Part of the problem with taking long vacations (or vacations at all) is the way many employers classify their employees.
I work 50+ hour weeks with insane hours (5:30pm to between 2 and 5am with a certain number of mandatory weekends a month, though I have responsibilities that require me to be in the office every Friday, Saturday and Sunday). I don't get vacation days, or sick days, or health insurance. In fact, my company classifies me as a part-time (ha), freelance employee. The thing is, if I WERE salaried, vacations or not, my salary would drop like a stone due to lost overtime and extra deductions.
I love my job, I really do, but the way we're categorized smacks of legal finagling to me.
However, it's true that the producers will have actual numbers (instead of Nielsen's statistical analysis) to figure out whether the show is popular or not, and that scares Nielsen the most.
I don't believe that for a second - If Neilsen's statistical analysis wasn't accurate in the first place they wouldn't be listened to the way they are.
When you think about it, when you carry a laptop with you all the time, all you're really lugging around is a massive battery with a computer on top of it. Seems to me, that battery could be used to power all the OTHER crap I have to lug around - why carry three power adapters when I really only NEED one?
You can show me all the flashy usb devices that currently exist, but NOTHING is as convenient as one of these.
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Did YOU ever study cage? Because you entirely missed the point.
Cage believed that there are elements of a musical performance that are entirely out of the composer's control, things that are random and spontaneous that nevertheless inflect what's going on on the stage. Every sneeze by the audience, every cough, every whispered conversation, every squeaking chair as an audience member gets up and leaves in disgust, ALL of it is in some way a part of the music you're listening to.
What Cage did was, to bring this passed-over element of musical performance to light, he wrote a piece of music that entirely accentuated the random sub-elements of performance by eliminating the music entirely, thereby making people more conscious of their immediate surroundings. THAT'S why 4'33" is important; it has nothing to do with this bullshit 'what is art?' argument.
I'm all for technology (I mean, I hang out here, so) but no software in the world is a substitute for a living, breathing music teacher. Software can't teach you how to make music expressive; otherwise you're just stringing note together.
Go to your local music store or the music department of a local college; both of which are excellent places to get in touch with someone who'll be eager to teach you how music works.
Not entirely true. Of all the industries I've worked in (Retail, Retail Corporate, Reference Libraries, tech services, etc.; a nice sampling of the market), you know what business was filled with the most cheerful, friendly, kind, compassionate, intelligent and good-hearted people?
Besides, the registrar doesn't actually do any more work registering sex.org than registering IwantApurpleMonkey.biz.. so they're just cashing in on percieved value.
Welcome to economics 101: the value of any given property is exactly equal to what somebody is willing to pay for it.
I don't want to know how fast my (hypothetical) kid is driving 99% of the time. It's not my business, it's really not, unless he gets hurt, hurts someone else, damages MY property or gets in trouble with the police. I don't care what he does until something happens. THAT'S when I spring into dad-mode. THAT'S when I start to ask questions and yell and devise new and cunning punishments. Until then, it's up to him what he does. Hopefully I'd've raised him smarter than to put himself and his passengers into danger, and I'll assume I did until he proves me wrong.
Anyplace that you can see a product name or brand name identity in a TV show is a paid advertisement.
We work for the same company or something? Because tracking those product placements is what I do for a living. *Waves across the office at the only other slashdotter here.
Anyway. That's not quite accurate and your terms are a bit skewed, though this particular aspect of advertising is rather new and the lexicon hasn't quite settled yet.
"Embedded" advertising are traditional ads that appear within a television show's content but are separate from that content - the banners on the bottom of the television screen hocking other in-network programming or the "brought to you in DirectTV HDTV" are embedded ads, as are the "Coors Light Cold Hard Facts" segments of SportsCenter.
