For crying out loud! You give people what they want and they want more. If you don't want an iPod don't buy one!. If you want the ability to buy music from a wide variety of music stores, then go with the cheaper models with smaller drives.
Sure, you're limited to the One Million + songs that ITMS offers but, as Rosen so thoughtfully points out, you can always rip your own CDs. Between ITMS and physical CDs, the iPod has 100% coverage (with two different delivery methods). That should be sufficient for most people, but not for the Immediate Gratification Crowd that wants everything cheap and fast.
Strange that the "quote of the month" in our elevators is from Spencer Silver.
"The key to the Post-It adhesive was doing the experiment. If I had sat down and factored it beforehand, and thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. If I had really seriously cracked the book and gone through the literature, I would have stopped. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do it."
The Post-It is a great example of bucking convention and developing something that is 1) useful and 2) never before considered.
The key to that definition is the word "cause." Is using PR techiniques to get publicity about the opening of your new hobby store propaganda? Dictionary.com has a far more complete definition (in addition to the one you provide).
The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.
Propaganda (Roman Catholic Church). A division of the Roman Curia that has authority in the matter of preaching the gospel, of establishing the Church in non-Christian countries, and of administering Church missions in territories where there is no properly organized hierarchy
As someone who actually has a degree in Public Relations (actually, Mass Communications with an emphasis in PR), I'd say Graham is fairy on target.
I find it very telling that one of the classes I had as an undergrad (actually in the psychology department) was Persuasion or, as the instructor said, "How to get people to do things that they don't want to do."
What I don't like about the article, however, is that it infers that Marketing and Public Relations are actually the same. They are definitely not. Marketing is really a two-way sales method (consider it a closed feedback loop) while Public Relations (excepting the occasional survey) is typically one-way. This, however, doesn't mean that PR is inherently insidious.
What gives PR a really bad name is when its techniques are used as propaganda, with prepared stories being shown as news pieces. When that happens then you can't be sure what really is true.
Interesting that most space opera today adopts that model. Heinlein started it all since he was an Anapolis graduate. It seems that most space forces are called "space navies" with corresponding ranks.
Since my Ask Slashdot was rejected (and this is an appropriate place), I'll ask it here...
My company is starting an aggressive CMM project to reach Level 3 (we're at Level 0.5 now). Will this stifle innovation or really help us in our projects?
That was the focus of Allen Steele's books that I mentioned above. Orbital Decay is about the men (and women) working the "Very High Steel" building orbital powersats. One subplot in the book is about the workers figuring out how to smuggle beer and pot aboard a shuttle flight.
We need something set in the relatively near future within the Solar System without "New Types" or fast orbital transfers. In short, something like Outland without the hokie plot.
In fact, something set in the universe established by Allen Steele in his novels (Orbital Decay or Lunar Descent) would be great.
Was it my imagination (or a tequila-induced hallucination), but did I see Archer wearing a TOS-style uniform in the quick "upcoming on Enterprise" montage that is currently running?
I disagree. While content is certainly important, medium is equally valuable.
There is something almost spiritual about the printed word. You get a better feel for the content when you can feel the paper, the binding, even the ink across the page if you try hard enough.
Samuel T. Cogley in the ST:TOS episode "Court Martial" said it best:
"Don't you like books?"
"Oh, I like them fine, but a computer takes less space."
"A computer, huh? I got one of these in my office. Contains all the precedents, a synthesis of all the great legal decisions written throughout time. - I never use it."
"Why not?"
"I've got my own system. Books, young man, books. Thousands of them. If time wasn't so important, I'd show you something-- my library. Thousands of books."
"What would be the point?"
"This is where the law is, not in that homogenized, pasteurized, synthesized - Do you want to know the law, the ancient concepts in their own language, Learn the intent of the men who wrote them, from Moses to the tribunal of Alpha 3? Books."
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Or "pathetisad"
For crying out loud! You give people what they want and they want more. If you don't want an iPod don't buy one!. If you want the ability to buy music from a wide variety of music stores, then go with the cheaper models with smaller drives.
