you play a game, lets say GTA3
you find a hooker
you "make love" with her
after u finished
big banner
we observed the hooker has a very low oppinion of your performance... we are here to help you... buy "sex with hookers for dummies" now!
my game experience will be so much more enjoyable... i can hardly wait
P.S.
of course then we will have to pay double for the no-advertising version... i just love the way advertising helps people
Part of the problem comes from the fact that ethics are not taught in school
u r right, the education system evolved in the wrong direction in the last few centuries.. instead of trying to produce nice human beings, now they produce "specialists"... what good is an amazing assembler expert if the guy can't even speak with a girl, or decide what food is good for his health?
sorry but my post is supposed to be way more profound then a simple MS vs OSS fight.. and i have nothing against the idea of competition... but some of the methods are disturbing
anyway, thx for the input
so, you say that pushing your restaurant down my throat is a "good thing"?????
how about nobody does advertising?... and you get to be known in the old fashion - word of mouth... it's the most reliable source ever and all the involved parts are happy with it... if your restaurant is good it'll survive... maybe it won't develop same as fast, but the ultimate purpose of a business is to be useful and enjoyable to everyone, not to make money "instantly"...
in fact, it's even simpler, the ultimate purpose is hapiness... and the "get rich or die trying" program, executed at maximum speed is not exactly a hapiness generator.
no they are not.. people have a lot of defects... it's the human nature and that's why we have education... EXPLOITING this defects instead of helping to correct them is "the bad thing"
advertising IS THE REAL EVIL... PERIOD.
advertisers calculate ~like this :
a lot of people are too lazy to do their own reserch
a lot of people are too dumb to do their own reserch
about the remained ~5%, we don't care
and the obvious conclusion - it don' matter what crap you tell them, make it sound nice and they'll buy
as about stigmatising MS for this.. i don' wanna say they are the nicest company, but ANY big company that ever did advertising, had at least one similar campaign
or think about this sample
AFAIR, Carlsberg ran a spot saying
"Carlsberg - probably the best beer in the world"
think about the uproar after a
"Windows - probably the best OS in the world"
advertising is the real bad-guy here, not MS... advertising takes away your freedom of choice by exploiting your lazyness or dumbness... and they do it so good, most of people even enjoy it!
If you are using Microsoft Word 97, write:
"I'd like to see Bill Gates dead".
The reply in the thesaurus is:
"I'll drink to that".
word 2k:
"I want to close Slashdot".
The reply in the thesaurus is:
"Jackpot"
as msword thesaurus gives tens of "synonymes" for anything u write, that's an endless resource of fun... even better than www.bash.org/?random
original comment
"One thing that Microsoft Word continues to have are some features very useful for the average user."
your response
You've got to be joking. A grammar checker? Anyone else here just dying for a grammar checker?
read the bold text again... do you feel something hitting your forehead?:)
plus, u totally forgot that MOST users of office-like programs are non-english-natives!
grammar & spelling checkers are must-have features for any Office suite that weants to compete with MSOffice on a worldwide scale.
Right now if there's a bug or vulnerability in my data access layer, Microsoft can update one file on each machine to fix that vulnerability in every application. In the system you describe, each one would have to be patched seperately.
u r missin somethin : when everybody uses a different data-layer, there's no vulnerability that applies to all of them -> most of them have no need to update/patch.
100% agree with the buzzword bussinesspeople relation u described.
however, i cannot agree with your post because of another "buzzword" - LOGIC!
your post says:
1. businessweek writes only for people that "jump on the buzzwords"
2. BSD is not a buzzword
then how come busineesweek has an article about BSD?
Alot of people associate.ro with havoc... I'd like to know [why]
there's a very good book about that... on sale now on www.amazon.ro for only 99,99... amazon.ro is not open yet, but you can just send me your credit card number and i'll deliver you the book.
signed : the romanian connection "all your credit cards are belong to us!"
the growing trend of inserting ads more directly into online content
does this mean that the online content evolves to an "ads-inside-ads" model?
TV seems to be almost there - think all these BuyStuff tv-channels or the free-to-air channels where, amazingly, one can still see some old, low-budget and crappy movies between the ads.
marx, engels and others were equally bright and educated people.. but when i said Leader, i was reffering to presidents of comunist coutries and chiefs of comunist parties
If the smart people are in power, you get Communism.
i guess the only Communism u ever seen was the "as seen on TV" kind... from all i know, Lenin was the only communist leader with a serious education background.
So which is it, secure communications or communications that can be spied on? It can't be both.
which only demonstrates that u have no ideea about this "quantum computing" stuff... and the moderators can easily sing along...
the "uncertainty principle" is a main ingredient in quantum teory and one of the worst brain twists in quantum is exactly "IT CAN BE BOTH"!
check this classic quantum jokes for example(source wikipedia.org) :
"Quantum mechanics provides probabilistic results because the physical universe is itself probabilistic rather than deterministic."
"one state can exist in superposition of all possible states at once."
"Quantum information cannot generally be read or duplicated without disturbance"
in other words here's how a password sniffer based on quatum technology works:
1. sniff the encrypted password - success
2. decrypt the password - success
alert, alert, system/communication insecure!
3. read/use decrypted password - failed! (Quantum info cannot be read without disturbance)
oh sorry, false alarm, system is 100% secure
but dont any of u worry, according to Niels Bohr you are on the best path :
"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it."
