others don't?
You're right - of course no one would intentionally choose to increase the background noise, impart channel crosstalk and bleedthrough between L and R channels, add IMD and THD (distortion), and add wow and flutter to a digitally clean CD mix. They don't *need* to.
I tend to agree with you. I've been to plenty of websites that have nothing on but a counter. Never mind 'Ask Slashdot'; I'd like to ask the guy: 'If you're sending people to a website in your email signature, at least send them to something useful. If you don't know what that is, why are you sending people there?'
In all honesty, no. Something's borked, and it's either you or your computer. Are you running Windoze?
Perhaps the reviewer may also wish to check out the Home Office Research Study 292, 'Assessing the impact of CCTV cameras' (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hors292.pdf) before attempting to explain how useful they are to us, and maybe also have a read of Database State (http://www.jrrt.org.uk/uploads/Database State.pdf) to check the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust's report. Then there's the recent House Of Lords publication Surveillance, Citizens And The State (http://publications.parliament.uk).
I kind of wished umm already that like you used grammar or what english is to be understood? It's just that other lines, and yes you're in the minds of the moderators, already and so on. But run on and something sentences are like in the understanding my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. And you are my boy, oh yes... taste my milkshake, for I have already won.
You mean Atda.
Seems reasonable to me, too. Here in the UK, you can't return your mail-out DVDs to a store, anyway. Mind you, their main rival LOVEFilM is just the same, since they have no physical stores for you to return the DVDs to. Netflix hasn't made it to the UK, yes, and they'd have a hard time against LOVEFiLM if they did; aside from a few customer service issues (not to gloss over that...) they're doing pretty well...