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Free in exchange for all the data they can gather from you for marketing purposes. Which is a rather frightening amount. It's worth more than anyone would be willing to pay themselves for any of the services you list, and you can sell it to anyone who asks.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Not necessarily: Google is free. (ad supported)
FarceBook is free, YouTube
also, Skype, Wiki, ITV in the UK, ...
Quite. A convincing list of crap.
if you really think the likes of Terminator can be produced and paid for by adverts and product placement you are wrong. Not only would the quality of the product be so low as to be crap the constant breaks for adverts would render the experience horrible.
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Erudite_Eric wrote: the constant breaks for adverts would render the experience horribl
So you have watched a movie on ITV then?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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... CodeProject is free  !
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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What? 
They didn't get your credit card info when you signed up?
I shall notify the hamsters immediately!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote: I shall notify the hamsters immediately!
I bribed them with used toilet rolls...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I am sooooo glad you deleted that word... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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FYI - These are not actually free, they are paid for by advertising. It's an important distinction, really, because somewhere, somehow someone is getting paid. With everything is shared, no one is making any money. But, sharing is good if you're on the getting side. 
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Yes, just imagine somene walking into your house, eating your food, leaving their garbage behind and saying, "But, it's all free, right? Isn't that would you espoused?"
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This already exists as an app that you can install rather than a plugin.
It's name... I forgot... mostly because it's only useful for downloading prawn movies...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: it's only useful for downloading prawn movies
What a shellfish application!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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GuyThiebaut wrote: it's only useful for downloading prawn movies...
Who'd want to watch movies about small crustaceans? .. oh dear… never mind. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Who'd want to watch movies about small crustaceans?
Idi Amin for one.
speramus in juniperus
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This kind[^]?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: forgot... mostly because it's only useful for downloading prawn movies
The crabs put me off those....
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Back in my must much younger days such a plugin existed. It was great for downloading ... um content.
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Hi All,
I you remember I made a faux pas in the lounge and said lang XX.net is not for release, got flamed apologised (I blame, too little sleep & too much caffine!). The 'thing' was fixed given to the client it ran he was happy (!) I was a hero, until they realised that it did not record the results and failures, I did say this at the time ('well the screen goes green, the animation stops, and the PC will make a 'ping' sound if the unit under test passes' reply was 'don't alter anything, it the way its wanted') So I sent emails to people about it not recording the results, the failures are the main thing (you would like to know where it failed, rather than have to go through every possible failure) they were ignored until this went into production, now they have boards piling up (this box passes, that box fails) and no way of sorting out what broke where if anything! 'How hard is to properly record everything? is the question now, me pleased they ignored the guy who said 'But...' and it came to bite them.... 
Also Darlek Dave are you around I feel I need to ask a question regarding table etiquette you are the only person I can think of (other than my Mum!) who could answer the question. 
modified 9-Jan-14 6:13am.
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I am here...
What would you like to know?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Well it's a simple matter are the tinges (or spikes if you like) on a fork supposed to placed so as the curve in the fork is facing the plate or face up. I ask as I seem to recall a fuss being made about this (Radio 4 I think??) Last night I went for a curry with some friends at a very good Indian restaurant and I realised I placed my fork differently to the others  Just making sure I was not letting the side down (I do know which way to pass the port etc.)?
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Doesn't matter - a proper curry you eat with your fingers. Right hand only, natch.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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But that sort curry you also buy on the street (and visit to the toilet/doctors before very long) the restaurant in question does have very high standards. 
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I've had some of the best food I've ever eaten on the streets of Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. And pretty damn good on the streets of India and Pakistan. And never once had a problem. Yes, you have to be careful, but if the locals eat it... Think about it: they want you to come back, and street vendors can't hide behind a counter when an angry customer comes in... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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May I interest you in a sausage? Inabun?[^]
speramus in juniperus
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Wanna 100 year old egg Shogun? Fresh in today?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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True, very true (I speak as a person who went for a drink one night in Nice (south O' France) ended up in a bar surrounded by local fisher men (& related trades, nudge, nudge, wink, wink!) great place. But as wussy Westerners we might not have the related bacteria/worms in our digestive tract to deal with some of the stuff that doesn't affect the locals. I heard something about if you have parasitic worms in you gut you don't get ulcers (Infinite Monkey Cage, Radio 4, I think...). A little dirt is good, however the spices, tastes in curry mean dodgy meat can be used, which in the locals might give wind, to a foreigner might give two months on a drip!
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