gorilla arm: n.
The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in real use?
I have a couple Rare Earth Magnets. They have a very strong magnetic pull. So I figure I'll just run them up and down my body. It could be fun.
Right until you have one on one thigh and one on the other and the magnetic pull slams them together, turning anything caught between into something not entirely unlike inverted-color guacamole.
Which is really annoying if the firewall updates and forgets you told it VNC was OK, then you're left with a machine that has no monitor, mouse, or keyboard waiting for someone to click OK. (Thank you Comodo....)
Actually, I think they'd rather develop something that bundles the firmware updater into the game so you can't apply security patches until you beat level 2.
Because now that Osama is dead, this abomination is now to protect from mysterious random people.... A nice way of saying the PATRIOT act will stop being extended when we get rid of every last human being who hates America.
Wait, what kind of flowers produce caffeine? Or were they being watered with Mt Dew and coffee grounds?
Fairly common to put coffee grounds in a rose bed as compost. But at some colleges I wouldn't be surprised to find bacteria in the bushes that live off anything that could be spilled from a ditched paper cup or soda can.
IP-laws and copyright are not by themselves a bad thing, but they are out of check. 70 years after a creator's death is simply insane.
Rights are often signed away (work-for-hire) before the work is created. So it's the content creator's employer who owns the copyright. They could fire the guy the day after he hands the sheet music in and he'll never see another penny. (But they're protecting the creators from having their work stolen!)
This is why copyright extends for so long and keeps getting extended - because corporations never die of old age and they're buying immortality for their copyrights on an installment plan.
Of course God complies with the laws. Imagine if Jesus landed in the middle of the Interstate on his way to collect the faithful. He'd get run over and they'd have reload him from backup and that would fuck up the ENTIRE rapture timetable, which is rather embarrassing when you're trying to be to-the-minute accurate.
A lot of it is personal connections. Though if I ever get rid of my C64 stuff (currently in storage half a country away) I'm going to have to figure out what the de facto web forum for enthusiasts is now that Usenet's fading.
When are people who are a part of the faithful herd (regardless of the faithful herd) going to accept that not being a member of your religion is not a leap of faith?
(Answer: never)
Considering that some of them don't understand the concept of nonbelief yet....
Some of them see people of no/other faiths not as people who don't believe in god X but rather as people who believe in god X but deny it. The believer sees the existence of god X as obvious and a given, like gravity or air or something. So they see people who believe in god Y or god { } effectively as people who are denying the existence of air: Someone who deep down knows it's there but just wants to be really contrary for some strange reason.
For every piece of old hardware I have, I can usually find a home for it. I have people asking me for leads on stuff like AT power supplies and boards that aren't all PCI/PCI-E.
So before you chuck that old DOS box away, make sure there's not some other collector who would like it.:)
I've always wondered - those who want to ban all WiFi - do they also want to ban all microwave ovens as well?
Some of the WiFi ban nuts equate being near anything WiFi with sticking your head in a microwave oven. If they banned microwave ovens they'd have nothing to compare the eeeeeeeeevil WiFi to.
As a parent, I would indeed be in favour of a politician who removed a genuine source of danger to my children, that is not irrational.
Most parents are incredibly afraid of children being abducted or molested by strangers, and spend a great deal of resources on teaching kids to fear strangers. Most such crimes are committed by people the child knows. So all that time and money is being spent while providing almost no change to the rates of those crimes and risks to the children being taught.
See also: Jelly bracelets and rainbow parties.
When it comes to parenting, for a lot of people rationality never enters into it.
Because there's some Trek fans who had designed a fanon Maquis Seal Team 6 logo that (inadvertently) appeared on German TV before Disney got their grubby rat paws on anything related.
Don't worry. As the Wikileaks cables prove, if the Canadian government has any concerns about US international relations they can take those concerns to the US and have them rapidly dismissed so that the discussion can turn to more important things, like when Canadian law will change to better suit American corporate interests.
After the usual denouncement of the Special 301 process (which we hear every year)....