Slashdot Mirror
you write a lot for a restaurant owner ... business slow? bad advertising maybe ? :)
the only problem - the subject is not funny at all .. slashdot works in misterious ways
you find a hooker
you "make love" with her
after u finished
big banner
we observed the hooker has a very low oppinion of your performance
my game experience will be so much more enjoyable ... i can hardly wait
P.S. ... i just love the way advertising helps people
of course then we will have to pay double for the no-advertising version
u r right, the education system evolved in the wrong direction in the last few centuries .. instead of trying to produce nice human beings, now they produce "specialists" ... what good is an amazing assembler expert if the guy can't even speak with a girl, or decide what food is good for his health?
sorry but my post is supposed to be way more profound then a simple MS vs OSS fight .. and i have nothing against the idea of competition ... but some of the methods are disturbing
anyway, thx for the input
how about nobody does advertising? ... and you get to be known in the old fashion - word of mouth... it's the most reliable source ever and all the involved parts are happy with it... if your restaurant is good it'll survive ... maybe it won't develop same as fast, but the ultimate purpose of a business is to be useful and enjoyable to everyone, not to make money "instantly" ...
... and the "get rich or die trying" program, executed at maximum speed is not exactly a hapiness generator.
in fact, it's even simpler, the ultimate purpose is hapiness
no they are not .. people have a lot of defects ... it's the human nature and that's why we have education ... EXPLOITING this defects instead of helping to correct them is "the bad thing"
advertisers calculate ~like this :
a lot of people are too lazy to do their own reserch
a lot of people are too dumb to do their own reserch
about the remained ~5%, we don't care
and the obvious conclusion - it don' matter what crap you tell them, make it sound nice and they'll buy
as about stigmatising MS for this .. i don' wanna say they are the nicest company, but ANY big company that ever did advertising, had at least one similar campaign
or think about this sample AFAIR, Carlsberg ran a spot saying "Carlsberg - probably the best beer in the world"
think about the uproar after a "Windows - probably the best OS in the world"
advertising is the real bad-guy here, not MS ... advertising takes away your freedom of choice by exploiting your lazyness or dumbness ... and they do it so good, most of people even enjoy it!
did u say comment more? oh, sorry...
because he never reads what u send him ?
If you are using Microsoft Word 97, write:
"I'd like to see Bill Gates dead".
The reply in the thesaurus is:
"I'll drink to that".
word 2k:
"I want to close Slashdot".
The reply in the thesaurus is:
"Jackpot"
as msword thesaurus gives tens of "synonymes" for anything u write, that's an endless resource of fun ... even better than www.bash.org/?random
"One thing that Microsoft Word continues to have are some features very useful for the average user."
your response
You've got to be joking. A grammar checker? Anyone else here just dying for a grammar checker?
read the bold text again ... do you feel something hitting your forehead? :)
plus, u totally forgot that MOST users of office-like programs are non-english-natives!
grammar & spelling checkers are must-have features for any Office suite that weants to compete with MSOffice on a worldwide scale.
does this mean that 50% of the slashdot moderators belong to the category mentioned by the parent - the naive IDIOTS?
u r missin somethin : when everybody uses a different data-layer, there's no vulnerability that applies to all of them -> most of them have no need to update/patch.
100% agree with the buzzword bussinesspeople relation u described.
however, i cannot agree with your post because of another "buzzword" - LOGIC!
your post says:
1. businessweek writes only for people that "jump on the buzzwords"
2. BSD is not a buzzword
then how come busineesweek has an article about BSD?
and you sound like a mega-geek
there's a very good book about that ... on sale now on www.amazon.ro for only 99,99 ... amazon.ro is not open yet, but you can just send me your credit card number and i'll deliver you the book.
signed : the romanian connection "all your credit cards are belong to us!"
does this mean that the online content evolves to an "ads-inside-ads" model?
TV seems to be almost there - think all these BuyStuff tv-channels or the free-to-air channels where, amazingly, one can still see some old, low-budget and crappy movies between the ads.
actually, this is slahdot
marx, engels and others were equally bright and educated people .. but when i said Leader, i was reffering to presidents of comunist coutries and chiefs of comunist parties
"Under capitalism man exploits his fellow man.
Under communism the roles are reversed."
but no idea about origins
and "inteligence + noeducation = danger"
i guess the only Communism u ever seen was the "as seen on TV" kind ... from all i know, Lenin was the only communist leader with a serious education background.
software IS a service (ok, software-games may be an exception here) ... therefore, cheaper=better
i wonder where that place is ... or maybe u have some sort of 7 dimensional screen there?
which only demonstrates that u have no ideea about this "quantum computing" stuff ... and the moderators can easily sing along ...
the "uncertainty principle" is a main ingredient in quantum teory and one of the worst brain twists in quantum is exactly "IT CAN BE BOTH"!
check this classic quantum jokes for example(source wikipedia.org) :
"Quantum mechanics provides probabilistic results because the physical universe is itself probabilistic rather than deterministic."
"one state can exist in superposition of all possible states at once."
"Quantum information cannot generally be read or duplicated without disturbance"
in other words here's how a password sniffer based on quatum technology works:
1. sniff the encrypted password - success
2. decrypt the password - success
alert, alert, system/communication insecure!
3. read/use decrypted password - failed! (Quantum info cannot be read without disturbance)
oh sorry, false alarm, system is 100% secure
but dont any of u worry, according to Niels Bohr you are on the best path :
"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it."