Comment Re:Faithful (Score 1) 283
Amusing fact about that - the guy that plays Scotty is actually Jimmy Doohan's son.
I personally couldn't watch it because I was never a fan of TOS. It definitely succeeded in emulating it, though.
Amusing fact about that - the guy that plays Scotty is actually Jimmy Doohan's son.
I personally couldn't watch it because I was never a fan of TOS. It definitely succeeded in emulating it, though.
Well this is kind of the reverse of the discussion, but I'll play:
Your analogy isn't the same. Just because they don't do TV ads doesn't mean they don't have advertising.
As a retail product, the product itself is the ad - a physical one.
When you stand in the aisle for sunblock and you see this large bottle with its bright packaging, being offered for the same price as smaller-sized bottles, I'm sure they will have plenty of customers. But this is a physical product in a physical location, neither of which we're discussing here.
Contrast this to a (presumably non-retail) service, whether that is online content, a gaming stats/community site (one of which I personally ran for several years, so these Slashdot stories always interest me), or even cutting lawns, the parent post was right in that you probably won't stay afloat without some sort of outgoing advertising. And to bring it back on-topic - if you're not selling a product, and provide a service that ends up being popular, how are you going to pay for the additional resources to both serve your existing userbase and handle more? Either you're paywall or you serve ads.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh