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2b Or !2b: Shakespeare TxtMsg Contest
FortKnox writes "Reuters has an article on a contest for the most aspiring text message. It has to be under 160 characters, because it follows the trendy text-messaging for modern mobile phones. Most people will try to make long quotes with abbreviations and numbers and such to bring it down to the appropriate length."
for (i = 0; i < you->base.count; i++)
{
you->base[i]->belonger = this;
}
For example to say "let's go to see a movie" could be expressed as 818 321504, which can be pronounced, "eiga miniikouyo"
In Japanese...
8='hachi' or in english 'eight'
1='ichi' or in 'one' or it looks like the katakana character which is pronouned 'E'
8=it can also be read 'ga' in this case. no idea why.
3=pronounced 'san' or 'mitsu' so, in this case, 'mi'
2='ni' or 'hutatsu' so we use 'ni'
1=like the katakana character for 'E' again.
5='go' or 'itsutsu' in this case, we use go, which is the same character for 'ko' minus just one " looking thing.
0=it looks like English 'O' so it's pronounced like that in this case.
4='yon', or 'shi', so in this case we just take the first part, 'yon' and reduce it to yo.
Oh my Gott.
I can't believe I can explain this. Japanese is insane. I also can't believe people could understand this stuff, let alone write it fluently.
Now everyone has cell phones that have full text messaging support so there is little need for this method anymore. Though most people still remember it.
While I am all for motivating people to come up with new poems and/or types of poetry, that is not what this contest does. Playing with not only language but with syntax, capitalizations, and even symbols has been around for awhile, just check out any good poetry mag or even (for a simpler version) go find an e.e. cummings anthology. However, if nothing else comes of this perhaps people will finally learn how to send intelligable messages in very few characters. -- Fear the Tactical Toddlers!
It is unfortunate that you have to be a subscriber in order to submit poetry. I have a good one but not only do I not subscribe, but I live about 6000 Km out of range.
Can a text message be aspiring?
tell HORATIO; length(hevN+Rth) > philosophy->dreams;
Oh, this wasn't a perl poetry contest? Sorry...
W: VFX
P: FUNEM?
W: VFM
P: OK, MNX!
argh, I'm not using too many caps, they're all acronyms! or at least phonetic acronyms... hmm
I dunno. It'd make me smile.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict; foreach (qw(31267 31260 31258 31261 31305 31240 31239
31238 31261 31233 31244 31259 31305 31258 31242 31259 31232 31257
31261 31305 31234 31232 31245 31245 31232 31244)){local $_ = $_^ 31337;
($_ = chr)=~ tr/stie/5713/; print;}print chr(10);
_14k4 (webmaster@860.org - poorheart.com)
Can the text be in the Chinese characters?
A 160-characters piece in the Chinese language is no longer a short text, and A LOT can be said with 160 characters.
Therefore, let me repeat my question - Can the text be in the Chinese characters ???
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
/* Hamlet_monologue.c
/* There's the rub */
/* give us pause */
* William Shakespeare
* (C) 1595 Globe company software
*/
/* Compose this operation from arithmatic of the signed nature. Thusly -1 resounds as more ominous than doth 255 W.S. */
signed char question=(0x2b | ~0x2b);
int n1=nobility(suffering_slings & suffering arrows);
int n2=nobility(taking_arms & opposing_to_end);
/* Though this nobility score be calculated, meethinks that the optimizer shall remove it anon, for it does find no utility in the code W.S. */
int comparison=n1>n2;
rub();
shuffle_off(mortal_coil);
pause();
/* If Bacon thinks I shall share these codes with him, he doth have another thing coming. W.S.
All Thine Sonnet are belonging to us */
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
"over sixteen."
I wanted to set up a company called this but could never truly validate the acronymical nature of it. maybe it would work better as a zeitgeistical sms:
QQQQ
I'd love to pick up the phone and answer "hello, four queue!"
i want 1% if that goes anywhere.
