"I think Europeans feel it's arrogant of us to send in someone who has enjoyed mainstream success, as if that's going to score us instant points".
Cardify (not to be confused with the e-card app Cardify) aims to solve this by way of a mobile app, currently in iOS only (with Android to come), in which consumers get instant points towards perks and rewards at their favorite local merchants when they pay with their credit cards.
When he joined the Lakers, their broadcaster, Chick Hearn, called him Mr. Instant Point.
"using our playnow platform we can provide instant point-and-click access to games, family entertainment and educational software over broadband," says vincent grosso, arepa's ceo.
It is best described by the "instantaneous centre of motion" theory, which suggests that motion occurs about any instant point that acts as the centre of rotation and therefore does not move [5].
These games used to be scored by Instant Match Points, so Lev discovered immediately that his score of 1,010 was worth 95 match points out of a possible 100.
B&S soundtracked Todd Solondz's Storytelling in 2001 and their songs have bestowed instant hipster points on films as diverse as Juno and The Devil Wears Prada.
If addressing anyone who might be your elder or better, forget jambo and say shikamoo, this will earn you instant brownie points.
That's probably more true now than ever, for as the author of this book on "instant siblings" points out there has been a veritable explosion of multiple pregnancies.
Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images Microsoft's new chief executive, Satya Nadella, wins instant brownie points by quoting Oscar Wilde (sort of), in his letter to staff this morning Here's a flavour: What do we do next?
Nicholas Carr, who is at work on a book, tentatively titled "The Shallows," about the culture of instant information, points out that blogs evolved from something to be updated on occasion to being updated daily, then many times a day; now social media services invite updates hourly, or constantly.
