Remember Microsoft products are used by tons of other companies, many of which happen to have or sell ad space -- if IE added adblock, I imagine it would create quite a stir.
I don't know about your country, but in mine there is the notion of an "immoral contract" that is illegal and void by law due to its immoral nature.
I guess if in your country (wherever that may be) your airline forced you to subject to an anal probe or sell your daughter into slavery, that'd be OK by your standards
You're comparing anal probes and slavery to an x-ray?
I don't think this is such a great idea, but being x-rayed is nothing near forced labor or having stuff shoved up your butt.
The symbol for copyright should be a burning candle with a cage of barbed wire around the flame, symbolizing that though you could light your candle at mine without diminishing mine's light, I'm still not going to let you copy my fire.
Huh. Wonder if the same people who designed those symbols also came up with the symbols on laundry tags. ("Do not put this shirt in a circle or triangle!")
The power icon with a closed circle is for power off; you'll probably find it on your TV's power button. The power icon with the broken circle is for stand by (soft off); you'll find it on your TV's remote control. Usually with no text, in either case. The power button on my TV is marked with the text "POWER". There's no standby button on any of my remote controls.
Two "turning" arrows could work, too, but it would be too similar to the "switch user" icon. Hmm. I haven't seen the switch user icon so take this with a grain of salt, but maybe it should have an icon that looks like people? Say, a line drawing of two stick figures walking in opposite directions or something. That way, the circling arrows could be used for the restart button. (which is what I would guess it to be if I saw such an icon with no hint as to what it meant)
No, sorry. You've very likely seen the text and therefore know what the buttons mean. It has nothing to do with your brain.
And: name one device with a button that has a bunch of lines organized in a circle meaning "restart". A better icon for restart might have been something like a web browser's reload button, or maybe the "recycle" logo.
I couldn't figure out the difference between the red and yellow buttons. The icons are nearly identical, and with my experience with 'nix window managers, I figured that perhaps one of the buttons saved what programs were running before logging out, and the other one didn't... but then what would the green lines-in-a-circle mean? I couldn't think of reasonable meanings for all three buttons, so how could I be sure that any interpretation I had for one or two of them was correct?
Consider another common association: red means "incorrect" and green means "correct." So maybe the green button means "yes, I want to shut down the computer" and the red one means "never mind"? There's just way too much room for ambiguity, and besides, if the icons are so poorly designed that the only way to tell the buttons apart is by the color, they fail to be useful.
Considering the fact that the original betas of Mac OS X still looked quite a bit like a mixture of NeXT Rhapsody and the OS 8/9 style, and that changing the look of the UI is generally not all that difficult (heck, 3rd party apps can do it without even having any access to the source code) I wouldn't be surprised if the final version looks completely different from any current screenshots. Besides, they pulled a trick like that when XP came out; IIRC, all the beta screenshots just looked like Win2K.
grandma's gonna have a hard time figuring out what the "Shu..." button does on her large-text setup It starts a game of shuffleboard, of course.
What I'd like to know is, have they done anything to make the actual shutdown dialog more useful? The button icons completely fail to depict what they're supposed to be. I had to use a Spanish computer one time and couldn't figure out how to turn it off. I'd never used Windows XP before, and those buttons areabsolutelymeaningless without the text underneath them.
So it's a good bet that most of his fans who are likely to be moved towards buying a Mac from his endorsement, already have been.
Maybe, except this isn't just an endorsement, but an actual product that can be used. There's a significant difference between the two: while an endorsement might get some people to switch, the reasoning is mostly "hey, Trent Reznor says Macs are cool!" This is more likely to entice the people who were previously saying "Macs might be cool and all, but I can do everything I want to do on my computer already."
I suppose some of those people will counter with "$500 for a Mac mini is a bit pricey just to play around with that song," but then again, people also spend exorbitant amounts of money on "rare" singles and boxed sets.
The effect it has on Apple's profits probably won't even show up in the quarterly graphs, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least some NIN fans decide to acquainted with OS X in the near future.
I'm sure there are thousands of people burning up the chatwaves right now with questions like "what's GarageBand?" and "Do you have it?" and/or "Can you get it?". Even "Does it run on Windows?" and "Do you know someone with a Mac?".
I wonder how many Nine Inch Nails fans will get a Mac because of this. I imagine a decent amount of them have (or at least know a friend who has) an iPod already, and some of them might have been thinking, maybe only half-seriously, about getting a Mac mini, iBook, or something else. This might just be enough of a reason for some of them to put their money down and actually buy one.
Nice, but your experiment is meaningless unless you're searching all three search engines for all three phrases. If you search Yahoo for "Evil Microsoft" the first page is also the Microsoft homepage, whereas Google doesn't even list microsoft.com on the first page at all for that search. The first result for "evil Yahoo" on MSN search is evilyahoo.com, and Google brings up a news story from SEO Logic that just happens to have the two words next to each other in the page title. ("Google vs. Evil, Yahoo Acquires Inktomi, Commentary on Froogle...")
You can draw your own conclusions from that, but I say it just shows that search engines aren't all the same.
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Remember Microsoft products are used by tons of other companies, many of which happen to have or sell ad space -- if IE added adblock, I imagine it would create quite a stir.
Has Easta... er... Japan showed any interest in such a card?
I don't know about your country, but in mine there is the notion of an "immoral contract" that is illegal and void by law due to its immoral nature.
I guess if in your country (wherever that may be) your airline forced you to subject to an anal probe or sell your daughter into slavery, that'd be OK by your standards
You're comparing anal probes and slavery to an x-ray?
I don't think this is such a great idea, but being x-rayed is nothing near forced labor or having stuff shoved up your butt.