What you're talking about is something called IPP, or (I always get this acronym wrong, but) Internal Product Performance, meaning actual products that are actually seen in the programming's actual world. IPP is usually paid for by the ad companies, but they can also be paid for by the program itself to add realism to the show, or their usage (like Apple) requires no payments either way. My point being, just because you see the Mercedes logo on a car in a parking lot doesn't automatically mean that anybody has paid for anything. Now, if the car appeared in its own two minute montage that showed off how sexy and fast Mercedes' new car is, that'd be something different.
Oh, and hey. Congratulations on remembering all those particular product performances for your post - it pretty much verifies that these ads, which people tend to have negative opinions on, works extremely well.
And Apple learned from its mistakes, now you can use USB 2.0 or FireWire.
Not anymore, you can't. iPod videos ship with a USB(2.0) cable only and are unsynchable through firewire, even with the proper cabling. I believe the Nanos are the same way, but am fuzzy on the details. And lemme tell ya, coming from a guy with four Macs, being forced to sync with the only one with USB2.0 on it (which ain't where my music lives) is supremely fucking annoying.
Ubuntu doesn't include decoders for proprietary media formats on principle, including MP3 and AAC. Playback's possible, sure, but not included out-of-the-box.
Try telling the average computer user that.mp3's, aac's, or any other proprietary media format won't play out of the box and see how they react. Citing two ubernerds as a omen for a forthcoming shift by mac users to linux involves a certain disconnect from reality.
(There was some weird "hokey pokey"ish dance aspect to it.)
He lets the righteous in,
He kicks the heathens out,
He lets the righteous in, and he plops 'em on a cloud
We do the hokey-pokey to prove we're all devout,
That's what God's all about.
It's anecdotal, but I don't know a single person who's gonna shell out the cash for a ps3 and I don't know anybody who owns an XBox 360, but I know tons of people who're chomping at the bit for the Wii to come out. I'm not sure where those numbers came from, but they don't ring true for me.
The chief difference between Canada and America? At least the Canadians get fair warning.
June 15th, the date this went into effect, was two weeks ago, and the Globe and Mail article was posted yesterday. So either Bell Sympatico told people with little to no warning, or the Globe and Mail didn't bother to run this until everything was said and done. Either way, this sucks.
I'll also mention that 4 of the 5 NYC boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx) have their electricity distribution almost entirely below ground.
Yet another reason for us to give Staten Island to New Jersey - our average'd go up 20%.
I don't know what's worse: the fact that the article slips readily into pidgin english, the fact that the summary is also in pidgin english or the fact that the eds didn't notice that both of the above were in pidgin english.
Guess what? I do not want my advertizing to be entertaining. I want it to be informative.
Then you're statistically irrelevant to the advertising industry. Thanks for playing.
I do not need to think of McDonalds as a hip place for youngsters.
...and I'm guessing you're not a youngster from that statement. Those ads weren't targeted at you. Also: 75% of all advertising is about keeping brands strong. Even if you don't like McDonald's, the fact that you're talking about them right now means they're doing a good job of staying in the public perception. So even if they lose, they win. It's fascinating, isn't it?
The point of advertizing has morphed from a way to educate to a way to associate it with a feeling or a mood.
Oh, please. Advertising that doesn't promote an emotional reaction is completely ineffective at selling things. This isn't a new thing - even the automobile advertisements from the good ol' days tried to appeal to your emotional side first before hitting you with statistics and facts and whatnot. You should looks at some of the classic Ogilvy car ads and pinpoint emotionally resonant language, even in the boilerplate. To believe that they were merely informative is a fallacy.
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Part of the problem with taking long vacations (or vacations at all) is the way many employers classify their employees.
I work 50+ hour weeks with insane hours (5:30pm to between 2 and 5am with a certain number of mandatory weekends a month, though I have responsibilities that require me to be in the office every Friday, Saturday and Sunday). I don't get vacation days, or sick days, or health insurance. In fact, my company classifies me as a part-time (ha), freelance employee. The thing is, if I WERE salaried, vacations or not, my salary would drop like a stone due to lost overtime and extra deductions.
