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    Image of Jonsy3 Jonsy3
    09/27/09

    In reply to Microsoft's New Windows 7 Ads: Colorful!
    Poor Microsoft. They always looks so pathetic when they try to be hip and cool.

    Apple may be pretentious but they undoubtedly pull off cool. Everyone always wants to be Apple. Microsoft just looks like they're one of the insecure poor saps trying too hard to be one of the cool kids.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    09/27/09

    @Jonsy3:
    Apple pulls off cool huh? You mean like when they steal it verbatim from other artists like The Postal Service and other companies like Lugz?

    Oh yeah... IP theft and plagiarism is so cool.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/27/09

    @Cash907Censored: Wasn't that Postal Service "ripoff" produced by the same people? It's been a while.
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    Image of ReginaldIshamael ReginaldIshamael
    09/26/09

    In reply to Microsoft's New Windows 7 Ads: Colorful!
    As much as Gizmodo hates Microsoft and Windows 7.... All the trash talk won't make a difference, Win 7 is a great OS, better than Apples.... Deal with it :)
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    Image of bobdobbs bobdobbs
    09/27/09

    @ReginaldIshamael: Never taken a class in computer science, huh?
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    Image of fmcfad01 fmcfad01
    09/27/09

    @bobdobbs: you're comment was pretty good, but chances are, someone at Microsoft did computer science better than you.
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    bobdobbs promoted this comment fmcfad01 was starred fmcfad01 was unstarred
    Image of bobdobbs bobdobbs
    09/27/09

    @fmcfad01: Nobody at Microsoft can undo hiring the guy who wrote VMS, and he's the guy to blame for the obtuse crap OS on 93% of desktop computers today.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    09/26/09

    In reply to Microsoft's New Windows 7 Ads: Colorful!
    What’s weird to me about this ad is that ultimately, all that hipness is contained on a computer screen being ogled at by a comparatively bland drone that represents their customer.

    In Apple’s ads, the Apple customer is an impossibly cool person, the message being "buy Apple, be cool." In Microsoft’s ad, the Microsoft customer is a generic cubicle dweller peaking at an impossibly cool character dancing on her desktop, the message being "buy Microsoft, live vicariously."

    More to the point, my comment just gave me a flashback to a homework assignment in freshman lit.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    09/27/09

    @frigg: You know what is the ultimate truth?
    If this was exactly the same ad, only it was advertising Snow Leopard, there would be tons of Apple fanboys saying how cool the ad was, and even how better than Microsoft ads it is.

    I have absolutely no doubt about this.

    It's not about who makes the "cooler" ads anymore.
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    Image of puhsitch puhsitch
    09/27/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Eh, I doubt it. This ad isn't exactly passion-inducing.

    For all I know, nothing is going on in the ad that I can't see with Vista or even XP. Microsoft needs to get people excited about their products, but they really seem to have a tough time doing that.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    09/26/09

    In reply to Microsoft's New Windows 7 Ads: Colorful!

    Yo Microsoft, I’m really happy for you…I’m gonna let you finish. But Apple had one of the best ad campaigns of all time! One of the best ad campaigns of all time!!
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    Image of josephers: you're so cool josephers: you're so cool
    09/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Wow they look like chess pieces.
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    Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea® promoted this comment josephers: you're so cool was starred josephers: you're so cool was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    09/26/09

    @josephers: Black Knight challenges White Queen..
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    09/26/09

    In reply to Microsoft's New Windows 7 Ads: Colorful!
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    Image of bobdobbs bobdobbs
    09/26/09

    In reply to Microsoft's New Windows 7 Ads: Colorful!
    Windows 7: Because somewhere three urban-hipsters are using it to make a terrible music video. Or something.
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    Image of otko otko
    09/26/09

    @bobdobbs: Mr. Dobalina Mr. Bob Dobalina
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    Image of grok666 grok666
    09/26/09

    @bobdobbs: Agreed. I could have made this video back in Win95/98 days.
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    Image of bobdobbs bobdobbs
    09/27/09

    @otko: [www.subgenius.com]
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    09/26/09

    In reply to Microsoft's New Windows 7 Ads: Colorful!
    Why is Giz sponsored by FOX of all things?

