Export your contacts as card files. All information, including contact thumbnails, can be exported cleanly and reimported into the new device just as easily. There are some applications that will automate the process on various platforms.
Also, the 3GPP standard allows for each contact three numbers and an email address. All modern SIM cards do include the array files for each field, however, phone support is limited. The only handset I ever used to support the extended record format is an LG CU515.
I can pop my SIM into my PC's smart card slot and use SIM Explorer to verify the extra fields and data are there.
The "why" was because the man was a mentally ill fuckwit. He killed his mom, killed 20 kids, 6 other adults, and himself. Most say it was because he was on a deranged rampage. Remember Gabrielle Giffords? Jared Lee Loughner was also mentally ill. Ok, so let's do away with the mentally ill! Let's put them all into special institutions, all of them, because clearly we can't risk having them out in society.
But then again, I might be mentally ill, which is why my failed attempt as sarcasm + reality above ended up being maniacally raving blabber.
Because if you want any of those extra features, they want to sell you a $1000 router that does waaaay more than you need, and also has a higher operating cost (in terms of power used and support costs.)
I assume you are either not from the US, a poorly educated consumer, or an even bigger GSM zealot than I.
Most US carriers use CDMA2000. Although CDMA2000 allows for removable identities, it's predecessors that are built around the same core network (AMPS, D-AMPS, and cdmaOne) do not, and as such, American CDMA carriers continue to use legacy internal authentication storage. This is for two reasons: To continue the myth that the only carrier a phone will ever work with is the one printed on the phone, making consumers believe that switching carriers will require the purchase of another expensive handset, and to control which devices are allowed to operate on the carrier network, on a device-to-device basis.
The sole US carrier that actually speaks to the contrary in it's consumer advertising is T-Mobile, who advertises constantly that you can bring unlocked GSM handsets from other carriers and save money in doing so.
Cricket CDMA handsets are useless overseas. The rest of the world uses GSM, and when you do find CDMA overseas, they use CSIMs, which your phone has no slot for. Overseas carriers don't use on board NVRAM programming like in the US nor will program in service details due to security concerns.
When you said "GSM", they should have told you your phone won't work on their network, period. This "flashing" business is because they are a CDMA carrier, and US CDMA carriers don't use removable subscriber identities, instead your network authentication details are simply programmed into a small EEPROM on the phone itself and must be reprogrammed to switch between CDMA carriers. Yes, exactly the same way the giant bricks were reprogrammed to different carriersin the 1980s. Speaking of which, it is wholly possible to have your phone service stolen by a virus on a PC just by plugging your phone into your PC, but only if it is a CDMA phone. And all CDMA phones use the very same programming method. GSM uses SIM cards with inaccessible authentication keys - why I will never use a CDMA carrier for as long as I live.
Their non-LTE phones lack a SIM slot due to this, and their LTE phones are still serviceable without the SIM, albeit only on the CDMA network.
Maybe it's just as simple as Twitter being the competition? Would Apple allow the head of their iOS division walk around 1 Infinite Loop touting an Android?
The whole thing of comparing a sick person to a crashed car or burned-down house is idiotic. A crashed car is done for, a burned house is done for, but a sick person isn't. What is done for is a dead person.
A sick person is like a house with termite damage, or a car with an oil leak. Still works, but not for long if you don't do something about it.
Supply and demand probably puts computers and internet as cheaper than food in Ethopia. After all, you must know something even exists before you can demand it.
It's wonderful how people always mention how medicines only treat, and not cure, while very little (if any) medical research actually claims to "cure" anything. Usually it is media hype that applies "cure" instead of "treat". Then you have idiots parroting the media, and getting pissed when medicine does - oh shit! - exactly what it claims to do and nothing more!
And they're supposed to test things out before they're ready for general consumption... wait, why are they reducing that userbase? I remember when they would throw things called "stable releases" at everyone and their grandma to try out before they were ready.
I find it utterly bizarre that the landline bill might be double next month because I accidentally called someone at their mobile. Here, 555-123-4566 might be a mobile and 555-123-4567 might be a landline. There's no proper way to tell them apart, as we don't have a non-geographic code namespace for mobiles, they are assigned local numbers in the geographic area the subscriber identity is established, in the same namespace as landlines and VoIP numbers. And mobile numbers can be converted to landline numbers and vice versa. It's called "number portability." With all that said, subscriber-pays billing makes a whole lot more sense.
