I am not sure if this is in the official Advertising Ethics Manual, but I do remember hearing about it in college. It is considered bad form in competitive advertising to make light of a competitor's catastrophies.
This would include but is not limited to:
Banks bragging that they have not been robbed as many times as others.
Airlines drawing attention to competitors' crashed planes.
Perhaps Apple could simply reference security breach incidents and say their computers are not susceptible to these attacks. It is a delicate issue, for sure.
The real flaw here is that for some reason, America thinks that dirty words published in audio format over radio or television are dangerous. But, printed words, like in a newspaper, magazine, on a t-shirt, etc. can contain any four-letter combination of letters imaginable.
The problem is that we've got a federal regulatory body that has been charged with oversight of the airwaves. There is no federal govt. agency that polices printed text. "Oh, but these words are carried by the public airwaves. The use of the public airwaves must be monitored," you might say. Well, public libraries stock tens of thousands of books that would be indecent to read over the the public airwaves. Either we need to reign in the responsibility of the FCC or we need a new agency that bans books from libraries.
As for your mention of community standards from region to region, well I'd like to point out that in Austin, TX, it is perfectly legal for a woman to walk down the street topless. Women frequently enjoy topless sunbathing at our public swimming areas. Even so, the local station that broadcast Janet Jackson's Superbowl performance is facing fines. It seems that the FCC is applying a national indecency standard to all communities.
I have to agree with you. If the company desires the luxury of me doing work at home, the company must provide me the resources to do that work. In the same manner that the company provides these resources while I am in the office. Does your company expect the sales force to foot the bill for their own laptops to use for product demos in meetings? I doubt it.
I also have a DV video camera with S-video and audio inputs. But I'd prefer to use my TiVO for recording television because it's scheduling system is way more advanced than anything I can cook up for my DV camera.
Both of these options, however, work without a lot of noise or heat generated in my living room.
Damn. Looks like they got rid of the RTCW tournament they've held the past two years. That was my favorite spectator event at QuakeCon. Looks like they're thin on sponsors this year. Nvidia is the only one I saw listed in addition to iD, of course. Hopefully, Nvidia will still come through with the free beer at the Mister Sinus Theater screening party like they did last year. That ruled.
I did this a few times with a laptop from my previous job. I had it playing MP3s in my backpack as I went to work. It was a sort of mini-jambox. It crashed the hard drive on about the second trip to work... I don't think you want those laptop drives reading while you're running for the bus.. Then again, there's the iPod, so who knows.
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article you referred me to. It uses phrases such as:
'The panel report said that meeting never happened.'
I posted earlier a reference to somthing I called 'the 9-11 report'. It would be this 'panel report' that I am referencing.
Yes, the 9-11 commission is not investigating the justification for the Iraq war. It is investigating the attacks against America on 9-11. As I said before, the 9-11 commission has cleared Iraq as assisting in the attacks. From that, I am making the assertion that the war against Iraq does not further our efforts in combatting terrorism. It has succeeded mainly to fan the flames of terrorism. Do you feel safer now than you did immediately after 9-11? I certainly do not. This unilateral attack on Iraq has provided recruiting power to the Islamicist nut-cases that directly after 9-11 received much less popular support than they do now.
Hey, it sounds like you've excavated some precious nugget of information from the 9-11 commission report that the rest of the civilized world has missed. Please provide a quote from the report indicating that Iraq had a hand in the 9-11 attacks.
Otherwise, you are simply talking out of your anonymous ass.
Uhhh, Fahrenheit 9/11 does not argue that the war on Afghanistan was unjustified. Everyone in the world supported the US going into Afghanistan to root out the terrorists that executed the 9/11 attacks. This movie discusses how George Bush squandered the global support for the war on terrorism by attacking Iraq, which the 9/11 report clears of any responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. GW went from a standing ovation at the UN following the 9/11 attacks to the current global environment-- terrorism attacks have increased and we don't have widespread support among the global superpowers.
To ensure the survival of the Star Trek franchise, please stop referring to it as 'ailing'. Instead, use the word 'beleaguered'. Seems to have worked wonders for Apple.
But other companies seem to be able to release complete overhauls of an operating system on schedules stated more than a year in advance. And none of these companies have the billions in the bank that Microsoft does. The ONLY reason why Microsoft would miss release dates is through project mismanagement. They have an unlimited amount of resources to throw behind development, testing, bugfixing, etc. When they miss a milestone, it's because they were pennypinching the budget and underestimated some part of the development process.
I totally agree. I can't remember for sure, but I would bet that they had the toner cartridge base covered on sending this equipment out to be serviced.
Check the Chronicle from last week. The cover story is about free wi-fi. Republic Square Park (downtown on fourth street) already has free wi-fi. Next up is Auditorium Shores.
Though it may be theoretical, I believe data may be able to reside in RAM after a device has been shut off.
I suspect this because I used to work at Apple in the Printer Technical Support department. We supported the various postscript laserprinters Apple used to rebrand and sell. I recall a support call made by some people at the CIA. Their printer was going to need servicing for whatever the problem was and they were going to need to remove the RAM from the printer because it was used to print 'Secret' documents. I told them that changing out the RAM wasn't a user-supported operation. They said they didn't care about the warranty, etc. that they are required to not let RAM leave the building in any equipment because it may contain information such as the last document printed by the printer.
Coincidentally, I later purchased a black Next Turbo Slab from a guy on the internet. He was selling a huge batch that he had bought from the CIA. Mine came with a sticker that reads 'sanitized'... oh, and no RAM or hard drive in there, either. Of course, the guy could have been skimming the RAM out of all these used computers, but I'm betting the CIA just crushed those RAM chips up and then burned them.
Your suggestion is well-thought-out, but is plagued by two problems.
1. The bombing bots won't give a rat's ass if you add this to robots.txt. Just like spammers, there's not cost for them to hit your site anyway. Even if Google is instructed to ignore the links.
2. Your site's google ranking is affected by the quality of the links you feature pointing at other sites. Your solution unbalances this whole matrix.
You're exactly right. For action photography, a lot of people like to shoot sequentials. This is especially true in skateboarding. With film cameras, sequentials were expensive, so now that digital is really becoming prevalent, photographers are eager to leverage the cost-benefits and shoot sequentials. Even with the buffer memory, the CF speed is a bottleneck to how many frames per second you can shoot and for how long you can shoot them. The goal is 9 FPS, but I think even the highest-end nikons are stuck at around 6 or 8.
You're right. These are probably for embedded applications like space and defense (missle guidance systems, etc.). You could be right about dust, but I think if dust is an issue for a hard drive, there's bigger problems going on with the spacecraft.
Yeah. I forgot about GTA: San Andreas. I can understand you not really being into GT4. The games you listed were mostly first-person shooters from what I could tell, so if you're really focused on that genre, GT4 might not appeal to you. But it does have a huge following among auto enthusiasts. So it's going to sell in the millions of copies. And it'll probably be responsible for selling thousands of PS2s to people who just haven't made the leap yet.
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I totally agree. I can't remember for sure, but I would bet that they had the toner cartridge base covered on sending this equipment out to be serviced.
Check the Chronicle from last week. The cover story is about free wi-fi. Republic Square Park (downtown on fourth street) already has free wi-fi. Next up is Auditorium Shores.