But | is a bitwise operator. Since 2b doesn't represent a bitmask, bitwise-or'ing it is nonsensical.
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Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
this stuff gives me a headache.
2b|!2b
No spaces this way.
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Have a look here, and you'll become enlightened. In short: it's from an introduction to a game that went through a lousy translation into English.
Okay, MENSA members are smart. They know this, now what makes up the other 5%? Idiot Savants? Liars? Who knows.. Who Knows..
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Insert Witty Sig Here
There once was a man on his phone
Who could not wait 'til he got home
HIs email he read
"It's important!" he said
'Til his car toward a semi did roam
From: arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger - RMS)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Date: 8 Feb 92 00:30:05 GMT
whereis biff? crypt at source. biff cut yacc tail, yacc cut biff finger.
"awk!," sed biff.
"ar, ar!" sed yacc.
ksh, bash! man cut head, kill yacc at last, make strings.
exit crypt, find mail from su. od. "date? yes." biff find su nice.
make time, date. find su at wall. tee, talk.
ed: "tip: find jobs, biff."
"yes, make tar," sed biff.
su, biff date more: touch, strip, sleep.
"su, inetd perl," sed biff.
"yes!" sed su.
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance." -Thomas Jefferson
[written on paper]
Translate this hillbilly conversation:
MR Ducks
MR Not
OSAR
CM Wangs
LIB
MR Ducks
What does this say?
The answer is left as an exercise for the reader...
Somehow, this seems rather similar to SMS.
-- "I am disrespectful to dirt. Can you not see that I am serious!"
2b || !2b
(well, for programmers at least)
-- "I am disrespectful to dirt. Can you not see that I am serious!"
... if I note that James Taylor had a song entitled BSUR,SUCSIMIM
/me breaks down on his knees and begins to cry.
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Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow.
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
I'll be honest: I never saw that post ;). You are right, however, that is the "proof" that I used as a basis. I learned of it four years ago in a high-school class. Best teacher I ever had ;).
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Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow.
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
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;-)
> I can't wait until colleges begin offering
> AOLSpeak 101.
>
Yay! Time for a rant. Divert your eyes if you are sensetive to ranting and raving.
I am in a third year systems analyst course at an unnamed (*coughSheridancoughCollegecough*) Canadian College. I don't expect my classmates to be brilliant computer wonders who eat design and shit code. However, I am at a loss to describe the level of illeteracy in our entire group. With a few exceptions, the average person in our class has a literacy level of about grade 9. It's disgusting to think that we will graduate in December and these people can barely read and write english (let alone program, document, or design solutions). The college is very well respected for it's animation and illustration departments (Disney and ILM take most of our anim/illus grads) and has a decent reputation for it's computer schools. What I fear is that my class will get out into the workforce and, for all intensive purposes, smear the name of the College and destroy anything my diploma will stand for.
The Slashdot crowd would enjoy some of the phrases these people have come up with in a recent report. It makes the "all your base are belong to us" look like Shakespiere in comparison. I'm not great at english (lord knows I can barely spell at times) and I don't really expect that. But they have no ideas, no opinions, no ambition, no goals, no desire, and possess nothing to offer the IT industry.
Worse yet, I see and hear everyday that I am not alone - schools across the country are experiencing the exact same thing. People are coming into "computer techology / IT" courses simply because they are told they will be successful. We now have the illeterate drop-out Bill Gates wannabe's - minus the business savvy and intelligence.
Being a systems analyst is all about communication - the ability to design and document new systems. I fear that the majority of people in my course do not possess anything close to this and should have left a long time ago.
I've tried working with them. I've tried helping them. I've tried pushing them. I've tried encouraging them. Nothing works.
Worse yet is that I am forced to do projects with them. I want to be proud of my submissions and I end up doing all of the work - including their work would be equivlant to smearing fecal matter over my work. I'm not perfect - I am trying to learn. These people, however, are only here for the money and it's pissing me off.
