Yeah, that EDS commercial was so inneffective that you have spent part of your day here on/. complaining how inneffective it was.:)
Regardless of whether you liked the EDS commercial or not, you remember it and are committing time to discussing it. Therefore it was effective.
I recall that there was a commercial on the radio a few years ago, that was easily the most annoying ever produced. It was advertising some new apartments they were building in the area, and everytime I heard it I couldn't help but change the channel. But a few weeks later, they released a new commercial that was funnier than ever, and was easily my favorite one by that company. The commercial was even funnier in the context of the annoying one than it was alone.
Effective advertising is name recognition. Millions of people are now aware of EDS that never were before. Whether you understood the significance or not (I thought it was pretty obvious, but I guess not everyone thinks like me) you now know of EDS.
"One thing I thought was interesting, were the couple of commercials geared towards women (the Oxygen.com commercial, for example). That seems like wasted money, since the demographics for the SuperBowl viewer, I'd assume, are heavily skewed toward the male gender."
Nah, my wife loves football. I work with a lady that is more fanatic than I am about football. My mom watched the last quarter of the game because "it was exciting." The demographic may be primarially male, but I would 'guess' that female viewers accounted for 25-30%. And that means that with all the male oriented commercials, the one or two female centric ones will be that much more effective to the target audience.
Send an e-mail to the webmaster at Oxygen.com and ask how much traffic has increased? You might be surprised. Plus, there is now a whole lot more awareness of the site, by both genders.
One problem that appears to have been overlooked is the elastic nature of skin. If you barcode a human when thay are an infant, they grow, and the surface area of the hand, forehead, whatever increases. If anyone has ever seen an older person who got a tatoo when thay were young, they know that the ink starts to run after a while. Lines get blurry and wide, and less recognizable. This is something that would cause issues with scanners and identity.
Also, as the fellow who is a box of cocopuffs will testify, anyone with a tattoo pen (wich can be made easily out of a guitar string and a poorly balanced motor) can forge a tattoo. easy enough to masquerade as someone else.
No The Mark of the beast will be much more elusive, creative and foolproof. A microchip under the skin is what seems to be the latest (well since the 70's but I think that's classified), and in 5 years it may be something else. Guess we won't know till it happens huh?
You say voluntary. If you read the stuff on your tax forms it mentions that Income tax is voluntary. Does anyone here remember volunteering to pay taxes? I didn't.
Since noone seems to have really mentioned it, I felt I should point it out.
Everyone seems to be focusing on Microsoft, but anyone who has read a Tom Clancy novel knows that the NSA will tell MS to lie about it until the day the company goes bankrupt.
If the NSA says it is a matter of national security, then MS will deny any thoughts of ever considering an NSA back door, whether it is there or not. You could have 12 memos from MS VP's and 5 from the NSA that discuss standards for the NSA key and encryption algorithms, but MS would deny it till their servers are cracked and brought down, then go on denying the problem.
It isn't really MS's fault. They probably don't have a choice.
Why do you think open source advocates are painted in such a poor light. Someody out there wants open source advocates to look like extremists and conspiracy hunters. If you want people to believe your story, discredit your opponents.
I doubt MS let the NSA have a back door just becase they thought it would be fun. Chances are someone told somebody else to do it. MS is just the pawn here.
Some of us are interested in the world of computing and what is happening in it, not just with Linux... And Slashdot does a marvelous job covering cutting edge technologies for both linux and non linux applications. Since right now Windows is the dominating computing force I think it would be ignorant and foolish to exclude the technologies that are emerging just because they are marketed to Windows users. How about going to your preferences page and applying that prejudice on the "Pretty Widgets" to filter Hemos. Retard. "Cynic?? Who's a cynic?"
"but, without my illegibly-scrawled signature" Now I know I have seen many scrawled signatures printed out on laser printers... that's what scanners are for...
Actually I believe most people have a problem with federally mandated taxes, but just don't know enough to really combat the issue. Discussions like this are helpful to that end. An e-mail tax would be unconstitutional and invading.
But along those same lines I do believe this to be one of the many e-mail hoaxes that get circulated.
There freaking birds. I don't hear any complaints about the rats, kittens, snakes, tarantulas, crickets or fish that are kept at the local mall pet store!!! You wanna see scared and traumatized check out the tiny glass case thay keep the scorpions in. And the case of Pythons is far too small for a wild snake!!! Sheesh, it is a bird. They live, they die, they poop on the newspaper, so what. Complain about smog effects on sparrows, or the old lady feeding processed foods to the pigeons in central park. I'll call you stupid just the same. They're fricking birds. They don't care.
