If I told you it would be limited to 140 characters and text messages.
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Displaying more than 30 characters of text not related to driving should also be prevented, it says.
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.
Leveraging WebGL and Javascript, the system samples the search giant's images and generates text art using the appropriate characters and hues.
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Using it, a snippet of text as short as 20 characters can be assigned unerringly to the language it was written in.
On each image, the watch lets you input text and numbers, up to 24 characters with each image--so you can keep track of the names and phone numbers of people whose pictures you take, for example.
For his first solo effort as both librettist and composer, the Brooklyn-based artist (who also performs as Pierre in "Natasha"), took pages from Tolstoy's text and whittled them down, cutting characters, adding lines, and composing for an orchestra that includes clarinet, glockenspiel, cello and guitar.
The text message format puts a limit of 160 characters on each poem, which tests the ingenuity and creativity of the poets.
That isn't exactly enthralling, in and of itself, but what's cool is the fact that SuperNote will convert each hand-drawn item into an image, allowing users to seamlessly modify or delete their own characters as if they were typed text.
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Synaptics' chief scientist, Shawn Day, is close to releasing a phone finger touchpad for writing Mandarin characters--an easier way to key in a mobile text message (the Chinese send millions of them every day).
The characters are shrill, cartoon-like figures, and the bubblegum text is so distended with italics, capital letters, lists, diagrams, poor jokes and faux parables that you end up wanting to stick it to the underside of your chair and leave it there.
Since machines understand text as a series of numbers, which users see on screen as letters or characters, they developed a standard called Unicode that assigns a unique code to every glyph, character or letter in the world's written languages.
Despite the fact that we never mastered the keyboard, we were still able to frequently type emails and text messages fast enough to get ahead of the i607's ability to process individual characters, leading to a frustrating lag between what you're typing and what you see.
But their individual characters are subsumed by the huge personality of Mr Bell himself, who constantly interrupts his text to express his own opinions.
The text has been sliced and pared, and what remains is intimate and sorrowful, as if the characters knew from the start what manner of tribulation they would face.
So Fastcase and others are paying Indian data-entry firms 40 to 60 cents per 1, 000 characters to "triple-key" the books into digital form, with three typists entering the text and a computer picking the version at least two agree upon.
But a pint-size scroll about 12 inches tall, with elaborately styled Hebrew text, "can take a few more months of work, " he says, explaining how the smaller characters require a slower, more careful hand.
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