And in emerging markets the preference is for dumb-pones or feature phones at best rather than smartphones.
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From reality television to dumb-and-dumber films, contemporary entertainment often amounts to watching stupid people do stupid things.
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Now, in order to pull off this hat trick, Ben, you have to look a little dumb--and so far you have been doing a fine job of this.
Jesse Eisenberg stars as a hapless pizza-delivery guy, a slacker still living on high-school dreams, who becomes the patsy of a dumb-and-dumber pair of friends (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson).
The 'modern' stuff goes straight for the jugular with opening track Free Speech For The Dumb - a fast and furious re-working of the 1982 song from second generation punks Discharge.
Winkler was ridiculed for his dyslexia as a child -- his parents called him Dumb Dog -- so it's no surprise that he's become an activist for others with dyslexia.
Nordby immediately set his sights on The Onion -- whose products include a fake atlas, Our Dumb World -- as a potential partner.
They'd operate as the sum of many independent, relatively dumb processes--just like the autonomic functions of the human central nervous system, from which they take their name.
Despite the occasional dumb fun -- especially with the heist portions -- the leap of logic required to make it all work is enough to leave your brain pancaked on the sidewalk.
Utility applications for BPL--the smartening up of a dumb power infrastructure--may be the thing that justifies the technology for utility companies.
I'd rather have Kevin Durant and the Thunder than wear my own dumb hipster T-shirt.
Ismaiel, an Iranian refugee living in Holland, inherits the notebooks of his deaf-and-dumb father, Aga Akbar.
In particular, they will let software programs run on all manner of machines, from almost-dumb network computers to powerful servers.
To me, chess is a great activity, but I may also be too chess-dumb to realize I should be pushing him toward a scholarship.
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The conservative impulse is to prefer do-nothing government to do-something-dumb government.
The need to have proprietary everything is just dumb and short-sighted.
Who knew that Benioff, behind all his disparagements of SAP as being dumb and slow-moving and destined for the tar pits, would unveil such latent and profound respect?
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The special effects rely less on credibility than on bombast, and the whole project is so dumb, ill-written, and condescending that it may become counterproductive, with viewers fleeing the cinema and vowing never to recycle again.
There's a reason "South Park" remains a high-rated show, why "The Simpsons" is the longest-running sitcom in history, why a third installment of "The Hangover" is being released: A lot of people like dumb, frat-boy humor draped in fantasy.
"Donnie got in a serious swivet and wouldn't speak to me for a while, except to say that our unfortunate adventure was ill-conceived, dumb thought out, and I was over-rated like my horse, " he writes.
It seems that ants are not just dumb miracles of evolution - they can learn from experience.
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They are not much different than the 1970s-era dumb terminals that dialed by modem to connect with mainframe computers.
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Dumb bombs become precision-guided missiles, thanks to proprietary GPS microchips developed by Rockwell.
"This idea joins the Gremlin as an all-time dumb idea, " he said.
The week off might help the team, but it will unfortunately do little to stymie the mind-numbingly dumb arguments about Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow.
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As valuable as is the tinkering with thermodynamics and mechanics, the revolution that the hardware suppliers are complicit in enabling comes from the addition and full integration of microprocessors--making dumb hardware smart, and most importantly, adding the native ability to connect to communications networks via BlueTooth and Zigbee, LONworks, Ethernet and the Internet.
The new products were low-end, dumb, shoddy, and in almost every way inferior.
Relevant links are below, including the initial Reddit post, both videos and the auction, so while our credit cards will remain securely in our wallets those who are more trusting -- or just can't believe that anyone would would be dumb enough to try and sell a fake -- can put a bid in if they so choose.
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