It's a good question, it seems intuitive that those brands are so deeply entrenched in our collective awareness and habits that they've sort of transcended advertising. It seems like we could never see another ad for Nike, and we'd still remember them and buy their shoes just as much.
But it's not true. The reason we can tell it's not true is that companies like Nike universally continue to spend gobs upon gobs of money on advertising campaigns FYI, your conclusion is your thesis. What if the actors here are following this reasoning? They'd have to be sure of themselves out of hubris, yes, but remember that these are the sort of folks who thought New Coke and Crystal Pepsi were good ideas.
Some very powerful people agree with you, but you don't have to take my word for it. Let's ask what Ed Whitacre, the last CEO of AT&T, our favorite past and future monopoly, what he has to say. Ed?
There's a problem. It's called Net Neutrality... Well, frankly, we say to hell with that. We're gonna put up some toll booths and start charging admission... Will Congress let us do it? You bet they will -- cuz we don't call it cashin' in. We call it 'deregulation.' Well, thanks Ed. You make your intentions very clear. And to Mr. The AtomicPunk, I hope you understand just what you are advocating and just who you are supporting. It is true that we have bad laws and bad regulation - but net nuetrality probably isn't one of them. If the internet is in fact broken, AT&T can go start their own pay-per-bit competitor and we'll all have to use it since it would be so much better.
Imagine if the US public were educated enough to vote in their own interest... think of what this country could be. But our votes are governed by irrational fear and primitive bigotry, and we're only going to get worse.
What? The government abused it's power? No. A few low level agents made mistakes which they know shouldn't be repeated. We told them it was probably not OK with some people the first time around, and now that's it's happening again, we've issued a fresh round of lukewarm admonishments.
Rest assured that the rule of law is important to us & all will be well.
They'd support ODF -- natively, not through some third-party open source plugin. They'd drop OpenXML. How much more open could the be? OpenXML is an open standard! Look, in order to parse an OpenXML document, you simply open Microsoft word and...
I have a tiger repellent rock. I know it works because I have not been mauled by tigers since purchasing it.
The president has a terrorist repellent wiretapping program. He knows it works because he has not been blamed for a terrorist attack since instituting it.
Remember that in terms of IPC, xscale : arm:: p4 : athlon. The old HTC wizard also sports a 200MHz OMAP (a TI ARM + goodies processor) & performs quite well in comparison to 416MHz PXA270 products - if you overclock it;)
Before northbridges were smart enough to lock down the PCI clock to 33mhz, overclocking of the IDE bus was the norm (since IDE controllers derived their clock from the PCI bus). All that mattered was what you could get away with. I found that IBM's were usually very tolerant of extra-chippy IDE speed, whereas maxtors usually fell flat on their face at around 111-114mhz fsb (going from 100mhz, of course). Your mileage may have varied.
It's been well acknowledged here that Vista sales are roughly only equal to XP over the same time measured. This assertion raises only questions. "Over the same time measured" ? Relative to what? Sales? By what metric? Dollar amount? Remember, there are far more machines now than when XP went on the market. If we are comparing revenue, vista is falling flat on its face.
Most of the PC market has been riding the MS/PC roller coaster long enough to have a feel for the time to buy and will likely hold on to XP until mainstream support has ended. So, even MS addicts wont move to vista until they absolutely have to. That, although totally unsubstantiated, makes sense.
Then his hands shot to Angela Merkel's shoulders, roughly kneading her skin as he likened Iraq to a bone that will not leave his mouth until he's done coming and coming and coming.
That's not my assumption - or even necessarily one at all. To quote the article, once more & yet again:
Under its controversial alliance with Novell, Microsoft is entitled to receive key technical documentation from the Linux distributor even if that documentation is not generally available to open source software developers, according to a Novell document.
Under its controversial alliance with Novell, Microsoft is entitled to receive ___K___E___Y___ technical documentation from the Linux distributor even if that documentation is not generally available to open source software developers, according to a Novell document.
While everything you say is true, I wonder why Novell is offering key unreleased technical documentation to Microsoft. Could it have something to due with their SCO-style slander and nebulous IP violation accusations?
From the article:
Under its controversial alliance with Novell, Microsoft is entitled to receive key technical documentation from the Linux distributor even if that documentation is not generally available to open source software developers The problem here IS that Microsoft appears to be collaborating with Novel... against us. One might infer that Microsoft wants to be involved with Novel's design and development efforts so that Novel will unwittingly infringe upon as many Microsoft patents as possible. They could do this, say, in the name of bolstering open source compatibility with Microsoft products.
But who really knows what objective Microsoft insidiously pursues. Perhaps this situation bizarre but benign. Well, scratch that. They've already abused the relationship to demand protection money from Linux users.
In order to encourage game stadium attendance, MLB will usually only permit sold out games to be broadcast locally.
Like the 30 second commercial segment, it was a nice idea that has had its day. Chasing after slingboxes in order to protect blackouts is no less foolish than outlawing the 30 second skip button in order to protect viability of commercials.
Because they can't be bothered to change, these people think that entire markets and technologies must be restrained, inhibited, crippled or destroyed. Fuck 'em.
