It does, but severely worn. This is generally not a concern, since I don't ever take the thing anywhere, but when your power connector fails and you must do some soldering to get it back together...
Living next to broke means using technology a bit longer than most other people.
I've had two drive failures in my life. One was caused by me pounding my laptop after the power connector failed and the system shut off in the middle of coding.
Social media breeds the lifestyle where privacy is just putting clothes on; all else is fair game. Although, I do use Facebook and Google+ myself, I'm careful what I post
Why would they charge you any less for a BYOD scenario when they could just charge the same and pocket the extra profit they didn't lose by subsidizing a device you never bought?
And what about UMTS? Most of the band issue is around UMTS. Both large GSM operators have 2G GSM deployed on the 1900MHz PCS band across their entire service footprint. The issue arrives when you consider 3G UMTS and 4G LTE, where band convergence is rather limited (T-Mobile only has 1900MHz UMTS in major cities, and only in the urban areas at that, and AT&T only has LTE on AWS in a handful of markets.)
3G UMTS, which uses a CDMA signalling method (although incompatible with CDMA2000, which is what most people refer to as "CDMA"), has security comparable to CDMA2000.
On the voice quality side of things, CDMA2000 loses out. GSM HD Voice (specifically, AMR-WB) can be utilized on 2G GSM (with the minor loss of the two highest bitrates), 3G UMTS, and 4G LTE/VoLTE, and generally with not much more than a simple firmware update to existing base station equipment. CDMA2000 requires base stations to be physicially upgraded to 1x Advanced. Existing 1xRTT cell sites will never do CDMA HD Voice.
Besides, "regular" AMR on GSM still sounds better than the EVRC codec used on CDMA2000.
3G on Verizon Wireless and Sprint, among others, is CDMA2000 1xEV-DO. Even where 3G isn't available, there is CDMA2000 1xRTT and cdmaOne, both of which have packet data functionality (and thus not needing circuit-switched, i.e. dial-up, data).
1xRTT and cdmaOne Packet Mode are as slow as dial-up, however, but generally work out-of-the-box.
CDMA isn't all that newer than GSM, and the first phone call placed over a CDMA network happened two years before the first GSM phone call. Most comparisons in the GSM vs. CDMA debate generally ignore UMTS on the GSM side of things, mostly because people are ill-educated about the matter, making comparisons strictly on the 2G side of things, a point which is now mostly moot in an era where the vast majority of the population is in 3G coverage.
While you have a point about MVNOs (these "resellers" are called MVNOs - Mobile Virtual Network Operator), the matter at hand deals mostly with MNOs (notice the lack of a V here) - those that actually own their own networks.
These "high resolution" displays exceed your usual 1920x1080, and an added "benefit" is that you're stuck at one single resolution; lower "resolutions" are "supported" by scaling.
No, it's still a commodity because, not only can you eat it, the pirmary use case for said bushel of corn is to be eaten. A currency has little to no use as an "end". If the vast majority of the usage of corn was as a "means", that is, as a value-storing token for trade, then it would be a currency.
I take it you don't know what the phrase "means to an end" is understood as, nor understand the "means" nor "end" in the saying.
No, because energy is an "end". People do not acquire dollars to have dollars (unless they have some kind of ego problem), they get dollars to exchange them for something else - an "end". Currency is generally used solely as a storage for value. Oil and gas are poor eqivalents for currency because they have far more uses than simply storing value.
Whatever medium is used for a currency can have a secondary usage, but this secondary usage needs to be a very small niche. This is why gold is now a commodity, not a currency. Gold is used as a personal decoration and an electrical conductor. Yes, you can use coin money to conduct electricity, but how often do you think this is done? Of the last million uses of coin money (any coins which are legal tender, anywhere), how many of those "uses" were for anything other than value exchange? Sure, someone pried open a battery cover with a quarter, another person scratched off a lottery ticket with a penny, but consider the usage overall.
You people know what currency is, and what isn't currency. Quit trying to game the definition like a lawyer or Congress would.
Except that websites tends to require more local system resources than their "native" equivalents while getting less done.
Facebook and YouTube wouldn't suck nearly as much if they provided a C/C++ client application that used native OS interface elements and used system-installed codecs for decoding video, and used little if any web content to put things on screen at all. If they need to do fancy stuff like with CSS, Windows has had this wonderful thing called "GDI" since 1985; no need to make web interfaces.
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It does, but severely worn. This is generally not a concern, since I don't ever take the thing anywhere, but when your power connector fails and you must do some soldering to get it back together...
Living next to broke means using technology a bit longer than most other people.
I've had two drive failures in my life. One was caused by me pounding my laptop after the power connector failed and the system shut off in the middle of coding.
Sorry, a culture, not "the lifestyle".
Social media breeds the lifestyle where privacy is just putting clothes on; all else is fair game. Although, I do use Facebook and Google+ myself, I'm careful what I post
Familiar, eh, maybe you do mean this?
