2nd May 2008, 2:15 PM
Text messaging... never saw the point. I mean sure you COULD spend minutes slowly and inaccurately typing in a mispelled bit of TEXT, or, OR, you could TALK TO THEM, leave perhaps a message in their voice mail that they could, say, LISTEN TO.
At some point someone's going to just make the process of inputting text "eaiser" by implementing MORSE CODE in the dang thing. Oh yeah, there's progress.
Oh, let's not forget how they CHARGE for the service of this texting. I know for a FACT that their servers are burdened less by handling text than handling voice data in real time and storing messages in voice mail, but they charge you MORE to use the other option, and they charge you to RECIEVE text messages! Fortunatly, as of yet, they still let you block the text stuff outright.
At some point someone's going to just make the process of inputting text "eaiser" by implementing MORSE CODE in the dang thing. Oh yeah, there's progress.
Oh, let's not forget how they CHARGE for the service of this texting. I know for a FACT that their servers are burdened less by handling text than handling voice data in real time and storing messages in voice mail, but they charge you MORE to use the other option, and they charge you to RECIEVE text messages! Fortunatly, as of yet, they still let you block the text stuff outright.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)