I have an LG Vera and sending media messages is as easy as sending a text and I can save them to my phone as well. The problems with it are: A) When sending to an email address, it doesn't just have the media and my message, Verizon or Sprint or whoever sends an HTML email with a link to the gallery on their website which sucks royal ass. B) It's treated as another form of messaging. I say just have an option "Send Message" and if you don't embed any media, send the text via SMS automatically, otherwise, use MMS without asking specifically what kind of media, if any I am embedding. The phone can tell the difference between sound, video, picture, and nothing. Simple IF-THEN statements will do the job. Instead every time I go to text, I am asked to specify the type of message.
Unify the messaging system, at least on the surface and you'll probably see more use of it.
Faster broadband speeds promotes piracy the same way adding another lane to a highway promotes drug trafficking. Yes, downloading pirated stuff is going to go smoother, but so is downloading legal stuff. Just because you have a faster speed doesn't mean you're going to use it all. Maybe you just want youtube HQ videos to play faster or your browser to respond as fast as the rest of your computer. Maybe you keep your files backed up at an online place like Rapidshare.com or something. Suppose you want to download all 20GB of Debian Linux. I guess nobody in the world wants to do these things. If they do, they're SOL because some people may use it for illicit purposes.
In that case we should also outlaw knives, cars, heavy objects, dense objects such as pipes or wooden planks, and anything else because you can also use these to hurt people. We should've never made computers easy enough to use to let these wallstreet assholes get their dirty mits in on it.
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I have an LG Vera and sending media messages is as easy as sending a text and I can save them to my phone as well. The problems with it are: A) When sending to an email address, it doesn't just have the media and my message, Verizon or Sprint or whoever sends an HTML email with a link to the gallery on their website which sucks royal ass. B) It's treated as another form of messaging. I say just have an option "Send Message" and if you don't embed any media, send the text via SMS automatically, otherwise, use MMS without asking specifically what kind of media, if any I am embedding. The phone can tell the difference between sound, video, picture, and nothing. Simple IF-THEN statements will do the job. Instead every time I go to text, I am asked to specify the type of message. Unify the messaging system, at least on the surface and you'll probably see more use of it.
Faster broadband speeds promotes piracy the same way adding another lane to a highway promotes drug trafficking. Yes, downloading pirated stuff is going to go smoother, but so is downloading legal stuff. Just because you have a faster speed doesn't mean you're going to use it all. Maybe you just want youtube HQ videos to play faster or your browser to respond as fast as the rest of your computer. Maybe you keep your files backed up at an online place like Rapidshare.com or something. Suppose you want to download all 20GB of Debian Linux. I guess nobody in the world wants to do these things. If they do, they're SOL because some people may use it for illicit purposes. In that case we should also outlaw knives, cars, heavy objects, dense objects such as pipes or wooden planks, and anything else because you can also use these to hurt people. We should've never made computers easy enough to use to let these wallstreet assholes get their dirty mits in on it.