Advertising doesn't work like that. If you believe it does, then you too are suseptible to more subtle adverts.
Advertising rarely sells a product, in almost all mass-market adverts, the goal is to build a brand name that appeals to a large demographic.
I know this works on me, because I have studied the effects on others. I find people who claim to be immune to advertisments are often the most easily swayed by brand-name building.
Those people will only use microsoft until everyone else has changed ahead of them.
Then they will switch.
It's really not that complex.
People need to keep in mind MS has only had this spot of "untouchable monopoly" for less than 10 years, thats not a very long history and most people wouldn't be too sentamental to kick them out. Especially since they treat their customers like dirt.
I would be surprized if Dell (the maker of the shattering when droped 5 feet laptop) is spending more on R&D than Apple (the maker of the TiBook and osx).
Those statistics were missing anything resembling meaning. The report was basically a fluff peice supported by funny numbers in order to put a tag line in for Microsoft security.
Lets ignore the fact that there are countless politically motivated anti-corporate types in the linux "community", any one of which would not hesitate to dump corporate IP into the kernel. SCOs allegations are not as far fetched as/. would have you believe.
I'm sorry I didn't see any facts in your troll, and that one unfounded generalization didn't add up to much.
You wouldn't be an astroturfer by chance would you?
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I bet 90% of the adverts you see are targeted to a different demographic.
You're in a small demographic, learn to recognize this.
A side effect of your constant distain for most products is you will be more prone to be influenced by adverts that target your demographic.
Think in demographics, not individuals. They don't advertise to individuals, they advertise to demographics.
Advertising doesn't work like that. If you believe it does, then you too are suseptible to more subtle adverts.
Advertising rarely sells a product, in almost all mass-market adverts, the goal is to build a brand name that appeals to a large demographic.
I know this works on me, because I have studied the effects on others. I find people who claim to be immune to advertisments are often the most easily swayed by brand-name building.
Pizza places don't track you, but you would be hard pressed to fit an extra stop that took any longer than 5 minutes into your delivery route.
Questions like that can be dangerous.
Best not let the powers that be know you've realized they are keeping all the tin foil away, so no one can resist their mind control!
Uh he's not a troll.
And yeah, mandated marketshare is very stupid.
If the United States wanted to conquer the world why haven't they done so already?
Because then we would have to take over all of Europe, Africa, and South America.
That's not really something that could be considered very practical.
It's much easier to just put a puppet goverment in select countries.
It should be an election weekend, and everything but emergency services should be required to cease working from Saturday 12pm to Monday 12pm.
The results should be posted Monday, as they would be hand counted over the weekend with totals coming in before work on Monday.
Putting elections on a worknight is just stupid, sorry.
I seriously doubt it was slashdot that caused the problem.
There are news sites other than slashdot out there...
so much so that no storage medium exists that could conviently and economically store even 1 Library of Congress.
I believe if you visit the library of congress, you will see it stored in a convenient and economical way.
It's not personal prefrence. There are studies out there (and no I don't care enough to look them up.)
Anti-aliasing on todays display devices is horrible except on a few fonts after a certain size.
Overuse of Anti-Aliasing in prefrence for a font like Helvetica is just silly.
For starters it's extremely hard to read anti-alias text in comparison to 'clear' text in a pixel-oriented font.
That and it eats a ton of resources for no reason.
You have to remember, in this era you needed a mainframe and proprietary cabling to install terminals.
Those people will only use microsoft until everyone else has changed ahead of them.
Then they will switch.
It's really not that complex.
People need to keep in mind MS has only had this spot of "untouchable monopoly" for less than 10 years, thats not a very long history and most people wouldn't be too sentamental to kick them out. Especially since they treat their customers like dirt.
I would be surprized if Dell (the maker of the shattering when droped 5 feet laptop) is spending more on R&D than Apple (the maker of the TiBook and osx).
It probably doesn't even come close.
Most doctors recommend the brand name and allow the customer to get generics on request.
This is simple lawsuit protection.
(minus whatever government believes it is entitled to)
I find it troubling that you feel the goverment is a seperate entity from the people.
Pray tell, how did you reach that conclusion?
Two year contracts save $35 activation cost. If you plan on keeping service for two years, they make sense.
And mabey in 10 years I'll like MS products again.
Who knows, I like Apple and IBM today... hell has frozen over a few times to make that happen.
One should mention, when he posted that it said "a story at the BBC."
Those statistics were missing anything resembling meaning. The report was basically a fluff peice supported by funny numbers in order to put a tag line in for Microsoft security.
Why did this make slashdot?
The Majority?
I seriously doubt the majority of people support that opinion, have you done accurate polling, or are you just basing it off your friends opinions?
Except he was out of the country.
Are you kidding? Slashdoters are a major advertising source for Dell.
Lets ignore the fact that there are countless politically motivated anti-corporate types in the linux "community", any one of which would not hesitate to dump corporate IP into the kernel. SCOs allegations are not as far fetched as /. would have you believe.
I'm sorry I didn't see any facts in your troll, and that one unfounded generalization didn't add up to much.
You wouldn't be an astroturfer by chance would you?
Interesting, since your describing the price of windows upgrade. ...Idiot.