Brainless Ad People
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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There's always a possibility that there's a LLM behind this. It appears to be a common thing now, to write marketing copy from a prompt.
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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Maybe they just couldn't spell
Ma*****ate.Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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There's always a possibility that there's a LLM behind this. It appears to be a common thing now, to write marketing copy from a prompt.
If so, the person behind that decision should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets.
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Maybe they just couldn't spell
Ma*****ate.Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
Don't see why - Shift '8' is a relatively easy keystroke! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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Ads in the OS should be made illegal, I hope the EU will :elephant: MS over with an oil drill on this.
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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I had to look up that word and undoubtedly many non-English-as-first-language speakers with me (and probably some native English speakers as well) :~
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I had to look up that word and undoubtedly many non-English-as-first-language speakers with me (and probably some native English speakers as well) :~
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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'Tis back-to-school season, sooo...
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If so, the person behind that decision should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets.
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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David O'Neil wrote:
"Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..."
So that's where the guy who came up with "[reticulating splines](https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Reticulating\_splines)" ended up...
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I had to look up that word and undoubtedly many non-English-as-first-language speakers with me (and probably some native English speakers as well) :~
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I consider my vocabulary to be pretty good. That usage didn't match my expectation, so I looked it up. Their usage is quite a stretch. The word is used so infrequently that most people won't be familiar with it, and will just be confused.
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If so, the person behind that decision should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets.
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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The most dangerous thing in the world isn't stupidity. It's just a teeny bit a knowledge that erroneously gives someone enough false assurance that they know everything. I can say this despite the fact I've never matriculated. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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Don't see why - Shift '8' is a relatively easy keystroke! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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The most dangerous thing in the world isn't stupidity. It's just a teeny bit a knowledge that erroneously gives someone enough false assurance that they know everything. I can say this despite the fact I've never matriculated. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I can say this despite the fact I've never matriculated. :laugh:
That's cool, but my colleague has been caught many times masticating at his desk.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm not even sure I'd hire someone that lazy to clean toilets. I'd be afraid they wouldn't use any cleaners.
Make them lick it clean, then.
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David O'Neil wrote:
"Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..."
So that's where the guy who came up with "[reticulating splines](https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Reticulating\_splines)" ended up...
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver
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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..." Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.) And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. X| X| X| Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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"Matriculate: to be formally admitted to study at a university or college." Cambridge English Dictionary. Hard to see what the word has to do with eliciting sales! The only useful thing about Marketing is it keeps useless people off the streets.
