Well perhaps this magazine will be kind enough to run a feature of the top 26 peer reviewed journal claims that supports the so-called climate change orthodoxy. If they'd like, I have a few I can submit such as the bogus "hockey stick curve" study.
Oh wait, that would mean dissenting opinion. That's not allowed in the current...ahem...climate.
Ummm, why don't you just ask the people in your every day life and get a sense of it? Ask them if they want advertising targeted to them for things they specifically want. Ask your new parent friends, for example, if they'd want coupons for free samples of Pampers. A guy about to buy a car getting information about models that he actually is interested in buying. A woman at increased risk for breast cancer getting information about and samples of drugs like Arimidex or Femara. Every person receiving advertising geared *only to them* and providing something tangible (be it information or a discount) in exchange for their eyeballs.
People would eat that stuff up. Now it's not about guys getting pummeled with ads for yeast infection cures or women suffering through breast infested beer commercials (unless they want to be that is), but specifically targeted ads about stuff they actually want to know about.
Look, advertising is advertising and I have have an instinctive dislike for people trying to sell me stuff but you're fooling yourself if you think the wider population wouldn't love being near individually serviced by advertisers and sponsors. The industry is absolutely horny for this and realize themselves that the days of bombardment advertising is dying. If you *really* need to read the studies produced on the subject I'll provide you with some places to look. Most of this stuff isn't available online.
Yeah, and there are about five of those people, right?
Sorry, but there is something about the audio world which afflicts both beggar and king, both believing any sort of ludicrous assertion. A cursory glance at this entire discussion shows that quite aptly.
> We the people are really sick and tired of ads and commercials and we're fighting back.
I honestly laugh when I read stuff like that. Virtually every study, whether ad industry, anti-ad industry or third party neutral has found that the average consumer has no problem what-so-ever with ads and commercials. In fact, they love them. What's more, many are excited about new technologies which pitch them products that they actually want.
Feel free to enjoy your Ad Busters subscription but the rest of the world doesn't share your attitude.
Reading this discussion reminds me of every discussion I've ever seen about the thin/dumb clients vs. PC debate. Thin/dumb clients will replace the PC, why do you need all that power? Give up control! Your data is safe somewhere else!
So how is that thin/dumb client industry working out? Sell any more machines outside of a government setting since 1997?
For the most part, people want to control their important data and no serious user/business is going entrust their data to companies which promise to "do no evil" or others that have been declared monopolies or others, etc.
So a bunch of readers of some obscure magazine decided that Serenity, a film that no one watched, is better than a movie that spawned a franchise worth billions, introduced technical innovations that continue to influence film today and -- not to put too fine a point on it -- people have actually seen? Serenity was a decent movie, I agree with its politics and over all it wasn't a waste of money to see but it was a bit of a letdown after the TV series.
Look, I don't even like Star Wars but this poll is yet another piece of evidence why polls are useless. Are they the same people that voted Oasis as better than The Beatles?
I don't give them heck for having a lot of market share for the iPod -- hell, I have one -- but a successful DAP isn't a long-term business model. The centre of their "digital hub" is the personal computer. Sure, many of their products are inter-operable with other operating systems, but do you think Steve Jobs wants to see more downloads of the Windows version of iTunes, or more sales of Apple computers?
It ain't happening near enough if you're one of them fancy "stratergizing" guys...
Of course, all the cowards who modded me as troll don't think past anything but their blinding fanboyism.
I'm not sure why you were modded "Interesting" given that you provided exactly zero sources for anything you said but the primary reasons why people buy bottled water should be obvious: convenience and the fact that tap water isn't always so clean. I live in northern Canada and the city I live in has had to deal with rusty water and cryptosporidium.
I'll pay the "1000x" price tag (incidentally, I've paid as little as $3.50 for 24.5L bottles) rather than drink dirty water or deal with diarrheal disease. I'm funny that way.
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>> If everything Apple sold had multiple buttons and options they would probably be called Sony or Microsoft.
I'm a Sudbury boy myself and attest to what bignickel says. If you were last here in 1980 you wouldn't even recognize the city today. I worked at Inco's Copper Cliff refinery during the early 1990s and even then the area around the plant had abundant plant and tree life.
Blast Inco as much as you want for the pollution that poured out of the smelting operations for decades, but you have to give them credit for reversing a lot of the local damage.
> I can't remember pop music being worse than it is now.
Your memory is very short then. Did you know that Frank Sinatra made a record with barking dogs once?
Remember disco?
Remember most of the 1980s?
Sweet Jesus son, the music today is no worse *or* better than it has ever been, and *that's* the saddest thing to say. A move in any direction would have been some kind of progress.
>> Anyone that buys a Microsoft opperating system before the first update is a compleate idiot and deserves all the bugs he's plauged with because he didnt learn from previous expereiences.
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The modern American definition of haberdashery is a store that sells men's clothing. Last time I checked, we're not running out of them.
Well said. Women seem to be equal to men...except when they're not.
A whole paragraph of saying nothing. Congratulations...and you were modded Insightful on top of that!
Three replies and not one person could do even the basic research to back up the statement.
Slashdot: Home of uninformed opinions!
Nothing ironic about it. It was debunked so thoroughly that few scientists on either side of the issue take Michael Mann's assertion seriously.
Insightful? My God, the bar for mod points is falling so fast that all you have to do is toss some stuff out and wait for it to be modded Insightful.
