Pushing more "speed" is itself snake oil.
Faster internet service, faster cars, microwave ovens, etc...
And cellphone/mobile devices - lord forbid you miss a call or a message when attempting to go about your life in a normal way.
It's a form of social brainwashing that companies know will sell their products.
Many fall for the trap of course.
I almost did too.... until I looked at the big picture, and watched the results of how society became the way it is today.
BLahahahaha!
Thanks! I needed a good laugh!
I can't stand slow ANYTHING. Slow people, slow drivers, slow computers, slow internet, etc. I have 3 gigabits up and down and it's almost fast enough even though it can transfer faster than any of my mechanical disks...
There is an 8 gigabit service coming soon.
My car needs about 100 more horsepower for me.
IMHO, transport trucks should have a 0-60 time of ~10 seconds, too. The elevators in this building are too slow, too. NOTHING is fast enough, damnit!!! 😀
I can't even stand walking behind people who walk slow and dawdle. Especially at the mall or grocery store. I go at 7am Sunday because there's nobody in my way!
Have you ever tried to transfer a music library by Bluetooth? SLOW AF! LOL
Yesterday, I updated my laptop and it was "only" downloading the packages at ~20MB/second. It may as well be dial-up to me.
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And thank You right back for the amusing reply!
It's always nice to see someone in a hurry to get to the grave.
Betcha'd like a slow dance! ;')
"Faster-faster" always brings me back to management not understanding why it took a year to fully qualify a new server MB power system design. So we laid it all out for them, step by step - and we all got our "six sigma green belts". Still takes a year, w/o shortcuts...
Actually no LOL
90% of the time, I'm listening to music that's 174 BPM... When I mix it, I spin it at 185BPM, but I did do a 200 BPM mix once LOL
90% of the time, I'm listening to music that's 174 BPM... When I mix it, I spin it at 185BPM, but I did do a 200 BPM mix once LOL
Actually, there's one thing I like slow. Civil court system... I filed a ticket last June... They haven't assigned a court date yet! If it takes more than a year, I'll ask that it be tossed.
Better in what way, looks, length, how the owner feels or something else?
What is lumped compensation in audio reproducing electronics?
You create the "need" for the product (which often is just an image you "need" to project) and our product will project it for you. With the right cars, clothes, booze, and expensive cigars, and you can be The Most Interesting Man In The World. Guaranteed Or Your Money Back.
Who really "needs" a 30 room mansion? Maybe Hugh Hefner but how about you?
Is that not the definition of normal marketing?
More like greedy marketing. Not all marketeers are the same.
I come across people all the time who've "bought into" the hype and marketing madness.
It's a disease the way I look at it, not much different from an addiction of sorts.
Trying to "fulfill" a void of your life by buying.... yet, the root cause is within.
It's a disease the way I look at it, not much different from an addiction of sorts.
Trying to "fulfill" a void of your life by buying.... yet, the root cause is within.
Yeah. If you're really good, you can get people to spend their money and not even have a product at all! Here in the USA, we have a fellow who's that good. People voluntarily send in their money, it goes right in his own pocket and they get absolutely nothing in return. Brilliant marketing; the very pinnical.
No, not always... For example, psychotherapy can be used to change behaviour that wouldn't be considered an illness... although sometimes yes...
"The name retail therapy is ironic and semifacetious, acknowledging that shopping hardly qualifies as true therapy in the medical or psychotherapeutic sense."
And of course buying too much crap can be considered like an addiction, too.
"The fact that shopping may provide a short time of comfort (relief from dysphoria), but also imposes costs and is subject to comedown and withdrawal, make it, like opioid use, either a therapy or an addiction, depending on whether each person uses it adaptively or maladaptively."
"The name retail therapy is ironic and semifacetious, acknowledging that shopping hardly qualifies as true therapy in the medical or psychotherapeutic sense."
And of course buying too much crap can be considered like an addiction, too.
"The fact that shopping may provide a short time of comfort (relief from dysphoria), but also imposes costs and is subject to comedown and withdrawal, make it, like opioid use, either a therapy or an addiction, depending on whether each person uses it adaptively or maladaptively."
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