Pteranodon
May 4th, 2011, 09:54 AM
Just saw an online commercial where thay compared 3 cars (a Ford, Toyota, and Honda I think?) to see which is best in a Zombie attack.
Yes it was funny, but it means the soulless, maneating corporate suits have finally discovered our beloved soulless, maneating walking cadavers and have begun to exploit them to sell cars....
What makes it even worse, the car that won uses a thumb-scanner to unlock the door; I can tell you from personal experience that a 'biometric' thumb-scanner is the WORST idea any brain has ever thought of in the history of Conscious Thought since the Big Bang of the PREVIOUS Universe.
NOTHING slows down a simple routine task more than a thumb-scanner; we used these 'brilliant' inventions on our registers at a job a few years ago- instead of typing a password (which takes less than one second) we had to scan our thumbs up to TWENTY SEVEN TIMES (I counted) just to get it to register: each attempt took 3-7 seconds which means we wasted a full 81-189 seconds EACH TIME we needed to ring in a customer(!)
But of course the marketing gurus have convinced the 'suits' that thumb-scanners are The Next Big Thing And The Greatest Invention Ever (koff koff- Segway?) The LAST thing you want on your car door when a Zombie attacks is a thumbprint entry-system; the Z will have time to say "I'm coming to get you Barbara" about 15-20 times before ripping your skull off!
Yes it was funny, but it means the soulless, maneating corporate suits have finally discovered our beloved soulless, maneating walking cadavers and have begun to exploit them to sell cars....
What makes it even worse, the car that won uses a thumb-scanner to unlock the door; I can tell you from personal experience that a 'biometric' thumb-scanner is the WORST idea any brain has ever thought of in the history of Conscious Thought since the Big Bang of the PREVIOUS Universe.
NOTHING slows down a simple routine task more than a thumb-scanner; we used these 'brilliant' inventions on our registers at a job a few years ago- instead of typing a password (which takes less than one second) we had to scan our thumbs up to TWENTY SEVEN TIMES (I counted) just to get it to register: each attempt took 3-7 seconds which means we wasted a full 81-189 seconds EACH TIME we needed to ring in a customer(!)
But of course the marketing gurus have convinced the 'suits' that thumb-scanners are The Next Big Thing And The Greatest Invention Ever (koff koff- Segway?) The LAST thing you want on your car door when a Zombie attacks is a thumbprint entry-system; the Z will have time to say "I'm coming to get you Barbara" about 15-20 times before ripping your skull off!