How about you earn those mod points and detail how much each politician got from RIAA members?
Damnit, I meant "the top 26 peer reviewed journal claims that supports the so-called climate change orthodoxy that have been proven false"
Well perhaps this magazine will be kind enough to run a feature of the top 26 peer reviewed journal claims that supports the so-called climate change orthodoxy. If they'd like, I have a few I can submit such as the bogus "hockey stick curve" study.
Oh wait, that would mean dissenting opinion. That's not allowed in the current...ahem...climate.
> though I've got nothing to back that up.
:-)
I'm not attacking you, you had a pretty decent post, but I hear the words I quoted a lot in audio discussions
It's news that at least 0.16% of people are idiots? Actually I'm shocked the number was this low. This is actually good news.
Ummm, why don't you just ask the people in your every day life and get a sense of it? Ask them if they want advertising targeted to them for things they specifically want. Ask your new parent friends, for example, if they'd want coupons for free samples of Pampers. A guy about to buy a car getting information about models that he actually is interested in buying. A woman at increased risk for breast cancer getting information about and samples of drugs like Arimidex or Femara. Every person receiving advertising geared *only to them* and providing something tangible (be it information or a discount) in exchange for their eyeballs.
People would eat that stuff up. Now it's not about guys getting pummeled with ads for yeast infection cures or women suffering through breast infested beer commercials (unless they want to be that is), but specifically targeted ads about stuff they actually want to know about.
Look, advertising is advertising and I have have an instinctive dislike for people trying to sell me stuff but you're fooling yourself if you think the wider population wouldn't love being near individually serviced by advertisers and sponsors. The industry is absolutely horny for this and realize themselves that the days of bombardment advertising is dying. If you *really* need to read the studies produced on the subject I'll provide you with some places to look. Most of this stuff isn't available online.
Yeah, and there are about five of those people, right?
Sorry, but there is something about the audio world which afflicts both beggar and king, both believing any sort of ludicrous assertion. A cursory glance at this entire discussion shows that quite aptly.
> We the people are really sick and tired of ads and commercials and we're fighting back.
I honestly laugh when I read stuff like that. Virtually every study, whether ad industry, anti-ad industry or third party neutral has found that the average consumer has no problem what-so-ever with ads and commercials. In fact, they love them. What's more, many are excited about new technologies which pitch them products that they actually want.
Feel free to enjoy your Ad Busters subscription but the rest of the world doesn't share your attitude.
I do, by the way.
We are talking about a group of people who buy "special" cables which "improve" the sound of the final output, right?
Yeah, dude...1980 was a long time ago.
Reading this discussion reminds me of every discussion I've ever seen about the thin/dumb clients vs. PC debate. Thin/dumb clients will replace the PC, why do you need all that power? Give up control! Your data is safe somewhere else!
So how is that thin/dumb client industry working out? Sell any more machines outside of a government setting since 1997?
For the most part, people want to control their important data and no serious user/business is going entrust their data to companies which promise to "do no evil" or others that have been declared monopolies or others, etc.
Look, I don't even like Star Wars but this poll is yet another piece of evidence why polls are useless. Are they the same people that voted Oasis as better than The Beatles?
I don't give them heck for having a lot of market share for the iPod -- hell, I have one -- but a successful DAP isn't a long-term business model. The centre of their "digital hub" is the personal computer. Sure, many of their products are inter-operable with other operating systems, but do you think Steve Jobs wants to see more downloads of the Windows version of iTunes, or more sales of Apple computers?
It ain't happening near enough if you're one of them fancy "stratergizing" guys...
Of course, all the cowards who modded me as troll don't think past anything but their blinding fanboyism.
I'm not sure why you were modded "Interesting" given that you provided exactly zero sources for anything you said but the primary reasons why people buy bottled water should be obvious: convenience and the fact that tap water isn't always so clean. I live in northern Canada and the city I live in has had to deal with rusty water and cryptosporidium.
.5L bottles) rather than drink dirty water or deal with diarrheal disease. I'm funny that way.
I'll pay the "1000x" price tag (incidentally, I've paid as little as $3.50 for 24
>> If everything Apple sold had multiple buttons and options they would probably be called Sony or Microsoft.
Oh, you mean they would have market share then?
I'm a Sudbury boy myself and attest to what bignickel says. If you were last here in 1980 you wouldn't even recognize the city today. I worked at Inco's Copper Cliff refinery during the early 1990s and even then the area around the plant had abundant plant and tree life.
Blast Inco as much as you want for the pollution that poured out of the smelting operations for decades, but you have to give them credit for reversing a lot of the local damage.
> I can't remember pop music being worse than it is now.
Your memory is very short then. Did you know that Frank Sinatra made a record with barking dogs once?
Remember disco?
Remember most of the 1980s?
Sweet Jesus son, the music today is no worse *or* better than it has ever been, and *that's* the saddest thing to say. A move in any direction would have been some kind of progress.
>> Anyone that buys a Microsoft opperating system before the first update is a compleate idiot and deserves all the bugs he's plauged with because he didnt learn from previous expereiences.
A complete idiot indeed.
> Thank you for revealing to me, and the rest of the planet the depth of your ignorance and stupidity.
Oh, my feelings are so devastated. An ignoramus just attacked me. Wait, I'm on Slashdot, why am I surprised?
Yet another reason not to take Slashdot as a serious venue of news, nor its members as valuable commentators.