Today in reading the headlines...
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@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
what a Taylor Swift is.
It is the name of a Pokemon move. 70 percent accurate, base power 11, normal fighting type.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Probably a bit too soon but was it reattached or did they give up and attach something else?
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@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Because teenagers and anyone who thinks teenagers have anything relevant to say should probably be ignored out of hand.
True, but single-sex schools are stupid whether teenagers like them or not.
I mean, I'd have preferred them.
I went to a multi-sex school. Severely disappoint, there was no sex! 😭
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I just couldn’t think of a limerick
That wouldn’t sound like a gimmick
Rhyming Aldi is hard
DogsB will be scarred
By my attempts in meter to mimicIf that doesn’t promote you to aran1 on @DogsB’s list then I’ll riot on your behalf.
I almost replied to one of my posts yesterday. This won't end well.
I reply to myself all the time. Trust me, it doesn't hurt as much as they say.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I went to a multi-sex school. Severely disappoint, there was no sex! 😭
Don't speak for everyone.
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@Zecc said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I went to a multi-sex school. Severely disappoint, there was no sex! 😭
Don't speak for everyone.
I only speak for us.
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@DogsB To be fair, planning your planting schedule to coincide with appropriate seasonal conditions makes sense, and if you don't have access to a calendar...
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Soon!
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@DogsB you can’t hack a paper based system.
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@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB you can’t hack a paper based system.
You'd need a pretty large piece of paper to make a paper passenger plane
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@loopback0 you only need to have the navigation system be paper based to be unhackable, not the whole thing.
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I would say their work and business practices over the past two or three decades would have been a stronger indicator but okay, an ad.
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@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@loopback0 you only need to have the navigation system be paper based to be unhackable, not the whole thing.
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Well, if she did it competently, we wouldn't have heard about it now, would we?
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I would say their work and business practices over the past two or three decades would have been a stronger indicator but okay, an ad.
To be fair it’s all of Big Tech psychopathy, not just Apple’s on display.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I would say their work and business practices over the past two or three decades would have been a stronger indicator but okay, an ad.
Can't even read the article (), but fuck, what a bunch of retarded whining.
I just watched the ad and the only thing I'd complain about is watching a fucking ad. Just in the advertisement space alone, there's a thousand worse things showing Big Tech's psychopathy.Steve Jobs would have fired everyone involved in Apple's awful iPad advert
Sucking dick with rose colored glasses on?
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@topspin I mean, the ad is objectively hilarious. It is trying to posit “look, we jammed all this creative stuff into this tiny little space, these instruments, these art tools, all this creativity and presto, the iPad can do it all” but manages to just point out that in order for the latest and greatest consumer products, the sacrifice is creativity and the joy of making.
Conform, consume, obey. It’s all about the profit.
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@topspin it absolutely was a metaphor, it just wasn’t the metaphor everyone took away from it.
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@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
"KFC" and "life in danger" might even have a causal relationship.
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@topspin Fuckers changed the headline! It was originally something like "new ad exposes big tech psychopathy".
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@DogsB can confirm.
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@DogsB Can confirm, and the onebox still has the old headline for me:
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@topspin Fuckers changed the headline! It was originally something like "new ad exposes big tech psychopathy".
Many news and other article sites do A/B/... testing with titles, keeping the one with the most hits after the first couple minutes. For a while you could tell the A version lost on Ars Technica because the URL to the article would include the losing one.
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@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@topspin I mean, the ad is objectively hilarious. It is trying to posit “look, we jammed all this creative stuff into this tiny little space, these instruments, these art tools, all this creativity and presto, the iPad can do it all” but manages to just point out that in order for the latest and greatest consumer products, the sacrifice is creativity and the joy of making.
Conform, consume, obey. It’s all about the profit.
I guess I can see that point of view once it's pointed out. I dunno...seems like an OK ad to me. Reminds me of this:
Of all the things to bash Apple over, this one is a real head scratcher to me.
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@boomzilla Apple has spent a lot of time in the last decade or so positioning themselves as the tool creatives use to get the work done.
The trope of writers sitting in coffee shops with their MacBooks, video folks with Final Cut, the Apple Pencil, etc, it’s not just tropes.
My entire company has MacBooks (we’re a design + web agency), and so do all the creative agencies we know in the area.
With the mindset then of “we make tools for people to be creative” you can definitely see how that ad was received poorly. Or hilariously.
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@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@boomzilla Apple has spent a lot of time in the last decade or so positioning themselves as the tool creatives use to get the work done.
The trope of writers sitting in coffee shops with their MacBooks, video folks with Final Cut, the Apple Pencil, etc, it’s not just tropes.
My entire company has MacBooks (we’re a design + web agency), and so do all the creative agencies we know in the area.
With the mindset then of “we make tools for people to be creative” you can definitely see how that ad was received poorly. Or hilariously.
Um...no? I get the complete opposite from this as you, apparently.
Here's a tool you can use in all these creative activities!
Doesn't bother me either way. I neither do any of that stuff nor have ever given money to Apple.
