On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:56 AM, mikexha...@gmail.com wrote:
Well the bringing together only applies when you completely agree with the
MFB's.
Perhaps we can agree on this generality: Windows is the OS of the
business and governmental world while Mac is the OS of the more
artistic
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
What the heck are you talking about? Since when is targeted
advertising (which is basically, all good advertising) vicious and
reprehensible?
You do know that ads like this are just make believe? This is not a
real life scene
http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2009/08/microsoft-002225.php
Those miracle workers in Redmond have had a busy day. What will they
think of next?
Apple will never have to worry about such things, considering how their ads
are unfailingly stuffed with lily-white actors. It's like a 1950's
I haven't been following the story closely, but I suspect it was just
a random piece of clip art someone found. And it's unfair to now
analyze the job so closely as to try to match the skin tone of the
hand. Clip art is manipulated all the time; this really isn't a big
story.
Much funnier are the
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jeff Wrightjswri...@gmail.com wrote:
Apple will never have to worry about such things, considering how their ads
are unfailingly stuffed with lily-white actors. It's like a 1950's Newport
yacht club.
Unfailingly? A bad choice for a word to describe Apple's
This is true, and, as a Mac user all my computing life, I've noticed this and
felt quite uncomfortable about it. The sense of community is rather skewered
toward white reps and users; entertainers of other ethnic origin qualify as
emblems only (eg Macy Gray).
--- On Fri, 8/28/09, Jeff
This is true, and, as a Mac user all my computing life, I've noticed this and
felt quite uncomfortable about it. The sense of community is rather skewered
toward white reps and users; entertainers of other ethnic origin qualify as
emblems only (eg Macy Gray).
Even then, they have
On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:32 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
They should have just staged a similar photos for the other markets
at hand
instead of photoshopping in a new head. I think the head transplant
was
plain lazy given that they m
Lazy, of course. Isnt that M$ MO through and through?
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't been following the story closely, but I suspect it was just
a random piece of clip art someone found. And it's unfair to now
analyze the job so closely as to try to match the skin tone of the
hand. Clip art is
http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2009/08/microsoft-002225.php
Those miracle workers in Redmond have had a busy day. What will they
think of next?
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:01 PM, t.piwowart...@tjpa.com wrote:
Those miracle workers in Redmond have had a busy day. What will they think
of next?
Anything for a buck. Totally unacceptable. Vicious and
reprehensible advertising.
Steve
What the heck are you talking about? Since when is targeted
advertising (which is basically, all good advertising) vicious and
reprehensible?
You do know that ads like this are just make believe? This is not a
real life scene that's been altered because of racism.
Only an advertising idiot would
On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Tony B wrote:
What the heck are you talking about? Since when is targeted
advertising (which is basically, all good advertising) vicious and
reprehensible?
Its not like they put white hoods on all the people sitting at the
table.
I know every one loves a good conspiracy theory, but if you read the
article closely, the advertising was changed in Europe and they did
the whitening over in Europe.
It was not done in Redmond but in Europe.
Racism is alive and well all over the world.
Stewart
At 10:05 PM 8/27/2009, you
Then how do you explain the Windows/Mac crap?
Stewart
At 11:18 PM 8/27/2009, you wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Rev. Stewart
Marshallpopoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
I know every one loves a good conspiracy theory, but if you read
the article
closely, the advertising was changed
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Rev. Stewart
Marshallpopoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
I know every one loves a good conspiracy theory, but if you read the article
closely, the advertising was changed in Europe and they did the whitening
over in Europe.
It was not done in Redmond but in
Well the bringing together only applies when you completely agree with the
MFB's.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
Then how do you explain the Windows/Mac crap?
Stewart
At 11:18 PM 8/27/2009, you wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:18
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