See? I warned you.
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Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow.
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
You're right. I never said I was perfect and I know I make a lot of mistakes. I'll quote some of their work for your amusement.
"There is a risk that people will choose other companies over our company that's why it is important to advertise our corporation the best way we can to attract businessees or individual to us."
"If we want to hire a person for programmer position then minimum qualification would be Diploma or Degree and minimum of 6 months experience in the relative field."
"The key people within our business are basically the four co-owners of the business."
"Our products will primarily be produced within Software Solutions building. Packaging is as simple as placing the CD in a box with the appropriate documentation contained." [note: this one REALLY gets me because they NEVER explain who creates the documentation or the software. Our fictional company would develop software and documentation internally and sell that to clients.]
I had to re-write a 40 page report in less than a day - including researching potential competition, market trends, costs, etc. Even worse, it took them 4 weeks to write that bullshit (and there is A LOT more where that comes from).
Ni.
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Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow.
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
note: Three third year college students wrote almost 10 pages of that crap. The worst thing about it is there is no substance to their work.
It's fustrating to do the work of four people.
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Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow.
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
Hmm, lets see.
15c to send a text message "Will be home late"
$4.50 to call and tell her, plus you interrupt the meeting you're in and the boss tells you not to bother coming back and you can't afford your mobile phone because you have no job to pay the overpriced bills.
Real difficult choice there...
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Matt
Matt
You are fired. Pack your bags.
Shouldn't that be '2b | !2b'?
$_ = $q.
Kevin Fox
--
Kevin Fox
private $h1, $h2;
$h1.dignity eq $h2.dignity;
setScene(VERONA);
$h1.mutiny.renew($h2);
(civil) $hands.taint((civil) $blood);
And so on...
Kevin Fox
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Kevin Fox
aspiring, or inspiring? inspiring text messages I can do, aspiring ones take a little longer.
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|-_-| . o O ( bEef!)
Insanely funny link (yes I Know it's offtopic)
Everyone is living in a personal delusion, just some are more delusional than others.
It's a PHONE, for god sakes. What's wrong with actually using the NUMBER BUTTONS on the phone and using them to CALL people??? I guess voice is soo 20th century.
As soon as someone gets DeCSS down to 160 bytes, I think we have a winner. Just put that on your speed-dial and start sending to RIAA members. Anyone have their phone numbers?
I have to respond. Computerland doesn't say that "true" equals "1". Very often you are right, but not always. Second: a "1" in a computer can be optimized to 0 Volt, locally that is.
I think I have the right to say that the Hamlett quote is reduced to "0". Which is true off course...
nosig today
'cos you don't have to speak to the other person. Communication yes, but not too much. It is like writing notes to each other in class. SMSing can be handy when you can't talk.
nosig today
The usual trick is to have ssh listen on a higher port (i.e. 2200) and connect to that, rather than 22... that or you need to run it through a SOCKS server... if you have one avaialable...
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"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
L = elle
HO = a chaud
OQ = au cul
She's got hotness of the ass. (I translated that literally to show my disrepect).
Hands in my pocket
I think I'll head over to
obfuscated code on perlmonks and see if I can dig up some winning entries.
"#define question (BB) || !(BB)" -- Shakespeare
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CitizenC
5 bucks for whoever can implement the deCSS algo in that space!
"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
In my experience, no, they're are nothing but a huge pain in the ass. I've turned mine off, it'll almost always attempt 'predict' the most incorrect word possible, and then if you continue typing it'll just spit out rubbish ... (for those with Nokia's, you can turn it off permantly by turning off the dictionary in the 'message composition' section).
Some brands have little keypads that attach to the bottom (kind of like those fold out keyboards for palm pilots), but I really don't see SMS becoming all that relevant once 3G/Wap/bluetooth, comes into widespread use.
