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Firefox New York Times Ad Hits the Presses
Dave writes "The long awaited New York Times ad for Firefox has finally hit the presses. Because of the vast number of donations the ad covered two pages of the newspaper. It's being timed to coincide with 11 million downloads."
...we could start a fund raising project to run a full-page ad for Lynx?
This way to the egress...
Here i was thinking the new york times would go out of print before they got this thing through!
Perfect, this will come just in time for the pre christmas, holiday rush where nobody reads newspapers.
12th line down 182 name over, seee see see, I made the paper! Not.
Spinning newspaper injures reporter.
Unknown host pong.
the coolest thing about firefox is getting it past your company firewall and system administrator. i wish i could do that with counter-strike...but i would settle for a stripper. people at work come up behind me and they're like "whoa..are you running microsoft plus? your IE icons look sooOooO cool." that's SO Netscape 4.2, though...come on.
Martini Glasses
"It's All About The Pentiums"
'Weird Al' Yankovic
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby), yeah, now, what y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I'm strictly plug-and-play, I ain't afraid of Y2K
I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him "Money" for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support
It's all about the Pentiums, what?
You've gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
You're usin' a 286? Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet
Your database is a disaster
You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster
Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar
Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Now, what y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Uh, uh, loggin' in now
Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got 'em printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
My digital media is write-protected
Every file inspected, no viruses detected
I beta tested every operation system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed 'em
While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin'
It does all my work without me even askin'
Got a flat-screen monitor forty inches wide wide
I believe that your says "Etch-A-Sketch" on the side
In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user
You've got your own newsgroup, "alt.total-loser"
Your motherboard melts when you try to send a fax
Where'd you get your CPU, in a box of Cracker Jacks?
Play me online? Well, you know that I'll beat you
If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you
What? What? What? What? What?
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Now, what y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
What??
anyone see I.P. Freely?
Microsoft has purchased the New York Times Company (NYT) and as a celebration of their new found synergies has decided to cancel today's printing. Bill Gates, reached via telephone, remarked "Oh, did we buy them... I didn't notice. I hope Steve [Balmer] remembered to use by Diner's Club Card for that acquisition."
I love the ad! I especially like the hidden image on the first page (stare at the page long enough with uncrossed eyes and "IE Sucks" will appear in 3D). Was this a clever easter egg or just an attempt at semi-subtle subliminal advertising?
No, no they didnt. but using two pages just to print "IE is teh ghey" or "Firefox is doubleplus good" somehow lacks style...and style counts for something nowadays...
"Good night, good work, sleep well, I'll most likely kill you in the morning." - Dread Pirate Roberts
What do you guys think they used as the font/size for all those names? That's like EULA sized print!
"No occurences of:
Bill Gates
Found in this document."
Must have ran out of ink.
Mozilla.org has been New-York-Times-dotted today, when hundreds of thousands of readers tried to download the open source browser Firefox...
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It's my understanding a free copy of this ad is being included with every copy of the New York Times.
High-res, too. One day offer only, though.
> so just how exact are they funding their project (and advertisement)
:)
Never under estimate the power of a thousand dirty hippies.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
I was honestly surprised to see 'nothing to lose' instead of the more likely 'nothing to loose' in the ad.
This should do wonders for the NYT. I know I'm going to go out and buy a copy.
Badass Resumes
No. We'll see IE, the leading web browser in the world with 80+ percent of the market.
Funny, how that used to be 90+ percent of the market.
In a few months you'll be repeating the same joke with "70+ percent"
Regis Tration-Required
I don't keep a lid on my coffee so when I walk around I look busy -me
Here's the alphabet for reference:
ABCDEFGHIUJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
You might want to learn it. It makes using phone books and stuff easier.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
A nice representation of all sections of people. Russian,Chinese and Indian names are common. Too bad too few women in it (maybe 1:50). Maybe Firefox is not a chick magnet after all...
Does anyone have a scan of the actual ad, but with coffee stains, donut crumbs, and a few cigarette ashes on the page? I want to make it feel New York authentic.
Don't mind the extra U. It's there to break up the fight between the I and J.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
I didn't know there was an extra U in the alphabet. Must be silent because I can't find it on the keyboard either.
"Browser War Continues: Women, Minorities Hardest Hit."
"Hi, I'm Al Gore, inventor of the internet. When I'm surfing the web, I like to use a little program I invented called Mozilla Firefox. It's got moxie!"
*dons tin-foil hat*
---
"I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything that I thought it could be."
it's where aaallll the cool kids go for coffee
what the heck are *you* doing there, then?
Being a poser, duh. The hipster scene is up-and-coming down south, and I'm trying to get in on the ground floor. It's like the dot-com bubble all over again, but you get girls instead of investors.
i use linux and windows oh god how can i have an opinion
Welp, googling for them brought me to http://travel.lanfear.com/ rather quickly.
Marc and Samantha Wandschneider, you suburban looking, plain Jane looking couple, prepare for the slashdotting of your life! Muahahahahaha
"As the intrepid kobold companion continues his journey, he begins to wonder... if priests raises dead, why anybody die?
"No occurences of 'Gates' were found in the document."
I guess Melinda doesn't like Firefox either.
utter rubbish
There's a certain irony in checking out the Firefox ad from a CVS...
It's "no one," not "noone." Who the hell is noone anyway?
I paid for my name to be put in the ad. ... Gives me some free press as well even if I have to point it out to people.
:)
Don't you mean, gives you some free press, but all you had to do was pay for it?
Throw away that tired old web browser! With Firefox you get SECURITY, STANDARDS Compliance, all in one easy payment of not $100, not $50, not $25, but, FREE. Yes it's free!
This is my sig.
I only counted 9,998 names...
and they randomly appeared in alphabetical order! what were the chances? ;-)
You really couldn't extrapolate that he was comparing Apache to IIS?
Send your friends messages of love at fuck-you.org
A geek's true Christmas wish come true:
First name on the ad!
It's to save space. For the first U, hit shift-"U". To access the second U, press caps-lock, then "U".
The explanation for this involves me talking about Unicode, so I trust that you, as a developer, will completely ignore it.
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sorry :(
Surprised there is no surprise eh?
OOPS! I totally screwed that one up. It should be 1 in
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