2003-07-25.txt:08:26:42: <andreou`work> the company is a start-up, so everyone does everything they know. they only know how to code, but i also administer the servers.
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2004-01-22.txt:03:00:20: <lament> (to accompany a flying arrow, no less)
2004-05-24.txt:00:32:42: <Toreun> it doesn't... it just follows stock market principles.  it's basically like each blog is a company, and people trade shares of blogs
2004-05-30.txt:19:37:43: <Keymaker> yes, it wakes up and sues every other company and coder >:)
2004-06-28.txt:02:22:58: <Toreun> well if it's a bug in the hardware, call up the company
2004-06-28.txt:02:23:29: <WildHalcyon_> Im not sure which company to call... motherboard? graphics card? memory?
2004-07-17.txt:22:55:48: <tonsofpcs> ya, the same company made them i think
2005-03-05.txt:13:53:52: <{^Raven^}> i'd like to see a for-profit BrainFuck company ;) that would be something
2005-05-05.txt:16:34:29: <pgimeno> this damn hosting company doesn't allow subdomains
2005-05-08.txt:19:56:05: <Keymaker> hmmm, there's some field for organization or company,
2005-05-10.txt:20:21:36: <pgimeno> it's actually a company's name but who cares
2005-05-12.txt:19:29:40: <pgimeno> my domain is from a company, it can be moved but never deleted
2005-05-12.txt:19:30:22: <kipple> and what if the company goes under? or changes it's name?
2005-05-21.txt:13:44:06: <CXI> (except because wikimedia is non-profit and this is an ad-supported service they rolled out another essentially identical company for it)
2005-05-28.txt:05:40:36: <graue> sourceforge was developed by a company, they own it, and they are now trying to sell the "enterprise edition" of it to other companies for obscene amounts of money
2005-05-28.txt:05:42:57: <graue> no company is going to buy sourceforge enterprise edition because of your site, so don't worry about it
2005-06-17.txt:10:33:10: <pgimeno> I think that Müller is now working for a company offering a search engine
2005-06-22.txt:23:11:54: <calamari> nope. I need to get off actually, company came to the door :)
2005-06-28.txt:22:43:03: <jimbo00000> Gentlemen, it has been a pleasure to be in such esteemed company.  Have an excellent evening.
2005-07-21.txt:23:14:09: <fizzie> Uh, it's a small company (physically in Teknologiakylä, Otaniemi, the ugly barracks near Innopoli) doing generally music-related edutainment things for x86/win32 platforms. It's horribly uninteresting, and I only do it _very_ part-timely to pay the rent. :p
2005-09-08.txt:23:15:57: <Aardwolf> I'm looking to have some webscpace once my univ page is gone, but I'll look for a Belgian company I think :)
2005-10-06.txt:04:46:36: <WildHalcyon_> I had no clue, to be honest. My efforts to research the 'company' didnt really google anything conclusive, except that they might be accountants. They're not, btw.
2005-10-06.txt:04:51:14: <WildHalcyon_> Im familiar with the company and "multi-level marketing" associated with it
2005-10-06.txt:05:04:27: <WildHalcyon_> Hey gs30, sorry Ive been researching my fraudulent company some more
2005-10-24.txt:22:53:08: <graue> I've heard those processors from that VIA company are really cool (literally)
2005-11-08.txt:00:55:37: <calamari> the company I was working for at the time blocked download of "executables".. so I couldn't resist :)
2005-12-14.txt:09:51:16: <handongseong> too tiresome to deal with people asking me what's wrong with me and that convenience store company, again and again
2006-01-24.txt:19:51:01: <fizzie> "C/o or Care of, used to address a letter when the letter must pass through an intermediary (for example, "John Smith, c/o the Universal Widget Company" (where the Universal Widget Company is the intermediary)."
2006-04-06.txt:17:35:06: <jix> i work in a company for 2 weeks
2006-04-06.txt:17:39:24: <nooga> you work for a company?
2006-04-06.txt:17:41:05: <jix> but in grade 9 or 10 we work in a company for 2 weeks
2006-04-26.txt:06:53:26: <nooga> well, i've been quite bussy, i'm working for a webdesign company now
2006-04-28.txt:22:30:01: <kate`> (partially since i work for a digital signage company)
2006-04-28.txt:22:30:32: <GregorR-W> kate`: Digital signage company?
2006-04-28.txt:22:36:58: <kate`> i think using R for demographic analaysis is about as exciting as that company gets
2006-06-24.txt:22:40:25: <_W_> Pfizer, Inc. (stock symbol) Pacific Fruit Express Company Packet Filtering Engine
2006-07-24.txt:17:12:57: <kipple> that leads to a hosting company for me
2006-07-24.txt:17:13:30: <GregorR-W> My hosting company.
