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      <title>The yellow pages are now useless</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Some time ago, I got the 2012 issue of the Italian Yellow Pages to my home.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It's this:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="550" height="414" src="http://static.serverland.it/dandandin.it/img/blog/2012/2012-05-1509.32.36.jpg" alt="" /><br />
&#160;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It's just an handful of pages! It's completely useless, maybe there are just 3-4 firms for each category!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you think that every firm paid 500-1000 euro to be included, it's not an advertising investment anymore. This is wasted money!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But, the makers are going digital! In this way:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="550" height="414" src="http://static.serverland.it/dandandin.it/img/blog/2012/2012-05-1509.32.46.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>WFT??? It's just a PDF conversion of the printed edition or something like that!</p>
<p>It's senseless to do something like that! Why not just list my search in an intuitive way, instead of presenting minuscule text without a decent search!</p><br /><a href='https://old.dandandin.net/the-yellow-pages-are-now-useless'>Magnetic_dud</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='https://old.dandandin.net/the-yellow-pages-are-now-useless'>...</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Advertising in homeworks</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Well, today in Italy I saw something that cross the bounds of decency: advertising in homeworks.</p>
<p>It is quite normal: read a paragraph, then answer the questions. The problem is this: the paragraph <b>actually is a press release from the Italian Postal Service</b>!!!</p>
<p>Imagine to have an homework like this:</p>
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<p>With nearly 100,000 places to buy stamps, ship a package or renew a passport, the U.S. Postal Service is expanding customer access to its products and services. Itâ€™s not about brick-and- mortar Post Offices anymore, as postal products move online and into retail outlets, grocery stores, office supply chains and pharmacies.</p>
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<p>Then have to answer questions like "Where you can buy stamps?", or "How many offices are in the country"?</p>
<p><img src="http://static.serverland.it/dandandin.it/img/smiley/53.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>Product placement? Subliminal message? This kind of stuff should be illegal....</p><br /><a href='https://old.dandandin.net/advertising-in-homeworks'>Magnetic_dud</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='https://old.dandandin.net/advertising-in-homeworks'>...</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The dangers of robot translation</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>On <a href="http://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2012/02/il-miur-confonde-pecorino-e-pecorina.html">this italian blog</a>, today I come aware of a pearl of wisdom on the Italian ministry of education website.</p>
<p>Probably the Florence university researcher that wrote the article did not know English (well, on that course - biotech - the mandatory English exam it's just of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages">European level A2</a>: Elementary English - can communicate in simple and routine tasks) so he translated using Google Translatore.</p>
<p>In this way, the title "From sheep to pecorino cheese", become "From sheep to doggy style"&#160; <img height="30" width="24" alt="" src="http://static.serverland.it/dandandin.it/img/smiley/doh.gif" /></p>
<p>This is the original text from the Ministry website:</p>
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<p>The project represents the implementation of a study at the local level already achieved by an individual dairy producers and confer, is developed through the use of components for the detection and recording of events, apply a methodology that uses hardware and software between their integrated.<br />
Each collection rounds is uniquely identified through the development of a communication protocol based on GPS technology, with the possibility of recognition of the coolant tank manufacturers, tank truck and tank at the dairy.</p>
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<p>This is the text in italian, automatically translated: (edits in bold)</p>
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<p>The project represents the implementation of a study at the local level already achieved by an individual dairy producers and confer, is developed through the use of components for the detection and recording of events, <strong>applied</strong> a methodology that uses hardware and software between their integrated.<br />
Each collection rounds is uniquely identified through the development of a communication protocol based on GPS technology, with the possibility of recognition of the coolant tank manufacturers, tank trucks and tank at the dairy.</p>
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<p><img height="30" width="24" alt="" src="http://static.serverland.it/dandandin.it/img/smiley/doh.gif" /></p>
<p>There is a reason if I translate <a href="http://www.dandandin.net/">Dandandin.net</a> by myself... yes, maybe it is not 100% accurate; maybe sometimes I write nonsense, sometimes it's tiring to translate my long posts, but at least I won't write nonsense like that.</p><br /><a href='https://old.dandandin.net/the-dangers-of-robot-translation'>Magnetic_dud</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='https://old.dandandin.net/the-dangers-of-robot-translation'>...</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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