A celeblogger sounds to me like someone who posts online about a certain garden plant.
To be fair, "celeblogger" is at least moderately pronounceable, unlike "blogebrity" which at first glance looked like "blow-guh-brightie" to me.
The symbol for copyright should be a burning candle with a cage of barbed wire around the flame, symbolizing that though you could light your candle at mine without diminishing mine's light, I'm still not going to let you copy my fire.
RMS, is that you?
Simple, drag the link to the tab to open it in the same tab.
I'm guessing because it hasn't been done before.
What, running Linux on some weird piece of hardware? Yeah, no one's ever done that.
It works the same way a limousine is nothing like a tricycle.
... unless it's not in English, in which case none of those letters will work.
Huh. Wonder if the same people who designed those symbols also came up with the symbols on laundry tags. ("Do not put this shirt in a circle or triangle!")
The power icon with a closed circle is for power off; you'll probably find it on your TV's power button. The power icon with the broken circle is for stand by (soft off); you'll find it on your TV's remote control. Usually with no text, in either case.
The power button on my TV is marked with the text "POWER". There's no standby button on any of my remote controls.
Two "turning" arrows could work, too, but it would be too similar to the "switch user" icon.
Hmm. I haven't seen the switch user icon so take this with a grain of salt, but maybe it should have an icon that looks like people? Say, a line drawing of two stick figures walking in opposite directions or something. That way, the circling arrows could be used for the restart button. (which is what I would guess it to be if I saw such an icon with no hint as to what it meant)
No, sorry. You've very likely seen the text and therefore know what the buttons mean. It has nothing to do with your brain.
And: name one device with a button that has a bunch of lines organized in a circle meaning "restart". A better icon for restart might have been something like a web browser's reload button, or maybe the "recycle" logo.
I couldn't figure out the difference between the red and yellow buttons. The icons are nearly identical, and with my experience with 'nix window managers, I figured that perhaps one of the buttons saved what programs were running before logging out, and the other one didn't... but then what would the green lines-in-a-circle mean? I couldn't think of reasonable meanings for all three buttons, so how could I be sure that any interpretation I had for one or two of them was correct?
Consider another common association: red means "incorrect" and green means "correct." So maybe the green button means "yes, I want to shut down the computer" and the red one means "never mind"? There's just way too much room for ambiguity, and besides, if the icons are so poorly designed that the only way to tell the buttons apart is by the color, they fail to be useful.
Considering the fact that the original betas of Mac OS X still looked quite a bit like a mixture of NeXT Rhapsody and the OS 8/9 style, and that changing the look of the UI is generally not all that difficult (heck, 3rd party apps can do it without even having any access to the source code) I wouldn't be surprised if the final version looks completely different from any current screenshots. Besides, they pulled a trick like that when XP came out; IIRC, all the beta screenshots just looked like Win2K.
grandma's gonna have a hard time figuring out what the "Shu..." button does on her large-text setup
It starts a game of shuffleboard, of course.
What I'd like to know is, have they done anything to make the actual shutdown dialog more useful? The button icons completely fail to depict what they're supposed to be. I had to use a Spanish computer one time and couldn't figure out how to turn it off. I'd never used Windows XP before, and those buttons are absolutely meaningless without the text underneath them.
It might be bad, but it's still not at the same level as COME FROM.
Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten
(Please, think of the kittens)
Guns kill people; porn, unless you suffer from some very extreme medical condition, does not.
But porn, at least indirectly, kills kittens.
Kittens are people too!
So it's a good bet that most of his fans who are likely to be moved towards buying a Mac from his endorsement, already have been.
Maybe, except this isn't just an endorsement, but an actual product that can be used. There's a significant difference between the two: while an endorsement might get some people to switch, the reasoning is mostly "hey, Trent Reznor says Macs are cool!" This is more likely to entice the people who were previously saying "Macs might be cool and all, but I can do everything I want to do on my computer already."
I suppose some of those people will counter with "$500 for a Mac mini is a bit pricey just to play around with that song," but then again, people also spend exorbitant amounts of money on "rare" singles and boxed sets.
The effect it has on Apple's profits probably won't even show up in the quarterly graphs, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least some NIN fans decide to acquainted with OS X in the near future.
Sounds like you're looking for a tracker to me.
I'm sure there are thousands of people burning up the chatwaves right now with questions like "what's GarageBand?" and "Do you have it?" and/or "Can you get it?". Even "Does it run on Windows?" and "Do you know someone with a Mac?".
I wonder how many Nine Inch Nails fans will get a Mac because of this. I imagine a decent amount of them have (or at least know a friend who has) an iPod already, and some of them might have been thinking, maybe only half-seriously, about getting a Mac mini, iBook, or something else. This might just be enough of a reason for some of them to put their money down and actually buy one.
Nice, but your experiment is meaningless unless you're searching all three search engines for all three phrases. If you search Yahoo for "Evil Microsoft" the first page is also the Microsoft homepage, whereas Google doesn't even list microsoft.com on the first page at all for that search. The first result for "evil Yahoo" on MSN search is evilyahoo.com, and Google brings up a news story from SEO Logic that just happens to have the two words next to each other in the page title. ("Google vs. Evil, Yahoo Acquires Inktomi, Commentary on Froogle...")
You can draw your own conclusions from that, but I say it just shows that search engines aren't all the same.
Oh great, now Peng Xu's telephone is going to get /.ed.
Sounds a lot like the whole computer industry.
Increase the margins, use a big font, and fiddle with the letter spacing. Make a nice long title, too, so it wraps onto two lines.
Too subtle. :)