Comment Re:Chinese paper? (Score 1) 165
Spock vaporizes stone.
Spock vaporizes stone.
Heard sometime in the future:
"There was this one time I thought my house was haunted. Every night at midnight, the lights would start to flicker randomly. Sometimes they would dim or even turn off in the room I was in. When I went to the basement, the lights went really bright and exploded! I eventually got an exorcist to come in, and he turned out to be an exorcist-slash-sysadmin. Turns out that my firewall went down and someone hacked my lights and security system."
Exorcist/Sysadmin -- Job of the Future
"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars and so on... while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man... for precisely the same reason." -- Douglas Adams
Dolphins probably think we're the dumb ones because we don't understand anything they say.
Given their track record, I'm surprised that the hard drive sector isn't already spinning out of control. If I were in charge, I'd have their heads on a platter.
From TFA:
"The X-Pire program should be available in late January and will cost 2 euros (£1.68) a month. Those who stop paying will not see their images suddenly become viewable, he said, instead they will just not be able to put expiration dates on new images."
I'm sorry, but people who don't even care about their privacy enough to post risque pictures and make them available to the world are not likely to want to pay 2 euros a month to give them an expiry date. In fact, anyone who wants to view the images has to go and download the plugin first. Know what happens in that case? People don't bother and no one sees the pics.
Partyman: Did you see the pics I posted from the party the other night?
Friendface: I saw the gallery, but the pictures are all blank. It said something about requiring a plugin.
Partyman, Yeah, you need to download the X-Pire plugin to see them.
Friendface: Why?
Partyman: I want my pictures to automatically expire after a few months so that they don't stay up too long.
Friendface: Why don't you just remove them later?
Partyman: Too lazy. I'd rather pay someone else to do it.
Friendface: You had to pay?
Partyman: Sure, it's 2 euro a month. So are you gonna download the plugin?
Friendface: Nah, too lazy. I'll pay someone else to look at them.
So you're saying that it's better not to see color?
Looking it up...
Brake fluid + Everclear = "Stop, Drop and Puke"
Single-malt + drain cleaner (or carpet cleaner for a more "authentic" taste) = "Scotchgard"
Wow, this app is amazing!
New headline: "PG&E Charged With Assault"
Yes! The headline was:
"Man Struck By Lightning Arrested, Charged With Battery"
I would say that the second guy is definitely flailing his arms. And I agree that it would be nice to see more videos. The two examples don't seem to illustrate the point well. Here's my personal analysis:
The "wrong moves" guy is dancing too internally. His head is down and he's barely even moving. He may be dancing in his head, but he's not showing it to anybody. It's hard to say whether he can keep a beat or not. There's no appearance of confidence or fun. He just looks like he's "trying to be cool". Not a good dancer.
The "nice moves" guy is not so much dancing "well", but he looks like he's being a goof. He looks confident in his moves and more importantly, he looks like he's having fun. Good dancer? I don't know if I would say that, but at least he's trying to be entertaining and he's showing it. (I'm thinking he learned his moves from "Just Dance" for the Wii.)
Conclusion: Dance like Napoleon Dynamite.
"The identical is equal to itself, since it is different." -- Franco Spisani