No ones come forward on facebook saying they have won the third one. Probably a script kiddie won it.
For those of you who didn't win one, you never know when we might throw up another scope for USD $0.99, exclusively for our fans! :-)
... If you have ideas, please share them. ...
... If you have ideas, please share them. ...
How about doing just one more scope before the 24 hour window is up? You know... just to help us stay awake for the rest of the day so as not to completely throw our sleep schedules off. Perhaps everyone has already given up and shut down their scripts for now.
Hi gents,
Thanks to all of you who participated. I don't think I've ever had more fun doing something for work, during a holiday, that will have zero impact on my job ranking . I know that my tag-team partners today (one in Colorado Springs and one in Boeblingen) agree.
I learned a bunch, particularly from following this thread. I especially liked Mr. 8066's philosophy on girlfriends and scopes. I may get it tattooed.
During this week, we came up with a bunch of ideas for future deals. Different one will appeal to different folks. If you have ideas, please share them.
We'll probably still use Facebook as an enabling tool for most. While we see our and other forums like EEVBlog as our preferred center of communication, FB is helpful for communicating across groups. If it will help your street-cred, feel free to use a partner or relative's account -- our first winner was logged into his wife's account.
Thanks again for a fun week.
I am curious though, why "nina"?
The possibly true story [citation needed] of the first “Black Friday”
In American tradition, the first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 at Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts by English colonists and the indigenous Wampanoag tribe. They held a feast and dance to celebrate a good harvest and peace.
What is less known is what happened the next day. That Friday, the colonists learned that all their instruments had been damaged during the Thanksgiving festivities. It was a Black Friday, indeed. Since the local economy was primarily beaver-based, they didn’t have the means to make or purchase replacements.
Fortunately, the Wampanoag were more than just agile entertainers (fondly called Agile’ent, in the local slang). They were unmatched at making instruments. They came to the Bay (e’Bay, locally) colony to bring a gift of three instruments -- one named after each of Christopher Columbus’ three ships. To help preserve the colonists’ dignity, they charged them the token amount of one piece of copper for each.
can't beat a script...
Hi gents,
Thanks to all of you who participated. I don't think I've ever had more fun doing something for work, during a holiday, that will have zero impact on my job ranking . I know that my tag-team partners today (one in Colorado Springs and one in Boeblingen) agree.
our first winner was logged into his wife's account.
Thanks again for a fun week.
Might I suggest next time you sell those scopes for around $1500 instead of giving them away for free
During this week, we came up with a bunch of ideas for future deals. Different one will appeal to different folks. If you have ideas, please share them.
Anybody taking bets on how many people will un-Like the Agilent page now?
our first winner was logged into his wife's account.
No shit !! I been called as racist and sexist because I predict that
can't beat a script...the best script with slow net connection still lose. the 2nd winner has 8ms latency (10Mbps fiber). not sure what is net latency, but 8ms figure respond is way too fast. my do {F5} loop script took 1-5 sec in each loop in my 200Kbps net. too bad, too bad!
I thought it was a positive experience
most of the time winners can afford these scopes easily anyway.
I thought it was a positive experience and I like how the Agilent marketing people communicated.
Sure, they're trying to buy eyeballs
but it's better than shoving a banner ad in your face and all those other stupid things marketing departments come up with.
I didn't make an attempt to win it and didn't waste 24h.
I guess some of those 'Facebook fans' might be frustrated by this, kind of like the Sparkfun freeday mess 'every' year.
The topic of fairness is coming up frequently. I dont like the word fair, it is too subjective. A renowned negotiator said that anyone after the age of 7 using this word is living in another world. I can't see how any competition can be made truly 'fair', there will always be some discrimination. Picking on an example mentioned previously, a contest can have requirements like entrants must sign on a forum and have a certain number of posts to be considered. Isn't 1000 posts better than 10? How do you define 'fair'? Is that 'fair'? Would you feel it was 'fair' if you won the prize? What is 'fair' really is defined by the organiser in their terms and conditions; everything that meets that is 'fair'. Tough.