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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"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.
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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
"A little learning is a dangerous thing." I forget which historic figure said that, but it certainly holds true even today!
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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.
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[^]
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver
Maybe it was a poor attempt at humor given this is the season in the US for students going back to school. Unless they meant the Scottish-English meaning of registering firearms. 🙂 It is the political season in the US, also.
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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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"A little learning is a dangerous thing." I forget which historic figure said that, but it certainly holds true even today!
There are three categories of knowledge: things I know that I know; things I know that I don't know; and things I don't know that I don't know. My goal has always been to maximize the second category, minimize the third, and acknowledge that things in the first category likely have components in the second and third.
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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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I would hope that entry standards to college or university are these days still sufficiently high that anyone so admitted would know the meaning, given that matriculation is what has just happened to them!🙄
I never matriculated though, I have myself "ingeschreven"! :D I'd sign up, join, enlist, enroll, start or sign up for college. Guess I'm not articulate enough to matriculate ;)
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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.
haughtonomous wrote:
The only useful thing about Marketing is it keeps useless people off the streets.
I'd rather they left them on the streets to starve to death. Any concomitant increase in crime can (and should) be dealt with by bringing back the hanging judges.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
