It has come to my attention that people are refering to the MacOS busy-cursor as "The Beachball". This is incorrect. It is called "The Hypno-Wheel". Thank you for your cooperation.
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It has come to my attention that people are refering to the MacOS busy-cursor as "The Beachball". This is incorrect. It is called "The Hypno-Wheel". Thank you for your cooperation.
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So it's not "the rainbow pinwheel of death"?
No, it is not.
"Of Death" is Not Allowed. File "...Of Death" in the same folder of lazy and uncreative suffixes that are Not Allowed along with "...On Crack" and "...On Acid".
Is "...From Hell" still acceptable?
What about "Die Hard On A..."?
Wouldn't it be swell if they made a Jack the Ripper movie set in the underworld and it got reviewed as "From Hell... From Hell!"
Maybe not swell, but certainly redundant.
No. Knock it off.
What about "...Of Doom"?
I've seen it. Possibly twice.
"...On Steroids."
I have to disagree, I contend that the admittedly overused and annoying prefixes are still accessible when their literal meaning applies.
In this case, death does indeed take place, so "pinwheel of death" should be acceptable.
Late and stupid, but SBBoD (or just SBoD) has the comedic advantage of rearranging BSoD, which is why it persists.
Things are the same in Oceania.
Although I do believe it's permissible to lean your head to one side while watching the busy-cursor, letting your face go slack, your tongue loll and muttering, "..so pretty.."
Which could be mistaken for an "of death" expression, were it not for the muttering.
so JWZ posts a Steampunk Wheel of Death...
and heralds the death of crack on acid.
Not to be confused with the hypnotoad.
All glory to the hypnotoad!
And heavy subsidies to the Brain Slug Planet!
cfsI'm amused that Firefox doesn't display image/tiff.
Huh...I'm irritated.
That's... surprising. Is it expecting a different content-type?
No. It just doesn't work without an additional plugin. The windows one requires user registration and the linux one just didn't work for me.
"You have chosen to open beachball.tif which is a: TIFF image ... What should Iceweasel do with this file?"
It just straight up doesn't want anything to do with it, like it's eps or bmp or something. Standards, who needs 'em?
Awesome, bug 160261 just had its fifth birthday last month.
Wow, awesome. I converted it to PNG.
Whatever we're calling it, I'm seeing entirely too much of it for my tastes.
Let's not also forget now that for over 20 years Mac users have not been calling the waffle key by its rightful name.
Is that near the Apple key?
At Apple we called it the Spinning Pizza... of Death (sorry). SPOD. Internal bug reports make reference to "the SPOD." In one pre-release of 10.2 it was entirely blue.
I demand that in next build of 10.5, they make it monochrome, like on my old NeXTcube with the Megapixel display.
cfsYou can already achieve this today, by going to 'System Settings' -> 'Options for Retards(tm)'.
-The invert colours (negativize) option also found there can be nice sometimes, too.
I want them to bring pack Printer Error Woman. "Your printer is out of paper." "Paper is jammed in your printer."
I've almost always seen it referred to as the SPOD by serious Mac geeks, in or outside Apple.
At one Mac Hack someone made a giant rainbow cookie as they hack.
Personally I've always called it "Oh shit, not again"
Or "damn, Firefox is swapping again"...
ever since 10.1 it has been known to me, and everyone else I know, as the wheel of death. because either an application, or the OS, is about to die every time it rears its ugly head.
Spinning Circle Of Futility ?
I've heard mostly Beachball and the occasional Spinning Pizza, but never Hypno-Wheel.
So, you're wrong.
Personally it's always kindof reminded me of The Prisoner aesthetics.
With absolutely no previous conversational context, my dad once asked my not-really-my-sister-in-law what "that little colorful thing that spins around" is. Her answer was "a fairy princess," which is what I still think of that cursor as.
This is, I think, what the kids today refer to as "for the win".