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@boomzilla said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Um...no? I get the complete opposite from this as you, apparently.
The ad certainly managed to do well on the "CRUSH ALL FUN AND CREATIVITY!!!" vibe. The bit that amused me was there was a previous ad that tried to do the same thing (from 2008?) and which didn't exude the soul-destroying aspects; it's the little touches that count.
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@dkf looked like fun to me.
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@boomzilla I just watched it for the first time (well done social media, you've made me watch an ad!) and... I can sort of see both sides.
I see the intended (by Apple) message and how, yes, the ad is quite fun (well I wouldn't say "fun" but... let's say "not boring?"). OTOH, I also see how the ad pretty much portrays the ipad as destroying all of those things, rather than incorporating them.
I think this is due to the ad visually showing things exploding into unusable pieces. If, instead of that, the ad just compacted all of those into a tinier and tinier space (either by not showing how the items fit into that too-small space, or by making the items themselves smaller, or maybe some other graphical trick of merging them one into another, or something else (*)), I don't think anyone would have any issue.
I think it's really the "bits and pieces of stuff flying around and dripping like some sort of blood" that makes the ad a bit weird.
OTTH, this got even people like me who don't care about Apple to watch the ad, so maybe that's not such a bad one.
(*) while spending all of 2 min writing this message, I had an idea of morphing subsets of the items into various electronic gizmos (maybe recognisable as older Apple ones?), until they all collapsed into the ipad. But what do I know, I'm not a creative in an ad agency...
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@remi part of the fun of metaphors is that different people will interpret them differently.
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@remi said in Today in reading the headlines...:
or maybe some other graphical trick of merging them one into another, or something else
I might have gone with making things elastic, so they crumble like a rubber duck instead of exploding like the brittle things they are. That may or may not work better to "compress" them into the ipad instead of destroying them. But really, whatever.
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@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@remi said in Today in reading the headlines...:
or maybe some other graphical trick of merging them one into another, or something else
I might have gone with making things elastic, so they crumble like a rubber duck instead of exploding like the brittle things they are. That may or may not work better to "compress" them into the ipad instead of destroying them. But really, whatever.
Or just run the ad in reverse. Look at what our amazing AI allows you to do.
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@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@boomzilla Apple has spent a lot of time
in the last decade or sopositioning themselves as the tool creatives use to get the work done.Apple has spent most of the Mac's existence positioned as the tool for creatives. They created the desktop publishing industry in '85 with the Laserwriter and their investments in Adobe and Aldus, after all.
FWIW, I thought this ad was dumb, but I think a lot of Apple's ads are dumb. (I generally mute them on TV.) I don't think they should have gone with such visceral virtual destruction of creative tools to market to creatives. Also, I'd like companies to make thicker products that allow for more battery life. (I miss removable batteries.)
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@Parody they went through a definite phase of not selling themselves that way, partly after Jobs was ousted and after his return it was all about the iPod and the lifestyle aspiration for a bit. The creatives thing is a shade more recent, IMO, but yes.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I would say their work and business practices over the past two or three decades would have been a stronger indicator but okay, an ad.
everything I read/watched of this guy say he was an asshole, stop worshipping here
Wozniak was the cool guy and nobody mentions him, sad
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@Parody said in Today in reading the headlines...:
FWIW, I thought this ad was dumb, but I think a lot of Apple's ads are dumb. (I generally mute them on TV.)
I never seen an apple ad on TV
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@sockpuppet7 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I would say their work and business practices over the past two or three decades would have been a stronger indicator but okay, an ad.
everything I read/watched of this guy say he was an asshole, stop worshipping here
Wozniak was the cool guy and nobody mentions him, sad
Jobs was definitely an asshole. He was deeply opinionated and I’m sure he would have been firing the people who made that ad. Don’t have to worship the guy to see that he would probably have viewed it as poor marketing and fired folks for incompetence.
Woz is a legend though.
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Okay, but, who on Earth is this fuckwit that won’t be satiated until his latest gadget can give him a papercut, and how does he keep getting into everybody’s focus groups?
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@sockpuppet7 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
everything I read/watched of this guy say he was an asshole, stop worshipping here
He absolutely was a psychopathic asshole, but it supposedly contributed to his success.
And unlike our dear melon lord, he pretty openly boasted about hiring the best engineers instead of pretending to be one.@kazitor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Okay, but, who on Earth is this fuckwit that won’t be satiated until his latest gadget can give him a papercut, and how does he keep getting into everybody’s focus groups?
That was also Jobs, if I'm not mistaken.
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I'll allow it.
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Good for them.
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Must be nice to have a break from the screaming.
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@DogsB they wouldn’t know, they never hear any.
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I heard this morning that apparently about 1 in 20 people are unable to form mental images when e.g. reading a book.
The report quoted one such person who said that one upside was they never got angry or disappointed that movie adaptations of books weren't matching what they thought the characters looked like, as they never had such a picture in their mind.
Wait, I forgot which thread I was in.
Study shows 1 in 20 Harry Potter's fans liked the movies.
Happy, ?