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Apple G5 Ads Banned In UK
Justen writes "The Independent Television Commission has quietly banned Apple from airing an advertisement (in QuickTime here) for the Power Mac G5 in the UK. The Committee says that, prior to the initial broadcast of the ad, it was critical of the assertion that the Power Mac G5 is "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer." However, Apple supplied what was asserted to be "fair and even" data, based partially on SPEC benchmarks, which "substantiated" Apple's claims and "satisfied" the concerns of their "IT expert." However, the Committee says some "viewers complained that the advertising was misleading," and thus, after an investigation, it reversed its original decision. The Committee has now decided that the ad "should not be re-shown in its current form." Conspiracy theorists take note, Apple's sales in the UK are up 36%, so far, this year."
Conspiracy theorists take note, Apple's sales in the UK are up 36%, so far, this year.
.. sure, but I'll also note that The site www.itc.org.uk is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98. It's a ploy by Microsoft to bring that 36% number 'under control'..
..where's my tin foil hat?
Trolling is a art,
(in QuickTime here)
Now THATS irony!
As of 10/06/03, I hate COBOL developers.
Mac's are also not faster than light.
What's with all those "quotes" in the submitted "article"? Somebody seems to be very "satisfied" with this "comitee".
Must buy a G5. Must have Most Powerful Personal Computer (TM). Must believe advertising. They wouldn't lie to me.
By the time the ad was out, it was no longer the most powerful computer.
Gator/Claria is Spyware.
Yeah, I got Windows XP after I saw the ads on TV. Imagine my dissapointment when I found it it wouldn't actually allow me to fly around. :(
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Yeah, the Pentium IVs that outperform the G5s do so in such an impersonal way.
I have that G5 and it did indeed blow me out the side of my house.
I wonder how long till they ban IBM's Linux Ad once they discover that Linux is not an 8-year-old boy?
But wait, there is more. I have installed Windows2003 on one of my computers, and contrary to Microsoft's TV ads, it didn't save me 5 cents per business transaction. I was hoping to make a killing on that.
In UK, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is simply known as I Swear It's Not Butter!
Since when did people start believing commercials?
No, he meant Superphallus.
World's fastest processor? Now that apple no longer has the worlds god damned slowest processor, its no wonder their sales are picking up. I have a slide rule that can compute faster than my G4...
In iTunes on my dual-G5 I can stop the M.C. Hammer track, "U Can't Touch This" in less than a 10th of second.
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Strait man? Is that a man in a straight jacket? Some guy who monitors ship traffic in the Strait Of Gibraltar? Mark Knopfler?
Lesson 1, Grasshopper: if you're going to troll, at least spell it correctly.
--- Ban humanity.
I always wondered about that, since it's an American beer, shouldn't it be the "President of Beers"?
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
If you've ever tasted Budweiser, you'd claim it to be more like the "Intern Under the President's Desk" of beers.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
No no no, the ads were only meant to convey what using XP *feels like*. Continue using it for a extended period, and you'll be getting out-of-body experiences of flying in no time. You might even see a bright light at the end of a tunnel, and be transported to a glowing, happy place full of men in purple butterfly suits...
Where's my meds?
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
... but get a few mates with their G5's together and it bloody well is the fastest personal computer.
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I got a G5 after seeing the ad. Imagine my relief when I was not blown through a wall of my house into a tree.
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Oh wait. You mean I am supposed to use my judgement and work out what bits are the truth and what bits are advertsing hyperbole.
Silly me! I though every part of every ad on TV was literal truth.
From what to what?
From what they were last year, to what they are now.
Slashdot might be banned, afer all it claims to contain "Stuff that matters" I await my -5 Mod punishment.
Yeah, but one gets the feeling that the folks at Virginia Tech haven't grasped what a computer is for.
To help keep the ambitious job on schedule, "we used an assembly line of volunteer students to unpack computers and perform many of the routine but time consuming functions." Patricia Arvin, associate vice president of information systems and computing,... [emphasis mine]
http://computing.vt.edu/research_computing/teras cale/pressrelease.html
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The committee also noted that the Apple advertisement is double plus ungood. In an unrelated note, UK Mac User smashed the committee's chanting jumbotron in an act of hammer tossing vandalism.