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nemesis wrote:
> hope that helps...
Excellent. I'll give that a try!
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Invisible wrote:
> Granted, most TV advertisers don't teach Best Buy to scare customers off
> of competing brands...
Are you sure?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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>> Granted, most TV advertisers don't teach Best Buy to scare customers
>> off of competing brands...
>
> Are you sure?
Did I qualify that with "most"?
I'm sure shops probably teach their staff to push whatever has the
biggest profit margin, but I doubt the original manufacturer gets
directly involved very much.
(Having said that, they day I visited Chappell, the Roland
representative was in the shop. Oddly enough, I came home with a Boss
8-track...)
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Invisible wrote:
> but I doubt the original manufacturer gets
> directly involved very much.
That's what I'm questioning. Do you imagine they don't send out brochures
telling the salespeople the good points of their machines? That's all this
thing really was, except it was web pages on MS's site.
Actually, yes, since the TVs are expensive enough to pay people, they
probably send salesmen around to do the teaching. Microsoft doesn't sell to
Circuit City, so they have to go indirect like this.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> but I doubt the original manufacturer gets directly involved very much.
>
> That's what I'm questioning. Do you imagine they don't send out
> brochures telling the salespeople the good points of their machines?
> That's all this thing really was, except it was web pages on MS's site.
Indeed. And when you put it like that, suddenly it doesn't seem so
surprising any more...
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On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:55:22 -0400, gregjohn wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tag povrayorg> wrote:
>> Damn that Linux with its 3% market share...
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-teaches-best-
buy-employees-how-to-troll-linux-users.ars
>>
>>
>
> I bet Windows7 will never drop support for video or wifi drivers with an
> upgrade for ideological (RMS) reasons.
There's a practical reason as well. If it's not OSS, the interaction is
something that's not known, and often times when a vendor releases a
Linux driver as closed-source they don't properly support it - they treat
it as if they're "throwing Linux a bone". I've run into that with video
drivers for an older IBM Thinkpad (back when it wasn't older). ATI
provided the drivers, but when I reported a problem to them, they told me
to talk to IBM. Duh, it's ATI's driver, and I wanted to let THEM know of
a problem in the driver I downloaded from THEIR website.
But they wouldn't talk to me.
Now if the driver had been OSS, I could've had someone in the OSS
community look at it.
Jim
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Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Specially when combined with ctags.
>
> I could really use a ctags that works with C++ these days. :-(
>
Get OmniCpp: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1520
And ctags: http://ctags.sourceforge.net
Then when generating the ctags database, add
--c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q
(as documented in OmniCpp help)
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> BTW, did you see the designs for the "ribbon" interface?
>
>
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/openoffice-experiments-with-a-ribbon-interface-20090812/
>
> The difference, of course, is that OO developers are going to guess how
> the ribbon should be designed, and MS actually spent years looking over
> the use patterns of 14 million users to decide.
They don't have to guess, they can just copy the MS design.
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> I mean, think about this. How often do you watch TV and see adverts spit
> out completely unsubstantiated claims like "the UK's number one haircare
> product" or "significantly outperforms competing brands"? Most people
> don't pay the slightest bit of attention to this shallow marketing drivel.
But some do, and that's the whole point of advertising.
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scott wrote:
>> BTW, did you see the designs for the "ribbon" interface?
>>
>>
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/openoffice-experiments-with-a-ribbon-interface-20090812/
>>
>>
>> The difference, of course, is that OO developers are going to guess
>> how the ribbon should be designed, and MS actually spent years looking
>> over the use patterns of 14 million users to decide.
>
> They don't have to guess, they can just copy the MS design.
>
>
Which MS probably copied from some guy who is now on food stamps,
because his company came up with the idea, but couldn't market it before
MS stoled the idea. Just saying..
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void main () {
If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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