So I browsed out to Science magazine, and after the third degree to sign up for a "limited membership" they dont really give you access to useful info.
What is science coming to when we have to pay to read what new discoveries are out there? what kind of sick and twisted corporation puts a price on knowledge??? So much for freedom of information....
The scientific community is turning into a bunch of money grubbing communists...
along that same line of thinking, though, regulation wouldn't do anything except stop the law abiding citizens from coding. the ones that are coding viruses and trojans (while I understnd coding them isn't illegal) would still fall outside of legality and the law wouldnt affect them in the least. If criminals obtain handguns/drugs/licences illegally, then more laws/regulatoins are not going to stop them, only make them more creative.
The mere thought of a verification group lends to the increase of corruption.
It is a noble sounding idea, but if you establish a few elite coders as the last line of defense, what happens when some hacker decides to put one of the forum on his payroll. Then every application he/she reviews may, or may not hide a trojan, or virus. then the unsuspecting public (unsuspecting because they were willing to trust their digital safety to a stranger) is suddenly surprised by some bonehead running off with millions of dollars and the secret files of our most hidden desires...
every crooked politician who has ever changed their stance based on lobbyist funding is testimony to this...
Yes, I believe many are misunderstanding this sentence. the "about one hour daily" is referring to the amount that is 13% not the total tv per day. If it were the total tv per day the sentence would read: "Wired homes watch an average of 13% less TV than others, about one hour daily, says the study, commissioned by America Online."
now the "one hour daily" refers to the total viewing time, not the less time.
On that note I would agree. However, try spending time with the tv junkies who cannot figure out how to work the whole IRC/chat thing. ir will make you feel stupid...
As for TV insulting the intelligence of the people... ask an average American viewer how insulted he feels. Chances are the TV is playing right to his IQ not insulting him...
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Yeah, that EDS commercial was so inneffective that you have spent part of your day here on /. complaining how inneffective it was. :)
Regardless of whether you liked the EDS commercial or not, you remember it and are committing time to discussing it. Therefore it was effective.
I recall that there was a commercial on the radio a few years ago, that was easily the most annoying ever produced. It was advertising some new apartments they were building in the area, and everytime I heard it I couldn't help but change the channel. But a few weeks later, they released a new commercial that was funnier than ever, and was easily my favorite one by that company. The commercial was even funnier in the context of the annoying one than it was alone.
Effective advertising is name recognition. Millions of people are now aware of EDS that never were before. Whether you understood the significance or not (I thought it was pretty obvious, but I guess not everyone thinks like me) you now know of EDS.
"One thing I thought was interesting, were the couple of commercials geared towards women (the Oxygen.com commercial, for example). That seems like wasted money, since the demographics for the SuperBowl viewer, I'd assume, are heavily skewed toward the male gender."
Nah, my wife loves football. I work with a lady that is more fanatic than I am about football. My mom watched the last quarter of the game because "it was exciting." The demographic may be primarially male, but I would 'guess' that female viewers accounted for 25-30%. And that means that with all the male oriented commercials, the one or two female centric ones will be that much more effective to the target audience.
Send an e-mail to the webmaster at Oxygen.com and ask how much traffic has increased? You might be surprised. Plus, there is now a whole lot more awareness of the site, by both genders.
One problem that appears to have been overlooked is the elastic nature of skin. If you barcode a human when thay are an infant, they grow, and the surface area of the hand, forehead, whatever increases. If anyone has ever seen an older person who got a tatoo when thay were young, they know that the ink starts to run after a while. Lines get blurry and wide, and less recognizable. This is something that would cause issues with scanners and identity.
Also, as the fellow who is a box of cocopuffs will testify, anyone with a tattoo pen (wich can be made easily out of a guitar string and a poorly balanced motor) can forge a tattoo. easy enough to masquerade as someone else.
No The Mark of the beast will be much more elusive, creative and foolproof. A microchip under the skin is what seems to be the latest (well since the 70's but I think that's classified), and in 5 years it may be something else.
Guess we won't know till it happens huh?
You say voluntary.
If you read the stuff on your tax forms it mentions that Income tax is voluntary. Does anyone here remember volunteering to pay taxes? I didn't.
