For me it's not that they are slow, or big, or irrelevant (although this is true). It's the fact that I simply am not going to buy whatever product the ad is selling. I am far more likely going to purchase a product that I have had excellent word-of-mouth advertising from and from a site that I have heard good things about. I do not want to see the pretty graphics.
I generally avoid commercial television because of the ads and I have not found a show that will hold my attention long enough to make me go through the effort of flipping back after the ad is over. TV shows are crap, If I want to watch one in particular I will download it, burn it on DVD and pop it in my player sans commercials.
Perhaps you have misunderstood? Rate plans work very similar here for example...
When gettng new service from Carrier A you have the option of contract length.
2 years might get you a 299.00 phone for 99.00
1 year would get the same phone for 199.00
and obviously no contract you would pay full price.
I also believe that certain rate plans are only available if you choose a certain contract length.
I pay $90 for 800 outgoing, vm, caller id, detailed billing, and whatever other useless features are included. I do get free incomming calls which is not universal but becomming more common. All together I use approxomatly 2500 minutes a month but never exceed my plan minutes. However with taxes, insurance, misc fees I end up paying about 105 dollars.
Length of contract depends on what pricing level you want. Usually 2 years for the best deals and 1 year for middle of the road.
Bills are complicated by different surcharges, taxes, recovery fees, insurance, and others. Most often listed in a manner that is not easy to understand for many.
Oh, I know they're completely different. I was only taking their "feature" removal a step further. The fewer "features" they include on the movies the more likely I would be willing to spend money on them.
One of the reasons I choose to back up my movies onto DVD+R is that I do not have to wait for what on many brands are endless previews. It's bad enough to have to pay 20+ dollars for mostly shit movies but to then be subjected to 10 minutes or more of commercials and previews that are sometimes not easily skipped is ridiculous. Add to that some of the more ridiculous menu systems on some movies and it can take what seems like an eternity sometimes just to simply pop a movie in to fall asleep to. They have 2 sided capability, how about simply playing the freaking movie on on side while saving all of the fancy menu bullshit for side-B. If I cannot make it easy by just copying the movie alone to a playable format I simply wont bother with most movies.
Someone who will take away your knife will leave you your flute/thumper/cheaterbar/bo.
Someone who will take away my knife will inevitibly find their ass full of.45 fmj.
I have often wondered just how far gold is going to get you when disaster strikes. I can think of far more valuable items such as ammunition, knives, food, cigarettes even but how many people are going to (until some kind of civilized order is restored anyways) trade valuable food for some worthless shiny metal? Gold you can live without. A decent rifle with plenty of ammo would be indispensable and worth more than all the gold in the world.
Perhaps selling secure access to the GOffice servers to large corporations who instead of paying $$$$$ to purchase, install, support, and upgrade MSOffice, or even just installing and supporting OO on thousands of workstations that may be scattered througout the globe.
Sure it will be free to mom and pop, whose documents will be linked and stored with their gmail account. Then again mom and pop aren't really concerned with high-security / data protection so all they really need is the free access. All they care about is the fact that they don't have to pay MS $$$ to keep their not-so-frequently used office suite up to date.
I can also see Google selling pre-configured boxes, just like the yellow and blue search boxes. Their data will be auto-magically be indexed upon creation / update.
Not everyone is like the slashdot crowd. It doesn't take mass adoption to earn Google some $$$$.
Went to Michigan International Speedway this year and seats on the outside across from the pits were $80/each. What I found incredibly cool was you could bring in whatever food/drink you could fit into a softside cooler. The added entertainment of some of the spectators was well worth the $80 alone.
I wouldn't call saying "Hey my church wants to help out" a mistake unless your church's main reason for going is to evangelize / spread the "good word". If your group must go, keep the preachin' and praisin' to yourselves unless specifically asked / approached regarding your religion.
