I don't see any tigers around, do you?

I often use iris at heathrow, it has never fail to recognise me on the first attempt, I've used it about 50 times over the last 3 years.

Iris passport control at heathrow copes fine.

Good. Yet in the real world of corporate environments people use dropbox (and similar things, google drive etc) all the time, because it does something that corporate IT does not do.

It's all very well saying "it's rubbish". Provide an alternative. Windows file shares on a high-fenced intranet just doesn't work when people need to get access to that document from their phone in the back of a taxi in Tajikistan.

The problem with DoubleFine Adventure in particular is that "the core game as it was intended" is not defined - all they really pitched was an unspecified old school adventure game. Design and even story outlining only started after the Kickstarter, and apparently that process completely failed at matching the content to the project constraints. More recent projects, e.g. Wasteland 2 and Project Eternity, have had better project management and outlining up front, and are in much better shape.

LOL!

That assertion turned false way before Hemos left, let alone Taco.

Err no, still going

http://what-if.xkcd.com/48/

Yes. I guess I get to the airport at the right time. My last flight was sin-syd, and I arrived at t-120 as I had a meeting to phone in for at t-90. Not a ingle person at any of the counters, including the economy ones.

At hong long there was a queue, I just walked to the front.

Frequent flyers tend not to suffer the same way tht infrequent flyers that fly once a month or something do. t least at checkin. Queues at security, boarding, even at the lounge, are all far higher.

Try recently removed the people checking your bp at Manchester and put in an automated scanner. It's now slower than it used to be, but Manchester's profits have presumably increased now they've laid off a dozen people.

At heathrow they have "e-passport" desks. These take 15 seconds to clear the average person. They are manned by 3 people, and can pass 3 people at a time.

The manual border desks take 12 seconds to clear the average person, therefore faster than e-passport.

Iris is better, they aren't manned, tale about 15 seconds, but suffer from people who arent registered trying to use them.

In my experience, technology is brought in to airports to reduce staffing levels, and increases the time taken for the average passenger.

Because the country the airport is in doesn't trust arrivin flight security.

If you fly man-lhr-nbo, you don't pass through security at heathrow.

Some terrible airports like AMS and SIN have security at the gate in any case. There's a reason I connect through t5 on ba, not ams on klm.

I believe when flying domestically in the u.s you don't need to reclear security.

The problem with the whitespace is that it makes copy&paste between different block levels extremely troublesome and fragile. It leads to lots of issues that you would never have with a proper block-end statement.

Computer science needs a computer less than astronomy needs a telescope.

I personally hate computer science. I'm a broadcaster. I make solutions to get things on air. Part of that involves writing code, part of it involves wiring up cables, bust most of it involves understanding broadcast and understanding journalists.

Coding is a very useful tool, more specific than "writing a report", but certainly less specific, and certainly more useful, than knowing how to "use word".

Computer Science is a science, for people with frizzy grey hair, that live in ivory towers and have little practical knowhow. You lock them in a room and occasionally things emerge that you can see a practical application for. It's essential, and it's all way beyond me. they need to know how to code as much as I do, possibly less.

The majority of passengers aren't allowed to use the F counter(s). If you're somewhere like Heathrow (hardly a "very small airport"), the walk from the train to the security to the lounge takes about 10 minutes. Adding a minute to drop off your bag at one of the many empty counters you pass doesn't really add anything to the total time spent in the airport, especially when you have to queue up for a "visa check" anyway at heathrow.

I did once have a situation recently where I waited for 20 seconds for one person to finish up, rather than walk a little further to an empty counter.

Rose tinted? It's been a long time since I saw a queue at check in. For economy of course, even once for business, but not for F checkin. Perhaps this will appeal to the occasional flyer that doesn't make oneworld emerald, but more the majority of us check in isn't an issue. Immigration in the states (over 2 hours last time I flew to IAD)

Now the lack of decent fast track on boarding, or at security, is something where time can be saved. In fact my last flight there was no fast track at all!

Saving 2 minutes won't actually happen in reality, as I'll still have to queue up (all flights from heathrow requirie a visit to get a "visa check".

I usuallyplan my arrival at the airport to get there within a few minutes of bag drop closing so this isnt going to help.

At best it means 2 more minutes in a crappy airport lounge. I won't be able to arrive at the airport any later than I do now, and it won't help deliver my bag any quicker. In fact it may well cause my bag to get lost.

A more apt description would be Iraq, who had change the currency they used to trade oil, and got wiped back to the stone age in "Shock and Awe" tactics.

The idea is to further move the burden of travel on to the passenger.

I fly BA a bit, 56 flights with them this year. I check a bag on almost all of them. There's rarely a queue. The current baggage tags work wonders, there's a secondary sticker in case the main one gets ripped off, and it has your name on it which is handy when checking you've got the right one at the carrousel.

I arrive at the airport, walk to the desk, drop my bag off, shove my passport over and smile. They give me a nice boarding card (which is often for a seat some rows in front of where I'd selected), put a label on my bag and send it off into the depths of the airport, issue me with a lounge invite (at some airports), and it gives me an opportunity to ask where the lounge is, as many airports I only visit once every couple of years.

It's simple, quick and cheap. If my bag does for some reason arrive at Baku airport instead of Changi, I'm confident they'll be able to read the tag and return it whence it came.

No, they want to reduce the number of staff since their disastrous merger with Iberia.

Saving 2 minutes will make diddly squat when you've still got conformance at t-35, and close of bag drop at t-40.