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I swear I read that as "NASA Moon Rabbit Competition" first time. Gotta swear off Imperishable Night for a while....
I had testicular cancer 5 years ago. I bought a cell phone 4 years ago. Have they looked into cancer causing cell phones?
Reminds me of Yahtzee's rant on Doom being "so unrealistic" in his Bulletstorm review.
Right until you have one on one thigh and one on the other and the magnetic pull slams them together, turning anything caught between into something not entirely unlike inverted-color guacamole.
Which is really annoying if the firewall updates and forgets you told it VNC was OK, then you're left with a machine that has no monitor, mouse, or keyboard waiting for someone to click OK. (Thank you Comodo....)
Or best offer. No undercover agents, pls.
They were going to be, but the lunar ambassadors sent to negotiate reparations were blown up by the Boston police department soon after they landed.
Actually, I think they'd rather develop something that bundles the firmware updater into the game so you can't apply security patches until you beat level 2.
Because now that Osama is dead, this abomination is now to protect from mysterious random people.... A nice way of saying the PATRIOT act will stop being extended when we get rid of every last human being who hates America.
Fairly common to put coffee grounds in a rose bed as compost. But at some colleges I wouldn't be surprised to find bacteria in the bushes that live off anything that could be spilled from a ditched paper cup or soda can.
Spoken like someone who never had a neighbor with inadequate fencing.
Scary thought: These are some of the people that vote in elections.
Rights are often signed away (work-for-hire) before the work is created. So it's the content creator's employer who owns the copyright. They could fire the guy the day after he hands the sheet music in and he'll never see another penny. (But they're protecting the creators from having their work stolen!)
This is why copyright extends for so long and keeps getting extended - because corporations never die of old age and they're buying immortality for their copyrights on an installment plan.
Of course God complies with the laws. Imagine if Jesus landed in the middle of the Interstate on his way to collect the faithful. He'd get run over and they'd have reload him from backup and that would fuck up the ENTIRE rapture timetable, which is rather embarrassing when you're trying to be to-the-minute accurate.
A lot of it is personal connections. Though if I ever get rid of my C64 stuff (currently in storage half a country away) I'm going to have to figure out what the de facto web forum for enthusiasts is now that Usenet's fading.
Considering that some of them don't understand the concept of nonbelief yet....
Some of them see people of no/other faiths not as people who don't believe in god X but rather as people who believe in god X but deny it. The believer sees the existence of god X as obvious and a given, like gravity or air or something. So they see people who believe in god Y or god { } effectively as people who are denying the existence of air: Someone who deep down knows it's there but just wants to be really contrary for some strange reason.
For every piece of old hardware I have, I can usually find a home for it. I have people asking me for leads on stuff like AT power supplies and boards that aren't all PCI/PCI-E.
So before you chuck that old DOS box away, make sure there's not some other collector who would like it. :)
(Hugs MSD SD2.)
Some of the WiFi ban nuts equate being near anything WiFi with sticking your head in a microwave oven. If they banned microwave ovens they'd have nothing to compare the eeeeeeeeevil WiFi to.
Most parents are incredibly afraid of children being abducted or molested by strangers, and spend a great deal of resources on teaching kids to fear strangers. Most such crimes are committed by people the child knows. So all that time and money is being spent while providing almost no change to the rates of those crimes and risks to the children being taught.
See also: Jelly bracelets and rainbow parties.
When it comes to parenting, for a lot of people rationality never enters into it.
"I keep telling myself the next update will hopefully make things better."
So did I. And then FF2 didn't fix it. And then FF3 didn't fix it. And then FF4 didn't fix it....
Because there's some Trek fans who had designed a fanon Maquis Seal Team 6 logo that (inadvertently) appeared on German TV before Disney got their grubby rat paws on anything related.
(Glances at Internet.) Everywhere, it seems.
A Chuck Norris joke about Chuck Norris making jokes unfunny. That's such an excellent comment on the meme that it's almost back around to funny again.