The real problem with ads is that, unless you're in the market for some specific kind of product at some specific time, the ads are noise that's "in your face" and preventing you from seeing something you ARE interested in.
Google and podcast ads are slightly better in that respect than attention-hogging, scarce-commodity-(my time)-hogging ads which detract from content.
They're easily SKIPPABLE but being persistent, they can be be individually replayed WHEN YOU WANT THEM and stay segregated and "out of your face" UNTIL YOU WANT THEM.
And you DO want them. But on YOUR terms.
Otherwise how would you find out about anything that's new, in any domain?
Not everybody cares that 'so-and-so' got a new 'schmijick' out.
Heck YOU don't care that 'so-and-so' got a new 'schmijick' out unless you're shopping around for that 'schmijick', or its functional equivalent, at that very moment.
Advertising is the only way that the 'schmijick' makers of the world have a way of reaching out to tell you about it.
And if they don't advertise, you will never know about their 'schmijick' and they'll go broke.
The problem is that they're used to competing for a "scarce resource": access to your attention.
The Google and podcast media model broke that and that why Google is Google.
I was using
a 15" Apple monitor for compiles, execution status and reference guides
a 17" Apple monitor for coding and controlling the GUI as well as most other tasks
a 21" Apple monitor for final quality control GUI and color correction.
The bean-counters just need to know that you have the equipment allready so it requires no additional expenditure on their part and it would cost them money to even move it to another desk, so do nothing and tell then they shouldn't either.
I suspect that Apple definitely does NOT want to enter a cut throat world of competition where it becomes just an also ran competing on price with a thousand corporate buyers, when it can design kick-ass product in the consumer market place.
This was written by a misguided (and severely deluded,) fan-boy.
The PC wars are long over. Get over it. Microsoft won. (So they're now tied to the office and that kind of ugly industrial design. [Think BROWN Zune. Yuck!])
Apple is a whole lot better positioned to compete in the vastly more profitable consumer arena.
I say lets truck one in to every middle eastern capital, embed it in a huge block of concrete in the center of town, put the triggers in the hands on the leaders in the region with a half hour delay to STOP the bombs from going off.
As long as everybody there to stop the trigger, everything's fine.
The moment some country stops reporting in, boom, they ALL go off.
Case closed. M.A.D. on a small scale.
We stop worrying about any one leader suddenly deciding to blow up his neighbor.
Microsoft doesn't really care about the little single machine buyer.
The entire publicity was done to get mainstream media's attention and tell the corporate buyers, who buy not 1 machine at a time but 10,000 to 20,000 machines at a time that the change is coming.
The end-user who's sing a PC at home isn't going to upgade his OS until he buys a new machine, and he's taking what they're giving because he has no real choice.
Unless he buys a Mac or is geeky enough to get a Linux box. (That means YOU reading this, and you didn't give a shit what Microsoft was doing anyway, did you?)
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Honest... The laminator was dirty when they did my card.
and the politicians don't want direct competition from a convict.
I've been compared against it (and NOT matched) plenty of times.:-)
I'm real glad I have a rare enough name.
I'd hate to have the same name as a crook.
Yeah, I'm a hard-ass but I'm law-abiding and ethical. And that seems to be good enough (plus my old Canadian security clearance.)
It seems obvious to you, but computers are "all run by Pixies" to the US Patent Office.
As somebody with MS, I would be delighted.
Perhaps buy more judges, juries and other legal instruments?
This is a crock of shit.
to reverse engineer anything.
When WINE gets good enough, they'll get sued out of existence.
There the TVs were hanging from ceiling brackets and turned on 24/7
The real problem with ads is that, unless you're in the market for some specific kind of product at some specific time, the ads are noise that's "in your face" and preventing you from seeing something you ARE interested in.
Google and podcast ads are slightly better in that respect than attention-hogging, scarce-commodity-(my time)-hogging ads which detract from content.
They're easily SKIPPABLE but being persistent, they can be be individually replayed WHEN YOU WANT THEM and stay segregated and "out of your face" UNTIL YOU WANT THEM.
And you DO want them. But on YOUR terms.
Otherwise how would you find out about anything that's new, in any domain?
