E-mail Is For Old People 562
Strolls writes "Although the article itself doesn't seem quite as exciting or newsworthy, this headline from Reuters amused me mightily. Reuters' summary is here and here's the original survey by Pew Internet and American Life Project." From the article: "Internet users from 12 to 17 years old say e-mail is best for talking to parents or institutions, but they are more likely to fire up IM when talking with each other, the nonprofit Pew Internet and American Life Project found. E-mail is still used by 90 percent of online teens. But the survey found greater enthusiasm for instant messaging."
Re:OMG,itz s0 gnu! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Guess I'm old then. (Score:3, Informative)
Adium [adiumx.com] does. Although Adium is only for OSX.
Also, useful is being able to grep the IM logs and also search with spotlight.
Re:OMG,itz s0 gnu! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I don't care if it's IM or email (Score:3, Informative)
Jabber (in some forms) supports SSL and TLS encryption -- we're using a Jabber server in my department to facilitate communications, and I made damn sure it was encrypted, otherwise the admins with the sniffers would be shutting that server down if they saw what we were saying about them....
Re:a hybrid communication standard (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Different technologies, different purpose (Score:4, Informative)
My Samsung S55 has a keypad with 3 (or 4) letters per number, but it has T9 text entry, which I've seen on basically every phone I've encountered in the last 2 years or so..
It basically works by statistically guessing what you are trying to type. Instead of entering each letter, you press the number that has that particular letter on it (only once) and then go on to the next letter. For example, to type "hotel", I would press 46835. It works best if you don't look at the screen while typing. As I press each key, the screen will display the most likely combination of letters I was attempting to enter (there is only a very finite number of possibilities that make sense). As I get to the last letter the entire word will be spelled. If there is more than one possibility for that word, it will input the "most likely" word, but then I can press a button that will scroll through each potential word, one at a time. I say it guesses the right word between 90-95% of the time. The longer the word, the more likely it will be right..
It drastically increases my text entry speed. I went from HATING text messaging to loving it, because now I can type at lightning speed on a numeric keypad (though not as fast as some people can transmit morse code)..
Re:IM = Instant Gratification (Score:4, Informative)
for the older south korea story; (Score:2, Informative)
Re:OMG,itz s0 gnu! (Score:3, Informative)
with the internet, u're confined to (a) the size of an IP packet, and (b) ur pipe. A 100byte message would've exploded into 20KB worth of IPv4 headers.
Fun? yes. Usefulness? debatable. Resource-thrashing? Ooooo yes!
Re:IM = Instant Gratification (Score:2, Informative)
Re:IM = Instant Gratification (Score:3, Informative)
Only long after the speech did Bush flip-flop by saying that the fight in Iraq continues.
Bush has tried to distance himself from this banner by saying that the sign was put up by the Navy. That is literally correct, but deceptive. Some sailors did hang the sign. However, the sign itself was created by the White House.
That is just typical of Bush assigning responsibility elsewhere, especially to the military, and flip-flopping on their own pronouncements.
Re:Instant messaging sucks (Score:3, Informative)
Or you could, you know... Study together. There's this cool new messaging protocol called a PIECE OF PAPER, you should check it out. It even allows both of you to write down your calculus equations and you can SEE them, in real time!