2006-07-26.txt:20:33:17: <pgimeno> for unix and company
2006-08-01.txt:16:14:34: <GregorR-W> The bus company charged me $288 with the message "cannot contact bank"
2006-08-23.txt:16:06:07: <GregorR-W> Yaaay company bandwidth!
2006-09-23.txt:12:00:39: <SimonRC> "One to actually change the lightbulb, and twenty to make up the accompanying lightbulb jokes."
2006-10-15.txt:19:30:18: <SimonRC> particularly read the bit about the company "RunTCP"
2006-11-04.txt:01:34:40: * oerjan feels like he has one foot in the grave in this company.
2006-12-02.txt:20:13:18: <SimonRC> As PG puts it: "If Lenin walked around the offices of a company like Yahoo or Intel or Cisco, he'd think communism had won. Everyone would be wearing the same clothes, have the same kind of office (or rather, cubicle) with the same furnishings, and address one another by their first names instead of by honorifics. Everything would seem exactly as he'd predicted, until he looked at their bank accounts. Oops."
2007-01-02.txt:08:22:18: <pikhq> In conclusion: We should just let the RIAA's recent decision to sue a front company for the Russian mafia take its course.
2007-02-09.txt:19:40:56: <SimonRC> I mean, every time the ad is watched the company benefits, and they don't charge for it, so it is quite tough to object.
2007-02-20.txt:16:34:35: <GregorR> SimonRC: He's really just a programmer using a class of students to cheat for his company :P
2007-03-16.txt:21:04:27: <GregorR> Their interaction with the F/OSS community has been incredibly dishonest and immoral, carefully crafted to make naive people think they're a F/OSS-supporting company.
2007-03-19.txt:18:51:02: <ais523> the little TM that you put at the end of something to show it's a company or if you're just being ironic
2007-03-27.txt:03:23:44: <oerjan> of course when doing this as a "family" puzzle some of the point is to know the most operations, but I think in present company that constitutes overkill
2007-03-31.txt:21:38:52: <SimonRC> In the sense of people setting up a site with the company's name that looks like an official site
2007-04-14.txt:20:55:39: <lament> the company i'm working for
2007-04-15.txt:07:33:56: <RodgerTheGreat> as an individual, I freely give away most of my tinkerings. However, as a company, I'd view any GPLed code as a liability- it's just a ticking time-bomb that can take away my ability to control what I make and profit fairly from my own work.
2007-05-05.txt:03:57:11: <bsmntbombdood> Or a better power company
2007-05-14.txt:23:43:39: <SimonRC> '(semiautomtic aqua accompany slacks)
2007-05-20.txt:14:48:43: * SimonRC reads about a small company that has a 2:1 manager:developer ratio.
2007-07-07.txt:23:01:35: <oerjan> oklopol: pressing the button makes it go towards the accompanying swarm
2007-07-14.txt:00:13:47: <lament> (the main character holds a high position in a shoemaking company)
2007-07-22.txt:02:57:19: <oklopol> i assume it's a company
2007-07-26.txt:23:17:07: <test_> very friendly company
2007-07-31.txt:18:45:42: <ehird`> Sukoshi, A) boo hoo, one company is the source of all evil and can do no good, even if two parts are completely unrelated B) it's standardised by ECMA. by your logic, JavaScript is not open. C) So what?
2007-07-31.txt:18:58:22: <RodgerTheGreat> well, they're doing well with their Xbox arm, even though that segment of the company has operated at a continuous loss as long as it's been in existence. It's an example of Microsoft realizing there's something much more valuable than money- mindshare.
2007-07-31.txt:19:01:34: <RodgerTheGreat> an arm of a company. it's a metaphor.
2007-08-07.txt:16:42:42: <SimonRC> sounds like a frikkin' insurance company phone number
2007-08-07.txt:18:08:30: <ehird`> It's a very dynamic company; the bosses just come and go.
2007-08-18.txt:19:25:51: <SimonRC> (which is waht a certain company's keyboards feel like)
2007-08-29.txt:03:14:24: <bsmntbombdood> i have to write a letter to a pencil company telling them how great their pencils are
2007-08-29.txt:21:48:20: <SimonRC> "Falcon Broadband, Inc. was started in 2003 in Colorado Springs, CO.  We are a locally owned and operated company."
2007-09-05.txt:23:36:56: <oklopol> "the turku cable tv company" if you couldn't decipher, that's prolly where this connection is from
2007-09-25.txt:05:11:15: <RodgerTheGreat> we have a lot of friction going on because we have a community half and a company half.
2007-09-27.txt:02:31:32: <oklopol> we should start arranging uberman orgies! "start uberman's through a week of hot steamy sex in good company!"
2007-10-03.txt:16:30:00: <ehird`> no other game company that i know does that
2007-10-03.txt:16:37:04: <RodgerTheGreat> Stealing from the company that invested time and money to design the car, perhaps
2007-10-10.txt:19:49:07: <SimonRC> Well, the company seems rather nice
2007-10-10.txt:19:51:20: <GregorR> They're such a good company, they can make 'R' a hexadecimal digit?
