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.
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.
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.
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:(
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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.
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.
Sidenote: normally at this point I end the post with a '-Colin' linked to my own blog in an attempt to drum up some traffic and increase my page rank -- but as it is about me being unemployed in London, it would only support the parent's point, so I won't mention it... well, sorta.
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
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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.
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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:
::sigh:: windows only :(
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...
-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
Want proof? Bloggers. Give even a cursory look at the personal "blogs" out there and you realize none of these people have even a semblance of a life.
*cough * counterpoints *cough *
Sidenote: normally at this point I end the post with a '-Colin' linked to my own blog in an attempt to drum up some traffic and increase my page rank -- but as it is about me being unemployed in London, it would only support the parent's point, so I won't mention it... well, sorta.
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
In case the server goes down, I can show you what the article looks like:
AD AD AD AD text AD AD AD AD
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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