I love my job, I really do, but the way we're categorized smacks of legal finagling to me.
--Triv
Judging by how fast the models end up nekkid, I'd say badly.
Triv
However, it's true that the producers will have actual numbers (instead of Nielsen's statistical analysis) to figure out whether the show is popular or not, and that scares Nielsen the most.
I don't believe that for a second - If Neilsen's statistical analysis wasn't accurate in the first place they wouldn't be listened to the way they are.
I suppose it's worth mentioning that TLA isn't a TLA. Well, it's not the TLA you think it is. It's a Three-Letter-Abbreviation
The correct term for what you're talking about (an abbreviation that isn't pronouncable as a word, like "wtf") is an initialism .
When you think about it, when you carry a laptop with you all the time, all you're really lugging around is a massive battery with a computer on top of it. Seems to me, that battery could be used to power all the OTHER crap I have to lug around - why carry three power adapters when I really only NEED one?
You can show me all the flashy usb devices that currently exist, but NOTHING is as convenient as one of these.
Did YOU ever study cage? Because you entirely missed the point.
Cage believed that there are elements of a musical performance that are entirely out of the composer's control, things that are random and spontaneous that nevertheless inflect what's going on on the stage. Every sneeze by the audience, every cough, every whispered conversation, every squeaking chair as an audience member gets up and leaves in disgust, ALL of it is in some way a part of the music you're listening to.
What Cage did was, to bring this passed-over element of musical performance to light, he wrote a piece of music that entirely accentuated the random sub-elements of performance by eliminating the music entirely, thereby making people more conscious of their immediate surroundings. THAT'S why 4'33" is important; it has nothing to do with this bullshit 'what is art?' argument.
Triv
I'm all for technology (I mean, I hang out here, so) but no software in the world is a substitute for a living, breathing music teacher. Software can't teach you how to make music expressive; otherwise you're just stringing note together.
Go to your local music store or the music department of a local college; both of which are excellent places to get in touch with someone who'll be eager to teach you how music works.
Not entirely true. Of all the industries I've worked in (Retail, Retail Corporate, Reference Libraries, tech services, etc.; a nice sampling of the market), you know what business was filled with the most cheerful, friendly, kind, compassionate, intelligent and good-hearted people?
An advertising agency. Is that fucked up or WHAT?
Besides, the registrar doesn't actually do any more work registering sex.org than registering IwantApurpleMonkey.biz .. so they're just cashing in on percieved value.
Welcome to economics 101: the value of any given property is exactly equal to what somebody is willing to pay for it.
I don't want to know how fast my (hypothetical) kid is driving 99% of the time. It's not my business, it's really not, unless he gets hurt, hurts someone else, damages MY property or gets in trouble with the police. I don't care what he does until something happens. THAT'S when I spring into dad-mode. THAT'S when I start to ask questions and yell and devise new and cunning punishments. Until then, it's up to him what he does. Hopefully I'd've raised him smarter than to put himself and his passengers into danger, and I'll assume I did until he proves me wrong.
It's called trust. Remember that?
Triv
Anyplace that you can see a product name or brand name identity in a TV show is a paid advertisement.
We work for the same company or something? Because tracking those product placements is what I do for a living. *Waves across the office at the only other slashdotter here.
Anyway. That's not quite accurate and your terms are a bit skewed, though this particular aspect of advertising is rather new and the lexicon hasn't quite settled yet.
"Embedded" advertising are traditional ads that appear within a television show's content but are separate from that content - the banners on the bottom of the television screen hocking other in-network programming or the "brought to you in DirectTV HDTV" are embedded ads, as are the "Coors Light Cold Hard Facts" segments of SportsCenter.
What you're talking about is something called IPP, or (I always get this acronym wrong, but) Internal Product Performance, meaning actual products that are actually seen in the programming's actual world. IPP is usually paid for by the ad companies, but they can also be paid for by the program itself to add realism to the show, or their usage (like Apple) requires no payments either way. My point being, just because you see the Mercedes logo on a car in a parking lot doesn't automatically mean that anybody has paid for anything. Now, if the car appeared in its own two minute montage that showed off how sexy and fast Mercedes' new car is, that'd be something different.