2007-10-14.txt:20:22:53: <oerjan> i thought it was a tire trademark/company
2007-10-23.txt:11:33:43: <StapleGun_> yea, id be a full time linux user if i could get game maker to run on linux ... that and company of heroes
2007-10-24.txt:02:53:56: <schad> well, i wud use linux, but i cant get company of heroes to run on it
2007-10-25.txt:20:22:03: <jix> and he runs the company my previous math teacher works at now
2007-11-05.txt:21:19:08: <ehird`> GregorR: an IRC client, written in python, with accompanying irc lib lycus
2008-01-18.txt:20:19:31: <Slereah> Are there any company that will send snailmails containing some text automatically?
2008-01-28.txt:19:00:18: <UnrelatedToQaz> Who's BP? The fuel company?
2008-02-04.txt:20:43:18: <ehird`> ... and unless you found your own company and make loads of money selling enterprise-level database systems!
2008-02-12.txt:02:29:58: <RodgerTheGreat> http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html?page=0%2C0
2008-02-20.txt:03:46:16: <oklopol> We are all gathered here to take a glance at the past three years we spent as a class. It was a journey of hard work, learning and self-discipline, but it was also about togetherness. There are some great stories, and even greater accomplishments, but I'll spare you from them. The end of high-school is the beginning of a new era for everyone, people get jobs and whatnot. Some go to university. Some just wither away in the absense of company and
2008-02-22.txt:17:49:39: <Slereah> They call themselves “hackers”, and their aim is to destroy every big company, everything that is conservative. I can’t tolerate this sort of persecution. The LORD himself was a conservative and he was nailed to a tree for it. It won’t be long before all of us are crucified too if Linux succeeds.
2008-02-23.txt:01:17:58: <Slereah> I've got monads to keep me company, don't worry.
2008-03-07.txt:23:31:48: <ais523|sl_busy> SimonRC: the one where a company had used JavaScript for authentication
2008-03-07.txt:23:32:25: <ais523|sl_busy> the amusing thing was that it appeared to be a scam company's website in the first place
2008-03-10.txt:23:03:42: <slereah_> I tried to find some punch card computer or something, but there's only one company that sells them, and it isn't cheap :o
2008-03-17.txt:22:36:15: * ais523 thinks that there are all types of people at Microsoft; the company itself is completely self-serving and acts in a way most of its employees dislike, but the employees themselves aren't all bad
2008-03-17.txt:22:36:39: <ais523> they're mostly just confounded by the company's rules to the point where they're not allowed to do nonevil things all that often
2008-03-17.txt:22:39:33: <AnMaster> but the company *IS* evil
2008-03-17.txt:22:39:51: <ais523> except I would have highlighted the word 'company'
2008-03-17.txt:22:41:04: <AnMaster> ehird, yes I would define evil as the microsoft company
2008-03-22.txt:01:11:40: * oerjan is reminded about the news tidbit about some japanese company who called their candy "dew dew"
2008-03-22.txt:01:12:53: <oerjan> otoh the Bonbon company around here seems to use that kind of naming for all their candy
2008-04-03.txt:17:25:46: <CakeProphet> does anyone want to start a life insurance company with me? I have a brilliant idea to defeat all competition.
2008-04-03.txt:17:29:30: <CakeProphet> so... when I start a life insurance company.
2008-04-03.txt:17:29:39: <CakeProphet> I am going to hire assassins to murder people who use other company's plans.
2008-04-03.txt:17:29:47: <CakeProphet> until the company's go out of business from having to pay out so much
2008-04-03.txt:17:33:39: <ais523> break into a company that makes cars, and alter the firmware so you can cause large-scale accidents remotely
2008-04-07.txt:21:24:48: <SimonRC> # Enemy lasagna / Robust below wax / Semiautomatic aqua / Accompany slacks / ... #
2008-04-12.txt:15:59:02: <AnMaster> why not mail the company and ask which one it is
2008-05-08.txt:18:03:33: <ehird> http://www.gemstone.com/ this is a better smalltalk company ;)
2008-05-21.txt:22:22:42: <ehird> GregorR: it'd be funny to find a nic running at companyname.tld that lets you reg nic.tld though
2008-06-05.txt:19:58:29: <tusho> lament: it's a company and they're primarily out to make money.
2008-06-05.txt:20:00:03: <tusho> out of the interests of keeping a company's hands off of this channel, and because it's not a very good service in my mind anyway.
2008-06-07.txt:22:38:44: <tusho> Slereah: And then turned into a HASKELL COMPANY
2008-06-12.txt:21:53:06: <SimonRC> if I found that someone was relying on that bit of the spec in production code I would suspect them of trying to sabotage the company
2008-06-12.txt:22:35:57: <Slereah7> This man was probably not loved much in his company.
