habudibab
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Would be great for viral marketing. As far as I know it is possible to forge codes that are valid but have an image embedded. A stickfigure giving another one oral pleasures for example. Place it in the streets and people who think of QR codes as random jumble will see it as a funny coincidence, take a picture for the funny pages and maybe decypher it and visit your erotic gadgets shop.
I'm suprised bookstores are still viable business. I can not come up with any real benefit of buying books in a store.
The only reason that comes to my mind is the joy of browsing, maybe buying something you've seen somewhere recommended before. Are impulse buyers a huge part of the market?
I've been to a local private bookstore twice and the only customers I've seen there are people who probably prefer face-to-face and resent the distant and modern way of buying things, where the only social interaction is saying hello to the mailman.
Could the bookstore provide me with anything amazon couldn't? Books that were unavailable to amazon were unavailable to them. Imports took even longer and due to not living in an english speaking country, 99% of the books on the shelves were translations which I don't want to read.
Which is even more of a problem in bookstore chains. We have one with four large floors and a café. How many shelves of Twilight in German the day on release? About 10. How many shelves constantly filled with english literature? 1. Out of a number that probably goes in the hundreds.
Honeeey, I just bought you this new computer with an Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processor so you can watch those HTML5 demos with more than 5 pictures per second.
Which is staged. I wonder whether the real challenges are in similar style and difficulty. Looking at the problem in the video it would help to just quickly pull out template code and compare it. Would help to have an easier way to know whether this is something I could accomplish or is completely over my head.
$100 bucks, I could need those.
Would it be possible to show some examples on the page? Like previously corrected bugs?
I'm hearing the words in my head in a voice that might suit the specific character. If I don't I feel something is missing immersion wise.
How much time does he spend every day to read them? I'm always impressed by people who tell me they read a book in a few days. I understand that one can learn to read faster, but for non-technical books this always lead me to be unable to clearly envision the world it is taking place in. Just like a narrated movie.
Even if I slow down I often can't remember the names and places in the book.
In two hours I might read about 50 pages. Far too slow to even stand a chance doing the same challenge he does.