Since noone seems to have really mentioned it, I felt I should point it out.
Everyone seems to be focusing on Microsoft, but anyone who has read a Tom Clancy novel knows that the NSA will tell MS to lie about it until the day the company goes bankrupt.
If the NSA says it is a matter of national security, then MS will deny any thoughts of ever considering an NSA back door, whether it is there or not. You could have 12 memos from MS VP's and 5 from the NSA that discuss standards for the NSA key and encryption algorithms, but MS would deny it till their servers are cracked and brought down, then go on denying the problem.
It isn't really MS's fault. They probably don't have a choice.
Why do you think open source advocates are painted in such a poor light. Someody out there wants open source advocates to look like extremists and conspiracy hunters. If you want people to believe your story, discredit your opponents.
I doubt MS let the NSA have a back door just becase they thought it would be fun. Chances are someone told somebody else to do it. MS is just the pawn here.
Some of us are interested in the world of computing and what is happening in it, not just with Linux... And Slashdot does a marvelous job covering cutting edge technologies for both linux and non linux applications. Since right now Windows is the dominating computing force I think it would be ignorant and foolish to exclude the technologies that are emerging just because they are marketed to Windows users. How about going to your preferences page and applying that prejudice on the "Pretty Widgets" to filter Hemos. Retard. "Cynic?? Who's a cynic?"
"but, without my illegibly-scrawled signature" Now I know I have seen many scrawled signatures printed out on laser printers... that's what scanners are for...
Actually I believe most people have a problem with federally mandated taxes, but just don't know enough to really combat the issue. Discussions like this are helpful to that end. An e-mail tax would be unconstitutional and invading.
But along those same lines I do believe this to be one of the many e-mail hoaxes that get circulated.
There freaking birds. I don't hear any complaints about the rats, kittens, snakes, tarantulas, crickets or fish that are kept at the local mall pet store!!! You wanna see scared and traumatized check out the tiny glass case thay keep the scorpions in. And the case of Pythons is far too small for a wild snake!!! Sheesh, it is a bird. They live, they die, they poop on the newspaper, so what. Complain about smog effects on sparrows, or the old lady feeding processed foods to the pigeons in central park. I'll call you stupid just the same. They're fricking birds. They don't care.
So I browsed out to Science magazine, and after the third degree to sign up for a "limited membership" they dont really give you access to useful info.
What is science coming to when we have to pay to read what new discoveries are out there? what kind of sick and twisted corporation puts a price on knowledge??? So much for freedom of information....
The scientific community is turning into a bunch of money grubbing communists...
Cynic??? Who's a cynic?
so where are the specs??? I wanna see one.
Show me show me!!!
Cynic??? Who's a cynic??
Aeneid by Virgil. Great propaganda by the Roman empire if you ask me. Made me wish I was a great Roman...
>"Cynic?? Who's a cynic?"
along that same line of thinking, though, regulation wouldn't do anything except stop the law abiding citizens from coding. the ones that are coding viruses and trojans (while I understnd coding them isn't illegal) would still fall outside of legality and the law wouldnt affect them in the least. If criminals obtain handguns/drugs/licences illegally, then more laws/regulatoins are not going to stop them, only make them more creative.
>"Cynic?? Who's a cynic?"
The mere thought of a verification group lends to the increase of corruption.
It is a noble sounding idea, but if you establish a few elite coders as the last line of defense, what happens when some hacker decides to put one of the forum on his payroll. Then every application he/she reviews may, or may not hide a trojan, or virus. then the unsuspecting public (unsuspecting because they were willing to trust their digital safety to a stranger) is suddenly surprised by some bonehead running off with millions of dollars and the secret files of our most hidden desires...
every crooked politician who has ever changed their stance based on lobbyist funding is testimony to this...
>"Cynic?? Whos a cynic??
Yes, I believe many are misunderstanding this sentence. the "about one hour daily" is referring to the amount that is 13% not the total tv per day. If it were the total tv per day the sentence would read: "Wired homes watch an average of 13% less TV than others, about one hour daily, says the study, commissioned by America Online."
now the "one hour daily" refers to the total viewing time, not the less time.
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On that note I would agree. However, try spending time with the tv junkies who cannot figure out how to work the whole IRC/chat thing. ir will make you feel stupid...
As for TV insulting the intelligence of the people... ask an average American viewer how insulted he feels. Chances are the TV is playing right to his IQ not insulting him...