I was thinking about a similar thing... I think the whole association thing works if the viewer already has (or knows) the product. The vague association works well as a reinforcer, but not as well at creating initial familiarity.
When we look at the Apple adds we get information (or at least stories) that teach us why we should decide to switch to apple, since most people don't own or use apple computers already.
With MS they can assume that viewers already know and use Windows. So their job is to build on that existing familiarity, and give it a positive association.
Clearly the OP does not really understand what advertising is usually about. Most mass market advertising does not try to provide information, it is providing associations. It presents something enjoyable (here it is assumed that Seinfeld+Gates==Enjoyable) and then presents the branding that they want to be associated with that enjoyable feeling. The crazy part is that this works, and in a weird way can be suggested as actually improving the product. Since the next time the subject of the advertising uses/sees the product, they will subconsiously access that association with enjoyment... therefore the product is more enjoyable as a result of the advertising.
I am not saying that this is a good thing, but it is how things work in the real world.
Now you can argue either way as to whether Seinfeld+Gates=Delicious... I didn't actually watch the comercial myself... but they might be reaching as far a transitive association all the way back to the Seinfeld show, which almost everyone agrees was enjoyable. In any case I don't think there was ever any intent to have actual informative content in the comercial... they are just "building the brand".
Not sure how this qualifies as Slashdot frontpage worthy. Sure its a neat UI that hides much of the visable portions of windows, but its still windows, with all the good (app. compatibility) and bad (M$) that it brings with it. "Just" switch it to Linux is a hell of a lot harder than this rambling blogger makes it sound.
I use Understand for Fortran quite regularly and I really like it. The GUI has lots of little anoying quirks... but those anoyances are more than made up for by the real meat of the program which realy does help you understand your code. Plus their support is _very_ responsive, every bug report or feature request I have submitted has been dealt with in 2 weeks or less. Also, they put out a new build every monday.
I know you were joking but: 1) Everyone knows dilithium moderates mater anti-matter reactions, not fusion 2) The actual crystal was lithium tantalate... just need to replace the tantalate with another lithium then things will get real interesting;)
Did you actually look at the website you linked to? On the front page it has a link to a pdf listing results from the 2004 inspections / audits. I think it was something like 600 inspections and 400 audits.
The site has gone down now and I closed acrobat reader so I can't find the exact info.
The researchers calculate that a 10 cm long microwire can carry out 10 million divisions or cells and in each one of these a byte can be stored. In order to store the byte, each one of these cells is magnetised in one orientation or the other.
From reading the description it would seem 10cm could hold 10 Giga BITS or about 1.25 Gigabytes at best. This is still impressive, expescially if some media could be created that used several wires or packaged one very long wire, perhaps in a spiral, like a CD.
Actually it seems that at least timewarner and comcast already support cablecard. It would appear that you 'lease' the cablecard just like you would the digital cable box.
CableCard is coming, see: http://www.engadget.com/entry/12340003000254 56/
The first unanswered question is: When? The second is (like with just about any new standard) will it be tweaked before it becomes ubiquitous? ie If you could get ahold of CableCard equipment today, will it work with the hardware of tomorrow?
For some reason ladybug refuses to accept my submission (I am using mozilla 1.6).
but, even if I did submit the 'bug report', would MS really care that Visual Studio won't install using wine in Linux? Especially since, for most definitions of the word 'bug', it is probably CodeWeavers (or the wine project) who has this 'bug'.
Just tried in crossover office v3.0.1 and the installer fails with an extremely obtuse message: Error: A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Cancelling setup.
We have not announced pricing and licensing and will not do so until next calendar year. For the time being, we can tell you that the Express Editions will be low-cost and will continue to be easy to acquire.
# When will the Express products, and the rest of the Visual Studio 2005 product line, be officially released?
The Visual Studio 2005 family of products will likely be released in the first half of 2005. Microsoft will continue to release Community Technology Previews (CTPs) and beta releases of the Visual Studio 2005 family of products until then.
Actually I was able to reproduce the 'problem' It is not mentioned in the article, but you can access the admin page from the WAN port if 'firewall protection' is disabled.
In hind sight this sort of makes sense... although it is NOT at all obvious at first glance.
In any case I wouldn't consider this to be a HUGE problem since 'firewall protection' is on by default and 'Joe 6pack' is unlikely to turn it off since the general perception amoung nongeeks (at least in my experience) is that Firewalls are magical good things that block bad stuff (for varying definitions of bad).
Did you test before setting the new forwarding? I think Rateliff had some cables crossed and, becuase I am using the exact same firmware, I don't forward 80 or 443, and I can't get the admin page from the WAN.
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I was thinking about a similar thing ... I think the whole association thing works if the viewer already has (or knows) the product. The vague association works well as a reinforcer, but not as well at creating initial familiarity.
When we look at the Apple adds we get information (or at least stories) that teach us why we should decide to switch to apple, since most people don't own or use apple computers already.
With MS they can assume that viewers already know and use Windows. So their job is to build on that existing familiarity, and give it a positive association.
Clearly the OP does not really understand what advertising is usually about. Most mass market advertising does not try to provide information, it is providing associations. It presents something enjoyable (here it is assumed that Seinfeld+Gates==Enjoyable) and then presents the branding that they want to be associated with that enjoyable feeling. The crazy part is that this works, and in a weird way can be suggested as actually improving the product. Since the next time the subject of the advertising uses/sees the product, they will subconsiously access that association with enjoyment ... therefore the product is more enjoyable as a result of the advertising.
