"But just like in real-life baseball games, the real showdown will be between the pitcher and the batter."
Great...so now we're gonna have people camping the pitchers mound, and people TKing to pitch? Can the batters charge the mound? If they could, I'm sure this game would attract a large amount of CS players.
" The big question is who is going to write the manuals. It's not as if biotech isn't already difficult enough."
While parent was joking, what he said rings very true. For example, I am very interested in biotech, yet I know nothing about the biology or engineering involved because I have not taken extensive schooling in college for it.
This isn't something that is really simple enough for someone who isn't extensively school in it to grasp on their own through "reading a manual" (although maybe lots and lots of text books). If someone knows of a source to learn the basics of biotech in an easily understandable way, please post on it.
I see biotech right now I guess as something similar to the punch-card computers of the days of yore. Once its developed enough, it will be as easy to become an advanced user just as you could with computers.
Hell, in wired they have a toy in their gift list which is essentially a genetics sequencing tool for little kids! Definitely a good sign for the growth of this area of science.
" Am I the only person who views ads as a valuable barometer of pop culture?"
I also use it to guage when some fad finally died/became mainstream. For example, based on the quality of the commercial, and its execution, you can tell whether they are using a cultural fad in the correct manner, or if they've killed it by making it mainstream.
For example, anybody who's seen the new crappy Old Navy commercial with Fran in it knows what I'm talking about. They start saying things like "off the hook", or my personal favorite "my shizzle's gone bizizzle".
Folks, You know a fad is dead when they drag Fran onto tv to say a phrase that is typcially reserved for african american fans of Snoop Dogg.
Very nice post on the foundations of advertising as we know it today. Are you in the industry by any chance? Now, perhaps as someone who works in the advertising/marketing industry, I could shed a little more light on product placement.
Product placement tends to skew more towards advertising if you know its being paid for, and more towards PR if you don't. That just means advertising has laws stating that you make sure people know it is advertising, while PR has much less restrictions, so you typically don't know (or have a harder time noticing) that something is PR.
Product placement itself is the act of getting a product placed inside a medium that is viewed/interacted with/experienced by an audience. So like when the Cadillacs were all on the highway in Matrix Reloaded, that was product placement. That tends to skew towards advertising because it was fairly obvious to notice. Same with the Jeep Rubicon in the new Tomb Raider.
Examples of more PR based product placement might be a sitcom where one of the characters casually walks over to the fridge and grabs a drink, not making a big fuss at all over it. That drink is usually put in there on purpose.
I hope this gave a little more insight into product placement.
P.S. Bah! I think you're being paid by the makers of the Glurnmobile! You're a sham! hehehe
Hey bersl2, not to troll, I mean, if this is all true then thats really great, but I'll have a hard time believing this story until you actually post the poem. So could you please do that? I'd really like to read it. I also really don't see why you didn't post it in your initial post, as it would have really helped your credibility.
Actually, this isn't very interesting at all. The VAST majority of large companies outsource their PR to PR firms the same way most large companies outsource their advertising to ad agencies.
Dread ed, could you please enlighten us as to why the bit about the "not using a non-BMW cellphone while in the car" is in there? The complex wiring of the car is one thing...but the cellphone thing is just ridiculous.
When big companies, such as Yahoo for example, change their policies like Yahoo just did where you have to reset your preferences on whether you want to be spammed or not, in the window of time between when they inform you through email, and the time you actually reset your preferences back to NOT recieve spam, do they spam you? Do they sell your address during that time period?
I always thought opt-out stuff was a joke aside from the regular reasons because they say "it'll take 24-48 hours to process it in our system", but I've always had a hunch that in that time frame they just sell your info to someone who you haven't opted out from.
My PR professor (who has been in the industry a LONG time and owns his own PR firm) made a comment tonight that surprised me. He is not the most technical person in the world, but not only did he comment about the absolute nonsense SCO has been spewing out, he also made a comment that surprised me due to the fact that he is NOT a very technical person.
He stated that M$'s "donation" to SCO was merely a PR investment by M$ to bash Linux.
You know its bad news when someone in the PR industry knows whats up.
Actually, even though this got modded funny, I can't begin to imagine how useful it would be to RFID everything. If you had certain sensors around your storage area, you could triangulate the position of the objects, and visually display them on your computer.
You could even have a search engine where you could search for a type of item, then click it, and it would show you a picture of where in your apartment the item was.
I lose things all the time, and this would be incredibly useful. Even for something like a stack of CDs. If you could scan the stack, you could tell where a certain CD was in the stack.
Does anybody know what would be required to do something like this? Are there any companies working to bring RFIDs to your home to aid in things like this?
" How about, instead of having a few dozen networks, we just come up with one? It works fine for things like the phone system and email (even though there're seperate companies, they're one network), so why not just have one protocol with everything built in?"
I can tell you the exact reason why this won't happen.
The RIAA
P2P as we know it today has evolved around the need to constantly evade whatever measures the RIAA comes up with. It's an electronic cold-war so to speak. While it may be a good thing for there to be one standardized network, I also have high doubts that such a standardized network could be made without big corporations lending a big helping hand...and thus implementing DRM.
