The first question in this Ubisoft customer survey is "What is your gender" with "Male" and "Female" as permitted responses; if you choose "Female," you're dumped into a screen that informs you that "your profile doesn't suit the survey."
Games companies have got a lot of stick over the years for their failure to understand, cater to, and appreciate their masses of female customers, but it's a rare thing for a company's commercial blind-spots to be so vividly illustrated in two screens.
Ubisoft replies on Twitter "there was an error with the setup of the survey, it is now resolved & available to everyone. Apologies for any confusion."
Shirley Yamauchi paid $1,000 for her 27 month old son’s United flight from Houston to Boston, in part because the kid is half her size and in part because it’s illegal to fly with kids on your lap once they turn two.
AT&T, which has successfully lobbied state governments and the FCC to ban any broadband competition in the markets where it operates, says that its forced arbitration “agreements” aren’t really forced, because people in the markets it serves could just not use the internet.
Starting July 10, you can bid on TRS-80 computers, dot matrix printers, Realistic speakers, shortwave receivers, old catalogs, and company “memorabilia” from the bowels of bankrupt RadioShack. From the auction site: From humble beginnings in Boston in 1921, over the past 95 years RadioShack established itself as a globally recognized leader and the go to […]
Whether you need to grind through dry, wordy material like legal briefs and school textbooks, or you just want to make it through more than one novel per year, speed reading is a useful skill no matter the context. But certain methods will only superficially boost your abilities at a cost to actual comprehension.To condition […]
Excel, Microsoft’s venerable spreadsheet program has some seriously powerful capabilities. But unless you know where to look in the maze of menus and toolbars, you probably leave the pivot tables and conditional formatting to your office’s Excel guru. If you want to level up your skills and steal the title from the resident guru, take […]
Entertaining bold changes in your career can feel like an abandonment of what you’ve worked for thus far, but this fallacious mindset can cost you a lot more in the long run than the time spent at your current gig. Change is constant, and building new skills outside of your typical wheelhouse will do much […]
