Most USB ports are still in the back of computers. The cord seems a little small to reach -- and if I have to take off the watch in order to retrieve data from the USB watch then it isn't worth it. I'd rather buy a cheaper watch and a cheaper USB storage device.
"Actually, I should go further than that: Paul Graham isn't even a geek." I've noticed a definite trend in whatever you want to call it -- the "hacker" community or the "geek" community in general. It wishes to fix too much importance on itself -- like open source is everything and will fix the worlds problems. Not only that, this "community", if you can even call it that, redefines its terms over and over to include or exclude various computer scientists, like Paul Graham. Mr. Graham is a very intelligent man, just because he happens to write a book and is a good speaker, doesn't deny him his curiosity and technical skill. Being well-rounded is an advantage, not a disadvantage, and shouldn't exclude him from the frivolous title of "geek" or "hacker." Come on, guys, are you that unsure of yourselves that you can't let Mr. Graham into your tree house hacker club? Curiosity in any field makes someone a "geek." There doesn't have to be any qualifiers -- like, person X has to run OpenBSD and write C code in order to be a 1337 geekx0r. A person who is curious about something, whether it be cars, dialectics, latin and greek or computers, surely should be defined "geek."
This is just my idea, but, art can never be code. Code is utilitarian, it only has meaning in it's operational sense. One can abstract many meaning from art and it has no operational function. Code may be written in an "artistic" manner (but I'm not sure how less of code is more artistic than more of code, it's just more readable) but code itself is certainly not art.
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Most USB ports are still in the back of computers. The cord seems a little small to reach -- and if I have to take off the watch in order to retrieve data from the USB watch then it isn't worth it. I'd rather buy a cheaper watch and a cheaper USB storage device.
This is just my idea, but, art can never be code. Code is utilitarian, it only has meaning in it's operational sense. One can abstract many meaning from art and it has no operational function. Code may be written in an "artistic" manner (but I'm not sure how less of code is more artistic than more of code, it's just more readable) but code itself is certainly not art.