Speaking of ads, does the "Take Back Control" commercial on www.vm.ibm.com really work, or is it a firewall issue here at work? It'd be interesting to see that. When I click on "Watch Video", I get a screen to select "Broadband" or "Quicktime Player", but I can't get either to work.
"Dale R. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> 10/16/2007 04:35 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: IBM's Next Generation Mainframe Processor Aren't the commercials geared towards the PHBs of the world? Therefore they have to be dumb! :-)> -- Dale R. Smith "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:29:14 -0400, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not so much obnoxious as just *dumb*. > >All three campaigns share the characteristic of being insulting by their >sheer dumbness. Do the people at Ogilvy and Mather really think we're >that dumb? Or do the people at IBM responsible for giving the go-ahead >think we're that dumb? Last time I checked, most of us in IT-land had at >least a few brain cells left. > >The mind boggles. > >Now, it'd be interesting to know if the same group at O&M came up with >the Heist ad, and the Flying Cars ad for the pSeries folks. I can't >imagine it'd be true -- both are far too intelligent and funny -- but I >suppose it's possible. The universe is full of strange and wonderful >things. > >-- db >========================================================================
