New Microsoft commercial, featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates

[Alinestra Covelia]

I've watched some of his series. He's okay but he's somebody I have to be in the mood for otherwise it's not funny at all.

[rah]

Yes, while I'm a big fan, sometimes he's just not funny and yes, he can appear to be the smuggest man in America.

[Wiglaf]

Seinfeld is annoying and these ad sucks. The strategy is clear but it is probably going to backfire.

OH BUT ASHER KNOWS EVERYTHING BECAUSE HE CAN PROGRAM AND NO ONE ELSE IS VALUABLE. Can you not imagine a world in which someone uses a BA to get into Harvard Law school? Because it happens a hell of a lot every year. That's a law school that pisses more prestige than your local university could generate in about 10,000 years, Asher. And after 3 years they know more about the law than you could have a wet dream about.

Let's get one thing straight: last night I got a call from an ex girlfriend of mine who was a biochemistry major telling me she thought she was pregnant. HAHAH! USE YOUR BIOCHEMISTRY TO GET YOURSELF OUT OF THAT ONE! And yes I slept with her and she's bluffing and her number has been deleted.

You're done. I'm done with you like a pop tart that got stuck in the toaster.

[DirtyMartini]

Beautiful.

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Can you not imagine a world in which someone uses a BA to get into Harvard Law school?

I know it's been commented on already, by Wiggy no less, but many med schools actually prefer applicants with BA's in stuff like English, Philosophy, Art History, etc. rather than a whole crop of Bio majors. Well rounded person and all that.

[Wiglaf]

Especially since you can easily fulfill pre-med requirements and still get a bachelor of arts degree (and no degree in science). Lots of med students I knew did that, and at high powered schools as well.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by DirtyMartini
The hole in this whole "the MS ads are better than the mac ads because the mac ads feature a smug dude" concept is that Jerry Seinfeld is perhaps the worlds most smug man.

However, next to him, Gates seems like an ordinary schmoe. See, it is Gates who is really representing MS... Seinfeld is just hanging with him.

[rah]

I guess I'm torn here.
I have a LAS degree (poly sci major)
But I've been a coder/developer or managed them for 30 years.

Am I useless since I have a LAS degree,
or am I a god since I'm a developer?

[DirtyMartini]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


However, next to him, Gates seems like an ordinary schmoe. See, it is Gates who is really representing MS... Seinfeld is just hanging with him.

I guess, but Seinfeld and Gates are clearly on the same "team", unlike mac and PC (whose names I forget), and AFAICT they're trying to get Gates to act exactly like Seinfeld.

[Asher]

Originally posted by rah
I guess I'm torn here.
I have a LAS degree (poly sci major)
But I've been a coder/developer or managed them for 30 years.

Am I useless since I have a LAS degree,
or am I a god since I'm a developer?

You just wasted taxpayer's money with your LAS degree, if you went to a State school. That's all.

You're no worse than, say, a public union employee.

[Wiglaf]

A guy who buys a Wii, a PS3, and an Xbox 360 can't lecture anyone on wasting money.

[Riesstiu IV]

Video games are for children.

[Wiglaf]

High-five for the tag team.

[Riesstiu IV]

I don't want to high five a man who digs around through trash cans looking for used condoms.

[Wiglaf]

When have I ever done that?

[Riesstiu IV]

It just sounds like something you would do.