Standard rip off.Trembling trembling visible muscle tremor caused by fever, fear, weakness, electrolyte imbalance, especially hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia, and neuromuscular disease. trembling disease with anticipation I rip open the press version of the new [pounds sterling]144 British Standard on website design. It is BS ISO/IEC ISO/IEC International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ITU-T M 3000) 233036 and has an interminably in·ter·mi·na·ble adj. 1. Being or seeming to be without an end; endless. See Synonyms at continual. 2. Tiresomely long; tedious. in·ter long title. I needn't have bothered. Wading through pages and pages of preliminaries and addenda it soon becomes clear that the meat of the standard is less substantial than what you could get from a couple of issues of a monthly web magazine at a cost of, say, [pounds sterling]8 the pair. And the obfuscation ob·fus·cate tr.v. ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates 1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: "A great effort was made . . . . Instead of just saying it is a really bad idea to use a text colour which contrasts insufficiently with its background, there is a big table full of numbers coded to some colour scheme. Please, don't insist that your web designers buy it. Just warn them what you will do to them if they get the contrast wrong--and fail to make all type adjustable in size. |
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