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Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista
Barence writes "Microsoft has signed up comedian Jerry Seinfeld to its $300 million Vista PR blitz, as it attempts to turn around the negative perception surrounding its operating system. Reports suggest Bill Gates will also appear in the ads, which, given the comedy timing he displayed in his 'Bill's Last Day' video, and the deadpan manner of Seinfeld, could result in a huge hit for the company." Reader Zarmanto notes in his journal that "Mac users might be quite amused, considering that (like many other TV shows) the set of Seinfeld always had a Macintosh prominently displayed in the background."
on people who know i.t. shit, this pr stunt is not gonna have any effect much like the same.
.... but, the shit people are doing with pc setups are SO varying in numerousness and nature that nothing mac does can be compared to what pc is.
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(duh, i just remembered late macs are intels with macos. so much for pc-mac distinction)...
yea, hip, and all that, yea, pc is a geek and mac is hip and with a mac you can browse your music, load them to your ipod, create family albums and this and that, and do design work too
those kind of ads only can coerce less technologically keen people into 'style'.
sorry mac fans. i respect you people, and even quite respect the design work you do (many designers work on mac), but thats about it. for all the rest (and even design) there is still pc.
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The posted article is flamebait!
All the following posts are inflammations!
This is not news for nerds! It is not slashdot worthy in the least. Who cares about what Jerry Seinfeld advertises? How is that newsworthy?
Can I get a
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Sorry, I must have posted that from Vista. (Bada-Bing!)
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Ah, I see. You've got Vista set to boot into Safe Move with Command Prompt. Press F8 during startup and you can change that.
"The 1GB of memory used to sit at the desktop is annoying too. Why does Vista require 1GB (actually, a little over) to show an empty desktop? Damned if I know, but they should really do something about that. The great thing about that figure is that it's physical memory used. Virtual memory will actually be a bit (as in, 1.5GB-2GB) higher." This part shows your ignorance.
You forgot to mention that he's an ugly and annoying jew.
And what would fixing "the damn thing" involve?
Open-sourcing it.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
You know, if you keep being interesting and insightful you're going to lose that negative karma you love so much.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
You shouldn't need to spend that much money to tell people your 2 year old product isn't trash.
They shouldn't. But then, they have to be spending that money to try and counter some of the unsubstantiated FUD thats been spread about Vista, for free.
(Before I get modded as troll or whatever, I'm a Mac user, but I think this whole thing of slagging off Microsoft and then slagging them off further when they try and come back to it is stupid.)
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