What you don't realize is that the Slashdot editors have a little "first TO post" battle going on among them. 10 Points if you're the first to post a story. 20 if you're the first to repost the story. Leads to all sorts of typos.
Three quarters of the investment-advice posts in this thread are based on a completely mistaken understanding of how IPOs and the stock market function.
"If the problem grows worse, it's possible we could end up with a "Dewey Defeats Truman"-like situation where the telephone poll results were skewed because Truman supporters were less likely to own a telephone."
Telephone polls are meaningless vehicles for polling agencies to generate meaningless statistics to sell to whoever's paying their bill. Aside from potentially swaying people that are on the fence and whose minds are as maleable as chewed bubble gum, in my experience telephone polls aren't used as conclusive findings... but as rough indicators and estimates of the current state of whatever issue is being polled.
Somebody call Jody Foster and that fake blind dude and they can put together that sucker in a 3D puzzle. It'll allow us all to spend $10 for a movie that was decent up until the point where she visits her dead father in space.
p.s. Sorry if I spoiled the ending for anyone, but you had 7 years to see the damn thing.
Why not sell wireless cards at a slightly marked-up price from what you can get them at? It'd be a good way to spread the technology and encourage new customers to buy into your service.
Didn't Matt Damon just do a movie about losing his memory and trying to figure out what the hell is going on? (The Bourne Identity) Why's Ben got to go do the same thing? The Bourne Identity was good (aside from that pumpkin-headed Julia Stiles mis-cast) but I can't imagine Paycheck will be any good. Maybe if the premise was that Ben was trying to forget why he ever dated J-Lo, it'd be worth seeing...
I got a puppy from my parents and a cat from my uncle... The description of any of my other gifts now includes the adjectives "urine-scented", "chewed", or "clawed to hell"... primarily as a result of gift #1 trying to swallow gift #2.
"Hmm a lot of tracks by John Denver. I guess its safe for walmart to sell that anyone who would likely be offended would be put to sleep before they could do anything."
"Neck seems to be the way to go if I want to use a player for that and not gradually beat the shit out of it by occasionally dropping it. Any insight?"
Arm-straps work well to avoid the whole "beating the shit out of" problem.
Who's going to front the 15 million to make the video full of shiny stuff and bling bling so Carson Daley has something to play for the next month and a half on TRL, while little white girls avoid getting hit by Times Square traffic?
Here we are... discussing an article that's published in a magazine, and also available online for free... yet thousands of people still subscribe to "Rolling Stone". Maybe if the music industry could figure out how both worlds could possibly exist... a free version and a paid version of the exact same content... they'd be able to survive in the future.
So he writes an article... gets a bunch of pseudo-hate-mail from people that disagree, then goes back and "fixes" his list?
If my "system of choice" had made the original list... would I haved bothered emailing him to say "jolly good job chap... you've selected my favorite CPU". Nope. Not that I'd write him and complain if my machine of choice hadn't made the list either, but apparently some people did.
My point is that simply changing a list because he wants to address the concerns of those that had a reason to voice their disagreement doesn't seem like the right way to go about it. Sure, he'll bring more traffic to the site and to his column in particular. Who wouldn't want to single-handedly be responsible for that not once, but twice... especially as the end of the year, and bonus time, approaches? But if he's going to bend to the wishes of some nerds with an email account, maybe he should've taken the time to do a more thorough research job in the first place instead of congratulating himself for bringing more traffic to the site. All of that original traffic was coming to read a list that I guess was wrong. Way to go Dwight!
Five users calling tech support trying to explain to the operator what their screen looks like.
In a corporate environment there's a reason for consistency... it saves time and money on training. If this is the market Sun hopes to tap, they should put down the bells and whistles.
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Heh ... I went to RHS too! Used to sign my own late notes as well.
Conjunction? Pervasive? Wow, you really are a nerd.
Anyone know if the keynote is available online anywhere? I'd like to check out the part about GarageBand.
If future media devices don't fit that description, they'll never beat the iPod.
Three quarters of the investment-advice posts in this thread are based on a completely mistaken understanding of how IPOs and the stock market function.
karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon....
Somebody call Jody Foster and that fake blind dude and they can put together that sucker in a 3D puzzle. It'll allow us all to spend $10 for a movie that was decent up until the point where she visits her dead father in space.
p.s. Sorry if I spoiled the ending for anyone, but you had 7 years to see the damn thing.
It's nice to see Slashdot doing their part to ensure America still won't see these ads. Ah... I love the smell of slashdotting in the morning....
Why not sell wireless cards at a slightly marked-up price from what you can get them at? It'd be a good way to spread the technology and encourage new customers to buy into your service.
Didn't Matt Damon just do a movie about losing his memory and trying to figure out what the hell is going on? (The Bourne Identity) Why's Ben got to go do the same thing? The Bourne Identity was good (aside from that pumpkin-headed Julia Stiles mis-cast) but I can't imagine Paycheck will be any good. Maybe if the premise was that Ben was trying to forget why he ever dated J-Lo, it'd be worth seeing...
I got a puppy from my parents and a cat from my uncle... The description of any of my other gifts now includes the adjectives "urine-scented", "chewed", or "clawed to hell" ... primarily as a result of gift #1 trying to swallow gift #2.
Your wife gave me that too! I knew I should've worn a hat...
If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!
How about LYNDOWS!? LYNDOZE? LINDOEZ? L1ND0Z3?
I won't even get started with the high-ascii possibilities.
Who's going to front the 15 million to make the video full of shiny stuff and bling bling so Carson Daley has something to play for the next month and a half on TRL, while little white girls avoid getting hit by Times Square traffic?
Here we are ... discussing an article that's published in a magazine, and also available online for free ... yet thousands of people still subscribe to "Rolling Stone". Maybe if the music industry could figure out how both worlds could possibly exist ... a free version and a paid version of the exact same content ... they'd be able to survive in the future.
So he writes an article ... gets a bunch of pseudo-hate-mail from people that disagree, then goes back and "fixes" his list?
... would I haved bothered emailing him to say "jolly good job chap ... you've selected my favorite CPU". Nope. Not that I'd write him and complain if my machine of choice hadn't made the list either, but apparently some people did.
... especially as the end of the year, and bonus time, approaches? But if he's going to bend to the wishes of some nerds with an email account, maybe he should've taken the time to do a more thorough research job in the first place instead of congratulating himself for bringing more traffic to the site. All of that original traffic was coming to read a list that I guess was wrong. Way to go Dwight!
If my "system of choice" had made the original list
My point is that simply changing a list because he wants to address the concerns of those that had a reason to voice their disagreement doesn't seem like the right way to go about it. Sure, he'll bring more traffic to the site and to his column in particular. Who wouldn't want to single-handedly be responsible for that not once, but twice
SELL SELL SELL!
Will nobody volunteer to archive the hours and hours of Jennicam footage? We're losing a valuable piece of our digital history.
In a corporate environment there's a reason for consistency