These are role-playing games that grew out of Dungeons and Dragons, an old text-based cult game that started in the 1960s.
After the economic crisis of 2001, former rocker Daniel Melingo experimented with adding a harder edge to tango and trading the old-fashioned text for contemporary lyrics.
While many of these will be the old-fashioned text message, Forrester predicts that new message types that let people include images and sounds will also gather fans.
It works well enough when you're using it that way, but when you're just entering text the old-fashioned way, it can be finicky and imprecise.
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The site features tiny text and old-fashioned blue hyperlinks.
"They are much more fun to look at and to own than old volumes full of gray text, " says Shirley.
But in every other way, this 2-year-old app can make your text messages go Ghost Protocol nearly any way you want them to.
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ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of TheNew York Times.
ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of The New York Times.
The RE-CAPTCHA security exercises at the bottom of transaction or comment pages actually are a crowd labor means of converting words from old books and documents into text.
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, married with children, remains in office after old, but compromising, text messages to his chief of staff emerged. (He could still face perjury charges for denying their affair.) Sen.
The Old Vic said it had added text to the bottom of the page on its website which highlighted the booking fees, but added that the fee was applied per transaction rather than per ticket.
On the European constitution, Mr Sarkozy occupies a position somewhere in between the maximalists, such as Germany - who would like the new text to mirror the old one as closely as possible - and the minimalists, such as the UK, who want as few changes as possible to the existing EU treaties.
The sixth-century text includes chunks of the Old and New Testaments in both Aramaic and Greek.
In its July 7 London manuscripts sale, the auction house is offering a 1, 500-year-old biblical document that includes layers of text and meaning--in three languages.
When I started developing websites way back in 1995 there really were not a lot of choices other than a text editor and some good old fashion trial and error.
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She said that "we support this Day to emphasize the importance of freedom of expression and free flow of diversified opinions because Media - old and new, print or broadcasting, text-based or visual - have an increasingly important power to boost dynamic and positive change, positive social transformation in the country".
In NAMA, the basis of the draft text is a formula connecting new tariffs to old ones.
The court was also told the content of 84 text messages sent and received by 56-year-old Mick Philpott in the days before the fire could not be recovered.
Texting stems from a decades-old technology that with relatively modest investments let users swap brief bits of text (under 160 characters apiece) over carriers' voice networks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to favour bringing back the Soviet hymn and replacing its original lyrics with a new text by the same author, the 87-year-old Sergey Mikhalkov.
This was the first free e-text, and none better as a declaration of freedom from the old-boy network of publishing.
Meanwhile, a coalition of some of the nation's biggest activist groups, including Komnas Perempuan, Friday welcomed a Supreme Court ruling that a district head in West Java can be impeached after reports that he took a 17-year-old as a second wife last year and divorced her several days later in a text message.
Smith mimicked the endless, generation-counting longueurs of the Old Testament so skillfully that he rendered the book dead as literature while giving it credibility as a sacred text: a book as boring as this could have been inspired only by the breath of God.
The brother of the 10-year-old who escaped, Stuart Flitt, said he regularly stayed at Ms Chambers' home after she received threatening text messages.
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