Why: From the consumer point of view, dial-up is cheap, and "much as people won't switch banks, there's a perceived barrier to switching services.
Ground rules: If it can be read, heard, observed, viewed, dialed or downloaded, it's in play here.
Ground rules: If it can be read, played, heard, observed, worn, viewed, dialed or downloaded, it's in play here.
Other information is crowding into view: where dials used to be, the driver gets directions to a destination, news alerts or the album cover art of the music that's playing.
The team's algorithms for Home3D also let users customize the viewing experience, dialing up or down the desired level of 3-D for any given movie.
Oversized Roman numerals made of black ADLC (amorphous diamond-like carbon) wraps around the white case and diamond bezel in strips providing a distorted view of the dial.
View the Speed Dial List.
Rather than electronic view screens, Soyuz employed dials and a periscope that cosmonauts looked through for docking.
The calliper dial was viewed at 90° to avoid errors of parallax.
This would mean content creators could serve up pictures and video that couldn't easily be viewed over a dial-up line.
Your loved ones at home can send your phone an SMS text message to notify you that they're ready for viewing: they have dialed up the Internet, fired up the Webcam and fixed their hair.
