Exactly. There unspoken attitude is that that "no doesn't really mean no" and you're not "normal" if you don't want to recieve email advertisements.
Like they said (italics mine):
Therefore, on 1/8/01, we returned all your Notification Preferences to the standard default of 'yes' to put you in line with the rest of the eBay community"
Great. Is this the marketing dept.'s great idea? Peer pressure? What's next? "e*bay: If you don't like ads, you're a freaking Commie!"?
Oh, how gracious of them to notify you before they change the default preferences you asked for! It's the same ol' rule of CYA they're practicing here, folks.
While everyone's busy snapping up the latest DVDs and DVHS's and PDQ's and do-re-mi's, I'll just continue using my trusty, reliable VCR and scoop up all the discounted video tapes! Becuase while I like shiny new technology, I like cheap things MORE.
And besides, 97% of the households in the US have a VCR. I'd say there's a good 10 years or so of life left in plain-ol' videtapes.
As someone who's tinkered around with MIDIs for the last few years and done a few C64 remixes, I am so droooling. I mean, emulators can only come so close the the "real deal"...
I remember having a new C64 when I was little, and even though the monitor was dodgy and sometimes went all black and white, I was blown away by the sound.
Seems like a great way to re-use "old" technology for niche enthuasiasts and audiophiles. Anyone plan on buying one?
... those articles blew my mind. But one has to consider this: how practical is it to be salivating when this sort of technology is decades away?
And while it does sound nice and eco-friendly, I think that there's potential to widen the "techonology gap" between the have and the have-nots even further.
This is, of course, assuming that such powerful computers have applications beyond number-crunching and the military.
Well, if it's possible to locate a user by IP, and IP resolve and IP tree tracking has been around for so long, then I don't see wherein the difficulty lies. ^_^;
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... but it certainly has its ankle-biters:
http://www.adbusters.org/
http://www.rtmark.com/
Not to mention the Bilboard Liberation Front, The Chuch of Shopping, etc...
Wherever there is even a lone dissenting voice, and a copy machine, there will alwayts be someone or something nipping at "the media's" heels.
This is, of course, assuming you don't think we're stretching the Darwinian argument too thin.
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Exactly. There unspoken attitude is that that "no doesn't really mean no" and you're not "normal" if you don't want to recieve email advertisements. Like they said (italics mine): Therefore, on 1/8/01, we returned all your Notification Preferences to the standard default of 'yes' to put you in line with the rest of the eBay community" Great. Is this the marketing dept.'s great idea? Peer pressure? What's next? "e*bay: If you don't like ads, you're a freaking Commie!"? Oh, how gracious of them to notify you before they change the default preferences you asked for! It's the same ol' rule of CYA they're practicing here, folks.
While everyone's busy snapping up the latest DVDs and DVHS's and PDQ's and do-re-mi's, I'll just continue using my trusty, reliable VCR and scoop up all the discounted video tapes! Becuase while I like shiny new technology, I like cheap things MORE. And besides, 97% of the households in the US have a VCR. I'd say there's a good 10 years or so of life left in plain-ol' videtapes.
As someone who's tinkered around with MIDIs for the last few years and done a few C64 remixes, I am so droooling. I mean, emulators can only come so close the the "real deal"... I remember having a new C64 when I was little, and even though the monitor was dodgy and sometimes went all black and white, I was blown away by the sound. Seems like a great way to re-use "old" technology for niche enthuasiasts and audiophiles. Anyone plan on buying one?
... those articles blew my mind. But one has to consider this: how practical is it to be salivating when this sort of technology is decades away? And while it does sound nice and eco-friendly, I think that there's potential to widen the "techonology gap" between the have and the have-nots even further. This is, of course, assuming that such powerful computers have applications beyond number-crunching and the military.
Well, if it's possible to locate a user by IP, and IP resolve and IP tree tracking has been around for so long, then I don't see wherein the difficulty lies. ^_^;
... but it certainly has its ankle-biters:
http://www.adbusters.org/
http://www.rtmark.com/
Not to mention the Bilboard Liberation Front, The Chuch of Shopping, etc...
Wherever there is even a lone dissenting voice, and a copy machine, there will alwayts be someone or something nipping at "the media's" heels.
This is, of course, assuming you don't think we're stretching the Darwinian argument too thin.