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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Howard-Sarin: I want to throw in a vote for dumb-ass targeting.
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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.
It could be that these fair-weather (if not actually false) friends have been encouraged in their intransigence by State Department interlocutors many of whom appear to share Franco- Russian-Chinese hostility to the Bush goal of regime change in Iraq to believe that the President will accede to efforts to dumb-down the U.S.-drafted resolution.
It could be that these fair-weather (if not actually false) friends have been encouraged in their intransigence by State Department interlocutors -- many of whom appear to share Franco- Russian-Chinese hostility to the Bush goal of regime change in Iraq -- to believe that the President will accede to efforts to dumb-down the U.S.-drafted resolution.
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.
We press on with a dumb follow-up: These 16 women in New York, your friends, did you show them a good time?
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 multilingual revolutionary leader dodged British soldiers on guard outside his grand Calcutta home in the early 1940s and, posing as a deaf-and-dumb Pathan tribesman, sneaked across the border into Afghanistan.
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.
They really are dumb, those rubber-and-steel humanoids with the blank stares and telltale yellow-and-black crosshairs.
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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