When I was a freshmen in college, (to give you an idea of how long ago, my computer was damn near top of the line with a 40mb harddrive) I was using a word processing program called Websters something or other. Late at night, working on a psychology paper due at 8 in the morning, hit spell check and it alphabetized my paper. I found out after a little painful trial and error that if the paper was longer than 8 pages this would happen. Every distint word listed down the whole document starting with a.



My e. coli cures cancer!

Are you nuts??!! some of the best ads i have ever seen are on UK tv.
Take for example the tango "Come on Sebastien" (I think i spelt the name wrong, but im sure you know the one) its a true classic! (actually any of the tango ones are great).
I havent been home (England) in a while so ive lost touch a bit, but in my humble opinion, the UK has some of the best ads ever!


- The Voices In My Fruit Loops Tell Me I'm Special -

Or tell everyone that you're the guy who invented Post-it Notes.

Better yet, tell everyone that you invented the magnetic strip on the back of every credit/atm card. $0.05 per strip is your deal.

On the whole Mac v. PC thing. The only Mac I've ever used was my wife's Mac classic she used at PSU. At the time it seemed like an underpowered door stop. Now the newer Macs seem to be as fast as current PC's....but who cares? JKII demo released in the past 24 hours? Thats pathetic. If all I did was graphic design (and I don't do that at ALL) then maybe I'd have a Mac. Otherwise I'll leave those cultists to themselves.



-TPFKAS2S

Effective ads are ones that encourage people to talk about them, so by that definition, these adverts are definitely effective. So effective that they've even spawned spoofs. Well done Apple. I personally can't stand them, but American and British tastes are rarely similar, especially when it comes to TV.
The BBC doesn't have adverts (since they're paid for by a tax we have on owning a TV ) which makes programmes like 24 and Band Of Brothers so much better. Most of the time adverts over here are low budget, about consolidating your debt with one managable monthly payment.

Either Ellen or Apple is stoned, because in the 18 years I've used PCs I've never heard them go "bleep bleep bleep" except during a failed POST at boot.

And how the hell can "half" your paper get "eaten"? I for one have never lost work, but I know that when it does happen its usually all of it, not half. If you do something stupid and pages in say, a Word document, get deleted, theres a magic little feature called Undo.

Apple sucks. Ellen sucks.

As usual I agree with Ray. I however find the fact that apple is targeting stoner college kids hilarious. I think generally people that are using to using the internet for most of their information and research like us tend to hate advertising and especially tv advertising because of our ability to easily get the real facts online from a multitude of sources.

Why the hell is that Ellen Feiss girl so attractive. I've been trying to figure it out. And yeah, obviously stoned. I've always liked the stoned girls though. heh

I guess it's weird that so many people are obsessed with her, but there's obviously something behind it.

Or tell everyone that you're the guy who invented Post-it Notes.

-- Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

What bugs me about Apple's latest campaign is that I thought the days of petty bickering between Mac and WinPC users was over. Maybe it's just because it has been a few years since I lived with a Mac user. We would always argue about Mac vs. PC but in the end we realized that both our computers we as good and as bad as the other. While I watched him struggle to upgrade his hardware (making constant trips back to the store to find something compatible) my Win98PC would be crashing at least once a day or going through some other seemingly unprovoked malfunction.

The new Mac commercials are for the frustrated professionals who think of computers as an appliance and not a tool. These are the people who come into a CompUSA all stressed out because they tried to make their computer do something stupid and it back fired or they thought they knew what they were doing, didn't, and screwed something up. I think people who have the proper respect for a computer as a complex tool are able to view occasional screwup in a different light and realize that an OS change doesn't make all that much difference.

It seems to me that Mac is preaching to the choir with their latest ads and that's nothing out of the ordinary for them. Apple and it's hardcore users take a much different view of computing than PC users. A PC wants to be a tool for multiple uses, a Mac wants to be a toaster. The problem is that the hardcore Mac want everything to be a toaster, their computing choices are less of a decision and more of a way of life. Apple isn't selling computers, they're fueling a religion and like any religious matter it's annoying to have someone in your face all the time telling you that you've made the wrong choice.

While a PC and a Mac may run many of the same programs these days, I like my PC interface and hardware and am familiar with it, plus there's the games. I've used Macs and PC and I have made a choice...I just thought Apple was above trying to convince me and everyone else that it was the wrong choice.

What about the dell commercials? I haven't seen the new mac ads yet, but these dell ones are terrible. They got rid of the dude you're getting a dell, for interns that are equally if not more annoying (if that is possible). I agree with you though about advertising in general being digusting. It seems they either bombard you with the urge to purchase it, or make a commercial that has nothing to do with the product until you see the name of it.

She has GOT to be stoned! Look at her eyes, they're all bloodshot and she's mumbling like a blithering idiot. Good goin' Apple! Pretty bad that they have to get their client base stoned out of their minds to say something nice about their products...and an adolesent at that!

=-Rigs-=


"Now, we gave you a promise and we are bound by that promise and damn you for asking for it! And damn me for agreeing to it! And damn all of us to hell, because that is exactly where we're going! We talked about peace. You didn't want peace. We talked about cooperation. You didn't want cooperation. You want war! Is that it? You want a war? Well you've got a WAR!"
- John Sheridan, Babylon 5
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Now, this will probably get me some of the oh-so-pleasant replies that we have all come to know and love <cough> on these boards......but I really cannot stand these new Apple (or similar-from other companies/in the past) advertisements.

I do not know how to say this without coming off like an asshole, but I swear those advertisements are targetting either the stoned or the stupid (or a combination thereof :o). I am no Windows lover; I am a gamer first and foremost. Give me price, performance, and options; that is all I really ask for. It is very hard for me to see any real worth with Apple's current computers, but they do have some merits of sorts. However, talk about them intelligently and do not take the "stupid" approach.

Advertising in general disgusts me, although it does, sadly, seem to have some type of affect on the general population of our capitalistic society. I do not particularly mind advertisements that inform you of new products or features, but I hate the ones that just try to bombard you with some type of urge to go out and purchase a given product.

UGH!

Sincerely feeling this way, hoping I do not come off like a jerk :|,
Ray

Edit: Lazy typo...
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ellenfeiss.net

What has this world come to?! I've always despised those Apple commercials, even though I find ellen feiss vaguely (disturbingly) attractive. Apple's all about the "image" because they know that their hardware is inferior.

And no, I won't be switching

(edit) guess I better spell the name right if I'm going to be a critical bastard.


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...you should just talk about Hudson the wonder dog!

Finding it quite sad that we know "Tonya" by first-name now,
Ray

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