New Microsoft commercial, featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates

[Wiglaf]

It's easy to love the company when its founder just hands you $15 billion. Perhaps he will have a heart attack and we can divide him up to solve the food crisis in Botswana or something.

[Asher]

Check your jealousy Wiggy

[Wiglaf]

Did he eat the egg? I don't see an egg.

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by Asher
Check your jealousy Wiggy

He literally did nothing. He lived on Gates' floor and got an 8% share in the company for doing nothing.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Wiglaf


He literally did nothing. He lived on Gates' floor and got an 8% share in the company for doing nothing.

How can you not admire that?

[-Jrabbit]

I want that gig!!!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Asher
Back to the original topic Agathon brought up...he may be alarmed to discover that Apple regularly uses Windows. For instance, Apple store employees use Windows Mobile every single day to sell iPhone 3Gs. This is even worse than the campaign situation, because MS themselves didn't create the campaign -- a separate company did.

The end story is we shouldn't be surprised. Companies use both all the time, especially in the marketing/media world. It's not a big deal, it's not like Photoshop doesn't run on Windows as well.

That's just awesome pwnage.

[MarkG]

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui




That's just awesome pwnage.

I was waiting for you no-hopers to drive into that hole. Now your failure is complete.


Anyone with a clue knows that Apple isn't in the business of making mobile credit card terminals. So it would be impossible for them not to use someone else's. Nor do they lose by using them, since they just aren't in that market. This is about as surprising as if Dell were to make chairs in addition to PCs and Apple (who don't make chairs) bought some for its workers. "Oh noes", would say dopes everywhere, "Apple is bested because they don't use their own chairs... never mind that they don't make them").

On the other hand, Microsoft promotes its OS as a competitor to Apple's in production and desktop publishing. It would make sense for them to have their ad campaign produced by a company that believed in their product and hadn't chosen to use a competitor's product because they thought was better than Microsoft's crap.

So Apple uses a product from a competitor that does not compete with anything Apple itself makes or sells, whereas Microsoft has an advertisement to promote its product as superior which is made using the very product they are asserting superiority over.

You couldn't make it up.


Cheers for the free win. I suggest you try "Logic for Dummies" before you try again.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Agathon




I was waiting for you no-hopers to drive into that hole. Now your failure is complete.


Anyone with a clue knows that Apple isn't in the business of making mobile credit card terminals.

And Microsoft isn't in the business of making ad campaigns. So they outsourced it, which you proceeded to then mock.

One word for you: Pathetic.

[Ming]

ENOUGH with the personal crap. Attack the arguments, NOT the POSTERS!

[Asher]

But there is no argument? He just spouts bull**** incessantly.

He seems to think MS should choose its advertisers not based on qualifications or history but based upon what each individual computer user at the company uses as their OS. This is beside the fact that product they used to produce the images in the commercial was cross-platform, not Mac-specific. And all indication are the videos were edited in Premiere Pro, which is not available on Mac at all.

I don't know what else you can say to a person like this but personal attacks. There's no meat to the argument, and after a point the constant fountains of bull**** begin to become massively annoying.

How else would you describe Agathon's behaviour here? He's taking what appears to be a successful ad campaign and trying to discredit the message by looking at ****ing JPEG metadata and drawing conclusions from that. To say he's grasping at straws is an understatement, and the word I used was much more appropriate for his behaviour.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Asher
I don't know what else you can say to a person like this but personal attacks.

You can show a person is wrong without having to resort to insults.

There's no meat to the argument, and after a point the constant fountains of bull**** begin to become massively annoying.

Then ignore it... Many people find your arguments annoying, and they don't resort to personal attacks

SO ENOUGH WITH THE PERSONAL CRAP.
Discuss the the topic!

[Asher]

Originally posted by Ming


You can show a person is wrong without having to resort to insults.

I've done nothing but show he is wrong since December 2002. Look where that got us. He's out of control. If he keeps up this twisted logic at the pace he is going, the universe will implode.

Then ignore it... Many people find your arguments annoying, and they don't resort to personal attacks

SO ENOUGH WITH THE PERSONAL CRAP.
Discuss the the topic!

The ones that do are infinitely cooler.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Asher

If he keeps up this twisted logic at the pace he is going, the universe will implode.

Well that would actually mean we don't have to worry about that big gas cloud poised to collide with the Milky Way...