Luxury car companies aren't after the lowest common denominator. Software companies aren't after the LCD either. If certain shows can give better information about their viewing audience, then they'll have a better chance of survival.
I would prefer that advertisers simply ASK ME what I'm interested in seeing ads for, instead of trying to divine it from my viewing habits.
I think the ad-based version of Opera did this. I DESPISE advertising of all kinds, but I actually had a fuzzy moment when given the opportunity to explicitly state what I did and did not want to receive for advertising.
I'm not saying I don't believe that companies aren't working to make their data more accurate. Nor am I saying I don't believe you. I am saying this is a very interesting puzzle. They didn't use ESP to figure out where Dr. Nick lived, now did they?
I've had the same thing happen to me. It's real.
Consumers are sheep to be shorn, and children to be told stories to. God what a shitty existence.
Aside from my computer equipment, I'm a few years behind the curve on TV/video/stereo stuff. I don't even own a DVD.
Upgrade time now looms - is there a website or something that identifies GOOD and EVIL equipment?
BTW, I am (was) one of those clueless consumers that have been referenced a couple times in this discussion. A couple years ago I bought a dual-deck VCR with a one-button copy feature. I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't copy some of the stuff I got from the video store. After reading/. I realized why, and I was pissed...
Anyone up for a "Digital Media Consumer's Alliance" website? (Well, I guess we'd want a different acronym:-))
Hell, I'd let my kid look at a Coke logo as his desktop background if it meant having the commercial interest behind entrenching linux in the educational system.
The advertising in schools that I hear about makes me wretch.
It will be reinvested in Linux development. If the entire government is on Linux, there will be a lot of opportunities for Linux application developers.
Could you please offer your opinion on two of my grammatical obsessions:
1) How is it that I went through years of school never having learned that "an" is used instead of "a" when put before a word that begins with "H" whose first syllable is not accented?
Like this: "It was an historic battle."...instead of: "It was a historic battle."
I've NEVER used the first form - always used the second - and I've never heard anyone speak that way until fairly recently.
2) Why have news-casters suddenly started pronouncing the "t" in words like "negotiations" like an "s" instead of an "sh"?
This also seems to be a fairly recent affectation, coming into being maybe within the last few years or so.
Is it the fault of those damn Mexicans and their damn Linux?
No punk-ass Linux user here. I have actually been an NT developer for the last 5+ years (C++/COM). But at home I run Linux and Linux only. Many feel the way I do. Microsoft can develop for what ever OS they want but MY house stays Microsoft free until they either change or are forced to. Now a few years ago I would have been a huge Microsoft supporter but times I have now seen their true colours. Sorry but no thanks, you can keep it.
FWIW - me too.
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The Oracle Ad was extremely annoying. There it was right in the middle of the page and so large that it obscures most of the beginning of the article. Not to mention that it didn't get removed by my filtering software. Not good. Not good at all.
Freakin hideous, isn't it? I already complained to ZDNet a week ago about this new "in your face" advertising tactic.
Revolting.
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I would prefer that advertisers simply ASK ME what I'm interested in seeing ads for, instead of trying to divine it from my viewing habits.
I think the ad-based version of Opera did this. I DESPISE advertising of all kinds, but I actually had a fuzzy moment when given the opportunity to explicitly state what I did and did not want to receive for advertising.
I've had the same thing happen to me. It's real.
Consumers are sheep to be shorn, and children to be told stories to. God what a shitty existence.
It will never change, will it?
Upgrade time now looms - is there a website or something that identifies GOOD and EVIL equipment?
BTW, I am (was) one of those clueless consumers that have been referenced a couple times in this discussion. A couple years ago I bought a dual-deck VCR with a one-button copy feature. I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't copy some of the stuff I got from the video store. After reading /. I realized why, and I was pissed...
Anyone up for a "Digital Media Consumer's Alliance" website? (Well, I guess we'd want a different acronym :-))
Remember that one last April Fool's?
Let the dick-measuring begin!
The advertising in schools that I hear about makes me wretch.
It will be reinvested in Linux development. If the entire government is on Linux, there will be a lot of opportunities for Linux application developers.
I especially enjoyed reading this to myself using a heavy mexican accent for the part of "Mex".
Could you please offer your opinion on two of my grammatical obsessions: 1) How is it that I went through years of school never having learned that "an" is used instead of "a" when put before a word that begins with "H" whose first syllable is not accented? Like this: "It was an historic battle." ...instead of: "It was a historic battle."
I've NEVER used the first form - always used the second - and I've never heard anyone speak that way until fairly recently.
2) Why have news-casters suddenly started pronouncing the "t" in words like "negotiations" like an "s" instead of an "sh"?
This also seems to be a fairly recent affectation, coming into being maybe within the last few years or so.
Is it the fault of those damn Mexicans and their damn Linux?
FWIW - me too.
Freakin hideous, isn't it? I already complained to ZDNet a week ago about this new "in your face" advertising tactic. Revolting.