There are a variety of reasons why Gundams wouldn’t be all that great in real life for actual combat, I’m well aware of that.

Make robot bigger, put human control suit inside the robot. Gundam.

True! If you don’t watch too many movies though, the upfront cost of the BluRay player or BluRay disc drive for your PC outweighs the savings on the rentals.

Yeah, the only solid need for a DVD drive anymore was to install Windows, but now even that has an official version on a flash drive.

But DVDs are mostly obsolete. They generally have video at 480. Name one other context in which 480 video is remotely acceptable these days. Of course some people still use them, but they are on their way out, so it makes sense to separate this from the OS. OS development efforts can focus on things more of their…

I know, that’s why I said “to me”, indicating that it was just my personal opinion. My point was just that they are starting to phase out for some people, so this isn’t as much of an issue as it would be if they had done this 5 years ago.

I never had very many, then I sold most of them to Bull Moose. I still have a couple that they wouldn’t take, but I haven’t touched them in years.

It’s also important to give a reason, and that further increases your chances. I read about a study once that found giving a reason, any reason, even if its not a good reason, can have a big impact. Probably less helpful with things like salary, but with smaller things that people are going to make a quick decision on…

Eh, to me DVD’s (and blu-ray) are just as silly as VHS tapes. I’m gonna build a new computer at some point within the next year, but I’m not even going to bother getting a disc drive. But you’re right, definitely not worth paying $14.99 for even if you do want to watch DVD’s, since there are plenty of free options.

This sort of thing just reminds me how freaking amazing our brains are. The complex way the person in that example can quickly and seemlessly use the environment to adjust all the things they are holding, without even needing the think about it. It’s amazing.

Hey people now, people now. Gotta drive hybrids now, people now. People now, people now people now. Hybrids now people now.

It’s three distinct letters: you-are-el. I have literally never heard anyone call it an earl. And I really mean literally, I have never heard that even once.

I’m not saying it’s not worth paying for. Having only 16gb of storage, on both Android and iOS, massively cripple’s what you can do with your phone. I paid the extra $50 to get a 32gb version of my phone, and if I had an iPhone I would have probably paid the extra $100.

It bothers me that Android phones often cost $50 extra for an increase in storage, far more than that should cost.

Yeah i jusy piked around on their website, it looks like they made some changes since I bought mine. They also got rid of the part where you can pay off part of it, return your phone, and get an early upgrade. I like keeping my old devices anyways.

You can get the $15 monthly price by bringing your own phone? I didn’t know that, that’s awesome! I thought it was $40 and the only way to get the discount to $15 was to have a phone on Edge. Next time I’ll just buy the phone from the manufacturer instead of through Verizon. I’m probably going to end up getting…

For the iPhone its not free, you pay $50. The plan itself for $40/month is 960 over two years. Get it on edge and you pay a total of $1009 like you said, so $49 for the phone, instead of the $200 on contract.

I’m on Verizon’s Edge thing, which on family plans is a great deal. I pay full retail split into 24 monthly payments (no interest) which is about $23 for my phone. But then Verizon gives me $25 off my plan for having a phone on edge, which means the phone actually is less than free!

USB port? Micro or type c?

He actually did his math wrong, and the lease he mentions in the article is a similar deal, where the total cost of the lease-to-own plan is actually less than the sticker price.