In exchange, landline and ISDN users aren't getting royally screwed every time they call a mobile. We don't have a separate namespace for mobiles, they are allocated telephone numbers in the same namespace as landlines. And since landline numbers can be "ported" (that is, converted) into mobile numbers, there's really no way to bake "caller pays" into mobile billing (there is literally no proper way to determine which number is a mobile and which is a landline and which is VoIP and which is ISDN and which is..., they all look the same.) It also enables people to do away with landlines completely, as others would otherwise be adverse to calling someone if their one and only telephone was a mobile that incurred an extra toll to call. Also, don't you Europeans get hit even harder on mobile-to-mobile calls?
This is America. Tiered data plans are all the rage these days. They cost roughly $10 USD for 1GB. The exception, for now, is Sprint, but they use a nasty CDMA2000 network (and let's not get into the debate of how much CDMA2000 networks suck - your phone is tied to the network by serial number alone, there are no physically portable subscriber identity modules for CDMA2000 networks here in the US, save for Verizon Wireless, and only in the phones that also do LTE, carriers decide what handsets they will allow on the network, and will piss and moan to activate and reprogram handsets from other carriers, if they do at all - the subscriber identity is programmed into the phones themselves.)
I have a number of old and "low" capacity drives that I wouldn't mind utilizing. I know they have well over two or more years working life in them on average, as their actual usage until now was very sparse. If "attic time" didn't take from a drive's operational lifespan, I'd say they've got 6-7 years left (given that MTBF is 8 years, on average) - in this case, it's not too bad of an idea to try to utilize them. Also note that MTBF is Mean Time Before Failure, not Maximum Time Before Failure. Drives are known to fail much later (and much earlier) than the standard 8 years. I've drives that have 10+ years of operation to date, and they are checked regularly just in case (and all important data is redundantly stored elsewhere - just the systems are old and I haven't extra drives or the give-a-fuck to worry about it. They work, so let'm keep on truckin'.)
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Export your contacts as card files. All information, including contact thumbnails, can be exported cleanly and reimported into the new device just as easily. There are some applications that will automate the process on various platforms.
Also, the 3GPP standard allows for each contact three numbers and an email address. All modern SIM cards do include the array files for each field, however, phone support is limited. The only handset I ever used to support the extended record format is an LG CU515.
I can pop my SIM into my PC's smart card slot and use SIM Explorer to verify the extra fields and data are there.
The "why" was because the man was a mentally ill fuckwit. He killed his mom, killed 20 kids, 6 other adults, and himself. Most say it was because he was on a deranged rampage. Remember Gabrielle Giffords? Jared Lee Loughner was also mentally ill. Ok, so let's do away with the mentally ill! Let's put them all into special institutions, all of them, because clearly we can't risk having them out in society.
But then again, I might be mentally ill, which is why my failed attempt as sarcasm + reality above ended up being maniacally raving blabber.
Because if you want any of those extra features, they want to sell you a $1000 router that does waaaay more than you need, and also has a higher operating cost (in terms of power used and support costs.)
I assume you are either not from the US, a poorly educated consumer, or an even bigger GSM zealot than I. Most US carriers use CDMA2000. Although CDMA2000 allows for removable identities, it's predecessors that are built around the same core network (AMPS, D-AMPS, and cdmaOne) do not, and as such, American CDMA carriers continue to use legacy internal authentication storage. This is for two reasons: To continue the myth that the only carrier a phone will ever work with is the one printed on the phone, making consumers believe that switching carriers will require the purchase of another expensive handset, and to control which devices are allowed to operate on the carrier network, on a device-to-device basis. The sole US carrier that actually speaks to the contrary in it's consumer advertising is T-Mobile, who advertises constantly that you can bring unlocked GSM handsets from other carriers and save money in doing so.
Cricket CDMA handsets are useless overseas. The rest of the world uses GSM, and when you do find CDMA overseas, they use CSIMs, which your phone has no slot for. Overseas carriers don't use on board NVRAM programming like in the US nor will program in service details due to security concerns.
When you said "GSM", they should have told you your phone won't work on their network, period. This "flashing" business is because they are a CDMA carrier, and US CDMA carriers don't use removable subscriber identities, instead your network authentication details are simply programmed into a small EEPROM on the phone itself and must be reprogrammed to switch between CDMA carriers. Yes, exactly the same way the giant bricks were reprogrammed to different carriersin the 1980s. Speaking of which, it is wholly possible to have your phone service stolen by a virus on a PC just by plugging your phone into your PC, but only if it is a CDMA phone. And all CDMA phones use the very same programming method. GSM uses SIM cards with inaccessible authentication keys - why I will never use a CDMA carrier for as long as I live. Their non-LTE phones lack a SIM slot due to this, and their LTE phones are still serviceable without the SIM, albeit only on the CDMA network.
