It allows the use of SCSI, or "small computer system interface, " connection over the Internet.
At the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientists sat on beanbag chairs and dreamed up inventions like the graphical user interface for small computers and the PostScript language for printers, as well as ways to link computers within an office.
The small stylish buttons that control the interface are stiff and the animated menu moves like a slide show.
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Also important, this processing power combined with advanced digital radio interface and signaling capabilities enables small-cell base stations to operate in a more efficient and dynamic mesh network, as opposed to a relatively static, point-to-point macro only system.
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While it does not offer unlimited browsing access to millions of Yahoo's tracks (and thus avoids the user interface logistics of accomplishing that on a small screen), its walled garden provides an experience that is both satisfying and frustrating -- the former because it's so fun when it's connected and the latter because it so often is not.
In spite of its small iterative steps forward, Sense is now a user interface that's beginning to show its age, with oversized widgets that fail to make the best of the space available to them and that egregious omnipresent menu bar at the bottom that takes up far more space than a couple of links to your apps and phone ought to.
The two will face off when they are finally available, each sporting its own unique take on what kind of user interface people will use (voice control and a small touchscreen or augmented reality).
Then summer came and went without a promised update that would include a simpler interface and a marketplace for Android apps made for the small screen.
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In their current infancy, the small company sits somewhere in the middle of the market, with their intuitive HTML5 interface, social connection functions, and their own twist on engaging players within a platform made by casual gamers, for casual gamers.
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Riak also offers a more traditional protocol buffer interface, which is a better fit if you expect a high volume of small requests.
One small company has already built a Speakjet chip into a synthesizer module, which lets it interface with big modular synths for major weirdness.
The new user interface allows up to eight apps to run simultaneously, four of which can appear in small windows on the same screen - something the firm describes as "true multitasking".
Lately, the betting seems to be on Apple making a settop box that would meld live TV for existing pay-TV subscribers with iTunes content under a more intuitive user interface, but it seems that the TV powers that be are wary even of that small step.
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