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...consensus. The Impressionists painted outdoors and quickly. They showed that lines did not exist to sight, but were imposed on the world by the mind. In other words, we see structure because we know it exists. The Impressionists gave structure to their paintings by juxtaposing colors. Artists were not content merely to mimic perception. Theorists of color began looking at both how we see and what effects color has on our feelings. And with the paintings of the Postimpressionists, in particular Van Gogh, color began to be freed from nature. Van Gogh exaggerated and distorted color to communicate his vision...
...GPRS mobile networks; I tried it on a GPRS system in Hong Kong, and even though I was supposed to be able to get data at rates comparable with dial-up services, I found Web access frustratingly slow. Not only that, the Web doesn't have a lot of content that is optimized to fit the small screens of handheld devices...
...cell phone networks become faster and content proliferates, those drawbacks may go away. But there are a couple of other factors impeding the spread of phone-PDA hybrids. The xda, which was recently launched in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, costs more than $750?only corporations and true road warriors will be able to swallow that bill. Then there's the size factor. Asians have grown to love their tiny cell phones. The xda can slip into a coat pocket, but it's still a handful at about 200 grams...
...neither Birmingham nor Tolman has appeared content to simply stress their own records—each has run television ads criticizing party opponents...
South Korean operators have also chosen to differentiate download prices, charging one rate for text and another for multimedia content. On 2.5G networks, all the mobile operators take half a cent per packet (which represents 512 bytes) for text but only about one-quarter of a cent per packet for multimedia content. The reason? To make it more attractive for consumers to use the new traffic-intensive multimedia services such as video on demand. Otherwise, they might stick to less traffic-intensive text-based services like e-mail...