so go prepaid. you can get "unlimited" data for $30 a month if you're willing to buy your own phone. and with the iphone about to have its 6th generation released there isn't much different every year so it's not like you have to run out and buy a new phone every year to keep up with specs
most games will play on 2-3 year old phones email, evernote and facebook don't need dual core in fact 99% of what the phone does is OK on a single core. i could play MP3's 15 years ago on mobile CPU's so it's not like you need multiple cores to read email and listen to music.
don't listen to the idiots at anandtech who keep dreaming that you need the latest and greatest to do simple things and you will have money. these were the same idiots who were telling people 10 years ago that you needed a $300 graphics card just to run the Windows GUI "fast"
i have a 4 line family plan on AT&T with 2 of them out of contract or very close to being out of contract
a few months ago i assumed i would just add more devices to the plan and they would use the existing 4GB of data my wife and I have and half of which we don't use. my father in law wants an iphone but not the extra $25 a month. and i could have made my next ipad a LTE ipad.
except now i pay more for 1GB of data instead of the current 4GB I have and have to pay a lot for unlimited minutes and texts which are almost free for AT&T to carry
smart talk can't get here fast enough since my wife's iphone 4 contract expires next month
based on past history the germans should have gone to war with the french, the british or both by now. it's been almost 70 years since the last of their wars. a record over the last 1000 years
and we have an issue where the news media collects 20 year old sound bites or opinions and wants to know why a certain politician changed his mind on an issue. it's OK for people to change their mind but if you're running for public office you are pandering and you are supposed to keep the same opinions on issues for decades no matter what the cultural and technological changes are
that's why i have leather seats in my CR-V. both my kids puked in there and i didn't get to wash the car for weeks until after the fact and the smell came out
which looks legit. figure it was awarded in the early part of the last decade with a 3-4 year time for the patent office to process the application. looks like a legit patent for work being done years before BES became popular and when RIM was still selling texting toys to teenagers
few months ago someone in florida was murdered. the cops caught the perps because right before they killed the person they were searching google on how to kill someone in their sleep. google gladly gave up the info
you buy it and expect it to last for years no matter how cheap it is
for most of us the value is in smart phones and tablets which are much better at most tasks than PC's. i use my MBP to hold some photos and that's about it. between my wife and I most computer use at home is on iphones and ipad
there is no NFC on the iphone now, nothing has been announced for iOS 6 and it's only a rumor for the next iphone
how is he going to embarrass apple since they only have a few patents for NFC. and that's only because apple patents everything, even tech they don't end up using.
if anything he's going to embarrass google since they are pushing NFC and google wallet
they have to do it by contract in a lot of cases. for instance Disney says that ESPN has to be in the basic tier and everyone has to pay for it. of course ESPN recently signed an almost $20 billion deal with baseball or a combo of sports to broadcast games and access to a lot of coverage so they have to pay for it. the deal lasts until 2017 or so.
its like catalog music sales from decades ago. the RIAA companies made most of their profits selling the same music in a new format or in greatest hits collections. except in TV you make money selling the same content on 20 different channels showing the same reruns or old movies
we're probably close to the peak if we haven't passed it yet
i've noticed a lot more people i know don't watch TV much anymore and like to read, go outside and do other things that were considered geeky and dumb when i was a kid.
comcast and time warner have their own content producers. direct TV is in a niche market of people who hate cable or don't have it available in their area
my wife are cancelling cable next month after we realized that we're paying $165 a month for triple play and the cable part is mostly the same few kids cartoons that we DVR and watch multiple times and we can buy them on amazon for $10 PER SEASON and watch unlimited times
Content owner wants more money and demands rate increase TV service operator says no content owner pulls channels viewers scream bloody murder and rape and demand tv operator pony up a few $$$ of their limitless magical bank account tv operator blinks first then raises rates viewers complain but don't do anything repeat in a few years
the content owners know people are dumb and live by the monthly payment and will blame their cable or satellite company. they sell their channels in bundles and raise the rates every few years. people continue to pay the higher rates because they are too stupid to do anything else other than look at rectangle with moving pictures
duh, the little ice age ended right when the industrial revolution started. you know, the freezing cold temps that caused trees to grow dense so you could make awesome violins?