My first concern is that once given away, a very poor family might look towards selling the laptop on the black market for food, clothing, etc. How much expense would be added if biometrics were incorporated into the design so that once a laptop is "mated" to a child, only that child can operate it, thus rendering its worth on the black market so much less?
Well then they would just have to sell (in part or whole) their child right along with the laptop. Either that or the warlords will just steal them all and sell them to the geeks on ebay who will then promptly hack them to disable the biometric requirement while at the same time adding biometric entrance to their parents basement doors.
Bullshit... Victims my ass. Victims of their own stupidity perhaps. Who the hell were they going to sell them to? Tourists? Who were they going to pay for passage out? Keep making up excuses, next thing you'll be telling me they were just firing shots into the air to let the rescuers know that they were there and that it really wasn't rape going on in the stadium bathrooms because they were just delerious.
As for the looting -- oh good, they stole a bunch of ruined TVs. You racist moron. You know why there's so many "black looters" down there? Because the media calls "white looting" "finding food". Oh, and the 60% black population might have something to do with it, too. Ya think?
Taking food and other essentials in the midst of a disaster in order to preserve one's life or the life of one's family is nothing to be ashamed of. Walking through waist high water with that brand new plasma screen (or whatever it may be) only to take it... ummmm let's see home's gone, power's out, city is ruined and under water for who knows how long... gives new meaning to the phrase "intelligent life". "Yeah, I remember those two hours I had that 50" plasma..." They might not have had it long but they had it first.
Just how large is the toilet paper roll at your place? A roll or more a day is fairly common in my place with myself and my two kids (and they're only there in the evening/morning). You must have some skills.
Yes, but by your own account - would you rather have someone in a developed country money to buy their spankin' new Corvette, or provide money to 20 Indians to achieve a decent standard of living?
Corvette please.
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Pr0n should be easy then.
For me it's not that they are slow, or big, or irrelevant (although this is true). It's the fact that I simply am not going to buy whatever product the ad is selling. I am far more likely going to purchase a product that I have had excellent word-of-mouth advertising from and from a site that I have heard good things about. I do not want to see the pretty graphics.
I generally avoid commercial television because of the ads and I have not found a show that will hold my attention long enough to make me go through the effort of flipping back after the ad is over. TV shows are crap, If I want to watch one in particular I will download it, burn it on DVD and pop it in my player sans commercials.
Perhaps you have misunderstood? Rate plans work very similar here for example... When gettng new service from Carrier A you have the option of contract length. 2 years might get you a 299.00 phone for 99.00 1 year would get the same phone for 199.00 and obviously no contract you would pay full price. I also believe that certain rate plans are only available if you choose a certain contract length. I pay $90 for 800 outgoing, vm, caller id, detailed billing, and whatever other useless features are included. I do get free incomming calls which is not universal but becomming more common. All together I use approxomatly 2500 minutes a month but never exceed my plan minutes. However with taxes, insurance, misc fees I end up paying about 105 dollars.
Length of contract depends on what pricing level you want. Usually 2 years for the best deals and 1 year for middle of the road. Bills are complicated by different surcharges, taxes, recovery fees, insurance, and others. Most often listed in a manner that is not easy to understand for many.
Oh, I know they're completely different. I was only taking their "feature" removal a step further. The fewer "features" they include on the movies the more likely I would be willing to spend money on them.
One of the reasons I choose to back up my movies onto DVD+R is that I do not have to wait for what on many brands are endless previews. It's bad enough to have to pay 20+ dollars for mostly shit movies but to then be subjected to 10 minutes or more of commercials and previews that are sometimes not easily skipped is ridiculous. Add to that some of the more ridiculous menu systems on some movies and it can take what seems like an eternity sometimes just to simply pop a movie in to fall asleep to. They have 2 sided capability, how about simply playing the freaking movie on on side while saving all of the fancy menu bullshit for side-B. If I cannot make it easy by just copying the movie alone to a playable format I simply wont bother with most movies.
I guess someone willing to plan for an apocalyptic emergency by putting identity info on USB key would be willing to trade.
