"So, you get pulled over and they decide you're baked. They can't really prove it because there is no "immediate intoxication test"
So we'll develop one, and in the mean time continue to use co-ordination and driving ability. driving without due care and attention is still an offence regardless of whether you're baked or not. Believe me, the market will fill this niche in seconds. This is just another stupid excuse.
Hey, where's the roadside test for vicodin? Prescription codeine or morphine? Dextromethorphan?
And you missed further up where I said I'm not a backpack carrier, my trouser pocket is my carry-around luggage allowance.
I also deliberately buy small phones with no antenna. Holy hell, it just struck me - how old is your phone? I don't think I've even seen one with an antenna for three or more years.
Music player - actually there aren't that many with anything like 80G capacity these days, yet they still sell well. I have 8G in my phone (in the form of an SD card) and that's good for me. Some have 16. As flash advances in capacity, so will phones, and there are a huge amount of sales of flash iPods and other players.
Camera - who cares if you get better quality out of your point and shoot? Not many people carry a point and shoot. It's about having an adequate camera with you at all times. It's about taking a quick snap of friends/family at a restaurant, or someone dressed up weird on their way to a party, or a funny raod sign, or burger that looks like jesus. It's for situations where the act of taking a picture is more important than the picture itself, and it's about not purposely thinking "I'll take my camera out today". Spontaneity is what it gives you.
Convergence is great, especially for those of us that don't carry an ultra-geek backpack around with us everywhere we go.
The "Global Cooling" fiasco was a journalistic thing, with little to no backing from the scientific community. It was a scare story.
Of course now it's a handy excuse for people to ignore the current climate problems and throw out the mountains of research on global warming/climate change/whatever, whilst pretending to be analytic and scientific.
It's usually closely followed by an erroneous comments about volcanoes and the martian atmosphere.
Oh, it was fun alright. Fun in the way that four or five flash games put together is fun.
Not worth the hype or the money or the DRM hassle, IMHO, and now releasing expansions to fix the depth of play problem when the original game ought to have had the features anyway?
I was talking about the particular brand of nonsense that the cell=phone providers in the US seem to pull.
We have more limits on corporate power over here, but it seems our government likes to think it has even less limits than the US government. Probably because your lot have to at least pay lip service to the constitution.
The only problem with forcing tie-in in europe is that you tend to fall foul of the laws about this sort of thing. The UK isn't as strongly protected as some others (like Belgium and Italy), but they'd never get away with half the nonsense you lot in the US put up with.
They make and sell lots of services like those nice slips of paper you get attached to your car to inform you that you're illegally parked, even when you're not. They sell those at tens of bucks a time around here...
I also think that this is nothing like the initial point of my comment - that it is getting harder and harder for any advertiser to get their message across in the sea of advertising noise, and the sea of noise makes it easier to ignore.
Because there is SO damned much of it and most of it does not get through, in order to be heard you have to be both annoying and pervasive, which is not cheap and doesn't always produce a good result.
What's your argument? That regardless of exposure we're all like a blank page for advertisers to scrawl all over as much as they want because of their advanced psychological techniques?
I don't think so. I'll repeat, I barely notice ads these days, and the ones you can't help noticing because they are invasive ensure that I never buy that brand again.
Actually, I'm the kind of person that is most likely to grab the one I never heard of before in that situation. But then I am deliberately perverse wherever possible.
I'm not immune to brand awareness, you can't be these days, I just don't think they have any real impact.
I try not to be a fanboy of anything. I've had nVidia and ATI cards, both worked pretty well. I also like the intel card in my workstation because it's friendly to Linux, which I like because I don't have to pay for it and it does stuff I like...
I'm not totally free of ad influence, I'm sure, but I am oblivious to most of it.
"If you haven't been exposed to advertising, you get a dull look on your face because you don't have an answer and you need one and you don't want to exercise the effort,"
Answers to what?
What exactly are we talking about here? the meaning of life? Which catfood to buy? (hint, the one the cat likes wins)
What?
Because to me advertising is pretty much just noise.
You only believe that because they told you to. Advertisers fill your head with answers to questions you never asked then when you are called on to make a decision and you're too lazy to do research or too tired to really think about what you want, you use the answers they gave you as your own.
I don't believe that for a second. I'm the kinda guy that reads ingredients lists on everything from kitchen cleaners to pharmaceuticals. I am not under the control of advertisers or marketing fuckheads, thanks. If you are then I pity you.
Hell yes, that was great. I haven't played a lot of TF2, but back in the days of old I was a big player of TF (over quakeworld, not over HL, the original TF!). Is the old "Rock" map available too?
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"It's basically guaranteed to cause cancer before long"
Which flies in the face of research saying it could actually combat lung cancer....
"So, you get pulled over and they decide you're baked. They can't really prove it because there is no "immediate intoxication test"
So we'll develop one, and in the mean time continue to use co-ordination and driving ability. driving without due care and attention is still an offence regardless of whether you're baked or not. Believe me, the market will fill this niche in seconds. This is just another stupid excuse.
Hey, where's the roadside test for vicodin? Prescription codeine or morphine? Dextromethorphan?
Thought not.
"You want to carry a convergence device that's a pain the rear (maybe literally) when you exercise?"
So the very fact that it's a converged device MUST mean that the form factor is wrong?
You're a luddite.
External antenna I mean, most phones I've seen in years don't have any external antenna.
And you missed further up where I said I'm not a backpack carrier, my trouser pocket is my carry-around luggage allowance.