2008-06-13.txt:16:16:09: <oerjan> and it _does_ appear in some japanese company names
2008-06-15.txt:17:51:00: <ais523> I think the company itself may have become sentient
2008-06-15.txt:17:54:55: <SimonRC> (I justify my company's work by saying that we're a service company, not a product company)
2008-06-15.txt:17:55:09: <ais523> SimonRC: what does your company do?
2008-06-21.txt:21:33:55: <SimonRC> that reminds me: I managed to break my company's primary SVN repos a few days back.
2008-07-02.txt:00:47:02: <GregorR> AnMaster: Very, very few languages have multiple frontends. C++ has two, most of the commercial ones license the frontend from a single company.
2008-07-02.txt:23:49:02: <GregorR> AnMaster: I lucked out on a pair of totally-synthetic-leather-free vegan shoes, and before that there was one company that sold non-chromium-tanned leather shoes.
2008-07-08.txt:16:23:14: <tusho> it's from the same company that makes Passenger
2008-07-13.txt:21:52:11: <oerjan> (the scandinavian parts are licensed to a company (Reitan group) based here in trondheim)
2008-07-19.txt:02:29:45: <oerjan> 2's company
2008-07-21.txt:21:57:00: <AnMaster> Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?] 	Company [What's This?]
2008-07-21.txt:21:57:14: <AnMaster> Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?] 	Company [What's This?]
2008-07-31.txt:10:22:56: <tusho> and we went onto the site and it was a spidering bot for a company saying they were 'reinventing search' blah blah blah
2008-07-31.txt:10:48:53: <tusho> {The company says it's attempting to tag each search result with an image "that will help people visually check whether the result is something they want to click on."}
2008-07-31.txt:21:07:01: <SimonRC> I am sure the occasional ridiculous images are helping that company
2008-07-31.txt:22:12:16: * oerjan wonders why people trust a company that obviously has Lex Luthor as CEO...
2008-08-01.txt:15:41:54: <ais523> oh for a moment I thought pikhq was referring to the parcel company
2008-08-08.txt:21:54:49: <AnMaster> company*
2008-08-08.txt:21:56:31: <ais523> I think BBC Micro was related at least tangentially to the broadcasting company, partly because BBC Micro Mode 7 uses the same terminal-control language as Teletext uses
2008-08-12.txt:22:13:44: <psygnisfive> metaweb is a company :)
2008-08-16.txt:00:38:21: <psygnisfive> i want to have a porn company some day
2008-08-19.txt:00:28:14: <tusho> [[True story, I swear: Major software company in Andalusia. A mate of mine is coding using vi. His supervisor walks up behind him and after spying over his shoulder for a couple of minutes, interrupts his work and demands to know what he's doing. "Coding." "But you must use Word." She says. "Why?" "Well, it has a lot of advantages. For example the 'undo' function..."]] -- reddit comment
2008-08-27.txt:18:44:04: <tusho> because they are the worst company ever
2008-08-27.txt:18:45:51: <tusho> anyway, microsoft are not this huge, wholly incompetent company
2008-08-27.txt:18:46:15: <tusho> mostly, microsoft are a good, respectable company
2008-08-27.txt:18:46:48: <lament> it's a gigantic company suffering from mismanagement and lack of direction
2008-08-27.txt:18:47:28: <ais523> the problem, I find, is that the company itself tends to come up with evil things none of its employees agree with
2008-08-27.txt:18:49:26: <ais523> the other one works for a big company too, maybe IBM but I'm not sure
2008-08-30.txt:22:11:22: <tusho> that is the whole point of a company
2008-08-31.txt:12:45:19: <tusho> AnMaster: OH NO A COMPANY IS PROTECTING THEIR EFFORTS
2008-08-31.txt:13:22:40: <tusho> and you'll get paid by a company called Xirian (pronounced Zirian) or something like that, to work on oklotalk all the time
2008-09-02.txt:12:42:14: <ais523> it doesn't look like the work of a reputable company
2008-09-09.txt:22:08:56: <tusho> One airline company does, I believe.
2008-09-09.txt:22:40:59: <ais523> which is like this one, except a lot smaller, Microsoft are a hardware company that supports Linux, and everything runs INTERCAL except for a few weirdos discussing languages like C and Java
2008-09-18.txt:14:43:52: <tusho> because they are a hardware company
2008-09-18.txt:14:44:06: <AnMaster> well they would make more money as a software company I suspect
2008-09-18.txt:14:45:04: <tusho> they're a hardware company that makes their money because of their software
2008-09-21.txt:02:47:58: <GregorR> "He planned to leave his vast riches to you, but due to a typo in the will it's been given to somebody with an extremely similar name ... the company he bought the will from had a money-back guarantee however, so here's $39.95."
2008-09-22.txt:21:46:41: <ais523> company's email address cannot be protected by the (tm) comment correctly.
