I think this calls for a moment of silence, or something.
No, I really mean it.
This was one of our first chances to see the true potential of the internet - for good and for bad. It spawned camwhores of all varieties and gave rise to a new kind of voyeurism.
Goodbye to a pioneer.
But I would like to get one of those Nintendo things. I hear there's a game on there about some plumber that jumps on turtles and stuff to save a princess. That sounds pretty high-tech!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to playing Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Game. You suckers with your Playstations don't know what you're missing!
These games are great and everything, but before you get any of them for me based on this advice, I would like to call your attention to the fact that I lost my job on Monday.
Therefore, here is my list:
A manual labor job at the North Pole, which probably has better weather and better working conditions than my last workplace
Reviewers, please read it.
Never use a fifty-cent word when a nickel word will do. This review reads like a bad example of a meaningless corporate business plan.
Using the biggest possible word in all possible cases doesn't make you look smart, it just makes you look boring.
Inflation hasn't only gone up because of things like this, but because of the increasing dollar amount of taxes being subtracted from paychecks.
Even if your paycheck is the same as 10 years ago, your take-home pay is very likely less. These surcharges are yet another way that make you think you're making the same amount - when really, you're making less and less, every day.
No one's talking about using long-running, successful campaigns. They're talking about using campaigns the clients have rejected, the campaigns and ads that end up on the cutting room floor (which almost happened to "where's the beef" and "I'd like to buy the world a Coke", incidentally).
This is a great, cost effective way for ad agencies to generate revenue even with the ads that don't end up used - and a good way for creative departments to use their more innovative ads that are often dismissed out of hand by clients.
Of course.
Most products today are parity products - that is, there's no discernable germane difference between a product and its direct competitors.
Therefore, you don't sell the product - you sell ideas. You sell images, lifestyles.
Without these images and ideas, there'd be nothing separating most categories of parity products.
They're not talking about used ads.
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They probably are talking about campaigns that you've never seen, because they were never used.
I work at an advertising agency (I know, I know) and one of the most interesting things about it is to see how much money is wasted writing, editing, and producing ads that never see the light of day because the client thinks it's too edgy, or doesn't like blue carpet, or thinks the whole campaign is a bad idea because his sister told him so.
At the end of all this, there are hundreds of commercials that are brilliantly done and well-produced - that you've never, ever seen. Many are probably edgier and more interesting than anything you've ever seen as a television ad.
I'd be interested to see what these turn out to be!
That with all the complaints people make about young people working in the garment industry for low to poverty-level wages in third-world nations, no one has yet figured out that basically, by letting technology companies take jobs overseas, we're encouraging the same thing on a different level.
Just because it's more white-collar doesn't make it less of a sweatshop.
Well, I wonder about the effect of this on the fish. It wouldn't be terribly good for humans to have focused, intense UV rays pumped at us all day. Are these fish going to become horrible mutant fish?
And it's probably a good thing for the people who created them that they are.
Danios (these fish are more correctly referred to as "zebra danios") are incredibly easy to breed, and if they weren't sterile, you'd see them at Wal-Mart for twenty-seven cents plus tax soon.
However, I've never seen this sort of thing before - fish are all pretty "open source" and breeders are pretty much allowed to do as they please with them. I can't help but thinking that excessive use of forced copyright (via sterilization), like this, could easily put fish breeders out of business.
Zebra danios are tropical fish, which means that they'd have about as much chance of surviving a toilet flush as you would.
They are used to a temperature range in the upper 70's to mid 80's, which - as I'm sure I don't need to inform you - your toilet water probably differs from.
Even if the temperature shock didn't get 'em, the chlorine from city water would (because we're assuming city water here - I don't think a fish flushed to a septic tank would be a happy fish at all). Chlorine would actually probably get it faster than the cold.
Goldfish do, from time to time, survive a trip to the sewage treatment plant. I know this because I pulled a seven inch koi from a sewage tank once (please don't ask). But a teeny tiny zebra danio? Getting all the way through sewage treatment? please.
Additionally, your other scenario is even more flawed. Zebra danios are freshwater fish. Throw one in the ocean and it'd last about three seconds.
$50,000 per song. 6,000 songs and 100 full length movies...yeah, excuse me while I pull that money out of my ass.
Hasn't the RIAA ever heard the phrase "blood from a turnip"? What are they going to do, rob piggy banks? I'm sure their lawyers will be really satisfied with the $300 most college kids have in savings.
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I think this calls for a moment of silence, or something. No, I really mean it. This was one of our first chances to see the true potential of the internet - for good and for bad. It spawned camwhores of all varieties and gave rise to a new kind of voyeurism. Goodbye to a pioneer.
Those "agricultural checkpoints" as you cross the state line into California just got more fun.
"Do you have any fruits or vegetables or seeds?"
"No."
"Well, how about genetically engineered fish?"
"Aw, crap...I mean, NO!"
"We're going to have to search your car. Please get out of the vehicle."
The RIAA could pretty easily start checking people's mp3 playlists. once they decide it's "too many" mp3's, watch them get a subpoena on your ass.
