1. I'll take it you've never heard of T9. Any halfwit could manage 10 WPM or so easily. You need to press each key only once, and it guesses what you're typing. Very effectively. Any you can type in perfect english (or whatever language you use..) no need to use "1337"
2. Receiving an SMS is far less intrusive than receiving a phone call. So you don't need to think twice before messaging someone about something totally trivial. Its a great way to stay in touch with people.
3. My provider offered the same rate for messages globally...equivalent to $0.02 US... which works out quite a bit cheaper than an international call.
I had SMS on my cellphone when I was in India... Most networks in India use GSM- the same technology as that used in Europe.
Is was pretty common for messages to not be delivered at all, or be delivered after several hours. The problem seems to be especially severe if you send a message to a phone which is temporarily off the network (eg. out of range, or switched off). Sometimes messages get delivered right after the phone comes on, sometimes hours later (often if you receive a new SMS message, you suddenly also get a bunch of older messages too that were sent while you were off).
Well genius (sic) there tend to be few mindreaders out here at Slashdot. Quite a few idiots, though. Therefore unless you SAY what you MEAN, I must assume the latter.
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1. I'll take it you've never heard of T9. Any halfwit could manage 10 WPM or so easily. You need to press each key only once, and it guesses what you're typing. Very effectively. Any you can type in perfect english (or whatever language you use..) no need to use "1337"
2. Receiving an SMS is far less intrusive than receiving a phone call. So you don't need to think twice before messaging someone about something totally trivial. Its a great way to stay in touch with people.
3. My provider offered the same rate for messages globally...equivalent to $0.02 US... which works out quite a bit cheaper than an international call.
Maybe he overloaded the network by sending 26,000 messages in a week?
I had SMS on my cellphone when I was in India... Most networks in India use GSM- the same technology as that used in Europe.
Is was pretty common for messages to not be delivered at all, or be delivered after several hours. The problem seems to be especially severe if you send a message to a phone which is temporarily off the network (eg. out of range, or switched off). Sometimes messages get delivered right after the phone comes on, sometimes hours later (often if you receive a new SMS message, you suddenly also get a bunch of older messages too that were sent while you were off).
The figure of 7.5% doesn't surprise me at all.
Of couse... its some imagery left over from when they did the moon thingy.
You mean like me and that cute girl next door?
Finally they've come to their senses.... of course they should stick with microsoft.com.... microsoft.net is ust plain wrong.
No, just hoping to win The Galectic Institute's Award for Extreme Cleverness.
Moderation totals: +4 Extremely Clever
Oh great... now RMS is going to want free hardware to run all his free software on...
Or better still.... print a more sophisticated printer on my existing printer. Repeat.
From the guy who brought you Hitchhiker's Guide to th.... oh, not DogalAS Adams. Damn.
.... 30 feet and closing, in fact
True, although its better than 530 mph, 30 feet off the ground isn't it? :)
No it doesn't... the OP suggested that on-board pilots be able to override the remote system.
How many air accidents can you name... on large commercial jets at lest... where crashes happned because "something happened to the pilots"?
I can't think of any.
But does Dubya care? He was probably a terrorist anyway...
There is no "second guessing" involved. The FAA has very clearly defined rules regarding which way to turn to avoid collisions etc.
Thats Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things.... At Amazon.com here
With numerical code there will be little difference regardless of which version of Linux your use or if you use Windows for that matter
ask your local meth lab if you can do some intern work.
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I hear Bill Clinton went down there and asked if he could do some interns.
My dad (a chemist) had got me this book ages ago. I believe its in its 4th edition now! A great read
where a lay person is defined as a non-slashdotter, of course
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Because a non-slashdotter is so much more likely to have been laid...
(where a lay person is defined as a non-slashdotter, of course)
Well genius (sic) there tend to be few mindreaders out here at Slashdot. Quite a few idiots, though. Therefore unless you SAY what you MEAN, I must assume the latter.
That is essentially how ALL modern supercomputers work. You don't think a 1 terraflop machine is a single processor runningat 1 THz do you?
I'd guess banana if it was Eve who had got it stuck in her throat...