2008-09-23.txt:20:19:19: <tusho> I know i'd trust an established openid host by the company that created openid and is endorsed by tons of people & organizations
2008-09-23.txt:20:19:47: <AnMaster> tusho, a company can go bankrupt
2008-09-28.txt:18:57:55: <ais523> well, a standard entirely created by one company is suspicious
2008-09-28.txt:19:56:56: <oerjan> 'TTC - Stands for "The TTC Company"'
2008-09-28.txt:21:23:22: <oerjan> hm indee is a record company
2008-10-06.txt:11:38:14: <ais523> generally speaking one company will write imperative VHDL
2008-10-06.txt:11:38:48: <ais523> and another company will compile it by hand to VHDL that compiles to hardware
2008-10-09.txt:19:33:48: <ehird> its just the same company
2008-10-09.txt:22:18:12: <ais523> and I think the water's split up by water company here, rather than by city size
2008-10-13.txt:19:20:36: <AnMaster> also it seems it is a one man company, says so on front page
2008-10-15.txt:16:37:20: <fizzie> Hey, you are all probably experts in this field: I have this plate made out of "compound marble" (a sort of marble/plastic composite material, apparently) and I need two circular holes in it (with diameters of 34 and 45 mm). Where can I find a company (in Finland, preferrably Espoo) that can make me such holes?
2008-10-16.txt:14:10:39: <AnMaster> I never heard of that insurance company before now...
2008-10-16.txt:21:18:03: <fizzie> (The company was Nokia; you may have heard of it.)
2008-10-16.txt:21:20:29: <fizzie> Okay, I guess most people know that, but it's an old joke that Finland's most successful company has a faux-Japanese-sounding name.)
2008-10-16.txt:21:23:49: <fizzie> The tires and boots were part of the same Nokia company back then in the 1960s.
2008-10-17.txt:13:15:35: <ais523> between Apple the record company and Apple the computer company
2008-10-17.txt:13:15:52: <ais523> the record company claim the computer company started to breach their trademark when they released the iPod
2008-10-17.txt:14:08:42: <ais523> the management lecturer last year was actually quite good though, he tought me accounting and company law
2008-10-18.txt:18:15:09: <ehird> is more important to a person than the fact that it's a company called foobar
2008-10-19.txt:15:45:54: <oerjan> ooh, you could have a company policy that said you had to use all colors balancedly...
2008-10-19.txt:18:20:53: <fungot> Asztal: madam president, mr posselt, let me say that we should take the decision we need to look at the simple trend, i have one difficulty which is not covered by specific community legislation, so ias can only be achieved by applying lower rates of growth, employment and the unwieldiness of the procedures, favouring a more competitive and makes his company more competitive. everyone agrees on that, are dying as a result of ad
2008-10-20.txt:20:52:36: <fungot> oerjan: the cygwin page does say programs need to work much better.) originally developed by miller puckette and company at fnord.
2008-10-22.txt:00:56:49: <lament> it's a clothing company
2008-10-23.txt:23:11:35: <fungot> AnMaster: the constant use of " coup" here is simply incorrect. first uncertainty can be incorporated into the section on company officers, but it states there that the ep peaked at 2 ' ' fnord
2008-10-24.txt:21:06:21: <fizzie> Yes, I guess I could add some sort of funge-space fetch commands to accompany ^code. Not sure if I'll bother, though.
2008-11-03.txt:13:55:25: <AnMaster> if Forest is a company that is
2008-11-05.txt:22:01:14: <AnMaster> ehird, yes for internally using it in a company it makes sense
2008-11-08.txt:01:41:51: <fizzie> And the company providing the cruise ship for today's celebrationationary things started their pre-christmas cruise offering on September 15th; now *that* would've been very pre.
2008-11-20.txt:17:37:14: <GregorR> Shit, my hosting company is not going to be happy with me :P
2008-11-25.txt:14:53:54: <ehird> Dear Sir, We are top ranked web Development Company from India having vast set of experience in development and designing of complex solutions. We have well trained and experienced developers and programmers specialized in different technologies. Please find the details with PMB along with Project execution plan. Thank you, Tech-Sters..
2008-11-27.txt:01:26:26: <oklopol> pwnage inside a small group like a company is trivial, the hard part is being better than all the savants with some kinda mental issues out there.
2008-11-27.txt:14:13:50: <ehird> it's the company steve jobs made when he was fired from apple
2008-12-04.txt:13:24:43: <ehird> the people who wrote it are #haskell regulars and stuff, some work at galois (company thing that uses haskell).
2008-12-06.txt:20:05:31: <zuff> AnMaster: Apple is a hardware company, except its hardware only sells because of its software.
2008-12-07.txt:16:05:55: <SimonRC> GregorR: I have seen a better comment in some code at my company.  "// always interested in children"
2008-12-25.txt:17:08:44: <ais523|direct> mib_vvzkm4: you are going to put their copyright notice in the materials accompanying the distribution, right?
