I wouldn't say most. It's entirely illogical. More exposure gets a better selling price. The only thing they care about is getting the best selling price. They have no incentive to withhold anything to special charges.
This is equivalent to telephone companies going back to party lines. True, you'd have a smaller number of unhappy people with NAT'ed web. But I think that the number of P2P users would have some part in it. Then you also have the fact that bad users are usually banned from web sites based on IP address. If that practice doesn't change, then you'd have one bad neighbor ruining it for the entire neighborhood.
Well...for it to be called "inter" net, interconnection would have to be possible. I'd say that's a fundamental premise. It's like the difference between the telephone and television. The television is a consumption device, but the telephone is an interconnection device. Without an IP, you lose that.
And that would prompt a class action lawsuit pretty immediately. It's not the "Internet" if you're behind a NAT. You can reach the web, but it's NOT an Internet connection.
Well said. Console games made a huge split when the original Sony Playstation was released. Graphics had advanced to the point where realism and "dramatic" games can really shine. I still like my cartooney platform games. And I myself own Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Donkey Kong games for the Wii. Not one game has been released for the PS3 or XBox 360 that make me want one at all.
I second that. I'd buy a brand new Wii just to have HDMI even if it only did 480p. I play mostly platform and adventure games (think New Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Country Returns, Sonic and the Secret Rings), and I don't need more resolution or anything other than a sharper picture (even if pixellated) and a better color range. Component video on most HDTV's is processed very poorly and I see static and analog noise all over the place (and blacks that barely dip below dark grey).
Or for digital cameras with huge interchangeable lenses that AREN'T single-lens-reflex. These days, sensors are fast enough to show full motion video on the screen on the back and don't really need a viewfinder if you trust auto-focus.
Re-read your previous post. You said that this consent was given in the fine print of the paperwork of obtaining a license. If I don't fill out that state's paperwork, how do you suppose I'm giving implied consent?
Except if you're driving out of state, you didn't give consent of anything to that state. Do you really think they'll be letting through all the traffic with out-of-state license plates? I don't expect that. So I'd say it's still a violation.
Maybe instead of vertical line subpixels, we need concentric square subpixels. That way, the screen orientation doesn't matter. Now go patent that and make millions.
printers have significantly higher DPI than computer screens. That really has nothing to do with engineering a font at the subpixel level. Printers don't even have RGB subpixels.
Why not just get a free Google Voice number and send your friend texts with that (you can receive replies)? Or if you'd rather drop your data plan, just send texts directly to an email address - it doesn't usually cost extra. Facebook doesn't really change those facts.
And I'm still trying to figure this generation gap out. Where the different thinking actually comes from. To me, two-way continuous communication (a.k.a A voice call) is much easier than texting - even though I do perfectly well with a keypad. And then if I can't reach someone with a voice call, I leave my asynchronous message as a voicemail.
I agree with your generation that retrieving voicemail is harder than it should be. And visual voicemail and Google Voice's transcription are catching up and filling the gap. I get all of my voicemail in my email inbox (IMAP subfolder, actually). I usually read my cell phone voicemail as texts from Google Voice. But I wouldn't make the jump to skip one-on-one conversation.
I've sent texts that didn't arrive until hours later, but I've had the same happen with email.
I use email as my primary way to send quick messages to people, and I use VoIP for my primary phone service - connected to traditional corded and cordless phones (as well as a feature-rich desk phone). I moved from a contract voice plan to a prepay cell phone where I gladly pay only 5 cents per text.
When the power goes out, my UPS sends me a text. When I get voicemail on my VoIP line, I get a text. When I get voicemail on my cell phone, I get a text transcript. I also get a text when a sever I manage for work goes down. But the only time I find myself sending texts are A) Posting to Twitter (which trickles into Facebook) and B) Using the web interface of Google Voice to send my wife a text she can read at work when she's on break.
A big part of this story has everything to do with the fact that I work from home. How are things different on your end that make texting so important?
As someone less than 10 years older than you, I think the opposite way. I have an email client open at all times when I'm at home. When I get an email notification from a contact on Facebook, I can't hit reply. I have to click a link and log into yet another web site. My contacts sync automatically with my iPod/iPhone via Google.
The unification works both ways, though, I hope. I would love to be able to hit reply on a Facebook message notification and have that reply show up in the other person's Facebook Messages box. I have a cell phone that I use mostly for calls, and receiving but not sending texts (I get voicemail notifications that way). Unification can't dictate which service is the primary.
I really don't think Facebook is going to implement that part...
And neither did Google for that matter. I set up my own server (their reference implementation) and Wave didn't allow federation with other servers, and still won't before their servers go dark.
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I wouldn't say most. It's entirely illogical. More exposure gets a better selling price. The only thing they care about is getting the best selling price. They have no incentive to withhold anything to special charges.
This is equivalent to telephone companies going back to party lines. True, you'd have a smaller number of unhappy people with NAT'ed web. But I think that the number of P2P users would have some part in it. Then you also have the fact that bad users are usually banned from web sites based on IP address. If that practice doesn't change, then you'd have one bad neighbor ruining it for the entire neighborhood.
