Didn't Richard Feynman propose a thought-experiment that suggested information can move instantaneously regardless of distance. It involved quantum chromodynamics and conservation of spin. Try Googling it.
Well, I don't know if it was a HATE campaign, but the first Mac ad - the 1984 ad that showed IBM as Big Brother and IBM users as colorless drudges - worked well for me.
--gene
I agree with the thought, but would have used a different example: Steve Jobs/ John Sculley. The former did everything wrong (closed architecture, inadequate hardware, proprietary software, bullying the staff), but he had the product vision and personal influence to give the company a mission it wanted to accomplish, the staff the will to accomplish it, and the customers a desire to buy it. Sculley did everything right--fixed he product's shortcomings, nurtured the business alliances, regularized management, etc. So -- which one nearly wrecked the company and which actually saved it (at least for the moment)? In certain situations, egomaniacs rock!
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Didn't Richard Feynman propose a thought-experiment that suggested information can move instantaneously regardless of distance. It involved quantum chromodynamics and conservation of spin. Try Googling it.
Well, I don't know if it was a HATE campaign, but the first Mac ad - the 1984 ad that showed IBM as Big Brother and IBM users as colorless drudges - worked well for me. --gene
I agree with the thought, but would have used a different example: Steve Jobs/ John Sculley. The former did everything wrong (closed architecture, inadequate hardware, proprietary software, bullying the staff), but he had the product vision and personal influence to give the company a mission it wanted to accomplish, the staff the will to accomplish it, and the customers a desire to buy it. Sculley did everything right--fixed he product's shortcomings, nurtured the business alliances, regularized management, etc. So -- which one nearly wrecked the company and which actually saved it (at least for the moment)? In certain situations, egomaniacs rock!