Because Alaskans aren't all that crazy about security. Come on, do you really expect a moose to hijack an airplane?
Apple doesn't allow batteries of lawyers to be charged.
FTFY.
T-Mobile $30 (100 minutes, unmetered SMS/MMS, 5GB before throttling)?
Imagine, say, Verizon is the only carrier that actually works in your neighborhood.
I think then it would be a good time to consider moving.
And a little lobbying with the UN's ITU-R.
Why would they charge you any less for a BYOD scenario when they could just charge the same and pocket the extra profit they didn't lose by subsidizing a device you never bought?
AT&T's "old" iPhone 5 would still get LTE data on T-Mobile as AWS LTE is supported for the few cities where AT&T themselves uses LTE on AWS.
And what about UMTS? Most of the band issue is around UMTS. Both large GSM operators have 2G GSM deployed on the 1900MHz PCS band across their entire service footprint. The issue arrives when you consider 3G UMTS and 4G LTE, where band convergence is rather limited (T-Mobile only has 1900MHz UMTS in major cities, and only in the urban areas at that, and AT&T only has LTE on AWS in a handful of markets.)
3G UMTS, which uses a CDMA signalling method (although incompatible with CDMA2000, which is what most people refer to as "CDMA"), has security comparable to CDMA2000.
On the voice quality side of things, CDMA2000 loses out. GSM HD Voice (specifically, AMR-WB) can be utilized on 2G GSM (with the minor loss of the two highest bitrates), 3G UMTS, and 4G LTE/VoLTE, and generally with not much more than a simple firmware update to existing base station equipment. CDMA2000 requires base stations to be physicially upgraded to 1x Advanced. Existing 1xRTT cell sites will never do CDMA HD Voice.
Besides, "regular" AMR on GSM still sounds better than the EVRC codec used on CDMA2000.
3G on Verizon Wireless and Sprint, among others, is CDMA2000 1xEV-DO. Even where 3G isn't available, there is CDMA2000 1xRTT and cdmaOne, both of which have packet data functionality (and thus not needing circuit-switched, i.e. dial-up, data).
1xRTT and cdmaOne Packet Mode are as slow as dial-up, however, but generally work out-of-the-box.
CDMA isn't all that newer than GSM, and the first phone call placed over a CDMA network happened two years before the first GSM phone call. Most comparisons in the GSM vs. CDMA debate generally ignore UMTS on the GSM side of things, mostly because people are ill-educated about the matter, making comparisons strictly on the 2G side of things, a point which is now mostly moot in an era where the vast majority of the population is in 3G coverage.
While you have a point about MVNOs (these "resellers" are called MVNOs - Mobile Virtual Network Operator), the matter at hand deals mostly with MNOs (notice the lack of a V here) - those that actually own their own networks.
You, sir, fail at sarcasm.
Except Florida doesn't exactly qualify as a "Southern" state outside of geography. Grow up there and you'll know what I mean.
And, thanks to AMC, I first thought it was a reference to last night's episode of Breaking Bad.
These "high resolution" displays exceed your usual 1920x1080, and an added "benefit" is that you're stuck at one single resolution; lower "resolutions" are "supported" by scaling.
No, it's still a commodity because, not only can you eat it, the pirmary use case for said bushel of corn is to be eaten. A currency has little to no use as an "end". If the vast majority of the usage of corn was as a "means", that is, as a value-storing token for trade, then it would be a currency.
I take it you don't know what the phrase "means to an end" is understood as, nor understand the "means" nor "end" in the saying.
Go back to /b/.
No, because energy is an "end". People do not acquire dollars to have dollars (unless they have some kind of ego problem), they get dollars to exchange them for something else - an "end". Currency is generally used solely as a storage for value. Oil and gas are poor eqivalents for currency because they have far more uses than simply storing value.
Whatever medium is used for a currency can have a secondary usage, but this secondary usage needs to be a very small niche. This is why gold is now a commodity, not a currency. Gold is used as a personal decoration and an electrical conductor. Yes, you can use coin money to conduct electricity, but how often do you think this is done? Of the last million uses of coin money (any coins which are legal tender, anywhere), how many of those "uses" were for anything other than value exchange? Sure, someone pried open a battery cover with a quarter, another person scratched off a lottery ticket with a penny, but consider the usage overall.
You people know what currency is, and what isn't currency. Quit trying to game the definition like a lawyer or Congress would.
A currency is any intermediary storage of value between two exchanges, that serves as a "means" but not an "end".
Except that websites tends to require more local system resources than their "native" equivalents while getting less done.
Facebook and YouTube wouldn't suck nearly as much if they provided a C/C++ client application that used native OS interface elements and used system-installed codecs for decoding video, and used little if any web content to put things on screen at all. If they need to do fancy stuff like with CSS, Windows has had this wonderful thing called "GDI" since 1985; no need to make web interfaces.