What trend are they behind? Just curious.

My daughter had an older phone with an unlimited texting plan and 5 cents a minute talk plan for 15$ a month from T-mobile. I just gave her my old iPhone and put the SIM card in the iPhone and it worked. Most teen hardly talk on the phone these days. Not sure if T-Mobile still offers this plan.

It does work for me. I can switch between iMessage and text messages without a problem. My daughter has an iPhone without a data plan, and I can send her iMessages when she is connected to Wifi and when she is not, I simply turn off iMessage on my phone and send her plain texts and it works.

You can just turn of iMessages and the conversation reverts to plain text messages. It has always worked for me.

Funny!

I agree, but it does teach logic, problem solving, and critical thinking. It will also teaches students to use a set of steps to solve a problem. Kids are not being taught a lot of these types of skills in school today. Most kids are taught Algebra and never use it -- but that's not the point. The underlying problem-sovling skills are what matters.

If Snowden would have voiced his concerns to his immediate supervisors, he would have been silenced immediately.

Surely firmware can not be updated/modified without user knowledge, am I wrong?

It's a high-end, slick laptop with Linux preinstalled. In the past, Dell has focused on low-end Linux offerings. So it is very interesting -- this could be the beginning of a new trend if Dell can sell enough of them.

I"m sleeping in the basement tonight!

Yeah, they just leap frogged ARM! This will be the year of Intel powered phones! ; )

4D chocolate covered turtles!

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