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Journal Journal: I'm a man 15

It's time to tell the truth. I am a 55 year-old man. My name is Andy Kaufman, and I live in New York City.

I am sincerely sorry to everyone for all my lies.

--Andy

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Journal Journal: Merry Christmas -- $$$$$exyGal

It's not the new year yet, but it seems like a good time to give thanks.

Long story short, I've had a good year. Great job, short commute, and dating again. I've become focused, but with great flexibility. I'm not sweating the big stuff, or the small stuff. The good stuff is in the middle.

May your holidays be commercial-free,
$$$$$exyGal

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Journal Journal: Teach me economics: Why are tech jobs going to India? 19

American companies are moving tech jobs overseas to India [more info]. Why? Simple, it's all about money. But how is that so? The article says that Indian programmers make 1/10th that of American programmers. Why do they make so much less?

I'm not an economist, but here's a some possible reasons:

Comment Sega (Score 1) 497

Will Sony be the next Sega? This appears to be a really innovative product, assuming all these "specs" aren't just marketing hype. Surround sound out of a handheld? PS2 GFX on a 1.25" screen? Riiiight...

Anyway, it reminds me a lot of sega, when they produced all those incredibly innovative products, like the SegaCD, the Nomad, the 32X followed by the 64X. However, despite the high quality of these products...nobody bought them. They were too ahead of their time. Now Sega's been relegated to the trash heap of gaming history. M$ seems to be where most of the gaming innovation is these days. With M$ gaining more and more market share with their XBOX, how long before Bill Gates introduces a handheld with features people really want, like video monocles and a direct nueral interface?
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Journal Journal: Lonely night.

Stayed up till 2 in the morning, do a bit of hacking/coding/programming, call a few of my mates, they tell me to bugger off, make a cup of good coffee, call them again, they tell me to go hang on the net with my "geeky internet friends", I dont know what they're talking about, after giving up trying to figure out their cryptic suggestion I go hang with me mates on slashdot, fall asleep at round 6am.

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Journal Journal: Can the blind see? 30

Xerithane left me a very interesting comment a few weeks ago. Here's a blurb:

For instance, I suffer from a moderately rare eye condition. I will go blind for 3+ hours if I'm exposed to bright light for more than a few minutes. It's like a goths wet dream. When it first happened I was probably 12 or so, and the whole time I sepnt trying to think what blind people saw suddenly made sense.

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Journal Journal: Slashdot Oldtimers? Are there more archives? 21

Just for fun, I decided to peruse the really really old Slashdot stuff to see how everything started. Maybe I'd find quiet thoughtful debate about the HTML CENTER tag (1995?) ? Or maybe some lively debate regarding the plot of "Good Will Hunting (1997)" ?
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Journal Journal: The Evolution of Compassion 14

My Theory of Evolution - Scenario #1: "Now"

By chance, one trait is introduced into the genome of a specific individual living thing. If the trait is immediately advantageous over those of the same species who do not possess the trait, then the trait will very likely be passed along to future generations. If the trait is immediately undesirable, then the individual will be rejected by its peers and will be unable to pass along the new trait. This is called evolution.

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