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so go prepaid. you can get "unlimited" data for $30 a month if you're willing to buy your own phone. and with the iphone about to have its 6th generation released there isn't much different every year so it's not like you have to run out and buy a new phone every year to keep up with specs
most games will play on 2-3 year old phones
email, evernote and facebook don't need dual core
in fact 99% of what the phone does is OK on a single core. i could play MP3's 15 years ago on mobile CPU's so it's not like you need multiple cores to read email and listen to music.
don't listen to the idiots at anandtech who keep dreaming that you need the latest and greatest to do simple things and you will have money. these were the same idiots who were telling people 10 years ago that you needed a $300 graphics card just to run the Windows GUI "fast"
i have a 4 line family plan on AT&T with 2 of them out of contract or very close to being out of contract
a few months ago i assumed i would just add more devices to the plan and they would use the existing 4GB of data my wife and I have and half of which we don't use. my father in law wants an iphone but not the extra $25 a month. and i could have made my next ipad a LTE ipad.
except now i pay more for 1GB of data instead of the current 4GB I have and have to pay a lot for unlimited minutes and texts which are almost free for AT&T to carry
smart talk can't get here fast enough since my wife's iphone 4 contract expires next month
based on past history the germans should have gone to war with the french, the british or both by now. it's been almost 70 years since the last of their wars. a record over the last 1000 years
and we have an issue where the news media collects 20 year old sound bites or opinions and wants to know why a certain politician changed his mind on an issue. it's OK for people to change their mind but if you're running for public office you are pandering and you are supposed to keep the same opinions on issues for decades no matter what the cultural and technological changes are
that's why i have leather seats in my CR-V. both my kids puked in there and i didn't get to wash the car for weeks until after the fact and the smell came out
Yes, out of the tens of thousands of emoyees everyone is supposed to know what everyone is doing
And a few there found that l&h was a fraud before it blew up
i know someone who used to do that when he had his first cell phone years ago. no law says it has to stay on all the time
which looks legit. figure it was awarded in the early part of the last decade with a 3-4 year time for the patent office to process the application. looks like a legit patent for work being done years before BES became popular and when RIM was still selling texting toys to teenagers
you must have not met the developers i've met over the years
I have to change 10 lines of code? oh no, my fingers are going to fall off. i'll just leave it like this
few months ago someone in florida was murdered. the cops caught the perps because right before they killed the person they were searching google on how to kill someone in their sleep. google gladly gave up the info
in a criminal case there is usually some evidence that points to the accused. even if it's an eyewitness statement.
in this case it was just IP's
you buy it and expect it to last for years no matter how cheap it is
for most of us the value is in smart phones and tablets which are much better at most tasks than PC's. i use my MBP to hold some photos and that's about it. between my wife and I most computer use at home is on iphones and ipad
dude, this is 2012
the drugs of choice are prescribed by a doctor and paid for by insurance. oxycotin, vicodin and others are just cleaned up heroin.
part of my $165 bill goes to this crap
actually we now do this in kiddie sports where everyone is a winner every season. supposedly people hate it
but paying with a smartphone is so much cooler than cash or credit card
there is no NFC on the iphone now, nothing has been announced for iOS 6 and it's only a rumor for the next iphone
how is he going to embarrass apple since they only have a few patents for NFC. and that's only because apple patents everything, even tech they don't end up using.
if anything he's going to embarrass google since they are pushing NFC and google wallet
not like apple stores are free to run
they still have to pay credit card fees, rent, salaries, etc
they have to do it by contract in a lot of cases. for instance Disney says that ESPN has to be in the basic tier and everyone has to pay for it. of course ESPN recently signed an almost $20 billion deal with baseball or a combo of sports to broadcast games and access to a lot of coverage so they have to pay for it. the deal lasts until 2017 or so.
its like catalog music sales from decades ago. the RIAA companies made most of their profits selling the same music in a new format or in greatest hits collections. except in TV you make money selling the same content on 20 different channels showing the same reruns or old movies
we're probably close to the peak if we haven't passed it yet
i've noticed a lot more people i know don't watch TV much anymore and like to read, go outside and do other things that were considered geeky and dumb when i was a kid.
comcast and time warner have their own content producers. direct TV is in a niche market of people who hate cable or don't have it available in their area
isn't TCM part of time warner?
you want a la carte? pay itunes or amazon. don't expect it from cable. not going to happen
my wife are cancelling cable next month after we realized that we're paying $165 a month for triple play and the cable part is mostly the same few kids cartoons that we DVR and watch multiple times and we can buy them on amazon for $10 PER SEASON and watch unlimited times
dont underestimate the power of stupidity
we go through this every year or so
Content owner wants more money and demands rate increase
TV service operator says no
content owner pulls channels
viewers scream bloody murder and rape and demand tv operator pony up a few $$$ of their limitless magical bank account
tv operator blinks first then raises rates
viewers complain but don't do anything
repeat in a few years
the content owners know people are dumb and live by the monthly payment and will blame their cable or satellite company. they sell their channels in bundles and raise the rates every few years. people continue to pay the higher rates because they are too stupid to do anything else other than look at rectangle with moving pictures
duh, the little ice age ended right when the industrial revolution started. you know, the freezing cold temps that caused trees to grow dense so you could make awesome violins?