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The only thing you need to be an effective panel chair at an academic conference: http://t.co/h5z5RYKd
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Wouldn't stop Newt MT @baseballcrank: I suspect that NR would be faster to sack John Derbyshire if he wasn't recently diagnosed with cancer.
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Another of those "I'm surprised TAMIU never sent out one of these" memos surfaces: http://t.co/UmaqCobI
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Seeing @dandrezner and @jtlevy argue about the APSR proves... that at least two people read the table of contents. #rimshot
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Watching reax to SCOTUS & 5th circuit makes me wonder what George Wallace's ilk would have done on Twitter/blogs after Katzenbach oral arg.
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The ICCID (SIM) number is actually visible on some of the pictures from the event that show the microSD slot; it's the bottom number w/barcode of the three, below the MEIDs, on the sticker.
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Sitting through OS X updates rather than getting work done at my sysadmin's insistence. Yay.
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.@arstechnica on how the Australian government is shaking down American consumers with bogus patent claims: http://t.co/1Fr4PvjK
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EVO 4G LTE supported bands
lordsutch replied to david279's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
Hmm. What I get for believing Wikipedia. -
I have to say I kinda like it. And after taking the plunge on modding my Evo 4G to run ICS, my upgrade itch is probably sated until the EVO 4G LTE hits in June. Although after a few months of pure Google experience I'm not sure I'll want Sense back...
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EVO 4G LTE supported bands
lordsutch replied to david279's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
Band 2 is the PCS A-F blocks, while Band 25 is PCS G (the nationwide block where Sprint LTE is lighting up first). That gives Sprint the flexibility to put LTE on its lower PCS bands if needed as well. Might also allow some LTE roaming opportunities with MetroPCS. There's no technical reason not to support both Band 2 and Band 25, since they're adjacent spectrum-wise, silly E-UTRA nomenclature notwithstanding, so hopefully the Galaxy Nexus and Viper will also support both. -
"Unprecedented"? My three word response: Communications Decency Act. Or did the casebook Obama taught con law with omit that one?
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The problem, from my perspective as a smart phone consumer, is that anyone buying a phone and apps for Windows Phone has to be at least slightly concerned that this will be just the latest Kin or Zune fiasco - a product that is expensively rolled out, underperforms in the marketplace, and then is shelved in favor of the Next, Non-Backward-Compatible Big Idea from Redmond. That Nokia (S80 -> Maemo -> Meego -> WP7) is the lead player doesn't inspire much confidence either. Plus I honestly don't see the space for another smart phone OS in the market. Apple has the halo phone market sewn up, Android is the flashy alternative for those who don't do Apple, and RIM has its declining corporate base for those who don't do Apple or Android.
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A realistic perspective on student loan debt: http://t.co/DCOLRP4v via http://t.co/NeuI0TQQ
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FWIW, in all my bad experiences in academe, I've never woken up and learned my college has been taken over by fundies: http://t.co/DXLcbQl4
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Learned (by experimentation) today that our department's laser printer will print from a USB stick. Awesomely useful feature.
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I can't imagine Sprint will drop CDMA until Verizon dropping it forces their hand (e.g. Sprint won't have anywhere for CDMA customers to roam, and there won't be the economies of scale for the manufacturers that Big Red's CDMA provides), which probably won't happen for years; a couple of slivers of 1X at 1900 and ESMR can handle all the voice traffic Sprint carries. Going all-VoLTE is going to require a national infrastructure for native and roaming coverage that just won't be ready before 2020. Remember, AMPS (aka analog cellular) was still around until 2008, largely because it took that long for the Cellular A & B block holders (largely Verizon and AT&T, but also some of the regional players too like C Spire) to build out digital GSM and CDMA to have as big a footprint. That's despite the fact that AMPS-native phones were already on the way out in the late 1990s. That said when CDMA dies it will be with a whimper... by 2020, voice traffic will be so little of what the network carries bandwidth-wise that even if theoretically CDMA can carry it more efficiently than VoLTE, in practice maintaining the infrastructure and setting aside a whole band for it won't be worth the cost. I can't see Sprint rolling out any GSM unless they see some opportunity to make money from roaming. Presumably NV makes that more feasible than in the past, but in most of the US there's better native GSM coverage from the Cellular A/B holders than anything Sprint could deploy anyway.
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I think if Sprint and Verizon were seriously thinking of moving away from subsidies, they'd be introducing SIMs now across the lineup - as-is, Verizon is only using them on LTE and (if the rumors are to be believed) Sprint isn't even going to deploy SIMs at all for now. Given that, and that at the end of the LTE rollouts none of the Big 4 US carriers will be operating in the same bands with the same standards for 2-3G and 4G (AT&T on UMTS/GSM 850/1900 + LTE 700, Verizon on CDMA 850/1900 + LTE 700, Sprint on CDMA 1900/ESMR + LTE 1900/ESMR/2500, T-Mobile on GSM 1900 + UMTS AWS/1900 + LTE somewhere else) - meaning interoperable phones will be a beast to make (Apple, for example, is having enough fun just trying to get the iPhone to run on the top 3's 3G - they still haven't tackled AWS, even though it's pretty common around the world among newer entrants - and only have LTE running on 700, only used in North America so far, despite being committed to a "world" product) - the subsidy model can't go away anytime soon, even if arguably it should.
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Chávez is apparently going back to Cuba for more cancer treatment. Waited until pope was gone to reduce risk of inadvertent exorcism.
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Snarky question: where are these "faculty lounges" of which he speaks? Never seen one in 20 years on college campuses. http://t.co/IFWR209Z
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Finally took the ROM mod plunge with @preludedrew's Android 4.0.4-based Evervolv for Evo 4G - so far, so good! Thx to all involved.
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In theory similar frequencies should work with similar-length antennas, so ESMR and the traditional North American cellular blocks at 850 (and GSM 800) can share an antenna; similarly, everything on 1900 A-H blocks (CDMA, GSM, LTE bands 4 & 25) should work with the same antenna. It's "just" a matter of tuning the radios to the right frequencies. The main problem for Sprint is getting the equipment makers to support the bands that the top networks aren't using, to cut down on development time and costs.
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Your big chance to play airline passenger for the day at ATL Concourse F: http://t.co/AzvXULeC
