When the NRA and ACLU both oppose something, you know it's bad for everyone.
They both must be recoiling in disgust that they are both on the same side of something... but while the ACLU pursues matters through leveraging law, the NRA advocates remedying government amok with a more pointed (or hollow pointed) approach. Fascinating.
So NRA people, why are you not attacking teh evil gummint with your 2nd amendment rights? I do not understand this using lawyers method, which is entirely contradictory to all this ballyhoo about needing guns, many and large.
Good thing I'm a notorious shifty-eyed weasel or I'd be inclined to join them in whatever their shenanigans are likely to be. Think they're about to pick up outsourcing of the NSA?
Also means you can look forward to identifying yourself through the services of a company known to track your information for marketing and other purposes.
I don't think GPS is accurate enough for this. When using my phone for driving directions it routinely has difficulty telling if I'm on the highway or access road next to it.
"You have gone through the guardrail, knucklehead, stop looking at your phone while driving"
I (finally) got my Pebble watch the other day. t's not perfect, but it's pretty damn good, and has a week long battery life. It can also be read outside, which adds a lot of value. Between the notifications, weather, and ability to run things on the phone using Task, etc, it's pretty damn good for ~150$.
To counter this big push into wrist computing Microsoft buys declining mobile phone maker Nokia - Well played, Mr. Ballmer!
Honestly, I laughed out loud when the fellow from the Motley Fool said the acquisition was the biggest deal of 1999. About how I felt regarding the acquisition - about 14 years late and out of sync with what is going on in the markets right now.
When I was a wee young coder in college I pulled an all-nighter on a coding project. Big ol' statistical engine. Somewhere around 3 AM the code took on a narrative form... I went off to the dorm for a couple hours sleep and came back to look at it... whaaaa??? It looked perfectly fine to an exhausted brain. Perception clearly suffers from sleep deprivation.
For the watch market, 300$ is actually pretty cheap. Should we expect lower prices because this watch does more/others things and/or things differently?
The last watch I bought in Europe cost ~$900. It costs $70 alone for a battery replacement and cleaning, every two years.
Smart or not 300$ is expensive. Considering that Google is selling Nexus 4 phone for 200$ I'm not gonna buy this thing. Yeah, the battery life is like 10hrs or so. Bluetooth drains the battery fairly quickly so you'll end up charging this thing fairly often. No thanks.
I won't be ditching my Casio for that thing, but I reckon the battery life will be low because of the screen. Besides, the battery is not that large to begin with, if the user doesn't make calls the Bluetooth v4 connection won't drain the battery very much, see the "Bluetooth Smart" part: https://developer.bluetooth.org/TechnologyOverview/Pages/v4.aspx
I've already replaced the glass on my G S4 and was astounded to see how it is half (or less) the thickness of the glass for the iPhone 4S. My Swiss watch, which I seldom wear now was always making contact with things, hard and scratchy things, which left the crystal scarred and no small amount of damage to the bezel. Which is why I don't wear it much anymore. Hope that thing is at least as thick as the watch and much thicker than the G S4 glass.
Call me racist, but this type of stuff coming from minorities does not surprise me.
You've obviously missed some select cuts of history, where children or even distant relatives, have done like and frittered away their family fortunes, enriching lawyers only in the process.
I was just quoting a case in California Law to a colleague this morning, where no more than 25% of an estate may be left to charity if there are surviving relatives. One charity would be a school for the deaf. Damn the charities, the cousin said and usurped 75% of the estate and sold it off. Back in the early 1900's.
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When the NRA and ACLU both oppose something, you know it's bad for everyone.
They both must be recoiling in disgust that they are both on the same side of something ... but while the ACLU pursues matters through leveraging law, the NRA advocates remedying government amok with a more pointed (or hollow pointed) approach. Fascinating.
So NRA people, why are you not attacking teh evil gummint with your 2nd amendment rights? I do not understand this using lawyers method, which is entirely contradictory to all this ballyhoo about needing guns, many and large.
I feel cheated.
Do politicians repeatedly insist on inserting their feet into their mouths hours before an election?
They were caught in a moment of honesty, voicing their opinions as they truly are, usually you see this sort of hubris after the election.
if they were on the internet we'd call them trolls
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Good thing I'm a notorious shifty-eyed weasel or I'd be inclined to join them in whatever their shenanigans are likely to be. Think they're about to pick up outsourcing of the NSA?
I think SO.
To counter this big push into wrist computing Microsoft buys declining mobile phone maker Nokia - Well played, Mr. Ballmer!
Also to counter this "big push" into wrist computing they announced a games console! How stupid is that!
Yeah, they should be rolling out a Wrist Gaming Console with a Microsoft original game, to boot!
Introducing the Xwrist One with Exclusive: Mildly Perturbed Aves!
Also means you can look forward to identifying yourself through the services of a company known to track your information for marketing and other purposes.