2009-01-09.txt:17:43:00: <AnMaster> well, what about work? Either rich enough to not need it or the company sponsors this, or something else
2009-01-12.txt:16:12:32: <jix> well but from what i can imagine the IT work a heizungsableser-company needs isn't that interesting
2009-01-12.txt:16:12:44: <flexo> not for the company
2009-01-12.txt:18:37:51: <oerjan> i think you need a registered norwegian company
2009-01-13.txt:21:59:06: <ehird> yes. email a security company.
2009-01-14.txt:16:59:47: <ehird> The people on the Tubes must chip in and make an alternative to You Tube, it's not that expensive. The company must be based somewhere outside USA and it should be owned by at least 1 Mil guys so it will be never sold to any big company.
2009-01-14.txt:17:46:30: <ais523> it's pretty amazing that a genuine company has a whole esolang win
2009-01-18.txt:21:23:25: <ais523> they got the domain free with the company
2009-02-14.txt:23:15:45: <ehird> [[The folks at Ryka, a manufacturer of women's shoes, wanted to be certain that no potential customers could be excluded. Thus, rather than providing option (or radio) buttons to indicate one's gender, they decided to use checkboxes, to allow the potential customer to indicate Male, Female, or, well, both, and for that matter, none. We found this especially interesting given the company motto, "Exclusively for women by women." Inclusiveness must be "in".]]
2009-02-14.txt:23:17:03: <ehird> the company doesn't need to know my gender, so stop trying to dat amine
2009-02-17.txt:21:56:34: <ehird> how do you know the electricity company isn't monitoring your secret files
2009-02-18.txt:16:52:03: <ehird> well, if you're in the 80s and a company, you make yer own damn chip
2009-02-20.txt:16:58:35: <ehird> should team up with a cryonics company
2009-02-21.txt:21:26:20: <ehird> i can understand why a company would take them out in the current corporateosphere, but they shouldn't even exist
2009-02-22.txt:00:07:19: <ehird> it's just a lifeless shell of a company
2009-03-06.txt:13:39:57: <fizzie> I, uh... let's see if I can find the other, accompanying picture first.
2009-03-06.txt:13:42:49: <fizzie> oklopol: http://zem.fi/~fis/slide3pic3.jpg is the accompanying picture.
2009-03-07.txt:21:31:07: <oklopol> it's a short snippet, esoteric ideas will usually sound crappier without company.
2009-03-08.txt:07:52:43: <zzo38> Yes I did but I am writing software and specifications more a bit, and then one day I need to get a computer hardware and stuff, and then I can write the software more, testing it, make a company, and a few more things, make manual, etc, and then it will be complete.
2009-03-11.txt:19:27:11: <AnMaster> ehird, the company is Scandinavian to begin with.
2009-03-11.txt:22:45:57: <AnMaster> is that trailer made by the company or as a joke by someone else?
2009-03-11.txt:22:46:04: <ehird> company
2009-03-11.txt:22:46:55: <AnMaster> what is this company?
2009-03-12.txt:15:02:17: <fizzie> Granted, that's the only big-company example I can think of right now.
2009-03-12.txt:15:34:07: <asiekierk> not Apple Blue as in the company
2009-03-12.txt:15:47:03: <ais523> and used it to spam themself, and DDOS a company they had a prior arrangement with
2009-03-12.txt:15:47:47: <ais523> as in the UK TV company
2009-03-12.txt:16:17:18: <ehird> By prior agreement, Click launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a backup site owned by security company Prevx.
2009-03-12.txt:16:18:25: <AnMaster> "By prior agreement, Click launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a backup site owned by security company Prevx. "
2009-03-12.txt:16:19:04: <ehird> the bbc are admitting they ddosed a security company
2009-03-12.txt:16:19:19: <ais523> ehird: but the security company said they could
2009-03-12.txt:16:19:46: <ehird> 15:17 ehird: By prior agreement, Click launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a backup site owned by security company Prevx.
2009-03-14.txt:23:44:30: <ehird> "Okay this is subjective because it depends on your definition of large. When I say large, I mean about 6 gigs or so. Because your company's source tree is probably that large."
2009-03-14.txt:23:44:34: <ehird> That is one shit company.
2009-03-22.txt:19:56:56: <ehird> We are a super stealthy Hollywood, CA, tech startup located in the penthouse offices of a loft-style building. We are in search of the rumored Delta Squad Developer who could fit all the ridiculous languages that our 12-person software company is looking for.
2009-03-24.txt:18:45:12: <ehird> http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany This is cool
2009-03-24.txt:18:59:02: <AnMaster> ehird, company still exists?
2009-03-24.txt:19:00:12: <AnMaster> ehird, yes I'm just surprised it isn't a left over web page of some company that went bust..