It works well enough this way, lets evolve it from there.
I wonder if Rockstar will send these guys an x-mas card for telling kids the #1 game they SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING! Absolutely under no circumstances should children buy this game....or have one of their siblings buy it for them, or pay a friend to buy it for them!
Does anybody here know what the RIAA propoganda they're subjected to is exactly? Is it a video? A webpage? I'm really curious what these students are being subjected to by the RIAA.
I mean, if you have to take some sort of Copyright ethics class, personally I'd love to get busted and be forced to take that, just to point out exactly what is wrong with it.
Anybody read this and immediately think "Macross Plus"? Sharon Apple is the computer character in that anime who is a music sensation. She even has holographics project her image during concerts. However, in reality, she's just some big computer box with lots of stuff inside. Unfortunately, she goes crazy and takes over a building, directing all its defense systems against the hero, but.......there is a price to pay for good music I guess.
This is kind of off-topic, but I always wished I could find some of the wittier ads I've seen from Cannes and such on DVD. Someone should make a "Best of advertising" dvd. Before this gets knocked by all you anti-advertising people on here, realize that there IS a lot of good advertising out there that is entertaining, it just so happens that there's a lot more thats absolute crap.
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Out of curiosity, what agency do you work for and what do you do there?
This is somewhat off-topic, but I got karma to burn and want more people to see this because I am very interested in responses.
In Snowcrash, there was a type of music called "Ukrainian nuclear fuzz-grunge". Now, obviously we don't have that today, but 50 years ago nobody even imagined drum & bass, or house, or trance, etc. So here's the question I pose to Slashdot:
What genres of music do you think will make their way into existence in the near future, what will they sound like, and why will they be created?
"The rest of the entire plant is subjected to loud music played through the ceiling speakers"
If you don't mind, could you tell us where this was? I know when I was stuck with my summer job in Highschool at Kohls we had music constantly playing, but that was for the customers benefit. I can't even imagine why this would be implemented in a corporate environment.
They should have realized from the beginning that:
A.Nobody will like ALL of the music. B.Some people don't want ANY music. C.If people wanted to listen to music, it'd be better for them just to use their own CD player.
"Ok, so if you're deaf- that makes you less able to do most jobs. So deaf people shouldn't be able to work? How about the blind? What about someone who can't walk, or needs a cane? Fire them, doom them to a life of living of the government, or homelessness if they're too proud to do so?"
I think the point that the grandparent was trying to make (albeit in a trollish fashion) is NOT that people with disabilities shouldn't be able to work, but rather they should not be given a job where someone without that disability would be more qualified. The logic being that there are always jobs that need to be done, and someone with a disability should find a job where their disability does not hinder them.
Now, I don't necessarily agree with all of this, but my belief is nobody said that life was fair. You play the hand you're dealt. We should help people with disabilities with some things, but lets face it, if they're not qualified for a job because of the disability, they're not qualified, period.
"Leave some 'isolation tank' cubicles (high walls with extra sound dampening) available for people with ADD/ADHD."
So how do you determine who has ADD/ADHD and who simply wants a nice cubical? I don't have ADD/ADHD, and while I love to socialize, I would LOVE to have my own cubical just because I could set it up the way I like, and I could have some degree of privacy. And for some reason I feel like I'm not the only one who is like that.
" "Freedom" from cubicles means freedom to work under constant observation of the overseers."
Hey, I like privacy as much as the next person, but guess what? You work FOR THEM. They are paying you, and nobody is forcing you to work for them. Yes you might feel you need to to make ends meet etc, however, if you really felt your privacy was that important to you, I'm sure you would make the effort necessary to find another job, or relocate and find another job.
There is absolutely NO expectation of privacy while in the work place with the exception of the restrooms.
This isn't Big Brother spying on you, this is people that pay you money wanting to make sure you're doing what they pay you to do.
"What a load of crap. The three most productive people in our workplace are the ones who sit down, shut up and get on with their work."
And this is the flipside that everybody has ignored so far. People seem to think the only drop in productivity will come from people who don't have strong social skills who will be forced into a social environment.
What about the people with excellent social skills who will now be getting absolutely NO work done because they spend all their time socializing with all the other social butterflies?
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Great...so now we're gonna have people camping the pitchers mound, and people TKing to pitch? Can the batters charge the mound? If they could, I'm sure this game would attract a large amount of CS players.
While parent was joking, what he said rings very true. For example, I am very interested in biotech, yet I know nothing about the biology or engineering involved because I have not taken extensive schooling in college for it.
This isn't something that is really simple enough for someone who isn't extensively school in it to grasp on their own through "reading a manual" (although maybe lots and lots of text books). If someone knows of a source to learn the basics of biotech in an easily understandable way, please post on it.
I see biotech right now I guess as something similar to the punch-card computers of the days of yore. Once its developed enough, it will be as easy to become an advanced user just as you could with computers.
Hell, in wired they have a toy in their gift list which is essentially a genetics sequencing tool for little kids! Definitely a good sign for the growth of this area of science.