I also deliberately buy small phones with no antenna. Holy hell, it just struck me - how old is your phone? I don't think I've even seen one with an antenna for three or more years.
That's fine, for you.
I don't want to carry extra devices around in my trouser pocket, which is where I keep my phone.
I'm not sure where you come from, but most brits have one or two as well. Not sure about continental europe, mind.
You must have huge pockets.
Device convergence is a winning strategy.
Music player - actually there aren't that many with anything like 80G capacity these days, yet they still sell well. I have 8G in my phone (in the form of an SD card) and that's good for me. Some have 16. As flash advances in capacity, so will phones, and there are a huge amount of sales of flash iPods and other players.
Camera - who cares if you get better quality out of your point and shoot? Not many people carry a point and shoot. It's about having an adequate camera with you at all times. It's about taking a quick snap of friends/family at a restaurant, or someone dressed up weird on their way to a party, or a funny raod sign, or burger that looks like jesus. It's for situations where the act of taking a picture is more important than the picture itself, and it's about not purposely thinking "I'll take my camera out today". Spontaneity is what it gives you.
Convergence is great, especially for those of us that don't carry an ultra-geek backpack around with us everywhere we go.
The "Global Cooling" fiasco was a journalistic thing, with little to no backing from the scientific community. It was a scare story.
Of course now it's a handy excuse for people to ignore the current climate problems and throw out the mountains of research on global warming/climate change/whatever, whilst pretending to be analytic and scientific.
It's usually closely followed by an erroneous comments about volcanoes and the martian atmosphere.
Oh, it was fun alright. Fun in the way that four or five flash games put together is fun.
Not worth the hype or the money or the DRM hassle, IMHO, and now releasing expansions to fix the depth of play problem when the original game ought to have had the features anyway?
Cheap, lame, money-grubbing buggers.
Oh, *that* sort of nonsense is rife over here.
I was talking about the particular brand of nonsense that the cell=phone providers in the US seem to pull.
We have more limits on corporate power over here, but it seems our government likes to think it has even less limits than the US government. Probably because your lot have to at least pay lip service to the constitution.
Swings and roundabouts...
The only problem with forcing tie-in in europe is that you tend to fall foul of the laws about this sort of thing. The UK isn't as strongly protected as some others (like Belgium and Italy), but they'd never get away with half the nonsense you lot in the US put up with.
Yeah, but they like a bit of fat and sugar as much as the next being.
Governments sell all sorts of things!
They make and sell lots of services like those nice slips of paper you get attached to your car to inform you that you're illegally parked, even when you're not. They sell those at tens of bucks a time around here...
I also think that this is nothing like the initial point of my comment - that it is getting harder and harder for any advertiser to get their message across in the sea of advertising noise, and the sea of noise makes it easier to ignore.
Because there is SO damned much of it and most of it does not get through, in order to be heard you have to be both annoying and pervasive, which is not cheap and doesn't always produce a good result.
What's your argument? That regardless of exposure we're all like a blank page for advertisers to scrawl all over as much as they want because of their advanced psychological techniques?
I don't think so. I'll repeat, I barely notice ads these days, and the ones you can't help noticing because they are invasive ensure that I never buy that brand again.
Actually, I'm the kind of person that is most likely to grab the one I never heard of before in that situation. But then I am deliberately perverse wherever possible.
"If that's not evidence that advertising targetting the subconscious works, I don't know what is."
Or that advertising doesn't work, or that people are starting to get immune to it.
Evidence that advertising targetiing the subconscious works would require showing that it actually has an effect on top of not being noticed.
I'm not immune to brand awareness, you can't be these days, I just don't think they have any real impact.
I try not to be a fanboy of anything. I've had nVidia and ATI cards, both worked pretty well. I also like the intel card in my workstation because it's friendly to Linux, which I like because I don't have to pay for it and it does stuff I like...
I'm not totally free of ad influence, I'm sure, but I am oblivious to most of it.
"If you haven't been exposed to advertising, you get a dull look on your face because you don't have an answer and you need one and you don't want to exercise the effort,"
Answers to what?
What exactly are we talking about here? the meaning of life? Which catfood to buy? (hint, the one the cat likes wins)
What?
Because to me advertising is pretty much just noise.
You only believe that because they told you to. Advertisers fill your head with answers to questions you never asked then when you are called on to make a decision and you're too lazy to do research or too tired to really think about what you want, you use the answers they gave you as your own.
I don't believe that for a second. I'm the kinda guy that reads ingredients lists on everything from kitchen cleaners to pharmaceuticals. I am not under the control of advertisers or marketing fuckheads, thanks. If you are then I pity you.
Never really did get a handle on rocket or grenade jumping (and that's a pretty cool video), but I had some mad sniping skills back then.
2fort5?
I remember 2fort4... and later 4fort. The well... hedges... damned if I can remember the rest. Loved that game though.
Some of the user-created maps were amazing.
It's already available for the Google/T-mobile G1 and Neo Freerunner.
"There's already a full 'nix for ARM complete with working packaging and so on, in the form of OpenBSD"
And in the form of Debian Linux. And OpenSlug. And the openmoko stuff.
You can even install debian on top of android, should you wish.
OpenBSD is not special in it's ability to run on ARM.
You mean the old "Hunted President" map?
Hell yes, that was great. I haven't played a lot of TF2, but back in the days of old I was a big player of TF (over quakeworld, not over HL, the original TF!). Is the old "Rock" map available too?