Comment Lesson (Score 1) 366
Lesson: always upload in 4K to minimize punishment.
Lesson: always upload in 4K to minimize punishment.
Usually sayings are not included in dictionary.com. I just searched the web for the phrase, and these are the sites that came up.
Urbandictionary is useful as it provides commonly understood meanings of sayings or slang. Obviously, it is not authoritative, but it has its worth.
Good luck to you, sir.
I did not make that definition up. Below are a few random examples from the internet of my definition being confirmed. I challenge you to find one definition that matches your bizarre use of the phrase.
1. Success obtained through dumb luck.
2. A rare moment of high achievement from an individual/team/company that is usually unsuccessful.
"I can't believe that Johnny took home that chick last night!"
"Yeah, well even a broken clock is right twice a day."
The origin is apparently from the Chinese proverb saying "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while":
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/even+a+blind+squirrel+finds+a+nut+once+in+a+while.html
This expression means that even if people are ineffective or misguided, sometimes they can still be correct just by being lucky.
Read more at http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/even+a+blind+squirrel+finds+a+nut+once+in+a+while.html#XxyDt8zIwgsX5oCy.99
http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+2144
1. Even people who don't know what they are doing can be successful sometimes.
2. Lucky
Sorry, but face it. You ignorantly misused the colloquialism and are now having a hard time admitting it.
If you just stop and think about it...it makes sense. Even if a broken clock is right twice a day, it still doesn't mean you should consult the broken clock, right? Thus, the meaning is, if something TOTALLY USELESS occasionally is right, a single single success should not be read into too much.
Good luck to you in your future education.
OK, either you are the most pedantic English speaking asshole on the planet, or you have no idea what an analogy is.
You would not use the broken clock as evidence of the time, ever, unless you were an idiot.
No shit Captain Obvious. FYI, you're equally idiotic if you take any subjective source at their word without using empirical data to verify the claim.
A lunatic drug addict might say something true. Is there any reason to ever treat him as a source of anything?
I know what an analogy is. This was a bad use of the clock analogy.
The analogy you used is typically quoted to characterize someone getting lucky. In other words, when someone accomplishes something amazing, you might say "Even a broken clock is right twice a day," to indicate that not too much should be read into their success.
Instead, you used it to elevate the importance of someone's comments. "Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day, so we shouldn't discredit everything that broken clock says." Not only is this not the normally accepted use of this phrase, the analogy breaks down.
So, I would have to say, you are the one who doesn't understand the analogy you made.
To be honest, I wasn't expecting my comments to be taken too seriously. It was just a snide remark that your analogy breaks down in obvious ways. If you want to compare Rush, or anyone else, to a broken clock, and then suggest we should ever take his comments seriously, you are the one discrediting him, not me.
I think the same could be said about 'random internet asshole.' So, what makes you so goddamn trustworthy, anyway?
I don't have to be trustworthy to point out the flaws of an analogy. I never said anything that is requiring of your trust to understand or accept. I just pointed out where your analogy fails and basically makes no sense.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, you know.
If a broken clock is on the right time, by the time you have observed it, it will be telling you something wrong again.
A broken clock might be missing the hour, minute, or second hand. Is it ever "right"?
A broken clock can only be known to be right by use of an unbroken clock. You would not use the broken clock as evidence of the time, ever, unless you were an idiot. Therefore, there is no reason to ever consult the broken clock.
A lunatic drug addict might say something true. Is there any reason to ever treat him as a source of anything?
I see what you mean. Though, this is the "Library" window, with the "downloads" section selected.
It basically achieves what I had before, although it doesn't have the pop-up functionality (which I had previously turned off--probably why I never noticed the difference).
It is still working for me. CTRL+J?
Or, click on the download arrow, and click "show all downloads."
This is on Windows, Firefox 26.
Back in the day I played around with CXBX because I didn't want to buy an XBOX. It was more of a research project, but it proved it could be done. What it actually did was turn XBOX executables into Windows executables, with call redirection. It was a very cool idea but by the time it was working, no one was playing XBOX games anymore.
I would imagine it would be significantly harder with the XB1, but still very possible considering the architecture.
Apparently the project lives on and is pretty compatible with many games, today: http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/
It likely would have been just as bad a year from now. Now we have 1 more year to get it running properly!
Sometimes the best way to fix a product is to release it. Sure, your credibility takes a hit, but you might get a working product faster.
about:config is "advanced."
They don't care about consumer writing of discs, just consumer reading (preferably in blu-ray players made by Sony themselves).
Really? Pretty much everyone I know agrees that Casino Royale and Skyfall have been some of the best Bond movies. Compared to, say, Moonraker, there's no competition.
I agree that Casino Royale was quite good. Skyfall, I thought, was pretty bad. Still, there were quite a few bad (especially in retrospect) Bond movies.
While I appreciate the sullen Bond as an interesting change from the Bonds of the past, the schtick is getting old. Being expressionless can only get you so far. Still, critics loved it.
512K, 16GB now
It does look more like Chrome, although I think the curved edges waste even more space than the angled edges on Chrome (and they look different).
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn