Ok, maybe I'm missing something here, but how in the world are you supposed to know that a song was taken from MP3.com, vs. say Joe Blow sitting at home ripping cd's.
Are they trying to say that if MP3.com ever had a song, all copies of that song on napster are their fault? That's so stupid it's laughable.
I know they're a big company, and you could probably get more money out of them individuals, but I have no idea how they think they're going to prove that the songs were taken from MP3.com vs. any one of the hundreds of thousands of other possibilties.
Korgel and Johnston are also exploring ways that nanocrystals can be used to create a new generation of computer and television screens with the full rainbow of natural colors and possibly come up with new biomedical techniques.
That would rule. My understanding is that blue dyes in LCD's are a big problem, way shorter life span than the reds and greens. This sounds like it could be used to solve this problem, and bring the possibility of a nice 60" LCD into my future.:)
You know, as a marketing major this is exactly the kind of thing that you're not supposed to do. People are exposed to advertising all the time now, it's getting out of hand. The average U.S. citizen see thousands of ads per day, and is getting to the point where they don't even notice them anymore.
At this point, the last thing you need to do is shove more ads into people's faces trying to get them to buy your product. Instead of trying to force people to buy what you make, you should be making what people want to buy.
It's all ass backwards, and in my opinion, we are seeing the beginning of the end for this type of advertising. The only way that marketing and advertising are going to succeed in the future is by giving people what they want, when they want it, not shoving their nose in it.
The pop-ups will get worse, until they are tuned out completely, like your little sister. Then the only ones left making money will be those who were smart about where they spent thier money, and actually put money into user-friendly areas. (Which is the reason for the huge surge in sponsership of sports, like it or lump it.)
This kind of crap is getting to the point where it's annoying enough that people are getting pissed off. Corporations are going to have to ask themselves if they few idiots they sucker in to buying their products through pop-ups is worth the teeming masses they alienated through annoying ads.
I know that I'll never be buying that stupid ass spy cam now, that's for sure.
as far as pc's go, the IBM laptops are the best, imho. you can get other brands, and sometimes you're happy, but i've found that in the long run, the IBM machines last the longest, and give you the least problems. you pay a little more up front, but you get your money's worth in the end.
the apple iBook is a nice little machine too. way better price than the PowerBook. if you want a mac, that's the way to go.
p.s. the IBM and Apple portables are the only ones i've ever seen that survive long-term abuse. that's something to take seriously when thinking about a laptop.
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Are they trying to say that if MP3.com ever had a song, all copies of that song on napster are their fault? That's so stupid it's laughable.
I know they're a big company, and you could probably get more money out of them individuals, but I have no idea how they think they're going to prove that the songs were taken from MP3.com vs. any one of the hundreds of thousands of other possibilties.
At this point, the last thing you need to do is shove more ads into people's faces trying to get them to buy your product. Instead of trying to force people to buy what you make, you should be making what people want to buy.
It's all ass backwards, and in my opinion, we are seeing the beginning of the end for this type of advertising. The only way that marketing and advertising are going to succeed in the future is by giving people what they want, when they want it, not shoving their nose in it.
The pop-ups will get worse, until they are tuned out completely, like your little sister. Then the only ones left making money will be those who were smart about where they spent thier money, and actually put money into user-friendly areas. (Which is the reason for the huge surge in sponsership of sports, like it or lump it.)
This kind of crap is getting to the point where it's annoying enough that people are getting pissed off. Corporations are going to have to ask themselves if they few idiots they sucker in to buying their products through pop-ups is worth the teeming masses they alienated through annoying ads.
I know that I'll never be buying that stupid ass spy cam now, that's for sure.
the apple iBook is a nice little machine too. way better price than the PowerBook. if you want a mac, that's the way to go.
p.s. the IBM and Apple portables are the only ones i've ever seen that survive long-term abuse. that's something to take seriously when thinking about a laptop.