Sentences with phrase «like form over function»

Android wear feels like form over function, Pebble is function over form.

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Many of the budget savings will come in the form of cuts to back office functions like finance, human resources and informational technology, but cuts of over ten per cent have also been reported for front - line services like libraries and leisure centres.

This function has the same form over a long range as the fractional extension versus force applied at the ends of a worm - like chain.

In this case, although middle - school teachers had students write across a wider variety of genres (an emphasis of both CAP and instructional recommendations), most of their writing assignments mirrored the test - like setting of CAP (e.g. limited time, one - to two - page writing assignments, teacher - assigned topics, focus on one of the eight CAP modes, emphasis on form over function).

Like I've said, I'm a function over form kind of guy, so I need some ideas on how to make it happen.

Form, function and towing The eight - seat 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe doesn't have a big, practical advantage over crossovers like the eight - passenger Honda Pilot.

From a design perspective there's no denying that entertainment systems like MyFord Touch add an unprecedented level of geek chic we all love and appreciate, but unfortunately this is a cut and dry case of form over function.

Some will prefer a more subtle and stealthy fast hatchback, something like the Volkswagen Golf R, but I reckon that there will be as many who will salivate over the Civic Type R's trimmings — form following function it may be, but this Honda's aesthetics is a boyracer's dream come true.

eCheck's are slightly different in that they function like a check over the phone but a form is specifically provided on an retailer's website for check information which is then verified much like a credit card.

As I noted in my Nexus 9 review, Google opted for form over function in Lollipop's new app switcher, and I don't like it at all.

With its hockey - puck - like shape, the Echo Dot is a chief example of function over form.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.