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  1. salescircular.com by Mybrid · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers?

    http://salescircular.com/

    Different people, different models.

    When I use advertising I want to see nothing but ads. That is what Sales Circular http://salescircular.com/ does. It is nothing but ads and competitor's prices are shown side-by-side.

    Personally I think everyone buys things on sale, wants to buy things on sale. However, for someone like myself I consume ads using a different model.

    My desired advertising consumption is analogous to the classified ads section of newspapers, or Craig's List.

    Online marketing needs to cover their customer consumption bases when it comes to consumer advertising. People like myself who perhaps use AdBlock Plus still want things on sale, we just would prefer to browse ads all-at-once when we are looking for sales, as opposed to seeing ads intermixed with content.

    At the end of the day, though, I'm still looking for things on sale and I still buy advertised product.

    I don't see AdBlock Plus as a threat, just an expression how different types of consumers like myself use different tactics to find what is on sale. This is no different in the past where Catalogs, Classifieds, Yellow Pages, Magazines, etc all had different audiences they were reaching.

  2. salescircular.com by Mybrid · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers?

    http://salescircular.com/

    Different people, different models.

    When I use advertising I want to see nothing but ads. That is what Sales Circular http://salescircular.com/ does. It is nothing but ads and competitor's prices are shown side-by-side.

    Personally I think everyone buys things on sale, wants to buy things on sale. However, for someone like myself I consume ads using a different model.

    My desired advertising consumption is analogous to the classified ads section of newspapers, or Craig's List.

    Online marketing needs to cover their customer consumption bases when it comes to consumer advertising. People like myself who perhaps use AdBlock Plus still want things on sale, we just would prefer to browse ads all-at-once when we are looking for sales, as opposed to seeing ads intermixed with content.

    At the end of the day, though, I'm still looking for things on sale and I still buy advertised product.

    I don't see AdBlock Plus as a threat, just an expression how different types of consumers like myself use different tactics to find what is on sale. This is no different in the past where Catalogs, Classifieds, Yellow Pages, Magazines, etc all had different audiences they were reaching.

  3. Re:upgrading hardware by GnuAge · · Score: 1 · on 'Perfect Storm' of Mac Sales on the Horizon?
    The price must of changed since I last looked though, then the cheapest mobo was about $80, cpu I don't recall for sure but I think $100 and the last tyme I bought 128M of ram was about $100. That was two or three years ago and I'd want at least 512 preferably 1 GB ram.
    That was awhile ago. If you live near a Fry's (many big cities in the U.S.) you can buy a combo with a motherboard, CPU & fan for as little as $50, though the cheapo combo this week is a lordly $80 for an AMD A64 3000+ CPU and an ECS Nforce3A board. Look on pricewatch.com and you can find 512 MB of PC3200 RAM for as little as about $43 and a gig is maybe $54. But you'll need a new power supply and that will run you about $30 for a decent one.

    But it still may not make much sense to upgrade your current rig.

    What are you going to do with your old "perfectly adequate until 10 minutes ago" mobo, PS and CPU? Put 'em in a drawer until you throw them away? E-Bay them for not much more than the transaction cost? Resell them to various recyclers? The boards are worth 80 cents a pound, CPUs used to get a pretty penny, like $18 a pound, but the vast majority of a PII CPU is fan, casing, etc. The power supply is just scrap metal, a few cents a pound.

    Even if wait until you can get the best possible deals on the parts, maybe $110 after a Mail In Rebate on 512 MB of RAM, you still have to pull the old stuff, screw the new stuff in, hoping you didn't short anything out, and then reinstall Windows (or at least reconfigure X and your sound card for Linux, not, I'll admit, a big deal).

    In the mean time you could buy a whole new system with a legal copy of Windows XP and a new 17" CRT monitor for less than $300 after MIR. Then sell your old rig for $75. Buy a cheap PCI video card for $14 and you are good to go with a dual monitor rig using Xinerama. Use QTPARTED to shrink the XP partition to 30 gigs or so, so you can dual boot, then blow on your favorite distro.

    The motherboard for the computer has a number of things built onto it, the graphics is though I installed a second one.
    Actually, if your second video card is PCI, you can run a dual monitor rig now, either in Win or Lin. Unfortunately, onboard video tends to be on the AGP bus, so if you have an AGP card you can either us it or the onboard. All new motherboards come with USB 2.0, you can buy a cheap firewire card for $10-15.

