In 2 years a phone that you buy today will likely be ready for replacement anyway, by which time the shaking out (shaking down??) of the USB choices might have occurred. Or not.
I mean, we're not allowed to change out the battery any longer and those have a life expectancy of about 2 years. That alone dictates the life span of a phone.
I honestly thought that USB 3 was NOT compatible with older/slower stuff that I plugged into it.
It seems no matter what I plug into a USB port, Windows screams that "I could be going faster" or some other warning. Shit still works so I gave up caring. I don't use much USB these days, except my new Android phone uses USB-C which seems to work OK so far.
Well, I've certainly had my unfair share of calls disrupted, so turnabout is fair play.
They're common carriers. We just want their transport and can do without all the expensive add-ons that they want to cram on our bills. But that's not a sexy business model.
I wonder, do they burn a particular title onto DVD that is not currently in stock and mail it to you if they think demand will increase?
The DVDs that I've received from Netflix in recent years look very generic with only a thin black band around the center to identify the contents. No silk screened artwork any more.
We will adapt your spectral and technological distinctiveness to our own. Our collective consciousness is 20 times faster than your obsolete Apple technology. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
I learned that Google Fiber was simply taking advantage of existing huge federal government fiber optic infrastructure in KC and other cities where they offered it. Since there was already a substantial fiber optic hub serving that city, the Google Fiber addition would not impose a significant bandwidth burden to it. (I just made up that last part, but the government facility stuff appears to be true.)
Perhaps recent changes in the Commander in Chief have resulted in changes to how these fiber optic assets are being used and accounted for?
My big brother had a Zenith(?) TV set that had a button you could push to switch it to a game of Pong. The most basic, boring game ever. We were absolutely FASCINATED by it.
I thought whiskers were the big problem with NiCad batteries, also? Battery conditioner equipment was supposed to reverse that, or maybe just arrest it for a time. A ham radio buddy used to take a 12 Volt power supply and zap the crap out of NiCad AA cells in order to de-whiskerize them, but I'm not sure how effective that was.
Alas, I have no solution for your whisker problem.
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In 2 years a phone that you buy today will likely be ready for replacement anyway, by which time the shaking out (shaking down??) of the USB choices might have occurred. Or not.
I mean, we're not allowed to change out the battery any longer and those have a life expectancy of about 2 years. That alone dictates the life span of a phone.
One connector to rule them all,
One connector to find them,
One connector to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
I honestly thought that USB 3 was NOT compatible with older/slower stuff that I plugged into it.
It seems no matter what I plug into a USB port, Windows screams that "I could be going faster" or some other warning. Shit still works so I gave up caring. I don't use much USB these days, except my new Android phone uses USB-C which seems to work OK so far.
Because they should test this on Jerry Layne FIRST!
The postman always rings twice :-)
Well, I've certainly had my unfair share of calls disrupted, so turnabout is fair play.
They're common carriers. We just want their transport and can do without all the expensive add-ons that they want to cram on our bills. But that's not a sexy business model.
I wonder, do they burn a particular title onto DVD that is not currently in stock and mail it to you if they think demand will increase?
The DVDs that I've received from Netflix in recent years look very generic with only a thin black band around the center to identify the contents. No silk screened artwork any more.
Only approved traffic will be allowed on the new cable. Anyone critical of Microsoft or Facebook will be banned from using it.
That's a terrible thing to say about the President!!
What do you expect from a man with only a 640KB brain??
Or escaped??
We will adapt your spectral and technological distinctiveness to our own. Our collective consciousness is 20 times faster than your obsolete Apple technology. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
It's MASER (Microwave Amplification Stimulated by Emissions of Radiation) and not LASER.
(unless I wish to be a Luddite, living in a cave)
So, just like most AC commenters here at /.
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What could possibly go wrong??
It feels like every participant in that ecosystem is phoning it in.
ICWYDT.
I learned that Google Fiber was simply taking advantage of existing huge federal government fiber optic infrastructure in KC and other cities where they offered it. Since there was already a substantial fiber optic hub serving that city, the Google Fiber addition would not impose a significant bandwidth burden to it. (I just made up that last part, but the government facility stuff appears to be true.)
Perhaps recent changes in the Commander in Chief have resulted in changes to how these fiber optic assets are being used and accounted for?
My big brother had a Zenith(?) TV set that had a button you could push to switch it to a game of Pong. The most basic, boring game ever. We were absolutely FASCINATED by it.
Tell me more about this "Voice over LTE" codec of which you speak. Then get off my lawn!!`111!!1
It runs in the browser/webkit.
Everything old is new again.
That's gonna be interesting watching a 96x54 pixel YouTube video while you read your report 3 words at a time.
I'd be happy with a feature where the phone makes a phone call and both parties actually sound intelligible. High quality, even!
Cause Pepperidge Fahm remembahs!
I'm waiting for the listing of love crimes, as opposed to hate crimes. I mean, aren't all crimes motivated by hatred?
Or is it considered an act of love to kill someone to put him out of his misery?
How about "I loved that rich girl so much that I decided to take all her money to help her experience the joys of a simple life."
Tough love. Gotta love it!
I thought whiskers were the big problem with NiCad batteries, also? Battery conditioner equipment was supposed to reverse that, or maybe just arrest it for a time. A ham radio buddy used to take a 12 Volt power supply and zap the crap out of NiCad AA cells in order to de-whiskerize them, but I'm not sure how effective that was.
Alas, I have no solution for your whisker problem.
Hows abouts the old carbon-zinc primary batteries? I mean, it's got zinc in it also.