Modern mobiles tend to use predictive text input these days - you only press the keys once for each letter and the phone works out the rest (not a bad success rate either) - you also get spell checking as a nice side effect.
Some of Nokia's ringtones are in morse code though - the 'Special' SMS tone is 'SMS SMS' and the 'Nokia' Ringtone spells 'Nokia' (proving that someone in Finland *almost* has a sense of humour)
I simply don't understand why everyone consistently gets excited about Napster's potential return.
Yes it was an evolutionary jump in MP3 location technology, it was innovative - but it's had it's day. Newer P2P technology from the likes of Edonkey, Gnutella and Kazaa have learned from Napster's shortcomings and produced even better, more reliable solutions.
Has anyone stopped to recall how long it sometimes took to actually get a connection to a Napster server?
The Amiga was innovative and fun but would anyone trade their P4 for one to use every day?
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The official explaination is that they decided using green would make it difficult to see the rain & cloud shadows so they went for the neutral brown.
Well, the PSP isn't connected to the net usually - there's even a physical switch which disables the wireless entirely.
Granted, this won't stop possible buffer-overflows within the web browser, triggered by a malicious page.
Isn't that what MS SmartTags were intended to do?
The problem is Quake didn't use any propritory APIs (such as DirectX) and so was a lot easier to port, even it did run at about 3fps.
It wouldn't be impossible but it would be a lot more difficult IMO.
I assume the patch will filter requests, which resolve to the site-finder IP, so what's to stop VeriSign simply changing IPs every so often?
Of course, hopefully this and public opinion will actually cause VeriSign to rethink the whole operation. (We can at least dream)
Modern mobiles tend to use predictive text input these days - you only press the keys once for each letter and the phone works out the rest (not a bad success rate either) - you also get spell checking as a nice side effect.
Some of Nokia's ringtones are in morse code though - the 'Special' SMS tone is 'SMS SMS' and the 'Nokia' Ringtone spells 'Nokia' (proving that someone in Finland *almost* has a sense of humour)
MacOS uses X as in the Roman numeral - so it's a little less stupid than the rest.
I simply don't understand why everyone consistently gets excited about Napster's potential return.
Yes it was an evolutionary jump in MP3 location technology, it was innovative - but it's had it's day. Newer P2P technology from the likes of Edonkey, Gnutella and Kazaa have learned from Napster's shortcomings and produced even better, more reliable solutions.
Has anyone stopped to recall how long it sometimes took to actually get a connection to a Napster server?
The Amiga was innovative and fun but would anyone trade their P4 for one to use every day?