<? include ('signature.inc'); ?>
There are times when the written form is better than an oral message. be that the reservation-number for the movie-tickets your going to pick up, the url for something, or whatever. saves you from remembering it or having to call back to get it verified. k
-- gunzip-howto.tar.gz
no no no like this: al yr bse r blng 2 us
ppl r idiots
take advantage of it
YYUR YYUB ICURYY4Me
Disclaimer: This is not original!
Somebody mod this one back up. This is very much on topic for text messenging such as this. Many people do this in their cars, and it is almost as much as a hazard as drunks on the roads.
0 00 /1166267.stm
As one example:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1166
R U D 1 2 C 4 A B J? --- send that to enough ladies, and you'll eventually find a taker.
Chaos, Mayhem, and Destruction: Not
The most ambitious text message is simply "1 4m 2 3r337 4 u" and "1 0wn j00" interspersed with large numbers of !'s and 1's.
Got Rhinos?
Prison only in thought.
Our minds are the only confine.
Let your code be free.
An optimised version. (When not trusting coimpilers...)
% gdb
(gdb) p 0x2b|~0x2b
$1 = -1
How much more inspiring can you get than the answer to life, the universe and everything --- 42.
NZ Electronics Enthusiasts: Check out my Trade Me Listings
"This is a new literary form and it must be left to define its own parameters,'' the Guardian said.
I can't wait until colleges begin offering AOLSpeak 101.
-gerbik
I'm going to go memorize all of the digits of pi now. I'll be back when I'm finished
"I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it"
in 2001 contest was bginning
what happn
somebody set up us da bmb
we get signl
what
phone screen trn on
how r u gentlemen
all your trendy txtmsg r belng 2 us
what u say
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
But I have a question. Why is it that writing an SMS message often takes longer than just simply calling the person.... and in some cases, the call is cheaper?
So, given that, why is SMS messaging such a big deal? If I want to say something to someone, I would rather SAY it to them than by wrtg sme dum msg that they may not understand in the first place. Either that or I just throw away my phone, sit back with a cold beer and relax without some damn mobile beeping atme every ten seconds with a message I didnt want in the first place.
"Old Rallydrivers never die - they just fail to book in on time"
I find predictive text input very handy indeed, and very fast too - I get about 20 wpm which, while slow compared to typing on a normal qwerty keyboard (about a quarter my normal typing speed) is still much much faster than the traditional phone text input. I can write a full-length 160-character text message in about 2 minutes, and need not use confusing abbreviations. It even gets the sentence capitalisation right automatically. :)
Admittedly, it does take a bit of getting used to - it took me about 10 messages before I really got the hang of it, but then... how long did it take you to learn to type efficiently?
One other thing to watch out for is the specific implementation of predictive text input - I find the Motorola version substantially better than the implementation on Nokias, as it provides a list of its best predictions in a line at the bottom of the screen that can be selected using the left/right or up/down keys, and it also automatically learns new words rather than having to manually add them to the dictionary.
Don't be dumb
BT Cellnet > BT Cellnet off peak = 2p/minute
Text message = 10p
I can talk for 2.5 minutes or send 160 characters
for the same price
Which is preferable?
The Master Of Muppets,
The Master Of Muppets,
CAPTAIN: TAKE OFF EVERY "SIG"!!
24098y7ueigjfx;lkja40-bguti7jnhj
which isn't a message, but aspires to be one.
yours, grammatically,
Mateu
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"And we're happy here, but we live in fear, we've seen a lot of temples crumble..." - Concrete Blonde
Then again, maybe the person just meant inspiring.
Tell me what makes you so afraid
Of all those people you say you hate
2B v !2B
one character less
Hey, that's a tautology.
Does it make sense or not? Yes.
it should be: 2b||!2b
and while we are at it, that mathematically equels "true"
which in computer land is "1"
so there you have it, the infamous Hamlett quote reduced to "1"
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true
or in some implementations
1
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
And change the allowed length of the sig to match. What's forty more characters?
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Damn..Forget it..
