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Because the employers are in a better bargaining position.


-Colin

(please mod me underrated, not funny ... I'd like some more karma)

Then say something insightful or informative, don't crack a standard slashdot joke and beg for karma.


-Colin

I'm interested in how well the public can estimate this demand and the price of the shares to be offered.

He speaks as though 'the public' is a different kind of public from the one that will be bidding on the shares. Gee, I wonder what use he could possibly have for getting a sampling ahead of time...


-Colin

Look's like I'll be using Google.nl for my searches from now on. : )


-Colin

I would be midly surprised if you had one person go home because they where afraid you might be able to track them when the next snow storm hits and there to stupid to come back.

What if they are too stupid to spell themselves out of grammar nazi thread on slashdot? : )


-Colin

I read all blogs via RSS reader - no time to check 200+ pages daily.

If you are reading 200+ blogs, I think you have more that enough time to spare.


-Colin

Lazy critics will certainly remark that The Confusion has an appropriate title.

And critics who want to say the same thing but are too pompous to do so will criticize the `lazy' critics.


-Colin

Google is not the same as a Googol


-Colin

Yes, but slashdot always seems to make sections right before the end. We got a LOTR section just before the third movie and we now got a google section just before the IPO.


-Colin

However, writing a web front-end to a database (which is what a *LOT* of people end up doing for years and years) requires practically NO math 90% of the time. Of course, it't that 10% that will get you. Ditto typing skills : )


-Colin

If eric@gmail.com has used his address for anything confidential and is erased, eric-else comes and register eric@gmail.com and gets this guys personal information. ...

Preface: My name is Eric.

I was given the opportunity to get a beta test account, so I naturally tried "eric@gmail.com."

No go-- the system told me it wouldn't allow any user names less than six letters.

So I can guarantee your story will never happen exactly as you describe it.

That's right Eric, no one in the whole wide world has a name that's more than 4 letters long.


-Colin

It's stories like this that make all the duplicates, lame jokes and trolls on slashdot worthwhile. I take my hat off to these men.

It makes me want to do something like it in London, but sadly, the city streets lack the cartesian precision of New York.


-Colin

I attempt to create a viable list of things that come together to make a videogame art, rather than just entertainment. I also explore how these three concepts (writing, design, and interactivity) have been used in other forms of media and how they're being further explored in the world of gaming.

I also demonstrate my ability to write a very boring, cookie-cutter introductory paragraph.


-Colin

yes they like the word Wiki alot

How about wikifactsaredecidedbydemocracy?

I like the idea of wiki, but I think there is an intrinsic problem in trying to have it create something like a textbook. A guide to London, fine, but I wouldn't trust the theory of evolution to be accurately represented in a biology book.


-Colin

When I was in college, (and using windows) we called it a recreational reinstall. : )


-Colin

What do you think is the first thing the lions would do when they left the ark?

Eat the unicorns?


-Colin

Get into God's Word people, you won't regret it.

Sleep in on Sunday, you won't regret it.


-Colin

We just want lasting peace, which only Christ can provide.

Oh that's so cute in a brainwashing kind of way.

Reminds me of the other day when I was at Speakers Corner in London talking with a guy about how multicultural the city is. I commented that from my perspective as an American, London seems like a melting pot/mosaic society that works pretty well -- not perfect mind you, but better than anywhere I've seen before.

His comment: ``Once everyone has found Christ, then a multicultural society can work.''


-Colin

although President Bush has written a letter urging the treaty's passage

That must be a mistake. You either meant that big US corporations wrote a letter on Bush's behalf, or that Bush sent the European Council a crayon drawing of his dog.


-Colin

Well, you failed.

::sigh::

I know. That's the joke.


-Colin

Summer Is Coming; Will Your Mousing Hand Survive?

Must... Resist... Lame... Masturbation Joke.


-Colin

Reminds me of a physics professor who used to give us difficult quantum mechanics problems. When we'd start crunching it out by hand he'd say, `if only the school had $2,000 dollar calculators we could use.' That was our clue that MathCAD or Mathematica was needed to get the job done.


-Colin

The majority of the British people are also anti-the EU Constitution, and we're now having a referendum on it.

Perhaps someone can explain this referendum thing to me because the newspapers assume an understanding of European politics that I just don't have.

Is the referendum at attempt to rewrite the European Union constitution or is it an attempt for the UK to pull out of the European Union? I really hope not the latter, as I'm living in London under an Irish passport.

And while I'm off topic, why is it that the general population of the UK seems to want nothing to do with Europe? I just don't get it.

So they will probably pick one 10,000 person town. Or, better yet, three 3,333 people towns; one for each company.

With three 3,333 population towns can we give the one remaining ID card to the xenophobic jerk who started this project?


-Colin

Oh and for anyone who thinks that its hard to memorize a word that uses symbols nto letters think of it this way. Every work in english has a certain way to spell it. When you see a word on paper you take the letters and turn it into a meaningful word in your head. Its the same with asain languadges. Instead of letters they use slashes and in some languages circles. You to remember how to spell each word you read in order to read it just like asains must remember what each symbol means to read.