Yay. :-|
I don't think GPS is accurate enough for this. When using my phone for driving directions it routinely has difficulty telling if I'm on the highway or access road next to it.
"You have gone through the guardrail, knucklehead, stop looking at your phone while driving"
Hey, these really are smart phones!
You were hit by a car......30 seconds ago.
On the Android phone - You are about to be hit by a Google mapping car! Massive pr0ps!
I (finally) got my Pebble watch the other day. t's not perfect, but it's pretty damn good, and has a week long battery life. It can also be read outside, which adds a lot of value. Between the notifications, weather, and ability to run things on the phone using Task, etc, it's pretty damn good for ~150$.
To counter this big push into wrist computing Microsoft buys declining mobile phone maker Nokia - Well played, Mr. Ballmer!
Honestly, I laughed out loud when the fellow from the Motley Fool said the acquisition was the biggest deal of 1999. About how I felt regarding the acquisition - about 14 years late and out of sync with what is going on in the markets right now.
"You will not win the lottery!"
"Whoa! Good thing you warned me, phone, I was about to buy a ticket ... um ... this is one of those Catch 22s isn't it?"
"HA HA HA!"
"Damn."
When I was a wee young coder in college I pulled an all-nighter on a coding project. Big ol' statistical engine. Somewhere around 3 AM the code took on a narrative form ... I went off to the dorm for a couple hours sleep and came back to look at it ... whaaaa??? It looked perfectly fine to an exhausted brain. Perception clearly suffers from sleep deprivation.
That means we can land there and live and farm and ... be magnetized by the hugely dense magnetic field. Oof.
no subsidy for you!
Nowhere near as cool as the 15 Swatches I wore on both arms every day!
before you were mugged?
Being hip doesnt come cheap!
$900 for a Swiss watch is cheap, even when I bought it that was cheap.
So what's the actual point of this? I guess I just don't get it. Do people really want these?
(320x320) AMOLED
Heck yes! That's perfect for a C64 emulator! *8^)
WTF?
A few decades ago an LCD watch had a battery that would last at least a year.
Progress, what progress?
The battery in my dad's TI LED watch would last a couple weeks.
For the watch market, 300$ is actually pretty cheap. Should we expect lower prices because this watch does more/others things and/or things differently?
The last watch I bought in Europe cost ~$900. It costs $70 alone for a battery replacement and cleaning, every two years.
Smart or not 300$ is expensive. Considering that Google is selling Nexus 4 phone for 200$ I'm not gonna buy this thing. Yeah, the battery life is like 10hrs or so. Bluetooth drains the battery fairly quickly so you'll end up charging this thing fairly often. No thanks.
What time is it?
I won't be ditching my Casio for that thing, but I reckon the battery life will be low because of the screen. Besides, the battery is not that large to begin with, if the user doesn't make calls the Bluetooth v4 connection won't drain the battery very much, see the "Bluetooth Smart" part: https://developer.bluetooth.org/TechnologyOverview/Pages/v4.aspx
Citizen has been selling Bluetooth 4 enabled watches for some time, their watches use the bluetooth connection the get the current time from the internet a couple of times a day and run from a tiny solar cell: http://www.citizenwatch.com/en-ir/2012/10/12/citizen-eco-drive-unveils-proximity/
A timepiece that tells time? That's crazy talk!
on my new 1.63-inch screen! This is almost as exciting as my first Casio calculator watch.
Welcome to Eye-Strain Theatre - do they include a magnifying glass with that thing?
I've already replaced the glass on my G S4 and was astounded to see how it is half (or less) the thickness of the glass for the iPhone 4S. My Swiss watch, which I seldom wear now was always making contact with things, hard and scratchy things, which left the crystal scarred and no small amount of damage to the bezel. Which is why I don't wear it much anymore. Hope that thing is at least as thick as the watch and much thicker than the G S4 glass.
We have enough studies telling you not to do this particular thing where you feel like complete and utter crap if you do.
Unless you're Michelangelo. Or DaVinci, or Edison...or Napoleon. All people who clearly weren't operating at their best.
(Or Madonna, Jay Leno, Margaret Thatcher...all complete losers by any measure)
I'm not familiar with the medical history of most of those but you do know what happened to Margaret Thatcher, right?
She's currently suffering severe oxygen deprivation.
If I don't get an ample amount of sleep at night, I am absolutely useless for any sort of skilled work.
The tireder I gets the more me grammer suffers.
...of many more years of royalites!
Call me racist, but this type of stuff coming from minorities does not surprise me.
You've obviously missed some select cuts of history, where children or even distant relatives, have done like and frittered away their family fortunes, enriching lawyers only in the process.
I was just quoting a case in California Law to a colleague this morning, where no more than 25% of an estate may be left to charity if there are surviving relatives. One charity would be a school for the deaf. Damn the charities, the cousin said and usurped 75% of the estate and sold it off. Back in the early 1900's.
...that my children will undo everything positive about my life.
Pass them my card, ackthpt of Dewey, Skrewum & Howe LLP