2009-03-26.txt:16:36:41: <ehird> ais523: I'd put that as the company situation
2009-03-31.txt:17:34:41: <ehird> Same company
2009-03-31.txt:17:39:51: <fizzie> "F-Secure is historically related to FRISK Software International, a company based in Iceland, which publishes F-Prot antivirus. The original F-Prot conglomerate of Icelandic, Finnish and American computer antivirus researchers fell apart during the early 1990s and the resulting companies divided the global market."
2009-03-31.txt:20:21:37: <ais523> because the computers there are set to the company's homepage
2009-04-02.txt:16:47:10: <ehird> Normally a company would received 1208925819614629174706176 addresses to cover up to 65536 sites.
2009-04-03.txt:00:21:52: <ehird> Every company has bad times
2009-04-04.txt:22:07:32: <ehird> The company drew attention when it announced it was in talks with several United Kingdom ISPs to deliver targeted advertising based on user browsing habits by using deep packet inspection.[3] It is one of several companies developing behavioral targeting advertising systems, seeking deals with ISPs to enable them to analyse customers' websurfing habits in order to deliver targeted advertising to them. Others include NebuAd and Front Porch.[4]
2009-04-04.txt:22:11:03: <fizzie> AnMaster_ipv6: Finnish ISP. Well, a phone company. Something like that.
2009-04-04.txt:23:44:13: <oklopol> AnMaster_ipv6: well i was thinking you'd sit in a cubicle and make code for a big company
2009-04-05.txt:01:55:38: <kerlo> Magic: that game where one of the main ways to improve is by paying a certain company.
2009-04-08.txt:19:54:24: <ehird> by the company "Gigabyte"
2009-04-08.txt:20:03:35: <ehird> Well, the company's called GrowUp Japan.
2009-04-08.txt:20:03:48: <AnMaster> ehird, which is a silly name for a company
2009-04-08.txt:20:23:51: <asie[Virus]> ais523: Imagine it hits a big company.
2009-04-08.txt:22:29:25: <ehird> It's a custom-configured, built-to-ship PC bought from an internet-only company.
2009-04-08.txt:23:05:28: <ehird> AnMaster: Recommend a good monitor company?
2009-04-10.txt:08:03:31: <fizziet> Well, no, not alone, but my travelling company is sleeping.
2009-04-10.txt:08:04:02: <oklopol> fizziet: HOW CAN A WHOLE COMPANY SLEEP?
2009-04-10.txt:08:04:41: <fizziet> Obviously only a company that does not care about PROFIT MARGINS can sleep.
2009-04-10.txt:08:06:57: <oklopol> well night, this company'll sleep too, now
2009-04-10.txt:23:22:37: <ais523> it's official, but the joke was that Homelands was introduced by a rival company and Coldsnap was the actual third set in that block
2009-04-17.txt:03:26:36: <GregorR> Like walks for charity. A walk for charity is some company holding money for ransom until you walk a mile.
2009-04-19.txt:16:30:37: <ehird> "Is your company working on X-ray equipment, or anything that might endanger a human life? "
2009-04-19.txt:19:31:26: <pikhq> I'd love to, I really would. If the freaking phone company would offer ADSL here, I'd have it.
2009-04-20.txt:07:03:15: <GregorR> Hahahah @ the mouseover on xkcd 570: "Somewhere out there is a company that has actually figured out how to enlarge penises, and it's helpless to reach potential customers."
2009-04-20.txt:16:55:27: <ais523> I wonder what they'll do with the rest of the company?
2009-04-22.txt:19:02:48: <Deewiant> ehird: Er, you have a keyboard model you like but it's from the wrong company so you'll get a different one? Wtf?
2009-04-22.txt:19:08:43: <Deewiant> Monster Cable is a company?
2009-04-22.txt:19:08:49: <ehird> Yes. A scamster company.
2009-04-22.txt:19:56:16: <fizzie> For .fi you also need to be someone living in Finland, or a company/organization/foundation registered in the corresponding Finnish registry.
2009-04-22.txt:19:57:28: <fizzie> fu.fi is registered to "All You Need Finland Oy" ("Oy" being the company-suffix).
2009-04-23.txt:18:11:47: <oerjan> it's supposed to be the company name
2009-04-23.txt:18:12:35: <oerjan> or did he actually try an SQL injection on the norwegian company register? :D
2009-04-23.txt:21:52:23: <ehird> a book with accompanying soundtrack
2009-04-23.txt:22:16:25: <okloduk> i wonder if any big company has ever just decided to stop at the top.
2009-04-24.txt:16:49:49: <ehird> In 1999 Syse Data was converted to a limited liability company, and has since been trading under the name Syse Data AS[1]. As the names are so similar, searches for our company in the official Norwegian registry of just-about-anything (Brønnøysundregistrene) often resulted in potential customers looking up the wrong company. To prevent this confusion we recently changed the name of the old (non-LLC) company, and figured we'd use the opportunity for som
2009-04-24.txt:16:49:53: <ehird> The old company was renamed to:
2009-04-25.txt:20:44:14: <ehird> ais523: what company?
