shrewduser: I comprehend the ad and its purpose. But Linux is an operating system - a set of instructions. It does memory management, process scheduling and a few other fairly useful things, but I fail to see how you can draw parallels between teaching some expressionless kid a short history of nearly everything, and, erm... Linux.It is not the notion of using or advertising Linux that perplexes me, merely this particular ad itself. If I'm missing something big, please point it out to me. But as far as I'm concerned, this ad will do piss poor job of informing people about what Linux is and how it can benefit them.Then again, if people see it and just remember the name, I suppose it isn't a bad thing.
Where is that you ppl live ? Under the rock or commies have finally uncensored this advert in china or cuba. i live in India and saw this advert like 3 years back maybe two. And i have seen two such posts already in here in last 48 hours. Dont post old stuff ,look for new pleeeeeeeeeez.And this is also incomplete.
Closed AccountNov 7, 2006
shrewduser: I comprehend the ad and its purpose. But Linux is an operating system - a set of instructions. It does memory management, process scheduling and a few other fairly useful things, but I fail to see how you can draw parallels between teaching some expressionless kid a short history of nearly everything, and, erm... Linux.It is not the notion of using or advertising Linux that perplexes me, merely this particular ad itself. If I'm missing something big, please point it out to me. But as far as I'm concerned, this ad will do piss poor job of informing people about what Linux is and how it can benefit them.Then again, if people see it and just remember the name, I suppose it isn't a bad thing.
webcrumbNov 7, 2006
"How old is WinXP?"Really, really old.
lordsnoozeNov 7, 2006
That was when Muhammad Ali could talk...so you know that was a long time ago!
rovertlyNov 7, 2006
f**k yeah!
mycoplasmaNov 8, 2006
the commecial on the top i've already seen, but i've never seen the one on the bottom beforelinux ftw
darthnutsNov 9, 2006
How does a 4 year old commercial get 1600 diggs?
Closed AccountNov 9, 2006
Where is that you ppl live ? Under the rock or commies have finally uncensored this advert in china or cuba. i live in India and saw this advert like 3 years back maybe two. And i have seen two such posts already in here in last 48 hours. Dont post old stuff ,look for new pleeeeeeeeeez.And this is also incomplete.
krayzekaliberAug 21, 2008
Link doesn't seem to be functioning......but youtube comes to the rescue, as usual :]<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4</a>