True, but when I don't know how to spell a word in english, I can guess at the spelling because I know the sounds the letters make. I don't think that is possible in Japanese.


-Colin

So who gets to decide who are the enemies of the US?


-Colin

So there are 48 weeks in your year? :)

$455/week x 52 weeks = $23,660/year

Yeah, God forbid that an American worker be allowed to take a holiday.


-Colin

So things are better than the last time slashdot ran this story?

I doubt it.


-Colin

...pews made from pixels, the congregation logging in from their home computers and the collection sent in by mobile phone....

So, just like a real church, everything inside is fake except the money they take from your pocket.


-Colin

Just when you thought church couldn't get any more boring...


-Colin

So what if Wil Wheaton's project went awry, MST3k told me that nanites are cute and friendly :]


-Colin

Well, I think the look on slashdot's sci-fi icon says it all.


-Colin

And parents all over the world lose one of their standard phrases. Now if we could only feed all those starving children in Africa...


-Colin

Point Two: The people of a country always have a descriptive name related to the name of said country. For example: Russian, French, Italian, Canadian, etc.

We call people from The Netherlands Dutch, not neanderthals.


-Colin

Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters

For a second there I thought there was a night vision version of google. I imagined an all red display that could be used by stargazers.


-Colin

The graph to show me how big things are in the universe is too big to display in any meaningful way on my monitor. I like it.


-Colin

$10 says a3.com gets slashdotted.


-Colin

I like that they used a beta symbol for the B. I wonder how many people will notice.


-Colin

I noticed that under their 7 reasons to use A9 they have this:

Site Info: See information about the website you are visiting, including related links, site statistics (including traffic rank), sites linking to this site, and user ranking. Select from the menu to go to the site's page on Amazon.com where you can get more information and write a review about the site.

I hoped that there would be a mac version (The only thing I miss about switching to OSX is there is no way I can get the google pagerank of my website and others) so I could at least have an easy vague sense of a website's importance, but when I clicked through... ::sigh:: windows only :(


-Colin

Just out of curiosity, are there any legitimate companies out there that pay for CPU cycles? I'm sure the hordes of unemployed on slashdot (myself included) would like to know.


-Colin

This guy has more b*lls than I.

Either have the balls to use the word balls or pick a different word. Writing b*lls is just stupid. Allow me to demonstrate:

On slashdot I can say: I thought that anonymous coward was a fucktard.

Relaying the same information to my mother in an email I would say: I thought that anonymous coward was an idiot. Not I thought that anonymous coward was a f*cktard.


-Colin

Repeat ad infinitum.


-Colin

All-time worldwide box-office rankings:

2. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
8. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring


Tell me again how the trilogy that dominates the top-10 all-time worldwide box office rankings isn't "mainstream?"

Because the same 10,000 people saw it 1,000,000 times.


-Colin

Organizing messages from your inbox is also different with Gmail. Gmail's approach is to use labels, instead of folders, which allows messages to have overlapping types.

Now this is exactly the kind of simple-but-fantastically-useful thinking that makes me love google. I can only hope that Apple `borrows' the idea for mail.app


-Colin

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-Colin

See, while *you* may think shit like Britney Spears and Metallica suck ass, the millions of albums they continue to sell firmly says otherwise to the millions of fans they continue to cater to. And think about the classic rock from the 50's and 60's. The Beatles were nothing more than a boy band for their era (ditto for the Monkees), and the more "obscure" Mo-Town stuff was driven by the same profit-chasing motivation that drives the industry today.

I highly doubt that anyone will be listening to Ms Spears for as long as the Beatles and Mo-Town will be around. Taste may be subjective but quality lasts; boy bands are just a flash in the pan.


-Colin

How long is the preview on that?


-Colin

From the make-sure-you-have-plenty-of-candles dept.

How very optimistic of you Michael


-Colin

Perhaps my childhood memories of reading spider-man are inaccurate, but I thought that Otto Octavious was Eastern European. Anyone else remember that? If it's true, why would the movie producers change that? Oh, and what's with his trenchcoat? Where's that lame full body green suit that made me pitty him?


-Colin

Gee, whatever did these people do before the cellular telephone? I can't possibly imagine. Heaven forbid that someone in these professions should have to use a telephone with WIRES, or tell someone where they're going to be for the next couple of hours.

Gimme a break. Anyone who needs to call 911 on his cell but can't because he's in a "no service" area inside of a movie theatre, concert hall, etc. is going to have approximately 200 people in the immediate vicinity who can come to his aid and/or go fetch the paramedics USING A LANDLINE.

And what about incoming emergency phone calls you weren't expecting? If my father has a heart attack, or one of my friends needs immediate help, that phone call should get to me. Are you seriously suggesting that I tell everyone where I will be all the time so they can call the restaurant I'm at if there is a problem?

I think your comment about 'doctors got along fine before cell phones' is just insulting. Cell phones make these people more accessible, which I think is a good thing. Are you seriously suggesting that we make the life-saving professionals less accessible?

-Colin

P.S. My cell phone is on vibrate mode all the time so that I don't bother anyone else.