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digg? (Score:5, Insightful)
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But I really like the updated layout. They're no longer wasting valuable real estate on the pointless left-hand column.
Grumpy old men... (Score:5, Interesting)
Jeeeeez people, calm down. As of composing this, about 75% of the comments are complaining of digg similarities, the new discussion system, blah blah. Calm down, people.. it's still slashdot. As best I can tell, they've just debuted a new section (idle.slashdot). You can still post your retarded memes (In soviet Russia our new CSS web 2.0 overlords welcome I, for one), and otherwise go about your typical slashdot business.
Back to the actual article.. I'd never heard of computer.com.. I guess it would help if I watched the superbowl.. but, yea, I don't. After viewing all the ads in TFA, some are decent (and I've seen re-run later), and some aren't terribly memorable (the salesgenie ad looks like something a 12 year old kid could storyboard in about an hour). Most of the dotcom ads are from companies I'm aware of (monster, pets.com, etc), although I never heard of computer.com or ourbeginning.com.
I tried to do some research on computer.com to see what its story was (currently a doorway page [computer.com] for a linkfarm).. and as best I can tell, it burned out right away (Seattle PI story from 2yrs later [nwsource.com]). (They raised $6M+ in venture funding [medialifemagazine.com], and blew $3M on the superbowl ads). There's even a 3yr old
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Re:digg? (Score:5, Interesting)
But anyway, this is scaring me. Why is slashdot trying to copy and compete with the likes of Digg? I come here because this place is DIFFERENT, the discourse is often intelligent and insightful. If I wanted mindless links to ads, Ron Paul you tube videos, and funny pictures I wouldn't be on a site that purports to cover "News for Nerds".
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You must be new here. You can count on Slashdot discussions to contain gems of wisdom like:
Re:digg? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Side note: Scrolling in this new comment system does suck. Go in to Prefs and turn off "Enable Dynamic Discussions" for a speed boost.
Re:digg? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:digg? (Score:5, Interesting)
The millionaires who demand subsidies to build stadiums or they'll move their team elsewhere insisted that their sporting events helped the local economy by bringing in tax revenues. The first baseball strike proved what a lie that was. What actually happened was people did other things in their cities. They went to dinner and a movie or the theater, etc. They spent roughly the same amount of money except they spread it across multiple businesses instead of only at the stadium. This was actually BETTER for the local economy. More businesses benefited and the tax revenues were often bigger because the professional sports team often received a tax break to stay in town.
Screw professional sports. The next time one demands the taxpayer's cough up money or they'll walk, show them the door.
This new look... (Score:5, Insightful)
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I'm sorry, this is against the Slashdot terms of conduct.
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On the plus side it's in its own section with a design so gaudy I can easily avoid it. That's the only plus though. The bad part is it will attract
You would think... (Score:5, Insightful)
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I don't like the now very small text boxes to input text in though, among a few things.
This message was brought to you to by the Resistance From Geeks Reluctant To Change.
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errr..... (Score:5, Funny)
Idle (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Idle (Score:5, Interesting)
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http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome [slashdot.org]
Its the only section that you can't shutoff from showing up on the main page. Obviously just forgotten but still ironic they'd miss the only section a significant number of members will shut off.
oh my god (Score:5, Funny)
Poor article got the shaft (Score:3, Funny)
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The 1984 Apple advert was clearly a classic and the 1977 Xerox one (while seriously dated) was pretty entertaining. The rest, it seems, were really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Were there really no good superbowl commercials in the last 30 years? The pets.com one looks like the kind of thing that made me give up having a television in my house.
Back off topic, I quite like the new layout but the comment submission page sucks beyond belief. Was the CareerBuilder.com advert
BTW, where is The Dot? (Score:3, Informative)
And then there were IBM's OS/2-toting nuns ("my mobile") & gears supplier (to Japanese clients)... Sightings, anyone?
wait a second... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Still waiting... (Score:3, Informative)
My vote for the biggest vaporware product ad evah.
godaddy (Score:2)
I ask purely because I know there was one famous dot com bust faliure known for a great superbowl advert that failed soon after, and I can't recall the name.
There, and I didn't mention the hideous new layout once....
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It seems that computers.com did not fare good as well.
Outpost.com gerbil cannon spot (Score:2)
Budwiser should fire their add agency (Score:3, Funny)
And they paid first commercial money for that. Ouch.
10 Best Ads Already Done (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Super-Tech-Ads/ [eweek.com]
Steven
Really? The go daddy ad? (Score:3, Funny)
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My personal favorite (Score:4, Funny)
Arrrgh... top 10 lists (Score:4, Funny)
ok... trying to focus...
Top 10 lists. Is it just me? Or does everyone when they see any kind of "top 10" list they immediately think:
1. Lazy worthless journalists.
2. Product placement / viral marketing / ad by stealth
I need to work 10 list of things I'd like to do to journalists. But it'll have to wait until after I have recovered from the brain damage that is this new layout...
apple ad, prophecy? (Score:4, Funny)
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Microsoft and Apple were both 'liberating' from that computer culture, with the notion of everybody having their own computer on their desk.
The 'IBM
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Super Bowl?!! (Score:3, Funny)
I can't filter idle? (Score:5, Insightful)
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While I'll agree Rubber Band Man should be on that list, and a few that are on the list shouldn't be (I mean, come on, what's funny or interesting about the SalesGenie.com or GoDaddy.com commercials?), there's no question the 1984 Macintosh ad is the best, so far, and will probably remain the best for a while. Seriously - the thing was directed by Ridley Scott. Of course, if you actually watched it when it originally aired, it was a lot m