Never had trouble with the alarm clock, and use it every day. Maybe check to make sure it's set to be a recurring alarm?

Doesn't this depend 100% on your motherboard? For example, ASUS Rampage III Extreme boards take a god damn year to get through all of the pre-OS checks and whatnot. I guarantee you that Windows 8 will boot no faster than 30 seconds on these motherboards, because the OS doesn't have any say over what happens during…

yeah, so you've basically got it right. Sounds like you'll still be stuck in 2-year chunks of Verizon, but I don't think that ought to be much of an issue.

Assuming that A) 90% of their smartphone users are on unlimited plans and B) all of them would leave for another company. And since there's no truth in either part of that statement, that's kind of some sweet hyperbole you have going there.

Agreed. I just have a feeling that when the first data enabled phones came out, nobody had any clue how much data people would use or how popular they would become. It's only been five years since they started becoming mainstream, and look how much of the market they control. Unlimited data was probably a bad idea…

God knows what kind of goggles you look through, but I'm assuming they're Entitled® brand, the goggles that make sure you get what you want whenever you want because you said so and will complain a lot if you don't.

You must have an iron will. I find it incredibly hard not to upgrade every single year.

Basically. You either go month-to-month on a limited plan, or renew two years on your current plan without getting a subsidized phone.

Doubt it. Strongly doubt it. I think you'll have to do one of three things:

Yeah. What fuckers. They signed a two year contact with you ten years ago and how the fuck dare they treat that two-year contract as anything less than eternity.

Well if you don't sign a non-subsidized two-year agreement to keep your plan, you're not just going to get to have an unlimited monthly plan. You'll have hree choices:

No, there really are people that abuse it. I used to suck down 60GB/month through my phone. Seriously. That's abuse, for sure.

They're still letting you keep the plan. They're not forcing anybody out of anything.

I don't know if that constitutes any sort of binding contract. Basically, Verizon is making a special concession to long-time customers, but that doesn't force them to do it forever. They're dropping a legacy service, just like how Microsoft's dropping support for XP. They kept it going longer than they would have…

Every single one. I trim that shit all the time to keep it manageable and real. I believe I'm at 50ish now, and that's all I really care to have. Hell, I don't even regularly see/communicate with half of them anyway.

Plus I believe it adds 1-2GB onto the pool as well. Shared plans make a lot of sense, and think this is, overall, a smart move. A very tiny portion of Verizon's users will cry and moan and the rest will either be unaffected or will benefit.

Which would fail hard. Everybody signed two-year contracts for their data plans, and Verizon never promised them that the contract would last more than two years. Why does nobody understand that? Just because you'll be sad when your two-year agreement doesn't last forever doesn't mean anybody has to give a shit.

Unless they raise the price of unlimited. There's nothing stopping that.

I've said it on every article you've published like this and I'll say it again:

You take it off.