randomenigma comments

Two thirds back and centre. The same position where the sound test guy sits when he's testing the sound.

Only Robots have license to Dance?

Not even robots do that dance anymore.

"Overall soda volume for the region was flat."

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Always include a proper salutation at the beginning of an email (ie ‘Dear Mr Debrett’).

"Hi [Name]," is plenty acceptable for an email.

Beware of using capital letters too often; use italics or underlining for emphasis.

Be aware that the recipient might not necessarily see any formatting, so if you want to use emphasis you should try using asterisks around the words instead.

You're also missing the etiquette note about trimming down the email you're replying to so that they know which bits you're replying to. A lot of people get that wrong and just put their reply at the top, which is already wrong, and the #1 thing that shits me off about people using email who didn't learn how to use it before they started using it.

Welcome to last year.

Ah, drugs which are already illegal stay illegal. Well, maybe they can deal with those later, if they're successful with this experiment.

Stalkers really are modern day ninja. They hide in the dark and then kill you when you least expect it.

I'm not sure which of the guys in the picture are likely to be Bieber's "friends".

The ones receiving a large paycheque.

Must be nice to be a NEET.

For all you know, it might taste fine. Plus, "sacralidge" isn't even a word.

Sounds like they're having more fun than most companies.

Naturally, using this as a selection criterium is not OK, but I would rather have fun in a company than suffer the usual drudgery.

I don't know how people could complain about this. If you don't want people's software reading your photo, why are you uploading it to a web site?

I can believe the Japanese would put mayonnaise on it.

Not sure about the mash in this one, but hash browns work in a burger, so maybe it won't be all bad.

For people making lame whining about "but I have a name", that's cool. Just put the name on the same chip. Maybe you can put a pronunciation guide on there, to remove the other problem.

Just because you have one more number doesn't mean it's now your name. Don't you have a driver's licence?

C-note? First time I've heard that word. Another word for a Yukichi?

@CrazyJoe I'm sure "broad" is not just a euphemism with these girls.

Nope.

If Japanese theatres insist on using a different name for the movie, the onus should be on them to tell people what movie they're really watching.

You can hear your own voice using headphones, of course.

The old "just eat less" which people bandy about isn't exactly a working strategy. When I started correcting my diet, my dietician put me on a diet with more kilojoules than I started with, but spread them out more throughout the day and selected healthier foods than what I was previously eating.

The key isn't "eat less" at all, it's "eat better."

Problem is, the healthier foods cost more than the unhealthier foods. My wages have a bit of a buffer zone, so I can afford to do that, but there are plenty of people on low wages who have no choice but to eat the unhealthier rubbish. Eating less isn't even a choice because if you eat too little, your body stores the energy for later, which just makes you even fatter.

If the government subsidised the healthier foods or taxed the unhealthier foods, the new difference in price would work in exactly other direction. Lots of previously unhealthy people would be forced to eat healthy because unhealthy foods would cost more (I guess this means that contrarily, the richest people would return to being the fattest people in society.)

Don't care about Instagram. Don't care about Facebook. 15 seconds is not long enough for any worthwhile video.

@gogogo maybe because it's only 50% bigger, not 150% bigger?

Having a start button is one thing, but does it bring up the start menu? I've been hearing that it does the same thing as pressing the Windows key, which if true, makes it pretty pointless.

@bannedacctsam - the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen. I had a touchscreen phone by Sony Ericsson which existed before that one, and the first one was supposedly IBM's Simon PDA.

when will they come out with a version for people that already wear glasses?

Early reviews suggest that you can either replace the lenses or remove the computer part of it and mount it on existing frames.

It might not be the best idea to go on and use this ID number as the actual ID number for other things as there are privacy concerns with doing that. Just let it replace the name so that it solves only the problem you brought it in to solve.

The entirety of Japan being an hour ahead of Sydney is weird. Japan is basically directly north, so the latest zone they should be using is UTC+10...

As far as computers go, people who mess around with time zones often forget that computers maintain a full history of all these changes. Even if you abolished daylight savings in every country right now, computers still have to know what the rules were in the past, otherwise past dates and times will display incorrectly. And of course if you bump Japan two hours forwards this year, computers will still have to handle it as UTC+9 for past dates. It might highlight a bunch of applications which were naïvely thinking that the time zone offset for a city is a constant thing (I know that a lot of forum software makes this mistake.)

The diet drinks don't appear to be making me eat more, so I call bullshit on that claim.

The change which annoys me is that menus now fly out to the left of where I click the mouse.

I realise that they probably did this for tablet users who are using a pen or a finger, so the menu flying out to the right would usually be covered by your hand. But it does this even on computers which don't have any touch devices and it isn't even consistent between all applications on the computer. So I've completely lost the ability to predict where a menu will be when right-clicking now.

My history of Google+:

I was one of the idiots clamouring for the service in the early days and happily used it alongside Twitter for about a week.

A week in, I noticed that nobody else was actually posting things on there, just copying the things they had already posted on Twitter anyway.

A few more weeks in, Google banned my account because they didn't think my name looked like a "real name", whatever that is. Presumably they kicked off a large number of authors and actors at around the same time, leaving the site devoid of anyone who was actually interesting to follow.

So I happily lived without it for 2 years.

About a month ago, I was just visiting YouTube to watch some videos, when suddenly, Google pop up a dialog saying "hey man, I notice you're using your real name on Google and your alias on YouTube - do you want to: (1) use your real name on both, or (2) use your alias on both?" I chose (2) and as a side-effect, they created yet another Google+ account for me.

So essentially, just because Google+ had an increase in users doesn't mean people are joining the service voluntarily. A lot of us were forced there by a misleading dialog box on YouTube. This also makes it very easy to explain why it looks like people aren't posting there much. It's because we don't f***ing care.