L. Marcus Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Re: The Last Word That's pretty useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Re: The Last Word Shhhh! If they hear that, they'll take it away and make you pay to see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Re: The Last Word That won't bother me -- I'm not a local. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Re: The Last Word Well, I'm old and cynical, and as near as I can tell, the purpose these days of market research is NOT to find out what the public wants so you can make a new product and cash in on that. There's risk involved there. No, the purpose of market research these days is to find out what already exists that people like, so you can hold it for ransom and jack up the price they have to pay to get it, and find out what they hate, so you can hold them for ransom and make them pay to avoid it. In either case, it involves much less risk than doing something new, and it brings in a new or larger revenue stream. The only new products that come out now have their prices so high only rich neophiles and slave-to-cool-fashion idiots and teenagers buy them, whether the product is any good or not. So the price is always ridiculously high, because all of those groups pay approximately no attention to the cost of the new stuff they are infatuated with, so might as well gouge for as much as possible before the cheap knock-offs hit the street and kill your market share, or alternately, the engineering studies you've been suppressing come out and your new product is found to be intensely hazardous, produced in grossly illegal/unethical ways, or absolutely ineffective at whatever it was marketed to do. So, I've started giving sabotaging answers whenever I am asked for market research info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... Sometimes -- or, actually, most of the time -- cynicism is hard to distinguish from realism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Yeah, I'm coming to decide that things really are worse than we can imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... Asimov moment, there. ^^ I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Asimov died before he could see the worst of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... Was it Asimov who said that the Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine? Or was it Einstein? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word I've seen it attributed to Einstein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... He was a brain, wasn't he. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Well, he had one, and used it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Unlike the common plebs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Of which, sadly, I am one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word At least you remember how to derive a function. Probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word For carefully selected functions, yes. Of course, none of those are useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Well, you can't have everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Aaaahh, but you are judged by what you cannot do, not by what you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word And here I thought it was both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Depends on who's doing the judging, and most of those seem to dwell on the negatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... Hard to make copies of the photographs, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Hence the move to digital imaging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Depends on who's doing the judging' date=' and most of those seem to dwell on the negatives.[/quote'] Mind you, I'm grading the exam question drawn from the outside reading, and it's very apparent that a number of folks didn't do said outside reading.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word Hence tonight's crankiness? ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Re: The Last Word No; this one is actually fairly easy to spot and mark. I can be annoyed about the folks who didn't do the reading, but the BS attempts are easily dealt with. The real reason to be cranky now (it's midday as I type this) is the sad situation I mentioned in the cranky thread, and the coincidence that my feet are sore because of a new pair of shoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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