Maybe it's just as simple as Twitter being the competition? Would Apple allow the head of their iOS division walk around 1 Infinite Loop touting an Android?
If the joke is being routed through Indonesia, that might exain the high latency times...
Pagers are as traceable as the FM radio in your car. Neither have transmitters to reply back.
Google says the population of Lincoln is about 260,000 total. There are apartment complexes in Los Angeles with nearly that many people.
There are conversion vans in Los Angeles with that many Mexicans in them
...amongst their weapons are fear, surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion to the (opium) pipe.
FTFY.
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The whole thing of comparing a sick person to a crashed car or burned-down house is idiotic. A crashed car is done for, a burned house is done for, but a sick person isn't. What is done for is a dead person.
A sick person is like a house with termite damage, or a car with an oil leak. Still works, but not for long if you don't do something about it.
Supply and demand probably puts computers and internet as cheaper than food in Ethopia. After all, you must know something even exists before you can demand it.
Because we have modern, repetitive games like Diablo III! Where you can play the same 4 Acts over and over again! What fun!
It's wonderful how people always mention how medicines only treat, and not cure, while very little (if any) medical research actually claims to "cure" anything. Usually it is media hype that applies "cure" instead of "treat". Then you have idiots parroting the media, and getting pissed when medicine does - oh shit! - exactly what it claims to do and nothing more!
And they're supposed to test things out before they're ready for general consumption... wait, why are they reducing that userbase? I remember when they would throw things called "stable releases" at everyone and their grandma to try out before they were ready.
This is /. and such rehashing is compulsory.
If it's taking you this long, your ideas probably aren't worth as much as you've deluded yourself into believing they're worth.
Here in America, they usually charge $0.20 per SMS. Both ways!
I find it utterly bizarre that the landline bill might be double next month because I accidentally called someone at their mobile. Here, 555-123-4566 might be a mobile and 555-123-4567 might be a landline. There's no proper way to tell them apart, as we don't have a non-geographic code namespace for mobiles, they are assigned local numbers in the geographic area the subscriber identity is established, in the same namespace as landlines and VoIP numbers. And mobile numbers can be converted to landline numbers and vice versa. It's called "number portability." With all that said, subscriber-pays billing makes a whole lot more sense.
In exchange, landline and ISDN users aren't getting royally screwed every time they call a mobile. We don't have a separate namespace for mobiles, they are allocated telephone numbers in the same namespace as landlines. And since landline numbers can be "ported" (that is, converted) into mobile numbers, there's really no way to bake "caller pays" into mobile billing (there is literally no proper way to determine which number is a mobile and which is a landline and which is VoIP and which is ISDN and which is..., they all look the same.) It also enables people to do away with landlines completely, as others would otherwise be adverse to calling someone if their one and only telephone was a mobile that incurred an extra toll to call. Also, don't you Europeans get hit even harder on mobile-to-mobile calls?
This is America. Tiered data plans are all the rage these days. They cost roughly $10 USD for 1GB. The exception, for now, is Sprint, but they use a nasty CDMA2000 network (and let's not get into the debate of how much CDMA2000 networks suck - your phone is tied to the network by serial number alone, there are no physically portable subscriber identity modules for CDMA2000 networks here in the US, save for Verizon Wireless, and only in the phones that also do LTE, carriers decide what handsets they will allow on the network, and will piss and moan to activate and reprogram handsets from other carriers, if they do at all - the subscriber identity is programmed into the phones themselves.)
You can always buy PCI or PCI-Express IDE controllers for trinary and quandary IDE channels.
I have a number of old and "low" capacity drives that I wouldn't mind utilizing. I know they have well over two or more years working life in them on average, as their actual usage until now was very sparse. If "attic time" didn't take from a drive's operational lifespan, I'd say they've got 6-7 years left (given that MTBF is 8 years, on average) - in this case, it's not too bad of an idea to try to utilize them. Also note that MTBF is Mean Time Before Failure, not Maximum Time Before Failure. Drives are known to fail much later (and much earlier) than the standard 8 years. I've drives that have 10+ years of operation to date, and they are checked regularly just in case (and all important data is redundantly stored elsewhere - just the systems are old and I haven't extra drives or the give-a-fuck to worry about it. They work, so let'm keep on truckin'.)