On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:44:48PM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > I just received an email from Novel on the CLE. I followed the link [1] > and I'm so distracted by the typically dumb corporate imagery [2] used > on the page that I can't even read the article. > > What is that picture saying anyway? > > How about... > "I've earned the CLE and now all the office babes can't keep their eyes > off me and my teeth are whiter too!"
More likely this is what happenned: * A marketing person read in some magazine that having pictures on web pages helps them be more effective. * Suits like to see other suits on pictures * Said marketing person reports to suits * "AHA! I'll put suits on the pictures" -- thought the marketing person * Marketing persons contracts some very expensive modelling agency. Marketing person requests that the models be of different races, because that's more politically correct. Of course, modelling agency charges extra for that. * Modelling agency spends a few days photographing around the Novell building in Provo (I personally witnessed this happenning while I was at Novell) * Marketing gets the pictures and a large invoice back. He/She then hires some expensive graphic designer to "touch up" the pictures, make teeth whiter, etc. * After getting retouched pictures back, marketing person hires another expensive graphc designer to make a page with all the pictures. Said designer works on windows. * Designed page is put on the web targeted at people running Linux, who don't like suits, don't wear ties, and usually don't artifically whiten their teeth. -Roberto .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
