They don't just keep airing the damn thing. They keep getting paid to. It's called a spot. They typically air in 30, 45, 60, 90, 120 second increments. Someone is making enough money on those spots to continue advertising far too frequently. If I were a sales rep for the company, I would most likely be on your side though, and tell them to bugger off.
I too have had the same annoyance. For a few years here in Atlanta, Sears has been advertising on the radio. Although their spots change, the person they've hired to do their commercials makes me want to never ever even step foot into Sears again. His voice makes me want to shove my Newrocks right up his ass.
Some people have loose ideas upon which they base a friendship. How frequently have you heard someone say something like "I made a new friend yesterday". I for one find that friendships take much longer to cultivate than a day, a week, a month. It would make more sense to say "I formed the foundation of what may become a friendship yesterday".
As subjective as it is in life, I don't see how one could programmatically prove friendship in any way, aside from taking the word of both parties who claim friendship.
Oh come on. How the fuck did this get modded up to +5? Is this the new way to karma whore? To ask how something will hold up in court? Give me a fucking break. There is absolutely nothing insightful in the parent post, it's what most of us are thinking, and that does _not_ make it insightful.
As he states in the article:
"Secondly, the iPod is cool. Apple is cool. Is the iPod Mini cool? As a married, Caucasian male in his mid-30s who thinks he looks good with a shaved head, I feel somewhat ill-qualified to judge what is and is not hip."
Is he trying to review the iPod, or to tell us he's a member of the Aryan Nation?
Revenue and Profit are two different things. They may get a lot of money, but they don't get to keep it when they have to do things like buy massive amounts of storage space, encode CDs, etc.
They dropped 2000+ geeks? I'd love to watch the real-time video of that. How did they get the 2000+ to jump at the same time?
Oh yeah, I read somewhere that they told them Natalie Portman was down there with a beowulf cluster of hot grits.
Yes, I remember... Big Mac, McDLT, a quarter pounder with some cheese, filet o fish, a hamburger, cheeseburger, happy meal, mcnuggets, ??? fries, a salad, chef or garden, or a chicken salad oriental...
something along those lines
You're right, would this headline from maccentral.com have been better?
2003-11-13 22:16:35 MyTunes exploits iTunes Windows playlist sharing (articles,music) (rejected)
Not bad for a first attempt. Next, i would suggest attempting to make it look a bit more professionally installed. If you're going to have the PVC piping, why not route any exposed cabling thorugh it? At least attempt to run the wires where they aren't as visible. Most likely your stereo system has a 1/4" jack on the back, why not pipe the audio from your audio out jack into that? There's a lot you could do to make this look better.
Good luck, and like I said, it's a valiant first effort, more than most people here can/could/would do.
Wrong! I noticed the spots in Underworld, frequently in the sort of configuration you'd see on a die. The friends I went to see it with didn't notice them, so I thought it might be increasing proof of my craziness. Apparently I'm not as crazy as I thought, and they really were there.
Unfortunately intellectual property can be hard to prove. That's why we have our software patents. It's not going to go away anytime soon, not until someone comes up with a viable alternative to licensing ideas.
We've got a bit of a way to go before the system breaks down and someone comes up with something new.
I think it's infinitely easier to write and optimize a program around a specific hardware architecture than it is to try to write for everything as a whole, and thereby bringing the quality of your software down the LCA (Lowest common API).
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They don't just keep airing the damn thing. They keep getting paid to. It's called a spot. They typically air in 30, 45, 60, 90, 120 second increments. Someone is making enough money on those spots to continue advertising far too frequently. If I were a sales rep for the company, I would most likely be on your side though, and tell them to bugger off. I too have had the same annoyance. For a few years here in Atlanta, Sears has been advertising on the radio. Although their spots change, the person they've hired to do their commercials makes me want to never ever even step foot into Sears again. His voice makes me want to shove my Newrocks right up his ass.
Some people have loose ideas upon which they base a friendship. How frequently have you heard someone say something like "I made a new friend yesterday". I for one find that friendships take much longer to cultivate than a day, a week, a month. It would make more sense to say "I formed the foundation of what may become a friendship yesterday". As subjective as it is in life, I don't see how one could programmatically prove friendship in any way, aside from taking the word of both parties who claim friendship.
And the other question: How long would Microsoft have lasted?
Penguins are gay.
Oh come on. How the fuck did this get modded up to +5? Is this the new way to karma whore? To ask how something will hold up in court? Give me a fucking break. There is absolutely nothing insightful in the parent post, it's what most of us are thinking, and that does _not_ make it insightful.
As he states in the article: "Secondly, the iPod is cool. Apple is cool. Is the iPod Mini cool? As a married, Caucasian male in his mid-30s who thinks he looks good with a shaved head, I feel somewhat ill-qualified to judge what is and is not hip." Is he trying to review the iPod, or to tell us he's a member of the Aryan Nation?
Revenue and Profit are two different things. They may get a lot of money, but they don't get to keep it when they have to do things like buy massive amounts of storage space, encode CDs, etc.
He's back to doing 2 nights a week.
Try the hot pockets, they're breathtaking.
They dropped 2000+ geeks? I'd love to watch the real-time video of that. How did they get the 2000+ to jump at the same time? Oh yeah, I read somewhere that they told them Natalie Portman was down there with a beowulf cluster of hot grits.
Yes, I remember... Big Mac, McDLT, a quarter pounder with some cheese, filet o fish, a hamburger, cheeseburger, happy meal, mcnuggets, ??? fries, a salad, chef or garden, or a chicken salad oriental... something along those lines
You're right, would this headline from maccentral.com have been better? 2003-11-13 22:16:35 MyTunes exploits iTunes Windows playlist sharing (articles,music) (rejected)
Quite true. That was my favorite term program back in the day!
If Microsoft were to really help out on this sort of thing, who would they have left to sell their subscriber e-mail addresses to ?
Not bad for a first attempt. Next, i would suggest attempting to make it look a bit more professionally installed. If you're going to have the PVC piping, why not route any exposed cabling thorugh it? At least attempt to run the wires where they aren't as visible. Most likely your stereo system has a 1/4" jack on the back, why not pipe the audio from your audio out jack into that? There's a lot you could do to make this look better. Good luck, and like I said, it's a valiant first effort, more than most people here can/could/would do.
Right, it certainly is important. However, having installed Panther, it doesn't require more than a single paragraph. It's that easy.
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Wrong! I noticed the spots in Underworld, frequently in the sort of configuration you'd see on a die. The friends I went to see it with didn't notice them, so I thought it might be increasing proof of my craziness. Apparently I'm not as crazy as I thought, and they really were there.
Come on, buddy. You use the word "fare" when you mean "fair", and in the next paragraph you write "unfair". Make up your mind.
Have you considered Viagra ?
Unfortunately intellectual property can be hard to prove. That's why we have our software patents. It's not going to go away anytime soon, not until someone comes up with a viable alternative to licensing ideas. We've got a bit of a way to go before the system breaks down and someone comes up with something new.
I think it's infinitely easier to write and optimize a program around a specific hardware architecture than it is to try to write for everything as a whole, and thereby bringing the quality of your software down the LCA (Lowest common API).
Which begs the question: was she the only one?
Hahahah! I can't believe nobody else got this joke!
Pumpkin eater!