2009-04-26.txt:00:36:25: <ehird> "Microsoft created a loyal customer in me. I like their products, and I'm not ashamed to say it. They are just another company making software, and they happen to have the biggest market share. Why? Not because they're evil and sacrifice cats - it's because their operating system is the easiest and best to use, as evidenced by the entire fucking world"
2009-04-26.txt:18:26:38: * nooga works in a company where every employee has MS exems passed, certified experts, premium msdn shit available, VIP MS support
2009-04-28.txt:17:37:25: <ehird> AnMaster: evil deep packet inspection → targeted ads company
2009-04-29.txt:22:20:00: <ehird> Bytemark seems to load quite fast from the uk (since they're a uk company) and do ipv6, so that's the main competitor to prgmr for me atm
2009-05-02.txt:17:29:43: <AnMaster> ais523, where are they a company then
2009-05-02.txt:17:30:24: <ais523> the main server's in the UK, although that doesn't mean the company is of course
2009-05-02.txt:23:10:39: <ehird> it's chuck moore's new company
2009-05-03.txt:21:40:43: <ehird> bsmntbombdood: a company
2009-05-04.txt:01:30:03: <pikhq> AMD's existence for most of the company's history *has* depended on being cheaper than Intel chip, so *shrug*.
2009-05-06.txt:05:08:27: <pikhq> And the company ceases to exist.
2009-05-06.txt:05:09:09: <pikhq> GregorR: Chapter 11 means that the debtors and the company talk about how best for the company to get out of debt.
2009-05-09.txt:00:02:38: * oerjan googles the company name visible
2009-05-09.txt:21:24:10: <ehird> GregorR: A thought for you while I brb: ARMjs. From the Simple Gargantuan Gadgets (SGG) chip company; an early competitor to Ligence.
2009-05-09.txt:21:48:38: <ehird> 21:24 ehird: GregorR: A thought for you while I brb: ARMjs. From the Simple Gargantuan Gadgets (SGG) chip company; an early competitor to Ligence.
2009-05-10.txt:18:35:07: <asiekierka> yup, sounds like a network card company
2009-05-11.txt:16:59:34: <ehird> Deewiant: Dell's the first big company I've seen do it.
2009-05-11.txt:17:01:04: <AnMaster> I never said no big company would. Since I knew Apple used to. Though I probably said it was risky and I couldn't see why they did it. AND provided warrandy
2009-05-12.txt:18:11:39: <pikhq> Also, porting dietlibc to Solaris wouldn't help a nonfree software company any more.
2009-05-13.txt:17:49:09: <ehird> let's fine every company!
2009-05-13.txt:17:49:44: <ehird> let's declare being a company to be illegal :|
2009-05-14.txt:23:49:37: <ais523> nah, the entire company of Intel lives inside my computer
2009-05-14.txt:23:52:28: <ais523> yes, even if it is an improvement, it's not the sort of thing a company does when they're doing well
2009-05-15.txt:18:12:21: <ehird> Cons: price and the company who makes it
2009-05-15.txt:18:12:22: <ehird> Other Thoughts: stop and think seriously think about where intel gets their new technology from............... AMD. Intergrated memory controller and 64 bit technology both comes from AMD so for those who bash said company well your r-tarded. AMD holds the patents on the new Technology Intel uses and intel is trying to cancel AMD's right to make x86 cpu's so that means AMD pulls those rights from Intel so all of you who jumped aboard the i7 boat will sin
2009-05-16.txt:16:45:33: <ais523> the first time it tried, all it did was say that its location was in Edinborough, and which company hosted it
2009-05-16.txt:16:57:33: <ehird> so presumably it thinks MXLCIX is the stock symbol of a french company, awesome
2009-05-16.txt:22:35:07: <psygnisfive> or maybe a garlic hoare, given the company i keep here
2009-05-16.txt:22:38:37: <AnMaster> <psygnisfive> or maybe a garlic hoare, given the company i keep here
2009-05-17.txt:20:57:01: <fizzie> ehird: Oh, and the 110Mbps-down-5Mbps-up cable-TV-company/ISP is Welho, which is rather in the clueless group of ISPs, so I really don't think they do any IPv6 stuff or anything.
2009-05-18.txt:00:35:36: <pikhq> Except that my DVD-ROM drive comes from the same company.
2009-05-19.txt:17:38:12: <ais523> although company-academic, not university-academic
2009-05-19.txt:17:38:59: <ehird> ais523: yes, it's "company research"
2009-05-19.txt:19:45:05: <ehird> w/ accompanying software
2009-05-19.txt:19:50:39: <ais523> <Xilinx> (typical technology company homepage)
2009-05-19.txt:19:51:28: <ehird> that's a different FPGA company
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