Just about all modern browsers allow users to enforce their own colour scheme using their own CSS files. Even if they don't create their own CSS, users can typically choose to ignore site-enforced fonts, colours, styles and sizes and so on. All of this depends on the site delivering its content using HTML.
When a site uses flash, you deny the USER any choice about how it's presented to them. You assume a particular presentation and totally disregard any accessibility requirements that the USER may have.
That's the bit that's bordering on illegal, and that's the bit that was being addressed by Mr. Sommerville.
First, we tend to call them "Imperial" measurements, after the guy that invented them, Bob Imperial*.
Everybody under the age of about 40 has always been taught metric units from birth, so many of us have no real life experience using purely imperial units. However, we have plenty of infrastructures that will probably never swap over to metric, even in 30/40 years' time when there will be very few imperial-only peeps left.
All "long"-distance road signs in Britain are in miles. A sign saying "Birmingham 17" would indicate that Birmingham is 17 miles away.
HOWEVER, "short"-distance road signs tend to use metric units. "Humps for 200m" is a innuendo-laden example.
Speed limit signs are always in mph. Mechanical car speedos are marked in mph, with kph usually on there in significantly smaller digits. Mechanical car odometers are always in miles, but the newer digital combo displays can show all information in any combination.
Babies are weighed at birth, and everybody knows that a five-pounder is light, 7's about right and 10's a Christmas turkey.
And yes, before you ask, cocks are usually measured in inches here too.
Hold on now - how did you get "genetic abnormalities" in there? Just because it sounds scary?
Not at all. If you'd just googled for "genetic abnormalities criminal" or "genetic abnormalities insurance" you'd see where I was coming from.
Try to put yourself in the position of somebody that could use any genetic patterns against you.
Imagine there's a rape in your town. Later the same day, you're pulled over for a minor traffic offence. The copper puts your ID card into his reader and it comes up "RAPIST GENE PRESENT". Don't make plans for dinner.
Sure, we don't have the technology today, but I'd put a fiver on us having it one day.
Some of the objections to the proposed ID cards are that they are being touted as anti-terrorist and anti-benefit-fraud. You'd have to be pretty naive to believe that feature-creep won't happen.
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I must admit to feeling uneasy about the FA and your reply both starting sentences with conjunctives.
I read the FA and I wondered why they hadn't come up with some kind of net instead?
Also, I suspect that they acknowledge that Outlook won't be replaced any time soon in corporate-land, but the browser is a good candidate.
I LIKE no license fees.
Blazing Saddles. Top film!
For those interested in the use of the apostrophe in all its gory details
Wouldn't that be 10 bits?
The English language has some quirks. this is one of them.
Most possessives use an apostrophe, some don't:
- Its
- His
- Hers
- Ours
- Theirs
- Mine
There are possibly others, but these make a good start. Note that 'mine' doesn't even have an "s"Same here. I use "orders.amazon@..." and "orders.ebuyer@...." and none have ever been abused.
You'd be surprised at what old Steve gets up to
Just about all modern browsers allow users to enforce their own colour scheme using their own CSS files. Even if they don't create their own CSS, users can typically choose to ignore site-enforced fonts, colours, styles and sizes and so on. All of this depends on the site delivering its content using HTML.
When a site uses flash, you deny the USER any choice about how it's presented to them. You assume a particular presentation and totally disregard any accessibility requirements that the USER may have.
That's the bit that's bordering on illegal, and that's the bit that was being addressed by Mr. Sommerville.
"I have left the building." sounds OK, "I of left the building" sounds daft.
First, we tend to call them "Imperial" measurements, after the guy that invented them, Bob Imperial*.
Everybody under the age of about 40 has always been taught metric units from birth, so many of us have no real life experience using purely imperial units. However, we have plenty of infrastructures that will probably never swap over to metric, even in 30/40 years' time when there will be very few imperial-only peeps left.
All "long"-distance road signs in Britain are in miles. A sign saying "Birmingham 17" would indicate that Birmingham is 17 miles away.
HOWEVER, "short"-distance road signs tend to use metric units. "Humps for 200m" is a innuendo-laden example.
Speed limit signs are always in mph. Mechanical car speedos are marked in mph, with kph usually on there in significantly smaller digits. Mechanical car odometers are always in miles, but the newer digital combo displays can show all information in any combination.
Babies are weighed at birth, and everybody knows that a five-pounder is light, 7's about right and 10's a Christmas turkey.
And yes, before you ask, cocks are usually measured in inches here too.
There are some Canute-style Imperial zealots in the UK however.
* This is not true.
There was also a chap called "Dertwinkel", which sounded shockingly like "dirty winkle".
First day, didn't know everybody's name. Phone rings, German geezer answers the phone and simply says "tits"!!
Different phone rings, another geezer answers, says what sounded "fuck"!
Me starts to think this is the Stuttgart office of the Tourette's society. Later learn that their names were "Titze" and "Foerch".
Oh, how we laughed.
Ha ha.
Down.
I always thought it was prounounced "sooz-ay".
The code does not work correctly from 2000 onwards.
Enlighten us; what part of this problem "is not related to Y2K"?
Check out the date
Oh wait, you were talking about newspapers...
But the wing chassis is metal, is it not? Doesn't the article say that the technique can be used to bond metal with other compounds?
I imagine repairing/replacing a space shuttle tile becomes a whole lot more realistic.
Is that legal?
Does it hurt?
Sorry, meant to say "ONLY" anti-terrorist etc.
Not at all. If you'd just googled for "genetic abnormalities criminal" or "genetic abnormalities insurance" you'd see where I was coming from.
Try to put yourself in the position of somebody that could use any genetic patterns against you.
Imagine there's a rape in your town. Later the same day, you're pulled over for a minor traffic offence. The copper puts your ID card into his reader and it comes up "RAPIST GENE PRESENT". Don't make plans for dinner.
Sure, we don't have the technology today, but I'd put a fiver on us having it one day.
Some of the objections to the proposed ID cards are that they are being touted as anti-terrorist and anti-benefit-fraud. You'd have to be pretty naive to believe that feature-creep won't happen.
In my opinion, it's Pandora's box.