Rapid Nirvana
Actually, Hamlet's quote reduces even more, and much more elegantly, to one qubit!
--
Accountability on the heads of the powerful.
Power in the hands of the accountable.
/* main() */
if (2b=true or 2b!=true)
{implode_universe(now);}
else {life(resume);}
vinalat33
Why not write a poem normally and then just gzip it. Yet again you have to keep the gzip file small, but we have upped the ante. No ?
Dodge this !! --Trinity, The Matrix
2) It's not trendy, it's out-of-fashion
3) You don't need a modern mobile phone, as even the crappy D-AMPS, and all the GSM phones include it for years (couldn't find an exact date, 1993, iirc), as this page can show you.
Read the ETSI documents available to the public to learn more about it.
PS: This is a really bad time to talk about mobile telephony because this happens.
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Anyone used these predictive phones? are they intuitive? autocomplete? do you have to click too many times?
If predictive is not the answer, maybe we need a new type of keypad for mobiles, maybe not with all 26 keys, but more than 10.
Ergonomically, it would be easier if only one hand was needed. But would this create left handed and right handed phones?
*needs coffee*
SMS Haiku
the Display is 2 tiny
Must abrvi8
It won't necessarily shorten it any but,
Th3r3 4r3 m0r3 7h1ngs 1n h34v3n 4nd 34rth, H0r4ti0, Th4n 4r3 dr34mt 0f 1n y0ur ph1l0s0phy.
Isn't that aspiring?
The actual Guardian article is on-line and has some of today's submissions, plus the official rules and some hints.
ABCD goldfish
LMNO goldfish
OSAR CMPN
- - - If the sun is a star, why can't I see it at night?
Seems like you need a phone with T9... like the Siemens S35 or all newer Nokia phones (6210, 3310, 8210 et al) I own a 6210 and to type "hello" i just type 43556. Works great!
Don't let the bad times get to you."
-- Adam David Milne
1 Debember 1974 - 23 March 2001
(Mr. Milne was a very loved social studies - 9th/10th grade - teacher who died recently of Leukemia)
my friend, you stand in a sewer and complain of the smell.
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
/. must be low on articles--or (maybe?) conserving bandwidth
/. must be low
on articles--or (maybe)
conserving bandwidth
(y||)B l2us
r
C'mon, it's obvious.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
bb|!bb doesn't make any sense: It's a decision, not a value (random()%2) ? bb : !bb;
Play Command HQ online
Actually, the use of an "OR" in that statement is n't so much right. Hamlet's contemplating suicide during that soliloquy, so "XOR" is much more appropriate - you have to choose life or death, they're mutually exclusive. That's one of the problems with English, we use "or" in speech to two different things.
2 b 0r n07 70 b.
This sig intentionally left blank.
Yeah, but it's a pain in the ass to do by hand on my Nokia, especially while I'm driving :)
Living better through chemicals
Oh I love my job oh yes I do
There are just so many fun things to do
I work all day and all night too
I'm gonna feed my boss to a hungry grue
I adblock all animated gifs.
Blessed be the prime numbered slashdotters
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, profundum viditur.
Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Vote Cthulhu: "For when you're tired of the lesser evil"
I adblock all animated gifs.
Blessed be the prime numbered slashdotters
Just saw this today on The Simpsons...what a coincidence: Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con.
"pr0n": An anagram of "porn," possibly indicating the use of pornography. - www.microsoft.com
STOP READING YOUR STUPID PHONE AND GET YOUR EYES BACK ON THE ROAD!
these are lower-case letters to get by the lameness filter. i know caps is like yelling, i did it on purpose
They wont use numbers etc as letters not to make it SHORTER, but because this is phone messaging, and its hard to type on a phone.
For instance, pressing numeric 2 is alot easier than pressing "8" (t) "666" (o)
I use AOL instant messanger on my phone, and it can often be a pain to type messages of any real length, gives a whole new reason for 'l33t sp34k'
Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste.