Someone who will take away your knife will leave you your flute/thumper/cheaterbar/bo. .45 fmj.
Someone who will take away my knife will inevitibly find their ass full of
I have often wondered just how far gold is going to get you when disaster strikes. I can think of far more valuable items such as ammunition, knives, food, cigarettes even but how many people are going to (until some kind of civilized order is restored anyways) trade valuable food for some worthless shiny metal? Gold you can live without. A decent rifle with plenty of ammo would be indispensable and worth more than all the gold in the world.
I just might decice to be someone else.
Perhaps selling secure access to the GOffice servers to large corporations who instead of paying $$$$$ to purchase, install, support, and upgrade MSOffice, or even just installing and supporting OO on thousands of workstations that may be scattered througout the globe.
Sure it will be free to mom and pop, whose documents will be linked and stored with their gmail account. Then again mom and pop aren't really concerned with high-security / data protection so all they really need is the free access. All they care about is the fact that they don't have to pay MS $$$ to keep their not-so-frequently used office suite up to date.
I can also see Google selling pre-configured boxes, just like the yellow and blue search boxes. Their data will be auto-magically be indexed upon creation / update. Not everyone is like the slashdot crowd. It doesn't take mass adoption to earn Google some $$$$.
This will be different from other sports how?
Went to Michigan International Speedway this year and seats on the outside across from the pits were $80/each. What I found incredibly cool was you could bring in whatever food/drink you could fit into a softside cooler. The added entertainment of some of the spectators was well worth the $80 alone.
I wouldn't call saying "Hey my church wants to help out" a mistake unless your church's main reason for going is to evangelize / spread the "good word". If your group must go, keep the preachin' and praisin' to yourselves unless specifically asked / approached regarding your religion.
My first concern is that once given away, a very poor family might look towards selling the laptop on the black market for food, clothing, etc. How much expense would be added if biometrics were incorporated into the design so that once a laptop is "mated" to a child, only that child can operate it, thus rendering its worth on the black market so much less?
Well then they would just have to sell (in part or whole) their child right along with the laptop. Either that or the warlords will just steal them all and sell them to the geeks on ebay who will then promptly hack them to disable the biometric requirement while at the same time adding biometric entrance to their parents basement doors.
Oh yeah, I also "got" it... From Orville Reddenbacher Smart Pop. Worst experience EVER.
Cause we're all getting Fucked.
I taught him long ago.
Bullshit... Victims my ass. Victims of their own stupidity perhaps. Who the hell were they going to sell them to? Tourists? Who were they going to pay for passage out? Keep making up excuses, next thing you'll be telling me they were just firing shots into the air to let the rescuers know that they were there and that it really wasn't rape going on in the stadium bathrooms because they were just delerious.
As for the looting -- oh good, they stole a bunch of ruined TVs. You racist moron. You know why there's so many "black looters" down there? Because the media calls "white looting" "finding food". Oh, and the 60% black population might have something to do with it, too. Ya think?
Taking food and other essentials in the midst of a disaster in order to preserve one's life or the life of one's family is nothing to be ashamed of. Walking through waist high water with that brand new plasma screen (or whatever it may be) only to take it... ummmm let's see home's gone, power's out, city is ruined and under water for who knows how long... gives new meaning to the phrase "intelligent life". "Yeah, I remember those two hours I had that 50" plasma..." They might not have had it long but they had it first.
Only because men are smart enough to know that if they want to get laid they better at least let the women think that they are in charge.
Just how large is the toilet paper roll at your place? A roll or more a day is fairly common in my place with myself and my two kids (and they're only there in the evening/morning). You must have some skills.
Albedo, go and look it up in the dictionary, stupid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo#Trees
Yes, but by your own account - would you rather have someone in a developed country money to buy their spankin' new Corvette, or provide money to 20 Indians to achieve a decent standard of living?
Corvette please.
Hey, not all of us residents of Indiana are natives. How on earth did I end up here?