    I don't know if I can trust you anymore, Gizmodo.
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment njdevil was starred njdevil was unstarred
    Image of senatormayer senatormayer
    09/26/09

    @njdevil: Gizmodo is sponsored by all sorts of things. None of them however have anything to do with the editorial content. Trust them on the merit of their writing not the company that takes up ad space.
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    09/26/09

    @senatormayer: OK, still uneasy though.
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment njdevil was starred njdevil was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    09/26/09

    @njdevil: It's an ad for Fox's Sunday animation lineup. Why does that make you uneasy?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/26/09

    @njdevil: So I take it you have never watched and will never watch any of those programs, correct?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    09/27/09

    @njdevil: "I don't know if I can trust you anymore, Gizmodo"

    Just so you know, Gizmodo doesn't trust you either...
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    09/27/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Oh ok. I had adblock on so I didn't see the other ads, just the logo next to "sponsored by Fox".
    It's their News channel that I cannot stand - for various reasons. And since Gizmodo is a tech news site, Wasn't sure if it had been taken over or something.

    Sorry, just paranoid.
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    09/27/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: Hey! screenname buddies!
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    Image of k2001 k2001
    09/26/09

    In reply to Microsoft's New Windows 7 Ads: Colorful!
    Microsoft, 90s call and they want their commercial back
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    spannu promoted this comment k2001 was starred k2001 was unstarred
    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    09/28/09

    @k2001: '80s sitcoms called, they want their hackneyed joke format back.
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    Image of Takamofo Takamofo
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    If that's just a regular email, I wonder what spam would be like...
     Reply
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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    I get e-mails working at Motorola that have that same effect on me. Now I have a picture that embodies my experience!


    This is so going to be put up on my little wall outside my cube next to my name and the obligatory Dilbert tommorrow!

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    There is a disturbing amount of brown in this scene. The shag carpet is brown. The wallpaper is brown. The suit is brown. The veneer on the steel desk is brown.


    Even his white shirt is kind of brown...

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/20/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Wonka's legal department was never that big on being polychromatic.
     Reply
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    Image of Adrian Covert Adrian Covert
    04/20/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: hey, grand imperial wizard ponies, you saying you got a problem with things that are brown?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    04/21/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: That's pretty much how I remember the 70's....


    They had to counter-balance all that overabundance of colors from the 60's.

     Reply
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    Image of chotai chotai
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    Honeywell? I'm pretty sure they made my thermostat.
     Reply
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    Image of SpeedyGonzalas i7 SpeedyGonzalas i7
    04/21/09

    @chotai: Honeywell sounds overtly sexual.
     Reply
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    04/21/09

    @SpeedyGonzalas Star!: Once you figure out what HoneyWagon means it all becomes a LOT less sexual...
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    Image of i heart bacon hub i heart bacon hub
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    Back then spam was just a canned processed meat product. Simpler times folks, simpler times...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    04/21/09

    @iheartpornhub hearts bacon!: Spam was created the same year the the SmokeJumper program(which inspired that great Howie Long film, Firestorm) was begun. To this day, every smoke jumper carries a can of Spam in his/her pack. It's a fact!
     Reply
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    The senior partner at work is over 70. I'm sure they'd have to scrape his name off of the plaque by the door if this happened.
     Reply
    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of SpeedyGonzalas i7 SpeedyGonzalas i7
    04/21/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: They'd have to make me a plaque, to start. Maybe the plaque should smooth plastic and be easy to hose down, as my name would not be what would be splattered on the wall if my mail came in the form of Wizard Jizz.

    I bet that office smells of ozone and mildewed cigarettes. And pencils.
     Reply
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    04/21/09

    @SpeedyGonzalas Star!: "Wizard Jizz" is my new favorite term.
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    Image of Zach Morin Zach Morin
    04/17/09

    In reply to 50 Photographers Worth Checking Out
    Crap crap crap crap crap. All this digital BS looks the same. Where is Ansel Adams? Cindy Sherman? Alfred Steiglitz, Edward Weston, William Eggleston, Edward Muybridge, Imogen Cunningham, John Sexton, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Annie Liebovitz. THOSE are photographers that everyone should know.
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    Zach Morin was starred Zach Morin was unstarred
    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/17/09

    @Zach Morin: I disagree. Having the technology to manipulate images does not necessarily diminish their substance. For instance, LOTR is a masterpiece of cinematography, but could not possibly have been filmed in 1950. It is only when you rely on computer imagery alone that you get a crappy product, like the Fantastic Four or Transformers movies.
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