Who says that the OS-company would get the Browser. Seeing as how the DOJ focused on how the Browser *could* be removed from the OS, that they would be more inclined to place Internet Explorer as one of Microsoft's Office Products. Then again, I really don't know what I'm talking about;)
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Like the poor guy needs that -- a thousand emails/phone-calls every day from Joe-Schmoe in Arkansas who wants to create his "Good Ol' Boys Linux" distro. Why bother? The trademark doesn't hold a lot of use for him right now, since just about everyone uses it and *no-one* pays him for it. It's a free operating system though, why should he close the usage of it's name?
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It sounded to me like you were saying that advertisements have no effect on a customers outlook towards a given product, only that they help one remember the product.
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It's not like they'd have a monopoly on encryption. They offer a service that isn't really required. It's nice, sure, but when was the last time you saw anyone in the Open Source community use a certificate provider to sign their tarballs? There ways of signing something without using Verisign, no?
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Of course they don't say "Gee, I bought it because the advertising was nice". But that doesn't mean that it isn't true; Advertising is a primarily subconscious-medium.
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Re:Just say no to anti-trust
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Time-Warner's cable monopoly is a government-granted one. It's also a local-monopoly; just like Adelphia cable has in my area, and MediaOne has in the county right next to mine.
Those monopolies are there for a reason. To have any number of cable-companies entering the market and wiring up the community would a) not make much sense and b) actually cost the customers more. These are monopolies that make sense. To say that another company would have to overcome "barriers" to get into that market, is misleading because, in a lot of places, it's impossible. But it's not impossible because of something *evil* that Time-Warner did. They just got a nice contract out of it.
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Re:Just say no to anti-trust
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Sounds like they did a pretty good job to me. I mean, considering that a lot of those people would not have gone online otherwise.
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The film has undergone significant doctoring. Frames have been removed, altered, and made into composites, and the film speed has been tampered with in some places.
The lesser known Orville Nix film, taken the same day, shows the exact same footage (from across the street). However, a frame-by-frame comparison makes the doctoring of the Zapruder film quite obvious -- they do not follow each other in parallel at all.
Check out Bloody Treason by Noel Twyman and Assassination Science by James Fetzer. To see the Orville Nix film, get a copy of The Assassination Tapes from New Frontier Productions.
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I think you're underestimating the power of advertisement. Yes, getting the consumer to *remember* the product is crucial, but the most important role an advertisement plays is getting the consumer to *want* the item.
Look at just about any modern ad-campaign. Commercials portray people who are better-looking than you, having more fun than you, with cooler friends than you'll ever have (I'm not making fun of you in particular, it's just the point of perception in advertising). By association, people subconsciously feel that if they buy this product, they too will be better-looking, have more fun, and get to hang out with really cool people.
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Now that's exactly what I'm talking about: People are so convinced of their own willpower that they don't realize how affected they are by advertising.
Personally, I tend to agree with you on the 10-10-xxx commercials -- they're poorly done and hard to remember, but that's not the point here; many other ad-campaigns are incredibly successful.
People make association with products and how they feel about an advertisement. If an advertisement is very good and it portrays people doing things that I enjoy or would like to enjoy, then I am that much more likely to buy the product. Or don't you believe in suggestion by association?
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Of course an ad can't convince you to buy a product you don't want -- I never said that. The purpose of an ad is to fix that. The purpose of an ad is to make you want the product.
They show clear-skinned teenagers using noxema; beautiful women playing volleyball and drinking beer; People off-roading in their SUVs... it's all to make you want the product. And it works.
No one is ascribing magic powere to advertisers here. They're just doing their part to make products look glamorous to consumers, so that they'll want to buy them. It's not mind-control, it's suggested incentive.
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I know someone already mentioned it, but have you used StarOffice? Other than it's large memory-footprint, StarOffice is an excellent Office Suite.
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Re:Anti-trust suit waiting to happen?
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Are billboards really meant for TV? Look at Times Square - the place is *covered* in ads and thousands (millions?) of people see them every day, without the aid of television. The same goes for Billboards off of highways. Driving into Boston in the morning, I see a whole bunch of billboards, and they certainly aren't being digitally edited in realtime;) It seems to me that they still have a place.
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I don't think so... Just because you have a visible advertisement does not guarantee that people will see it. Particularly in the case of someone else's broadcasts. It seems to me that a broadcaster can present reality in any way they see fit -- I don't think other advertisers have any rights over their presentation.
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You don't seem to believe in the power of advertisements; you're not alone. One of the greatest things about ads is that people say to themselves, "I don't let stupid television commercials make up my mind for me". Unless they don't watch television at all, anyone who says that is just plain wrong. AFAIK it's a mostly subconcious process.
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When was seeing ever really beleiving? Unless I see it with my own eyes, I keep an open mind about whether it's true or not... regardless of whether the word "Live" is written in the bottom corner of the screen.
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Don't take this post the wrong way: I don't with what that poster was saying. But why is it that so many people take the black/white attitude about using Slashdot. Can't someone use the site and still think it could be improved? Obviously this place isn't perfect, so why do you tell other people to leave when they criticize it?
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5400 is fast to you? Try a 10000 rpm SCSI cheetah and then we'll talk. I've got a 7200 IDE on a Promise-66 ATA card in my current workstation, and even that is too slow (mostly because it's IDE and sucks up my CPU time like a starved llama). My machine at work uses a cheetah... it's pretty damned nice.
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Those monopolies are there for a reason. To have any number of cable-companies entering the market and wiring up the community would a) not make much sense and b) actually cost the customers more. These are monopolies that make sense. To say that another company would have to overcome "barriers" to get into that market, is misleading because, in a lot of places, it's impossible. But it's not impossible because of something *evil* that Time-Warner did. They just got a nice contract out of it.
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The film has undergone significant doctoring. Frames have been removed, altered, and made into composites, and the film speed has been tampered with in some places.
The lesser known Orville Nix film, taken the same day, shows the exact same footage (from across the street). However, a frame-by-frame comparison makes the doctoring of the Zapruder film quite obvious -- they do not follow each other in parallel at all.
Check out Bloody Treason by Noel Twyman and Assassination Science by James Fetzer. To see the Orville Nix film, get a copy of The Assassination Tapes from New Frontier Productions.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Look at just about any modern ad-campaign. Commercials portray people who are better-looking than you, having more fun than you, with cooler friends than you'll ever have (I'm not making fun of you in particular, it's just the point of perception in advertising). By association, people subconsciously feel that if they buy this product, they too will be better-looking, have more fun, and get to hang out with really cool people.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Personally, I tend to agree with you on the 10-10-xxx commercials -- they're poorly done and hard to remember, but that's not the point here; many other ad-campaigns are incredibly successful.
People make association with products and how they feel about an advertisement. If an advertisement is very good and it portrays people doing things that I enjoy or would like to enjoy, then I am that much more likely to buy the product. Or don't you believe in suggestion by association?
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
They show clear-skinned teenagers using noxema; beautiful women playing volleyball and drinking beer; People off-roading in their SUVs... it's all to make you want the product. And it works.
No one is ascribing magic powere to advertisers here. They're just doing their part to make products look glamorous to consumers, so that they'll want to buy them. It's not mind-control, it's suggested incentive.
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It seems to me that they still have a place.
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Yeah, seems like there are some people out there who hate me -- oh well ;)
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