Not everybody cares that 'so-and-so' got a new 'schmijick' out.
Heck YOU don't care that 'so-and-so' got a new 'schmijick' out unless you're shopping around for that 'schmijick', or its functional equivalent, at that very moment.
Advertising is the only way that the 'schmijick' makers of the world have a way of reaching out to tell you about it.
And if they don't advertise, you will never know about their 'schmijick' and they'll go broke.
The problem is that they're used to competing for a "scarce resource": access to your attention.
The Google and podcast media model broke that and that why Google is Google.
Isn't America a wonderful country.
Don't think big think small.
I hereby claim the number 2 (two) and all numbers divisible by 2 (two.)
Now everybody who claims fuck-all divisible by two owes me money.
The DMCA appliies because I SAY so.
I mean, the best way to make sure that their movies are safe is to keep them out of the country.
And they're going to use the money the don't send down south to the US to create a movie industry in Canada.
Oh wait, they're already here and their cameras are going to be available? Saweeet!
I hadn't thought of "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" in months.
:-)
Thanks for reminding me.
Or mine for that matter. (I'm spastic...)
I was using
a 15" Apple monitor for compiles, execution status and reference guides
a 17" Apple monitor for coding and controlling the GUI as well as most other tasks
a 21" Apple monitor for final quality control GUI and color correction.
The bean-counters just need to know that you have the equipment allready so it requires no additional expenditure on their part and it would cost them money to even move it to another desk, so do nothing and tell then they shouldn't either.
And its utter bullshit.
I suspect that Apple definitely does NOT want to enter a cut throat world of competition where it becomes just an also ran competing on price with a thousand corporate buyers, when it can design kick-ass product in the consumer market place.
This was written by a misguided (and severely deluded,) fan-boy.
The PC wars are long over. Get over it. Microsoft won. (So they're now tied to the office and that kind of ugly industrial design. [Think BROWN Zune. Yuck!])
Apple is a whole lot better positioned to compete in the vastly more profitable consumer arena.
Who defines what is violent?
Who defines what is acceptable?
What will this do to French cinema, films like "Banlieu 13"?
That is just insane.
I say lets truck one in to every middle eastern capital, embed it in a huge block of concrete in the center of town, put the triggers in the hands on the leaders in the region with a half hour delay to STOP the bombs from going off.
As long as everybody there to stop the trigger, everything's fine.
The moment some country stops reporting in, boom, they ALL go off.
Case closed. M.A.D. on a small scale.
We stop worrying about any one leader suddenly deciding to blow up his neighbor.
It also makes space based weapons unnecessary.
So we had a judge hacking into the mail (and doing what-ever else,) with a file crack and a keyboard sniffer.
Why aren't I surprised?
in a street in "Second Life."
Derl, dolling, ass-hat, unless you have anything to charge her with, I'd stay the fuck away from her.
"O' her boy-frind is just gonna havta come ovah the'e and whip yo' ass!"
I mean it.
Let them drop off the face of the 'Net.
Then if they complain, fuck 'em.
Its their laws, its their problem.
There is no need to even check which browser anymore but they got some old school programmer who just kept the checking code.
Some idiot need to get a new job.
I've never seen the documentation that came with any version of OS X.
I've spent many a nights burning the candle with my friend while we hunted all over Google for fuckin' Linux documentation.
When we found some it was either inapplicable or hopelessly out of date.
OS X just works, and THAT'S worth $130.
(I buy the 'five install' family pack and I share the install CDs with another friend who's also got 2 Macs.)
Microsoft doesn't really care about the little single machine buyer.
The entire publicity was done to get mainstream media's attention and tell the corporate buyers, who buy not 1 machine at a time but 10,000 to 20,000 machines at a time that the change is coming.
The end-user who's sing a PC at home isn't going to upgade his OS until he buys a new machine, and he's taking what they're giving because he has no real choice.
Unless he buys a Mac or is geeky enough to get a Linux box. (That means YOU reading this, and you didn't give a shit what Microsoft was doing anyway, did you?)
Its all being done for the volume buyers.
full of cars in front of breweries and distilleries the world over.