Sure, you're limited to the One Million + songs that ITMS offers but, as Rosen so thoughtfully points out, you can always rip your own CDs. Between ITMS and physical CDs, the iPod has 100% coverage (with two different delivery methods). That should be sufficient for most people, but not for the Immediate Gratification Crowd that wants everything cheap and fast.
The article is about a Black Hole not a Black Ho. Sorry for the confusion.
Too bad the Cygnus wasn't there to watch!
Unless, of course, you get publicity. Bono was just nominated for his Second Nobel Peace Prize
The resulting story would be slightly shorter and there would be a brief flash of brilliance as energy is released.
Sorry, but Doit is indeed a Dutch coin.
I don't understand this post. A "doit" is a small Dutch coin (about a half farthing).
Is this a reference to trying to make money off the publicity?
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There is a big difference between what a PR firm does for a "cause" such as "Cover the Uninsured Week and what Leni Riefenstahl did for the Nazis.
Yes...it's called Media Placement
As someone who actually has a degree in Public Relations (actually, Mass Communications with an emphasis in PR), I'd say Graham is fairy on target.
I find it very telling that one of the classes I had as an undergrad (actually in the psychology department) was Persuasion or, as the instructor said, "How to get people to do things that they don't want to do."
What I don't like about the article, however, is that it infers that Marketing and Public Relations are actually the same. They are definitely not. Marketing is really a two-way sales method (consider it a closed feedback loop) while Public Relations (excepting the occasional survey) is typically one-way. This, however, doesn't mean that PR is inherently insidious.
What gives PR a really bad name is when its techniques are used as propaganda, with prepared stories being shown as news pieces. When that happens then you can't be sure what really is true.
You don't read a lot of Slashdot threads, do you?
Interesting that most space opera today adopts that model. Heinlein started it all since he was an Anapolis graduate. It seems that most space forces are called "space navies" with corresponding ranks.
I don't know...Kate Beckinsale has some pretty nice breasts.
Taco had to slip a real story in...even if it is four months old.
Another clue...the iNote.
Since my Ask Slashdot was rejected (and this is an appropriate place), I'll ask it here...
My company is starting an aggressive CMM project to reach Level 3 (we're at Level 0.5 now). Will this stifle innovation or really help us in our projects?
That was the focus of Allen Steele's books that I mentioned above. Orbital Decay is about the men (and women) working the "Very High Steel" building orbital powersats. One subplot in the book is about the workers figuring out how to smuggle beer and pot aboard a shuttle flight.
Answers.com has, not surprisingly, an answer.
We need something set in the relatively near future within the Solar System without "New Types" or fast orbital transfers. In short, something like Outland without the hokie plot.
In fact, something set in the universe established by Allen Steele in his novels (Orbital Decay or Lunar Descent) would be great.
Newhart's ending was one of the top 5 all-time endings for a television show. It ranks up there with, in no particular order:
Barney Miller,
MASH, and
The Mary Tyle Moore Show
As opposed to the lame endings of Seinfeld and Cheers.
Was it my imagination (or a tequila-induced hallucination), but did I see Archer wearing a TOS-style uniform in the quick "upcoming on Enterprise" montage that is currently running?
I disagree. While content is certainly important, medium is equally valuable.
There is something almost spiritual about the printed word. You get a better feel for the content when you can feel the paper, the binding, even the ink across the page if you try hard enough.
Samuel T. Cogley in the ST:TOS episode "Court Martial" said it best:
"Don't you like books?"
"Oh, I like them fine, but a computer takes less space."
"A computer, huh? I got one of these in my office. Contains all the precedents, a synthesis of all the great legal decisions written throughout time. - I never use it."
"Why not?"
"I've got my own system. Books, young man, books. Thousands of them. If time wasn't so important, I'd show you something-- my library. Thousands of books."
"What would be the point?"
"This is where the law is, not in that homogenized, pasteurized, synthesized - Do you want to know the law, the ancient concepts in their own language, Learn the intent of the men who wrote them, from Moses to the tribunal of Alpha 3? Books."