And lo on Thu, 22 May 2008 23:28:16 +0100, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:

> On Thu, 22 May 2008 14:48:49 +0100, Phil Cook wrote:
>
>>>> Monster Raving Looney Party Manifesto Pledge #129: Manufacturers will
>>>> be made to compensate for the "Old and Inferior" goods that they have
>>>> now replaced with "New and Improved"
>>>
>>> I like it. ;-)
>>
>> Well I don't know if they have a USA branch... yet.
>
> Oh, I think they do....just under a different name.

OOC to your knowledge has anyone tried to start a Republocrat party? "Two  
grating flavours in one party!"

>>>> We do have some standards IIRC it has to be deemed as legible on a
>>>> 'standard' screen and thus can't be too small, on exactly the same
>>>> colour background or appear for just 1 sec.
>>>
>>> Ah, but "legible" by whom?
>>
>> The Advertising Standards Authority have rules...
>
> That's handy.

They even enforce them too if someone complains and it's found upholdable;  
they've had adverts pulled for being misleading etc.

>>> Of course, my vision has become slightly less good since then. ;)
>>
>> Odd, mine's got better :-P
>
> B*stard. ;-)  I probably need to go and get my eyes checked out - it's
> been years since I had an exam;

I had a reminder a couple of months back that it had been a year since my  
last, I have noticed some mild deterioration. They're getting worse but  
it's slowed substantially since I was younger [touch wood] I expect  
they'll plateau and then start to drop again in 20-odd years time.

> had to do a vision test for my driver's
> license renewal, had to close one eye to read the lines, missed the
> middle line completely as a result.  When I went back and read it again,
> I had to really concentrate to read it.  Just comes and goes for me.

Heh when you get to the age you need to renew your driver's licence you  
just fill out a form saying you can see; various parties have been trying  
to change that for ages.

>>> Behind-the-scenes, the
>>> entered values are averaged and then adjusted downwards by something
>>> like 15% because people tend to overstate, particularly right after
>>> class.
>>
>> Likewise the majority think they're 'better than average' drivers.
>
> Yeah - I wonder how many evaluated themselves around 60%....

more like 75%.

>>> Same principle applies here - but I think also that people want the
>>> percentage to be higher as a result of having paid what they paid, so
>>> that's what they report.
>>
>> That and the fact they're doing something, I mean even if it was free
>> you wouldn't want to think you're wasting your time.
>
> True, but I think if there's a value associated with it, people tend to
> overstate a bit more.

Hmm I suppose, but time is money too.

>>> Well even if it doesn't work outside the UK, tor solves that problem
>>> for me.
>>
>> "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" :-)
>
> I like it. :-)  Did get the video, but it is DRM'ed, so watching it will
> still require WMP11.  Annoying, but now I've got time to try, unless the
> DRM is timebombed.

I believe their 4OD service is time-restricted, so sadly it may well be  
the case.

>>> I'll bet that was fun. :-)
>>
>> Indeed matching up the public 'we don't do that' to the backroom 'now
>> this is what you do'.
>
> Yeah.  Amazing that companies do that.

What the customer doesn't know can't hurt them - right?

-- 
Phil Cook

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