Roll-your-own

[…]and when you raise the 10-cent cigarette, on which you get the same tax as you do on the higher-priced cigarette, the increase in roll-your-owns will go right ahead and cause a diminution in consumption due to that higher cost.

You remember that, first of all, you never smoked anything but roll-your-owns? Tasman Gold Cut, and Zigzag rice papers. And you had this neat way of being able to roll a thin tight cigarette without looking at what your fingers were doing.

A great many pipe smokers, apart from the many who simply died of old age, seem to have shifted to roll-your-owns, while a significant proportion of the tailor-made market went to women and younger male smokers.

[…] a director of KARL, likes the roll-your-own approach and is finishing up a 1500-watt […]

However the emphasis of early networkers and computing services (not “where to go” just “how to get there”) can puzzle users new to the “roll-your-own” approach of research and scientific computing.

RAM ICs, floppy controllers and other roll-your-own computer parts, right on up to complete motherboards and whole machines, are in great supply.

Will you opt for a preconfigured Web server solution or roll your own? […] As for upgrading the equipment, you unfortunately will find that your options are not quite as open as the roll-your-own approach.

The disadvantages to roll-your-own are that the company is responsible for managing VPN configurations, and because traffic is transversing the Internet, there are no performance guarantees. Moreover, it typically is difficult to support latency-sensitive traffic, such as voice. However, a roll-your-own approach lets corporations establish a VPN to any site that has access to the Internet.

As you can see from the chart, Diver’s Security has an unusual, roll-your-own approach that allows you to combine four plans, each covering a different type of injury or expense.

Way’s Enterprise Integration Suite provides everything necessary to achieve real-time, near-real-time, or batch integration more quickly and easily than competing tools and the ‘roll-your-own’ approach.

In the long run, I suspect custom Firefox builds created solely for the sake of processor optimization will disappear, especially when Firefox rolls out its own native 64-bit build. (In fact, 64-bit Firefox is already available in the most recent nightly build of version 11.) But for now, there's still a culture of roll-your-own Firefoxers keeping the faith.