This requires the person you are messaging to not only have gmail chat etc, but that they are also running it currently. Its is much more likely that they will have their phone on that them having their phone on and having the required program open. The advantage of text messaging is that its pretty much ubiquitous amongst mobile phone owners. The one thing this discssion has shown is the effect that the stupid plans and pricing that is common in the us has had on people opinions of SMS. Over here in the UK text messaging is usually cheap enough to be considered free. I have unlimited texts on my prepay phone with no contract and so use them when i want to quickly send somone some infomation which i dont need an immediate response on or that im sending from somewhere that would make a voice call difficult (or irritating to the people around me)

A book is a terrible thing to use this approach on. It takes me all of 30minutes at most to read a chapter assuming its a long one. Then your gonna make me wait a month or so for another one. Theres no way im gonna bother reading a book like that in such a stop start manner. It does work for games though as there have been a few successful episodic games.

It isnt though. When you buy the disc you get the game and 2 maps say. This is the bit that is an item and the bit you can transfer under first sale. With the game though you also get "free" access to a "service" which allows you to download another 10 maps. Now because its a service it doesnt need to be transferable. While im not saying i approve of what they are doing i cant see it violating first sale (although if they already have the 10 maps on the disc and restrict access to them for anyone except the first person to use it i can imagine that as being a possible violation)

Especially since as we wait for SSD prices to drop and capacities to increase the size and price of rotating media is going to improve at the same time. The way i see it SSDs will eventually become what people use for their os and on portable devices and rotating drives will remain as large mass storage devices.

Anyone remember when snakes on a plane got a massive budget increase due to all the talk about it on the internet then pulled in very little at the box office.

No the way it works is it syncs your saves into the steam cloud so you have your local copy then if you want to play on another computer you can just continue off your cloud save. Its pretty much the way steam saves your settings on certain games (like the half life series) but taken to a new level.

Wait when the world is ending and all the matter is being sucked into a black hole your really going to need somone to call you and tell you its happening?

Bit torrent? It pains me to see the book companies making the exact same mistake that music companies made when digital distribution of the format started becomming mainstream.

Im an eve online player and the client and expansions are all free. They claim its all included in the subscription.

Star trek slash fiction and free coffee?

Its not that theres a problem with 10.4 that makes it impossible for them to continue updating for it. The issue is that 10.4 requires a large amount of specific code which the firefox maintainers dont feel that its worth developing and maintaing anymore hence they are removing support for it

The op didnt have a problem believing they could compress that rapidly at their end. He had issues believing that people on rubbish computers with no gpu support could decompress fast enough on the recieving end.

There are techniques in use similar to this already. Show people pictures of the scene or of a murder victim and then use a device monitoring brain activity to see if it triggers recognition.

(southpark reference) We could just tell the Japanese that Jellyfish were responsible for hiroshima and let them sort it out.

If they didnt want to be eaten then why would they taste so good. Answer me that.