    I wouldn't worry too much about exactly which CPU to buy. Practically anything you buy these days will have plenty of pop for most purposes. Maybe you should take that statement with a grain of saltpeter, since my primary machine benchmarks, according to KBoincSpy, a Dhrystone of 309 MIPS and a Whetstone of 110 MFLOPS, and I'm reasonably happy with it.
  4. Re:Building? by nolife · · Score: 1 · on Advanced System Building Guide

    I actually got out of the white box business for that exact reason. I point people to Dell's rotating outragous deals, the Sunday paper ads, or a link or site I may see on a deal site. They get an above average deal, I look all right because I gave them some good advice, and I am no longer bothered with their various PC problems.
    My car and house work is shared pretty evenly give and take across all of my friends ;)

  5. Re:My local papers by nolife · · Score: 1 · on How Craigslist Costs Newspapers Money

    Take a look at the typical Sunday paper. It's 75% Ads.

    The Sunday ads is the main reason I buy a Sunday paper. The ads are read first and eventually throughout the week I end up reading at least the business and automotive section and if it is a slow week for my industy mags, I may even hit the Style and a few other sections before the next Sunday when I repeat the process.
    I could get the "Sunday ads" even without the paper by using Salescircular but I still like browse the actual ads.

  6. Re:Including businesses? by nolife · · Score: 1 · on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel

    Maybe the fact they used AMD made them lower cost models? Yes there is definatley a really low priced computer in every add that cuts back on some things (normally a Celeron). I think overall, the AMD and Intel models from the mass producers like HP and E-Machine/Gateway have very similar features with the only exception being the processor. Pull up www.salescircular.com, pick a state and browse computer/monitor/printer packages ads from your local stores, for simplicity, here is a link to the VA ads.

  7. Re:People are always ready to toss money on ads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on India's Secret Army Of Online Ad 'Clickers'

    You may want to toss those techie ads too for this.

  8. I'm surprised... by OneFix · · Score: 1 · on Websites For The Frugal?

    If you live in a US city, SalesCircular.com can also be a valuable resource. They scrounge the weekly sales circulars for all of the major retail outlets. Retail outlets can offer some advantages that online stores don't and can sometimes offer extermely low prices on products...

  9. Re:Uh, CompUSA? by nolife · · Score: 1 · on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar

    Just check their websites that week, see what's on sale and what's in a particular store.

    You can check salescircular.com for a particular area to see what they have in the paper ad also. Saves from scouring the Sunday papers. Like already stated, getting any rebates will not be easy.

  10. Re:Interesting: PCs at work as status symbols by travail_jgd · · Score: 1 · on UK Councils May Dump Windows For Linux

    I was running Red Hat 7.3 on a Pentium 2 233 MHz system (vintage 1997), using KDE 3.0 on the desktop. When I had 96 MB of RAM, the system was a bit sluggish -- it was using ~20 MB of swap. Once the computer was upgraded to 128 MB, KDE ran with no problems or slowdowns. Mozilla and OpenOffice were slow (due to using swap space), but acceptable.

    The moral of the story: Buy more RAM. With DIMM prices below $20US (after rebate) per stick, it's money well-spent.

  11. What about regular retail stores? by nolife · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Hard Drives Down To A Dollar A Gigabyte

    Retail stores are a very good place for HD's. You will often find BestBuy/CompUSA/Staples/CircuitCity/OfficeMax etc will have lower prices on HD's then what is at pricewatch, local computer stores, and even regional computer expos. More then likely you get a retail drive in a box with full warranty (mainly 1 year now) and maybe even a UDMA cable and 5.25 adapters. Most mail ordered I've seen are OEM and 30 days at best. CDRW's are the same way.

    Sometimes you may have to deal with a rebate to get the good deal but at least one of the above retailers has one good deal a week. Not sure if SalesCircular covers all areas of the US but it is a good place to scope out retailers sale prices for a week.

  12. The cheapest way??? by OneFix · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Reducing TCO of an Inkjet Printer?

    I don't know if this is cheaper, but I do it this way...

    First, find the cheapest printer you can...Circuit City has the Lexmark Z25 for $39.99 after rebate this week, but a better deal is at Office Max...Hewlett Packard DeskJet 825C for $49.99 (no rebate required), plus it's USB and it also comes with a free USB cable ($15 value).

    And, don't worry about the speed of the printer, because if you wanted speed you'ld be buying a Laser Printer for much more $$$.
    Then make sure you buy one of the InkJet refill kits...WalMart and CompUSA sell a Universal kit for Color and Black (seperately), but if you go to a Computer Show, you can buy a huge kit that should last you a while for the cost of both.

    Now, sit back as the Printer pays for itself in saved cartridges. I don't know about you, but I'm reluctant to use refills on a $200 printer, but have no problems with doing it to a $50 printer. Most cartridges can be refilled 2 or 3 times before they go bad...this means that after only 6 refills, the printer should have paid for itself...

    A few notes, in general, stay away from Lexmark and No-Name printers...try to stick with HP, Cannon, Epson, etc.

    And don't worry about speed or resolution, if you wanted that, you'ld be buying a Laser Printer, and $$$ wouldn't be your first concern.

    The whole idea of this is that Moore's Law works for you here...by the time you need to get a new printer, you can get something much better for the lower price...