The Apple equivalent of the blue screen of death (Windows). The cursor changes from an arrow into the aforementioned symbol
It's appearance signals the imminent freezing of one or more programs. Typically thwarted by force-quitting the program, or in more severe cases, shutting down the computer.
Crap, there was too much to load on that girl's MySpace; I got the spinning beach ball of death.
Similar to the blue screen of death, this is when you get the spinning color wheel that never stops when a program freezes on a Mac. It's slightly less annoying than the blue screen since you can often kill the program without restarting.
guy1: "Hey I thought Mac's were reliable, what's up with this bullshit spinning wheel of death?"
guy2: "Nah, Steve Jobs is a douche too"
the multi-colored, round, spinning icon Mac's use to indicate that a process is occuring for which the user must wait or that the computer is experiencing an error; the Mac's equivalent of the PC's hourglass icon.
"Hey, Bill. Call the Helpdesk. I'm getting the spinning ball of death again!"
doctor pulls down his pants to reveal a cindering hole of where once laid rest a majestic cock that had falling in battle, to a spinning death attack. Donate today for spinning death victims.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.