Posts by LaeMing

Avatar kills Taiwanese man

Not just motion.

I believe facial expressions were also captured from the live performers.

I enjoyed it.

Which isn't to say I think it was a life-changing experience, but I was entertained by it and recommend it to friends in that scope.

Yes, the plot is a complete generic, but I thought the telling better than the 5-odd other tellings of the exact same plot Hollywood has puked up over the past few decades. The acting was no less than you would expect for this medium+genre.

I feel a lot of the 'hating' comentards here doth complain a wee bit too much! They sound more like junior high-schoolers desperately trying to be part on an 'in' crowd. Even sadder than the people that go over-the-top in the other direction about the film.

Avatards rush to name sprogs Pandora

I will let my kids choose their own name.

By putting the newborn in front of a keyboard.

Then if the don't like being called something like "dfsgar" they only have themselves to blame!

Chinese Avatards go mad for Pandora

Nothing to learn here.

These strategies (or close enough) are already in use over there.

Trouser-bomb clown attacks - how much should we laugh?

If the plane is the only target, yes.

But I think the idea is shooting down the plane before it can be crashed into a high-density of grounded population. I feel it likely the 4th 9/11 plane passengers had the same idea - they were dead anyway, but best not take anyone else with them.

Forget the tinfoil hat!

Where are my tinfoil knickers??

Western Digital goes cartoon crazy

So HDDs are male...

...and graphic cards are female.

Must be a heck of a good time had in my case at night. Especially since I have 2 HDDs and one Graphics Card. Lucky girl (assuming they don't fight over her, which wouldn't be good for my data!).

They said what? Quotes of the Year

Personally, I can handle the gardens.

It is the PEOPLE with their own micro-climate that bother me!

The best (of the worst) patent claims of 2009

Patent on foot shooting?

"...excessive amounts of time interactive with video gaming or other virtual programming environments have negative health ramifications."

In other words: Microsoft has applied for a patent based around a reason not to purchase one of their cornerstone products! You could not make up better wording for compulsory health warnings on game console-related advertising and packaging. Whether the statement has any credibility or not it is just too ironic not to make MS print it on all their products!

If only I owned an X-Box (and lived in the land of litigation). I would now have a sizable chunk of my evidence for the civil suit accusing MS of causing my weight gain in recent years.

Lawyers scared of computers

Paper documents

My boss received a request for 4 desktop computers to be taken off-site (which is highly irregular). They were filled out in blue ink and everything. When she queried the user, he admitted sheepishly that he was requesting 4 LAPTOPS but had colour-photocopied the filled-out form for his recently requested replacement office desktop (just rewrote the cover sheet). Without a magnifying glass it was impossible to tell the blue ink marks were not directly from a pen - even the shade of blue and thickness of ink as the pen gummed-up and un-gummed during writing were preserved perfectly.