James Brents
Here are some handy ways to abbreviate things. ! = not, duh. + = most, max, plus, very, etc. - = least, min, minus, etc. = more @ = at. d = the e = he # = number ^ = carrot & = and ~ = tilde ? = huh, question, etc. \. = slashdot | = pipe for hard words remove vowels and double consonants and such. [] = box : = colon ; = prefix semi like ;cndctr = semiconductor
x = no
g = GEE!
o = oh
p = pee
$ = money
2 = to, too
8 = ate
6 = sex
Use acronyms as much as possible.
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"for modern mobile phones" !!
You must write from the other side of the atlantic! SMS have been part of our digital cell phones for 6 years or so !! What America discovers today is not necessarily modern. ( I think I received my first smart card in 1990, examples are countless...)
The medium is the message -- at least in 160 chars or less, thank you Uncle Marshall.
How about:
No1 on ths bus wnts 2 hEr yr fckng call. Trn yr dm phone off b4 we L Dcide 2 kill U.
Sorry. Hit the sore spot again. Grr... Cell phones -- how do I hate them, let me count the ways...
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
My fav quote has got to be the most simple one: That's life. Feel free to Moderate this one down to troll.
Question everything
i don't have a cell phone (nor do i really want one), but if i did, i'd be sending something liek this to everyone :
8========) ~~~~~~~ o:
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We go ahead and minimize the whole English language? We've already got /., and everyone likes perl.
A few suggestions:
spm = spam
fstp = first post (fp is taken - "floating point")
ayb1 = All your base are belong to us.
$M = Microsoft is a horrible, money grabbing useless institution.
L! = Linux is a wonderful, beutiful thing.
CTO = Commander Taco
Hemos = well...its already pretty short.
ILB = I like beans.
YCUAL = you can't have any until later
HN/DTA = Have some now, but don't tell anyone
We could also use verbs as operands...
For example - kills = k
kL!$M - Linux, the wonderful, beautiful thing kills Microsoft the horrible, money grabbing institution.
Of course, we could, I don't know...just zip it up and unzip it? Its not like zip is a difficult protocol to implement on a palm...
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Here in the UK, phone calls are never cheaper than text messages. we don't have to pay for text messages or WAP, because we've got companies like Genie Mobile that offer free and extremely reliable services. Most people use Nokia phones like this which have predictive text which means you only press one key for each letter you want. People can type on their phones without looking, and while doing other things, which also brings new problems such as people texting while driving.
Follow me
quirky
say it again sam
hoochies like a mo' fo
360 degrees of Karma
main(String HowAreYouGentlemen[]){ ;)
All URBaseRB;
long 2Us;
for(GreatJustice;
remove().every('Zig' );
}
if they could make a phone where, instead of just reading text messages from people, you could actually somehow talk to the person on the other end. Hey, waitaminute.....
I think we should let Prince have a shot; he's been doing it for a lot longer than anyone else.
From the lyrics of "I Would Die 4 U" (Purple Rain, 1984):
U - I would die 4 U (U)
Darlin', if U want me 2
U - I would die 4 U
2 3 4 U
(There, now I've probably violated some copright law, and the RIAA are after me now.)
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404 - File not found
Microsoft IIS Server
Will somebody please explain this "all your base are belong to us" thing? I've seen it all over /. and even on Foxtrot, but I haven't yet talked to anyone who can tell me where the heck it came from.
I suppose this contest is intended to prove that wireless messaging is a legitimate medium, in that it is neither rare nor well done.
Last year more than six billion individual messages were sent between mobile phones in Britain.
...considering the legal situation in the UK, I would bet the MI5 has a nice searchable database of all those messages. This would be real world literature. And it'd propably even be easier to notify the winners... - by mail, snail mail, or, let's say, via their credit card bills.
01 or 10 either would work would it be a series of alternating 0's and 1's?
"If I had my life to live over, I'd be a plumber" Albert Einstein