I am not saying that this is a good thing, but it is how things work in the real world.
Now you can argue either way as to whether Seinfeld+Gates=Delicious ... I didn't actually watch the comercial myself ... but they might be reaching as far a transitive association all the way back to the Seinfeld show, which almost everyone agrees was enjoyable. In any case I don't think there was ever any intent to have actual informative content in the comercial ... they are just "building the brand".
See Seth Godin's book "All Marketers Are Liars"
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/all_marketers_are_liars/
or a quick review of it here:
http://www.businesspundit.com/lying-marketing-and-perception/
I haven't tried it yet, but the sandboxed tabs sounds like an awesome idea.
Honestly how often do you actually use the home button?
I can't remember the last time I clicked it.
Not sure how this qualifies as Slashdot frontpage worthy. Sure its a neat UI that hides much of the visable portions of windows, but its still windows, with all the good (app. compatibility) and bad (M$) that it brings with it. "Just" switch it to Linux is a hell of a lot harder than this rambling blogger makes it sound.
I had never heard of this, but then again I have never actually gone to Vegas.
Anyway, would that make this the longest running Star Trek franchise?
Not yet, but soon hopefully. As stated in the OP.
It is really cool to see more hardware vendors moving to open source. Drivers are one area where more eyes are needed to help make the bugs shallow.
I use Understand for Fortran quite regularly and I really like it. The GUI has lots of little anoying quirks ... but those anoyances are more than made up for by the real meat of the program which realy does help you understand your code. Plus their support is _very_ responsive, every bug report or feature request I have submitted has been dealt with in 2 weeks or less. Also, they put out a new build every monday.
Just being pedantic, but its a GLX extension (GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap) not a GL extension that is missing.
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world:
.... ha ha
... groan
Those who know binary
And those who don't
A cop pulls over Dr. Heisenburg and says, "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
Dr. Heisenburg responds, "NO, but I know EXACTLY where I am"
Professor: What is the integral of dcabin over cabin?
Student: Log cabin
Professor: No, its a house boat! You forgot to add the C
Professor: What is the area of a circle
Student: Pi R square
Professor: Pi are not square, Pie are round
I know you were joking but: ... just need to replace the tantalate with another lithium then things will get real interesting ;)
1) Everyone knows dilithium moderates mater anti-matter reactions, not fusion
2) The actual crystal was lithium tantalate
actually its 2.6.11.10 that was just released
Did you actually look at the website you linked to?
On the front page it has a link to a pdf listing results from the 2004 inspections / audits. I think it was something like 600 inspections and 400 audits.
The site has gone down now and I closed acrobat reader so I can't find the exact info.
From reading the description it would seem 10cm could hold 10 Giga BITS or about 1.25 Gigabytes at best.
This is still impressive, expescially if some media could be created that used several wires or packaged one very long wire, perhaps in a spiral, like a CD.
Actually it seems that at least timewarner and comcast already support cablecard. It would appear that you 'lease' the cablecard just like you would the digital cable box.
t s/ digitalcable/cablecard.htmlo m/Support/Corp1/FAQ/FaqDetail _2651.html
http://www.timewarnercable.com/corporate/produc
http://www.comcast.c
CableCard is coming, see:4 56/
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000300025
The first unanswered question is: When?
The second is (like with just about any new standard) will it be tweaked before it becomes ubiquitous? ie If you could get ahold of CableCard equipment today, will it work with the hardware of tomorrow?
In fortran77 "not equal" is .NE. /= which was a common extension to 77
In fortran90 they added
OK I'm not up on natural language parsing, so what does:
=-NE-==
Mean?
Does Drew Carey get royalty payments on this stuff?!?
I think it means that they do not offer dial-up service.
For some reason ladybug refuses to accept my submission (I am using mozilla 1.6).
but, even if I did submit the 'bug report', would MS really care that Visual Studio won't install using wine in Linux? Especially since, for most definitions of the word 'bug', it is probably CodeWeavers (or the wine project) who has this 'bug'.
Just tried in crossover office v3.0.1 and the installer fails with an extremely obtuse message:
Error:
A problem has been encountered while loading the setup
components. Cancelling setup.
***FROM THE FAQ***
# Are the Express Edition products free?
We have not announced pricing and licensing and will not do so until next calendar year. For the time being, we can tell you that the Express Editions will be low-cost and will continue to be easy to acquire.
# When will the Express products, and the rest of the Visual Studio 2005 product line, be officially released?
The Visual Studio 2005 family of products will likely be released in the first half of 2005. Microsoft will continue to release Community Technology Previews (CTPs) and beta releases of the Visual Studio 2005 family of products until then.
Actually I was able to reproduce the 'problem' It is not mentioned in the article, but you can access the admin page from the WAN port if 'firewall protection' is disabled.
... although it is NOT at all obvious at first glance.
In hind sight this sort of makes sense
In any case I wouldn't consider this to be a HUGE problem since 'firewall protection' is on by default and 'Joe 6pack' is unlikely to turn it off since the general perception amoung nongeeks (at least in my experience) is that Firewalls are magical good things that block bad stuff (for varying definitions of bad).
Did you test before setting the new forwarding?
I think Rateliff had some cables crossed and, becuase I am using the exact same firmware, I don't forward 80 or 443, and I can't get the admin page from the WAN.