Professor Charles Nelson, Harvard School of Law:
One can easily understand why the RIAA wants help from universities in facilitating its enforcement actions against students who download copyrighted music without paying for it. It is easier to litigate against change than to change with it. If the RIAA saw a better way to protect its existing business, it would not be threatening our students, forcing our librarians and administrators to be copyright police, and flooding our courts with lawsuits against relatively defenseless families without lawyers or ready means to pay. We can even understand the attraction of using lawsuits to shore up an aging business model rather than engaging with disruptive technologies and the risks that new business models entail.
But mere understanding is no reason for a university to voluntarily assist the RIAA with its threatening and abusive tactics. Instead, we should be assisting our students both by explaining the law and by resisting the subpoenas that the RIAA serves upon us. We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students. We should be lobbying Congress for a roll back of the draconian copyright law that the copyright industry has forced upon us. Intellectual property can be efficient when its boundaries are relatively self-evident. Perhaps Ohio doesn't have a law school that would enable students to defend other students. Perhaps Ohio just doesn't give a shit. Perhaps Ohio is complicit. Take your pick.
There's a reason that Harvard has a better rep than the University of Ohio.
And it's not just that Ohio sucks. Aye, the home of Blackwell, the black heart of voting fraud, poll taxes and electorate purges... If you live in Ohio, particularly on a state campus,
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But it's not true. The reason we can tell it's not true is that companies like Nike universally continue to spend gobs upon gobs of money on advertising campaigns FYI, your conclusion is your thesis. What if the actors here are following this reasoning? They'd have to be sure of themselves out of hubris, yes, but remember that these are the sort of folks who thought New Coke and Crystal Pepsi were good ideas.
You could vote with your wallet and go use it.
Imagine if the US public were educated enough to vote in their own interest... think of what this country could be. But our votes are governed by irrational fear and primitive bigotry, and we're only going to get worse.
Rest assured that the rule of law is important to us & all will be well.
Mod parent informative.
So, because Verizon et all are too incompetent to set up filtering ala gmail, I should pay them?
WTF?
I have a tiger repellent rock. I know it works because I have not been mauled by tigers since purchasing it.
The president has a terrorist repellent wiretapping program. He knows it works because he has not been blamed for a terrorist attack since instituting it.
Nonetheless, it remains a huge flaming advertisement / troll.
Remember that in terms of IPC, xscale : arm :: p4 : athlon. The old HTC wizard also sports a 200MHz OMAP (a TI ARM + goodies processor) & performs quite well in comparison to 416MHz PXA270 products - if you overclock it ;)
There's no reason to be squeamish about overclocking your phone.
Overclocking hard drives you say?
Before northbridges were smart enough to lock down the PCI clock to 33mhz, overclocking of the IDE bus was the norm (since IDE controllers derived their clock from the PCI bus). All that mattered was what you could get away with. I found that IBM's were usually very tolerant of extra-chippy IDE speed, whereas maxtors usually fell flat on their face at around 111-114mhz fsb (going from 100mhz, of course). Your mileage may have varied.
Then his hands shot to Angela Merkel's shoulders, roughly kneading her skin as he likened Iraq to a bone that will not leave his mouth until he's done coming and coming and coming.
All politicians are bad, so there's no such thing as a bad apple.
All laws are bad, so there's no such thing as a bad law.
All slashdotters are stupid, so there's no such thing as a smart slashdotter. QED.
Nor would they want to; those guys are fighting us now. It's been said that Afghanistan was the Soviet's Vietnam. Now...
You have right to flood world arms market and make profit
While everything you say is true, I wonder why Novell is offering key unreleased technical documentation to Microsoft. Could it have something to due with their SCO-style slander and nebulous IP violation accusations?
But who really knows what objective Microsoft insidiously pursues. Perhaps this situation bizarre but benign. Well, scratch that. They've already abused the relationship to demand protection money from Linux users.
Sometimes you can be aware and yet still asleep:
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
In order to encourage game stadium attendance, MLB will usually only permit sold out games to be broadcast locally.
Like the 30 second commercial segment, it was a nice idea that has had its day. Chasing after slingboxes in order to protect blackouts is no less foolish than outlawing the 30 second skip button in order to protect viability of commercials.
Because they can't be bothered to change, these people think that entire markets and technologies must be restrained, inhibited, crippled or destroyed. Fuck 'em.
And it would be extremely dangerous if an Englishman and a Chinaman could pay the same amount for the same product.
What would be next? Where would it end? What if petrol prices also reached parity? It just wouldn't be proper!
But mere understanding is no reason for a university to voluntarily assist the RIAA with its threatening and abusive tactics. Instead, we should be assisting our students both by explaining the law and by resisting the subpoenas that the RIAA serves upon us. We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students. We should be lobbying Congress for a roll back of the draconian copyright law that the copyright industry has forced upon us. Intellectual property can be efficient when its boundaries are relatively self-evident. Perhaps Ohio doesn't have a law school that would enable students to defend other students. Perhaps Ohio just doesn't give a shit. Perhaps Ohio is complicit. Take your pick.
There's a reason that Harvard has a better rep than the University of Ohio.
And it's not just that Ohio sucks. Aye, the home of Blackwell, the black heart of voting fraud, poll taxes and electorate purges... If you live in Ohio, particularly on a state campus,
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