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New Mac Ad, but what does it really say?

First of here's the ad.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVyTnTdijog

Microsoft had a $300 million budget to advertise Windows Vista.  Personally, I loved the windows ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates.  I think the company should have rode the campaign out, but that's just me.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkw

Ok, so what Microsoft spent $300 on advertising. Big deal they have tons of money for now right?  I would be interested in seeing how much money Apple spent on advertising in comparison to development costs of OS X.  I seriously searched for 30 minutes for all of these answers with no success.

Ehhhh?

Tags: Advertising, Apple, Microsoft

Paying people to compliment me.

I paid people $.05 to compliment me.  Here are the results.

For those of you who don't know what the mechanical turk is go to mturk.com excerpt from wikipedia.

"The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. Requesters, the human beings that write these programs, are able to pose tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs."

The HIT's title was "complement me".  Yea, I know it's misspelled.

It made me kinda happy actually.

Here are the results:

You are incredibly caring and selfless.
"You are the man"
You have excellent taste in shoes.
Wow!!! You look great!
Do you have some kind of sickness? I'm sure you're a great guy - NOT!!
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Tags: bored, compliments, Mechanical Turk

Food for thought

Hi Internet. I’m JB.

Hello there internet.  We meet again.  Imagine here of all places.  TheJBspecial.com?!  I know it's crazy.

What will we do together?  Who knows, oh the places we'll go! Wait this isn't a Dr. Seuss book.

As you get to know me you'll understand that I'm a bit weird.  Do you like my art?  SometimesIenjoytypingwithoutusinganyspacesbutImnotanartist.  I'm not really sure why.  Sometimes I make spelling and grammar problem.s

I'll mostly talk about myself though...This is my blog and you are my guest.  Sometimes we'll talk about you though, I guess.  When you want I guess you can comment on posts.  Don't get over zealous though!  I have enough replica watches and don't really need a bank loan so if you are leaving comments that are spammy I'll call my friend Akismet.

This is Akismet.  I know he does look alot like Abe Vigoda, he gets that a lot.

He takes care of "problems" like you.

Anyway....I'll talk to you later.

-JB

Tags: abe vigoda, akismet, hello, sharky