Whitepapers
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I'm tired of having to give my contact information (or someone's contact information) whenever I want to read a whitepaper. It's bad enough that most of these are just brochures. In spite of that useful information can be gleaned from these from time to time. But it takes so much time to always have to fill out online forms just to glance at these and see if you want to read further that for me it is now too onerous to bother with anymore. To reference Vonnegut; they can just take a FF at a rolling doughnut.
_____________________________ A logician deducts the truth. A detective inducts the truth. A journalist abducts the truth. Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
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I'm tired of having to give my contact information (or someone's contact information) whenever I want to read a whitepaper. It's bad enough that most of these are just brochures. In spite of that useful information can be gleaned from these from time to time. But it takes so much time to always have to fill out online forms just to glance at these and see if you want to read further that for me it is now too onerous to bother with anymore. To reference Vonnegut; they can just take a FF at a rolling doughnut.
_____________________________ A logician deducts the truth. A detective inducts the truth. A journalist abducts the truth. Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
smcnulty2000 wrote:
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I believe you mean an "airborne elephant" in the current context. I, too, am annoyed by having to register or otherwise delay my search for information this way, but most times I find a lot of useful info in White Papers, and suffer the garbage in exchange. When the inevitable flood of unwanted advertising follows, it's easy enough to inform Outlook that it's spam. The companies that offer such papers spent some dough creating them, so they're entitled to collect something for the price of entry if they want.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm tired of having to give my contact information (or someone's contact information) whenever I want to read a whitepaper. It's bad enough that most of these are just brochures. In spite of that useful information can be gleaned from these from time to time. But it takes so much time to always have to fill out online forms just to glance at these and see if you want to read further that for me it is now too onerous to bother with anymore. To reference Vonnegut; they can just take a FF at a rolling doughnut.
_____________________________ A logician deducts the truth. A detective inducts the truth. A journalist abducts the truth. Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
Hmmm... there looks like a market for an automatic random-data form populator.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -- Steve Landesberg
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Hmmm... there looks like a market for an automatic random-data form populator.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -- Steve Landesberg
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smcnulty2000 wrote:
FF
I believe you mean an "airborne elephant" in the current context. I, too, am annoyed by having to register or otherwise delay my search for information this way, but most times I find a lot of useful info in White Papers, and suffer the garbage in exchange. When the inevitable flood of unwanted advertising follows, it's easy enough to inform Outlook that it's spam. The companies that offer such papers spent some dough creating them, so they're entitled to collect something for the price of entry if they want.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm tired of having to give my contact information (or someone's contact information) whenever I want to read a whitepaper. It's bad enough that most of these are just brochures. In spite of that useful information can be gleaned from these from time to time. But it takes so much time to always have to fill out online forms just to glance at these and see if you want to read further that for me it is now too onerous to bother with anymore. To reference Vonnegut; they can just take a FF at a rolling doughnut.
_____________________________ A logician deducts the truth. A detective inducts the truth. A journalist abducts the truth. Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
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Hmmm... there looks like a market for an automatic random-data form populator.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -- Steve Landesberg
Might not have to be random. I often use the alias "Fred Ziffel" when going to such sites. And Fred has a forward in my domain for email. Anyone wants to spam Fred, they get sent to the fabulous bit bucket in the cloud. Mr. Ziffel cannot take your call or read your email.
_____________________________ A logician deducts the truth. A detective inducts the truth. A journalist abducts the truth. Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
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smcnulty2000 wrote:
FF
I believe you mean an "airborne elephant" in the current context. I, too, am annoyed by having to register or otherwise delay my search for information this way, but most times I find a lot of useful info in White Papers, and suffer the garbage in exchange. When the inevitable flood of unwanted advertising follows, it's easy enough to inform Outlook that it's spam. The companies that offer such papers spent some dough creating them, so they're entitled to collect something for the price of entry if they want.
Will Rogers never met me.
When did elephant start meaning that? I've noticed the use of it recently on CP but I hadn't seen that usage before.
Roger Wright wrote:
The companies that offer such papers spent some dough creating them, so they're entitled to collect something for the price of entry if they want.
My philosophy is a little different. They want, in the long run, to sell me a product. They want to spend dough making things 'on spec' that's not my concern. If they want me to read their paper and maybe someday be a customer then they should reduce the barriers between me and their product. If they don't want to reduce the barriers so they can get targeted sales, then they will never have me as a customer through this channel.
_____________________________ A logician deducts the truth. A detective inducts the truth. A journalist abducts the truth. Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
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When did elephant start meaning that? I've noticed the use of it recently on CP but I hadn't seen that usage before.
Roger Wright wrote:
The companies that offer such papers spent some dough creating them, so they're entitled to collect something for the price of entry if they want.
My philosophy is a little different. They want, in the long run, to sell me a product. They want to spend dough making things 'on spec' that's not my concern. If they want me to read their paper and maybe someday be a customer then they should reduce the barriers between me and their product. If they don't want to reduce the barriers so they can get targeted sales, then they will never have me as a customer through this channel.
_____________________________ A logician deducts the truth. A detective inducts the truth. A journalist abducts the truth. Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
smcnulty2000 wrote:
When did elephant start meaning that?
When Micheal Martin was banned three times in the same day. It's an attempt to keep him "fruity" enough to not upset the humourless ReportDroid.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Might not have to be random. I often use the alias "Fred Ziffel" when going to such sites. And Fred has a forward in my domain for email. Anyone wants to spam Fred, they get sent to the fabulous bit bucket in the cloud. Mr. Ziffel cannot take your call or read your email.
_____________________________ A logician deducts the truth. A detective inducts the truth. A journalist abducts the truth. Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