Oh, and hey. Congratulations on remembering all those particular product performances for your post - it pretty much verifies that these ads, which people tend to have negative opinions on, works extremely well.
triv
And Apple learned from its mistakes, now you can use USB 2.0 or FireWire.
Not anymore, you can't. iPod videos ship with a USB(2.0) cable only and are unsynchable through firewire, even with the proper cabling. I believe the Nanos are the same way, but am fuzzy on the details. And lemme tell ya, coming from a guy with four Macs, being forced to sync with the only one with USB2.0 on it (which ain't where my music lives) is supremely fucking annoying.
Triv
Ubuntu doesn't include decoders for proprietary media formats on principle, including MP3 and AAC. Playback's possible, sure, but not included out-of-the-box.
(so pbbbt).
Triv
Wow. I was asked to be quoted rather than stumbling across something eerily familiar.
I'm all for it. Thanks for lettin' me know.
Triv
Try telling the average computer user that .mp3's, aac's, or any other proprietary media format won't play out of the box and see how they react. Citing two ubernerds as a omen for a forthcoming shift by mac users to linux involves a certain disconnect from reality.
oh. my. god. Or rather, apparently, yours.
It was a joke. It was funny. I dare you to find a situation where god leading a spectacular, heavenly rendition of the Hokey Pokey ISN'T funny.
Chill, dude. Seriously. You're gonna give yourself an aneurism if you're not careful.
Triv
(There was some weird "hokey pokey"ish dance aspect to it.)
He lets the righteous in,
He kicks the heathens out,
He lets the righteous in, and he plops 'em on a cloud
We do the hokey-pokey to prove we're all devout,
That's what God's all about.
--Triv
Jon Katz is in upstate New York writing books about dogs. What, you don't believe me?
Seems like poetic justice to me, but I can't quite figure out why.
triv
It's anecdotal, but I don't know a single person who's gonna shell out the cash for a ps3 and I don't know anybody who owns an XBox 360, but I know tons of people who're chomping at the bit for the Wii to come out. I'm not sure where those numbers came from, but they don't ring true for me.
You're thinking of the FreeState Project. It was initially supposed to be Vermont, but New Hampshire Won out in the end.
--Triv
The chief difference between Canada and America? At least the Canadians get fair warning.
June 15th, the date this went into effect, was two weeks ago, and the Globe and Mail article was posted yesterday. So either Bell Sympatico told people with little to no warning, or the Globe and Mail didn't bother to run this until everything was said and done. Either way, this sucks.
I'll also mention that 4 of the 5 NYC boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx) have their electricity distribution almost entirely below ground.
Yet another reason for us to give Staten Island to New Jersey - our average'd go up 20%.
It'd make the city prettier, too.
--Triv
I know it's sunday and all, but come on.
triv
Kill yourself.
Hey, lookit that. An AC made a funny. Except he didn't because Bill Hicks did it first and included, you know, context and stuff.
Congratulations for making one of the funniest men ever suddenly not. Takes talent, that.
Guess what? I do not want my advertizing to be entertaining. I want it to be informative.
Then you're statistically irrelevant to the advertising industry. Thanks for playing.
I do not need to think of McDonalds as a hip place for youngsters.
The point of advertizing has morphed from a way to educate to a way to associate it with a feeling or a mood.
Oh, please. Advertising that doesn't promote an emotional reaction is completely ineffective at selling things. This isn't a new thing - even the automobile advertisements from the good ol' days tried to appeal to your emotional side first before hitting you with statistics and facts and whatnot. You should looks at some of the classic Ogilvy car ads and pinpoint emotionally resonant language, even in the boilerplate. To believe that they were merely informative is a fallacy.