Well...for it to be called "inter" net, interconnection would have to be possible. I'd say that's a fundamental premise. It's like the difference between the telephone and television. The television is a consumption device, but the telephone is an interconnection device. Without an IP, you lose that.
I remember seeing MP3-ready speakers - never saw Y2K ready computer cases.
And that would prompt a class action lawsuit pretty immediately. It's not the "Internet" if you're behind a NAT. You can reach the web, but it's NOT an Internet connection.
ipv6.slashdot.org means nothing. anyfreakingsubdomainimaginable.slashdot.com also has an A entry. It's just set up with wildcard DNS.
Turn them into the console equivalent of an iPad, maybe. The homogeneity of the hardware is what makes it a console, not its capabilities.
Sony and Microsoft jumped all the way to 1080p in one move. Now they have no higher to go...
4k? One could hope... The TV's will come.
Well said. Console games made a huge split when the original Sony Playstation was released. Graphics had advanced to the point where realism and "dramatic" games can really shine. I still like my cartooney platform games. And I myself own Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Donkey Kong games for the Wii. Not one game has been released for the PS3 or XBox 360 that make me want one at all.
I second that. I'd buy a brand new Wii just to have HDMI even if it only did 480p. I play mostly platform and adventure games (think New Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Country Returns, Sonic and the Secret Rings), and I don't need more resolution or anything other than a sharper picture (even if pixellated) and a better color range. Component video on most HDTV's is processed very poorly and I see static and analog noise all over the place (and blacks that barely dip below dark grey).
Not least number of events. Most boring events (least significant).
Or for digital cameras with huge interchangeable lenses that AREN'T single-lens-reflex. These days, sensors are fast enough to show full motion video on the screen on the back and don't really need a viewfinder if you trust auto-focus.
Re-read your previous post. You said that this consent was given in the fine print of the paperwork of obtaining a license. If I don't fill out that state's paperwork, how do you suppose I'm giving implied consent?
Except if you're driving out of state, you didn't give consent of anything to that state. Do you really think they'll be letting through all the traffic with out-of-state license plates? I don't expect that. So I'd say it's still a violation.
And they can all dial 1-800-BING-411 (R.I.P. GOOG-411)
Maybe instead of vertical line subpixels, we need concentric square subpixels. That way, the screen orientation doesn't matter. Now go patent that and make millions.
printers have significantly higher DPI than computer screens. That really has nothing to do with engineering a font at the subpixel level. Printers don't even have RGB subpixels.
This font depends on the brightness values, and not the colors. Being red-green color blind would make the color fringing a little less annoying.
Make sure you're viewing the original:
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/index.html
THANK YOU! This one has more of the color intact, and is MUCH easier to read.
Why not just get a free Google Voice number and send your friend texts with that (you can receive replies)? Or if you'd rather drop your data plan, just send texts directly to an email address - it doesn't usually cost extra. Facebook doesn't really change those facts.
And I'm still trying to figure this generation gap out. Where the different thinking actually comes from. To me, two-way continuous communication (a.k.a A voice call) is much easier than texting - even though I do perfectly well with a keypad. And then if I can't reach someone with a voice call, I leave my asynchronous message as a voicemail.
I agree with your generation that retrieving voicemail is harder than it should be. And visual voicemail and Google Voice's transcription are catching up and filling the gap. I get all of my voicemail in my email inbox (IMAP subfolder, actually). I usually read my cell phone voicemail as texts from Google Voice. But I wouldn't make the jump to skip one-on-one conversation.
I've sent texts that didn't arrive until hours later, but I've had the same happen with email.
I use email as my primary way to send quick messages to people, and I use VoIP for my primary phone service - connected to traditional corded and cordless phones (as well as a feature-rich desk phone). I moved from a contract voice plan to a prepay cell phone where I gladly pay only 5 cents per text.
When the power goes out, my UPS sends me a text. When I get voicemail on my VoIP line, I get a text. When I get voicemail on my cell phone, I get a text transcript. I also get a text when a sever I manage for work goes down. But the only time I find myself sending texts are A) Posting to Twitter (which trickles into Facebook) and B) Using the web interface of Google Voice to send my wife a text she can read at work when she's on break.
A big part of this story has everything to do with the fact that I work from home. How are things different on your end that make texting so important?
As someone less than 10 years older than you, I think the opposite way. I have an email client open at all times when I'm at home. When I get an email notification from a contact on Facebook, I can't hit reply. I have to click a link and log into yet another web site. My contacts sync automatically with my iPod/iPhone via Google.
The unification works both ways, though, I hope. I would love to be able to hit reply on a Facebook message notification and have that reply show up in the other person's Facebook Messages box. I have a cell phone that I use mostly for calls, and receiving but not sending texts (I get voicemail notifications that way). Unification can't dictate which service is the primary.
And neither did Google for that matter. I set up my own server (their reference implementation) and Wave didn't allow federation with other servers, and still won't before their servers go dark.
There are a few instances in the new series where aliens seem to either speak or write in English with no TARDIS present to translate.
Article says "Toner AND Ink." Doesn't really matter if the parent post said toner, does it? Why am I feeding the troll?