It's really not that much of a stretch. At least they'd know the people they were catching actually owned a computer/mp3 files.
Agreed - but you do have to respect the only game in history to have two colons in the title.
I loved Spike, too. Gotta love that canned speech.
EEK! HELP! SPIKE!
OH NO! MOLLY!
doo-DOO, doo-doodoo-doo-doo-DOO...
You kids and your fancy game systems.
My Vectrex works perfectly fine for me.
But I would like to get one of those Nintendo things. I hear there's a game on there about some plumber that jumps on turtles and stuff to save a princess. That sounds pretty high-tech!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to playing Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Game. You suckers with your Playstations don't know what you're missing!
These games are great and everything, but before you get any of them for me based on this advice, I would like to call your attention to the fact that I lost my job on Monday.
Therefore, here is my list:
A manual labor job at the North Pole, which probably has better weather and better working conditions than my last workplace
And one XBox so I can play Fable.
Thank you Santa!
Reviewers, please read it. Never use a fifty-cent word when a nickel word will do. This review reads like a bad example of a meaningless corporate business plan. Using the biggest possible word in all possible cases doesn't make you look smart, it just makes you look boring.
Inflation hasn't only gone up because of things like this, but because of the increasing dollar amount of taxes being subtracted from paychecks. Even if your paycheck is the same as 10 years ago, your take-home pay is very likely less. These surcharges are yet another way that make you think you're making the same amount - when really, you're making less and less, every day.
Mm. If it's wrong to want slashdot to have news instead of unpaid ads - then I don't want to be right.
I do so hope that this ad is being paid for.
I mean, really. If I wanted to look at ads I'd go to fark.
How is this ridiculous?
No one's talking about using long-running, successful campaigns. They're talking about using campaigns the clients have rejected, the campaigns and ads that end up on the cutting room floor (which almost happened to "where's the beef" and "I'd like to buy the world a Coke", incidentally).
This is a great, cost effective way for ad agencies to generate revenue even with the ads that don't end up used - and a good way for creative departments to use their more innovative ads that are often dismissed out of hand by clients.
Of course. Most products today are parity products - that is, there's no discernable germane difference between a product and its direct competitors. Therefore, you don't sell the product - you sell ideas. You sell images, lifestyles. Without these images and ideas, there'd be nothing separating most categories of parity products.
They probably are talking about campaigns that you've never seen, because they were never used.
I work at an advertising agency (I know, I know) and one of the most interesting things about it is to see how much money is wasted writing, editing, and producing ads that never see the light of day because the client thinks it's too edgy, or doesn't like blue carpet, or thinks the whole campaign is a bad idea because his sister told him so.
At the end of all this, there are hundreds of commercials that are brilliantly done and well-produced - that you've never, ever seen. Many are probably edgier and more interesting than anything you've ever seen as a television ad.
I'd be interested to see what these turn out to be!
That with all the complaints people make about young people working in the garment industry for low to poverty-level wages in third-world nations, no one has yet figured out that basically, by letting technology companies take jobs overseas, we're encouraging the same thing on a different level. Just because it's more white-collar doesn't make it less of a sweatshop.
When will they make an algorithm that tells me a singer's hitability, so I know which pages of Maxim to skip?
Well, I wonder about the effect of this on the fish. It wouldn't be terribly good for humans to have focused, intense UV rays pumped at us all day. Are these fish going to become horrible mutant fish?
And it's probably a good thing for the people who created them that they are. Danios (these fish are more correctly referred to as "zebra danios") are incredibly easy to breed, and if they weren't sterile, you'd see them at Wal-Mart for twenty-seven cents plus tax soon. However, I've never seen this sort of thing before - fish are all pretty "open source" and breeders are pretty much allowed to do as they please with them. I can't help but thinking that excessive use of forced copyright (via sterilization), like this, could easily put fish breeders out of business.
Zebra danios are tropical fish, which means that they'd have about as much chance of surviving a toilet flush as you would. They are used to a temperature range in the upper 70's to mid 80's, which - as I'm sure I don't need to inform you - your toilet water probably differs from. Even if the temperature shock didn't get 'em, the chlorine from city water would (because we're assuming city water here - I don't think a fish flushed to a septic tank would be a happy fish at all). Chlorine would actually probably get it faster than the cold. Goldfish do, from time to time, survive a trip to the sewage treatment plant. I know this because I pulled a seven inch koi from a sewage tank once (please don't ask). But a teeny tiny zebra danio? Getting all the way through sewage treatment? please. Additionally, your other scenario is even more flawed. Zebra danios are freshwater fish. Throw one in the ocean and it'd last about three seconds.
I'm sorry this is happening to him - but I also know he's got enough places to hide that they'll have a hell of a time finding him.
$50,000 per song. 6,000 songs and 100 full length movies...yeah, excuse me while I pull that money out of my ass. Hasn't the RIAA ever heard the phrase "blood from a turnip"? What are they going to do, rob piggy banks? I'm sure their lawyers will be really satisfied with the $300 most college kids have in savings.