I also use it to guage when some fad finally died/became mainstream. For example, based on the quality of the commercial, and its execution, you can tell whether they are using a cultural fad in the correct manner, or if they've killed it by making it mainstream.
For example, anybody who's seen the new crappy Old Navy commercial with Fran in it knows what I'm talking about. They start saying things like "off the hook", or my personal favorite "my shizzle's gone bizizzle".
Folks, You know a fad is dead when they drag Fran onto tv to say a phrase that is typcially reserved for african american fans of Snoop Dogg.
Product placement tends to skew more towards advertising if you know its being paid for, and more towards PR if you don't. That just means advertising has laws stating that you make sure people know it is advertising, while PR has much less restrictions, so you typically don't know (or have a harder time noticing) that something is PR.
Product placement itself is the act of getting a product placed inside a medium that is viewed/interacted with/experienced by an audience. So like when the Cadillacs were all on the highway in Matrix Reloaded, that was product placement. That tends to skew towards advertising because it was fairly obvious to notice. Same with the Jeep Rubicon in the new Tomb Raider.
Examples of more PR based product placement might be a sitcom where one of the characters casually walks over to the fridge and grabs a drink, not making a big fuss at all over it. That drink is usually put in there on purpose.
I hope this gave a little more insight into product placement.
P.S. Bah! I think you're being paid by the makers of the Glurnmobile! You're a sham! hehehe
Actually, this isn't very interesting at all. The VAST majority of large companies outsource their PR to PR firms the same way most large companies outsource their advertising to ad agencies.
I always thought opt-out stuff was a joke aside from the regular reasons because they say "it'll take 24-48 hours to process it in our system", but I've always had a hunch that in that time frame they just sell your info to someone who you haven't opted out from.
He stated that M$'s "donation" to SCO was merely a PR investment by M$ to bash Linux.
You know its bad news when someone in the PR industry knows whats up.
You could even have a search engine where you could search for a type of item, then click it, and it would show you a picture of where in your apartment the item was.
I lose things all the time, and this would be incredibly useful. Even for something like a stack of CDs. If you could scan the stack, you could tell where a certain CD was in the stack.
Does anybody know what would be required to do something like this? Are there any companies working to bring RFIDs to your home to aid in things like this?
I can tell you the exact reason why this won't happen.
The RIAA
P2P as we know it today has evolved around the need to constantly evade whatever measures the RIAA comes up with. It's an electronic cold-war so to speak. While it may be a good thing for there to be one standardized network, I also have high doubts that such a standardized network could be made without big corporations lending a big helping hand...and thus implementing DRM.
It works well enough this way, lets evolve it from there.
I mean, if you have to take some sort of Copyright ethics class, personally I'd love to get busted and be forced to take that, just to point out exactly what is wrong with it.
In Snowcrash, there was a type of music called "Ukrainian nuclear fuzz-grunge". Now, obviously we don't have that today, but 50 years ago nobody even imagined drum & bass, or house, or trance, etc. So here's the question I pose to Slashdot:
What genres of music do you think will make their way into existence in the near future, what will they sound like, and why will they be created?
If you don't mind, could you tell us where this was? I know when I was stuck with my summer job in Highschool at Kohls we had music constantly playing, but that was for the customers benefit. I can't even imagine why this would be implemented in a corporate environment.
They should have realized from the beginning that:
A.Nobody will like ALL of the music.
B.Some people don't want ANY music.
C.If people wanted to listen to music, it'd be better for them just to use their own CD player.
I think the point that the grandparent was trying to make (albeit in a trollish fashion) is NOT that people with disabilities shouldn't be able to work, but rather they should not be given a job where someone without that disability would be more qualified. The logic being that there are always jobs that need to be done, and someone with a disability should find a job where their disability does not hinder them.
Now, I don't necessarily agree with all of this, but my belief is nobody said that life was fair. You play the hand you're dealt. We should help people with disabilities with some things, but lets face it, if they're not qualified for a job because of the disability, they're not qualified, period.
So how do you determine who has ADD/ADHD and who simply wants a nice cubical? I don't have ADD/ADHD, and while I love to socialize, I would LOVE to have my own cubical just because I could set it up the way I like, and I could have some degree of privacy. And for some reason I feel like I'm not the only one who is like that.
Nice concept, unfortunately it wouldn't work.
Hey, I like privacy as much as the next person, but guess what? You work FOR THEM. They are paying you, and nobody is forcing you to work for them. Yes you might feel you need to to make ends meet etc, however, if you really felt your privacy was that important to you, I'm sure you would make the effort necessary to find another job, or relocate and find another job.
There is absolutely NO expectation of privacy while in the work place with the exception of the restrooms.
This isn't Big Brother spying on you, this is people that pay you money wanting to make sure you're doing what they pay you to do.
And this is the flipside that everybody has ignored so far. People seem to think the only drop in productivity will come from people who don't have strong social skills who will be forced into a social environment.
What about the people with excellent social skills who will now be getting absolutely NO work done because they spend all their time socializing with all the other social butterflies?